Re: Make your SBLive/Audigy/X-Fi sound like an AWE32

Posted on 2024-04-09, 02:47

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by grommit2007

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WRT to FF7, it does not detect the Audigy Rx as a supported SF device, despite the SFMAN APIs being present in the driver for some reason (they work perfectly with FSMP x86 for auto SF loading and removal). This is on Windows 11 Pro x64, for reference. I am curious as to whether the APIs are still …

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Re: Reviving Samick City Sound MIDI Module. Help needed.

Posted on 2024-04-09, 02:29

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Sorry for the long silence… Finally I made this module fully functional! In the end it was not only a bad opamp, one of the RAM chips, KM681000BLP, was also faulty. I recorded some audio samples, see the attachements. The module itself is very noisy output (curse 4558 amps) — you could hear humming …

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Re: Tests/Info welcome: Reverse engineering the SB16 ASP/CSP

Posted on 2023-10-28, 22:00

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by grommit2007

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mkarcher wrote on 2023-06-06, 19:10: ViTi95 wrote on 2023-05-23, 22:01: I know this is an old topic, but has been any update on the research @mkarcher? Thanks for pinging me. The CSP documentation/tooling project is currently not on high priority, but I hope I get around to publish something this …

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Re: Make your SBLive/Audigy/X-Fi sound like an AWE32

Posted on 2023-08-19, 22:32

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The inability to load the SYNTHGM.SBK file appears to occur on SoundFont Bank Manager versions when Creative changed the color scheme to brushed aluminium (~late 2004 onwards, starting with Audigy 4 Pro, which I have found to be the earliest card using said SFBM versions). Basically, on later SFBM …

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Re: Make your SBLive/Audigy/X-Fi sound like an AWE32

Posted on 2023-08-16, 02:12

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This has been brought to my attention by forum user grommit2007 some time ago. All credits go to him. Apparently, all SBLive/Audigy/X-Fi drivers include the AWE32 sample rom in some form. The actual file is called either SFMAN.DAT (for SBLive and Audigy 1 drivers) or CT1MGM.ROM (for Audigy2/ZS/X-Fi …

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Re: Help needed with OPL testing

Posted on 2022-07-31, 15:40

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by grommit2007

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Quite interesting findings. Would anyone be able to run these tests on cards with OPL clones (like Crystal FM, ESFM, and CQM for example)?

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Re: What happens when you don't load DIAGNOSE /S on a CT1747 equipped SB16/AWE32

Posted on 2021-08-08, 18:05

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by grommit2007

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-08-08, 14:09: Yes opl still works That is an interesting finding. What CT1747-based card do you have?

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Re: What happens when you don't load DIAGNOSE /S on a CT1747 equipped SB16/AWE32

Posted on 2021-08-05, 19:27

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Unisound would be an alternative Unisound can be used (though I haven't tested it yet, although this app appears to be mostly for users of ISA PnP cards on XT-class machines). The main purpose of this thread is to determine how the semi-PnP resource configuration works on these cards (so it can be …

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Re: What happens when you don't load DIAGNOSE /S on a CT1747 equipped SB16/AWE32

Posted on 2021-08-05, 15:45

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Afaik the CT1747 equipped cards do not signal on *any* IRQ/DMA channels until configured by DIAGNOSE, essentially disabling them, OPL notwithstanding I suspected this is most likely the case, so the IRQs and DMAs are disabled until DIAGNOSE/SBCONFIG is run, but does OPL still work? (on AWE32 cards …

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Re: What happens when you don't load DIAGNOSE /S on a CT1747 equipped SB16/AWE32

Posted on 2021-08-05, 15:13

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by grommit2007

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if you have only a jumper for IO port 220 240 260 and so on. But no IRQ and HDMA and LDMA jumper blocks. Then you need to run DIAGNOSE /S but if you have all those jumper blocks then there is no need for DIAGNOSE /S. I am aware that cards with jumper blocks (like cards with the CT1746, CT2501, and …

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What happens when you don't load DIAGNOSE /S on a CT1747 equipped SB16/AWE32

Posted on 2021-08-05, 09:35

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Do non-PnP cards with this chip initialize correctly without loading DIAGNOSE /S and only the BLASTER variable? I haven't been able to find out if these cards actually need the DIAGNOSE command and can be instead initialized on a driverless cold boot with only the BLASTER variable.

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Re: AWE64 memory upgrade and built-in RAM

Posted on 2021-08-02, 23:13

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Most people don't have 2MB or 8MB 30-pin SIMMs to test with. They were never a standard product. I suspected this may be why the Creative memory module recommendations only suggested combos of 2, 8 and 32MB. There is another set of RAM on these cards, (I have also seen this in EMU8000 equipped E-mu …

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Re: AWE64 memory upgrade and built-in RAM

Posted on 2021-08-02, 21:57

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Booted up my system with an AWE64 Value and a SIMMCONN to check. I have a 8MB SIMM in the card, and it reports 8192KB of space available for soundfonts. On the 4MB Gold cards, I have to assume the 4MB module adds to the total storage, otherwise there would be no point in the 4MB upgrade module. …

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Re: AWE64 memory upgrade and built-in RAM

Posted on 2021-08-02, 19:45

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For the Gold versions (CT4390, CT4540), the onboard and the upgrade are added together for a max total of 28MB. I would imagine that the Value versions work the same but I haven't actually tested that though I do have everything needed to do so. Here is one current available upgrade path that is …

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AWE64 memory upgrade and built-in RAM

Posted on 2021-08-02, 18:40

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Does the built in RAM on an AWE64 or AWE64 Gold add to the total amount of upgraded RAM? (e.g., 4MB of RAM on an AWE64 Gold upgraded to 4MB using the official Creative module = 8MB, or 512KB on an AWE64 Value upgraded to 4MB using the official Creative module = 4MB).

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Re: Reviving Samick City Sound MIDI Module. Help needed.

Posted on 2021-07-29, 18:48

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This seems quite interesting, as it is basically an AWE32 on an external MIDI module, and the PCB looks like it could be reproduced by someone with the right equipment and resources to do so. The only thing that would be missing is the SoundFont capabilities seen on internal (and some PCMCIA) E-mu …

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Re: Sound Blaster LIVE! Versions

Posted on 2021-06-15, 15:43

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Greetings to everyone. I own the CT4620 with the CT4660 board which a friend of mine had donated it to me four years ago and it's installed on my DOS / Windows 9x 3Dfx build. Recently I bought the CT4760 with Live Drive II the CT4860 and the Digital DIN header bracket. This one is the 5.1, or 4.1 …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2021-04-13, 01:42

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Would it be possible to implement SoftMPU as a VXD driver for Windows 9x (for use in a Windows DOS box)?

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Re: How to get AWE32's wavetable working in DOS?

Posted on 2019-03-02, 01:32

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I would also suggest not using the .SYS DOS files from Creative as well, as they consume a lot of conventional DOS memory, and are only used by a proprietary Creative player utility. Under DOS, the SET BLASTER variable and the AWEUTIL /S command should be sufficient to initialize the card. Also, is …

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Re: How to get AWE32's wavetable working in DOS?

Posted on 2019-03-02, 01:21

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by grommit2007

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There is a solution to your protected mode General MIDI/Waveblaster music problem, however it requires Windows 95 and higher. If you use Windows 95 or higher, the AWEUTIL problem with protected mode games will not be present, because the Windows 95 drivers for the AWE32 provide an MPU-401 emulation …

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