Re: Mechwarrior 2 3Dfx issues

Posted on 2022-02-08, 21:58

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ Software

If this is true, I will have a go at it. My experience was that the levels failed on instant when starting a game in windows98. But these were standard voodoo drivers. It does crash with the standard drivers, but I'm pretty sure it's just a crash, not MechWarrior 2 blocking non-Orchid hardware …

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Re: Mechwarrior 2 3Dfx issues

Posted on 2022-02-08, 16:19

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by AirIntake

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P.s. This version of Mechwarrior is only playable with the Orchid Righteous 3D drivers installed on the 3Dfx Voodoo 1 card. If it's the same as my Orchid Righteous 3D MechWarrior 2 copy then it doesn't actually require Orchid drivers. My copy is playable on my Diamond Monster 3D using Diamond …

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Re: Windows, Doom, Apogee OPL3 Synthesizer.

Posted on 2022-02-07, 04:46

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by AirIntake

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In Windows 10 x64 I'm getting an error in Coolsoft MIDIMapper of "Can't open target device. Do you want to select a device now?" when I try to play a MIDI file. I've reinstalled both the x86 and x64 versions of Visual C++ 2015 and installed the x64 driver using admin and still get the same error. …

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Re: Windows, Doom, Apogee OPL3 Synthesizer.

Posted on 2022-02-07, 02:00

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by AirIntake

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In Windows 10 x64 I'm getting an error in Coolsoft MIDIMapper of "Can't open target device. Do you want to select a device now?" when I try to play a MIDI file. I've reinstalled both the x86 and x64 versions of Visual C++ 2015 and installed the x64 driver using admin and still get the same error. …

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Re: is there some reliable/suggested way to play midi files with OPL2-emulation ?

Posted on 2022-02-06, 23:29

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by AirIntake

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leileilol wrote on 2022-02-06, 22:47: Windows can do better than that: Windows, Doom, Apogee OPL3 Synthesizer. That looks great! Thanks very much, I'll have to try it out.

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Re: Descent 1/2 control scheme

Posted on 2022-02-06, 21:23

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by AirIntake

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Pierre32 wrote on 2022-02-06, 20:55: I also have my arrow keys mapped to pitch & yaw as a stand-in for the joystick if it's not connected. I actually play this way a lot. Ha ha yeah I do this as well. Mostly for testing but it does feel good enough for extended play.

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Re: Descent 1/2 control scheme

Posted on 2022-02-06, 20:35

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by AirIntake

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I use a "KB+J" control scheme for Descent where I used WASD like in a normal FPS for forward/backward/slideleft/slideright but instead of the mouse I use a SideWinder 3D Pro joystick to control "look" of yaw, pitch, and roll. I use inverted Y axis so it's normal aircraft controls and the hatswitch …

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Re: Playing around with sound under dos 6.22

Posted on 2022-02-06, 19:59

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ Sound

Unisound seconded. Even if you don't end up using it to initialize your PNP sound cards it's a great troubleshooting tool to ensure your manufacturer PNP init tool is working properly or if you have a hardware error.

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Re: is there some reliable/suggested way to play midi files with OPL2-emulation ?

Posted on 2022-02-06, 18:11

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by AirIntake

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You can download a simulated OPL soundfont https://midis.fandom.com/wiki/OPL-3_FM_128M.sf2_(OPL3_Yamaha_YMF262) and then use VirtualMIDISynth https://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth as a software MIDI device in Windows. Load the soundfont in VirtualMIDISynth, set VirtualMIDISynth as your …

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-05, 16:57

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by AirIntake

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BUSY instead of DRSC DRDY means drive is completely dead (if its connected to correct interface selected in victoria) have you tried different IDE cable? checked drive jumpers? You're right, she's definitely dead now, I noticed the hard drive is no longer spinning up at all. The FAT32 formatting …

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-05, 16:37

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

so far only well documented issue here is : >I took the hard drive out of my P3 500 yesterday to image it in a newer PC and was greeted with an empty unbootable drive of the wrong capacity. drive started dying, whatever you did afterwards was irrelevant to its health Perhaps the drive has indeed …

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-05, 16:25

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here you go the cdrom you see is the one you booted HDAT2 from ... I believe Testdisk wrote a DDO to the drive it has no drive overlay functionality I have just got Victoria running in XP and the drive seems to be detected in PIO mode when doing a PCI Scan, however when I try to get the drive …

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-04, 23:18

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have just got Victoria running in XP and the drive seems to be detected in PIO mode when doing a PCI Scan, however when I try to get the drive passport I get a "Waiting of readiness... Drive not ready!" Edit: Upon closer look inspection I think it just found the IDE controller, not the drive …

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-04, 23:00

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hoping wrote on 2022-02-04, 22:02: That's really strange, never seen that, can you post a photo? Here you go

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-04, 22:04

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sure, I just have to finish installing XP that I'm going to use for Victoria.

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-04, 20:44

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by AirIntake

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think HDAT2 has detected the HDD as a CDROM drive! I'm reading through HDAT2's manual though and I'm not sure what to do next.

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-04, 16:35

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

TestDisk and Seatools can't detect the drive. Victoria requires Windows XP+ but I can't get past BIOS (or even into BIOS) if the bad hard drive is installed because on my XP+ computers BIOS HDD detection is always enabled and any attempt at BIOS detection causes a freeze. I'll have to make an XP …

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-03, 23:54

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by AirIntake

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

unless you actually write data about lost partitions to the drive Perhaps that's what I did somehow? I really don't think it's dying because another HDD just exhibited the same behaviour in relation to my P3 500 when I tried to image it and it's a different model, size, and age and I've used it …

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Re: Tearing my hair out over DOS Joystick problems on my 486

Posted on 2022-02-03, 23:31

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by AirIntake

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought an AWE64 with a completely non-functional gameport. Turns out it was corroded internally and joystick pins were not making an electrical connection. Contact cleaner didn't work. I ended up having to soak it in vinegar & stick a pipe cleaner in every hole to remove the corrosion.

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-03, 22:41

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by AirIntake

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can confirm that the hard drive wasn't dying before I played with the geometry. I just spent all day reinstalling Windows 98 on my P3 500 on another hard drive (80GB). When I pulled that hard drive out and put it in a newer PC to image the drive, it showed up as only 60GB and was completely empty …

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