Re: Question about modern Radeon GFX

Posted on 2023-04-02, 12:23

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Thanks for the replies. I am looking for bus-powered cards for a kaby lake system. It is one of them HP ProDesk 600 G3 MT machines. It can take full height cards, but only short ones. And it have no option for an extra power plug. Hence the need for power through the PCI-E slot. The choice of OS …

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Re: Question about modern Radeon GFX

Posted on 2023-04-01, 10:10

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Thanks for the replies. I am looking for bus-powered cards for a kaby lake system. It is one of them HP ProDesk 600 G3 MT machines. It can take full height cards, but only short ones. And it have no option for an extra power plug. Hence the need for power through the PCI-E slot. The choice of OS …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-03-28, 13:34

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I never got into Warcraft, but I do like World of Warcraft and keep it installed, though I haven't played it in over ten years.

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

Posted on 2023-03-27, 16:20

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I read up on the old D&D games that are coming to GOG with the upcoming D&D film. Some look interesting, others not so much. I remember owning Heroes of the Lance and Dragons of Flame back in the day. Being a huge fan of Dragonlance, I got them expecting them to be proper D&D RPG games. I remember …

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Re: Is this an Audigy 2 ZS or just an Audigy 2?

Posted on 2023-03-27, 13:13

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There are a bunch of used-with-no-packaging Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS cards for sale that look exactly like that. I can't say if it's legit or not, but that is NOT how that model number is supposed to look, as it was sold in retail. It may be an Asian or European variant.

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Re: DLS-2 sound cards

Posted on 2023-03-27, 11:55

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DLS was a 100% software feature backed by the MIDI Association, so if DLS 2 files were supported or support added in a software update for whatever DLS-capable soundcard software or soft-synth program you were using, it was supported. Outside of the professional/creative market, DLS was never widely …

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Re: DLS-2 sound cards

Posted on 2023-03-26, 23:15

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The Yamaha XG soundcards had DLS support, where you could load a DLS bank into the memory allocated to the card, to provide better sound than the Microsoft Software Synth or to use the DLS file as game sound samples. I believe the limit was around 8MB. Apart from that, the Aureal Vortex-powered …

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Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?

Posted on 2023-03-26, 19:53

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SCVA is the only option, if you want to emulate an SC-55 to SC-88/SC-8820 unit. The VSC VST is certainly capable of handling any SC-55 MIDI, but it's really designed for the later MIDI of the SC-88/SC-88 Pro, as it apparently emulates the SC-8850, but without the soundsets of the other modules, …

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Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?

Posted on 2023-03-26, 19:01

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SCVA had non-Roland Cloud versions before, but they are all unavailable. It's currently the best choice for having multiple SC units emulated, but it has it's strengths and weaknesses and is the only choice that works out of the box on today's systems. Virtual Sound Canvas VST Developers Edition v1 …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-03-22, 18:20

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Took advantage of Steam spring sales. Bought Star Wars: Dark Forces at 1,74€ I was never a fan of the series, but I loved the games: used to play a lot of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005) with my friends 🥲 When I discovered this DOOM clone Star Wars themed game, I wanted to buy the original CD …

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Re: Where can I find older AT Cases?

Posted on 2023-03-20, 02:41

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10 years ago, the Asian companies - not the big names - were making new retro-style PC desktop cases that matched the 80s and 90s cases. Then the market shifted to laptops and gaming desktop cases, so regular cases pretty much disappeared.

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

Posted on 2023-03-19, 00:13

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I read up on the old D&D games that are coming to GOG with the upcoming D&D film. Some look interesting, others not so much.

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Re: DreamBlaster X16 Release

Posted on 2023-03-04, 13:45

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I'll be getting the X16GS and the X2GS in it's respective case, but I'll let others have it first and get the early batch of X16's into the hands of those who really have a burning need for it, as I'm just using it to listen to tunes. You need to find some GS-compatible MIDI files that can show off …

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Re: Half-Life 1: Ray Traced

Posted on 2023-02-23, 20:17

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The great HL1 mod series "They Hunger" would be great to remaster and re-release, with this Half-Life RTX engine they have been working on.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-02-18, 17:47

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In regards to Wolfenstein (2009), ZeniMax/Bethesda (Microsoft) owns the IP through id Software, but Activision owns the game in it's entirety, both the code and publishing rights, so it will likely never be re-released, unless the pending Microsoft buyout of ActivisionBlizzard goes through, giving …

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Re: Looking for Mac OS 9 Yamaha UX-16 Midi USB Driver

Posted on 2023-02-17, 17:45

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Jackhead wrote on 2023-02-17, 17:28: I need the old USB Midi driver on MAC OS 9 for the Yamaha Ux-16 Midi interface. On the yamaha hp there are only OSX driver. Can anyone help? No. The UX16 was released many years into OS X and wouldn't be paired with the OS 9 systems.

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Re: Board supporting up to 1333 but runs 1600 Mhz DDR3?

Posted on 2023-02-16, 21:13

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Whatever CPU/Memory is listed in board specs, is whatever a manufacturer tested with at the time of product launch or at a later date, as spec revisions and BIOS updates reveal.

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

Posted on 2023-02-16, 13:04

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I'm diving into the abyss of DirectMusic. Since it's still included in Windows, I want to see what we can do with it at this point and how it can still serve our needs, as we've moved away from MIDI hardware. Unfortunately, the documentation is haphazard at best, the few applications are outdated, …

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Re: Final Fantasy VII and VIII definitive MIDI thread

Posted on 2023-02-15, 15:32

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Since the thread has already been bumped, I'll put my own findings here for the record..... SoundFont MIDI is the definitive choice for FF7 and seems to be based on Uematsu's own sound sampling and MIDI work for the PS1 release. The XG tracks were re-arranged from the Uematsu MIDI files by/for …

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Re: Latest version of Indeo works fine with Thief 1 & 2 cutscenes, but isn't recognized by POD Gold

Posted on 2023-02-12, 03:34

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There is a "net-made" version of the Indeo codec that came out some years back. It came about because the codec was no longer available/compatible with new versions of Windows, so someone made their own to use with the old games/hardware that required it. Do you know where I can find this? There …

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