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

Posted on 2020-08-10, 16:04

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Who will add Mitsumi, Sony and MKE intefaces to the interwave clone board first? :-) In 2020, I doubt the number of people who would use such a "feature" is particularly high; certainly not enough to warrant the increase in cost per board. For ARGUS, we're mainly at the fix-it-if-it's-broken stage; …

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Re: AWE32 CT3900 (non-PnP) sounds like garbage or doesn't work in some DOS games

Posted on 2020-08-08, 02:29

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Be aware, though, that some ISA cards will start behaving badly if the I/O recovery time is set too high. In some cases, the GUS PnP has this problem.

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

Posted on 2020-07-29, 02:55

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(I hope one day you would find at least one positive thing about this tool :)) If all I did was tell you what wonderful work you're doing, how would the bugs get fixed? :thinking: That this works as well as it does is already quite interesting, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't discuss ideas …

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Re: How to use UltraMID with GUS PnP / GUSar / ...?

Posted on 2020-07-29, 02:09

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The simplest way to get going should be to get the official GUS PnP driver CD from vogonsdrivers.com. In the SETUP directory, you will find SETRAM.EXE; run that to install the traditional GUS patch set. This usually belongs in \GRAVIS\ULTRASND\MIDI. Then, download and extract UMID112.ZIP . Place the …

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Re: How to use UltraMID with GUS PnP / GUSar / ...?

Posted on 2020-07-28, 07:11

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Once you have the main executable, it usually requires: ULTRADIR environment variable (looks like it should be C:\GRAVIS\ULTRASND for your installation). A set of .PAT files under \MIDI in your ULTRASND directory. ULTRAMID.INI in the same directory as the patch files. Do you have all of those? What …

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

Posted on 2020-07-28, 06:19

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I don't like the feeling that I may have provided unjustified trouble reports, so I investigated the RDP issue further. On my system, at least, it wasn't unjustified at all, and I have some proof. As currently implemented, UNISOUND changes the RDP regardless of the options used, even if you only ask …

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

Posted on 2020-07-26, 06:04

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I thought I bought 512KiB chips, but reading the description now it says "1Mx16Bit", which would be 2MiB per chip, and hence 4MiB. Oh wow, what a pleasant surprise! If the photos you posted in June reflect what is still on your board, then they are indeed 2 MiB DRAM ICs, so a total of 4 MiB, as you …

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

Posted on 2020-07-25, 20:35

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I've been getting 4MB in iwinit, 4MB by unisound and 1MB on ModMaster. I haven't kept up with all of the recent developments with ModMaster, but I don't think he is using InterWave enhanced mode (yet). In compatibility mode, no more than 1 MiB will ever be available. Is 4 MiB the correct amount you …

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

Posted on 2020-07-25, 20:22

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EDIT: The RAM detected is wrong, but, well, you can't have everything right... Is the RAM configuration wrong only with UNISOUND, or is it also wrong with IWINIT? If it's consistently wrong only with UNISOUND, then there may be a bug; if "iwinit -v" also reports the wrong amount, one of the DRAM …

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

Posted on 2020-07-24, 03:39

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I decided to try your software, just to get an idea of whether we're doing something significantly differently, but I think I ended up finding a fairly nasty bug/design flaw. It appears that your software indiscriminately changes the RDP, even on systems with a Plug and Play BIOS. This can end up …

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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-07-20, 18:26

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That's not a bad approximation at all. At the very least, they have more of the right instruments in the right places than quite a number of other designs of the time. Still, to say that the samples were taken directly from the Sound Canvas seems like quite an exaggeration. The instrument …

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

Posted on 2020-07-20, 03:14

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Is there a difference between the GUSAR Lite and the ARGUS? The ARGUS is the design that is being discussed in this thread, while the GUSar designs were not-so-welcome derivatives of ARGUS based on the schematics that were released for an earlier prototype revision. The GUSar Lite is a somewhat …

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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-07-19, 21:45

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With all the talk of this Dream bank being directly derived from the Sound Canvas sound set, I am curious. There is one file that I have noticed only sounds the way it should on Roland devices (among brands in common use with 90s PCs), so if anyone with access to a prototype would be willing to give …

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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-07-13, 21:13

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There ARE differences of course - it's totally different sound engine and fx processors , different chipset in other words. So hear for your self :) There are definitely differences between the two; in particular, the Yucatan seems far more bass-heavy. Is that just the result of using that synth …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Enabler for DOS v0.72c

Posted on 2020-07-09, 20:08

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I read a bit about the Orpheus card, I think it'll be easy to add the specific support via Crystal's registers in theory. I would add on-the-fly switch between internal CrystalFM and external Yamaha OPL3 FM, S/PDIF activation, or any other register-configurable setting. Also ability to disable/ …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-06-22, 00:05

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The discussion of OPL3 addresses is a bit of an odd one. Scali (who doesn't seem to be as active here lately) mentioned a number of times that OPL3 Sound Blaster Pro cards do not direct accesses on 38A/B to the second channel; that access via 22x was the only way to get proper stereo. Creative's old …

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

Posted on 2020-06-19, 03:35

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Before I forget, I thought I'd mention one observation about the RC-1 design, even though it's not likely to be integrated (we did agree to no changes unless something is broken): C14 should ideally be a low-tolerance C0G/NP0 part. It seems that these are usually stocked in 1206 or 1210 form, and …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Enabler for DOS v0.72c

Posted on 2020-06-14, 21:40

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Maybe it's not what you intended for your software, but the way it works now seems to have an unnecessary limitation. For instance, if I have two InterWave boards installed, then add an old modem for additional testing, chances are the CSNs will all change (modem wins isolation first). For things to …

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

Posted on 2020-06-12, 04:51

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MJay99 wrote on 2020-06-11, 11:57: @1:13 in your video I can see this: gusar.jpg That's one of the questionable spots I was trying to point out. There is a similar one at 1:39, I think. They could just be solder "whiskers" that don't actually make contact with anything else, but it would be a good …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Enabler for DOS v0.72c

Posted on 2020-06-12, 04:29

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By the way, when I do a scan with UNISOUND /CL it still sees the network card as Card #1 [PNP0060] NE2000 PLUG & PLAY ETHERNET CARD, even though the packet driver claims it is gone. Does UNISOUND issue a wait-for-key command before exiting in all cases? Some cards have been known to behave …

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