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

Posted on 2021-04-24, 14:32

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by Lennart

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Yet another nice MIDI daughterboard, congrats! :) Am I correct in assuming that the hardware is essentially the same as the X2, except instead of having 64MB of Flash memory for an updatable sound bank it splits it into 2 banks (16MB preloaded GS bank and 48MB updatable)? Also, what is the …

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Re: Terratec Xlerate drivers

Posted on 2021-04-16, 12:33

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by Lennart

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Haha, no problem! I've used that site before to get drivers for other Terratec cards, so I knew where to look 😉

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Re: Terratec Xlerate drivers

Posted on 2021-04-16, 11:50

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by Lennart

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I think this is what you're looking for: http://terratec.ultron.info/Audio/XLerate/

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Re: Suggestion for short voodoo card

Posted on 2021-01-07, 14:13

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by Lennart

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Ah, so you're the person who snapped up that little machine. Congrats, looks like a fun system! I don't know about short voodoo cards, but can tell you that the onboard sound card (Yamaha YMF715 aka OPL3-SA3) should work just fine under DOS. It has a genuine OPL3 synth and good SB Pro/WSS support. …

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

Posted on 2020-12-11, 09:50

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by Lennart

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I was thinking... the CS4232 has an external OPL3, and the Windows drivers readily utilize this OPL3 chip for FM. Why not compare how the CS4232 drivers work with the CS4237 ? ... Perhaps it would shed some light on how to force OPL3 sound. Yeah, that might be worth a try. My Windows 98SE …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-12-07, 12:55

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by Lennart

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aigeek wrote on 2020-12-07, 07:07: But how to disable or change IRQ for MPU in UniSound? Have you tried adding the U0 parameter to your BLASTER variable? That should control the MPU IRQ according to the documentation. A value of 0 should disable it.

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Re: Adding Turtle Beach HOMAC to Korg NS5R

Posted on 2020-11-25, 12:57

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by Lennart

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I'm using a Yamaha DB50XG in my Korg NS5R and have never experienced any issues. I'm quite certain that the HOMAC will work just fine, as it's a more integrated design than the DB50XG and will probably draw less power.

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

Posted on 2020-11-02, 19:50

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by Lennart

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Cool, thanks everyone for all the information and the little debug.exe scripts in the last couple of posts! I had no idea that the CS4237 codec has so many modes... I haven't found that much time yet to play around with the Orpheus unfortunately, but I'm really liking it so far. Haven't used the …

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Re: Are these Creative Voodoo IIs 8mb or 12mb?

Posted on 2020-10-30, 08:48

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by Lennart

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I've got the same card as kixs. Wasn't sure about the manufacturer either, but according to http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/companies … 4-3dfx-voodoo-2 they're called PowerColor EvilKing II. Definitely a nice card to have 😀

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

Posted on 2020-10-19, 19:46

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by Lennart

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carlostex wrote on 2020-10-19, 19:18: PCS: PC Speaker input P jumper on: 330h for Intelligent MPU P jumper off:300h for Intelligent MPU Great, thanks for the information! 👍

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

Posted on 2020-10-19, 18:51

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by Lennart

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Received my Orpheus card in the mail today. Such a pretty looking card! Looking forward to putting it through its paces soon :D I'm especially curious to find out how it compares to some of my other cards, like the Turtle Beach Tropez Plus. Btw, what is the purpose of the header/jumper labelled "PCS …

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Re: Turtle Beach Tropez Plus MIDI in Windows

Posted on 2020-09-16, 09:03

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by Lennart

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Haha, often the solution is easier than you'd think 😅 Glad to hear it's working now 👍 Enjoy your Tropez Plus, it's a really nice card!

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Re: Turtle Beach Tropez Plus MIDI in Windows

Posted on 2020-09-15, 16:13

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by Lennart

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You're right, the Tropez wavetable MIDI synthesizer device is the one that you need. Which DOS software are you trying to get to work inside a DOS box in Windows? Perhaps you can try out some software that allows you to freely specify the MPU-401 port address. Then you don't have to manually …

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Re: Turtle Beach Tropez Plus MIDI in Windows

Posted on 2020-09-14, 21:48

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by Lennart

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I just tried it out with my Tropez Plus running under Windows 98SE. I managed to get sound from the internal WaveFront synthesizer in both Windows applications and inside a DOS box within Windows. So it's definitely possible. One thing to be aware of is that Windows may allocate very unconventional …

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

Posted on 2020-09-13, 11:10

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by Lennart

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Awesome, congratulations to everyone involved! Filled in the form 😉

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Re: Cloning the AdLib Gold Surround Sound Module

Posted on 2020-05-22, 07:32

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by Lennart

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That's really awesome news, congratulations! I'm also interested in a module 😀

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Re: What was the last retail ISA sound card?

Posted on 2020-05-20, 11:25

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by Lennart

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The Terratec EWS64S is another card that springs to mind. The v1.0 manual found here (http://terratec.ultron.info/Audio/EWS/64S/Man … S_Manual_GB.pdf) is dated March 1998.

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Re: Analog Devices ECHO based soundcard, any info on this?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 13:41

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by Lennart

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I *think* I have one of these cards somewhere in my storage. Just never had the time to try it out 😅 Here's a thread about the card, as well as some info on how to add the sample ROM: Weames PA-9050-B (AD Echo) ROM (?) sockets

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-27, 12:43

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by Lennart

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I doubt I can do anything with it related to DOS gaming though. Or would it be MT-32 compatible with a few tricks? Sample ROMs are completely different and there's few other differences so it will unfortunately never be MT32 compatible even though it uses exact same core chips. A couple of the old …

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Re: HardMPU, anyone?

Posted on 2020-04-10, 19:31

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by Lennart

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That would be great if you can do that without increasing costs a lot. Daughterboards hanging off the edge is my biggest issue with the Roland MPU-401/AT. It just looks so flimsy. Just noticed that you mentioned that you can switch MIDI output between the daughterboard and external connector via …

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