It's like there's an exotic twang to an already exotic accent!

Anyway, re: videos. The Wadsworth Constant does not apply here! Usually I'm irritated with YouTube videos because they take so long to get to the point, but I didn't experience such impatience with yours. Continued vigilance with editing will keep your videos automatically better than 90% of YouTube :)

Oh dear, yes I do have a few videos that are very long. But you learn from it and having shorter videos was on of my recent goals.

February 14 2015

Wing Commander GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide

In this video I am showing you how to improve certain aspects of the GOG.com release of Wing Commander, Secret Missions and Secret Missions 2.

Topics covered include:

- Improving graphics
- Improving music and sound effects with Munt MT-32 emulator
- CPU cycle speed
- Changing sound device (no sound, PC Speaker, Adlib or Sound Blaster and Roland MT-32)
- Joystick calibration
- Transferring pilots

Link to my website: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/tech-reviews-and-tweak-guides-series.html

Link to Munt Roland MT-32 emulator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/

Use these lines to edit WINGCMDR.CFG (WC 1 and SM1) and CRUSADE.CFG (SM2) to change the audio device.

No Sound:
v z

PC Speaker:
v p z

Adlib / Sound Blaster:
v a904 z

Roland MT-32:
v r z

Thanks for the videos - it's always nice to play a game that looks and sounds its best.

Looking forward to any future videos!

That would be cool :)

I will keep going and see what happens.

I appreciate the feedback :)

February 18 2015

First post has been updated!

Space Quest 4 Tech Review Tweak Guide

- Correct aspect ratio
- Full screen image
- Comparing output modes
- CPU cycles
- Sample rate
- Munt Roland MT-32 emulator
- ScummVM

February 22 2015

First post updated with a list of all the Tweak Guides I did so far.

Today we are looking at Space Quest V!

Space Quest 5 GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide

- Full screen image
- Correct aspect ratio
- Comparing output modes
- Tweaking cycle speed (Game ran too slow)
- Changing music to General MIDI
- VirtualMIDISynth
- Soundfonts
- Playing the game with ScummVM

First post updated with a list of all the Tweak Guides I did so far.

This week:

Wing Commander Privateer GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide

In this video we are improving graphics, sound, music and other aspects of the game. I cover:

- Full screen aspect ratio corrected image
- Output modes
- Scaler mode
- Improving sample rate
- Using a virtual MIDI device and soundfonts
- Running INSTALL.EXE to change sound devices
- Fixing the slowing down of music in space flight
- Calibrating joystick

Download BASSMIDI: https://kode54.net/bassmididrv/

Download VirtualMIDISynth: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth

Download Weeds General MIDI Soundfont v3.0: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/general-midi-and-soundfonts.html

#BallerStatus

First post updated with a list of all the Tweak Guides I did so far.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis GOG.com Tweak Guide

Really happy with GOG.com releasing Fate of Atlantis, one of my all time favourite adventure game that I played lots when I was a teenager.

Unlike the Steam version, this release uses ScummVM, which allows us to apply all sorts of tweaks.

The goal is to have a full-screen, but aspect ratio correct image as well improved music via Munt Roland emulator. The Roland music in this game is really something very special and I highly recommend going through the trouble of installing Munt.

Lucasarts tended to use Roland LAPC-I and CM-32L units, in contrast to Sierra who usually used Roland MT-32 units. For us this simply means that you should use the Roland CM-32L rom files with Munt. As always, please don't ask me where to get the rom files from. I own all the Roland units, so that's avoid legal issues.

I cover the following topics:

- Upgrading ScummVM from version 1.6 to 1.7
- Getting an aspect ratio correct full screen image
- Munt emulator and loading CM-32L ROM
- Configuring the game for Roland music
- Adjusting volume to better hear the dialogue

Link to Munt Roland emulator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/

Link to my website: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/

Hey, some interesting stuff! Personally I never experimented with DosBox Settings that much (only played around a little bit with the scaling), but your tweaks do sound professional---> congrats!

It's really just a few lines that need changing :)

The good thing about DOSBox is that it's always the same settings. So you quickly know what to look for.

First post updated with a list of all the Tweak Guides I did so far.

Sam & Max Hit the Road Tweak Guide

The GOG.com version of Sam & Max uses ScummVM, which allows a lot of tweaks to be applied. The main tweaks I will show you is having an aspect ratio correct full screen image as well as improved music by using General MIDI sound fonts.

I cover the following topics:

- Upgrading ScummVM from version 1.6 to 1.7
- Getting an aspect ratio correct full screen image
- Using a virtual MIDI device and soundfonts
- Configuring the game for using General MIDI
- Adjusting volume to better hear the dialogue

Link to BASSMIDI virtual MIDI device: https://kode54.net/bassmididrv/

Link to VirtualMIDISynth virtual MIDI device: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth

Link to some soundfonts on my website: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/general-midi-and-soundfonts.html