Re: Frederik Pohl's Gateway and SOFTMPU = MT32 screen messages only
Posted on 2019-12-10, 13:03
Gateway is really finicky. I would try a slowdown program and also the CT2940 to see if there's any change.
Re: SOFTMPU hung?
Posted on 2019-12-10, 12:51
I haven't had any reports of success with the AZT2320, however the faster machines are often problematic. If a slowdown utility doesn't help I would try something from the compatibility list e.g. SB16.
Re: *START HERE* SoftMPU 1.91 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator
Posted on 2019-12-10, 12:36
appiah4 wrote: Is there any particular reason why it won't work with MS-DOS 5.0 and its EMM386? 😐 Yes, the earlier versions of EMM386 don't have the port-trapping interface that SoftMPU relies on.
Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)
Posted on 2019-12-10, 12:15
And some more years go by 😀 Thanks all for compatibility info, I have updated the supported cards list.
Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)
Posted on 2019-02-05, 10:56
bjwil1991 wrote: And when I'm done using the game and software, I type in the TSR removal command to close out the SoftMPU software. While this may free the memory used by the TSR, it won't return the RTC, PIC and GDT to their original state and will probably result in a crash later on.
Re: Best laptop for DOS/Win9x gaming?
Posted on 2019-01-08, 16:48
Presumably it's a 755C with a somewhat rare PCMCIA Roland SC-55 card http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:755C Very, very nice, especially the speakers, but isn't it a bit uncomfortable to rest your hands on the keyboard when the laptop is so damn tall ? Yeah you wouldn't want to write a book on …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2018-12-31, 17:32
It's a 370C with a Dock I. DX4/75 with 20MB, Colour TFT, CF hard disk, SB16 in the dock with a SCSI CDROM.
Re: Best laptop for DOS/Win9x gaming?
Posted on 2018-12-31, 08:08
I'll just leave this here (AC only though)
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2018-12-30, 22:34
Away on holiday for New Year, brought my (trans)portable retro gaming rig.
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2018-09-04, 22:29
Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)
Posted on 2018-04-02, 19:40
Re: *START HERE* SoftMPU 1.91 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator
Posted on 2018-04-02, 19:38
Re: Lotech Tandy Soundboard - get it finished.
Posted on 2018-01-22, 12:59
I have a populated (not working) Lotech Tandy board if it would help you. Didn't spend too much time troubleshooting it because I have another working board. You can have it for the price of postage. I suspect it might have a bad via.
Re: SoftMPU and MPU-401 on LPC interface
Posted on 2018-01-22, 11:40
Just a heads up that this change made it into 1.91. The MPU detection no longer requires ACK to be returned. Let me know if there's any further issues.
Re: *START HERE* SoftMPU 1.91 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator
Posted on 2018-01-22, 11:40
Yes, it requires interrupts. Not sure if triggering the interrupts from software would work. There might be a problem if the game's ISR sends a non-specific EOI to the 8259.
Re: *START HERE* SoftMPU 1.91 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator
Posted on 2018-01-21, 20:45
New release out now - please see the first post for details. Other than the major fixes mentioned, this release removes the requirement to specify a Sound Blaster address and interrupt in MPU-401 mode. If a Sound Blaster isn't specified, SoftMPU will run in non-interrupt mode, and game compatibility …
Re: DreamBlaster S2P : Small form factor General MIDI on parallel port
Posted on 2018-01-17, 16:17
This is really cool, nice one :cool: Unfortunately, many/most GM-supporting games run in protected mode via DOS4GW or similar, and the port-trapping technique used by SoftMPU won't work with those. SoftMPU was originally aimed at intelligent-mode MT-32 games which are all real mode. Virtualising …
Re: SoftMPU and MPU-401 on LPC interface
Posted on 2018-01-13, 20:47
Re: *START HERE* SoftMPU 1.9 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator
Posted on 2018-01-11, 23:40
timitt wrote: I don' need to get real MPU-401 card and can use all my ISA-slots for other use (LAN, GUS MAX and OPL3sax-card). Glad it's useful for you 😎
Re: SoftMPU and MPU-401 on LPC interface
Posted on 2018-01-11, 23:38
Good to hear, I'll look to add a force MPU option in the next version. Unfortunately I don't think the hardware MPU IRQ can be used as a replacement for the SB IRQ, because as far as I know there's no way to trigger the MPU IRQ from software. The MPU IRQ only gets triggered when the MIDI port …
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