Re: Sound problems (yamaha opl3)
Posted on 2022-03-10, 17:08
It sounds (no pun intended) like Quake boops the hardware, so it initializes the driver properly and Wolf3D does not, hence no sound.
Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank
Posted on 2022-03-07, 21:58
What is the best sound card to use with this daughter board ? That depends on your planned usage and your audio output requirements. Genuine DOS usage gives you one set of classic cards where quality might be not so great for most, Windows usage a set of cards focused on multi-media, and both will …
Re: Best PCI Sound card for a Pentium Pro Server
Posted on 2022-03-05, 03:40
XP worked wonderfully on the Core Duo chips and many Windows XP Media Center PCs shipped with those CPUs, before Vista took hold. I ran a Q6600 with XP for a long time, as my main gaming machine.
Re: Does anyone know of any MIDI Soft Synth usable on NT 3.51?
Posted on 2022-03-05, 03:37
Based on what I little is out there about that card, it wasn't made for use with that version of Windows. The DSP used has an onboard MIDI synth and SBPro mode, so it should have MIDI functionality through drivers and programs, but as I said, it apparently wasn't made for use with that OS and should …
Re: Does anyone know of any MIDI Soft Synth usable on NT 3.51?
Posted on 2022-03-04, 16:59
The S-YXG50 VSTi might be an option, if the latest version of the MIDI VST host driver will run on it. https://github.com/Arakula/vstdriver/releases … g/v1.0.0-alpha3 You can find the VSTi by using Google.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-03-04, 15:56
I was digging through my garage to move out some stuff and found an old Gateway P3 system that I picked up at one of the local thrift stores. I'm gonna bring it inside later and see what's in there, as I don't recall what was inside beyond the fact that it was a populated system. I picked up some …
Re: Black Moon Chronicles
Posted on 2022-03-02, 17:42
Every bit of game footage I see on replay vids is slow/stuttery, so there must be an issue with the game overall. I'm not familiar enough with the game to say it was that way to begin with, but the reviews state compatibility issues with the newer versions of Windows, so that might be it.
Re: Help getting Win98 going with on-board SIL3112
Posted on 2022-03-01, 20:57
Integrated controllers that support RAID are supposed to have a BIOS switch for RAID and if it's on, then you wouldn't be able to use it normally. With the add-in cards, the Silicon Image SATA chips have firmware for both RAID and regular use and you can convert/switch the card's access mode simply …
Re: Are all OEM creative labs sound cards trashes and what "value" mean in creative labs denomination?
Posted on 2022-02-28, 13:58
Creative Labs made questionable quality products until the X-Fi came around and even then, their brand quality was short-lived due to CL expanding the product lines with too many variants and overlapping products with no great difference in quality and a great difference in prices.
Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank
Posted on 2022-02-28, 12:52
I was wondering if you could get license from roland's for MT32 type data and make new wavetable card too? Cheers, MT-32 is a different type of synth and it's not available for licensing. Roland knows about and unofficially accepts the existence of MUNT, so that's what you should be using for MT-32 …
Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card
Posted on 2022-02-27, 20:25
pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-02-27, 18:54: So that's similar to MT32? Cheers, No. MT-32 is not General MIDI. MT-32 uses Roland's proprietary MIDI format design and came before General MIDI.
Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card
Posted on 2022-02-27, 17:49
pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-02-27, 17:23: what this is compatible with what type of MIDI? Cheers, General MIDI Level 1, so basic MIDI used in old games.
Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank
Posted on 2022-02-27, 13:14
I was peeping the other vids last night and thought "I hope we get one for the X2GS soon." and there it is. That little thing just doesn't disappoint thus far, so it's successors (coming later this year) should be equally enjoyable.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-02-26, 07:59
I've been gathering the old pro and enthusiast XG MIDI files to see just how awesome the S-YXG can sound. I also went looking into the XG soundcards and discovered something that I never knew existed, a low-profile SFF design that was previously unknown to me (and likely everyone else here, for the …
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-02-22, 11:12
I'm pretty much on the software side these days, so it's no big problem at the moment. Unfortunately, it looks like Microsoft is killing off Legacy Windows functionality in favor of the newer and cross-platform friendly software Windows design that was introduced with Windows 8. That means that …
Re: indirect sound
Posted on 2022-02-20, 19:23
It's my understanding that EAX 1.0 was A+B and EAX 2.0 was A+B+C+D+E, so EAX 1.0 functionality should be covered by converting EAX 2.0 anyway, since it already incorporates the EAX 1.0 calls from being built upon EAX 1.0's spec.
Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3
Posted on 2022-02-20, 19:06
I read that the instrument problem with the VSC-MP1 was that the final version (1.60) of that VSTi only had the SC-88 bank embedded in it, while the other synths had separate .dat files that had to be manually loaded, hence taking the separate SC-55 bank and adding it to the current VSTi, and using …
Re: Logitech F310 on Windows 98?
Posted on 2022-02-20, 18:57
The DAGP, F310, F510, and F710 all use the same parts (same design platform). If I had to say why the F510 went away, it's because Rumble wasn't a feature that people necessarily wanted and the demand for the parts required to implement it is driven by the console control manufacturing, as it is a …
Re: indirect sound
Posted on 2022-02-20, 17:57
EAX 2.0 (1999) was when DirectSound incorporated EAX into it's functions and OpenAL Soft is call conversion to OpenAL. EAX 1.0 is probably what one considers to be "Legacy EAX".
Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3
Posted on 2022-02-20, 17:48
Here are the settings from my last comparison, with the SysEx for Volume/Balance enabled in your player. The Yamaha player shows no configurable settings beyond the volume and the MIDI Output selection. The VST host used, which is the only one I ever use, is the VST MIDI Driver from Mudlord that was …
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