Newly made PCMCIA sound card
vorob wrote on 2021-06-28, 18:51:
creepingnet wrote on 2021-06-28, 15:42:
I'm jumping at one of those PCMCIA boards YYZKevin is working on when/if they become available - then in a way were at a massive advantage because WSS + SoundBlaster + OPL, so the best of all three in a portable form factor.
Sir, what are you talking about? Someone is doing an FPGA PCMCIA sound board for old laptop? I NEEED IT I NEEED IT. Tell me everything 😀
It's this thread -Newly made PCMCIA sound card - aka "New PCMCIA SoundCard"
Just a little history on the thread. The thread was started by someone else I think years ago. I found the thread myself this year looking for an Adlib compatible card for my M/75 that might be easier to find, or see if someone was working on one. Turns out the OP of the thread (whose name escapes me) abandoned the original project, and YYZKevin was starting work on some kind of PCMCIA multi-device dock dealie for a specific smaller device. Then through demand apparently he split the project into a PCMCIA sound card project after some VERY minor drama (I stepped away from the thread at that time because I felt bad about inquiring).
One thing with WSS I'm trying to figure out myself is how to get WSSXLAT.EXE working. It appears someone on YouTube got it working with a Compaq SLT with WSS and Wolfenstein 3D.
There are some games that do work in native DOS with WSS, these are all on my Versa M
- Shivers (Sierra)
- Hoyle Classic Card Games
- Leisure Suit Larry 6
- Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist (talkie and regular)
- Under a Killing Moon
- Settlers II
- Tyrian 2000 (though it hangs on my M/75 for some reason with WSS enabled)
- Grand Theft Auto
- GTA: London
- Some Versions of MAME do too
I've also heard of some version of 7th Guest that works with WSS but the version I have does not have that driver on it. Not sure how that is. SoundBlaster stuff does work in Windows 95 as 9x installs a driver for DOS SoundBlaster emulation.