Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.82a

Posted on 2025-05-05, 20:55

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Jccwu wrote on 2025-05-05, 17:54: does the program work with non-pnp cards (non creative), and if so, with what key? Yes, with the /NOPNP option, look at the UNISOUND.TXT file for a list of compatible sound cards

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Re: Adding Soundblaster Driver Load to Super Easy DOS .pif from Phil's Computer Lab?

Posted on 2025-05-02, 23:27

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You're right, to call a .bat from another .bat you need to use "CALL"

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-30, 20:04

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JazeFox wrote on 2025-04-30, 18:21: Hi! It's been a while since the last update! Real life rules. --------------- Maybe you could look at this bug: Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-30, 02:57

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For some reason UNISOUND is setting up my AWE64 with DMA1/HighDMA1 on the first try. Starting BLOOD results in a crash complaining about high DMA being incorrect. Running UNISOUND again after that sets up DMA1/HighDMA5 as expected from my BLASTER variable: BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 ...which is the …

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Re: Adding Soundblaster Driver Load to Super Easy DOS .pif from Phil's Computer Lab?

Posted on 2025-04-28, 19:56

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Thanks again, but no joy. That .bat is what I’m running separately when I boot into DOS with Phil’s PIF. If I add it into the text as described it makes the other drivers fail to load (Bad command error) and the initialisation of the Soundblaster never launches. I’ve also tried adding the line to …

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Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2025-04-18, 18:07

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As promised, the Python script that I made for updating the LAUNCHBX.TXT database. I'm happy with how much it is finding but it has been completely designed for my purposes, so I wouldn't be surprised if you run into a dozen problems. But I will see what I can do in that case :) What's required: * …

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Re: RLoader: a native 16-bit MS-DOS programs and games launcher with search

Posted on 2025-04-17, 20:05

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What tool can you use to make the thumbnails?

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Re: X86Launcher - A DOS Launcher - No Typing!

Posted on 2025-04-16, 04:49

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I modified the launcher.ini file to specify the Games folder and then run l.bat, but it stays at Sorting 60 games...

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-06, 19:35

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]--Freeman--[ wrote on 2025-04-06, 19:05: Ok! I've solved the ERROR12. CTCM was not declared as DEVICE in config.sys. Now all start ok but general midi is not working. Keep fighting.... To make MIDI work you need the Sound Bank files for General MIDI: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/sound-blaster- …

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Re: NULL modem cable

Posted on 2025-04-04, 17:20

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It's a bit disappointing that the parallel cable has such poor transfer capacity, but I appreciate all your clarifications. Unfortunately, my DELL Latitude LM doesn't have a network port, only a PCMCIA modem card.

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-04, 14:55

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That's a good point to know it! I've tried with this change but same results. If I set only the music with soundblaster and sound fx with nothing, the game runs but only music. Sound fx is pc speaker. There is something related with the size variable but I don't know. :( Maybe this will help you …

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Re: NULL modem cable

Posted on 2025-04-04, 01:52

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I know this is a 12-year-old post, but I think it's a good place to ask my question. I built a null modem (parallel) cable that allowed me to copy files to my Dell Latitude LM, whose floppy drive isn't working, but I was only able to do so at a transfer rate of 46 kilobytes/second. The literature I …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-02, 16:32

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It doesn't work. I've made it step by step but after the blaster variable has the same parameters when I type unisound /R. When I run Hocus it has the same error: Invalid parameter in Blaster Environment variable. I don't why I can't change the blaster variable. It happens the same with creative …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-01, 15:03

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Create a HOCUS.BAT file in the game folder containing the following: @ECHO OFF SET BLASTER=%BLASTER% SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 HOCUS.EXE SET BLASTER=%BLAST% SET BLAST= You can then run the game from this .bat file. BLASTER values ​​may vary; don't forget to change them to your correct …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-01, 14:42

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Hi! I am using Unisound with my SB Awe 64 and it works like a charm!! But I have a problem with games that only need a BLASTER environtment with 4 parameters like Hocus Pocus or Duke Nukem 2. If I change de BLASTER to set only 4 parameters (A220 I7 D1 T4 for example), unisound converts the BLASTER …

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Re: Floppy Disks and Bad Sectors

Posted on 2025-03-20, 14:43

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Did you use the magnet on them before formatting? Here is a video with track 0 problem - the guy uses some eraser tool on the diskette, but he also says that any magnet will do the same job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Pcmgh7tPc Yes, several times, with magnets I got from an old ruined IDE …

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Re: Floppy Disks and Bad Sectors

Posted on 2025-03-20, 04:34

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Does this method work to fix the error: "Track 0 bad disk unusable"? It should work, if the floppy disk is not physically damaged. I was able to reduce the bad sectors on one of my drives to 1024 bytes, and I was able to format another drive without bad sectors. However, I had no luck with my two " …

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Re: Floppy Disks and Bad Sectors

Posted on 2025-03-18, 17:08

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How do you apply the magnet? A quick swirl over both sides or something more detailed? I use magnet from failed HDD - fits perfectly for 3.5" diskettes. Usually I touch the magnet to one side of the diskettes's plastic wrapper/envelope/case and manually spin the magnetic disk a couple of turns. …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2025-02-15, 20:41

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great Project, but i got with my SB Live only a high pitched sound. opl3 music is fine. changed irq from 5 to 7, but that doesnt solve the problem. any ideas? You may get better results with your SBLive! by using VSBHDA or VSBHDASF: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA https://github.com/ …

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Re: VSBHDASF: Fork of VSBHDA with Soundfont support

Posted on 2025-02-12, 20:52

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I reported this: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA/issues/32 for VSBHDA but VSBHDASF also inherits this issue. Do you think it can be fixed?

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