Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2021-09-24, 04:03

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Can any owners confirm this sounds the same as an original Roland SCD-15? The actual sound hardware is officially the SCB-55; SCD-15 is an SCB-55 + software package. With that out of the way, the simple answer is no. The more detailed answer is that they are not based on the same sound bank, and …

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

Posted on 2021-09-02, 17:47

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The easiest solution for me would just be to solder in brand new connectors but I can't find a source for new ISA edge connectors. If anyone knows where I can buy some, let me know! These should be close enough for most purposes. It should be relatively easy to find the local country-specific …

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

Posted on 2021-09-01, 01:41

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If I had to guess about the problem with this Gateway machine, and the suspicion is that it isn't a configuration or init problem, it could certainly be a problem of worn or loose contacts within the slot. This is supported by the fact that moving/re-seating the card gave different behaviour. The …

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

Posted on 2021-08-31, 02:51

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I just put together a simple test that should help in diagnosing the problems that some of you have been reporting lately. For the moment, it is very simple and inflexible, so please pay attention to the details below: The WSS base address must be 534H. This test uses simple programmed I/O to play …

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

Posted on 2021-08-29, 04:25

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I received the error..."unidentified chip found; quitting" error. I ran the program with the defaults. I did not edit the .ini and I have not used any other versions or different drivers. This could happen for a number of reasons, but we'll start by assuming that it will be one of the simpler …

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

Posted on 2021-08-13, 18:18

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I see, if I plan on leaving everything on the soundcard on its default settings and just use the Yamaha OPL3, no crystal FM can I get away with not using orphinit? When would I want to use the crystal FM over the OPL3? Because of the design of the Orpheus card, you generally have to use some sort …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-08-09, 02:16

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can you think of other, low height, low cost, cables that could be used ? or is the added height for IDC connectors acceptable? Why not a right-angle IDC connector? In surface-mount form, they shouldn't add more than a few millimetres to the overall thickness of the whole assembly. Using the …

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

Posted on 2021-07-27, 17:12

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Got everything up an running, but I have one issue: in SB mode at least, PCM is way louder than everything else, even with PCMVol at 1, FMVol at 7 and LineVol at 7. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just how sound blaster mixers work? In all likelihood, you are not doing anything wrong. This …

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Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2021-07-21, 20:25

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There is already an Orpheus available and AWE64 Legacy on its way (?), so I don't think there will be enough interest. There is no currently-available card that offers all of those features, though, and certainly not one built exclusively from new, readily-available parts. Orpheus offers better …

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

Posted on 2021-07-19, 18:17

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I still plan on throwing the orpheus into one of my other socket7 systems but really wish I could have used it in the dell as it has become my primary DOS machine. I think I can pre-announce that the upcoming version of ORPHINIT will include support for another initialisation method, which should …

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Re: DOOM 1.1 GUS hardware mixing

Posted on 2021-07-15, 20:16

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I may be remembering incorrectly, but I was under the impression that Doom used an integrated version of UltraMID. In most versions, this reserves 8 voices for digital audio/effects, and uses the remaining 24 for MIDI-based music. I don't remember if that could be changed. Other than the instrument …

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

Posted on 2021-07-07, 17:26

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That helped a little. I assume it also means that just the wavetable (and not FM) cannot be muted completely? Otherwise it would have been possible to use the 3,5mm output from X2 and connect it to CD-in. There could be a way to support that, but I haven't yet found an elegant way to do it yet. I …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-07-07, 17:20

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I went on and calculated my total costs in the past months for the project. I set out to build 2 units (highlighted below in the chart) to save on costs. Keep in mind these purchases: It is an interesting project, but is it correct to say that it cost upwards of $600 (CAD) to build the first unit? …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-06-30, 19:00

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After I rewrote it with this thread's good CS4237.BIN, all works, without invoking the /o (override) switch of cwdinit.exe. Are you sure you used the right file? Unless I'm mistaken, the BIN files I uploaded were only for hostload init; they lack the necessary header for EEPROM use. You may want to …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-06-30, 12:02

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Things that work: ... -using clreeprm.exe Still don't work: -writing to eeprom while onboard Do I understand that to mean that CLREEPRM worked, while you were still unable to write the entire contents with RESOURCE.EXE? Was this without changing anything about the configuration? If that's the case, …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:53

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Hostload works perfectly on my Vortex86 SX motherboard and PC/104 CS4237 soundcard. As there's basically no difference between the PC104 board and my carrier board for the Vortex86 DX SoM, I'm beginning to wonder if there's something weird about the DX variant when it comes to ISA. At least it …

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

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:42

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we'll have to wait for 640k!enough to tell us if a "flip stereo" option can be implemented but generally speaking CS4237 does not suffer from flipped stereo channels to my knowledge... Nothing I've seen so far suggests that this is possible. I suspect it was a design choice (worked correctly on …

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

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:37

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aitotat wrote on 2021-06-29, 17:34: Is there a way to adjust wavetable header volume with Orphinit when Mode=sb? Volume is too low. In Sound Blaster mode, it is coupled with SB-FMVol. It's somewhat sub-optimal, but there is nothing that we can do about it.

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-06-28, 03:11

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It seems that, at least on my configuration, hostload will only work if there is already a somewhat valid EEPROM attached. Is that expected behavior? If not, is there anything hardware-wise that could cause hostload not to work but EEPROM to be fine? I have attached the draft schematic just in case …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-06-27, 21:48

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Is it possible to get a dos program to wipe out the eeprom? Did you, 640K!enough write hostload? Could it be modified to blank out a size specified rom The attached file is not a modified HOSTLOAD, but an all-new utility. You must still run HOSTLOAD first to initialise the card and assign an …

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