Re: SC8500 sound card - what does it do?

Posted on 2010-12-23, 19:19

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Solved. But I don't understand how I solved it. All I did was this - run duke3d sound setup.exe. Test General Midi @ 330. That worked! That's strange - why did this sound setup.exe work, but not Descent's sound setup.exe? After I quit Duke3d's setup.exe, I ran Descent's setup.exe. That worked too! …

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Re: SC8500 sound card - what does it do?

Posted on 2010-12-23, 18:14

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elianda, please can you help me get a Guillemot MaxiSound soundcard working? I can't get the General Midi music working, inside pure DOS 6. When I run Descent's sound setup.exe, and choose General Midi (330), it says "Error: Detection system failed to find hardware". The sound card is the SC8500 V1 …

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-23, 11:01

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Thanks a lot for the mixer settings! :happy: I altered my .TTM mixer settings file, so that the values in your .TTM were included. Now, the music does not sound dry, and as you say, it sounds more like an AWE32. I re-recorded Duke Nukem 3D, with these updated mixer setting values. The new recording …

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-22, 21:05

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I have noticed that the card will not accept double sided SIMMs. The chips on the back of the memory stick PCB section get in the way of the SIMM socket on the sound card, and it does not allow the SIMM stick to sit comfortably in the SIMM socket. I did a recording of Duke Nukem 3D, using the 10 meg …

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Re: Opti 82C929A - DOS driver anyone please?

Posted on 2010-12-22, 18:31

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Ace wrote: I found an 82C930 for sale at the same flea market where I got my SoundBlaster Vibra16 CT2260 and Ensoniq Soundscape, so when I go back to pick up a SoundBlaster AWE32 CT3600 I left there, I'll be sure to pick up the 82C930. Great! 😀

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Re: question on socket7 boards onboard cache

Posted on 2010-12-22, 18:23

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It depends on the chipset, but yes, Aladdin V boards will only cache 128MB RAM with 512K L2. And yes, performance will suck if you install more than 128MB, especially since Windows tends to use the highest memory addresses first. I decided to test my bugged L2 cache Ali V Gigabyte GA-5AX mobo. I …

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Re: Opti 82C929A - DOS driver anyone please?

Posted on 2010-12-22, 18:13

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I see what you mean, regarding the bass notes. I wonder what an 82C930 sounds like. Have you ever heard one? I can see a few on ebay. However, I think I've got enough SB clones! hehe. However, I'm still eagerly awaiting the arrival of my 82C929A sound card with the real Yamaha chip, so I can do …

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Re: Opti 82C929A - DOS driver anyone please?

Posted on 2010-12-22, 17:29

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OK! Exactly as requested. 😀 X-Wing, 6 mins, historical mission 1. Vols: Master 99, Voice 99, FM 85. Line out used. Audacity rec level = max. http://www.mediafire.com/?4re8p33at8efrd2

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Re: Opti 82C929A - DOS driver anyone please?

Posted on 2010-12-22, 14:05

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I am happy to redo the recording. Before I do so, please can you tell me if you want the audio recording cable attached to the Speaker Out port on the sound card, or the (much quieter) Line Out port. Also, shall I do a similar recording? That is to say, about 4 minutes of X-Wing, featuring mostly …

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Re: Opti 82C929A - DOS driver anyone please?

Posted on 2010-12-22, 12:42

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I recorded 4 minutes of X-Wing. Unfortunately, Audacity's recording level was perhaps a tiny bit too high, and in places there's a bit of clipping - if you look at this .MP3 file in Audacity, the "squiggly data" hits the "ceiling" a few times. For the Opti card, I used the mixer setting defaults. I …

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Re: Opti 82C929A - DOS driver anyone please?

Posted on 2010-12-22, 12:18

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Edit: Oops. Not sure what happened to my post here. 😦 Basically, I got this sound card, as seen below. [/quote]

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Re: NEC XR385

Posted on 2010-12-22, 07:44

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I had a look at this ebay listing, and his ebay selling name of "double fish" rings a bell. I bought a couple of these DBs from him about 2 years ago. It's incredible that his inventory of these items is not yet depleted. They both worked fine. Actually, speaking of international orders which have …

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-21, 23:08

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I would like to upgrade the stick of RAM, which is on board the EWS64XL card, because I would like to experiment with loading a large 94b sound file. I understand that it's possible to use one stick of 64MB memory. Is the following memory compatible? Thanks a lot for any advice! Copied and pasted …

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-21, 22:48

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Thanks very much for the info! 😁 BTW, I was intrigued by your ewsinit "gs_10mb.94b" initialisation file. I did a search on the net for this file name, and found a copy to download. I'll check it out tomorrow...

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Re: Obscure / interesting / pimped / strange ISA soundcards

Posted on 2010-12-21, 20:50

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Keropi, I found this on the net: http://www.mirosupport.de/media/surround/surr.pdf (Page 7) On page 7, it says "Was ist miroMedia Surround?" Unfortunately, I can't read German properly. I tried to copy and paste the paragraph of information in to Google Lunatic* , but I can't seem to CTRL-C --> CTRL …

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-21, 14:28

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Following on from my stupidity above - the reason why I was seeing files inside my EWS64 listed as me.ttn 0 bytes is because ewsinit was searching for a .ttn file, and not finding one, and then a new empty file was being created, 0 bytes in size. I think I may have solved this problem by simply …

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-21, 14:06

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Ah sorry. I meant .TTM. I save my mixer settings inside the EWSMixer utility as a .TTM file. It's always been .TTM. Sorry, I always meant to say .TTM. :oops: Edit: note to self. go and see an optician. BTW, on terratec's website, there is a downloadable file called EWS_MixerSettings.exe. All the …

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Re: Obscure / interesting / pimped / strange ISA soundcards

Posted on 2010-12-21, 12:43

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h-a-l-9000 wrote: > next we have an 8-bit unknown purpose card that http://www.mirosupport.de/media/surround/surround.html Nice! 😀 And on that page, software for DOS / Windows 3.11 / 95 / 98 / W2K / XP / NT. No Vista however. 😉

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-21, 11:24

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I've just had an idea! Here's my Me.TTN EWS (win9x) mixer settings file. I wonder why, when I run ewsinit at the pure DOS 6 C:\ prompt, that this file gets reduced to 0 bytes in size? The file can be found on my MediaFire account, or from the Vogons attachment. For the Vogons attached file, it needs …

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-21, 11:11

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Thanks a lot for the info! I don't know what ICQ is, but I have another idea! When you have the time, please upload your setting file to Vogons as an attachment, or upload this setting file to your web hosting site - the website where you host your sound card recordings. Alternatively, you could …

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