Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-25, 12:37

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Oetker wrote on 2022-04-25, 07:28: eightbit wrote on 2022-04-23, 01:52: I received it today. So what do I think? How's the FM synth audio? I think its great. Sharp, crisp, excellent stereo separation. I like it!

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Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?

Posted on 2022-04-23, 05:32

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I haven't heard of anyone else with this problem, but my SC-55mkII needs to have a battery installed or the pitch will be off. This is also the same unit that I had repaired in this thread so it's possible that something has become damaged for it to be in this state. https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?

Posted on 2022-04-23, 05:29

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Bottom line, get the battery out. First thing I did when I acquired my SC-50. And it was starting to leak as well. Thankfully the damage was localized to just the battery and not the surroundings. I never put another battery in as I am not concerned about saving settings. As a matter of fact, I find …

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-23, 01:52

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I received it today. So what do I think? WOW. This card is fantastic. I mean...really really fantastic! I first tested Unisound and that finds the card properly right away which is great. No need for the Windows drivers if you are planning to use this in pure DOS. Everything sounds wonderful. I have …

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Re: Dreamblaster X2GS on a Crystal audio ISA sound card (4239-KQ)

Posted on 2022-04-22, 03:17

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Thanks for the tip. It was indeed a mixer setting. It maps the MPU-401 wavetable header to LINE IN on the mixer . I needed to not only adjust the LINE IN volume but to choose line in as the source (it was set to CD). Works great now! Thanks everyone for the help!

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-21, 04:07

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So what I remember about rockwell is their modems, which were somewhat common, probably low end market. Which for me, I didn't like them and eventually avoided and tossed them. It doesn't surprise me they made dedicated sound cards either. I wonder if I did come across at least one back in the day …

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Re: Is a Roland SC-55 Okay or do I need a MT-32 ?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 02:14

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But, is it even worth the money for the handful of games that use the MT-32? The MT-32 goes for a few hundred now.... IIRC there are hundreds of games with MT-32 support, more than just a handful. And even for games with both GM and MT-32 support, some may sound better with the MT-32 ( or CM …

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Re: Is a Roland SC-55 Okay or do I need a MT-32 ?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 01:11

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I purchased a Roland SC-50 a few months ago for cheap. It is basically the SC-55 but without the MT-32 mode....which I hear sucks anyway. The plan for me was to get this for General MIDI and eventually add an MT-32 to the mix. But, is it even worth the money for the handful of games that use the MT- …

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-21, 01:03

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I also have one of these. The layout on mine seems a bit different than on appiah4's picture. For example the wavetable header is unpopulated. I have to test this some day. My card seems to be "DCS Multimedia S717" and this Audio Wizard software probably came with it: https://archive.org/details/ …

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-21, 00:56

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This card is really interesting. I am eagerly waiting for it to arrive (it is in transit). I am really interested to hear how it sounds!

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-20, 23:57

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I can't find any information to indicate that this Rockwell based sound card is abundant anywhere in the world. So I do find it really interesting that someone wrote a Linux driver for it as well.

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-18, 19:09

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-04-18, 17:36: eightbit wrote on 2022-04-17, 01:25: I have one of these coming (well, the card looks slightly different but the same Rockwell chip) and I am curious about it. What drivers did you use? I never ended up getting it I'm afraid.. That's a shame! Looking around these …

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-18, 15:04

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Thanks for the info. I am just interested to see how it handles ordinary SB16 and SBPro compatibility. If it sounds to my liking I'll use this with a Dreambalster X2GS in my 486 rig. The most difficult part really was finding the drivers for it. I scoured the net all weekend and was only able to …

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-18, 13:41

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This is the board I have coming. Pretty intrigued and looking forward to giving it a go. It has a waveblaster header which is a plus as well.

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-18, 12:42

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I have never heard of this before. Now I need to have one! Anyway I found these drivers: https://archive.org/details/audio-wizard and https://archive.org/details/mako-iii-64 Excellent, thank you. I found the second link which appears to only have Windows 95 drivers, but the first link looks like it …

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Re: Anyone know about Rockwell ISA cards? (RWA010 and RWA030)

Posted on 2022-04-17, 01:25

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I have one of these coming (well, the card looks slightly different but the same Rockwell chip) and I am curious about it. What drivers did you use?

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Re: Dreamblaster X2GS on a Crystal audio ISA sound card (4239-KQ)

Posted on 2022-04-15, 04:36

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Most soundcards mute the wavetable audio output by default. You probably have to go into the driver's mixer settings and enable it. The audio coming out of the LINE IN is probably just due to poor shielding/dirt/dust/aging parts. I have two of these 4239-KQ cards. One is new....I just opened it to …

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Dreamblaster X2GS on a Crystal audio ISA sound card (4239-KQ)

Posted on 2022-04-15, 02:58

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Hi all, Maybe someone can help. I just received a Dreamblaster X2GS and was planning on using it with my Crystal 4239-KQ sound card which has a wavetable header. Very odd results. The Dreamblaster absolutely works. I connected it direct to my receiver while connected to the card via the 3.5mm …

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Re: Fdisk freezing when partitoning a CF card.

Posted on 2022-04-13, 01:29

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RetroBard wrote on 2022-04-12, 18:17: I bought a 512 MB Sandisk card from ebay. I’ve had a pretty good track record with Sandisk cards, so let’s see how it goes with this one, when it arrives. I have a bunch of these. It'll work fine. I do however like the vast storage (well, vast in DOS!) of the …

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Re: Fdisk freezing when partitoning a CF card.

Posted on 2022-04-11, 04:59

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You might try FDISK from FreeDOS. I’ve found it to be more forgiving, reliable, useful etc than the old MS-DOS FDISK. It even lets you create multiple primary partitions. Even if he is able to make it partition there it is still going to have issues (software corruption) in the host system. It is …

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