Re: Sam & Max Hit the Road: Best Slowdown Utility/Settings?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 17:27

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ACPI throttling on Pentium III computers usually works with Throttle and CPUSPD . Note that this method isn't guaranteed to work flawlessly with every game. Yep, I got S&M working well on my Pentium 3 with Throttle, luckily it's one of those games that is ok with ACPI throttling. I had to bring it …

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Re: Sam & Max Hit the Road: Best Slowdown Utility/Settings?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 21:28

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elszgensa wrote on 2024-05-07, 20:33: Well, since you're already entertaining the idea of using a port instead - ScummVM has a Win95 build, and lets you configure filtering and whatnot. I also tried that, it doesn't scale correctly on a CRT. It doesn't have an option to use native 320x200 …

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Sam & Max Hit the Road: Best Slowdown Utility/Settings?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 19:41

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So I've been trying to get the DOS version of Sam & Max Hit the Road working on my Win98 PC, but seem to be having a bit of difficulty. I'm aware it's one of those games that is CPU-speed-sensitive , but it's like the one game I haven't gotten working with slowdown utilities and/or booting into DOS …

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Half-Life's gl_overbright: only works with 1 TMU Cards in OpenGL? Is there a workaround for 2+ TMU cards?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 18:40

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So having done some research and testing, I've found that Half-Life's infamous gl_overbright feature only seems to work in OpenGL/Glide MiniGL mode if it detects that the graphics card has only 1 TMU. The only alternative to this is using Direct3D mode, but that has other graphical artifacting. I'm …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 (CT2800) Oddities - Bio Menace and Xargon Sound Issues on Wind0ws 98

Posted on 2024-05-01, 00:13

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The sound detection routine in Bio Menace is speed-sensitive and tend to fail with faster computers. The game also needs STACKS=9,256 (not STACKSHIGH) to be set in CONFIG.SYS which without it, the computer could be hardlocked just after dealing with the first enemy. Yeah, that makes sense, because …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 (CT2800) Oddities - Bio Menace and Xargon Sound Issues on Wind0ws 98

Posted on 2024-04-30, 17:45

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Sounds like a resource conflict, what's going on in your resource manager? Any conflicts identified? Are you using the same resources in Windows as you are in DOS? I am using the same resources. My SBLive! is configured like so: A240 I5 D3 H7 P330 T6 And my SB16 is configured as: A220 I7 D1 H5 P300 …

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

Posted on 2024-04-26, 19:21

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zaphod77 wrote on 2024-04-26, 18:28: okay, we need a cool name for this now. I'll give you a few: NukedPi Pi Canvas SC-Pi Sound Canvas Mini Mini-SC Sound Canvas Classic (only if it's at a ridiculous price like the NES Classic 🤣) Sound Canvas Micro

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2024-04-26, 00:37

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I tried this and it seems to work (my issue was more the lack of EMS, not freezing), but the problem for me is that I'm trying to use my Live! for General MIDI to bypass the hanging-note bug that my SB16 model has, and with the MPXPLAY solution, the Live!'s MIDI synth (or MIDI Out) isn't …

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2024-04-22, 04:21

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I have this issue as well, usually when rebooting from dos. The problem goes away if i boot into windows 95 and then reboot to dos. I on the otherhand am using it with a CMI8330 card and an AWE32 Current solution ive found is launching SBEINIT in your autoexec before ekm049. Seems to keep the …

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Sound Blaster 16 (CT2800) Oddities - Bio Menace and Xargon Sound Issues on Wind0ws 98

Posted on 2024-04-19, 21:44

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My Sound Setup: - Sound Blaster Live! Value (SB16 emulation driver installed for use with certain games + general MIDI via external module) - Sound Blaster 16 CT2800 (used for most other DOS games except for general MIDI) The Problem For the most part, all the games I've tested seem to work pretty …

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

Posted on 2024-04-19, 00:37

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I think it would be wise to try and get the other ROM sets if you can so that you can make sure your optimizations aren't affecting the sound of those. Do they exist? I could only find the full SC-55 mkII ROMs. They exist, but I think only a few people attached to this project have the full sets.

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

Posted on 2024-04-18, 20:15

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I've been playing around with optimizing the emulator code for the last few days, and I'm happy to report that I'm now able to run it at ~85-90% cpu utilization (while playing music) on a single core of a stock Raspberry Pi 4! 🎉 I'll do a bit of cleaning up of the code and then I'll make PR on the …

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

Posted on 2024-04-18, 17:19

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I've been playing around with optimizing the emulator code for the last few days, and I'm happy to report that I'm now able to run it at ~85-90% cpu utilization (while playing music) on a single core of a stock Raspberry Pi 4! 🎉 I'll do a bit of cleaning up of the code and then I'll make PR on the …

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Re: SB AWE32 + SB Live! Value - Hanging Note Workaround? Is it a good DOS/Windows combo?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 04:33

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Try a music store, that’s where I got mine from. A proel C2MSB01 I bought a gameport to MIDI cable and after hours of trying to get it working, I'm beginning to wonder if this cable is broken. I've tried using it on the gameport of both my Sound Blaster Live! and SB Vibra16, and neither of them …

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Re: SB AWE32 + SB Live! Value - Hanging Note Workaround? Is it a good DOS/Windows combo?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 04:00

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Try a music store, that’s where I got mine from. A proel C2MSB01 I bought a gameport to MIDI cable and after hours of trying to get it working, I'm beginning to wonder if this cable is broken. I've tried using it on the gameport of both my Sound Blaster Live! and SB Vibra16, and neither of them …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-30, 21:56

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Okay so I think I found a solution that allows me to run both Dune II and Monster Bash without issue. By putting "Device=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE 150 RAM" in the CONFIG.SYS and adding "EMMPageFrame=C800" under the "[386enh]" section of C:\Windows\SYSTEM.INI, both games work under the same configuration …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-30, 03:12

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In the testbox on a vm I used, the autoexec and configsys are blank. The properties works. Try it. Just tried this, still the same issue. What else have you changed? Windows runs the memory. The dos window gets what windows gives it. Default windows works. I did exactly what you said, cleared out …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-29, 18:28

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There isn't any upper memory available in any of the screenshots I've seen so far. It might be something that can be solved with a simple addition of RAM parameter to EMM386. DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM AUTO Tried this, just causes the Dune 2 shortcut to say there isn't enough conventional …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-29, 18:25

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myne wrote on 2024-03-29, 05:54: In the testbox on a vm I used, the autoexec and configsys are blank. The properties works. Try it. Just tried this, still the same issue.

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-29, 05:15

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Same thing for the other games. Change their ems properties to something close to era hardware. Windows does most of the work. You don't need autoexec/configsys settings. Think of it like you would dosbox. A baby virtual machine. The thing is, when you disable EMM386 in the Config.sys, it prevents …

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