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So what you do is use something like LoopBE to create a virtual MIDI loopback interface. DosBOX sends MIDI to it, it loops it back to an input you can feed to a VST host. You can host it in a full out DAW, but for something like this a single...

Most of the time I don't even save the session, never mind actually putting together a proper soundtrack. Once and awhile I do, so far the only full soundtracks I have are Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Xcom. Descent I always meant to get to, but never...

You weren't wrong. Part of what killed AdLib was how good the SoundBlaster was. While the OPL2 was great for music, it didn't work well for sound effects. I mean games still used it for such, but you really wanted PCM for that. Yamaha did make...

Yep. Like at work we got a contract with Box, which is sort of like corporate DropBox and it was unlimited. I mean no big deal right? A university with lots of resources, surely people will use it as intended to share files and such, right? Nope...

It's something every "cloud" data service has discovered: Offer your users unlimited space, they'll go fucking nuts. Not most of them, but a few people will just fill it full of shit and your costs will be huge.

Honestly that works fine for me. What I really want out of cloud saves are two things: 1) The ability to play back and forth between my laptop and desktop. This is the biggest one. I usually play on my desktop, but if I want to fire up a game on...

They were the first mainstream soundcards for PCs. Basically all they did was take a Yamaha FM chip and put the components necessary to interface it with the PC on it. That worked well though because it was cheap (for the time) and you could now...

Ya but continually saying "The schedular needs to rock," doesn't make sense if there's an easier way to solve the problem. If HT is not useful performance wise for a desktop these days, take it out. Particularly since, performance aside, it is...

Also it hurts single threaded performance on the P-core. If you have it cranking hard on a thread, but then another thread is saying "can I please to have time on the core too?" it hurts that single thread performance. Now when CPUs only had 2 or...

They were probably trying to hide that it was just a Yamaha OPL2 chip, hoping other people wouldn't be able to easily clone it... which of course they figured out anyhow (was really obvious) and did.

The info says yes, they are cutting it entirely from all chips. More or less with e-cores, it doesn't make sense to do SMT anymore, save p-cores for heavy tasks, offload the easier stuff of e-cores.

I dunno, some people are willing to pay too much for stuff like this because they view it as a collatable. Of course it has no bids so far so...

If it is crashing everywhere and that fast I wonder if it is CPU related. Do you have a 13/14th gen Intel CPU? Some of them seem to have issues with UE games, which Survivor is, when they have an unlimited power setting which many motherboards...

Kinda depends on how much you want to spend, and what size you want. If you just want a nice 24" monitor with no frills, the Dell U series is still a good way to go. The U2424H is one we often get at work. $300ish dollars and looks and works...

Why are there Vatniks in a tech thread? :p

True, though that said there are some very accurate HT speakers (the SVS MTS speakers were pretty amazing) and it is easier to get one designed for a large room for not too much money. Most powered monitors are designed for nearfield which is...

Lots do actually, never ceases to amaze me how much people will spend on video and then just ignore audio. Not just computers either. I've seen people with new shiny $5k 85" OLEDs just using the integrated speakers. Also, I will say that while I...

Good luck to them with that. :P They were at least a decade behind the rest of the world, probably more, when it they finally broke up.

Pretty much. They'll start caring if AMD or Intel produce a card that people start buying instead. If GeForce cards start sitting on shelves not selling and people are snapping up cards from the competition, they'll care and lower prices...

I'm also guessing it is using the newer "12V-2x6" variant which has tightened up tolerances and made a few changes to make it less likely it can be not fully engaged and still deliver power.