Re: Midi music using soundfonts

Posted on 2009-10-15, 19:36

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by HunterZ

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I'm currently running DOSBox primarily on a gaming laptop under Win7 x64 RC1, which has a lackluster Sigmatel (now IDT) integrated sound chipset. I've been thinking of looking into software soundfont synths for use with DOSBox since the built-in Windows synth is getting kind of boring. I was …

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Re: Creative AWE32, with an unusual addition to it.

Posted on 2009-10-15, 19:01

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by HunterZ

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I'll never put a modern Creative card in any of my computers, both on principle and to avoid driver and/or hardware problems.

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Re: Creative AWE32, with an unusual addition to it.

Posted on 2009-10-15, 18:33

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by HunterZ

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I remember spending a lot of time futzing with different SoundFonts on my SB Live! around 8 years ago. Not sure I miss that either :P Though I have been thinking it might be nice to get a software SoundFont synth to use on my laptop because the Windows default software synth is kind of boring. Are …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9800XT - is it broken?

Posted on 2009-10-15, 18:30

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by HunterZ

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I thought the cure for bad solder joints was to bake it in the oven.

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Re: ATI Radeon 9800XT - is it broken?

Posted on 2009-10-15, 17:42

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by HunterZ

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm seeing some anecdotal evidence that the KT7A has compatibility issues with Radeons: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/135068-33-a … 00-gforce4-4000 http://www.gamingheaven.net/ati-graphic-cards … 800xt-prob.html

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Re: DOS games with tracker music

Posted on 2009-10-15, 16:11

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by HunterZ

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One Must Fall uses tracker music I think. There aren't a lot of PC games that use it because it took a fair amount of CPU power at the time to mix the channels since the most popular sound cards didn't have hardware mixing. By the time the PC was able to handle such things easily, CD Audio (and …

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Re: My old 486 PC - still working good

Posted on 2009-10-15, 15:59

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by HunterZ

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Interesting to see colorful red guts hiding inside of a plain beige case 😀

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Re: European art exhibition looking for YOUR old game maps

Posted on 2009-10-15, 15:47

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by HunterZ

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I've got various old game maps that I hand drew, but I have no idea where they might be by now (in a closet or garage somewhere probably).

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Re: Simple Refresher Questions on Sound.

Posted on 2009-10-15, 15:42

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by HunterZ

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I actually chained my synths like this last time I used them: MIDI output: PC -> USB-MIDI cable -> SC-88 -> MT-32 (the SC-88 has a MIDI-Thru port that can be activated) Sound output: MT-32 -> SC-88 -> PC line-in (the SC-88 has a line-in jack with a volume potentiometer on the back!) I could then …

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Re: Creative AWE32, with an unusual addition to it.

Posted on 2009-10-15, 15:38

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by HunterZ

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LucasArts was very proud of how the MIDI music in their games changed dynamically to adapt to the current situation, so it doesn't surprise me that some MIDI setups might get tripped up while running IMUSE games. Threads like this make me glad for things like DOSBox and external MIDI synths 😜

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Re: ATI Radeon 9800XT - is it broken?

Posted on 2009-10-15, 15:33

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by HunterZ

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You may need to use the NOLFB utility to run Duke3D/Shadow Warrior (Build engine games) under Win9x.

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Re: Terminator - Skynet

Posted on 2009-10-15, 15:30

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by HunterZ

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I just played through this game last week. I got thrown off in two parts: Once was I think after exiting the sub, I ended up going through the sewers twice - with puzzles and bots being there both times! I think it was because I went back to the harbor through the garage after I exited the sewers on …

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Re: serial mouse

Posted on 2009-10-15, 14:45

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by HunterZ

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah I've had bad luck mixing mouse adapters of any kind with mouses other than the ones they were bundled with.

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Re: ATI Radeon 9800XT - is it broken?

Posted on 2009-10-14, 21:37

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by HunterZ

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Great minds think alike 😀 It could be that the motherboard is not providing enough voltage to the AGP slot (I'm assuming it's AGP?) because it was made for older generation AGP cards?

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Re: ATI Radeon 9800XT - is it broken?

Posted on 2009-10-14, 21:20

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by HunterZ

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What motherboard are you trying to use it in?

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Re: Simple Refresher Questions on Sound.

Posted on 2009-10-14, 21:00

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by HunterZ

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Supposedly you don't even need drivers in some cases, but yeah it shows up as a MIDI I/O device in the MIDI Mapper. If connect it to an external synthesizer (such as an MT-32 or SC-55 or whatever) and set it as the default Windows MIDI output device, DOSBox will output MIDI data to your synthesizer …

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Re: serial mouse

Posted on 2009-10-14, 20:44

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by HunterZ

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Is it a true serial mouse, or are you using an adapter of some kind?

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Re: My 3dfx Voodoo5 6000

Posted on 2009-10-13, 20:39

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by HunterZ

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Interesting read.

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Re: Championship Manager 2 Laserlok

Posted on 2009-10-13, 19:57

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by HunterZ

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Edit the title 😜 and added it to the acronyms list.

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Re: Creative AWE32, with an unusual addition to it.

Posted on 2009-10-13, 19:54

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by HunterZ

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Yeah most cards that don't have factory heatsinks are designed to tolerate the amount of heat that they generate. The same goes for chips with heatsinks but no fans - I've had some motherboard southbridge chips with only heatsinks that ran pretty hot.

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