Re: Chronicles Of The Sword, Different Sound Out Of Each Speaker

Posted on 2009-02-27, 21:58

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by ripsaw8080

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I looked at the data the game is using for the output function, and it is almost certainly the cause of the problem. However, the input function is important to the game for its decision on what to use for the output programming. For example, to play just the right channel, it is made to be the …

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Re: Chronicles Of The Sword, Different Sound Out Of Each Speaker

Posted on 2009-02-27, 14:23

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Seems like it could be handled for images, where the audio samples are processed by code. The CDAUDIO volume control in the DOSBox mixer only works for images, so it seems that inconsistent support for features isn't always out of the question because of SDL limitations. 😉

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Re: Chronicles Of The Sword, Different Sound Out Of Each Speaker

Posted on 2009-02-27, 12:05

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Yep, QSound was a bit of a red herring. The stereo audio tracks are being used to hold mono audio on the separate channels, thus doubling capacity, but the channels have to be selectively muted when playing the tracks. The game's installer asks a series of questions about if you can hear the left …

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Re: Chronicles Of The Sword, Different Sound Out Of Each Speaker

Posted on 2009-02-27, 03:32

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SoundBlaster Pro 16... like some hybrid of a Pro and 16? Maybe they just forgot a comma. Never heard that particular naming of an SB card, but I'm not a historian of everything Creative produced. Putting aside what the box says, how about posting screenshots of the sound setup in the game?

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Re: Chronicles Of The Sword, Different Sound Out Of Each Speaker

Posted on 2009-02-26, 22:52

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SoundBlaster 16 first came out in 1992, so if the tech was licensed in 1993, only later models could have hardware-based QSound processing, possibly the ASP line. According to Mobygames , the game supports SBPro, which came out in 1991. If you can't disable the QSound processing directly as an …

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Re: Dos INT 21h function 1 does not echo

Posted on 2009-02-26, 18:16

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The way this program is written seems to imply redirected input (e.g. echoout < somefile) because it will immediately exit if there is no input pending (INT 21/0B). I tried it, and INT 21/01 is not echoing under redirected input, however it does echo without redirected input (typing on the keyboard …

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Re: Mingw/Msys compile without need for mingwm10.dll?

Posted on 2009-02-25, 02:27

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There's info on the web explaining that the dll is related to exception handling for threads. Compiling with the -mthreads option, which is supposed to be used with multi-threaded programs, is the most straightforward reason the dependency on the dll gets linked in. DOSBox is single-threaded, but …

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Re: More than one palette per screen simultaneously (bug)

Posted on 2009-02-24, 14:07

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I used my own build of (fairly) recent CVS with svga_s3. I just now tried it with vgaonly and the palettes are working correctly. I thought the OP said that it had been tried... guess not.

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Re: More than one palette per screen simultaneously (bug)

Posted on 2009-02-24, 13:53

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An interesting side-effect is that you see the wrong palette for the lower picture on the screen, but a screenshot taken by DOSBox (Ctrl-F5) has the correct palette for the lower picture.

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Re: dosbox for s60 (symbian) first results

Posted on 2009-02-24, 12:09

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I don't know what the big deal is. Must have some strange appeal to gadget fans. A number of the gadget sites have picked up on it. This Marcin-PRV is promoting the "feat" like some kind of press release, even with a custom "badge" on all the screenshots:

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Re: dosbox for s60 (symbian) first results

Posted on 2009-02-24, 11:31

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I suppose this was inevitable; but it happened sooner than I expected.

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Re: Sound issues with Battle Chess

Posted on 2009-02-22, 11:55

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The attached captures were made with official DOSBox 0.72 for Win32 using no conf file, meaning all default settings. I did a bit of the opening music, and also a Queen capturing a Knight (changed the board to set that up quickly). Although the PCM sfx isn't great quality, it's typical for speaker, …

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Re: Sound issues with Battle Chess

Posted on 2009-02-20, 10:40

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I run this game with completely default settings in DOSBox 0.72 and it sounds fine. An easy way to be sure you're using all defaults is to run with no conf file. If your sound is still garbled with default settings, check and make sure you don't have high CPU utilization from some background app on …

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Re: Sound issues with Battle Chess

Posted on 2009-02-20, 08:08

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I think it only uses the PC speaker, and increasing the sample rates can improve the quality of the sound. For example, I use conf settings of rate=48000 (mixer section) and pcrate=48000 (speaker section) with my Audigy 2 ZX. Generally speaking, a higher sample rate should sound better, but 48khz …

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Re: date of arj extracted files is wrong

Posted on 2009-02-20, 06:24

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Re: About modified date for files

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Re: Game Request

Posted on 2009-02-20, 03:20

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According to Mobygames, The Incredible Toon Machine is a Windows game. You can install Windows 3.x in DOSBox using guides available in these forums, and then you might be able to install and run the game using Windows within DOSBox. There is a DOS version of the game called Sid & Al's Incredible …

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Re: 50 line console

Posted on 2009-02-19, 10:28

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The MODE.COM in FreeDOS worked for changing to 50 lines in DOSBox without needing Tseng chipset emulation last I checked... seems odd that those separate versions would need that. Anyway, I made a tiny program that does the job of changing to 80x50 text in VGA with an appropriately reshaped cursor …

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Re: DosBox en Bat??

Posted on 2009-02-17, 22:16

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A handy mnemonic device, I suppose, but I wasn't following your guideline in my statement. 😉

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Re: ABCGRL types wrong character and won't uninstall the program

Posted on 2009-02-17, 22:07

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Poster has also reported being unable to uninstall NovaFont: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=150735 The Greek font TSR in question can be found at http://www.hyper.gr/greek-fonts.html Just as with NovaFont, there is no evidence that the TSR can be unloaded with a command line switch. I think …

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Re: 569k free conventional memory, game says only 59k free...

Posted on 2009-02-17, 20:23

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Compatibility list (link to Internet Archive) has it as broken in 0.63, and even though that's an old version, could still be broken. Not a lot of info on the entry, unfortunately.

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