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
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
"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 th
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 update.
Did anything
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Pedro Quaresma wrote:
[snip]
> And a bit more off topic, how easy would it be to get my hands on one of
> them? How much would I have to expect to pay for one and sorse still, what
> could I do with it on a modern rig? :)
Concerning the LAPC-1, I'll tell you what I know ...
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> I know one is internal and the other external, but about the sound itself,
> any big differences between both?
LAPC-1 is internal, MT-32 is external and requires a MIDI card set to port
330. Sound out of both is identical (LAPC-1 is specifically a PC product, it
has a
Jim Leonard wrote:
>Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> 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. Sierra games in particular really took adva
Jim Leonard wrote:
>
> To appease you, I'll "fix" Monty Python. Let me check around for the game
> online... Found it. Checking .exe... Geez, what an incompetent rip, not
> cracked, it's the EGA/VGA version only and the game itself is included *twice*
> in the archive!! This is why the curre
"Lee K. Seitz" wrote:
>
> Ah! Okay, I'll buy that. What a difference a year and a few thousand
> miles makes. 8)
2 years, actually -- Up until about 1995, most of Europe was behind America and
Japan in terms of the "average desktop" by at least a generation (they had 386
while we had 486, etc.
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, wher
"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.
>
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 r
"Lee K. Seitz" wrote:
>
> Jim Leonard boldly stated:
> >
> >U6 definitely sounds
> >best on an MT-32 -- that's where the music was composed originally, and all
> >other versions (Adlib, Tandy, etc.) were derived from the MT-32 soundtrack.
>
> Speaking of using different sound cards with the same
Jim Leonard boldly stated:
>
>U6 definitely sounds
>best on an MT-32 -- that's where the music was composed originally, and all
>other versions (Adlib, Tandy, etc.) were derived from the MT-32 soundtrack.
Speaking of using different sound cards with the same game Has
anyone here ever gotten
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. Sierra games i
-07-2001 Assunto: Re: [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1
23:36
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Yes, I remember Red Baron sounded much, much better with a Roland card.
-Original Message-
From: Stephen S. Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] [OT] Roland LAPC-1
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Jim Leonard wrote
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).
> >
>
Stephen Lee wrote:
>
> (Apologies for being somewhat off-topic, but I couldn't think of a better
> place to ask for a question of this sort ...)
>
> 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 a
(Apologies for being somewhat off-topic, but I couldn't think of a better
place to ask for a question of this sort ...)
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 its
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