YMF71x command-line mixer?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 19:17

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by deepthaw

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Do any of the tools floating out there allow one to set the mixer settings for a YMF715 at the command line? I’d like to run a wavetable board simultaneously with an MT32-pi and it’d be nice to easily be able to mute/enable the correct channels without having to go into the full mixer each time.

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2023-05-20, 08:16

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by deepthaw

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Hooked x2gs up to my main pc and used an X68000 emulator to capture this track from Castlevania X68000. https://youtu.be/Zorreq9Xk-0

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MT32-Pi vs X2GS for GM

Posted on 2023-05-15, 21:00

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by deepthaw

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I’m getting the last pieces in to finish assembling my MT32-Pi. How does the quality of its GM via Fluidsynth compare to using the X2GS daughterboard I already have?

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MIDI volume when using WSS on a YMF card.

Posted on 2023-04-29, 17:52

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by deepthaw

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I’ve noticed that I use WSS for digital sound on my YMF715E-S that the volume on GM via my waveblaster card seems to drop substantially. When I use SBPro mode it works fine on the same waveblaster setup. Is there something in the SETUPSA mixer settings I need to play with? The channels under WSS …

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Re: Intel/Gateway 440BX (Warm Springs) board with CF-Card issue(s)

Posted on 2023-04-23, 20:54

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by deepthaw

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Not sure how close it is, but I have a Gateway 440BX board that was giving me issues. I disabled everything “advanced” in the IDE configuration in the BIOS except LBA and actually partitioned the CF card on my main PC using a USB adapter. After doing that, it works fine.

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2023-04-20, 23:26

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by deepthaw

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Are Trio3Ds good alternative to Virge cards? AGP Trio3D cards are pretty darned cheap. Looking for DOS/W3.1/9x. I recall running a Trio3D as my 2D card to go with my Voodoo2 back in the day and finding it worked fine for that. If it is the Trio3D/2X, yes, and comes with a large amount of VESA video …

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2023-04-20, 22:23

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by deepthaw

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Are Trio3Ds good alternative to Virge cards? AGP Trio3D cards are pretty darned cheap. Looking for DOS/W3.1/9x. I recall running a Trio3D as my 2D card to go with my Voodoo2 back in the day and finding it worked fine for that.

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Playing OPL soundtracks outside of games

Posted on 2021-12-01, 18:45

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by deepthaw

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What would it take to play the OPL versions of game soundtracks outside of the games? I quickly realized just getting a .MID and using FM synthesis playback is a no-go for anything resembling accuracy. Many of the games I'm interested in have internal music/jukebox modes or cheats, but I'm certain …

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Re: Assorted sound card combinations

Posted on 2021-09-28, 23:29

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by deepthaw

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I have a labeled, unpopulated spot for pc/pci on my motherboard. I’m tempted to see if I can add the header myself, but I’d have no way of testing it without buying another card.

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Gateway TBR3 500 BIOS Options

Posted on 2021-09-28, 17:46

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by deepthaw

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I picked up a Gateway TBR3 500 (I believe that's the model number) off of FB marketplace recently and have pressed it into service as a DOS machine (yay ISA port.) POST indicates the current BIOS as 4W4SB0X0.15A.0013.P08. I believe I've found an updated BIOS (or at least the filename I'm looking for …

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Re: Assorted sound card combinations

Posted on 2021-09-28, 17:35

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by deepthaw

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I have a CT2230 on the way. I verified it has a Yamaha OPL3 chip as well as wavetable headers. Not sure on the revision - will have to physically inspect it once it gets here. I only have one ISA slot, so for maximum DOS compatibility that's where I'm putting the SB16. Do the MIDI bugs impact using …

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Assorted sound card combinations

Posted on 2021-09-27, 00:03

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by deepthaw

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Presently I have an SB Live PCI with which I’m using the SB16 emulator drivers under DOS. I have an ISA SB16 on order. When I get the SB16 can I keep using the Live for the MIDI? Will that still need the emulator drivers loaded? Long term I want to get an X2GS wavetable board for my SB16. Could that …

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Re: GeForce 4mx 420 and EMM386

Posted on 2021-09-26, 15:46

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by deepthaw

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Thanks all, I ended up just removing the Ultra66 card and now emm386 auto ram just works with no further tweaks. Qemm inevitably locks up the computer if I try running optimize but the other utilities look great so I’ll keep it on the hdd.

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Re: GeForce 4mx 420 and EMM386

Posted on 2021-09-25, 18:29

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by deepthaw

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Do you have a config line that already works with one of those cards? It’ll be less of an issue once my isa sb16 comes in and I don’t need EMS to emulate sound in DOS. Yes, I have one on my Slot 1 computer with QEMM. For simplicity sake I will display the CONFIG.SYS line for EMM386 which can help …

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Re: GeForce 4mx 420 and EMM386

Posted on 2021-09-25, 17:57

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by deepthaw

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I suspect the GeForce bios is just occupying too much memory This is the problem, I have two AGP GeForce cards and their Video BIOS takes about 64KB of the upper memory segment. So you can't use C800-CFFF range for anything, you can only use the D000-EFFF range no matter which memory manager you …

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Re: GeForce 4mx 420 and EMM386

Posted on 2021-09-25, 16:26

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by deepthaw

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retardware wrote on 2021-09-25, 16:07: Why not use MSD and Manifest to look where the ROM area is, and start by experimenting with conservatively setting memory ranges, expanding them by trial and error? Wasn’t aware of those. I’ll track them down and give them a shot.

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GeForce 4mx 420 and EMM386

Posted on 2021-09-25, 16:03

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by deepthaw

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I’m beating my head against the wall trying to get EMS with an AGP GeForce 4MX 420 installed in a 440BX system. It’s definitely the GeForce, I swapped it in to replace a Radeon 7000. When Emm386 starts it says it’s unable to set page frame address. No matter how I play with different I M and FRAME …

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

Posted on 2021-09-25, 02:48

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by deepthaw

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The reason I love my MiSTer is it supports my vintage 27” Sony Trinitron perfectly. Games look identical to how they did growing up (technically better) with none of the downsides of upscaling for HDTVs (although upscalers are getting damned good…)

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

Posted on 2021-09-24, 16:13

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by deepthaw

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The reason emulation (or simulation, or whatever you want to call it) in FPGA is often viewed as more accurate than software emulation is because it handles instructions in parallel rather than in sequentially. This makes it easier to recreate the timing nuances of the original hardware. You can do …

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

Posted on 2021-09-24, 05:23

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by deepthaw

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I’m a CRT snob and found the Ao486 core to be insufficient. Then again, I’m *unreasonably* picky about crt support. (It only supports certain resolutions and forces 60Hz)

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