Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-05, 13:36

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Making some progress in Tomb Raider 2. Just reached the Opera House. Graphics are only slightly improved over the original. Lara certainly looks better, but the enemies are still super blocky. There seems to be more combat and fewer puzzles compared to the first game. Also, the platforming sequences …

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Re: Late 90s Celeron + Voodoo 3 retro rig

Posted on 2021-01-05, 08:41

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Cheers guys! I completely forgot that XG music in FF7 is also supported on a hardware level. I'll test that out with my YMF724 card when I get back to the game.

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Re: Building retro gaming PC 1999

Posted on 2021-01-05, 08:37

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So for DOS that is awesome, while for Windows, unless you want 3D effects, anything is fine. Well, YMF 7x4 cards do have Sensaura, when VxD drivers are used. That gives you A3D 1.0 support as well as EAX 1.0 and EAX 2.0 emulation. In my experience, EAX compatibility is hit and miss, and doesn't …

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Re: Can you help me find the right sound card for my Windows 98 SE PC?

Posted on 2021-01-05, 04:20

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Just a quick note here. While ISA sound cards are excellent for DOS gaming, many of them exhibit crackling and popping when used to play Win9x games. This can be somewhat remedied by disabling sound hardware acceleration, but that usually slows the system down to a crawl. For best results, use a PCI …

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Re: YMF744+DSDMA+DOS+P965(and other PCIe chipsets)=success

Posted on 2021-01-05, 04:09

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The steps were run setupds /s then dsdma and then set blaster a220 i5 d1 h1 t4 p330. I don't think you need H1 for this card. YMF7x4 cards don't use High DMA and neither did Creative's Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 (T4) which they emulate. By declaring it manually in the BLASTER variable you might actually …

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Re: Can you help me find the right sound card for my Windows 98 SE PC?

Posted on 2021-01-04, 17:55

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Considering your budget, I would suggest a Sound Blaster Live. It will work great for Win9x gaming while also providing SB16 emulation and General MIDI music for DOS games. However, in older titles that only support FM synth music, the SBLive emulation won't sound so good. Ideally, you want to pair …

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Re: Best music in DOOM2 with AWE64 in Win98

Posted on 2021-01-04, 16:12

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Dacobi wrote on 2021-01-04, 15:47: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gigabitps/CT4520.JPG Don't know why I thought it was the Gold version. Guess I'll have to buy a SIMMCONN expansion. Yeah, the CT4520 is an AWE64 Value model. In terms of soundfonts, very little can be done without expanding its memory.

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Re: Best music in DOOM2 with AWE64 in Win98

Posted on 2021-01-04, 15:32

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Dacobi wrote on 2021-01-04, 15:24: I tried loading both of them, but it turns out my AWE64 only has 512kb of RAM so they wouldn't fit. Can you post a photo of the card? All AWE64 Gold models should come with 4 MB of RAM.

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Re: Late 90s Celeron + Voodoo 3 retro rig

Posted on 2021-01-04, 14:47

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While doing some testing, I was pleasantly surprised with how good the stock GM35REVC.SF2 soundfont of the AWE64 Gold sounds in DOS games. For reference, that soundfont is installed and loaded by default when using the official driver CD for the card. I made some recordings while keeping all the …

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Re: Best music in DOOM2 with AWE64 in Win98

Posted on 2021-01-04, 14:36

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There is an option in the Doom setup specifically for the AWE. If you select that you should be able to hear the additional sounds without doing any manual font loading. That works too of course, but doing so will only use the samples from the built-in 1MB ROM of the AWE64. On the other hand, when …

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Re: Best music in DOOM2 with AWE64 in Win98

Posted on 2021-01-04, 11:59

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Not sure if you tried this already, but here are some basic tips: In Doom2 setup, select "General Midi" for music playback Assuming you have the AWE Control Panel installed, select "User synth" then click "Browse" and load the GM35REVC.SF2 soundfont (found on the AWE64 Gold driver CD ) This should …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live VXD drivers red book support

Posted on 2021-01-04, 10:14

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I don't have much personal experience with Daemon Tools, so someone else will have to chime in on that. I tried it a couple of times, mostly in an effort to reduce drive noise, but I just couldn't get CD audio to work reliably through emulation. Nowadays, I just use physical media and a real drive. …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live VXD drivers red book support

Posted on 2021-01-04, 09:29

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by Joseph_Joestar

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If we're talking about real hardware (a physical CD-ROM drive) then VxD drivers will work just fine. You will need an internal CD audio cable to connect your drive to the CD_IN header on the SBLive and that's it. On the other hand, if you mean CD emulation software like Daemon Tools, that's a whole …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-04, 09:24

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What about Zelda Link to the Past? Some topsites like to say it's the best SNES game. But I've never played a Zelda game and not sure if I should bother getting into that whole neverending-universe. Zelda games play a bit differently from the traditional RPGs of the day. There's no leveling per se, …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-03, 18:03

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xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-01-03, 14:55: Chrono Trigger is mandatory, skip the rest. :p Seconded. Chrono Trigger is one of those selected few games that I can wholeheartedly recommend to everyone. Also, it's not that long (25-30 hours).

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Re: 200 mhz socket7\ss7 round up

Posted on 2021-01-03, 15:51

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Just chiming in to say, you might want to patch Quake to 1.08 before doing the benchmarks. The patch provides a small FPS boost compared to 1.06.

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Re: CT2230 SB16 Digital Audio Clicking/Popping?

Posted on 2021-01-03, 03:59

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Yeah, sounds like the single-cycle DMA bug. Note that SB16 cards suffer from several issues as described here: Sound Blaster 16 Bugs and Deficiencies Summary

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Re: Problematic games on newer hardware released after 2004

Posted on 2021-01-02, 20:52

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Discrete_BOB_058 wrote on 2021-01-02, 20:37: It was released in 2002, he needs games after 04 The PC version came out in 2003 actually. That said, I seem to have misinterpreted the title. I thought he wanted games that don't work correctly on hardware that came out after 2004.

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Re: Problematic games on newer hardware released after 2004

Posted on 2021-01-02, 18:49

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The original Splinter Cell has problems with shadows on any video card newer than a GeForce4 Ti. Phil has a whole video series on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9BTbtNyDw

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-02, 18:38

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That looks seriously impressive. Square Enix, or whoever holds the TR license right now, should hire that guy and let him work on an official remake.

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