Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.76b

Posted on 2021-05-19, 23:35

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[*] Added new eXtended option for GUS PnP (/XGL) to limit RAM to 512K for compatibility with some games.[/list] Missed this til now, but definitely wanted to say thank you. I'll make sure to prominently mention UniSound in the ARGUS docs from now on, since this adds a considerable amount of …

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Re: Latest BIOS for the SOYO 4SA2 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-05-02, 14:04

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Any recommended values for the inductors? Just got myself a 4sa2 and it turns out to be a great board to be used with a POD100 (contrary to the PVI-486SP3 by Asus it runs absolutely stable and performs pretty much the same).

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-04-06, 19:30

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Dr.Yak wrote on 2021-04-05, 20:41: Sorry, I wasn't very clear in my question. I meant, are you going to announce possible future batches in this thread? Possibly ...

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-04-02, 11:32

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How would I know what frequency you're reading the thread and what's the possible future demand. It'll extremely likely be "first come, first serve".

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-22, 18:22

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Yup, adapting the hardware would be a last resort (especially since support is already there). Either fixing the program(s) in question or locking the ARGUS by software to a specific amount of RAM would be the way to go til proven impossible/not worth it. While Absolute Pinball is one case we've …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2021-03-21, 15:10

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Any chance you could add a feature to only use limited RAM on an InterWave card? I've found a few programs (well ... 1 game that is "Absolute Pinball") that will crash the machine if the GUS/IW has more than 512k available ... while this can be achieved in hardware (jumpers, removing chips, etc.) it …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 14:58

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There is a tool to use GUS memory as a drive... I assume on game launch the memory is cleared, but otherwise it could be used to fill up the memory, similar to some of the tricks when too much RAM is detected. That would be gusdrive which is limited to 1MB and doesn't "lock" anything or allow …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 14:04

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So coders ... if anyone knows a way to force a GUS to use 512k at max. (maybe a TSR, maybe a modified IWINIT?) and could code that ... I wouldn't have to adapt the layout of the ARGUS which is final anyways and could fix the issue for all other cards without having to fiddle with (solder)-jumpers, …

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Re: Absolute Pinball - friendly to emulators but a pain on real hardware?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 11:41

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Indeed it does ... no idea why it doesn't crash/complain there.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 10:20

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Friend of mine figured it out with the help of DOSBox-X and I just confirmed it with a GUS Max (ARGUS will follow). The game/setup crashes whenever it's used with a GUS with >512k RAM. If you use a card with 512k the soundtest and game work. This kinda sucks for the ARGUS - while it supports a …

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Re: Absolute Pinball - friendly to emulators but a pain on real hardware?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 10:14

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Friend of mine figured it out ... only happens to GUS cards with >512k RAM. If you set 512k in DOSBox-X or use a real card with 512k it works.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-20, 23:56

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Game/setup also crashes with various configs in PCem (testing in setup hangs the machine, starting a table crashes the whole emulator) and dosbox-staging (pretty much on spot with the errors I get on my machines). I guess the code is slightly(?) broken and somehow manages to work "just enough" to be …

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Re: Absolute Pinball - friendly to emulators but a pain on real hardware?

Posted on 2021-03-20, 18:07

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I'm roughly familiar with that issue but the game works fine without sound and with soundblaster cards. Problem seems to be related to the GUS implementation. Ironically ... the crashes only seem to happen when I input the correct settings for the GUS ... if I enter invalid ones the game remains …

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Re: Absolute Pinball - friendly to emulators but a pain on real hardware?

Posted on 2021-03-20, 15:39

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Thread necromancy! Just gave this game another spin with a non-PnP GUS ... same issue. If anyone can briefly describe what DOSBox does different ... or even better report that the game works on real hardware with a GUS - that would be largely appreciated.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-20, 15:15

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Speaking of this ... did anyone of you ever manage to get "Absolute Pinball" running on an InterWave based GUS? I'd like to expand on this ... did anyone of you ever get "Absolute Pinball" running on any GUS? Works fine in DOSBox, but has crashed on every system I've thrown at it when setting up a …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-18, 20:57

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Cubic Player is also picky with the ARGUS ... never pinpointed it to the RAM tho ... and I _think_ I could reproduce the issues I had on a GUS PnP with 8MB RAM. I prefer to use XTC-Player for mod playback. I currently don't have my setup ready, but I could do some brief verification this weekend.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-12, 17:47

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I have no interest in earning money from it ... I'm happy enough that people donated up front to make this project possible without having to put money into it which I didn't have at the point I started the project.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-03-11, 18:04

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Public run will very likely include InterWaves as mentioned a few pages ago. I have no idea how the public run will be priced or if I will include anything but the InterWave with the PCB ... nor when it will happen, except that it will be _after_ every donor/backer has his/her PCB(s). Guess why this …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 16:31

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Please read the first post 😀

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-02-22, 10:37

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Adding ram to the Reveal WAVExtreme 32 is likely possible, but would involve a lot of manual rewiring in a data path that might be slightly timing critical - I wouldn't bother with that. Even tho there are no concrete plans for the open run yet, I can quite surely say that I don't intend to sell the …

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