Re: Any Analogue.co console users?

Posted on 2020-11-10, 21:31

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by SScorpio

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Heads up on the Warrior 64, new information is out. MetalJesus did a Youtube video on one. He's normally positive for maybe products that looking a little off like the Seedi. For him to not recommend it troubling. It might be worth canceling if you had a Kickstarter pledge in.

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-11-10, 16:07

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have a few questions about ESS1688F. I'm trying to install DOS drivers from Vogels site: ESS 1688/1868/1869 Pre-installed for DOS http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=616&menustate=0 but with no luck. I haven't dealt with DOS for a long time and I don't remember everything ;) Is that a PnP …

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Re: Arena help

Posted on 2020-11-08, 21:45

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by SScorpio

in DOS

in DOS

Do you get the same issue with the free version Bethesda gives away on their site? https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/arena/

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Re: Pairing AWE64 with Live! 5.1 under Win98SE

Posted on 2020-11-05, 01:00

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Maybe one other route that could be taken is to disable/uninstall the AWE64 in Windows completely and to only invoke the card via DOS PIF reboots or something. But then, I don't know if that would worke out the way I hope, thanks to PnP. And besides, I now have a working setup already... You should …

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Re: soundfont, SF2 capable sound cards

Posted on 2020-11-05, 00:34

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What are you attempting to do? You can load a modern MIDI player that lets you select between multiple SoundFonts if you want. You could even load a program like loopMIDI that will create a virtual MIDI port and then something like Falcosoft MIDI Player to playback whatever is captured. That will …

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Re: Any Analogue.co console users?

Posted on 2020-11-03, 21:00

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by SScorpio

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

15 days from trying to convince myself I don't need one to ordering one. I should probably have one within a month or two. One of us. One of us... Be sure to checkout the computer and arcade cores in addition to console cores. The ao486 core in particular went from slow 386 speeds to being able to …

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Re: It is worth it to upgrade a SB PCI128 to a Live!?

Posted on 2020-11-03, 15:05

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

One issue I ran into with a Live and Audigy 1 in Win98se is that the MPU401 always output to the card's MIDI synth. You can change the Soundfont, but you can't redirect to an external MIDI device. I have a Diamond MX300 in the same machine and that card's control panel has the option to set the " …

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Re: It is worth it to upgrade a SB PCI128 to a Live!?

Posted on 2020-11-02, 21:49

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

I feel EAX 3 is more of a WinXP thing as well. The original Audigy does have a little better sound than a Live, but you can use Audigy drivers with a Live and most of the benefits will work on the Live. As for Live vs PCI128, the Live is an all-around better card. If the price is mostly the same …

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Re: What is the best 68K Mac emulator for playing games?

Posted on 2020-11-02, 20:36

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by SScorpio

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

That's sad to hear, really. :depressed: - I fled from WinX to Raspbian, but look for a platform I could permanently switch to (I don't like ARM anymore now since it became a dancer of Nvidia). I hoped, that macOS, at least, is a safe harbor, at least. You know, the big three are Win,Mac, Linux. …

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Re: SB Audigy (SB0090) SPDIF IN not working through AUD_AUX header

Posted on 2020-11-01, 19:11

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'll have to figure out a good way and get the parts to do the bridge to trick it as a test. In the end, I do want to use other ports (headphones, MIDI, etc) on the Live Drive so forgoing it wouldn't be a solution. I also think I'm going to attempt connecting an RCA jack to the MX300's output to …

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Re: SB Audigy (SB0090) SPDIF IN not working through AUD_AUX header

Posted on 2020-11-01, 18:05

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

Wanderer wrote on 2020-11-01, 17:53: SScorpio wrote on 2020-11-01, 17:26: That is the pinout I'm using, and it worked with the SB Live but not the Audigy. It doesn't work anymore with input through the Live! Drive, as far as I understood. By the way, why did you not settle on using the CD_SPDIF …

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Re: SB Audigy (SB0090) SPDIF IN not working through AUD_AUX header

Posted on 2020-11-01, 17:26

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

Hello SScorpio, which pins on AUD_EXT connector have you tried to use for SPDIF input? That is the pinout I'm using, and it worked with the SB Live but not the Audigy. Are the kX drivers you are using for newer version of Windows and to support OSX? I'm wondering what they give you over Creative's …

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SB Audigy (SB0090) SPDIF IN not working through AUD_AUX header

Posted on 2020-11-01, 16:46

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'm attempting to have a best of both worlds Win 98 build that has real A3D 2.0 and EAX. I have a Diamond MX300 and I'm using its expansion header to connect its output to another card digitally. I previously had this working correctly with an SB Live 5.1 (SB0060) into a Live Drive IR (SB0100) after …

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Re: How do I get a picture on my turbo switch and how can I find out how many mhz my pc is running with the turbo switch

Posted on 2020-11-01, 00:15

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you take pictures of your turbo display? The old ones were just segmented displays and you would set jumpers to configure what is displayed when the turbo is on or off. Normally they were powered with a standard four-pin Molex connector like the ones that go into an IDE HDD.

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Re: Is it possible to use a SB16 ct4170 for digital sound only and Ati FX stereo CD for FM Yamaha 262 chip opl3.

Posted on 2020-10-31, 15:39

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would like to know if someone did succeed to use only FM from one sound card and digital audio from another one ? Thanks Using UNISOUND, yes people have done that. I haven't done it yet, but I have a YMF719 coming in a month or so that I'll pair up with a last-gen Vibra 16. My goal is that the …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 - Positional audio is screwed up through TOSLINK

Posted on 2020-10-31, 00:34

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

2015 is also the release I use when going above DirectX 7.0a as it seems to be the last that won't occasionally blow up the Win9x kernel or ddhelp.exe with games in that situation. Official Diamond drivers are somewhere near revision 2015. The final Diamond drivers are 2017. I didn't see an option …

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Re: Is it possible to use a SB16 ct4170 for digital sound only and Ati FX stereo CD for FM Yamaha 262 chip opl3.

Posted on 2020-10-31, 00:02

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you seen UNISOUND? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=72553 I believe the CT4170 is PnP, you can use UNISOUND to configure it and just not set the OPL port, or map it to something different. I can't find much on the Ati FX Stereo CD card, but the pictures that pop up have a YM3812 …

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Re: Playing games on periodcorrect retro computer versus playing on newer/modern machine

Posted on 2020-10-30, 12:58

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by SScorpio

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in Milliways

I prefer a mix of going overkill and modern. There were games that ran horrible on the hardware that was out at the time of their release. We are also spoiled by modern hardware and games, games running at 30-60fps, while old games could run at 15fps or lower. But going modern isn't a perfect …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 - Positional audio is screwed up through TOSLINK

Posted on 2020-10-29, 17:59

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by SScorpio

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Have you tried one of the YMF PCI cards in your PC? That would give you a real OPL3, as well as support for Sound Blaster Pro, MPU401, and Game Port in both Windows and DOS.

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 - Positional audio is screwed up through TOSLINK

Posted on 2020-10-29, 15:44

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by SScorpio

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in Marvin \ Sound

The Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 supported Dolby AC-3 decoding in some way. Here's a contemporary review . Not sure if it could do this via SPDIF though. AC-3 Decoding would just be taking the signal from a DVD and splitting it to analog 5.1 outputs. For a game's regular audio to have a digital 5.1 …

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