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Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-19, 15:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

using FF0 I get this: does this help at all? Yes and no. For one thing, it tells me not to trust the PnP BIOS resource assignments to get the first phase of initialisation started. So, the trial method that I added in 0.53ß will become permanent, and I will add another option to ignore the PnP BIOS …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-18, 16:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The whole 120 cards business was due to a bug, and it was my fault, rather than the fault of some strange BIOS design or flaw. As the expression goes, "garbage in, garbage out". On machines with a PnP BIOS, it only ever worked when the memory layout happened to match. So, for anyone who had problems …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-15, 04:04

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It did not hang this time but it seems it was not completely successfull either. I´m attaching the output.txt for you to look at :) Again, that's an interesting result. Was the test version the first thing you ran after a cold boot (meaning you hadn't previously run CWDINIT or UNISOUND)? Peculiar …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-11, 21:59

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Here is the complete dump after running the tool. Thanks, that was quite helpful. I found (and hopefully fixed) one bug, but that may not be the end of the problems with your machine, so I hope you're not getting too fed up with me just yet. Please try the attached version (just replace the current …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-11, 17:32

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I do not have any PNP TSR´s loaded. I see that CDWINIT detects a PNP BIOS, I would have thought that this BIOS was not PNP but perhaps it is? There´s nothing to suggest it is in the BIOS settings as far as I can tell. Also in the screenshot i posted earlier it says "120 ISA Plug and Play card(s) …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-11, 15:08

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have a problem with orphinit on my Olivetti M4 454S system (486 DX2 66). When running orphinit it does seemingly nothing, if running with the /VV switch it will output what is shown in the attached picture. In both cases the cursor blinks but the computer is unresponsive to anything but a ctrl+ …

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

Posted on 2021-01-29, 16:58

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I must mention that the needed components for Speaker-INPUT to work safely are present in all cards that are sold so connecting the speaker cable will not cause any damage or other electrical issue. I stand corrected; so that's yet another improvement you've made since we last discussed it, when …

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

Posted on 2021-01-28, 22:28

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

So if you don’t have an Orpheus for DOS you are just listing to “Looney tunes” It doesn't seem like you have any idea of the amount of effort that went into the design of this card and the numerous revisions that led to the final product. If its price is higher than you are willing to pay for a …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2020-12-18, 15:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have a question. What are the MAX and MIN values of WSSBase and CtrlBase in ORPHEUS.INI file? On the software side, there are no limitations. ORPHINIT will try to read whatever you put there, interpret it as a 16-bit hexadecimal value and assign that to the card. I intend to add more robust …

Re: Adding OPL3 chip to a soundblaster ct2940

Posted on 2020-12-09, 14:46

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

They don't directly discuss the same model, but you may be able to get some of the information you need from this thread.

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

Posted on 2020-12-05, 16:45

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It's the only chipset of the 3 to be capable of mixing SB Pro Stereo at 44khz: Try a good MOD player like Inertia, select SB Pro Stereo and force mixing at 44khz. Try it on the YMF chipsets and enjoy the clarity. Then do the same on the other chipsets and watch (listen) them fail. Officially, the …

Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-12-05, 16:36

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

These presets stay active until reboot. Is that guaranteed to be true? I rather expected that the start-up defaults would be restored when the host card is re-initialised. For example, when installed on Orpheus, if one runs ORPHINIT to apply a configuration change, the module will receive a reset. …

Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-12-05, 16:27

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

has anyone run unisound on a laptop? I tried to run it on my dell latitude cp which has the crystal CS4237B and reports no cards detected. The problem is not so much that it's a laptop; rather, it's in the way that the device is configured. UNISOUND works only with devices that take part in the ISA …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2020-12-03, 13:47

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Version 0.52ß is working wonderfully on my Asus P5A/AMD K6-III+ system, with Windows 98SE installed (DOS mode, of course). I make heavy use of gerwin's SetMul utility as well to slow the machine down, and it does not introduce any problems. Many thanks for this software. Thanks for the feedback. …

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

Posted on 2020-12-03, 13:31

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

There is one thing that I feel I should mention: both ORPHINIT and UNISOUND have no memory-resident functionality. CWDINIT does leave a small configuration manager resident before exiting, however. As has been stated a number of times, these are really configuration and initialisation tools more …

Re: EU votes for Right to Repair

Posted on 2020-12-01, 05:11

in Milliways

in Milliways

Apple devices have built in security and are part of the Applepay eco-system. They dont want un-authorized people messing with there hardware. Also Apple is a brand name that wants quality control over there products. Of course, you don't actually believe what you wrote, but just for the sake of …

Re: EU votes for Right to Repair

Posted on 2020-11-30, 18:42

in Milliways

in Milliways

I think it's a good first step, but it's nowhere near enough. From the linked article, it looks like this only assigns repairability scores. Unless these scores significantly impact consumer buying decisions, and unless better options exist, I can't see this having too much of an impact. As it …

Re: Apple's T2: Vulnerable and Unfixable

Posted on 2020-11-28, 22:16

in Milliways

in Milliways

The T2 is known to do some really strange things - Ever since I witness a T2 on a Mac crap the bed and lose the ability to decrypt the APFS volume right before a major trade conference I had been less than complementary towards it. When you are asked to put all eggs in a single basket, you better …

Re: Apple's T2: Vulnerable and Unfixable

Posted on 2020-11-25, 09:52

in Milliways

in Milliways

For those who missed it, there is a follow-up article with videos. If you thought: Error 0x7CF wrote on 2020-11-25, 07:12: * Requires physical access in any way mitigates the significance of this, go read/watch, then think again.

Re: Apple's T2: Vulnerable and Unfixable

Posted on 2020-11-25, 08:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-microsoft-pluton-processor-the-security-chip-designed-for-the-future-of-windows-pcs/ Thanks; I hadn't read about that yet. I'm not sure how much I like the idea, though. Hopefully MS and partners do a better job of it than Apple did. …

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