Re: Favorite ISA Sound Cards

Posted on 2004-12-28, 23:15

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by swaaye

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AWE64 may not, but I GUARANTEE that unless a DOS game natively supports the AWE, you are required to use a TSR. In other words, if you need to pick General MIDI or anything other than AWE32, you need a TSR. AWE32/SB32 do not have a hardware MPU-401 implementation. I believe the TSR driver emulates …

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Re: Favorite ISA Sound Cards

Posted on 2004-12-14, 21:29

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by swaaye

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AWE cards aren't ideal for DOS MIDI since they have to use big, buggy TSRs to get MIDI support. And, unless you can run the DOS game within Win9x, you can't use soundfonts which limits you to the trash 512K midi waveset on the board. A SB16 with a Roland Soundcanvas Daughtercard (SCD-10 or 15) is …

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Re: Virtual PC rumour

Posted on 2004-09-28, 20:39

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by swaaye

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Actually I bet Xbox games are all basically DirectX. The XBOX2 is using a IBM PowerPC chip but a GPU that is likely very similar to a DirectX-supporting PC GPU. So, they could perhaps just need to emulate the CPU, and a triple core PowerPC at 3.5Ghz (assuming the leaks and rumors are correst) …

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Wing Commander 4 Win95

Posted on 2004-09-21, 20:41

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I'm playing Wing Commander 4's win95 version (works in xp!). My problem is my Logitech Rumblepad is sort of messed up with it, even with the actual Logitech drivers instead of generic XP drivers (or 98 drivers cuz I tried it in 98) Basically, I can't fly. The left analog stick does nothing with the …

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Upcoming Dual Core CPUs

Posted on 2004-09-14, 22:09

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by swaaye

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So, how do you developers see these weird dual-core CPUs (probably a P4 and Athlon derivative) affecting how you will code DOSBOX? What threads will go where?

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Re: TIE Fighter CD experience with DOSBOX

Posted on 2004-09-14, 20:30

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by swaaye

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Oh bummer. The VIA VT8235 sounthbridge doesn't have DOS drivers....VIA only supplies DOS drivers for 686A/B. So, that eliminates running TIE in pure DOS with any sound. I doubt I could get a USB joystick working either. Inside Win98 I can get sound SBPRO audio out of the southbridge since the …

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Radeon VESA & SVGA

Posted on 2004-09-12, 15:05

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by swaaye

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I was trying to set up Win98 and VDMSound for it. Decided to just try out TIE Fighter without sound to see if the SVGA would work. Nope, it's a corrupted mess. You can sort of see the game (it doesn't lock up either) but it's like you're seeing slices of the screen all stretched out....very odd. I'm …

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Re: TIE Fighter CD experience with DOSBOX

Posted on 2004-09-10, 22:12

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It's almost not playable really. If I put it in VGA it's super playable, but SVGA is just so much more demanding. I just installed WIn98SE and am going to play with it in there. I think native VESA will work fine in 98, and DOS32A should make it easier to get up and running. Oh, and I found DOS …

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TIE Fighter CD experience with DOSBOX

Posted on 2004-09-08, 21:48

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Ok, I've spent many hours messing with TIE Fighter and DOSBOX. I'm using the latest CVS compile from the Unofficial DOSBOX Forum . Here's my DOSBOX.conf: [sdl] # fullscreen -- Start dosbox directly in fullscreen. # fulldouble -- Use double buffering in fullscreen. # fullfixed -- Don't resize the …

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Re: Gulikoza - Joystick Support in your CVS Builds

Posted on 2004-09-04, 06:10

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It's not entirely playable for me either. When the action gets going it really can get choppy. I find it strange how the in-game menus /screens need a totally different level of cycles than in-space gameplay. And, the music is very sensitive to cycles and can literally cut out when you look in a …

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Re: FM synthesis

Posted on 2004-09-02, 18:59

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by swaaye

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Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 has an OPL3. The original SBPRO had 2 OPL2s.

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Re: Gulikoza - Joystick Support in your CVS Builds

Posted on 2004-09-02, 17:12

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Ok, I have calmed down now. I was a little steamed after spending an hour messing with getting the joystick working, and failing. I think I'll go post on your magic forum and see if I can get at that download. I'm having full-screen issues (it's blank) with some builds. Annoying since the joystick …

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Re: Yamaha SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50

Posted on 2004-09-02, 17:10

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by swaaye

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I threw on headphones and played a little TIE Fighter. Yes, the Yamaha S-YXG50 is absolutely obviously superior to the MS synth. Hell, it's probably equal or better than the Synergi 8MB SF2 I upload to my 8MB SB32 for DOS games. I think the variation, chorus, and reverb that it applies really helps …

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Re: Gulikoza - Joystick Support in your CVS Builds

Posted on 2004-09-02, 05:36

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Ok, I really, REALLY dislike that mapper. Even after I map every button on my 10 button Logitech Rumblepad to both joysticks, I still can't shoot or target things in TIE. Hey, guess what, it worked FINE with the "old style" joystick support. Guilikoza please go back to the old way for a while....I'm …

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Re: Yamaha SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50

Posted on 2004-09-01, 16:53

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yeah that did it. the difference between the ms synth and the yamaha wasn't different enough for me to tell it was using it. course, with headphones and not these crappy laptop speakers, it definitely sounds different 😀

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Re: Gulikoza - Joystick Support in your CVS Builds

Posted on 2004-09-01, 16:48

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Well my settings are sort of in constant flux, lol. But, I think I've been using surface and d3d mostly. Overlay is blurry usually. I am using Yamaha's S-YXG50 softsynth for MIDI cuz it's much better than MS's(can't seem to edit the DLS file for MS's softsynth and my laptop doesn't have any sort of …

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Gulikoza - Joystick Support in your CVS Builds

Posted on 2004-09-01, 03:26

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by swaaye

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I'm trying to get some TIE Fighter going in DOSBOX and I've found your CVS builds to offer performance well above the official .61 release. I can get TIE to run smoothly in SVGA, truly wonderful. Problem is that my USB joystick isn't seen by your builds, even though they have the joystick patch. 0. …

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Yamaha SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50

Posted on 2004-08-30, 19:43

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by swaaye

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I'm using DOSBOX on my laptop which doesn't have any snazzy midi capabilities (without getting a Audigy 2 NX or Extigy: not an option.) I've been messing with the DirectX Microsoft GS Synth and also trying to get Yamaha's SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50 to work. I have yet to get anything except the MS …

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Re: Ensoniq sound card in DOS

Posted on 2004-08-28, 05:47

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by swaaye

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Ensoniq's Soundscape cards didn't need EMM386. The AUDIOPCI, a very cheap chip which Ensoniq created to try to cut costs, started that. In fact, Soundcapes didn't even need a TSR of any sort. They just ran an init prog that uploaded firmware to the card's RAM for the onboard processor to run. :) If …

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Favorite ISA Sound Cards

Posted on 2004-08-27, 21:32

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by swaaye

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This is one of my favorite pieces of hardware from DOS times. The hardware wavetable MIDI cards just shocked me when I went from my SBPro to a Ensoniq Soundscape. Doom was unbelievable, TIE Fighter was so much more powerful, etc. It was amazing. The best part was the interactive sound that game …

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