Re: Worthwhile putting a 286 together?

Posted on 2011-03-27, 08:13

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by megatron-uk

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On the 286? I played stuff like Arctic Fox, Stellar 7, Lightspeed, Silent Service 2, Space Quest 3, Marble Madness, Grand Prix Circuit. I remember an uncle gave me a bunch of games like HardBall and Striker too. That's all I can remember right now. You could run Falcon 3 but I'd expect like 10 fps. …

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Re: Are any of the really old Sound Blasters any good?

Posted on 2011-03-26, 21:39

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by megatron-uk

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Can't speak for anything else, but my first sound card was a SB2.0 - mono, of course, but a useful feature was the analogue volume control wheel on the actual card bracket.

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Re: Worthwhile putting a 286 together?

Posted on 2011-03-26, 09:41

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by megatron-uk

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Get a Commodore Amiga 500, 600 or 1200 instead (or the 1000/2000/3000/4000 if you want one that looks like an old desktop PC)... I personally think they are better than a 286 for pretty much anything, especially when it comes to gaming and audio :wink: Already got a 500+ and a heavily upgraded 1200 …

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Worthwhile putting a 286 together?

Posted on 2011-03-25, 14:50

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by megatron-uk

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I've still got the original 16MHz 286 motherboard from the first PC I ever had (from around 1990). It's sat in an antistatic bag, minus any simms, vga or multi-io card. Thinking about the amount of games that were playable on a machine of this era (what were your favourites?) , do you think it is …

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Re: VLB 486 recommendation required please

Posted on 2011-03-25, 12:52

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by megatron-uk

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* I wonder if the Willem programmer is capable of programming UV EPROMs? My guess is yes it can, because it lists the 27C512 EPROM chip in the ebay advert, and this 27C512 chip has a little window in it. Thanks a lot. It's likely to be able to, even if the pin count isn't right you can usually get …

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Re: Need an instrument sampled from the Roland Sound Canvas

Posted on 2011-03-24, 15:51

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by megatron-uk

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DonutKing wrote: 🤣 Yeah I just want him to confirm that the MIDI file is playing the correct instruments before I make the recording 😀 Ah, my bad.

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Re: Need an instrument sampled from the Roland Sound Canvas

Posted on 2011-03-23, 22:10

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by megatron-uk

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I think Ace wants you to record the actual audio output from the Sound Canvas while doing that 😀

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Re: AudioPCI also supports / emulates "intelligent mode" MPU401

Posted on 2011-03-21, 14:37

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by megatron-uk

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SquallStrife wrote: Is there a list of non-Roland cards that have "Intelligent" MPU401 interfaces? Music Quest did one, and there's the Midiman MM401 too.

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Re: TerraTec Wave X Table

Posted on 2011-03-19, 14:41

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by megatron-uk

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Adek also an industrial mATX motherboard with 2x ISA and Core2/Quad support.... but the ISA slots are noted as not supporting DMA... which means soundcards are probably out of the window!

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Re: TerraTec Wave X Table

Posted on 2011-03-19, 14:17

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by megatron-uk

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Eeuch... Well, we found us a theme that fails miserably on x wave :P So ideally, the best possible solution is to have 3 cards+DBs - a DB50XG for XG sounds, Roland SCC1 (or MT32 or equiv.) and a x wave as a third one. Now... Where to find a modern 3xISA board... :P The MB800H appears to be the …

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Re: TerraTec Wave X Table

Posted on 2011-03-17, 19:46

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Very nice - very similar 'balance' of instruments to that of the SC55 and DB50/60XG. Is this a waveblaster type module? If so, then Doom E1M1 and the DN3D title theme are among the best I've heard of the waveblaster type modules.

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Re: Another games that needs a real MPU-401? - Linewars 2

Posted on 2011-03-16, 21:56

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by megatron-uk

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Thought I'd finally update this with a confirmation that Linewars II does work with my MM401 and I can now get music via Sound Canvas or MT32, so my guess seems to have been right.

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound MPU-401 port

Posted on 2011-03-14, 22:54

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by megatron-uk

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I just had a simple joystick extender / midi in/out cable, like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MIDI-Interface-5-Pin-Din-Cable-1-5M-Joystick-Port-10441-/300536268670?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item45f95b877e Sorry, I can't comment on using Ultramix; back in the day when I had the GUS and a …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound MPU-401 port

Posted on 2011-03-14, 14:23

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by megatron-uk

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I've never been able to get my GUS Max midi port to work - whereas the same simple breakout cable worked fine on an SB16. My setup has the MM401 driving the SC55, with the SC55 midi-thru port then going to the MT32, as you'll know, the SC55 is easy to mute with one button press if you only want MT32 …

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Re: New server

Posted on 2011-03-02, 19:49

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by megatron-uk

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Images in your posts also appear fine for me too.

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2011-03-02, 09:09

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by megatron-uk

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I'm pretty sure you could do this fairly easily with a compositing window manager such as Compiz on Linux, which renders everything via OpenGL as a texture or surface. It has all kinds of effects, including transparency and window warping - now you just need to write a plugin to do it 😀

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Re: 387 Co-Processor, where can I find one?

Posted on 2011-02-21, 20:03

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by megatron-uk

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Well it did on the 68k based machines, I assumed it would do the same on the PC, I was obviously wrong sorry. =/ Don't those Macs also have separate FPU chips? It's strange to hear that Doom would use the FPU. It's an integer oriented game engine AFAIK. Even most 3D games from those times were …

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Re: SGI machines

Posted on 2011-02-20, 21:03

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by megatron-uk

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Yep. I own both a Octane 2 and an Indigo 2 . For my final year project for my CS degree I wrote a cross platform, multi-threaded voice over IP program for both SGI IRIX and Linux - that was eleven years ago. It's cool to hear first hand experiences with those machines. They were so niche that few …

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Re: SGI machines

Posted on 2011-02-20, 09:20

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by megatron-uk

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Yep. I own both a Octane 2 and an Indigo 2 . For my final year project for my CS degree I wrote a cross platform, multi-threaded voice over IP program for both SGI IRIX and Linux - that was eleven years ago. All of the machines are extremely well made - the build quality makes even the best PC look …

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Re: What is the best General MIDI synth for DOS games?

Posted on 2011-02-02, 12:18

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ Sound

Here's Descent Level 1 played on my SC-55mkII Haha, I can see why people don't like it! While I'm still a bit new to this General MIDI gaming stuff, I think you'll be pleased with the MU80. While I'd like to get a Sound Canvas, I'm also interested in getting other brands of General MIDI modules. I …

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