Re: Installing soundcard dos drivers

Posted on 2024-04-01, 15:49

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by gerwin

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The sound card looks very similar to a Terratec Maestro 16. The Terratec has a Compumedia ASC-9308 controller chip. This site lists "AD-based card Drivers: Win 9x" for it. That package has a DOS installer inside called GSetup.exe. https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/terratec.php

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Re: Lin-Lin adapter documentation

Posted on 2024-03-29, 05:35

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by gerwin

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There is only one slotket that can transform VCC supply voltage, it is from PowerLeap. All other slotkets and stacked Lin-Lin adapters can only do one thing in that regard: Send a voltage request signal to the Motherboard regulator at computer startup. And then assume the motherboard obeys, and …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-28, 19:58

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by gerwin

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I removed SBEINIT and EMM386 and it lets me run the game with OPL music and the closest I got was it saying "Dune" at the title screen (without the subtitle despite using the US version), and then no other digital sounds after that. I later found out that this was because I'd removed the SET …

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Re: Lin-Lin adapter documentation

Posted on 2024-03-28, 17:50

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by gerwin

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Ok so no matter what slotket is plugged into the motherboard, VSS always reads 1.57v. I think maybe it goes to the proper voltage when under load? There is only one slotket that can transform VCC supply voltage, it is from PowerLeap. All other slotkets and stacked Lin-Lin adapters can only do one …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-28, 16:47

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by gerwin

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I'm running a dual sound card setup with a SB Live! Value for Windows games and General MIDI (and certain DOS games like Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Pinball) and a SB Vibra16 for DOS and FM Synth stuff. I've been setting all the sound device stuff for Dune II to Sound Blaster Pro (there's no SB16 …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-28, 01:32

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by gerwin

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I did some tests. With normal means I can run and play Dune2, with sound and music, from within Windows 98, with these conditions: - Set music to FM. Do not set it to Roland General Midi, for it will require even more base memory, and fail at startup. - As I wrote earlier I do not use EMM386 here. …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-26, 17:55

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by gerwin

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IIRC Windows 9x does not need Emm386 to emulate EMS memory. So you could even remove it from autoexec.bat. I had to habit to configure my systems to boot into real mode DOS, without EMM386. (EMM386 sets the processor in protected mode already) Then running Dune 2 from within Windows 98, to supply it …

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Re: "Miles" Sound Updates

Posted on 2024-02-01, 20:47

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by gerwin

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But the issue is, that the new setsound.exe does not update the sound.cfg of the game. So when I start the game, it will still use whatever was saved there. I guess it will use the other new files now. But unfortunately it makes no difference in how it sounds. That is true for both setups. You got …

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Re: ESS Solo-1 DOS Compatibility Testing on Multiple Systems

Posted on 2024-01-28, 17:18

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by gerwin

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I find it odd that this affects the Yucatan FX since it's a modern clone of the Cancun FX. Although maybe this was an issue with the original as well? Unfortunately I don't have an original to compare with. Cancun FX behaved the same as DB50XG in that regard. As was written in the old 2007 topic …

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Re: ESS Solo-1 DOS Compatibility Testing on Multiple Systems

Posted on 2024-01-28, 02:36

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by gerwin

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The wavetable header is stereo reversed. I imagine the card could modded similar to the Yamaha Audician 32 to correct this issue, but I haven't attempted it yet. Note that these two well-known daughterboards have their stereo left and right wired differently: Yamaha DB50XG Roland SCB-7 So it …

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Re: Anyone use a Terratec Maestro?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 19:37

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by gerwin

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16/95 is a completely different chipset, you need drivers for that specifically. Odd thing is that I did open the driver package, that I linked to in the other thread, and I noticed '924' in the file names. Which would match the Opti 82C 924 chip. Still no joy... Again, I don't have this card, so …

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Re: Intel GMA 500 for retro, what can and can't be done? XP lowest? PowerVR useful?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 19:32

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by gerwin

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Imho the problem for Intel was most probably the lack of a time updated own GPU which let the early Atoms totally alone without a better GPU acceleration even for the new 2D GUIs before 3D gaming. Also if I remember correctly some SGX version didn't even have the old style 2D acceleration but more …

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Re: Intel GMA 500 for retro, what can and can't be done? XP lowest? PowerVR useful?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 18:57

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by gerwin

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What about an S1-AT5NM10E? Atom D525 with Nvidia Ion 2 (I think it was 2) graphics. No clue about W98 drivers, but everything works under XP if I recall correctly. Lets see if that can take on the E-350.... Nope. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-e-350-atom-d525-nvidia-ion-2,2905-19.html Of …

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Re: Intel GMA 500 for retro, what can and can't be done? XP lowest? PowerVR useful?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 17:38

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by gerwin

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Maybe the Atom D525 being a 45nm (instead of the usually 32nm of the later SGX-Atoms) with HT and the more demanding slow GMA3150 was more a SoC oriented to industrial-pc so the power demands were also a bit higher. I have the E-350 in a lower power ITX design with unusual SODIMM modules instead of …

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Re: Intel GMA 500 for retro, what can and can't be done? XP lowest? PowerVR useful?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 16:13

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by gerwin

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The Radeon GPU into the E-350 clearly is another world but requires so much more power itself imho; it's like a notebook GPU versus a smartphone GPU which requires like 2-3 watts. The E-350 SoC seems quite a difficult package to keep temps low considering how large is the core. But of course the …

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Re: Intel GMA 500 for retro, what can and can't be done? XP lowest? PowerVR useful?

Posted on 2024-01-25, 20:06

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by gerwin

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Yeah if I was looking at netbooks there would be much better choices in stuff that more P4-ish in the chipset like N270..470 based, so while there were a handful of netbooks with poulsbo this wasn't really their thing. But might be referencing what works in them. Target I am stalking are smaller …

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Re: Mysterious terratec sound card.

Posted on 2024-01-25, 19:41

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by gerwin

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envagyok wrote on 2024-01-25, 18:34: This card have i too. Please help to find DOS/Win95 driver. 20240125_182240.jpg http://www.amoretro.de/2011/09/terratec-maest … al-edition.html http://terratec.ultron.info/audio/Maestro/1696/Driver/ I don't have this card, so I did not test it.

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Re: how to get midi work in mame?

Posted on 2023-12-05, 19:57

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by gerwin

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actually.. im looking help for on how to set the midi port's, havent done that before. Yeah, but there is a link in that topic to my website . Where in the back-ports section there is a mame mu50 package, with bat files and a text file explaining things. If you download that, and look how it is …

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Re: how to get midi work in mame?

Posted on 2023-12-05, 17:36

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by gerwin

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Hello! reccently ive heard mame has midi as options on it, how would i make its for example act with midi in and out? saw it had sc55 emulation or mt32, if someone could explain how to get that working, would be a nice help. See this recent topic. It is about mame's MU50 synth, but the principle is …

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Re: Dune II HD port at last!

Posted on 2023-11-24, 15:51

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by gerwin

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I noticed the Windows OS system requirements were raised in this new release. Under Windows XP it won't run. Allegro 5.2 causes this with one NT6 call, among other things. But for such an OS the previous releases are a fallback. Ah, didn't notice that. Thanks for the info! I don't think keeping XP …

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