I tested whole suite with Aureal V2, its very, very similar to AV1, from user perspective it has same behavior od driver in DOS, advantages and disadvantages.
https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid= … 9e034&mode=html
- compatibility is almost the same 87% vs 88%
- list of not working games slighly differs from V1, 5-10 game is working on AV1 not working on AV2 and vice versa
- its not probably main chip feature, but manufactors thing, but well i compare AV1 and AV2, AV2 has less noise, sound is cleaner
- AV2 is Phils recommended Windows 98 card, if you dont consider price, is probably better choice than AV1
Other things:
- i added sheet with tested card models info
- i also added second column with info and link, if tested game has demo / shareware version, its free etc.. good is that 3/4 of games are free, that is good for testing by other people, most of the job, could be done any investments. If now that there is demo, for game, which has NO as value, just write me PM.
- i tested ~1/3 of games with VIA 880 Ultra + Yamaha 744, this will be probably last of card, which i will test,except maybe Yamaha 724 quick test with VIA 880 ultra (there some crackling with Y744, not nearly so bad like with H67 + Y744 in Rayers case, but Y724 could be solution), which i dont have yet + there is some retesting, there are very few new tricks, which i discover during testing, which can work for already tested cards to - such lines have red comment text.
There are still some combination which would make a sense to test:
- VIA K8T890- (AM2 MB with Ahtlon X2 support - its probably the best for AMD world and CPUs are 8-10$
- P4/ Core 2 MB with ISA slots - has much it can improve compatibility..
- P31 - ICH7, if there is difference between ICH6 and ICH10, personally i doubt it, except maybe SB Live, its not working on ICH10, on ICH6 it does.
But it would be work for someone one, framework is ready, i can give other people rights to edit and if find some FTP hosting for, i would say 2-3 GB of demo and shareware version collection testing package, which can be easily created. It could look easy, but download zillion of demoversions and extract them, install them, check patches and other thing, could take lots of time and its unnecessary.
We also can create some online poll and vote for lest say TOP10 most important games, which are missing in test suite.. Test 10 more games is not huge work.
Im old goal oriented goatman, i care about facts and freedom, not about egos+prejudices. Hoarding=sickness. If you want respect, gain it by your behavior. I hate stupid SW limits, SW=virtual world, everything should be possible if you have enough raw HW.