Hi, I unearthed my old Sharp PC-7000A after keeping it mothballed for 20 odd years and for the first time in 30 years, opened it’s back cover. I would like to beef the machine up a bit after going on a cap replacement run (was told to replace the tantalum caps asap, and of course I am well aware …

Well, General MIDI is OPL3 soundfont I think? The music certainly sounded better when the game was reconfigured for AWE audio and run on my retro box with an AWE64 card present. The pianos certainly sounded richer on a real PC with an AWE card compared to in DOSBox. If it really is the OPL3, maybe …

Well, I just found another game that leverages on my AWE. So EA was giving away SimCity 2000 Special Edition as reported. I tried it on my usual gaming PC out of EA's provided DOSBox setup and the music sounded flat as one would expect from a SB clone with an OPL3 synth. I managed to copy the game …

Out of nostalgia, I pulled out my old shareware compilation CD and copied Rise of the Triad: The Hunt Begins shareware from it. I can get sound out of the game in SoundBlaster mode, but I'm having issues getting music to work with anything that sounds more sophisticated than the OPL3. 1. When I …

No need to disable the parallel port. Just don't try to run the zip drive at the same time as playing sound, shouldn't be a problem for DOS. Sounds good. And the fact that the Gravis is the lesser card should work out. Thanks for the feedback. On the other hand tho, is there any major issues if I …

Currently using a SiS 6326 AGP card on my build. Works fine, has Windows 3.1 support with full acceleration. Even has hardware VESA 2 support out of the box. The only issue with it is of course it doesn't support GLide which is needed for some 3D games in DOS (it's advertised as a 3D accelerator, …

So I have an Asus P3B-F with two ISA slots. I decided to get a GUS card, and seat it next to my beloved AWE64 recently. The board allows me to move one of the serial ports to IRQ10 from either IRQ3 or 4 and I thought I could use it such that my IRQ7 can be left as-is with the parallel port (which …

Well, I've sort of given up on hoping for it to go to DOSBox actually. I've pretty much decided that nothing can beat the real deal and got a new retrogaming machine built since then and put the old AWE64 back into action. However, that mode did not support the lyrical bits from One Winged Angel. …

Just ordered one for my AWE64 Value card after debating with myself on whether I should get one for so long. Just wondering tho- will this work with just about any EDO or FPM RAM modules so long as it's timing is 60ns? The manual warns against using 3.3v modules without a regulator, which is …

Well, the point is, I'll never get to hear such games shine in their full glory ever again. Especially those which uses the AWE for audio and mixing as you said. Ah well, thanks anyway. Guess I'll need to try to move on.

Hi, I know that this has been discussed in the past, but the thread has been 5 years old, and I thought I might as well bring it back up since the situation has now changed. The problem is simple. I had an AWE64 in a retrogaming machine. It's PSU recently blown up after a very bad power surge took …

Hi, First of all, I'm new here, so please don't flame me if this has come up before - I already tried searching the forums but was overwhelmed with thousands of irrelevant results. I just picked up Final Fantasy 8 for the PC last week. While I have successfully got it to install and have done some …