Re: [OT] Returning to a very old topic [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1

2001-12-03 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Jim Leonard wrote Pedro Quaresma wrote: (OT: Hi Stephen, nice to hear from you again) I apologize for my ignorance, but is the Roland sound much different from a SB AWE64 emulating the Roland on Windows? YES! The Roland MT-32/LAPC-1 was programmable, whereas wavetable emulation is not.

Re: [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1

2001-11-27 Thread Jim Leonard
Lee K. Seitz wrote: Jim Leonard boldly stated: Jim Leonard wrote: To appease you, I'll fix Monty Python. [snip] It's finicky. I'll have to debug it on a box with an actual working *real* Adlib to be safe, so this could take a while as I need to drag out the 386. Just a status

Re: [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1

2001-11-27 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard boldly stated: No, but you picked a good time to ask because I'm in the middle of capturing footage for www.demodvd.org and I just built a 386/40 out of donated parts -- and it has an SBPro in it. I'll search prior messages for what I'm supposed to be debugging :-) but if memory

Re: [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1

2001-07-11 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard boldly stated: Speaking of using different sound cards with the same game Has anyone here ever gotten Monty Python's Flying Circus (a Nintendo-style platformer/shooter from the early '90s) to work with a non-Adlib card? When I first got this game, I tried it on my

Re: [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1

2001-07-11 Thread Jim Leonard
Lee K. Seitz wrote: Now what happens on a faster machine? The detection routine whips through the 35 short JMPs much quicker than it is supposed to. When it tries to read the ID byte, the Adlib isn't ready to supply it yet. So no byte is read, and no Adlib card is detected. But that

Re: [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1

2001-07-11 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard boldly stated: That explains exactly why it didn't work on your 286. Read on: 286 20MHz, and I admit I don't remember if I tried the game without turbo on. But still, the game's from 1991 and, IIRC, 386s were pretty common then. ..in America. In Europe in 1990, where and when

Re: [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1

2001-07-07 Thread Stephen S. Lee
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Jim Leonard wrote: Stephen Lee wrote: [snip] I'm trying to install a Roland LAPC-1 I recently acquired in a 486 that I've set up to be a Killer Retrogaming Rig (tm). (Eventually, I'll get an XT.) I only got the card itself (no software or documentation). Music