Re: *START HERE* SoftMPU 1.91 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator

Posted on 2021-03-01, 18:00

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Another option regarding serial MIDI output for protected-mode titles, and in lieu of SoftMPU, is to modify the MPU driver/routine for a particular game or sound system to natively provide that support.

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

Posted on 2021-02-28, 04:58

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Dial-up internet through the PiModem on an 8MHz, V30-based system. It's entirely as slow as it sounds.

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

Posted on 2021-02-27, 20:46

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The Tandy 1000 SL gets reacquainted with a CD-ROM drive. Oh, boy.

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

Posted on 2021-02-25, 17:35

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Progress on the SDF-31250...

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Re: Creative ISA Sound Card Floating Op-Amps Running Log/List

Posted on 2021-02-19, 23:52

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For the mentioned instances, what are the measured noise level differences between the uncommitted and the terminated op amps? I'll have to take some measurements, but I cannot guarantee that my data will be overly useful given my consumer-grade recording gear and relatively limited software ( …

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

Posted on 2021-02-16, 17:29

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Is there a process for setting up a Raspberry Pi as a modem? I mostly followed this procedure , but using the (aesthetically superior) USB-to-serial cable method, and with the addition of some resiliency-related OS tweaks besides. The great thing about this solution, when compared to some others, …

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Re: Creative ISA Sound Card Floating Op-Amps Running Log/List

Posted on 2021-02-16, 17:04

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For the mentioned instances, what are the measured noise level differences between the uncommitted and the terminated op amps?

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

Posted on 2021-02-12, 05:03

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BBSing in style with the PiModem.

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

Posted on 2021-02-09, 21:50

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Drawers and vent panels. Oh, boy.

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

Posted on 2021-02-03, 20:06

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Definitely needs more MIDI, so you can MIDI while you MIDI with your MIDI. Well, I'm yet short one Midi Time Piece, so there is that. :) And what atari model is that? It's a Mega ST2. What kind of wood did you use for building the cabinet? It looks pretty nice. And do you actually, like, do …

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

Posted on 2021-02-03, 16:55

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Another work-in-progress reconfiguration. Hooray.

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2021-01-28, 19:23

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Bondi wrote on 2021-01-26, 06:23: I've put together this chart with all information about all known PCMCIA (16 bit) sound cards and game port cards. The Media Vision PCMCIA sound card also provides MPU-401 (UART-mode) compatibility in DOS, for what it's worth.

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Re: How to get compatibility of Tandy 3 voice / Tandy sound on Tandy 2500 RSX

Posted on 2021-01-28, 19:15

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AGI Titles - Patch the Sierra executable (requires decryption), replacing the "out, c0h" instructions with "int, c0h". Run the modified executable with the -e and -t command-line parameters, in conjunction with Scali's "SNDTSR" port-forwarding utility. SCI0 Titles - Supported via NewRisingSun's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-29, 20:07

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Purchased this SC-55 from its renowned owner recently. There's slightly more to the story, but, suffice it to say, this is -the- Sound Canvas that was used for the scoring of Noctropolis and other titles.

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Re: Mt-32 Roland which sound card is the best for MPU 401 support?

Posted on 2020-10-31, 19:44

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Fully aware of PAS16, including the fact that SB16 was a quick, dirty & inferior PAS16 clone slapped together in a few weeks (to the point of copying its MIDI hanging note bug...) Exactly! If we overlook the PAS16 and SB16 being released seven months apart, and that they're architecturally and …

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Re: Diamond Speedstar24 Bios versions

Posted on 2020-10-30, 20:27

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The EPROMs on the WDC-based SpeedStar 24X do contain identical data, for what it's worth.

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Re: Sound levels changed by games

Posted on 2020-10-29, 01:55

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Not sure about 7th Guest, but for Gabriel Knight (and related Sierra games), simply change the Sound Blaster's DOS "SOUND" environment variable to point to a non-relevant directory beforehand. This could be temporarily set and restored as part of the game's batch file even. E.g.: @ECHO OFF SET SOUND …

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Re: SC-55 vs SC-55MkII - Quest for Glory

Posted on 2020-10-29, 01:43

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It's worth mentioning that the demo version of Quest for Glory IV, which features MIDI music later used in the full game, contains a resource bundle that can reasonably be assumed to pre-date the release and/or general availability of the SC-55mkII.

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Re: An AdLib-Compatible Card (1986) Older than AdLib (1987)

Posted on 2020-10-22, 04:05

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It would be interesting to know what the use-case was for this particular card. Is the obscured letter that follows "University of Delaware" an "O"? If so, the "OIT" acronym presumably represents "Office of Information Technology," which makes me wonder if the card may have been a component of some …

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Re: First dos sound blaster game.

Posted on 2020-10-21, 19:57

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Waltzking wrote on 2020-10-21, 19:39: Looks like that weird Fatman game takes the crown - or did I miss something? Err, the post right above yours, as relates to the floppy release of The Manhole.

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