Re: Rout midi to sc-55 and back in to my computer with um-one?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 12:21

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But it's my understanding that rca->3.5mm in to the mic at the back of my motherboard, tell windows to listen to the mic, will get me sound in my headphones. mic input goes through a preamp, mic level is not line level (what sc55 puts out). you will end up getting a bunch of noise/hiss on the …

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Re: Writing a TSR that stores/restores the video screen (C with inline Asm)

Posted on 2024-05-06, 18:44

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the alternate is to compile into tiny model so all segs are CS=DS/ES/SS and make all references through CS. also popa/pusha are 286+ and wont run on an XT

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Re: Writing a TSR that stores/restores the video screen (C with inline Asm)

Posted on 2024-05-06, 17:57

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les di,[screen_state] loads a 32bit/far pointer, of segment:offset from the pointer variable screen_state into ES:DI mov ax, SEG screen_state mov es, ax mov di, OFFSET screen_state loads the SEGMENT (that the variable) screen_state (is part of), and then takes the OFFSET (the address) of the …

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Re: Looking for a tool which describe MZ, NE, LE, LX, PE executable header content

Posted on 2024-05-06, 15:57

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infoexe for MZ comes with LZEXE packer by fabrice bellard. https://bellard.org/lzexe.html

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Re: Looking for a tool which describe MZ, NE, LE, LX, PE executable header content

Posted on 2024-05-06, 12:10

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yeah my info-le is quite old, but should describe the main parts of LE header.

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Re: Writing a TSR that stores/restores the video screen (C with inline Asm)

Posted on 2024-05-06, 12:04

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your newkeyhandler is not preserving registers on entry/exit.

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

Posted on 2024-05-05, 04:57

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Rincewind42 wrote on 2024-05-05, 00:05: Highly unlikely, as Roland Cloud seem to be a failed experiment. 🤣. they are making money hand over fist. they continually update it with zen core sounds packs every week. its not going anywhere. its there unified distribution point for everything now.

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Re: The Dreamcast's XG MIDI support: just how does this even really work, anyway!?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 17:48

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Ive never heard it supporting XG. AICA is attached to the DC's serial port for midi, so you can connect it to an external synth. AICA is just an ARM cpu with 2mb ram, there is no rompler samples in the DC, but I imagine someone could upload samples and a write midi layer into the aica code space.

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Re: Watcom C/C++ how to copy image buffer to CGA video memory buffer correctly ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 04:06

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you cant just cast a byte array to bool, and address it the way you do, its still a byte array underneath, not bits which is what cga is expecting (so bitbuf[( y * (width-1) ) + x] = true; wont do what you think its doing). you want to be doing bitwise ops with actual bits, not true + false on bytes …

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Re: SCSI Ultra adapters (Like SATA to IDE, but for SCSI)

Posted on 2024-04-30, 16:19

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for older systems older scsi2sd v5.2 or zuluscsi v6/rp2040. I avoid the ones that boot linux because you gotta do the whole load-up/shutdown mechnism so you dont corrupt the images.

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

Posted on 2024-04-25, 21:15

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Eivind wrote on 2024-04-25, 19:42: (I assume 18-bit samples from ROM, shifted up by 14 to fill 32 bits to increase precision in processing) 18bit is from the DAC, not the size of the samples stored wave form

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Re: EMU Proteus/1 support for Sierra games?

Posted on 2024-04-14, 14:05

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If you look at the "Instrument" list, which is what the 1/XR calls waveforms, you'll notice about half of the GM instruments are not catered for. dont look at the instrument (wav list), they dont get used them that way (you cant play them directly like that), you have to look at presets, thats the …

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Re: Frederik Pohl's Gateway (Legend) and CGA graphics

Posted on 2024-04-12, 14:15

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Just tried GW2 now - it ignores the usual 'home.exe cga' parameter and starts in normal VGA mode. My version of GW1 also doesn't show any graphics in CGA mode (it starts and shows the same mono interface as above). My guess is all the versions floating on the net are probably derived from the free …

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Re: Frederik Pohl's Gateway (Legend) and CGA graphics

Posted on 2024-04-12, 13:01

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I have the archive big box, cga does not work on my GW1 copy from that cdrom. the only cga that I can get working was Time Quest and S101. None of my others legend games would show cga. I dont think EE, S301, GW2 have CGA/Tandy support.

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Re: EMU Proteus/1 support for Sierra games?

Posted on 2024-04-08, 12:37

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what you want is the emu sound engine, it does GM but useses the proteus sample set (it has a proteus1 mode underneath that you can turn on which puts it into the ignore drum channel mode basically).

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

Posted on 2024-04-08, 00:39

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It's not the sound quality that makes the SC-55 unique I dont really consider the SC55 unique. but the fact that every midi music from every single game will sound 100 times more balanced than any more modern soundfont or synthesizer with General MIDI support. what? the mind boggles. i didnt …

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

Posted on 2024-04-07, 22:23

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I think peoples response is muted because really... its general midi, its not like MT32 / Munt thats special. sc55 is just general midi, and one with a tiny compressed rom sound set at that.

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-07, 13:21

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pretty much anything these days is good enough! I'd say a lot depends on how you define "good enough". of course, as long as it meets the persons needs. I have bench meters and handhelds and they all cost a pretty penny. but OP didnt say if they were measuring wall voltage and 100amps or just AA …

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-06, 21:37

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pretty much anything these days is good enough! As for batteries Ive changed my 9v in both my meters about once every 5 years... unless you need something specific, yeah, just about anything these days is fine, they all use the same internal chips and stuff until you get to higher end stuff.

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Re: DOSBOX and multi lines arguments !

Posted on 2024-04-02, 15:21

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what is posted about continuation lines from the IC86 manual, is not talking about running it from DOS because DOS does not does do "anything entered between the ampersand and carriage return is treated as a comment"

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