Re: Control exclusive access to audio hardware under Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 04:28

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by Kamerat

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leileilol wrote on 2020-02-02, 02:17: I think my workaround for this in the AWE days was when I used WinAMP to play music, i'd do it with the DirectSound output, in which another game that may use DirectSound will also get the audio. You can also use the AWEamp plugin for Winamp to route the audio …

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Re: Is it possible to run MUNT (or other MT-32 emulation) in DOS/Windows 98? If so, how?

Posted on 2020-02-03, 20:00

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by Kamerat

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Well, he has two sound cards and his CPU is also fast enough. :) True, he can also connect the MIDI out of Yamaha (MPU-401 compatible) to the MIDI in of the Audigy, so no need for VDMSound and MIDI Yoke. ;) Edit: Unfortunately this leaves out games that needs an intelligent mode capable MPU-401 …

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Re: Is it possible to run MUNT (or other MT-32 emulation) in DOS/Windows 98? If so, how?

Posted on 2020-02-03, 19:48

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In this video Phil uses that Falco tool, but he uses an external tablet to go with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSk9S1bkRS8 Why does he uses the tablet? Do you need the tablet? (Or am I wrong and am I mistaken it for another Falco tool?) Munt requires a "powerful" CPU, I'll guess Pentium …

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Re: Is it possible to run MUNT (or other MT-32 emulation) in DOS/Windows 98? If so, how?

Posted on 2020-02-03, 17:26

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Tiemen wrote on 2020-02-03, 14:53: Is it possible to run MUNT (or other MT-32 emulation) in DOS/Windows 98? If so, how? Falcosoft's Midi Player with the Munt VSTi works under Windows 98SE. Use MIDI Yoke as a bridge so you can access it from the Windows MIDI mapper.

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Re: Can't get YMF71x to work in DOS mode

Posted on 2020-02-02, 07:30

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You can try using Tiido's SETYMF utility for setting up the card in DOS.

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Re: USB Midi Win 98

Posted on 2020-02-01, 05:27

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So does vdmsound 9x include universal serial bus devices? The only output I have from this is pcmcia usb so i have to use this interface. I know vdm from using it with XP, but never tried a 9x version for midi. Will look it up more. Thanks. Should work with any output device listed in the Windows …

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Re: Roland Sound Canvas only half working

Posted on 2020-01-30, 06:20

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Do i have to set the Sound Canvas in a different mode or something ? Or maby change a setting on the pc ? You might be able to use the gameport for MIDI if you use the WDM drivers instead of the VxD ones. Windows will then emulate MPU-401 and Sound Blaster Pro by itself. One other option are using …

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Re: USB Midi Win 98

Posted on 2020-01-23, 04:50

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VDMSound for Windows 9X supports emulation of MPU-401. The SC-88 should support serial MIDI so no need for an MIDI interface just an appropriate passive cable. SoftMPU supports MIDI on serial under MS-DOS and in Windows you can use the Roland driver (still need VDMSound).

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Re: Aztech N270 with SBLink?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 08:59

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I have soldered pins for PC/PCI on my card and it's working. Don't think all versions of the initializer lists PC/PCI as an option but you can still force PC/PCI mode via command line options. You can run the card without the TSR, but you then have to set the sample rate for the Sound Blaster …

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Re: AWE64D PCI

Posted on 2020-01-09, 22:42

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by Kamerat

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Trident 4DWave-NX (and DX?) also support PC/PCI. Wonder where that AWE64D went... 😁

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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-12-18, 18:50

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Has anyone tried ESS Solo-1 and YMF-744 on a K8T800 motherboard? I am considering either of the two in addition to an Audigy 2 ZS to make it a Win9x/XP dual boot machine.. Both will probably work under MS-DOS, the Solo-1 in TDMA mode and the YMF744 with the DSDMA TSR. In this case I would go for …

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Re: ESS Solo 1 different versions

Posted on 2019-12-10, 14:38

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Thank you for the answer and the advice. I do not need the wavetable since I don't own any wavetable card, but it always can come handy. To my knowledge sblink can come useful in dos... Can you please explain me what it the speaker level output? I just usually connect the speakers (cheap 2.0 …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2019-12-07, 16:00

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by Kamerat

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That is just too beautiful... 😲

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Re: Cmedia CMI8738 - maybe its Biggest Secret

Posted on 2019-11-19, 06:07

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by Kamerat

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For some reason, Kamerat was able to initialize and use some cards on a vt8233 south bridge with DDMA mode. VIA may not test it, they don't advertise it, but they may not have deleted DDMA functionality from the ASIC, at least in the early V-Link south bridges. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php …

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Re: sound blaster audigy 2 zs and dos games?

Posted on 2019-11-13, 05:23

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Thank you for the info. Will soundfonts work in windows 98 with dos apps? Say I install the 28mb soundfont, will dos apps use it? Not with VxD drivers, it uses the .ECW soundbanks for the MPU-401 emulation instead. With WDM drivers Windows itself handles the emulation of MPU-401 and Sound Blaster …

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Re: Southbridge Registers?

Posted on 2019-11-05, 19:32

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If you only need to change the PCI registers you can use PCISET or SMB. Vendor ID should be 1106h and device ID 3227h and the registers controlling PC/PCI should be at offset 52h and 53h, but I'll guess you already found that in the datasheet.

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Re: Where to find .DLS and other win98 midi instruments files

Posted on 2019-10-28, 20:42

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It should be located at "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\GM.DLS" if installed. Not sure if it installs when you're not using WDM sound drivers. There's not many other .DLS files around, I got a couple: Fury.dls and gs_instruments.dls.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 WDM Drivers (attached). Incompatible with DOS games. Please help.

Posted on 2019-10-28, 19:09

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Run the VxD drivers for the SB16 and run a second sound card for emulated CD audio and run a cable between the cards so you can mix the sound together. Daemon Tools should also support emulation of CD audio by itself, so you shouldn't need WDM drivers at all.

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Re: Is there anybody left on this forum that still has an AM5x86 that will do 200mhz?

Posted on 2019-10-26, 01:07

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There are a few people claiming to have their X5-133 running at 200 MHz, but to be honest, I doubt it will be stable long enough to even fully boot into Windows 95. You can run a few benchmarks and brag about it, but seriously, overclocking a x86 CPU by 67% just isn't going to work. Well, the …

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Re: NForce2 and DOS Sound question

Posted on 2019-10-12, 05:26

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Funny thing that they actually got better compatibility over the years as I ran an YMF744 card under DOS on a nForce4 Ultra motherboard.

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