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

Posted on 2021-10-01, 23:56

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by Gmlb256

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AlexZ wrote on 2021-10-01, 23:41: I wonder why unisound allows to configure both high/low DMA for YMF71x chips? 16bit high DMA doesn't seem to work on them (probably not supported). Setupsa doesn't support configuring high DMA at all. The second DMA is likely for WSS which as you guessed it doesn't …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-10-01, 21:23

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No, I did not make an automap. Yet. I know Super 3D Noah's Ark has one, but given the extra memory needed for MIDI playback and the Spear of Destiny memory issues, I don't know if it's possible. The goal is to make it work on PCs where vanilla Wolf3D/SoD already works, so I'm still iffy on this. …

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Re: MIDIto - relocate hardcoded port 330h to somewhere else

Posted on 2021-10-01, 17:54

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It sort of makes sense if you consider that EMM386 only has to care about monitoring port accesses for the purposes of catching DMA transfers to/from the "fake" EMS page frame that is actually remapped XMS memory. If there's no EMS it has no reason to trap any ports. I was able to get QEMM with …

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

Posted on 2021-10-01, 03:04

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by Gmlb256

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640K!enough wrote on 2021-10-01, 03:01: Gmlb256 wrote on 2021-09-30, 19:18: The Orpheus sound card is only compatible with SB Pro 2 in this case due to the presence of the YMF-262 OPL3 chip. That is mostly correct, except that Orpheus uses the YMF289. Oops, I stand corrected. 😜

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Re: Swaping DAC on SB16

Posted on 2021-10-01, 00:10

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FWIW, the SB AWE64 cards has the DSP version 4.16 which has fewer bugs compared to older SB16 based cards. I understand why the OP hates Creative and have experienced how bad CQM is in comparison to the real OPL3 or ESFM.

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Re: Swaping DAC on SB16

Posted on 2021-09-30, 22:20

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by Gmlb256

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There's also the mistake of using the SPK OUT connector (or not disabling the amplifier on certain SB16 based cards) which was meant for unpowered speakers.

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

Posted on 2021-09-30, 19:18

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by Gmlb256

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Small question: is the Orpheus also compatible with the SB Pro 2 or only SB Pro 1? Simcity 2000 has both options and I picked SB Pro 1 which worked fine but was curious if SB Pro 2 is also supported. For what I know, the SBPro uses two OPL2 (YM3812) chips for 9 channels each and the SBPro2 uses one …

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Re: Limit DOS RAM memory (XMSDSK / HimemX / JemmEx), DOS RAM size limit

Posted on 2021-09-30, 15:51

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by Gmlb256

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Can You upload LIMITMEM.SYS here? http page doesn't work. Strange, that web site worked at the time of the post. Same website from archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20200901223822/http://lonecrusader.x10host.com/rloew/limitmem.html. The download link works, but the "more information" link …

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Re: Swaping DAC on SB16

Posted on 2021-09-30, 15:23

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Also it doesn’t have bugs just like the aw64. No hanging notes, and no slowdown when using a wavetable board like the X2? I have a SB16 CT2290 and also a SB AWE32 CT3900, both of which exhibit hanging notes and slowdown with a connected wavetable board... ;_; Not to mention audio garble when …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-09-30, 13:12

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by Gmlb256

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My main rig. Fun part about it is this isn't just a "retro" rig. This IS the main show. There is no modern computer off to the side. In fact this post was created right from the PC you see here. It's just a 500Mhz Pentium III system. Nothing super special or anything but for website authoring, …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-29, 19:32

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Is it possible to use AWEUTIL itself in upper memory using LOADHIGH? Or is the recommendation more like "load everything else that you need in upper memory if you want to use AWEUTIL"? Loading everything needed into upper memory is the actual recommendation. Depending of the SBK soundfont that I …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-29, 19:16

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Anyways, how's this .EXE? Also, if you can check whether it works WITHOUT disabling XMS/EMS on AWEUTIL, that'd be awesome. More efficient with memory than the previous one. It even works without having to disable XMS/EMS on AWEUTIL. :) I'd recommend a lot of free conventional memory if one intends …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-29, 17:24

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I can reduce the size of this buffer to the longest MIDI file at runtime (ULTIMATE is the longest song, with 21406 bytes... id's not kidding there :P). Would that be acceptable? Yes, 32KB is even enough to fit that music. :D On a side note memptr is defined as void _seg *, where _seg is a 16-bit …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-29, 16:46

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Anyway, here's Yet Another Build. I now isolate my own buffer space before id's memory manager allocates everything else to itself (hence main memory is reported as 64k less on the signon screen). I'm running out of ideas, so if this still crashes QEMM, I really don't what else I can potentially …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-29, 15:41

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VERY strange. How about this EXE? (This is essentially a build of the plain Wolf3D source without any wolfdosmpu stuff at all. I need to isolate whether it's wolfdosmpu or my Borland C++ environment.) Downloaded that EXE and got no strange issues with expanded memory manager. Also, are you using …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-29, 14:34

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At this point, the game could easily be updated by the programmers to use MIDI and BP could inject his files of the score compositions that reflect the quality of proper MIDI. It sucks that we have to use these workarounds and hacks to enjoy the game as it should be enjoyed. Not many people had a …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-29, 13:07

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I was trying to address XMS/EMS problems once and for all by looking at the possibility of forcing the engine to reserve the memory needed for wolfdosmpu in main RAM before starting wolf3d's own XMS/EMS memory manager ... unfortunately when I tried this, it would not go past the title screen even …

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Re: DMA Sharing

Posted on 2021-09-29, 12:46

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Symantec System Information doesn't help too much, but if you hadn't disabled LPT1 and LPT2 do it. On the BIOS set IRQ5 and IRQ7 to "Legacy ISA" so the other devices won't attempt to use them. Also try Navrátil Software System Information (NSSI) , which has better information (except when multiple …

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Re: Looking for "Sound Blaster Series Hardware Programming Guide" that includes AWE cards too...Has this ever been relea

Posted on 2021-09-28, 20:59

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by Gmlb256

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That's the stuff that I partly told georgel about low level programming involving EMU8K. The "AWE32 Developer Information in PDF format" that is on the first link has high level functions related to MIDI emulation, but none of the links mentions anything related to NMI or MPU-401.

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-09-28, 20:11

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More testing with the new EXE and expanded memory manager loaded. It's becoming less about XMS and it crashes/reboots (depending whether QEMM or EMM386 is used) when exiting the game, I did this without AWEUTIL to make sure. Without EMM it works fine. Hold on, it crashes with an EMM manager? And it …

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