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

Posted on 2023-07-26, 05:45

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

[...]I cannot access the pcmidi.eu website. [...] weird, I wonder what is going on as I have heard this before... it works fine at my end I have uploaded the DOS drivers here: https://mega.nz/file/1M8nhbpK#KvDGdEuu5_GD4tMPjbyiVIu9gKIdwf7pRU3FOtacCuw included: - Orphinit 0.57ß - Orphinit 0.57ß temp …

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

Posted on 2023-07-26, 04:23

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Awesome 😀 Just install one of these simms and if you use ultrasnd.zip for DOS then run: ultrasnd.bat /v It will rerport the detected ram size among other things

Re: 386 and Compact Flash Woes

Posted on 2023-07-23, 18:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

+1 for FDISK /MBR I would also perform the "clean" command on the drive as explained here: https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/kb/how-to-diskpart-eraseclean-a-drive-through-the-command-prompt-005929en/ (this is done by using the command prompt under modern windows) basically I would "clean" the CF …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2023-07-21, 19:01

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

all OrpheusII cards have the "emulation assistance" InterWave devices disabled in firmware , so no mpu401/sb are available on the GUS side of things And there is no "crystal mpu disabled" firmware for OrpheusII since it's not really needed with the way orphinit and unisound work. If someone really …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2023-07-20, 17:46

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

PCMIDI cannot be disabled, it can exist either in ports 300 or 330 with a selected IRQ ORPHINIT/UNISOUND do not affect or control PCMIDI in any way - so if unisound works with P0 then PCMIDI is irrelevant to the situation

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2023-07-20, 17:03

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Would it be possible to disable the wavetable port through ORPHINIT? I recently got WP32 McCake for my Orpheus and happened to notice some games that used to work just fine had gone completely silent, but if I disable the wavetable port with P0 variable [...] yes it is possible to do this by …

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

Posted on 2023-07-19, 17:52

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

awesome! I just remember Serastros made a guide for the original Orpheus here: Guide for Orpheus ISA Card with optional PCMIDI, X2GS and MT32-Pi simultaneously on DOS and WIN98SE. the same principles apply - except the eeprom flashing steps as they are not needed

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

Posted on 2023-07-18, 21:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

You just enable crystal mpu on resources not used (port 300 most likely) by editing orpheus.ini and orphinit will enable it

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

Posted on 2023-07-18, 06:04

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

[...] If this possible to achieve with the Orpheus II as well? In my case, both devices on Device Manager (PCMIDI's MPU-401 Compatible and OrpheusII Crystal MPU-401 Compatible) share the same IRQ 9. Would this overlap cause conflicts? I don't think I have another IRQ available for any of them. :( …

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

Posted on 2023-07-18, 06:01

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi folks, I was testing the gameport on the Orpheus II LT today and noticed the Orpheus.ini uses I/O address 200h for gameport. I recall in the past using 201h, having some games not working on 200h (not sure but I think X-Wing was one of them). 1) Any issues expected if I change the .ini to 201? …

Re: Why no Dual-OPL3 soundcards?

Posted on 2023-07-17, 12:43

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

the more things available the better 😀

Re: Why no Dual-OPL3 soundcards?

Posted on 2023-07-17, 11:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The train for dual opl3 or opl4 or has departed There would be no gain for old software and - let's not kid ourselves - there is not much new software getting released for old PCs. So at best you might gain some support for Adlib Tracker that would possibly also need special tracks to take advantage …

Re: Why no Dual-OPL3 soundcards?

Posted on 2023-07-17, 06:41

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

In expanded form (that is, with the 512KB RAM and YSS225 daughterboards), Mediatrix' Audiotrix Pro is arguably a more-complete OPL4 reference architecture than the SW20-PC. I had to google for the card LOL Does it have any gaming value? Any idea how it's software/toys look like? I am very familiar …

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

Posted on 2023-07-17, 05:52

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

[...] One last question: Under this Midi panel, does it matter if I want to play old DOS games, if I pick the 4M RAM Patch Set? This 4MB patch set will only sound in Windows 98 and not affect the old DOS games that use the Classic compatible patch set. Correct? Thanks! glad you got it going! and …

Re: Why no Dual-OPL3 soundcards?

Posted on 2023-07-17, 05:44

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I think the OPL4 was already the perfect upgrade as a full OPL3, GM Wavetable rom bank, and up to 24 PCM channels with support for up to 4mb of sample memory. Problem was, sound card builders treated it like a low budget toy. OPL3 mode for FM and GM bank for MIDI. I don't think there was a single …

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

Posted on 2023-07-16, 07:32

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

[...] The tip you mentioned, disable CPU cache, worked. [...] glad this is solved! Unrelated to the soundcard used I always had to use ICACHE to disable L1 on my HOT-591p/200~233mmx systems for the majority of Lucas adventures , Sam'n'Max and Day of the Tentacle are also affected by speed bugs ... …

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

Posted on 2023-07-15, 20:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

at least the VLB mobo should not have any PNP stuff in BIOS so it's not the problem I honestly cannot think why the drum kit would sound weird... I will send you a PM for some testing

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

Posted on 2023-07-15, 19:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

did you also do a ESCD reset? reserved DMA/IRQ in PnP section of BIOS (if applicable) for all the orpheusII parts? if you do ultrasnd.bat /v , does the output show the correct amount of ram and resources? a bad simm socket would result in ram detection issues or severe garbled playback , not a …

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

Posted on 2023-07-15, 18:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

ok weird, then samples are loaded into ram on game boot and then played from there is it absolutely certain that the same files and settings are used? maybe the extra devices on orpheus2 create some conflict? can you try ULTRASND.ZIP from the site? alongside orphinit so IW gets IRQ7 and DMA3 and CS …

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

Posted on 2023-07-15, 18:00

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Doom II has incorrect drum sounds with my Orpheus II using the interwave. It sounds normal if I swap my GUS PnP into the same system. What would cause this? Here is what is sounds like, sorry for the lazy recording. https://youtu.be/KKaSNnXSAEo Here is how it sounds with a real GUS PnP in the same …

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