Re: Guide: Installing Windows 98 and DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2.1)

Posted on 2023-07-21, 21:45

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by teiresias

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So I'm happy to say following your guide my Dell version of the card was successfully installed into a non-clean Win98SE install (it has one of the unofficial service packs, not sure whether it's 2.1a or 3 I've got on there since I set up this install a while back), and with an Orpheus 2 LT already …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 98 and DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2.1)

Posted on 2023-07-20, 14:09

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by teiresias

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Just found this thread and bookmarked it with a quickness, so thanks for this guide! I have a Dell version of the card on the way, that I intend to use in a machine alongside an Orpheus 2 LT if I can manage it. I have two SDCards with OS installs that I use with this machine, one with DOS 6.22 and …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2023-07-14, 13:23

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by teiresias

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I installed my Orpheus 2 LT yesterday and have played around with it a bit just in Win98. I'll mess with it a bit more in DOS once I get my MP32L setup for my MT32/GM solution, but I just have to say this is the cleanest card I've ever had in this machine. I pulled up Gabriel Knight 2 and watched …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2023-07-06, 22:40

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by teiresias

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Just received my LT in the mail today!! Won't have a chance to install it for a bit though. It will be replacing a generic Labway card. I was initially going to put a Dreamblaster X2 on the wavetable header, but since I basically just use the Arachno soundfont, I went ahead and ordered an MP32L from …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2023-06-27, 12:59

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by teiresias

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In most setups you'd likely have to remove the actual card to change the "module" section anyway, so you may as well just have separate cards.

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Re: DreamBlaster X16 + X16GS Release

Posted on 2023-06-26, 14:41

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by teiresias

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So is the main advantage of this from a strictly DOS gaming perspective if you want more soundfonts available to be switched to (and I guess the soundfonts themselves can be bigger) without having to pull the board to switch soundfonts? If all we're using is the Roland GS soundbank there's not …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2023-06-25, 20:28

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by teiresias

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Just ordered an Orpheus 2 LT. So excited!

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Re: SD vs CF Stability in 2023

Posted on 2023-01-25, 03:57

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by teiresias

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When I first built my Win98/DOS PC back in 2021 I tried the CF route, but I went through two Transcend CF cards that were constantly locking up my system. I'm honestly not sure if it was the cards or the adapter (but the adapter should basically just be an IDE pass-through I guess so who knows), …

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Re: SD vs CF Stability in 2023

Posted on 2023-01-24, 23:21

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by teiresias

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When I first built my Win98/DOS PC back in 2021 I tried the CF route, but I went through two Transcend CF cards that were constantly locking up my system. I'm honestly not sure if it was the cards or the adapter (but the adapter should basically just be an IDE pass-through I guess so who knows), but …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2023-01-21, 20:06

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by teiresias

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Got my X2GS yesterday. Thanks for that. Very quick delivery btw! Unfortunately got a problem with the volume output. Installed it on a ES1868 and even with the waveoutput on maximum (with unisound or essvol) it is barely audible. Already tried to disable the amplifier on the ES1868 with jumpers but …

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

Posted on 2023-01-13, 17:35

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by teiresias

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I have a question about MIDI setup on the card, since I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy an Orpheus 2 when they're available. [...] yep, that's exactly how things work you use the midi routing jumper block to assign an MPU to an output and you enable pcmidi/cs4237-mpu with different ports so you get …

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

Posted on 2023-01-13, 15:17

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by teiresias

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I have a question about MIDI setup on the card, since I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy an Orpheus 2 when they're available. Am I correct in thinking that to have two discrete MIDI outputs you need to set one of the outputs to be controlled by the PCMIDI and the other controlled by the Crystal? That …

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Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix

Posted on 2023-01-10, 15:48

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by teiresias

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Some games ignore existing mixer settings and force their own instead. You can somewhat rectify this using the Sound Blaster Pro Volume Control TSR utility which James-F mentioned earlier in this thread. It runs in the background and allows you to control individual volume sliders via hotkeys. …

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Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix

Posted on 2023-01-09, 20:44

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by teiresias

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It's a YMF719-S. The Board FCC ID is LWHA151a00, A151-A000. I actually partially take my qestion back, I actually can adjust the SB volume using setupsa.exe and hear the difference while in the setup, but when I was going back to the test game I was using, Star Trek: Judgment Rites, it seems the …

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Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix

Posted on 2023-01-09, 16:03

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by teiresias

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I'm somewhat confused about something concerning my Labway variant of this card. I can't seem to effect any change in "SBPro" volume at all under Win98 DOS mode (when doing the "SBPro" sound test in the SetYMF.exe setup utility) except by using the master volume adjustment. I can't make the volume …

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

Posted on 2021-08-20, 18:18

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by teiresias

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So would this basically be a full-on replacement for something like the Audician32? I have a clone of that in my system currently - one of the Labway A151 cards with a YMF719. Since I'm looking to get a Pi MT32 solution and already use an X2 waveblaster board, I'd been toying with getting a PCMIDI, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-20, 14:07

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by teiresias

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Cool, In the last while I've come across 3 burner boxes at thrifts, but none of them had the right drive in, they all had the drive that was taken out to install the burner. Yeah, the drive is correct (because the packaging had never been opened), I guess it's just a later manufacturer run so it …

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Re: P3-850 on Abit BH6 v1.01?

Posted on 2021-08-20, 14:05

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by teiresias

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I just couldn't find a 1GHz slot1 that was in a price range I was willing to pay. Right now it looks like the top results on ebay for a Slot-1 1GHz are in the $200 buy-it-now range, whereas the 850 I bought was $50 with a bit extra cost to buy a new slot-1 cooler to replace the one it came with ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-20, 13:33

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by teiresias

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Not the most exciting purchase, but I just got a new old stock HP cd12 CD-RW. https://i.imgur.com/tuj69Tw.jpg I was using a Gateway-branded HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8160B that I'd pulled from a non-working computer my friend had sitting in their garage. I mainly bought this replacement specifically to get …

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :(. Killing spree stories+serial killers are welcome.Rest in pie

Posted on 2021-08-02, 13:05

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by teiresias

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I THOUGHT I'd killed my entire PC a month or two ago after putting in an Aureal Vortex 2. I went to turn it on after install and the power blipped but ultimately didn't turn on, and then the sweet, horrifying scent of electrical burning wafted from the case. I tore open the PC and pulled the Aureal …

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