Reply 140 of 1632, by MBH
Hey, my name is Marcus and I just created an account here on vogons for two reasons:
1. I want to thank you @crazii for making this dream real!
2. I think no one tested SBEMU on VIA VT8237R yet? At least, I haven't read about it.
I have an IGEL Thin Client, 4210LX Winestra, with VIA C7 (1 GHz), CN700 and VT8237R. It has 256 MB of RAM and a 512 MB CF Card. MPXPlay166G plays nice on this one, so should SBEMU? Sadly I didn't manage it to get it work. Probably just my fault, who knows. I have tried alot of things, will try to list everything. In Duke3d I got no sound. Setup complains about wrong or used DMA. No matter if I try 8 or 16 Bit. DESCENT1 Setup crash and freeze everytime I try to set soundcard or test my settings.
In my CONFIG.SYS I have following line:
DEVICE C:\SOUND\SBEMU\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF
I tried with and without NOEMS, with and without VCPI. Also tried with HIMEM and EMM386 instead.
In my AUTOEXEC.BAT:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 T6
LH C:\SOUND\SBEMU\JLOAD.EXE C:\SOUND\SBEMU\QPIEMU.DLL
LH C:\SOUND\SBEMU\HDPMI32I.EXE -r -x
LH C:\SOUND\SBEMU\SBEMU.EXE /k44100
I tried every BLASTER combination, A220/240, I5/7, D0/1/3, H5/6/7, T4/5/6
I tried SBEMU with and without /k44100
I deactivated everything in BIOS other than sound, to free up reccources. Network Controller, COM1/2, LPT1. Also deactivated IRQ for USB and VGA.
In any case, SBEMU detects the VT82xx successful, but I always end with the errors I wrote above. Never I got any sound out of the IGEL. Interesting fact, if SBEMU is loaded, MPXPlay used the emulated SB device instead of the native VIA. And also failed to play any sound. Or to make things more clear, there is some very disorted "noise" with a lot of breaks in between.
Have I'm done anything wrong? If you need some more information, please let me know.