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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Re: Ensoniq sound card in DOS

Posted on 2004-08-27, 21:21

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by swaaye

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A Sound Blaster PCI 64 is an AUDIOPCI. Ensoniq's AUDIOPCI will definitely run in DOS. Creative bought out Ensoniq partly for their DOS driver which emulates a SBPro almost perfectly. Creative couldn't get it working. Heck there was a special connector on some boards for the freak AWE64 PCI that …

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Re: Breakthrough in STTNG: A Final Unity Stability & Other DOS Extender Games

Posted on 2004-08-27, 03:06

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by swaaye

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Didn't think of it that way. It could support specialized modules for whatever purpose I suppose. You know what else? It's pretty amazing that the dos32a program is all but 27KB, while the DOS4GW is 250KB. That's like a 10x size difference for a less stable and slower program. Those DOS32A guys are …

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Re: Breakthrough in STTNG: A Final Unity Stability & Other DOS Extender Games

Posted on 2004-08-26, 18:58

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by swaaye

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Better yet: Delete DOS4GW and just rename DOS32 to DOS4GW :) I can't see much reason in ever using the old DOS4GW again (or any of the others.) If you read the DOS32A site, basically DOS32A is designed to defeat those older extenders in both speed and stability while being totally compatible. They …

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Re: Breakthrough in STTNG: A Final Unity Stability

Posted on 2004-08-26, 05:13

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by swaaye

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It sounds like you are having some great success with dos32a. I've only tried it with AFU so far, but it definitely helped there. It's something how dos32a seems to work so well with dynamic core. Just think how many games use these dos extenders! The potential for it is overwhelming.

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3DO Star Trek TNG: A World for All Seasons

Posted on 2004-08-24, 21:05

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by swaaye

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

I was pondering the past and recalled a trek game that never hit the shelves. It was a 3DO title called Star Trek TNG: A World for All Seasons. It was an interactive episode you could play from the perspective of 4 different characters. I remember seeing some screenshots in a EGM back in '94. …

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STTNG: A Final Unity Installation Guide for DosBox

Posted on 2004-08-24, 08:17

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by swaaye

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

-= Star Trek TNG A Final Unity within DOSBOX =- Tutorial gone. :) It seems that DOSBOX 0.73 runs the game installer fine now and the game itself may be fine with DOS4GW now too. So just install the game as you would any other DOS game. It is best to run the game with the normal CPU core instead of …

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Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support

Posted on 2004-08-24, 08:06

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by swaaye

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gulikoza, I replaced STTNG AFU's ancient DOS4G with DOS32A :) DOS32A comes with a utility that will unbind an existing extender from a DOS app (friggin amazing!!!). You are right, the STTNG.OVL file contains the extender. It is an executable as well. So, you get the DOS32A package from http://dos32a …

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Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support

Posted on 2004-08-23, 20:37

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by swaaye

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Ok, I gave your new build with D3D a shot. I'm playing Star Trek A Final Unity in Dosbox. It's the only way to get the game stable on today's systems. (I don't even think pure DOS bootdisk would work.) Dynamic core crashes the game on startup so I'm using normal core. Your latest Dosbox build from …

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DOSBOX Coding and the Future....

Posted on 2004-05-14, 19:35

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by swaaye

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I am curious about how the inner workings of the emulator work. Is it mostly assembly? Can we get some boosts from SIMD operations from SSE/SSE2/3dNow/MMX/Altivec? I bet there are some huge opportunities for optimization considering a N64 emulator runs faster than DOS games right now!!! :pppt: How …

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Re: Star Trek: A Final Unity on Windows XP

Posted on 2004-03-01, 06:21

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by swaaye

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Anyone ever figure out how to get this game running stable? I can stand the sound problems, but not a crash every 3 mins. I'm running it in XP with VDMSound. I also tried VPC 2004 but it won't even start in there....just kills VPC with some odd error.

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Re: Phantasmagoria 2 Problem

Posted on 2004-03-01, 06:09

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by swaaye

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It works great in pure Win98. It also will run in VMWare under 98. It may also work in Virtual PC for Windows XP. VPC is really very good, emulating a SB16 in DOS without any special drivers and a S3 Trio with VESA 2 support!

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Dark Forces?

Posted on 2002-11-11, 23:06

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by swaaye

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Anyone manage to get Dark Forces tricked into running in XP? It's a pretty stubborn game...... Even with sound completely off it won't go.

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Re: TIE Fighter

Posted on 2002-07-27, 14:44

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by swaaye

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in VDMSound General

My main problem is really with the sound. I'm having a very difficult time getting it to start. It seems random, sometimes it just runs and works 100%. The other 30 tries, it just sits there with DOS4GW loading. Here's the log: @I - 10:23:48.158 - JoystickController Polling thread cancelled @I - 10: …

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Re: OT: DOS compatibility sound chips

Posted on 2002-07-25, 01:45

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by swaaye

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You guys should just pick up a quality DOS card on Ebay. They go for soooo cheap these days. None of the PCI Sound cards really do a decent job. My Live! uses the old Ensoniq ECW wavesets for DOS Midi, it's pretty bad really. Wasn't good on the AudioPCI, isn't good here. I have a Ensoniq Soundscape …

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Re: GM/GS vs. MT-32/LAPC-1

Posted on 2002-07-24, 17:01

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by swaaye

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Try http://www.hammersound.net That's the best soundfont source I know of.

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Re: TIE Fighter

Posted on 2002-07-24, 00:12

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by swaaye

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I've been having problems on and off with TIE Fighter using General MIDI. Sometimes it loads, sometimes it won't (sometimes it's 1 in 50 tries it will work). I've found that disabling music in the setup program fixes the problem so it must be a problem with the MIDI emulation. I'm using all the …

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Re: TIE Fighter

Posted on 2002-07-23, 16:09

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by swaaye

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Hmm, can't seem to edit my last post.... Anyway, has anyone gotten TIE Fighter CD to run at 640x480? All I get is a bunch of garbled nonsense (which does garble around if i move the joystick, so it is doing something) Man, if this thing had good VESA support it would be nearly the end-all to the …

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Re: TIE Fighter

Posted on 2002-07-23, 16:04

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by swaaye

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Well, you can just get 'em from http://www.hammersound.net just go to sounds/soundfont library/collections. I haven't gotten anything from there for a long time so there may be some new stuff but my favs are the Synergi 8MB (cuz it sounds awesome for the size) and the 50MB Taji Generation 4 SE ( …

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