Check the solders of the ROM and the QDSP chips. Just checked it with magnifying goggles, I see no signs of bad solder joints, but it's somewhat difficult to judge. I already tried putting pressure on several parts of the board during operation to see if that would influence the problem, but to no …

Waveblaster volume is indeed tied with the Synthesizer volume with the ALS card. I remember with my ALS card and a DOS install that the joystick port had to be disabled for something MIDI related to work. Do those cards output MIDI through the joystick port and Waveblaster connector simultaneously? …

Hmmm, it turns out the waveblaster board might be bad after all... I found back my gameport to MIDI cable to test if that would produce a valid MIDI signal. I first tested with the Terratec as it was still installed. The gameport MIDI signal was fine but the waveblaster was quiet. Did some restarts, …

I did some measurements with an oscilloscope. The voltages on the +5, +12 and -12v pins are ok. The reset pin goes low when I press reset on the PC. The MIDI pin is high when inactive and shows sequences with blips to low when I start a MIDI tune. But there's no signal on the audio outputs (except …

What kind of waveblaster board are you connecting? No-brand card, found these pages about it on Google: https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/wavetables-pro32aw This one mentions it in a section about the ALS120: https://hattix.co.uk/hardware/index.php?page=sound.html So it seems that it's an Advance …

I have this card with a Dreamblaster S2 in my Win95 rig at the moment. I had no problems getting it to work, but as has been mentioned it has to point upwards. Many older waveblaster boards are a lot bigger, and wouldn't fit in the other way round. I did plug one in the wrong way round quite a few …

DerBaum wrote on 2023-09-03, 21:12: How did you put the waveblaster to the board? Pointing up or pointing down? Just to make sure... Pointing up indeed. I checked the als120 pcb first as the waveblaster pinout has a very recognizable amount of ground pins, which I matched up with the ground pins on …

I recently purchased an ALS120 ISA sound card: 20230901_153044.jpg 20230901_153252.jpg I bought it as it was cheap and has a waveblaster connector. I know it has a bad reputation for noise, but my tiny monitor speakers are awful enough to not make the hiss noticeable ;-) I installed the sound card …

Eh, that was awhile back. I just added the header, installed the drivers and it just worked. Maybe reinstall windows 98 and the drivers (make sure to use VXD drivers)? After using it in DOS mode and a few reboots later it magically worked. I found the fader in the mixer panel that controls the …

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-08-23, 12:19: Not every Solo-1 is compatible with ESSVOL.EXE. More details here: ESS Solo 1 different versions I guess I am one of the unfortunate ones then 🙁 I bought an ALS120 ISA card now, let's see how well that one works...

I have the exact same card. Once I added the wavetable header and plugged a board in Win98se immediately picked it up with no issues. After reading this thread, I also added the headers to my TTSOLO1-SL VER1.2. I have Windows 98 SE installed but I am unable to get sound from the wavetable. I …