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your card is an "AudioWave Platinum 16" , driver can be downloaded here: http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=867 no idea if it's good or not but it will most likely do SB/SBpro and it has a genuine OPL3 so it should be fine

Re: Dream SAM9733 and SAM9407 based MIDI devices distortion fix

Posted on 2020-11-27, 14:16

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

Just in case anyone has issues running Tiido's DREAMFIX here is the SysEx message that sets volume to 4F: B0 63 37 62 07 06 4F I am attaching it along with the old DUMP.EXE , usage is: DUMP DREAMFIX.SYX

Re: Good OS selectors ?

Posted on 2020-11-26, 20:15

by keropi

in Marvin \ Software

PLOP Bootmanager , I use it on my MMX builds and it's great: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/screenshots.html

Re: DTC1181 BiOS Adapter 1998 Pre XTIDE Adapter Info and Rom

Posted on 2020-11-26, 07:51

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

interesting stuff that it boots from a NIC , I had a card like this but I tossed it decades ago... it would be nice to have that Y2K fix working alongside XT-IDE BIOS IMHO

Re: Diamond SpeedStar24 with only 256 color RAMDAC

Posted on 2020-11-25, 22:25

by keropi

in Marvin \ Video

did you try just swapping DACs ? maybe this fixes it?

Re: CHiLL XL enclosure

Posted on 2020-11-25, 21:49

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

looks very nice but why tie it to one daughterboard? some text covering all would be best?

Re: How to retrieve the content of an old backup made of 4 rar files

Posted on 2020-11-24, 16:07

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

maybe it's ACE compression? upload 1 part here so we can investigate better

Re: How to retrieve the content of an old backup made of 4 rar files

Posted on 2020-11-24, 13:52

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did you download these files from Usenet? If so, you should use a program like HJSplit to join them up into a single file. WinRAR is not needed. https://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_join_files_using_hjsplit.cfm yes this , it could be split files and I also have to mention buying RAR was …

Re: Amstrad Mega PC

Posted on 2020-11-24, 11:01

by keropi

in Marvin \ System Specs

ooooh nice things! I will also order the MegaED-pro tomorrow when the black friday discount will be in effect 😁

Re: Amstrad Mega PC

Posted on 2020-11-23, 21:25

by keropi

in Marvin \ System Specs

ah interesting the manual mentions cache utilities, too bad I assume you don't have the disks anymore? good idea about the battery to use the amigakit thing

Re: Amstrad Mega PC

Posted on 2020-11-23, 13:08

by keropi

in Marvin \ System Specs

very nice!!!! one more to the club! you can use the EXT.BATERRY header and put one sealed in some baggie or something away from mobo that 486SLC33 tech. reference is it a service manual?

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-11-19, 21:43

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

yeah maybe those strings are not even obeyed due to a bug in the driver noone noticed or complained because... well I don't know any other CS4237 card using a real OPL3 and back in 1997 OPL3 was something noone cared about IMHO

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-11-19, 14:53

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

One more thing to try - change all 3 to a REG_SZ/string type registry value, with "Off" as the value. I misunderstood what the call was doing just after reading the value - they parse it as a string. I realized that once I found the SOUNDSYS.DRV section in registry and all other settings are …

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-11-19, 10:09

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

Can you try some additional DWORD values (leave the original one there): EnableAutoAcquireOPL3 = 0 OPL3FullPowerDown = 0 I just tried with those 2 extra keys, it did not work doesn't really surprise me LOL , with crystal docs many things that should easily work according to them instead required …