Big thank you !
The DOS driver is also on this page ... Found working XG drivers elsewhere (legacy edition). If someone has the install CD, I am still interested.
Win 3.1 : HP Omnibook 425 + Toshiba T2130CT Win 9x : Dell Latitude Cpx H500GT + Dell GX1 Win XP64 : Asus P5B Xeon
Specifically with the VLSI ThunderBird128 cards with the large chip pictured above, has anyone got PC/PCI working on it? I soldered on a header and attached it to my board, but I don't see any option in SB_INIT.EXE that allows you to specify that.
It seems like a very decent card (PC/PCI, Wavetable header) which would theoretically work quite well in DOS if only SBLINK could be made to work. The documentation states it supports DDMA, PC/PCI (SBLINK), and something called "LAM"...
Here is the output of SB_INIT.EXE when run with the ? or h parameter:
1 2 SB_INIT.EXE V6.32 (C)1992-1999 VLSI Technology, Inc. VLSI Audio Initialization Utility 3 4USAGE: SB_INIT.EXE [options] 5 6AUBASE=X: Set audio base to [X] (hex) [Def: Do Not Change] 7GMBASE=X: Set game base to [X] (hex) [Def: 0x0200] 8SBBASE=X: Set sound blaster base to [X] (hex) [Def: 0x0220] 9MDBASE=X: Set midi base to [X] (hex) [Def: 0x0330] 10ALBASE=X: Set adlib base to [X] (hex) [Def: 0x0388] 11NO_BASES: Do not initialize bases [Def: Initialize] 12DISABLE_GAME: Disable the game port [Def: Enabled] 13DMAA=X: Set DMA channel A to [X] (dec) [Def: 1] 14DMAB=X: Set DMA channel B to [X] (dec) [Def: Unassigned] 15NO_DMA: Do not initialize DMA channel [Def: Initialize] 16WS=X: Set DMA WaitStates to [X] (dec) [Def: 0] 17NO_WS: Do not initialize waitstates [Def: Initialize] 18INT=X: Set interrupt to [X] (dec) [Def: 5] 19NO_INT: Do not initialize interrupt [Def: Initialize] 20NO_STEER: Do not steer PCIINT to IRQ [Def: Steer Interrupt] 21STEER_ONLY: Steer PCIINT to IRQ ONLY [Def: Steer AND Init] 22DSPFREQ=X: Set DSP PLL Frequency to [X] (dec) [Def: External Clock] 23NO_DSP_FREQ: Do not initialize DSP PLL [Def: Initialize] 24EXTCLK: Use external clock for DSP, not PLL [Def: Rev Dependent] 25CODECFREQ=X: Set CODEC PLL Frequency to [X] (dec) [Def: 24545500Hz] 26NO_CODEC_FREQ: Do not initialize CODEC PLL [Def: Initialize] 27DLCODE=f: Download file [f] DSP CODE RAM [Def: VSONG.COD] 28NO_DLCODE: Do NOT download to DSP CODE RAM [Def: Download] 29DLPATCHES=f: Download file [f] DSP PATCHES [Def: VPATCHES.COD] 30NO_DLPATCHES: Do NOT download to DSP PATCHES [Def: Download] 31DLDATA=f: Download file [f] DSP DATA RAM [Def: VDATA.COD] 32NO_DLDATA: Do NOT download to DSP DATA RAM [Def: Download] 33NO_DOWNLOAD: Do not download any files [Def: Download ALL] 34NO_DSP: Do not initialize DSP (leave in float) [Def: Initialize] 35ROM90: Spec 90ns WaveTable ROM [Def: 120ns] 36ROM120: Spec 120ns WaveTable ROM [Def: 120ns] 37ROM150: Spec 150ns WaveTable ROM [Def: 120ns] 38NO_ROM: Do not initialize WaveTable ROM Speed [Def: Initialize] 39CODEROM: Specify code ROM, disable CODE dload [Def: Code RAM] 40SRAM16K: Specify 16K DATA RAM [Def: 32K DATA RAM] 41NO_SB: Do not touch any SoundBlaster Regs [Def: Touch SB] 42RECORD_OUTPUT: Enable Output Recording via HDI 43AC97_OUTPUT: Enable AC97 Output 44MDAC_OUTPUT: Enable MDAC Output 45QUAD_OUTPUT: Enable Quad Output 46 47DEBUG: Enable Debug Mode 48QUIET: Enable Quiet Mode 49VERBOSE: Enable Verbose Mode 50 51H or ?: This Menu 52
