Re: Is Vista now Retro

Posted on 2021-06-26, 17:32

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What I do miss from 8.x is that blue side-bar thingy with the WLAN stations. Also, the desktop gadgets. They were useful, actually. Windows 11 is bringing back widgets. They will be on a slide-out thing from the side of the screen and can be made whole screen. We'll see if they or someone else …

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Re: Roland Sound Canvas Prices

Posted on 2021-06-25, 22:24

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Are you searching the US eBay? I'm looking at sold listings, and I'm seeing a few that sold for $130-150 after shipping within the last 30 days. Just setup a watch and get a deal, within the last year I got a SC-50 for $100, and a MU-500 for $136. The only one I feel I slurged on was a SC-D70 for $ …

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Re: Some questions I have on Sound Blaster cards...

Posted on 2021-06-22, 11:54

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One thing I don't see mentioned yet is that the OPL/CQM will pipe through the EMU8K on an AWE 32/64. This lets it apply reverb and other effects which give it a unique sound versus other cards.

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Re: Would you be interested in an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-06-19, 13:36

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Wouldn't an FPGA-based solution be a better way to go? Basically take the MiSTer port of the ao486 core and enhance it to add the features on your list that it still lacks? I know that in order to run at the performance of a Pentium or better, and to provide 3D hardware acceleration, more powerful …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2021-06-18, 20:11

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The Geforce FX (5) series is the latest that still includes DX7/8 compatibility for table fog and 8-bit palleted textues.

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Re: Where can I download win98se service packs

Posted on 2021-06-13, 17:13

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uSP3 has some ActiveX stuff in it, I'm not sure if it's what you are looking for. Just search for the latest version in the search engine of your choice and the official site should be the first result. win98 unofficial service pack 3.66

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Re: Where can I download win98se service packs

Posted on 2021-06-13, 14:16

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It's been a few months since I was messing around with it so I could be mistaken, but I thought Unofficial Service Pack 3 contained the official patches already. So you can take a clean install of Win98SE and just patch it up to the latest. I didn't mess with KernelEX so I'm not sure about the …

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Re: I have a 486SX to play some games and I'm lost about drivers and other things

Posted on 2021-06-01, 00:53

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It sounds like you already have everything working. DOS didn't have drivers like you are thinking about them for Windows. Since games are running and you have sound you are there. CDROM and mouse are the common drivers most people need to install, some sound cards require a separate program, on …

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Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2021-05-28, 11:51

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I am just listening to the S-YXG50 plugin through Midi Player and have to wonder how great it would be to have this as a default Windows 10 MIDI device again... just like in old times. Before the VST MIDI Driver broke and nobody was around to fix it. I dunno if it's just a matter of updating the …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-05-26, 14:40

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That's when I realized that my ROHS 2.2% flux solder burns real fast on my iron. The tip becomes oxidixed within a minute, so alternating between microscope view placement and making sure the tip is tinned is stressful. The heat never drops and I suspect it's a good 50-100 C above what the small …

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Re: Building a good Windows 98 gaming pc

Posted on 2021-05-24, 23:00

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Bit more info is that I'd like to run games from half life, Dino crisis, tomb raider but also a lot of dos games like Duke nukem, redneck rampage and, Sierra and Lucas arts titles. Are you familiar with ScummVM? ScummVM runs practically anywhere and will play the old Sierra and Lucasarts games …

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Re: Building a good Windows 98 gaming pc

Posted on 2021-05-22, 01:26

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The year 2003 (+/-) is somehow correct, but the DX9 thing is wrong! ATI Radeon 95xx/96xx/9700/9800, GeForce FX and GeForce 6 have DirectX 9 support and are fully Win98(SE) compatible - the latest DirectX 9.0c redistributable from Microsoft for Win98/98SE/ME is "Dec 2006". The problem with DX9 cards …

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Re: Building a good Windows 98 gaming pc

Posted on 2021-05-21, 21:09

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For budget Win98 machines, I still stand behind a socket 754 Athlon 64. They are at the higher end of CPU performance for Win98 games, but if you get a "Cool 'n Quiet" model they are multiplier unlocked and you can downclock them. But overall they are still very inexpensive versus other parts you …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.6GHz Xeon + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-05-21, 15:43

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you can probably run a glide wrapper to help with some game compatibility. At that point you could just run the game with newer/faster hardware under XP or Win10 if you are using a wrapper. Doing a benchmarking record chase can be fun. But top scores are generally not from machines people generally …

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Re: Quake Shareware Music.

Posted on 2021-05-20, 04:37

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At least some Quake shareware CDs contained an encrypted copy of the game you could purchase an unlock for. They also contained other iD games as well. Those might be rarer as they were cracked pretty quickly.

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Re: MT32-Pi and Sound Blaster setup?

Posted on 2021-05-18, 15:36

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Some old game may need SoftMPU, anything listed with "Intelligent Mode" would need SoftMPU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MT-32-compatible_computer_games#Table_of_compatible_games Games would not load a soundfont on an MT32-Pi. You can use MIDI SysEx commands to switch sound fonts, or to …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-05-18, 13:54

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Sure, I understand that, and as I said: this project is great as it is. I'm just imagining this one step further: instead of hooking up the Raspberry Pi to a wavetable header of an ISA soundcard and make it the MIDI synthesizer, why not go further and hook up the Raspberry directly to the ISA bus? …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-05-17, 22:39

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This project amuses me to no end, it's fantastic. :D But since we're already putting an SoC into the host machine that would equate to a SciFi supercomputer in the 90s, why don't we go one step further and connect the Raspi directly to the ISA bus, either with an adapter board for GPIO or via USB? …

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Re: MP-32 : Pi based MT32, GM, ... module

Posted on 2021-05-15, 14:28

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dreamblaster wrote on 2021-05-15, 14:04: updated pcb - USB-C input Is that used with the MiSTer with a standard USB-C to USB-A cable, or is the port for power or something else?

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Re: MechWarrior 2 3dfx Edition not working properly

Posted on 2021-05-08, 17:10

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What other 3DFx games are you running? I could be misremembering but didn't MW2 use a Windows app for the movies and menu, but when you played the actual game it was a DOS program? Do any other DOS 3DFx games work for you?

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