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Hello from a former Creative Labs tech ('92-'94 ish)

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First post, by Agent47

Posted on 2020-11-03, 03:28

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I have a fairly intimate knowledge of ISA & PCI SB cards from the Win95 / Dos 6.22 era, happy to help diagnose your "retro" build issues.
I mostly dealt with Sound Blaster Pro models, SB 16, some MIDI, and CDROM drivers, interfacing, etc.
Feel free to ping me with your questions and I'll do my best to help.

Cheers:
Agent #47

Reply 1 of 5, by firage

Posted on 2020-11-03, 03:58

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Very cool, great to have you! Welcome to VOGONS!

1992-1994 is a really fascinating timeframe for PC sound. Creative is the standard for DOS audio and everyone here has been learning a lot about those cards.

My big-red-switch 486

Reply 2 of 5, by Jorpho

Posted on 2020-11-03, 04:04

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Welcome. Do you have any unusual insights into which motherboards specifically support - or rather, do not support - the DOS drivers for PCI cards?

Reply 3 of 5, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2020-11-03, 04:06

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Hi!

Do you know why so many different revisions of the SB Pro 2.0 were made?

Same for the SB 2.0 (CT1350b)

Yamaha modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG repository
YMF7x4 Guide
Aopen AW744L II SB-LINK

Reply 4 of 5, by held

Posted on 2020-11-03, 07:49

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Welcome 😄

What did they know about the hanging note bug in some of the SB cards ?

Reply 5 of 5, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on 2020-11-03, 08:02

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Welcome sir! It's an honor to have you with us here.

Do you by chance have any information on the Vibra distortion bug and what could be done to remedy it? So far, our best workaround was to lower in-game volume below 50% but many older DOS games don't have in-game volume sliders.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

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