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First post, by stanwebber

Posted on 2022-02-24, 21:26

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i have found a couple references searching vogons about the possibility of using the win95 awe control panel in win 2000/xp to load soundfonts. apparently there was some fix or patch available maybe a decade and a half ago on a long deleted website.

i can find nothing else on the internet referencing this. could someone please confirm the existence of such a fix and maybe even a hint of what website it was available from as a starting point for a search on the wayback machine at archive.org. thanks

Reply 1 of 5, by maxtherabbit

Posted on 2022-02-25, 01:05

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I tried in vain to find a way to load soundfonts in 2k or xp as well. Even made a thread here about it, but no joy

Reply 2 of 5, by stanwebber

Posted on 2022-02-25, 21:22

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i'm convinced this was a real thing, but i'm also starting to be convinced that it's now lost to the ages.

i also found reference to a winamp plugin that purportedly can load soundfonts that i can follow up on.

Reply 3 of 5, by Stretch

Posted on 2022-02-28, 04:13

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I found a step-by-step howto but I could only understand it with Google Translate http://sannata.org/articles/sb_awe64_xp_soundfonts.shtml

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Reply 4 of 5, by stanwebber

Posted on 2022-03-08, 20:29

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OMG, this worked without a single hitch and it was sooo EASY. something like this should be sticky-ed. thank you!!!

Reply 5 of 5, by maxtherabbit

Posted on 2022-03-09, 15:12

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Stretch wrote on 2022-02-28, 04:13:

I found a step-by-step howto but I could only understand it with Google Translate http://sannata.org/articles/sb_awe64_xp_soundfonts.shtml

Wow thank you!

What really pisses me off, is I had tried almost this exact procedure on my own without any guidance - I got as far as loading the NT4 driver and AWE control panel, but it never occurred to me to use compatibility mode to make the control panel work

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