Reply 60 of 65, by stanwebber
some final thoughts on the cardinal card: i finally did get wss working, but dma1 and ONLY dma1 works on this card, for either sb emulation or wss so they can't operate concurrently. also, as mentioned in the companion beethoven adsp16 thread, wss doesn't initialize until after the 1st try so you need to restart your game.
none of the mt32.ld dsp files from any driver package worked. the adsp16 synth.ld and soundwave32 v1 genmid.ld files worked ok (the v2 invision genmidi.ld had severe clipping). i'm wondering if the 512kb cardinal rom is just the soundwave32 original rom less the mt32 instruments given how the soundwave32 rom only takes up a small portion of the second 4mbit chip.
all card variants are dos/win3x only. there is a workaround for win95 where you load the dos drivers and use the 'ms windows sound system compatible' windows device driver, but trying this under win98se causes an instant blue screen during the installation.