Recent content by Silanda

It doesn't. Annoyingly for people wanting to use it with games, the D-110 isn't just an MT-32 with better quality parts. The patch list is different, and at the very least the samples are not arranged in the same order as on the MT-32 (I'm not 100% certain all of the samples are the same either...

You have to bear in mind the way a lot of later MIDI soundtracks worked back in the day: the composers typically wouldn't write separate versions of their compositions for each possible device. Instead, they would use drivers which would take a generic track and map the chosen instruments to...

I'd second the WC1 suggestion. SWC is good but it's a bit of an oddity and, in terms of art anyway, has quite a different feel to the rest of the series. The only snag with WC1, at least last time I played it, is that the game speed can be somewhat iffy to regulate if you're running on Dosbox.

I'm assuming this is a Wing Commander related project, so if I were you I really wouldn't contact EA. Companies tend to ignore fan projects, as long as they are not for profit, as they can always pretend that they were not aware of them should there be any future legal action with regards to...

There's another related reason that TV in particular seems to have a vendetta against gamers: when people are playing video games they aren't watching TV, and therefore aren't watching the ads. Television companies must therefore try as hard as humanly possible to make gaming appear to be evil...

If you do get a new card then I suggest that you get another Nvidia one. There's nothing wrong with ATI/AMD cards but some of the newer ones support PCI Express 2.1 rather than 2.0 which Nvidia cards use. The reason that this is relevent is that given the age of your PC it probably supports PCI...

Another possiblity for you is a PSU issue, although from the symptoms you're describing I'm more inclined to lean towards failure of the card. Six years isn't really a bad run for a card.

Don't waste your money, the D-110 is not MT-32 compatible. It uses the same synthesis method, and accepts the same SYSEX messages but the D-110's samples are in different locations to the MT-32's (and some are possibly different anyway). As a result MT-32 music will sound like garbage on the...

Ditto. I find interlacing only looks acceptable if the video is hi res and about the size of a postage stamp, the wide lines in P2 look awful to me. Another issue with interlacing is that it has the effect of darkening the appearance of the video. Was this just a cosmetic choice though, or...

Y'know, I think that is him. He appears to have a facebook profile, and one of the things publically visible is that he likes http://www.householdhorticulture.com/. There is also a twitter page for someone with the same name who is following them, and the address listed on the twitter page...

It's an obvious joke, he knows perfectly well what Clive Owen is doing now. In 1996 anyone outside of the UK was unlikely to have recognised him.

Rebel Assault II EDIT: Beaten to it.

They can't afford to be anymore, they have to have mass market appeal. It is claimed that the average cost for a multiplatform game is between 20 and 30 million dollars, greater than WCIV's budget even after adjustments for inflation. Unless they are going for a low tech, low budget niche title...

Set the mixer prebuffer setting to something very large, like 1000.

Dear, oh dear, oh dear, I've never seen an online community quite as bitter and defensive as this one. Are people only allowed to post if they agree with the clique of long time posters here?