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First post, by Stojke

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Ive got an Toshiba Tecra 8200 and it is lacking OPL3 support in windows. Tecra 8000 has the same sound chip from what I can see and it works perfectly under windows with OPL3.
I have installed the original Toshiba drivers but they did help.
Any one know how to get this to work?

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Reply 1 of 3, by mil

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Stojke wrote:

Ive got an Toshiba Tecra 8200 and it is lacking OPL3 support in windows. Tecra 8000 has the same sound chip from what I can see and it works perfectly under windows with OPL3.
I have installed the original Toshiba drivers but they did help.
Any one know how to get this to work?

I have a couple of 8200's. But I can not find the power-supplies, so I can not try it out. I will try looking for them again.

I would love to have working OPL3 support. Please let me know if you get it working.

Reply 2 of 3, by Kamerat

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Seems like it got the Yamaha YMF754 chip. If you have the WDM driver installed you might try the VxD one instead.

Think you want the yamaha_dsxg_driver.exe: http://device.yamaha.com/en/lsi/download/

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Reply 3 of 3, by bjwil1991

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Kamerat wrote:

Seems like it got the Yamaha YMF754 chip. If you have the WDM driver installed you might try the VxD one instead.

Think you want the yamaha_dsxg_driver.exe: http://device.yamaha.com/en/lsi/download/

I found information about the Toshiba Tecra 8200 and you're right on the money. It does have the YMF754 chip in it (DS-XG family), which is similar to the Yamaha MU50 or DB50XG Daughterboard. I happen to have the Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard in my computer (installed on a Sound Blaster 16 CT2740), and it sounds amazing. I also have made SYX files (Sysex MIDI module dump) to reset the module to have everything in it for certain GM/XG/GS files (more effects, rhythm, the whole 9 yards) when the system is turned on and booting into either MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 (made a menu with the config.sys and autoexec.bat files to boot into the certain OS).

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