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Today I picked up Midtown Madness. I don't get any CD music on my modern Windows 7 PC, I'm trying to decide if I can be bothered to swap out for an older PC or not.
What Retro Games Are You Currently Playing?
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Old retro PC’s you need to connect cd-rom drive to sound blaster with audio cable attach those. Of course cd inside cd-rom drive. That’s how you can get music from cd audio tracks to the game.
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Yeah I've had that set up before with my Soundblaster AWE32 I just don't know if I can be bothered to set it all up again or just play it without the music on Windows 7
Edit - CD audio should "send" via the PCI interface on XP and later though anyway, I think it was just a W98 and earlier thing needing the cable.
Edit - CD audio should "send" via the PCI interface on XP and later though anyway, I think it was just a W98 and earlier thing needing the cable.
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I thought it was a chipset thing that allowed audio to be passed down the IDE cable
My retro pc is made for gaming. So here it is with specs.
-Pentium 150Mhz, 64MB RAM, S3 2D-videocard, 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB, Sound Blaster Pro Compatible card with Roland MT-32, DVD-ROM and with 32GB CF-card for HDD.
Last retro game I was playing was few days ago. Game was Dune II what is made for use a MT-32. That game sounds awesome with Roland.
-Pentium 150Mhz, 64MB RAM, S3 2D-videocard, 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB, Sound Blaster Pro Compatible card with Roland MT-32, DVD-ROM and with 32GB CF-card for HDD.
Last retro game I was playing was few days ago. Game was Dune II what is made for use a MT-32. That game sounds awesome with Roland.
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We need pictures!
I would love to get hold of a m32 or Yamaha GM box thing. At the moment I use a Sound Blaster Live for GM sound in DOS for games like Doom 2 (still need to complete this)
I would love to get hold of a m32 or Yamaha GM box thing. At the moment I use a Sound Blaster Live for GM sound in DOS for games like Doom 2 (still need to complete this)
I believe it's related to the driver model used. Back in 2001 I had a PC running Windows ME, and when I upgraded to a SB Audigy, it was necessary to use either an analog or spdif cable. Turns out it was because the Audigy used VXD drivers, which don't support the audio passthrough that WDM does. I pretty much confirmed this at a later date when trying the kxproject drivers on the same card - they are WDM, and CD audio worked fine without a cable.
Of course if you're using 98SE or ME for retro gaming then VXD is the way to go, as the WDM implementation on those operating systems introduces quite a lot of latency at the mixer apparently.
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There was a philscomputer lab video linked in the other retro thread that had a lot of benchmarks on that. The VXD drivers were a serious amount better!
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Currently on Wind Waker for the Gamecube. Its stood the test of time thanks to its stunning art style
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Manged to get the VXD drivers installed for my SB Live so now I have every device working on the 95 pc 
Now I just need some time to actually play something on it!
Now I just need some time to actually play something on it!
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Good game that
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I had a great time playing this on PS1, and then forgot it existed for 20 years.
Also, Mass Effect 1 just became retro. Some recent (well, recent as in I last played it a couple of years ago and it was fine) patch or Windows update has made my Origin version unplayable with 15fps in most places, on a 3700x and 1070ti. It does it on my 4770K system too (and my netbook). I dug out my old disk copy (I put the code into Origin to get the digital version years ago and put the disk in the loft) to see if I manually patch it to the 1.02 and play on XP (with EAX!) if it will run better.
I found a Codemasters Demo disk and messed around with Music 2000 for a bit.
Eugh. The Securom servers for the game activation are, no surprisingly, shut down or something as it won't connect to the activation server.
Yay for this particular era of gaming.
Also, Mass Effect 1 just became retro. Some recent (well, recent as in I last played it a couple of years ago and it was fine) patch or Windows update has made my Origin version unplayable with 15fps in most places, on a 3700x and 1070ti. It does it on my 4770K system too (and my netbook). I dug out my old disk copy (I put the code into Origin to get the digital version years ago and put the disk in the loft) to see if I manually patch it to the 1.02 and play on XP (with EAX!) if it will run better.
I found a Codemasters Demo disk and messed around with Music 2000 for a bit.
Eugh. The Securom servers for the game activation are, no surprisingly, shut down or something as it won't connect to the activation server.
Yay for this particular era of gaming.
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I recent bought Delta Force and Delta Force 2 on GOG as I used to play those games as a kid.
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I've bought Post Mortem on GOG for £2. I was expecting a fairly naff first person adventure them up - rubbishy writing, rubbishy voice acting, rubbishy animation - and that is exactly what I got.
It does have a wonderful atmosphere though. I'll see how long I can stick it out through the crap puzzles.
It does have a wonderful atmosphere though. I'll see how long I can stick it out through the crap puzzles.
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it counts!
I was really really enjoying that game until trying to play it over a LAN. I cant remember why but it wouldnt work or was unplayable and I have not launched it again since in spite
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randomly fired up Streets of Rage 2 today when I stumbled across my PC game pad in a box the game was awesome back in the day and still plays well today plus the music is amazing for the era!