New home for my LAPC-I

[Doctor Creep]

My LAPC-1, ehm, LAPC-I (*g*) moved from my old PII/350 Board (a little slow for today's klickibunti-internet & co) to a new (old) Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 mainboard. It supports up to 1.4 GHz Athlon CPU (perhaps even faster overclocked) and got (most important) two isa slots (fastest isa board i found on ebay).
Works perfect with Roland + SBlive value (PCI) so far using XP. Installed also Win98 (dual boot) - I'll do the Win98 MPU-401 stuff later. So one isa slot left for my precious Gravis Ultrasound...    .
Lets see if I get them to run in my PC   In the old days SB16 + Gravis + LAPC-I worked in my 486 DX2/66 without problems...

[Doctor Creep]

Got also a new big tower case...

It's now a sort of Hybrid-Silent-PC (DOS, Win98 (sort of DOS too ), Win XP)

Motherboard Name: Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 (2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM)
Motherboard Chipset: AMD-750
CPU: Socket A - 1 GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird (FSB 200)
RADEON 7000 RADEON VE Family (64 MB)
Matrox Graphics MGA Millennium
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 80GB (ST380215A) IDE
TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-M1802 1
Colorado QIC-80 Streamer
Realtek RTL8139-Familie-PCI-Fast Ethernet-NIC
Midicard: Roland LAPC-I (ISA)
Midi-Breakout-Box: Roland MCB-I
External Midimodul: Roland SC-55
Gravis Ultrasound Classic (ISA,1MB)
Creative SB Live! Value (PCI)
Case: Avance Airliner Terminator
Thermaltake fanless ATX 350W PFC - LAPC-I compatible (needs -5V!)













Works great - software tested so far (Dos 7.1):

Games

Turrican 2 (native GUS!)
Under A Killing Moon
Raptor
Epic Pinball

Demos

Second Reality
Cartoon
Event Horizon
Sleepless
Warlock (Soundblaster)
Triton Ultrasound Demo

Player/Tracker (GUS)

Cubic Player
Fastracker 2
Scream Tracker

Tools

CDBeQuiet! (CD slowdowntool for dos)
Star Commander (C64 1541 Disk Transfer)
Dos Navigator

Doc

[Locutus]

This seems to be a great rig, which covers a lot of DOS games and pretty much all of the Windows 9x era of games, I guess. Did you try Tyrian 2.0 on it? Would love to know if that runtime bug will occur...

A Voodoo 5 (or Voodoo 3 for silence sakes) would fit in that system nicely, too. You could even run a couple of 3D accelerated DOS games with it (at least those with externally linked Glide driver).

[Doctor Creep]

I'll test Tyrian 2.0

I got already two graphic cards (Radeon 7000 (AGP)+ Matrox Millennium (PCI)). I sort of dumped my Voodoo Banshee because the superb Second Reality demo won't work properly (yellow screen after the intro sidescroller). Did you test this demo with a Voodoo 3 card?

Doc

[Locutus]

Hi Doc,

I don't have my Voodoo 3 (PCI) currently installed, but I just gave 2nd Reality a quick test on my ViRGE/DX, which went fine. Besides, the only demo I know supports Glide graphics is Nature. Is there a 3dfx version of 2nd Reality or did you mean that even the normal version doesn't work right on your Banshee?

locutus

[Doctor Creep]

I tested the normal Second Reality Demo (don't know any other version).

BTW: Just tried Tyrian. Got a  runtime error XXX. But with a tool like slowdown it works. The sound support seems to be a little bit tricky. The midi-stuff using the LAPC-I is no problem - but it won't recognize my GUS or SB (live) for SFX.

Doc

[Locutus]

Tyrian is very picky in terms of sound. You might want to try Tyrian 2000, which is the newest version. It also has a fifth episode (albeit a very lame one). I believe there was a patch for SBLive functionality, but it would be like 10 years ago when I last tried an SBlive under DOS. So I don't know where to get the patch. In case you find it, let me know if it worked

[Doctor Creep]

Here a clip of my DOS-PC booting - with lots music from the old days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILA7OaEUmrI

Doc

[Mau1wurf1977]

Police Quest 3 intro! Such a good tune...

[Doctor Creep]

Jan "Miami Vice" Hammer is one of the best...

BTW: Besides Police Quest 3 - are there any other tunes by Jan Hammer for MT-32 or SC-55?

Doc

[Mau1wurf1977]

I doubt it...

Sierra must have paid him heaps of money. And the tune is really really short as well 

[Doctor Creep]

I doubt it...

Sierra must have paid him heaps of money. And the tune is really really short as well 

Just found this at

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=10662&sid=888333646481c927ef2f3194c870b1a8

"Yeah, Jan Hammer was a strong user of the D-50 and it shows in PQ3. "

Any Jan Hammer D-50 examples in pop history? For the Miami Vice stuff he used the Fairlight CMI.

Doc