Raven. A homemade Atari-like computer

[mikro]

I thank you for proving how something like this can be useful for others with very little effort. My only regret is that mxPlay's co-author and ideological father, Xi/Satantronic, didn't live to see this spectacular achievement.

[nokturnal]

@agranlund This Adlib card sounds nice. I would like that my cart sounded like this..

[artik-wroc]

Is there a chance for a MOD_ISA plugin compatible with SB clones?

[peters]

MxPlay does run on the Milan and plays .mid files.

It's installed on D: and it might be coincidence but I have been getting corruption on my H: ext2 partition straight afterwards.

Of course I have done other changes recently like the irq for the Dreamblaster.

[Oldskool]

Was wondering how to install NVDI as during decompression I get CRC errors. I assume the software does not like the 060.
Is there an installed version available maybe?

Edit
A bit of a stupid question can indeed just install it on an old ST and then copy the files over.

[agranlund]

Was wondering how to install NVDI as during decompression I get CRC errors. I assume the software does not like the 060.
Is there an installed version available maybe?

Edit
A bit of a stupid question can indeed just install it on an old ST and then copy the files over.

I'm pretty sure that's how I installed and did all the setup too and then copied the files over

[agranlund]

Is there a chance for a MOD_ISA plugin compatible with SB clones?

Those Soundblasters don't have any internal ram, or any kind of write-fifo, so they really want ISA-DMA to function well.
My machine don't have that so I think I'd be the wrong person for it.
I believe Milan has ISA-DMA but I'm not too sure Hades has it?

I think SB can technically work without but without sound ram, or even just a write-fifo, it would end up a bit like a better sounding Covox -- super high cpu usage feeding each individual sample from an interrupt. Could still be quite fun though.


GUS and AWE has that big chunk of ram. And with hardware mixing up to 32 channels, stuff like MODs or SoundFX in games ends up being practically for free. You can use ISA-DMA to upload your stuff but there's not much point, not even on MS-DOS machines, it's just as fast or faster to PIO-upload to sound ram. Besides, you only do it once to get the data on there as opposed to constantly software-mix on the cpu and stream the result to card like some kind of caveman
Hence why I wasn't worried about not having ISA-DMA on Raven.


The first wip iteration for mxPlay and Jam was uploaded to Github. Still bugs, still missing things etc.
Wont work on 000 (yet) because of unaligned stuff in file format that I haven't yet made suitable workarounds for.
The plugin only supports .XM and .MOD formats, and the only hardware supported is Ultrasound PnP. Next one would be the classic version so it can work on the PicoGUS too.

[agranlund]

must... resist... buying...
I really don't need one, and it's quite pricey, but it does have all the things on a single card instead of two.
Maybe it's a good thing they made this last batch in red. I think I'd have a hard time resisting to buy if it was black like one of those earlier batches.

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[mikro]

Was wondering how to install NVDI as during decompression I get CRC errors. I assume the software does not like the 060.
Is there an installed version available maybe?

Whoa, I would be more careful with such conclusions. Not sure what NVDI version are you referring to but at least 5.x is perfectly compatible and installable on a 060.

[Oldskool]

Whoa, I would be more careful with such conclusions. Not sure what NVDI version are you referring to but at least 5.x is perfectly compatible and installable on a 060.

Thanks for letting me know. MXplay also crashes under mint. Maybe still some hardware issue somewhere…

Edit
I have ordered a 40mhz 68150 and probably will come this week.

Mx play crashes:

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Jam does do midi and opl:

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