Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-30, 18:15
Yes, cwsdpmi; but for me it crashes on any machine I try to run it on with SBEMU, with a Jemmex exception.
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-30, 12:24
Games that did not work: Frontier First Encounters, both the game and the setup program crash at launch; Most of the crashes seem to be Jemmex-related. I checked this - and got FFE to run. There are a few things to take care of: FFE uses the 32-bit Borland extender 32RTM/DPMI32VM.OVL. This extender …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-03-30, 00:47
So anyway, I managed to install the dual boot setup of FreeDOS+XP. It turns out that my FreeDOS install USB drive had gone bad. I made another one, created a 2GB partition on the SSD, installed FreeDOS 1.3 there, left the remaining space unpartitioned. Next booted from the XP USB install drive that …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-30, 00:40
Did some testing with a HP thin client 5570t, Via Nano C7 CPU at 1GHz, 2GB RAM, Via VX900 chipset, Via Unichrome9 VGA. Installed FreeDOS 1.3 (because I was unable to install MS-DOS) and replaced Jemmex 5.79 with 5.84. Used SBEMU both beta2 and the one with the VT power fix. I did not notice any …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-03-29, 21:43
Yeah I want to install DOS first but I can't get it done on this machine. It refuses to boot from any USB DOS media. I'll have to pull the drive (which is not easy) and get that done on a separate machine, then put it back and install XP.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-03-29, 21:29
Well using the guide in that first page I linked to above, I made a bootable XP USB drive. That was the easy part. And installing XP from it works fine. But getting DOS installed and dual-booting is where I get bogged down. Especially since this machine refuses to boot from a FreeDOS USB drive ( …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-03-29, 20:48
Grrr. Setting up a dual-boot WinXP/DOS system on a machine without a CD drive (and without the possibility of adding one) is extremely infuriating. Especially when the computer is slow also (Via C7 CPU, 1 core at 1GHz). FWIW the following pages help: https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2022/09/17/ …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-29, 20:44
If I try to use mpxplay without loading SBEMU, it will not do anything.
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-29, 12:14
I have not used mpxplay on this system yet. Will do and report back (edit) I just tested. The sound volume in mpxplay is zero. Media files appear to play but no sound comes out. The volume in mpxplay is set to 100%. (the same media files with the same mpxplay in DOSbox play fine at a good volume) ( …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-28, 09:55
I have not used mpxplay on this system yet. Will do and report back (edit) I just tested. The sound volume in mpxplay is zero. Media files appear to play but no sound comes out. The volume in mpxplay is set to 100%. (the same media files with the same mpxplay in DOSbox play fine at a good volume) ( …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-27, 13:35
More findings. I did some tests with DOS32a.exe as well. Neither of the programs tested (listed above) liked it. They behaved exactly as with DOS4GW 1.95 One more interesting finding. The sound setup program for Duke3D already uses DOS4GW 1.97, probably embedded within the binary because there is no …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-27, 13:10
Interesting. I have placed/replaced DOS4/GW version 1.97 in the directories of games (Frontier First Encounters, Duke3D and XCOM). Duke now completes sound setup without any errors and the game plays normally, with full sound (effects+music). FFE: the sound setup utility (which is the one that used …
Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?
Posted on 2023-03-26, 22:24
Yeah, it's fun building these surprisingly competent mini and micro PC's :). I had initially tried the same with a LarkBox Pro (a super tiny cube), but stability, BIOS and driver issues made me abandon that one and go for the MFF Dell. Played a lot of Frontier: Elite II back in the day. I did have …
Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?
Posted on 2023-03-26, 21:42
Nice. Well my box isn't that powerful but very small, barely more than a paperback book and lightweight. Runs most games I'm interested in in DOS with sound; those that it doesn't I run in win7 under DosBox. Haven't tried Linux on it, but that's primarily because my distribution of choice is Funtoo …
Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?
Posted on 2023-03-26, 21:03
Do you mind if I inquire about your mini-PC, hardware-wise? It's because I'm doing something similar; dual-boot MSDOS and Win7 on a Zotac Zbox MA760 https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/ma760-plus It works fine, even getting sound in DOS thanks to SBEMU. 😀
Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?
Posted on 2023-03-26, 20:12
Thanks for your replies! So, to summarize: Sound Canvas VST Developers Edition would be of questionable legality at best, and probably not the most accurate at emulating an SC-55 then... but it should probably work on 64-bit Windows with the 32-bit version of SAVIhost, which should be fine if it's …
Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?
Posted on 2023-03-26, 19:01
I don't remember, it was a while ago. I do know that savihost comes in 2 flavors, 32bit and 64bit and AFAIK each works only with the same kind of plugin. I think the 32-bit version runs on a 64-bit host if you also have a 32-bit plugin.
Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?
Posted on 2023-03-26, 17:52
I use FluidSynth with a SC55 soundfont. Doesn't sound exactly like the real thing but not bad. Also made a RPi into a multi-sound-emulation device, also based on FluidSynth with various soundfonts that can be switched remotely as well as Munt for MT32 compatibility, gets its input via a USB/serial …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-26, 14:09
Tested SBEMU today on an Acer Aspire One 722 mini-laptop. AMD C60 APU, with MSDOS 6.22, SBEMU beta2 and JEMMEX 5.84. It recognizes and enables sound (both OPL3 and SB emulation) as Intel HDA However, no sound works under DOS at all. Neither OPL nor SB emulation, in any game I tried. No errors, just …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-26, 01:03
Tested SBEMU today on an Acer Aspire One 722 mini-laptop. AMD C60 APU, with MSDOS 6.22, SBEMU beta2 and JEMMEX 5.84. It recognizes and enables sound (both OPL3 and SB emulation) as Intel HDA However, no sound works under DOS at all. Neither OPL nor SB emulation, in any game I tried. No errors, just …
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