Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-24, 06:26

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by dr.zeissler

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Thanks, it seems that ESS driver requiring EMS to work too, im i right? Because im getting different error message during driver start (driver not loaded). I dont have this card, so im trying to make config files a bit empty handed.. EMS/JEMS branches seems to be fine, but of course, later we will …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 22:22

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by dr.zeissler

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Would be VERY cool if Body-Blows could be fixed to run on my setup. Right now it only works on very old machines and up to a celeron300 with loaded tp7p5fix. It supports the ess-solo for both FM and SFX and is very good! btw. the speed sensitive list is also not reliable. e.g. DynaBlaster works just …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 22:14

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by dr.zeissler

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One of my actual configs.

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 20:30

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by dr.zeissler

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Absolutely 100% in plain Dos, Win9x and Win9x-Dos-Window with VXD-Drivers. Use my driver above, works best for me. My only problem with the solo1 are the "problematic soundengines" in Dos and in the Dos-Window of Win98se. SBpro,ESFM, MPU401 everything works with the VXD-Drivers including volume- …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 20:25

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by dr.zeissler

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I can recommend this VXD for WIn98se. Overall the best. For Duke I use xDuke http://vision.gel.ulaval.ca/~klein/duke3d/ , perhaps other Ports are fine too. (jonoF has audio-problems) The WDM driver in WinME produces the DMA-confict after playing for some time, so no reliable solution for the …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 09:42

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by dr.zeissler

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No way! There is no FM in Dos under Win98se and WinME either when using the WDM Drivers, there is no FM, no 388h in the WDM Drivers. Only the VXD Drivers support FM in Dos within Win9x. It cannot be tweak in a dosbox either. Starting essolo leads to a report that everything is OK, but there is …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 05:27

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by dr.zeissler

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btw. that sweeping noise in Pinball Games is also when choosing "adlib" and using the ess-solo1. It's a problem of the game-engine combined with a faster processor. (celereon300 is ok though). yes, I do have experimented with "throttle -c" and it's a good option. I always have the problem, that …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 20:40

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by dr.zeissler

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it's all about the sound-engines Take Doom1 <1.666, it works flawlessly on solo1, Doom1 1.666 refuses the sfx, like Heretic, Hexen, Sw etc. Yup. The same is with X-COM: UFO Defence: unpached and demo versions work fine, but the patched release no longer has SFX in DOS on ESS Solo-1. But most of …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 12:51

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by dr.zeissler

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Thx, it's all about the sound-engines. Miles works everywhere, where Apogee/3DRealms never works with SFX. So what is the deal? Patching the soundengine is the solution. Take Doom1 <1.666, it works flawlessly on solo1, Doom1 1.666 refuses the sfx, like Heretic, Hexen, Sw etc. If I can manage to get …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 07:40

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by dr.zeissler

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Re: ESS Solo 1 Compatibility with Intel motherboards is not so good, though. Are you talking about the problematic "sound engines" ? e.g. Doom2/Duke3d/Swarrior/Blood/Pfantasies/Pdreams1/2/Pinball Illusion, ExtremePinball Nope, Kamarat did some testing with various chipsets. The link's in his sig. …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-21, 21:14

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by dr.zeissler

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Re: ESS Solo 1 Compatibility with Intel motherboards is not so good, though. Are you talking about the problematic "sound engines" ? e.g. Doom2/Duke3d/Swarrior/Blood/Pfantasies/Pdreams1/2/Pinball Illusion, ExtremePinball Duke3d/Swarrior/Blood can be played with sound within Win98se when using the …

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Re: Help getting some 3DFX DOS games to run

Posted on 2018-07-20, 17:05

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by dr.zeissler

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I have to admit that I like a voodoo1 more than the voodoo2...it was a game-changer when I installed it in my P166 (later a 200mmx). I currently have a project Scenic Pro-C6 (D1026) (Celeron 300A, 192MB Ram, 40GB HDD, Voodoo1 and Matrox Productive MGA100A Onboard (2MB+2MB(Upgrade), Dos622+Win98se) I …

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Re: Acer Magic S23A / Crystal CX4236B Question

Posted on 2018-07-18, 10:29

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by dr.zeissler

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My D1026 has that same chip. Sbpro is very good, but has some compatibility issues with demoscene-stuff, the games were fine except DN2. When duke speaks "I'am back" the system freezes regardless ems/xms or any other config. I use the drivers for the magic23a. Phil has newer ones on his site: …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2018-07-17, 16:36

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by dr.zeissler

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Is there an illustration of that "fog-table" issue? I remember my R7000 PCI can be tweaks via "rage-tweaker" to support several fog-options, but I never checked if "sote" reports them correctly. My onboard i815e reports a failure on this test. Does anyone have a suggestion for the 8bit paletted …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-10, 20:34

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by dr.zeissler

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Your sound problem - there are lots of variable is very easy to set something work or sub-optimal and lots of unknow magic /research involved. Do other users with same card same problem? Tried you different drivers versions, IRQ, DMA etc settings? Do you have some BIOS setting which you can fiddle? …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2018-07-10, 11:18

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by dr.zeissler

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It seems that a voodoo1 in a faster systems (>400Mhz) has problems with the "8-bit Paletted Textures" in Direct3D, in Glide they are stille fine. It can be checked with a voodoo1 in forsaken when changing from RGBA to "8Bit paletted". Mageslayer, Motoracer do have that issue in d3d.

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-10, 07:16

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by dr.zeissler

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Thx for this thread. My No1 PCI-Soundcard is the ESS-Solo1 (ESS1938) it's a fantastic card especially with a waveblaster-upgrade. It does not require EMS loaded either. Some Dos-Soundengines do have problems with it. I never got into why. - Doom1 is working fine (old version before 1.666) - Doom2/ …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo vs. Voodoo 2 - This might help you make a choice!

Posted on 2018-07-09, 19:11

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by dr.zeissler

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I can only put a v1 in that case!!!! I cannot get my hands on a canopus voodoo2 that is short enough. I cannot downgrade the cpu either!!!! the lowest supported cpu is a cel-533. So I have to stick to the voodoo1 and the onbaord i815e and both are VERY good. I did some more investigating and I am …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo vs. Voodoo 2 - This might help you make a choice!

Posted on 2018-07-09, 17:33

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by dr.zeissler

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It's not that thing about comparison, it about that issue with the v1 in faster systems. In my case it's only a D3D problem and it depends on the game, so it's possible fixable. Doc

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo vs. Voodoo 2 - This might help you make a choice!

Posted on 2018-07-08, 22:18

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by dr.zeissler

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Thx Phil, that is EXACTLY my problem, BUT it depends on the programm. Some D3D Games do not make glitches with a P3-600, others look like this. OpenGL/Glide is fine though. I do not know, what the real difference is. Please test these two D3D Tests. One is fine the other produces the texture …

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