Thanks Phil! I really love these DOSBox tweak guides of yours. PC Gamer actually had an article on how to run Tomb Raider 1 with 4K resolution. I bet that if you use something like DSR/VSR and force AF 8x & SSAA the game will look fantastic. Worth a try perhaps? I don't quite have the graphical processing power to do that.

Edit: Here is the link to the original PC Gamer article.

Evert wrote:

Thanks Phil! I really love these DOSBox tweak guides of yours. PC Gamer actually had an article on how to run Tomb Raider 1 with 4K resolution. I bet that if you use something like DSR/VSR and force AF 8x & SSAA the game will look fantastic. Worth a try perhaps? I don't quite have the graphical processing power to do that.

Edit: Here is the link to the original PC Gamer article.

Yup, SDR also works with nGlide and DOSBox (tried it with opengl) 😀

Wing Commander will be my next. Just waiting for two joysticks to arrive.

Would you mind making a video or including some screenshots?

Evert wrote:

Would you mind making a video or including some screenshots?

Take a look here: Using Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution with DOSBox and openglnb output

Best to download them, and watch them on a 1920x1080 screen in full screen.

Wing Commander GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide

In this video I am showing you how to improve certain aspects of the GOG.com release of Wing Commander, Secret Missions and Secret Missions 2.

Topics covered include:

- Improving graphics
- Improving music and sound effects with Munt MT-32 emulator
- CPU cycle speed
- Changing sound device (no sound, PC Speaker, Adlib or Sound Blaster and Roland MT-32)
- Joystick calibration
- Transferring pilots

Link to Munt Roland MT-32 emulator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/

Use these lines to edit WINGCMDR.CFG (WC 1 and SM1) and CRUSADE.CFG (SM2) to change the audio device.

No Sound:
v z

PC Speaker:
v p z

Adlib / Sound Blaster:
v a904 z

Roland MT-32:
v r z

Space Quest 4 GOG.com Tech Review Tweak Guide

In this video I am showing you to improve the graphics, music and sound of the GOG.com version of Space Quest IV. I cover:

- Correct aspect ratio
- Full screen image
- Comparing output modes
- CPU cycle speed to avoid bugs
- Higher sample rate
- Munt Roland MT-32 emulator
- ScummVM

It's really a shame that you don't have more subscribers on YouTube. Your videos are very informative and high quality. I've never watched one of your videos where I didn't learn at least one thing, so thanks again.

Evert wrote:

It's really a shame that you don't have more subscribers on YouTube. Your videos are very informative and high quality. I've never watched one of your videos where I didn't learn at least one thing, so thanks again.

Thanks 😀

February 22 2015

Today we are looking at another tech review and tweak guide of the GOG.com release of Space Quest V!

Space Quest 5 GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide

- Full screen image
- Correct aspect ratio
- Comparing output modes
- Tweaking cycle speed (Game ran too slow)
- Changing music to General MIDI
- VirtualMIDISynth
- Soundfonts
- Playing the game with ScummVM

Wing Commander Privateer GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide

In this video we are improving graphics, sound, music and other aspects of the game. I cover:

- Full screen aspect ratio corrected image
- Output modes
- Scaler mode
- Improving sample rate
- Using a virtual MIDI device and soundfonts
- Running INSTALL.EXE to change sound devices
- Fixing the slowing down of music in space flight
- Calibrating joystick

Download BASSMIDI: https://kode54.net/bassmididrv/

Download VirtualMIDISynth: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth

Download Weeds General MIDI Soundfont v3.0: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/general-midi- … soundfonts.html

Sam & Max Hit the Road GOG.com Tweak Guide

The GOG.com version of Sam & Max uses ScummVM, which allows a lot of tweaks to be applied. The main tweaks I will show you is having an aspect ratio correct full screen image as well as improved music by using General MIDI sound fonts.

I cover the following topics:

- Upgrading ScummVM from version 1.6 to 1.7
- Getting an aspect ratio correct full screen image
- Using a virtual MIDI device and soundfonts
- Configuring the game for using General MIDI
- Adjusting volume to better hear the dialogue

Link to BASSMIDI virtual MIDI device: https://kode54.net/bassmididrv/

Link to VirtualMIDISynth virtual MIDI device: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth

Link to some soundfonts on my website: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/general-midi- … soundfonts.html

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis GOG.com Tweak Guide

How awesome for GOG.com to release Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It's one of my absolute favourite DOS adventure games as I played it extensively when I was a teenager.

Unlike the Steam version, the GOG.com version used ScummVM, which allows a lot of tweaks to be applied. The main tweaks I will show you is having an aspect ratio correct full screen image as well as improved Roland Music.

I cover the following topics:

- Upgrading ScummVM from version 1.6 to 1.7
- Getting an aspect ratio correct full screen image
- Munt emulator and loading CM-32L ROM
- Configuring the game for Roland music
- Adjusting volume to better hear the dialogue

Link to Munt Roland emulator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/

Link to my website: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/

Something different!

Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 Review

This is a review of the Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3, which is software that adds many of the features that Creative sound cards are well known for. Technologies such as SBX Pro Studio, Crystalizer, Surround, Bass, Dialog Plus, Smart Volume, EAX Advanced HD, ALchemy are included.

I used to have a Sound Blaster Z in my desktop, but had to remove it because I needed the PCIe slot for a capture card. Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 gives me all the features I was used to for a decent price of just USD 30 and without using a PCIe slot.

Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 is great for gamers as it improves current games as well as older games, that use EAX from the Windows XP era.

In this review we will look at:

Introduction (00:00)
Purchase (00:47)
Software installation (02:10)
Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 software overview (03:33)
Speaker setup (03:45)
Speaker setup for surround headphone (04:22)
Profiles (05:07)
Crystalizer (05:25)
Surround (06:11)
Surround headphone Battlefield 4 (06:47)
Bass (10:02)
Dialog Plus (10:44)
Smart Volume (11:07)
Scout Mode (12:37)
EAX Effects and Equalizer (12:52)
Bass Management (13:47)
ALchemy (15:26)

Thank you so much for doing that! I've been waiting for a review of X-Fi MB3 for quite a while.

And thanks for the Sam & Max and Fate of Atlantis tweak guides.

Half-Life 3dfx Voodoo 5 Aureal A3D Windows 98 60 fps

Roughly 1h of Half-Life gameplay!

This video shows some gameplay of Half-Life on a retro gaming PC. The PC used in this video has the following specifications. To experience A3D and surround over headphones, please listen to this video using headphones and disable and sound drive audio effects such as SBX or CMSS-3D.

AOpen AX6BX motherboard
Intel Pentium III 1.1 GHz
256 MB SDRAM
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 Aureal Vortex 2
Samsung 2 TB SATA HDD via SATA to IDE adapter
Lite-On iHDP118

Windows 98SE
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 driver 1.02
3dfx driver 4.12.01.0666
Half-Life V46/1.1.1.0

Wing Commander II GOG.com Tweak Guide

- Improving graphics
- Roland music via Munt Emulator
- Joystick tweak
- Speed related tweaks

Return to Castle Wolfenstein Steam Tweak Guide

In this video we are looking at the Steam version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

With patch 1.42c by Knightmare, 1080p and 4K resolutions are supported directly from within the game.

You can download the patch from here: http://www.markshan.com/knightmare/

Positional surround sound with headphones in Battlefield 4

Might not be super relevant to Vogons, but this can be applied to many games, especially older games through ALchemy to give you positional surround sound over headphones 😀

In this video I am showing you how to configure Creative sound cards using SBX Pro Studio technology to output positional surround sound with headphones in Battlefield 4.

This will give you an edge in games, being able to hear where enemies are located. The video features around 40 minutes of gameplay as well.

Thank you for your hard work when it comes to making these informative videos.

Evert wrote:

Thank you for your hard work when it comes to making these informative videos.

Thanks 😀

I was wondering if you could do a follow-up of the Roland video. Since it has become difficult to almost impossible to find the MPU-401 cards (including the clones), I've read that people now resort to using Yamaha YMF718 cards together with SoftMPU. Since I don't have an MT-32 or SC-55 I'd like to see someone test this out and show how it works (if it even works). I think it's reasonable to assume that you have at least one Yamaha ISA sound card in your collection. Could you try this out and demonstrate it in a video please?

I would also like to suggest that you do a video on power supplies for retro computers. There's a lot of snake-oil on the internet and I think you putting a video on YouTube will just set the record straight.