Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-22, 15:06

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by GrafWasili

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I don't think DIAGNOSE is needed at all. Oh really? yout hink setting the BLASTER env var alone is enough? I'll give it a try... What IRQ is the LPT set to in the BIOS? Better set it to 5, or disable it if you don't use it. LPT is disabled Well, I cannot just omit the diagnose.exe command. Some …

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-20, 12:27

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by GrafWasili

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eddman wrote on 2023-03-19, 23:31: I don't think DIAGNOSE is needed at all. Oh really? yout hink setting the BLASTER env var alone is enough? I'll give it a try... eddman wrote on 2023-03-19, 23:31: What IRQ is the LPT set to in the BIOS? Better set it to 5, or disable it if you don't use it. LPT …

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-19, 23:13

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by GrafWasili

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One thing I am thinking of, I notice you have the midi of your SB set to 330, how are you running the MT-32 , is it through the Soundblaster or MPU-401? Through the Soundblaster, I use midi daughter boards from Serdaco for the waveblaster header (XGS2 and McCake), they are both affected by the …

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-19, 23:02

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by GrafWasili

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Yes the CT2230 should be what's called semi-PnP and setting the IRQ via Diagnose.exe ist what always worked before and seems to be recommended in most vogons threads on the topic... And yes I'm running in DOS only the WIN95 thing was a red herring. I removed the T6 part of the blaster variable as a …

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-19, 20:46

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by GrafWasili

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This may be of some help, depending on which SB you are using: https://retronn.de/imports/soundblaster_config_guide.html Ah yes I know this site. Unfortunately skimming through it again didn't reveal anything clearing up this mistery... Did you have something specific in mind or just as a general …

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-19, 18:34

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by GrafWasili

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OK the files are identical that's not what was happening. In fact it's as follows: The game only start's if I change the cards IRQ with diagnose.exe and use the new IRQ for playing (tested 5 to 7 and 7 to 5). It must be different from the IRQ set via autoexec.bat or it won't work. SET SOUND=C:\SB16 …

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-19, 17:49

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by GrafWasili

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Shagittarius wrote on 2023-03-19, 17:38: PCI soundcard, Im running with ISA gear. it's a different sound card, but I can use it to produce a working sound.cfg file to use with the isa sound blaster, I'm about to inspect the file with a hex editor to see what's the difference...

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-19, 15:57

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by GrafWasili

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ok this is a bit crazy I can get it running by booting to win95, setting it up as SB/MT-32 in Dark Sun sound setup (where my sb compatible pci soundcard is detected as SB PRO II) and reboot into DOS. 🤯

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-19, 15:29

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by GrafWasili

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oh boy it stopped working again

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Re: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-19, 15:08

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by GrafWasili

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Thanks for testing this out everybody! I just got running, too. Guess what was the culprit? The ASP drivers (csp.sys)! EDIT: it wasn't... I commented out the config.sys line for loading it et voilá... Never bothered with (existing or missing) ASP features before. In fact I only researched this …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-03-17, 17:07

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I'm playing Pickle Wars right now, it's a full CD release. I remember playing Episode 1 back then. Of cause I had no sound card, so I was surprised it had support for digitized sound effects and General MIDI. I played the very first level again than went on to Episode 2 to see and play something new …

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Dark Sun: Shattered Lands - Soundblaster + Roland MIDI Setup

Posted on 2023-03-17, 14:36

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by GrafWasili

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Hi! Did anybody get this to work on real hardware? I tried everything I could think of to get it working on my 440BX Pentium III, with a CT2230 Soundblaster16 + X2GS or WP32 McCake in any MIDI-mode but no luck. When starting the game, the sound card get's initialized with an audible noise but then …

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Re: Intel 440BX Slot 1 on wheels

Posted on 2023-03-17, 14:23

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by GrafWasili

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oops it's already been a year and no updates... Logged in for a question and thought I might as well reply to some old reactions here. Also Updates will be coming at some point, I did some more shopping and tinkering since then and documented everything photographically. In fact I'm in the process …

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Re: Waveblaster Adaptor for IDE-HDD Swap Frames

Posted on 2022-10-24, 19:26

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by GrafWasili

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Ulfenknulfen wrote on 2022-06-06, 13:10: The first Edition of the Final Product is on Ebay (Germany). Hey, are you still selling these? I might be interested 😀

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Re: Intel 440BX Slot 1 on wheels

Posted on 2022-04-06, 22:33

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by GrafWasili

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Pretty much the same machine, I guess. Yeah definitely the same case but sold by a different company ("Artist"?). Actually a nice bundle having that tape drive, funky dual power supply and some useful cards... Must be the reason people are bidding for it. Mine was from ebay, too, but went pretty …

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Re: Intel 440BX Slot 1 on wheels

Posted on 2022-04-06, 22:10

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by GrafWasili

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Part 2: The Sound of the Future So after chinny22 recommended installing a second sound card I tried to find may way through the jungle that is hardware accelerated 3D audio. Since this machine is trying to be a jack of all trades anyway I looked into Sensaura based cards which implement EAX as well …

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Re: Intel 440BX Slot 1 on wheels

Posted on 2022-04-06, 20:25

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by GrafWasili

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Update time! Part 1: Introducing the Front Panel mSATA SSD Holder I found this nice hard disk bay adapter with front panel and with some more adapters I now have a SSD attached to the Ultra133 IDE controller. The front panel also has a red LED but none of the adapters used have a built-in connector …

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Re: Waveblaster Adaptor for IDE-HDD Swap Frames

Posted on 2022-03-24, 14:51

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by GrafWasili

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Sweet. You're working on some kind of front panel as well?

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Re: March PC Mystery build.

Posted on 2022-03-21, 17:02

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by GrafWasili

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Nice to see another build in the making that's based on the same chipset like the one I'm working on atm... keep the posts coming 😀 Also, cute little Intel astronaut (hazmat worker? bomb squad member?? beekeeper???)

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Re: Intel 440BX Slot 1 on wheels

Posted on 2022-03-20, 12:46

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by GrafWasili

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Oh man, I wish I'd never asked. I like that look so much I got to figure out how to get some back cover for mine. If you find somebody with a big enough 3D printer I could take some measurements for you :thinking_face: But that seems kind of excessive.... On another note I got some upgrades planned …

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