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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-08-31, 02:25

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Another time I repeat that I want to remain with my Asus a7n8x deluxe and Nvidia chipset. I cannot believe there isn't a method to make a pci audio card working in dos environment. I have no words. I really hoped if there were a way that's really chipset-independent, but the answer turned out to be …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-08-29, 03:19

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I personally haven't managed to get it working on Vortex 2 (AU8830), though in theory it should if conditions are met. I only had success with original Vortex (AU8820). Its DOS driver worked as intended on nForce/ICH6+. You may consider trying that. If your motherboard can wire port 200h to your …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-08-24, 04:57

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yes but...now I made with lot of efforts a REAL DOS dualboot (XP and DOS) Computer, I search a lot how to make REAL DOS mode and studied what I did twenty years ago cause I had forgot...I searched a lot how to dualboot with these two old systems, I search a lot how to make a gameport work until I …

Re: Is there a PCI-E EAX sound card with Windows 98SE/XP drivers?

Posted on 2019-08-23, 01:34

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Audigy Rx (called Audigy 5 in some regions) is actually an Audigy 4 behind a PLX PCI-PCIe bridge. It uses the same chip (CA10300) as Audigy 4 and bears the same specs as it (such as SNR). Not sure if you can mod its drivers to work with Win9x, but it should work under XP just like Audigy 4.

Re: GUS emulation with AWE cards

Posted on 2019-07-25, 03:02

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I recall having read that GUS was able to play up to 14 audio samples at the same time (or up to 32 at a reduced frequency rate). Not sure how true that fact was, though, it's possible that actual software implementation could decide how many samples a game can really play at a time. In most DOS …

Re: Is there PCI-E soundcard with working DOS SB driver? Longshot, but..

Posted on 2019-07-23, 02:33

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

So generally speaking... sound cards can work under DOS if one knows how to write code to properly initialize and operate them (which is what device drivers do in other operating systems). The hard part is how to make it interoperable with Sound Blaster standards (which DOS games rely on). Ok, but …

Re: Is there PCI-E soundcard with working DOS SB driver? Longshot, but..

Posted on 2019-07-22, 07:48

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

could this help with PCI sound cards in DOS? ISA enable.This bit modifies the response by the bridge to ISA I/O addresses.This applies only to I/O addresses that are enabled by the I/O base and I/O limit registers and are in the first 64 KB of PCI I/O address space (0000 0000h to 0000 FFFFh). If …

Re: Is there PCI-E soundcard with working DOS SB driver? Longshot, but..

Posted on 2019-07-22, 02:45

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

MPXPlay proved that it's possible to natively operate a sound card under DOS, without being constrained to Sound Blaster standards. It should work regardless of whether you're using a native PCI slot or a PCI slot behind a PCIe-PCI bridge. Apparently, There's a modified HX-DOS that would support …

Re: Datalight ROM-DOS 7.1

Posted on 2019-07-15, 15:54

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I recall having tried that before and it apparently wasn't easy to install it to a fixed disk. Also, the floppy disk has to be made using its own utilities from Windows (after installing it), as opposed to floppy image files. I also remember back then the SUNA (Single User Network Addon) was also …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-07-13, 17:19

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

PS/2 ports - Rayer modified his H67 - 1x PS/2 MB to 2x PS/2 and i he will try modify mine too, some tutorial is on his page. Why even care with HW modifying of the board, when you can just use PS/2 splitter from eBay for 1$? With it, I can use PS/2 keyboard and mouse even on my really modern Z270 …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-07-12, 02:39

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I finally tested GA-P75-D3P and with Yamaha 724 its working so B75 chipset and with high probability all its derivatives (X7X) are Dos sound capable.. same as X6X which already made Rayer working - difference is that he has some addition PCI chip for because his chipset has not native intel PCI and …

Re: Problems regarding ANOVO AIMB-865

Posted on 2019-07-06, 00:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I will NOT send you this BIOS via email, sorry. Folder is 0% full (17 from 9999 messages stored) I do not know why you cant't send me PMs/ You send PM work but I can´t send PM back. Maybe you need to ask an administrator... it's very likely that you need a minimum amount of posts before you can …

Re: Problems regarding ANOVO AIMB-865

Posted on 2019-07-05, 07:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is no online copy for this BIOS. All sorts of crap, cracks and mods can be found on russian sites, but when you truly needs it there are no luck :dead: Ok, does this mean that there are no exists modded BIOS at all? So all is "snakeoil" :angry: :evil: :lol: ? The BIOS in question was never …

Re: Socket 370 and 462\A free from HDD limits ?

Posted on 2019-06-27, 00:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think BIOS decides the HDD limit first, then the operating system. However, the BIOS limit may be overridden with utilities such as Dynamic Disk Overlay. I once had an old Socket 7 system with Acer V30-II motherboard and it appeared to only work natively with hard disks of 2GB or less (any size …

Re: Sound Blaster 16 MIDI not working.

Posted on 2019-06-16, 07:47

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Not sure which card you own, but if your card isn't PnP, check if there's a MPUEN jumper that's open. If your card has such a jumper and if it's open, the card's MPU-401 interface is disabled. But you'll still need a MIDI daughtercard in order to actually get anything from the MIDI port. Without it, …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-06-14, 07:52

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

CMI8738 passes nukeykt's OPL3 clone test while the FM801 someone talking about here doesn't. The FM801 document does mention about a FM synthesizer . However, I think that test mainly imply whether the FM core in a given sound card (real or not) is a logic-perfect replication of OPL3 (that it even …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-06-14, 06:39

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

They might have licensed the FM equations from Yamaha for the FM801 (if made before 1995, see below). BTW, it isn't just the OPL synths (OPL is just a particular chip type implementing Yamaha FM), it applies to all of Yamaha's FM applications (but see the Wiki page). One thing mentioned on the Wiki …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-06-14, 02:08

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yamaha owns the patents to their particular flavour of FM (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_modulation_synthesis ). Other manufacturers therefore couldn't use exactly the same type of synthesis for their own FM synths - Casio got in hot waters with their Phase Distortion synths over this …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-06-13, 01:00

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

They just translate FM instructions to General MIDI PCM or other PCM patch set compatible instructions. Depending on the set of PCM patches used, some instruments will be more accurate than others. I personally cannot hear the difference between some of the instruments used when playing back FM …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-06-12, 00:16

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

That is not true, SB Live!'s FM sounds nothing like OPL3. The SB Live's FM sound is more like CQM emulation. Still much better then trying to play FM sound through a wavetable, and generally a better result than the strange results I get from vortex based cards. edit: insert missing word Not sure …

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