Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on Today, 01:54

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by orcish75

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Guys, The 1st. Gen. Pentium is the King of CPUs. It came in like a Wreaking ball and Obliterated the competition. Putting many computer companies Out of Business. It was the Pentium 2 that killed or had a massive impact on other computer companies such as SGI, DEC and Sun. The P2 with a decent AGP …

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 20:24

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by orcish75

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I was initially blown away by the Voodoo2, seeing Quake2, Incoming and Need for Speed 2 rendered so fast and with such colour depth. I bought one as soon as I had saved up enough. However, it's image quality shortcomings soon became apparent, the passthrough cable blurred text when working in …

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

Posted on 2024-05-01, 23:50

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by orcish75

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robertmo3 wrote on 2024-04-30, 17:12: solved: https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55/issues/29 Awesome!! Thanks for the feature!

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

Posted on 2024-04-29, 08:08

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by orcish75

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Finally, another similar command line option could be added, being useful when using 2 instances of "Nuked SC-55", or if someday, a feature allowing to run "Nuked SC-55" with 2 emulated SC-55(mkII) synths, in the same window (in a top-to-bottom layout for example), and automatically allocating the …

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Re: MP32L and DreamBlaster X16GS vs Sound Canvas I and Mk II

Posted on 2024-04-27, 09:15

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by orcish75

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Are you following this thread? I haven't seen any posts by you, so perhaps you've missed it. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=99447 Emulates the SC-55 pretty much perfectly, better than the SCVA and far better than any soundfont. It's still early days but a few members are contributing to …

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Re: Swapping Soundblaster 16 DSP ICs?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 01:45

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by orcish75

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I'd swap both DSP chips for a new one to solve the hanging note bug and other minor issues. The Soundblaster DSP project

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Re: sound cards and music production

Posted on 2024-04-10, 20:20

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by orcish75

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Yup, the ST was the DAW of the 80s/90s. The onboard Yamaha soundchip was rubbish, but it had built in midi ports that could be connected to various synths, drum machines etc. The Roland JV-1080 and Korg M1 were used by many EDM outfits of the 90s. A lot of the sounds on Insomnia by Faithless was …

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

Posted on 2024-04-10, 19:08

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by orcish75

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nukeykt wrote on 2024-04-10, 18:19: v0.2.0 version released: […] Show full quote v0.2.0 version released: SC-55mk1, CM-300/SCC-1, SC-55st are supported now Fix filter overflow on mk2 https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55/release … g/0.2.0-hotfix2 Man!!! It just keeps getting better and better!! …

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Re: SC-88 Pro - Intro of MIDI files are always delayed

Posted on 2024-04-06, 10:49

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by orcish75

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Also haven't experienced it on my 88Pro (nor my SC-55 or JV-1080)

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Re: Which Sound Canvas Module to use for a MIDI Soundtrack?

Posted on 2024-03-21, 23:51

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by orcish75

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for Doom i tend to the SC-55 maybe im more used to it from the past but for duke nukem 3d i think i like the SC-88 more. Doom sounds good on both, I generally prefer the SC-88 for rock tunes. For me, the distortion guitar sounds better on the SC-88 than the SC-55. Definitely prefer the SC-88 for …

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Re: Recommendation for non-PNP ISA sound card with IDE and OPL3?

Posted on 2024-03-17, 21:10

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by orcish75

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The 1688 seems a good candidate as well. Or a 688 (seems to need a TSR for the MPU-401 though). I'll see what I can find then. As you might have guessed, it's for a bridge board as well. (A2386sx, 486slc2/50) Yup the 688 needs a TSR, so I'd avoid it. The 1688 is the best ESS option for your use …

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Re: Recommendation for non-PNP ISA sound card with IDE and OPL3?

Posted on 2024-03-15, 22:45

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by orcish75

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Yup, as Dominusprog has said. I used an Aztech Multimedia Pro 16 IIB-3D in my A2286, using XT-IDE to boot off the Aztech's IDE port. No hanging note bug and SoftMPU works fine on it. Just check, even though some cards aren't PNP, they still need some sort of init program to enable the IDE port, the …

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

Posted on 2024-03-15, 09:14

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by orcish75

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Cool! Was hoping there would be a way around it, but what you've said makes sense. Never-the-less, it's amazing what you've achieved so far, looking forward to the finished product.

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

Posted on 2024-03-15, 07:57

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by orcish75

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Incredible stuff!! Well done! I know the objective is to emulate the device as close to 100% as possible, but can you add in a selectable feature to increase the polyphony from the default 28 voices? This would make it better than the original as music that requires more than 28 voice polyphony will …

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

Posted on 2024-03-04, 09:09

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by orcish75

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It use to be you and the schmo's you knew, now your pool is the entire world. Expect better players. Also any casuals that might have been playing stopped a long time ago. :-) Naah, we're all just getting old! I think most of us are in our 40's and 50's, reactions and eyesight just aren't what they …

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Re: A2286 PC emulator in Amiga 2500

Posted on 2024-02-27, 07:56

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by orcish75

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Thank you, I am using amiga-explorer for small files too... this is a transfer directly to the amiga via win95-pc. so no A2286 required. I will ckeck everything ET4000 related and perhaps stay on that card. It's a pleasure! Yup, Amiga Explorer is the best program I've come across so far to do …

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Re: A2286 PC emulator in Amiga 2500

Posted on 2024-02-27, 07:48

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by orcish75

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Jo22 wrote: Edit: Ah, I see. These quotes are from a few years ago.. Then sorry for the little necro here. 😅 😀 Fortunately on Vogons necro postings are welcome. This info will be useful for years to come.

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Re: A2286 PC emulator in Amiga 2500

Posted on 2024-02-25, 20:21

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by orcish75

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Hi Dr Zeissler, I'll have to fire up the old girl again and check. I haven't played with my Amigas in some time, been playing with my Sound Canvases and JV-1080 at the moment. I tend to go in circles with my retro stuff, ST/Amigas for a while, then Retro PCs, then the MAME cabinets, then console …

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Re: The LlamaBlaster

Posted on 2024-02-23, 19:58

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by orcish75

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Amazing stuff! The project is moving at lightning speed. Thanks for including the full XT-IDE, gonna make a big difference. 😀

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Re: What could this be?

Posted on 2024-02-19, 17:19

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by orcish75

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retrosalvage wrote: Look - nee, houding - ja 😅 Ja, hy lyk as hy enige indringer sal op vreet! 😀

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