Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 327 - Isle of the Dead is online! My favourite thing about this game is the extremely terrible version of all the music. But, I don't remember which version of the game had said terrible music. Said version has lower music tempo, way less timbres, and generally sounds " …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 01:34

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I can't do multi monitor so the best option for me actually is 4K. A single 3840x2160 monitor is literally 4 1920x1080 screens rolled into one. I have more than enough screen real-estate to keep a eye on my Twitch chat, OBS, the game I'm playing and whatever MIDI system I need to have in use. …

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Re: what is the coolest/most unique GPU art you have ever seen on a graphics card

Posted on 2024-05-10, 01:21

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leileilol wrote on 2024-05-10, 00:15: but what I do consider pretty cards are the Hercules shiny blue PCBs I think I've seen shiny blue PCBs a long time ago but I also remember lavender coloured PCBs though I don't remember which company used lavender coloured PCBs for their stuff.

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 14:54

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Rincewind42 wrote on 2024-05-04, 07:00: and the SCVA will essentially bitrot away as it's a dead product, apparently. Wait, what? Roland doesn't let you buy it anymore?

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 04:51

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Another advantage of Nuked SC55 over SCVA is portability. I don’t really feel like spinning up a copy of Falcosoft MIDI Player in wine to host a virtual midi port on Linux. Then again, I guess it’s not much more or less overhead than running an instance of the emulator, except I have to use a drm …

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Re: Descent 3 source released under MIT

Posted on 2024-04-17, 03:06

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Why are we turning the videos "into" anything? If someone's making a source port it would need to handle the original data files, i.e. it would need to play MVEs. Nobody is going to want to pre-process game files with third-party tools beforehand. Well tell that to the wz2100.net people who …

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Re: Descent 3 source released under MIT

Posted on 2024-04-16, 16:08

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ACM is such a unfortunate lossy compression that conversion to any other lossy format will be immediately noticeable. (atleast to my ears) The MVE's don't seem to suffer as much being converted to H264 using libx264 on the "veryslow" preset. Considering every major hardware vendor supports H264 in …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-15, 21:13

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So I have a question about the odd sampling rate this emulator uses: On the Wikipedia Article it lists 18-bit @ 33.1 kHz as the output format of the SC-55mkii but the emulator is outputting a sample rate of 66207 . (and I assume the audio samples themselves are floats because there's no such thing …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-08, 19:22

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but older documents confirm that Lee Jackson was using a RAP-10, while Bobby Prince likely used an SC-55 for his tracks. It's only with the expansion pack (episode 4) that Lee may have switched to the SC-88, if even then. BONUS.VOC and GRABBAG.VOC has the sounds I recognize from a SC-88 but I have …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2024-03-28, 11:53

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Unfortunately, almost everything (MIDI) on Linux is based around FluidSynth and SoundFont files, so you won't find anything sophisticated for hardware modules or anything widely used beyond simple SoundFont usage. MUNT has a Linux based command line or Qt GUI client, and is also included in certain …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-27, 12:39

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I've been off stream trying to see how viable it would be to attempt my "contiguous" WadSmoosh run with Hideous Destructor , took me three something attempts at E1M1 before finally being able to actually get the run off the ground. I'm already at E1M4 after completing E1M9 with a shield core, …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-03-26, 05:53

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ViTi95 wrote on 2024-03-25, 23:03: Unexpected news, I've been able to add FastDoom support for the Hercules InColor video card 😁 What in the world is that kind of card? I've only been aware of the monochrome "Hercules Graphics Card".

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Re: Forum often displays a blank page after submitting a post? Using Firefox...

Posted on 2024-03-24, 14:44

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Check the "Network" tab in developer tools, if a entirely blank page is being returned there's most likely going to be a error code and not a "200 OK" response that you'll only ever notice if you're looking at that tab of the dev tools.

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-24, 07:31

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For me, YouTube is difficult to watch because of how broken everything is under Firefox. Videos randomly skip ahead, the buffer suddenly empties and then the video reloads 20 seconds back, or some videos won't even load at all. It's stuff that is supposed to happen to people who use ad blockers, …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-03-18, 00:16

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SC-55 firmware does fair amount of the processing actually (all midi->voice/partial conversion, envelope/volume/filter control, LFOs/frequency control, etc, etc), pcm chip on other hand plays samples from ROM, does envelope interpolation and applies some effects I'm curious what the resampling …

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Re: shimstock's Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Upscaled Sounds V2.0

Posted on 2024-03-10, 22:15

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Speaking of "believed to be a mistake", I have to wonder if it was a mistake that Mysteries of the Sith only shipped with 11 KHz audio for everything despite Jedi Knight shipping with 22 Khz equivalents...

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Re: IRC channel recommendations, and maybe a VOGONS IRC?

Posted on 2024-03-08, 17:31

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So you fell for the anti-advertisment by people that didn't want you to move to Libera. Well played by them it seems. I didn't want to get in the middle of the massive amounts of drama going around. But, now that everything seems to have died down several years later I'm all registered and cloaked …

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Re: When did Unreal Tournament multiplayer get so "difficult"?

Posted on 2024-03-06, 17:56

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Linux seems a bit odd with these things. I used to try out some linux distro every few years to see would I actually like to use it just to notice horrible mouse acceleration right off the bat without any way (that I knew of) to disable it. Only recently I've learned that KDE has a built in way to …

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Re: When did Unreal Tournament multiplayer get so "difficult"?

Posted on 2024-03-06, 09:30

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Mouse acceleration is the biggest pain in my ass I've had ever since I turned into a PC gamer and I'm on an eternal crusade against it. I really would like to ask developers what the @% are they even doing who even today turn it on by default or even worse FORCE it on. USB mouse polling rates above …

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Re: Is it common for plain text emails to be contained within device drivers? (found in VLSI/QSound ThunderBird 128 driv

Posted on 2024-01-19, 12:03

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I wonder what it's like to be "one of the world's leading authorities on Windows audio drivers and driver architecture"...

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