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Does the Linux version of this support ALSA midi at all? I finally got an (annoying, inconvenient) way to get my SC-88 working with Doom source ports under Linux, but Woof does not seem to allow me to use it.

If you have a desktop, just use both. My main PC runs two SSDs (for Windows and Linux) and three HDDs (for data).

Running pacman -Qs cmake yields: local/cmake 3.26.3-1

Building on Arch Linux through either AUR or github results in the following errors: CMake Error in src/CMakeLists.txt: Imported target "SDL2_net::SDL2_net" includes non-existent path "//include/SDL2" in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES. Possible reasons include: * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location. * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully. * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not provide. CMake Error in src/CMakeLists.txt: Imported target "SDL2_net::SDL2_net" includes non-existent path "//include/SDL2" in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES. Possible reasons include: * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location. * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully. * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not provide. I reinstalled SDL2_net and rebuilt another program that uses sdl2_net (ECWolf) to ensure it wasn't SDL2_net's fault. Note that I have built the previous version of Woof from AUR successfully. E: also successfully built DSDA Doom to further test SDL2_net, no issues

I guess it depends on what you want to do with it. My Lenovo ThinkPad T520 is 12 or 13 years old and, with a RAM and SSD upgrade, still works great as an internet appliance using Arch Linux/KDE (the P key on the keyboard is going however, and I might have to eventually replace the keyboard if I want to keep using it). Gaming on it, however, is just a non-starter for any game made after around 2001, especially since I disabled the nVidia GPU to extend its miserable battery life and avoid having to deal with nVidia's shitty Linux drivers. As far as "gaming laptops" go, if I wanted to play serious games on a laptop I would just get a Steam Deck or a Nintendo Switch.

Unfortunately I am in a pretty hard financial situation and have no money to spare, but this is a horrifying story and I wish Laz the best in clearing his name and getting his life back together. His mods (especially the WolfenDoom versions) were a tremendous influence on my Wolf3D modding career and were also the first Doom pwads I ever played, getting me into both Doom wads and source ports (the first port I played back in 1999 was MBF because he recommended it). E: Laz was also the way a lot of PC users (myself included) learned of the "Mac Family" of Wolfenstein with its different mechanics and Second Encounter level set, and he contributed tremendously to raising awareness of these versions of the game and preventing them from sinking into obscurity beneath the shadow of the far more popular and accessible PC version.

Nearly all modern ports support resolution scaling, so have you considered reducing your resolution? I assume you're using a software renderer since GL renderers tend to vastly outperform them in terms of FPS. Reducing your resolution by half will mean your CPU has to do only a quarter of the work to render the scene. And speaking of that, I've been replaying 2022ADO under DOS and discovered that the set is almost fully compatible with MBF-SNM 2.04. The only problems are E3M5 (causes a segmentation violation on map load), E5M9 (level progression is hardcoded in MBF-SNM so the secret exit is in the wrong map), and the M10 maps (but I didn't like them anyway). Aside from that the set runs beautifully under DOS on my Athlon, with no FPS drops even in the largest setpieces.

New bug found while playing E3 of 2022 A Doom Odyssey: E3M5 in Ultimate Doom exits to the end of episode rather than to E3M6. I confirmed this also works with a bare iwad, not just in 2022ADO. E: is there any way to define new episodes in Tartar? Even if we can't have full UMAPINFO, it would be really nice to have 2022ADO fully playable under Tartar.

A whole -complevel 9 or MBF21 mapset focusing on the heaven theme from OTEX would be cool. E: holy shit somebody bumped a four year old thread and I didn't even realize it

I used the latest build because previous builds corrupted the whole map on loading (presumably because they used 32-bit nodes). e: turns out it was map04 that was causing me such trouble. I've attached a save game at a point where it is likely the page fault will trigger if you keep playing and saving. The savegame file is over 2 megabytes unzipped! SAVEGAME.ZIP

Tartar has an issue with page faults when loading or saving games on map03 of Boomer: Beyond Vanilla. It is not guaranteed to happen, you might have to do it several times for it to happen, but it corrupts saved games when it happens during saving.

Got a new mouse today so I was able to try out Hydrosphere. Excellent work fixing it! For my part, I had no problems at all with the outdoor scene in map06, but real hardware at 1733 MHz is probably faster than DOSBox on all but the most insane modern systems (and maybe not even then considering how much rides on a single thread) E: Running in 320x200 will massively improve performance BTW.

Unfortunately LCDs caught on a few years before running every game at native resolution was realistic for most computers, so you had a few years in the 2000s where you often had the choice between blurry linear scaling or poor framerates, and the image quality was often worse than CRTs too. Early consumer LCDs blew goats and I missed my Samsung CRT for years after it died.

I really enjoyed this one. A lot of DBP projects are really hit and miss for me, with a mixture of good maps and awful ones, but these maps were consistently high quality and I loved the weird abstract hammam theme that kind of reminded me of ikblue/ikwhite maps for Quake. I know a few people rag on DBP projects for the "comfort food" difficulty level but I have been feeling pretty shitty lately and in such bad spirits it's great to blaze through a set with modern architecture and gameplay that is just challenging enough to be exciting without killing me 50 times a map. Speaking of ikblue/ikwhite, would you guys ever consider doing a set based on those textures?

The mouse problem turned out to be a problem with my mouse itself. I have gotten it to do the same thing in MBF, and it also does it in Windows games, though in Windows the mouse control comes back after a second or two (just long enough to eat a bunch of revenant rockets). This is my second MX518 I've bought for this retro computer and I'm starting to wonder if I should get some sort of active USB to PS/2 converter so I can use a more modern mouse.

Yes it does.

This indeed fixed the sound problem, but now there is a new bug where the mouse input will randomly stop working, which is preceded sometimes (but not always) with a quarter-second or so moment where the game freezes. There is no apparent pattern to how it happens but some maps seem to trigger it more than others.MAP07 of Memento Mori does it a lot.

This version is less "raging demon slayer" and more "17-year-old wannabe school shooter".

My best bet to have a good Sound Canvas sound is a Sound Canvas, and I own two of them (55 mkII and 88). Just for fun I fed some of these XG midis into my SC-88 and it not only sounded terrible but confused either it or the UM-ONE MIDI interface so that it produced wrong notes until I loaded up GZDoom to reset it. I had a good laugh out of that.

But is the wavetable really everything? There are a ton of SC-55 soundfonts out there and none of them sound all that much like the real SC-55 even though they use the same samples.

Is there anyone with a Yamaha MU80 or other vintage XG hardware synth who can do recordings of these midis?

Another issue: I know sound in DOS is basically a black art that requires secret occult knowledge and the occasional virgin sacrifice before an idol of Creative Labs, but would it be possible to improve the stereo imaging, especially through headphones? It's really disorienting playing in this source port through headphones; it is almost impossible to tell where enemies are, which is especially frustrating with chaingunners. I have died several times standing there staring like an idiot while a chaingunner lit me up, because I could not locate him by ear.

I found a showstopping bug when playing Fire on the Mountain by @Somniac. When loading map04 the port crashes with: Z_CheckHeap: block size does not touch the next block Source: g_game.c:673

Recently played Earthless, Nostalgia, and Unternity with this source port, it's come a long way towards being a playable, useful DOS source port since the builds I tried earlier this year. One thing I noticed while playing these wads is that death exits don't work properly; the player starts the next level as a zombie instead of pistol starting. I hope to see UMAPINFO incorporated soon, it would be really amazing to play Hydrosphere in DOS with the skies and ending as intended.

+1 for Knee-Deep in KDiZD +1 for Ozonia +1 for Nostalgia +1 for 2022: A Doom Odyssey