1. Run CTCU which is in the CTCM folder (If you don't have this folder follow my tutorial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9GSYgarPs4). Then disable the MIDI port OR simply move it to address 300.

2. Not sure

3. There are two connections. The MIDI connections and then the actual audio signal. For the MIDI connection you need a joystick - MIDI cable (you can get these on eBay). This MIDI cable has a MIDI - Out which you connect into the MIDI - In of hte CM-64.

To mix the audio together you connect the L/R from the CM-64 into the Line-in from the AWE64.

Ok great I'll try that.

-Tristan

When I run sbbasic.exe in dos it says "cannot run in microsoft windows 95". I boot straight into dos. I am running windows 98se.

-Tristan

Put "DEVICE=C:\windows\setver.exe" in your config.sys, and then type "setver sbbasic.exe 6.22" at the command line. That fools all programs with that name into thinking it's DOS version 6.22.

Although isn't sbbasic just the auto-extracting archive? I never had trouble getting that to work in Win95 DOS, its install.exe that gave me that problem. Regardless, setver should work for both.

Ah yes it was the install file from the sbbasic archive. Let me try it.

-Tristan

Worked like a charm. I'm trying to change midi address to 300 from
330 but at the end of the install it shows
me 330 and I am unable to change it.

-Tristan

Says to run ctcu.exe but when I try to run it I get "Error in EXE file".

-Tristan

For some reason when I try to run ctcu.exe I always get "ctcu cannot be run under win95 or win3.1 dos box" even after I ran setver ctcu.exe 6.22 and rebooted.

-Tristan

I'm going to re download the files from creative labs and give that a go.

-Tristan

CapnCrunch53 wrote:

Put "DEVICE=C:\windows\setver.exe" in your config.sys, and then type "setver sbbasic.exe 6.22" at the command line. That fools all programs with that name into thinking it's DOS version 6.22.

trist007 wrote:

For some reason when I try to run ctcu.exe I always get "ctcu cannot be run under win95 or win3.1 dos box" even after I ran setver ctcu.exe 6.22 and rebooted.

The Sound Blaster utilities are pretty much the only thing I've seen that absolutely requires you to boot from genuine DOS 6.22. Setver won't cut it.

How do I boot from genuine DOS? I format C: and install DOS? Or is there a way to do it while keeping Win98SE?

-Tristan

Just get a floppy disk that boots into DOS 6.22, of course. It is easy to find an appropriate downloadable floppy disk image. Once the driver download has been unpacked, you won't need DOS 6.22 anymore.

I see, awesome I'l try it tonight, thanks.

Tristan

Going to try it tonite for sure, work has been a beast. Another question, if I go from midi out on the scc-1 to cm-64 then out from cm-64 to line-in on sbawe64 then I just hear the cm-64 and the sbawe64 correct?

If I wanted to hear the GM sounds from the scc-1 I would have to get a mixer no? Does anybody have any good recommendations. I'd love to get a MOTU 24 I/O but that would be overkill. I also just got a sc-8850 😀.

-Tristan

My 16GB CF card is formatted with a W98SE start disk and I manually have copied all the DOS files from another W98SE installation.

I had no issues running install or ctcu. I also had no need for setver for some reason.

A Dos 6.22 boot disk won't let you access an fat32 partition though. So not quite sure if that will help him out.

You could get a mixer or you could get an audio switcher box with the CM-64 and GM signals coming in the output going into the line-in. Then you just switch to whatever device you want to use.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

A Dos 6.22 boot disk won't let you access an fat32 partition though. So not quite sure if that will help him out.

Oh, right, I forgot about that. DRFAT32 or something similar would have to be included on the boot disk if the hard drive has no FAT16 partitions.

...This is getting a little convoluted, isn't it? Did Creative not include a version of CTCU/CTCM for use with Windows 9x? And if not, isn't there some way to disable the MIDI port from within Win9x?

Jorpho wrote:

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

A Dos 6.22 boot disk won't let you access an fat32 partition though. So not quite sure if that will help him out.

Oh, right, I forgot about that. DRFAT32 or something similar would have to be included on the boot disk if the hard drive has no FAT16 partitions.

...This is getting a little convoluted, isn't it? Did Creative not include a version of CTCU/CTCM for use with Windows 9x? And if not, isn't there some way to disable the MIDI port from within Win9x?

Windows 9x Device Manager allows you to set, change and disable resources just as CTCU would. In a system with Windows 9x installed its usually easier to use that.

I never installed DOS. I just installed windows 98SE which comes with DOS. Ok so I use the device manager to change the midi address to 300. Do I need to change the IRQ and DMA for the SCC-1 to work properly? So I make these changes in windows 98SE and then when I reboot and go into DOS those changes will hold?

-Tristan