Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS
Posted on 2022-01-30, 21:54
There may be better options (than 3d Pro, or any stick-based thing), for driving games. A matter of opinion. But 3d Pro is decent, competent all-round stick.
Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS
Posted on 2022-01-30, 21:27
atom1kk wrote on 2022-01-30, 21:24: Shreddoc wrote on 2022-01-30, 21:13: The standard "Sidewinder 3d Pro" (non-Plus), part number 63545, is the best of Microsoft's native DOS compatible offerings. Hmm.. i think than this would be than the choice... I think so. I have one. I use it with my DOS …
Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS
Posted on 2022-01-30, 21:19
My research also suggests the 3d Pro Plus is not natively DOS compatible. The standard "Sidewinder 3d Pro" (non-Plus) , part number 63545, is the best of Microsoft's native DOS compatible offerings. 3dpro.jpg do they look any different? Yes they look markedly different - the Plus looks identical to …
Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS
Posted on 2022-01-30, 21:13
My research also suggests the 3d Pro Plus is not natively DOS compatible. The standard "Sidewinder 3d Pro" (non-Plus), part number 63545, is the best of Microsoft's native DOS compatible offerings. Filename 3dpro.jpg File size 4.65 KiB Views 879 views
Re: Significant differences with certain MIDI files across Roland synthesizers
Posted on 2022-01-30, 05:24
If someone can isolate out the significant instruments, I would be happy to do some additional recording. I don't know anything about editing MIDI files. Is there anyone here who does or know someone or another enthusiast forum that can assist with this research? There are MIDI experts here such as …
Re: Significant differences with certain MIDI files across Roland synthesizers
Posted on 2022-01-30, 02:18
All of these recordings were done on Windows 10 in stereo with matched settings using a Behringer UCA202 USB ADC and Audacity. I made over 100 different rerecording recently and had a procedure for resetting the MIDI device between each recording using a specially crafted GS reset file which I …
Re: Significant differences with certain MIDI files across Roland synthesizers
Posted on 2022-01-30, 01:00
In the interests of gathering relevant information for the case, I have a few questions. 1. Can I ask about the details of the playback setup please? -operating system -MIDI player program -sound card used -method of physical connection between soundcard and MIDI devices 2. Also, what is the sub- …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2022-01-29, 21:57
It's a pointless hope, but I wish such QoL mods were designed to run in native environments. It must be a LOT more difficult and constrained to do so, compared with the modern niceties of coding for Windows and current hardware, Some particularly egregious examples where the original fit on a 360k …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:22
Last time I was talking about possibly playing EOB2 next. I loaded it up on my DOS PC just to poke around, then started looking at the All-Seeing Eye mod (which would mean playing it on my modern PC). Anyone ever play this through ASE? Any opinions? As you may know, I played Lands of Lore recently. …
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-01-27, 23:43
BitWrangler wrote on 2022-01-27, 18:36: Not in John Williams' score 🤣 Only in John WillIBMs' score. May the nforce be with you.
Re: Idea CMS emulation via TSR
Posted on 2022-01-27, 21:43
Sounds like a cool project. There are a lot of people (including me) who would enjoy dabbling in CMS functionality, if the functionality was freely available in software. The issue isn't the price of the CMS chips. It's the prices and rarity of the sound cards to put the CMS chips into . Currently …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-27, 11:09
IR never took off as a viable control standard, but still Interesting, none the less, though. If you get a good deal, why not? I could be all backward on this thing and you discover a great alternative. Anything's possible. I'd tend to agree with you. IrDa and it's cowboy proprietary equivalents …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-26, 23:32
Yes, all of us of "Member" status or above probably already watch necroware & similar videos for a long time, and many of us repair boards and things ourselves. My point was, that board looks to have 30+ traces likely needing repair. Many tightly packed together. I would guess it is at least a " …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-26, 22:45
I would never buy this. It's just an auction I saw today, a 386 motherboard populated with a CPU, RAM, and ensmeared with a variety of lovely acid-based compounds, predictably centred around the general batterial regions. corrosion.png It seems we have reached the stage of highly corroded 386 boards …
Re: A pentium 4 with low tdp?
Posted on 2022-01-26, 22:27
What's the exact stepping of the current CPU? Can run CPU-Z to find out.
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V
Posted on 2022-01-25, 21:37
The internet is fertile soil for misunderstandings and social differences, which only matter because we are limited to vague text messages, typed at each other through a small remote window. And because we live in different cultures and classes, some might take ten pages to reach their point, while …
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V
Posted on 2022-01-24, 23:24
Social schisms aren't uncommon in the wild mixing pot that is the internet. Pandemic blues and society exhaustion are also big factors which sap tolerance and patience from us all. I regret anything negative I have said in the past. Everyone must make a conscious effort to take a lighter approach, …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2022-01-24, 00:34
Finished Lands of Lore with character Ak'Shel. Very good game, overall really enjoyed it. A top example of Westwood Studio's great team and style of the time. I looked at a guide whenever I wasn't sure where to go. I can see how some of the quest pathways could be confusing or frustrating without. …
Re: Budokan for DOS...
Posted on 2022-01-22, 22:51
In some ways, it's funny that we have these things inside the PC case at all, right? I know it doesn't greatly matter in the context of these tinny beepers! But for humorous imagination's sake : is there any other situation where people seeking the best-sounding version of something, would ever say: …
Re: Budokan for DOS...
Posted on 2022-01-22, 21:47
You can get rather quiet PC speakers, eg. some of the small motherboard-based ones. Which, when coupled with a thick case (and perhaps under a desk as well), would be barely audible. Conversely you can get far louder ones, eg. 5-7cm actual little speaker cones, which side-by-side can sound easily …
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