First post, by Pabloz
Today i spent more than 2 hours trying to get a gravis ultrasound max 2.1 working on a pc.
I got the drivers from here installation 4.11CD https://gona.mactar.hu/GRAVIS/#MAX
only that zip, installed and sat down just to hear the sound of this very well known soundcard.
The first pc was a 486 zida tomatoboard, and it just hanged on the IRQ and DMA setup before it writes to the autoexec.bat. Tried changing everything on the BIOS and no luck. I was able to pass only once, and after booting it hanged on trying to load the config.sys.
so i just got another motherboard, a pentium3 slot1 with ISA slots. same issue on setup it always hange thd on irq testing, changed lots of things on bios...skipped the codec irq test because it always failed, and i was finally able to boot the pc and the gravis got detected.
so i runned some commander keen....no audio, because i forgot to load the SB emulation Program. Loaded the program and got audio on commander keen, but the sound was not good. like a BETA emulation.
then i said ok lets go with something that HAS GUS support on its setup, installed DOOM1 1.9, launched it and it was nice. I compared it with videos on youtube and the sound was practically the same as other GUS cards.....except SOME TONES. For example the 2nd level Imp song has like 4 consecutive Flute tones that thsi gravis ultrasound max changes with another type of sound.
Same happens with other levels, some tones are replaced with another sound.
Are there patches for this? or the sound you get depends on the GUS model you have>?