Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-02-16, 12:46

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yeah, the DOS games seem to not have been mucked with, only some of the Windows games, likely to get it to work in Win 7/8/10. That’s okay, I spent the 200$ and went bargain bin hunting on eBay and got as good a set of popular games as I’ll ever have. CloneCD and some time should be fun enough. …

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Re: ELI5 MIDI?

Posted on 2022-02-05, 15:04

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are you going to be using real DOS mode, or are you running the games through Windows? If through Windows the DOS emulation of the SB16 is fine, it's the Adlib/OPL that's lacking. But since this is a thread on MIDI, load up the 8MB Sound Font, or even a different one from the Internet, and use that. …

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Re: sound card for a windows xp build

Posted on 2022-02-02, 21:15

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

marinescuiuri wrote on 2022-02-02, 20:41: I'll only play red alert 2 and heroes 3. Both of those games are Windows games. Just get a Sound Blaster X-Fi. It supports up to EAX 5.0 as well as the older versions.

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Re: Mechwarrior 2 on 3Dfx

Posted on 2022-01-24, 00:53

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

It's possible there's some other version, but the copy that came with my Diamond Monster 3D back in the day was DOS for the gameplay but used a Windows program that was the menu and let you choose missions, etc. So I don't know if there's a pure DOS-only version that supports 3DFX.

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Re: Getting the Roland UM-1EX USB-to-MIDI Adapter Working with DOS Games under 98SE - Possible?

Posted on 2022-01-22, 14:54

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

There is an Alpha version of VDMSound, though the last poster of the thread is trying to use it for the same purpose you need without having luck. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=900 I haven't used a ton of different sound cards in Win9x, but one thing I found is that the later Aureal Vortex …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 21:56

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by SScorpio

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

I don't own the mister, but I've been following it for years. I don't know what you are referring too with MDFourier. If you told me that a mister core has more accurate sound than the leading software emulator I would say that is unlikely but plausible. Sound emulation has often been neglected and …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2022-01-17, 14:14

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Well that is going is make it hard to install on a CMI3880 and Vortex 2 cards. There have always been cards that aren't compatible with some wavetable daughterboards. There were some boards that were taller than a normal ISA card so the connector wasn't on the edge. But then there were very short …

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Re: Lets make new M919 Cache sticks?

Posted on 2022-01-11, 21:41

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pancakepuppy wrote on 2022-01-11, 20:27: 1MB stick works, how fun Awesome work. Now I wonder if someone will shock the world and release the extremely delayed Pipeline Burst cache module. 😁

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Re: EAX or A3D for Win98SE?

Posted on 2022-01-10, 23:48

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

Under the right circumstances it is possible to use both. Not together mind you, but switching which one is the primary display in the bios and installing both drivers. Depending on the game you might not even need to do that. I remember quite a few Win9X games offering the ability to choose which …

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Re: Deciding between single slot graphic card options for Windows XP 32-bit (Radeon HD 4670 or HD 6670)

Posted on 2022-01-02, 18:33

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Both Midtown Madness 2 and Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf were launched as pre-XP games. MM2 being DX7.1 and SDW being DX8. Have you tried running them with dgVoodoo2? The Radeon HD 4670 you listed is still a DX10 card. You'll want to look at even older cards or possibly a Win98 build for that generation of …

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Re: EAX or A3D for Win98SE?

Posted on 2022-01-01, 16:06

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

If you have the spare slots just have both like I do. I have an MX-300 card and it has an IO expansion header on the back of the card, this exposes SPDIF which I have connected to the digital CD header of an Audigy Platinum. Speakers are connected to the Audigy and all Aureal audio is piped over …

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Re: So, what do we know about VIA KM400?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 20:39

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since the boards you're looking at already don't have ISA support, what about Socket 754 and an Athlon 64? The later "Cool n' Quiet" CPUs are multiplier unlocked so you can underclock them, and they run cool. They are also compatible with modern AM4 coolers. I'm using the stock AMD cooler that came …

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Re: SD-IDE or CF-IDE adapters - Is there any recommended model/make?

Posted on 2021-12-22, 14:11

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These two Phil's videos decided me to order the SD adapters, worth checking out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9vwOf19XE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWYS5X1wSzU Perhaps I should mention that I intend to stay in the realms of FreeDOS, OpenDOS, DOS (maybe) and mostly similar CLI only OSes, …

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Re: Roland SC-88 MIDI synth and Dosbox-x

Posted on 2021-12-21, 19:55

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by SScorpio

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Now if there was a way to control the MIDI and ADLIB volumes at the same time, that would be sweet. You generally aren't using MIDI and Adlib at the same time. Adlib is generally used for music, though some older games that only had Adlib support would use it for some sound effects. You might be …

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Re: Roland SC-88 MIDI synth and Dosbox-x

Posted on 2021-12-21, 18:54

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by SScorpio

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

After you enter those setting in the dosbox.conf file you then need to manually configure the game to use General MIDI from each game's setup program. SCUMMVM works completely differently than DOSBox. It replaces the game's engine, while DOSBox gives you a virtual DOS environment to run the original …

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Re: Roland SC-88 MIDI synth and Dosbox-x

Posted on 2021-12-21, 17:48

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https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3ASetting-up- … OSBox%E2%80%90X Try this, I'm not sure on the mididevice vs midiconfig in DOSBox-X. [midi] mpu401 = uart mpubase = 330 mididevice = win32 midiconfig = 1 samplerate = 44100 mpuirq = 9

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Re: Performance of a P3-s 1.4 GHz & GeForce 4 Ti 4400 combo

Posted on 2021-12-19, 15:15

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Max Payne 2 is a DX9 game, while the Geforce 4400 is a DX8 card. NOLF2 is a DX8.1 game and its specs are a match for the machine. What drivers are you using for your GPU? With the Geforce FX series, the 44/45 are recommended over newer drivers, so you might want to try downgrading to those or even …

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Re: Retrostation PC not available in the US

Posted on 2021-12-18, 15:24

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by SScorpio

in Milliways

in Milliways

I see, thanks. My reason for being mildly interested in this is that it's small enough to conveniently take with me when I'm working away from home, and it runs PC games as well as emulators. I know there are many other similar systems, but the thing that attracted me to this is just that all the …

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Re: Retrostation PC not available in the US

Posted on 2021-12-17, 21:23

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by SScorpio

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in Milliways

This is the same hardware as the GMK NucBox that ETA Prime reviewed. You can look at those videos to get an idea of its performance. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eta+prime+GMK+NucBox They are available on the US Amazon for ~$200 if you search for "GMK mini PC J4125" and are …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Vibra PNP in DOS

Posted on 2021-12-12, 18:09

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I just pulled up a pin out of the ISA slot and checked some voltage. Sure enough I am getting 5v, -5v, -12v but on the 12v pin I am only getting around 4.2v. I guess I need to do some digging to figure out if that is fixable or not. I should mention I do get a good 12v at the molex connectors. I …

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