Re: Need someone with a Packard Bell 680 series machine (Pentium 166-200MHz MMX)

Posted on 2024-05-14, 10:56

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by 8bitbubsy

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I think it's important that the motherboard to dump the BIOS from is a PB682, as it needs the S3 Trio64V+ VGA BIOS. When the DN0R BIOS is flashed to the motherboard, maybe it picks the relevant VGA BIOS from the BIOS update package, instead of having two VGA BIOSes in the one and same BIOS on the …

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Need someone with a Packard Bell 680 series machine (Pentium 166-200MHz MMX)

Posted on 2024-05-12, 13:59

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by 8bitbubsy

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I need someone with a Packard Bell 680 series (aka. Multimedia CLE, Multi Media CLE 1211, etc.) to help me out! BIOS version must end with "DN0R", and the motherboard chipset is Intel NV430VX. I accidentally flashed MR BIOS to my unit without dumping the original BIOS first, so I'm looking for …

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Re: How do I roll my own nusb33e.exe for other languages?

Posted on 2024-04-28, 15:23

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by 8bitbubsy

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I was able to make my own nusb33no.exe after a lot of digging and googling! Download: https://16-bits.org/etc/nusb33no.exe Installer source w/ guide on how to make your own: https://16-bits.org/etc/nusb33no_src.zip Same-day edit: Updated both links, forgot to replace explorer.exe (version 4.72.3612. …

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Re: How do I roll my own nusb33e.exe for other languages?

Posted on 2024-04-28, 10:17

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by 8bitbubsy

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weedeewee wrote on 2024-04-28, 09:48: Somebody asked a very similar question just a day ago. Source Code for NUSB? Thanks, I'll have a look!

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How do I roll my own nusb33e.exe for other languages?

Posted on 2024-04-28, 09:16

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by 8bitbubsy

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I'm using Windows 98 Second Edition in Norwegian, but there is no NUSB 3.3 for that language. How do I roll my own?

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Re: Fasttracker 2.12 for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-08, 10:04

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by 8bitbubsy

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Well, you can join my Discord found at my website (16-bits.org), and then contact me there. I am not allowed to share FT2's whole source code, but I can give you the relevant source code files for the SB driver (if you have experience with low-level SB programming and Pascal/assembler).

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Re: Fasttracker 2.12 for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-05, 14:55

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by 8bitbubsy

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Hm ok, that ought to work. Not sure why it doesn't...

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Re: Fasttracker 2.12 for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-05, 14:15

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by 8bitbubsy

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I haven't tested it with SBEMU, so I don't know why it fails. What does your BLASTER environment variable look like?

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Re: Is it possible to detect if an SB Pro (1.0/2.0) is a clone, through code?

Posted on 2024-04-05, 14:11

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by 8bitbubsy

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Not a bad idea, I'll consider implementing that using the PIT timer to time it.

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Is it possible to detect if an SB Pro (1.0/2.0) is a clone, through code?

Posted on 2024-04-04, 16:57

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by 8bitbubsy

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The title says it all. The reason I want to detect if an authentic card is being used, is because the clones seem to have a time constant limit of 233 (43kHz) instead of 234 (45kHz). I want to achieve the maximum audio quality possible in my program code. 😀

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Re: Audigy 2 ZS Crackle Fix

Posted on 2024-01-19, 17:09

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by 8bitbubsy

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Just a thought - is it possible that these caps go bad because of heat from the close-by VRMs, instead of being a low capacitance issue to begin with?

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MR BIOS for Headland HT101/HT102 (286) chipset?

Posted on 2023-09-25, 09:45

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by 8bitbubsy

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I'm wondering if MR BIOS existed for this semi-late 286 chipset..? I can only find one for later Headland 286 chipsets (in the big MR BIOS archive). Maybe someone has a 286 board with this chipset and a MR BIOS? In my case I have a 286 with 1x HT101A and 2x HT102.

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Re: PT4DOS - ProTracker for MS-DOS (very early alpha test)

Posted on 2023-07-12, 12:27

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by 8bitbubsy

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Don't get me wrong, I do want to know about bugs and all of that, but this thread is about PT4DOS (MS-DOS), not the PT2 clone (Windows/macOS/Linux). It's mostly the talk about lacking documentation that I don't have the energy to deal with, I'm not good with writing documentation and guides.

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Re: PT4DOS - ProTracker for MS-DOS (very early alpha test)

Posted on 2023-07-12, 10:27

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by 8bitbubsy

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1) Both the PT2 and the FT2 clone have mouse problems in fullscreen mode on my M1 MacBook with Retina screen (3456 × 2234). The coordinates seem to be offset a bit; e.g. if I click on "DISK OP." when in fullscreen, that toggles the scopes, unless I'm clicking on the top ~20% of the button. I've …

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Re: PT4DOS - ProTracker for MS-DOS (very early alpha test)

Posted on 2023-07-12, 08:25

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by 8bitbubsy

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The rate is in fact 45454.545454 (repeating), so you should handle the fractional part too.

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Re: PT4DOS - ProTracker for MS-DOS (very early alpha test)

Posted on 2023-07-11, 12:59

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by 8bitbubsy

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Hm yeah, the pitch is some cents low in your recording. I can only assume it's because of the SB16 emulation.

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Re: PT4DOS - ProTracker for MS-DOS (very early alpha test)

Posted on 2023-07-11, 11:40

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by 8bitbubsy

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Did you listen to the clip, though? It sounds exactly the same as the PT2 clone, and the PT2 clone sounds the same as real PT1.x/2.x on Amiga. Do note that PT1.x/2.x requires you to set the "DMAWait" value in the SETUP screen to 9999 (max) if you don't use a cycle-accurate A500 emulator …

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Re: PT4DOS - ProTracker for MS-DOS (very early alpha test)

Posted on 2023-07-10, 15:30

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by 8bitbubsy

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OK so I captured the output from PT4DOS (DOSBox SVN) and the PT2 clone, and I can't hear anything being off in the pitch in the very beginning of "back again.mod": https://16-bits.org/etc/pt4dos_then_pt2clone.flac (warning: very loud!) I think you either use an emulator that is not precise for SB16 …

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Re: PT4DOS - ProTracker for MS-DOS (very early alpha test)

Posted on 2023-07-10, 13:11

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by 8bitbubsy

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OK, maybe I'm off-by-one somewhere in the code, I don't know. Will investigate later. BTW, comparing to FT2 makes no sense, as FT2 doesn't have the same middle-C tuning as ProTracker. ProTracker is more like A4=~436Hz, while FT2 is closer to 440Hz.

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Re: PT4DOS - ProTracker for MS-DOS (very early alpha test)

Posted on 2023-07-10, 11:13

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by 8bitbubsy

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Trashing the least significant byte of a 32-bit fractional value shouldn't be audible at all. That lower byte is ~0.000006% of the whole 2^32 fractional range. It doesn't translate to an error of 2-3 musical cents (1/100th of a semitone), not even remotely close. Let's do a test to prove this. C-1 …

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