Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2022-01-06, 22:52

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I agree with the sentiment, in the sense that the great-sounding, just-plug-it-in-and-play, licensed GS bank is the main drawcard of the product, and everything else is just extra and won't be used by a (I would guess "significant") % of users. I see a potential market for people who don't want the …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2022-01-05, 22:00

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If the world can have 56 (*not actual number) different kinds of Sound Canvas, then I don't see 2 x incarnations of the X2GS as any particular encumbrance upon the world. For example, there's no shortage of products which also issue a no-frills 'Lite' version. I hazard a guess that is the sort of …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-12-30, 02:43

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It's almost as though they invented something precisely as annoying as USB-A ...before USB even existed! 😳 What is this wormhole of repeated asymmetrical farce we've stumbled into?

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2021-12-29, 21:57

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They will never go that low, the "melt" scrap value on aluminum topped AMD CPU is around $26 per pound per boardsort.com's payout rate, which tends to align with the low end of what you'd get going to a precious metals recovery outfit at the end of the supply chain. Factoring in eBay's 15% cut, the …

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2021-12-26, 20:58

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2021-12-25, 10:09

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None of the AWEUTIL versions requested has been provided by user arvid... The definition of the term "request" is "to politely ask for something". definition_of_request.png You requested v1.11. Cool. He responded that he no longer has it (though I note he did try to help by pointing you towards a …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-24, 23:25

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xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-12-24, 22:48: If you use a real machine, well... SHSUCD(X) can do up to 10 drives I believe. I don't know offhand how well it operates in practice for the above scenario. But the option is there to explore for those who wish.

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Tell us which videogame sounds or voice-clips are the most burned into your brain for life

Posted on 2021-12-24, 21:45

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Here is a Yuletide log for your holiday delectation. Sho-ryuken! Heavy, Machine Gun! Ba-ling! , says the Sonic ring. Tell us which video-game sounds or voice-clips are the most burned into your brain for life. Maybe it's not the game you played the most, but a certain sound or voice-clip still …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-24, 08:50

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Panda detected!? I need to find cover!

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Re: MIDIto - relocate hardcoded port 330h to somewhere else

Posted on 2021-12-23, 23:13

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Great work thanks!

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 12:14

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I don't blame them, they didn't need to experience the trauma of having to learn special moves via Street Fighter 1 on a crappy arcade machine with terrible floppy joysticks. While walking to school over the snow/cactuses, as angry fish/bears slapped/howled beneath/overhead. (*delete as appropriate …

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Re: Is it just me or has Firefox gotten progressively worse every major release?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 00:42

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It's not just you, but it's also not just Firefox. There are equally times when I've felt tempted to have a similar rant about . Oh you may change, and the specific things that are annoying you right now may go away, but chances are you'll just find yourself in a different flavour of annoyance …

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Re: YOUR favorate game era.

Posted on 2021-12-21, 23:10

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Perhaps the initial, technical barriers-to-entry were higher back then, too. Resulting in a relatively high concentration of technical prowess driving the PC scene forward during it's critical sophomore decade. But as growing complexity entailed ever-increasing abstraction, compared with the DOS …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-12-21, 02:36

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PC Direct 286 machine only . .its not a 286 but a 486SX in disguise with a thrown together parts list. Oh my .. has a 52MB Quantum Pro in it .. That is near-enough my exact first computer, the heart of my youth's PC nostalgia. Obtained new in late 1991. A PC Direct 286 with 52MB Quantum HDD, which, …

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Re: CRT Displays Choosing for DOS

Posted on 2021-12-20, 22:42

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People for whom the 'flicker' of 60hz is a very real annoyance, vs People whose individual traits mean they aren't even aware of it . This is not a special distinction. There is no right and wrong. Just the standard and quite reasonable differences within our species, all types equally valid in …

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Re: YOUR favorate game era.

Posted on 2021-12-20, 21:39

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The whole Skins thing, I dunno. See, I remember back in the early 90's. Having a 286 and a set of basic games. Having to "CD" and "DIR" around the command prompt. Gradually picking up what everything meant. What an EXE file is. A text file. A sound file. A sprite. Before long, your 14yo self looks …

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Re: CRT Displays Choosing for DOS

Posted on 2021-12-20, 20:39

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Differences in the genes determining sensitivities, along with the way the individual's brain develops by reinforcing commonly used pathways, leads to a vast range of sensory perceptions among humans. People who are aware of the slightest movement or vibration, vs People who "didn't feel a thing". …

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Re: Your least used complete vintage system

Posted on 2021-12-20, 03:31

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^Entirely coincidentally, the in-house decor tended fairly heavily towards the "Piles of computer parts everywhere" segment of the art deco movement....

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Re: YOUR favorate game era.

Posted on 2021-12-20, 02:29

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I'm a 90's-glory-years DOS gamer too. In a recent self-reflective moment, it occurred to me that my 90's-and-later idolisation of the demoscene's accomplishments were somewhat counter to my (and everybody's, to some extent) desire for Good Gameplay above all else. And I sorta got what I'd wished for …

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Re: CRT Displays Choosing for DOS

Posted on 2021-12-19, 11:50

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Good choice.

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