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@@wcimlovin9098 Dziękuję za komentarz. Cieszę się, że kawałek się podoba mimo moich wątpliwych zdolności. Brzmienie Svirela ratuje sytuację :-)

No, it can't. Not directly at least. DOSMid is able to load either a single MID/RMI/MUS file or a playlist (M3U). Hence what you can do is this: generate a M3U playlist with the content of your directory (DIR /B *.MID > PLAYLIST.M3U) and then load this playlist into DOSMid (DOSMID PAYLIST.M3U).

Done - I've edited the description of the video.

Hello, first you should set up the networking interface of your VirtualBox VM to "AMD PCNET". Then, you will find the package pcntpk.svp on the SvarDOS installation medium (CDROM or floppy, depending which one you used). This package is not installed automatically so you have to install it manually: pkg install pcntpk.svp. Once this is done, you should be able to load the driver from its directory and thus have a functional networking setup, assuming your VirtualBox configuration is alright. Feel free to visite the SvarDOS community forum on svardos.org and ask any questions you might have there. See you. :)

I'm not sure, since it depends on enabled features (scaling, colorization, ...) and the host platform. Besides, some games tend to require more emulation power than others. I can only say that I was able to play zBoy comfortably on a Pentium 166 machine with the DOS version of zBoy. There is also a very nice zBoy port available on the Pokitto (48 MHz, 36K RAM).

@@mateuszviste Cheers, good info!

DOSMid is a MIDI player, the only input it knows about is a MIDI file.

DOSMid will run on such PC, yes, although it may have a hard time keeping complex MIDI files in sync.

Hello Cam, I published DOSMid 0.9.6 today. It comes with a modified OPL frequency table with all values remapped one octave lower. Hopefully this new version should work better for you.

The DMG console uses four separate 2-bit palettes for rendering: one for the background, one for a 'window', and two palettes for various sprites. Each palette contains 4 entries, meant to represent different areas of the tile they are used on. Normally, the palettes point to shades of gray, but when zBoy's colorization feature is enabled, zBoy substitutes these palettes by actual colors. Such color-enabled palettes need to be crafted upfront however, which may be a tedious task. zBoy comes with color palettes for 13 games so far (Super Mario Land is one example). For not yet colorized games it is possible to set up a custom color palette manually, as explained here: sourceforge.net/p/zboy/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/colorize.txt

@@mateuszviste thanks, really appreciate the details! I'll get this app posted to AlternativeTo shortly (I used to work there and still help out getting new apps added).

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You are referring to the frequency I used to reprogram the 8253 PIT chip. I like 1165 Hz, because it provides a nice sub-millisecond resolution. Besides, DOSMid relies on millisecond-grade time measurement of time when the /delay option is used. It's worth noting that using a lower frequency doesn't bring any noticeable performance advantage, even on a 4.77 MHz 8086. Still, if you'd like to use another frequency, it is not a problem: I implemented other frequencies as well, you simply have to uncomment the correct #define in timer.c.

+Mateusz Viste I'm just curious why you don't reprogram it to the least common multiple required for each MIDI file. It seems like you could eliminate jitter in playback if the timer rate matched the MIDI file when playing. 1165 isn't a multiple of the MIDI clock, is it?

Hi Guenter, thanks for your kind approval!