Re: Fast/Modern Motherboards supporting ESS Solo-1 (ES1938S) Sound Card. VIA KT400?
Posted on 2021-05-23, 15:45
Thanks for the info everyone! Interesting notes there about the southbridge jtchip.
Fast/Modern Motherboards supporting ESS Solo-1 (ES1938S) Sound Card. VIA KT400?
Posted on 2021-05-21, 17:55
Hi All, I'm looking to build a system for DOS and Windows 98 SE use that works with the ESS Solo-1 PCI sound card. I've been looking at boards with the VIA KT400 and KM400 chipsets. Can anyone confirm that an ESS Solo card works in DOS with these chipsets? There seems to be no result for this combo …
Re: VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.12d)
Posted on 2021-04-29, 17:39
Tool updated to v0.12d ..... Some notes (Q&A): Q: After running VIAFMTSR.COM volume levels are changing! (e.g.: CD-in)... A: VIAFMTSR has its own volume routines, even when running a game that uses FM only, some volume levels like CD-in or master, are affected. Nothing can be done there unless …
Re: Retro PC without ISA. What sound would you choose?
Posted on 2020-07-22, 16:23
appiah4 wrote on 2020-07-22, 08:00: .... An ESS Solo-1 card is middle of the road between the two in terms of quality and compatibility. ... As mentioned above look into the ESS Solo-1 PCI cards. There is some further info on this forum.
Re: What are the hurdles to creating a PCI Adlib sound card?
Posted on 2020-07-01, 17:10
.... There's such PCI chip to use, the ISA Crystal chips (and old OPTi) ones just have some internal address decode and bus buffering in them to allow one to reduce costs by not needing additional parts to interface an FM chip, modem or IDE port. Just direct connection to ISA more or less, only …
Re: What are the hurdles to creating a PCI Adlib sound card?
Posted on 2020-06-30, 17:10
@cyclone3d You're right about the Yamaha YMF7x4's and it's a good point. All the PCI interfacing is built in, plus a real onboard OPL3. It wouldn't be too difficult to make such a thing, it actually is something I have thought of doing as part of exercise to get familiar with PCI on low level but I …
Re: What are the hurdles to creating a PCI Adlib sound card?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 17:48
Thanks for your inputs! It looks like that PCI to ISA bridge chip goes on the motherboard rather than on a card. The PLX chip I mentioned goes (I think) on a card. As for the intended target, the idea is mostly for fun, to explore the barriers and overcome them, but also there might be uses in thin- …
Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support
Posted on 2020-06-26, 17:25
Thanks, I've had a look at the CS datasheet and that external FM feature is really interesting. Do you know if Cirrus made a PCI chip that has this feature?
What are the hurdles to creating a PCI Adlib sound card?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 15:34
Please bear with me, this is part brain-dump and part questions! The original ISA Adlib cards did not use an IRQ, they only used CPU bus addresses 388h and 389h. Ref: http://www.oplx.com/opl2/docs/adlib_sb.txt 388h is read/write and the CPU can read the Adlib card's status. I am assuming the bus …
Re: Primer on PC audio?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 14:45
mothergoose729 wrote on 2020-06-25, 00:49: Gonna keep it high level, but here goes. .... This was a great trip down memory lane - thank you for taking the time to write this!
Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support
Posted on 2020-06-24, 16:29
... and yep, the 9236 digital audio interface is used for the OPL3 chip and this is also why YMF289 is used : 44,1khz output This is the genius part of the design for getting the output of the OPL3 into the main control chip. Great! I have a question about the OPL3. I am not very familiar with the …
Re: Strangest modem ever... with hardware wavetable.
Posted on 2020-06-24, 16:02
appiah4 wrote on 2020-06-23, 20:55: I will never gloss over an ISA modem/sound combo card again.. Agreed! This card is insane having the hardware wavetable. On a what is primarily a modem!
Re: New Project, HP T5720 soundcard compatability
Posted on 2020-06-23, 17:27
This is great - I thought for sure after reading the first post that going PCI to PCIe to PCI would never work but you actually get sound! Whoa! I can't tell from the photos (maybe that's an ATX PSU connected to the SATA power input of the dual PCI board? Did you manage to power up the PSU with a …
Re: All the truth about FM in ALS100 Plus+ cards (includes facts, tech info and tests)
Posted on 2020-06-23, 17:19
Really interesting research JazeFox. Thank you. By the way, how do you pronounce your username? Is it 'Jazzy Fox' or 'Jay Ze Fox' or 'Jays Fox'?
Re: List of known Thin Clients with SoundBlaster support for cheap MS-DOS gaming & more !
Posted on 2020-06-10, 17:37
Hi Philippe, On your spreadsheet in the list of 'DOS sound compatible PC soundcards' you could perhaps add the PCI ForteMedia FM801. This card has been mentioned on Vogons as working in DOS though I don't know what level of SB emulation it has. Also on that sheet, line 17, the ES1938S I believe is …
Re: VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.10a)
Posted on 2020-06-10, 16:24
Following advise on this post: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=73068&start=20 I open a new thread in Sound sub-forum for this tool. Thanks to Prez for all the info and testing. VIASBCFG is a little tool to enable and configure the SBPro feature in compatible VIA chipsets: VT8231 and …
Re: List of known Thin Clients with SoundBlaster support for cheap MS-DOS gaming & more !
Posted on 2020-06-10, 16:04
As I said, I have a T5500 with MS-DOS 6.22 and FreeDOS 1.2. I have some issues with some games when install VIASBCFG, Monkey Island crash before start, Legend of Kyrandia let me watch the intro but a few seconds after the game crash too, and many others. If I don't install de driver and use the pc …
Re: Using VIA VT8231 southbridge for sound blaster pro emulation (edit : sound blaster emulation available using softwar
Posted on 2020-06-10, 11:03
Just for your information, the purpose of the two VIA tools are the following: - VIAUDIO is a small TSR that detects when windows is loaded, and disables Sound Blaster emulation (by setting function 5, register 48, bit 0 in the south bridge) while windows (3.1, 95, 98, ME) is running. This function …
Re: Using VIA VT8231 South Bridge for sound blaster pro emulation
Posted on 2020-06-09, 17:18
Ok i did it ! It works on my system. You can try on yours ! http://jegeek.net/telechargements/pciset.zip Just launch sbpro.bat and voila ! ps : I did code the device id of my VIA AC Audio 97 device of my system, which is a 82C686B. I think it should be the same on other machines, but still we have …
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