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

Posted on 2018-08-04, 05:48

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I wonder is someone able to load Vortex V1/V2 driver to upper memory? Im using V1 with ZanQuance recommended driver 1.06 is quite a whopper - 20,3 KB, but even i have bigger upper memory free block is still living in conventional memory.. I tried, QEMM and JEMM too. Last oficial driver 1.167 is even …

---

Best Dos Plain text editor with CTRL+C/P Clipboard or customizable keys shorcuts.

Posted on 2018-08-04, 03:14

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hello, im searching for something better that EDIT/FEDIT for plain text.. It have to have CTRL+C/CTRL+P clipboard or customizable keyshortcuts, because i unable to get used to CRTL/SHIFT+Insert.. Otherwise, i would be nice to have replace feature, when is possible to copy both strings from clipboard …

---

Re: X58 (ICH10) PC+ Yamaha7x4 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list+research+ultimate branch configs, WIP- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-08-03, 10:34

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I Screamer I + II + Screamer Rally are tricky one games to make working with my X58 machine.. but this strange. I had problem to make Sound working with Screamer Rally, so i last attempted to use sound card autodetection, which which problematic games could crash my machine and there is degrading …

---

Re: X58 (ICH10) PC+ Yamaha7x4 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list+research+ultimate branch configs, WIP- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-08-03, 09:23

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Im still at the begining of Aureal testing, i aimed to problematic games, i didnt yet tested lots of games, where is music good. For now the worst one are Worms.. I really dont know if sound is so bad, because is broken, because is not OPL3.. I just tried to record it by my phone, so quality is poor …

---

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

Posted on 2018-08-03, 06:59

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

[ Bioforge , Crusader: No Remorse / No Regret , Earthworm Jim 2 , Jazz Jackrabbit , One Must Fall 2097 , Quarantine 1 / 2 , Rayman , Screamer 2 , Ultima VIII: Pagan . Some them were already in my compatibility list: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=683260#p683260 just search for AurealV1 …

---

Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-08-03, 00:06

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

what? sounds like a bug in the intel chipset? Often is not bug, but simply bad coding.. with wrong assumptions or hard coded values. or simply removal of not well known MB feature (which i not in website specs) which almost nobody use.. to why to border with it. Its 2 day, when i tried Voodoo 3 …

---

Re: X58 (ICH10) PC+ Yamaha7x4 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list+research+ultimate branch configs, WIP- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-08-02, 08:50

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I think you missed his point - both card families have (emulated) FM support, and from what I've heard, the Vortex FM sounds a bit better than the Live/Audigy. When it comes to GM, it's built-in on the Live/Audigy, not on the Vortex, but the Vortex give you a wavetable connector for external GM, …

---

Re: Digital DOS games (GOG, Steam...) Retro PC Compatibility Sheet: We need your input!

Posted on 2018-08-02, 07:20

by

by ruthan

in DOS

in DOS

You can add Lands of Lore 2, its interesting because it support 3Dfx - on V1+V2+V3.. i dont know about rare cards like Rush or Banshee, nobody care. It not use any annoying Gog formats of cd images, you dont needd to juggle with physical cds.. just do pure copy / paste deGoGation (=delete windows …

---

Re: X58 (ICH10) PC+ Yamaha7x4 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list+research+ultimate branch configs, WIP- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-08-02, 01:51

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hmm, it seems that setmul l1d is now not working with Aureal, it could because of other change in my config, but i doubt it.. I have to retest it later with Yamaha, otherwise i starting to add to problematic games etc to at of the text, Aureal results, it look pretty good, but not working setmul …

---

Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-08-02, 00:46

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Phils got it working in Dos quite well. i didn, but i have some cheap ebay card, i bough it because has sound in W98-Win10 and has PCI and PCIe variants. Phil mentioned something about that some cheap cards has some components missing.. Its is not working because too new chipsets - i have tried only …

---

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

Posted on 2018-08-02, 00:36

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Was expected if is AurealV2 working, but Aureal V1 is working on X58, i started testing, so i can only confirm that some games which arent working on Yamaha on same machine are working..

---

Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2018-08-01, 22:39

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Gamecollector - I know, i know, your post helped me fix it years ago.

---

Re: X58 (ICH10) PC+ Yamaha7x4 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list+research+ultimate branch configs, WIP- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-08-01, 22:31

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Few notes: - My card is Orchard NuSound 3D, it look cheap as cheap one. Photo. , no midi header and these small headers - i hate them, i dunno how much particular manufacturer could cripple the card. - i used links from above for first post - thx - "Yamaha 744 / Aureal Vortex V2/ SB live / Cmedia …

---

Re: X58 (ICH10) PC+ Yamaha7x4 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list+research+ultimate branch configs, WIP- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-08-01, 14:01

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Next update.. Configs: - added explanation what means JEMM NOVME -V86-Mode Extensions on/off - Fixed AurealV1 Real mode branch - there was bad IF - Added possiblity of Ramdisk, disabled by default ( its in config.sys ramdisk block), you need to copy ramdisk.sys, from Windows/DOS folder for C:\ …

---

Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2018-08-01, 01:26

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Ok, i made Blood working too - i used real mode (Himem.sys only), laster V3 - ovl in my package, there were some problem with resolution.. I used batch for V2 and its working for 640x480, but never was successful with other resolutions.. i fiddle with setups resolutions and batch resolution, 640x480 …

---

Re: Low Voodoo 2 performance in i865 chipset P4 boards

Posted on 2018-08-01, 00:06

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok i made QDOS (realmode only, with NOEMS im getting black screen)+TES:RedGuard Demo working too with V3+Core2 Duo at full speed, so my card is able to work with pure Dos and with old Glide games, but there is probably problem with V3 magic variables for games..

---

Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2018-07-31, 22:31

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I made small testing package with all official V1/V2/V3 *.ovl files which i have found on Phils(thx) site, if there is some unofficial file which working better for pure Dos, tell me. I also added compatibility matrixes as png files and few *.bat files with Glide variables which i found on net + txt …

---

Re: Redbook audio and cd-images

Posted on 2018-07-31, 22:13

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Well, already i tried ImgBurn it got stuck for minutes and nothing with iso which i have tried, if i remember correctly it was Carmageddon. Otherwise: Point noted, i thing that i lesser evil use old related thread that create one with same topic, but yeah im lazy pig and sometimes in dont give …

---

Re: Redbook audio and cd-images

Posted on 2018-07-31, 22:06

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

There are any freeware tools to create BWI, MDX,CCD on Windows? I tried to convert cue+bin to iso, i know that is will lose audio tracks, but target file is also because of that much smaller.. Is there any experience if games are ok, if cd tracks are removed? Im asking also because AFAIK there is no …

---

Re: Redbook audio and cd-images

Posted on 2018-07-31, 21:35

by

by ruthan

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Except Nero format is there any other image format with is lossless for cue+bin files? Most annoying for me that that 2 have files instead of 1.. BTW are Nero images supported by Dosbox?

---