Re: Should I buy a MT-32 'old' today?

Posted on 2021-03-05, 01:27

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Try being from, say, New Zealand. Nobody offers a shipping option to here. So if I want an MT-32, the only option in the world is literally a tiny handful of ebay listings which offer worldwide shipping. My current options including shipping and import duties are: USD $502 , $ 509 , and $ 605 . …

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Re: Help getting more than one Sound Card to play nicely in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-03, 22:20

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/Cn Select PnP card number 'n' to initialize/read (n = 2 to 5) Yeah, that's what I looked at. I was assuming that 2-5 were the only values that actually worked with it. Good point - C1 is the default if no card is specified - to quote unisound.txt: " UNISOUND (without options): initializes 1st PnP …

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Re: Help getting more than one Sound Card to play nicely in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-03, 21:54

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Thanks for your humble opinion. I'm satisfied that appropriate and sufficient context was provided within the thread, and that your failure to understand is an abberation. Nonetheless if I'm ever specifically talking to you in particular in the future, I'll be sure to spell everything out super …

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Re: Space Hulk soundfont/midi help.

Posted on 2021-03-03, 21:40

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Space Hulk supports Adlib. Comment out any SET BLASTER / Sound Blaster related configuration. It will probably just poll the Adlib port and give you music and no SFX. Otherwise try to misconfigure the DMA channel temporarily. It should point to a DMA not in use though. As I mentioned in another …

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Re: Help getting more than one Sound Card to play nicely in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-03, 21:16

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OK, then would have been helpful to at least mention you were raising SET BLASTER in context of Unisound. That was done. You may have missed it. It would be helpful for you to fully read threads before levelling criticisms toward people to whom they are not relevant. Thread.jpg Look, I don't want …

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Re: Help getting more than one Sound Card to play nicely in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-03, 12:56

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SET BLASTER doesn't set anything in the hardware... I think Shreddoc mentioned that because Unisound uses the BLASTER settings to configure the sound card. Oetker has the right of it. Unisound is a DOS sound card driver written by a Vogons member Jazefox. It can be used as a simple one-size-fits- …

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Re: Space Hulk soundfont/midi help.

Posted on 2021-03-03, 10:38

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Hey, thanks for the reply! I tried messing around with what I figured would be the sound files and the game wouldn't boot. I was going to experiment further but then realized the cutscenes ends sooner than the track, so the end is cut off anyway. And you're right, those are Amiga music files. …

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Re: Help getting more than one Sound Card to play nicely in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-03, 10:14

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[...] Quick question before I launch into any longer explanations: Are you familiar with the "SET BLASTER" variable in Autoexec.bat, at all? SET BLASTER doesn't set anything in the hardware... I think Shreddoc mentioned that because Unisound uses the BLASTER settings to configure the sound card. …

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Re: Help getting more than one Sound Card to play nicely in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-03, 07:37

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Running Unisound at DOS prompt with the switch /CL will quickly show you a list of the system's supported cards. *If* Unisound works with all your cards (you say one is non-PnP, so it may not) then it is probably the simplest solution. It is what I use for my 2-ISA-soundcard DOS machine, …

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Re: Help getting more than one Sound Card to play nicely in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-03, 00:49

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but the AWE64 has a joystick port to use for GM so.. why a second card? Possible reason 1: "I was also wanting to use the second card as a way to circumvent the issues in TIE Fighter and Duke Nukem 3D that happen when both GM and digital sound effects are playing." Possible reason 2: Depending on …

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Re: Help getting more than one Sound Card to play nicely in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-03, 00:19

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Running Unisound at DOS prompt with the switch /CL will quickly show you a list of the system's supported cards. *If* Unisound works with all your cards (you say one is non-PnP, so it may not) then it is probably the simplest solution. It is what I use for my 2-ISA-soundcard DOS machine, …

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Re: Space Hulk soundfont/midi help.

Posted on 2021-03-02, 23:18

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Quick thought. Might not be of any use. I note that these are the game files of the original DOS version : Screenshot from 2021-03-03 12-16-49.png It may be possible to manipulate the "*pcm*" files, for example zero-byte or zero-fill some or all of them, to 'hack' the game into 'not being able to …

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Re: old software collection on CD

Posted on 2021-03-01, 23:39

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tony359 wrote on 2021-03-01, 22:41: Can you suggest a website where to download old software? archive.org

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2021-03-01, 03:08

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There is an argument to be made that if you post on Vogons, then you're still in the hobby, to some extent. So most of us are just a little bit hypocritical, perhaps. Like some people who purport to being "all about the games" and don't care about the hardware... who as a general rule tend to be the …

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

Posted on 2021-02-26, 23:29

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Lately I've been going through all of my graphics cards now and again and was busy with my box of GF4MX cards when I noticed one of the cards having SDRAM. Since I found it a bit odd for a GF4MX440SE to have SDRAM, I figured I might as well pop off the cooler and see if it was really a GF4MX440SE. …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 23:13

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The Lost Vikings. An extremely well-balanced game mixing puzzle aspects with arcade and platform aspects, and the excellent-but-simple mechanic of utilising the 3 characters unique skills to collectively solve each level's problems and obstacles. I remember playing this game when it first came out, …

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

Posted on 2021-02-26, 01:29

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Not today, but last week a slight craving to play a few Win9x and XP games turned into a wasted 2 days of trying to set up one-of-my-two systems from that period, including multiple slow, grinding Windows installations, and almost but never quite reaching a proper 100% working state on either …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 01:15

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On both sides of the fence. Perhaps more accurate to say, I go through phases. There's still plenty of stuff I want, and I guess that will never change. But frustrating experiences do pare away the enjoyment from some areas, leaving behind a more productive focus. Like many others here, the mid-late …

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Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 00:56

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This will be oldhat for many of you, but the reminder won't hurt. TI-randomly-L... ...that spispopd stands for 'smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris', that being a descriptive reference to the fragging of cacodemons (aka horny red beholders from Mars). And that, as a delightful hat- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-24, 21:17

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E-waste pickup *Sound Blaster 32s *a whole lot of Voodoo3s and early Sound Blasters *3dfx banshee *a Geforce256 DDR I believe *a Voodoo2 (love those). likely 8mb *brand new 250mb Zip disks for an internal zip drive that I bought earlier *Gigabyte Slot 1 mobo *and some other stuff (I'm just getting …

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