Re: Monkey Island 1 & 2 Ultimate Talkie

Posted on 2023-09-07, 10:57

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by carlostex

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nizce wrote on 2023-09-06, 15:16: Can only set picoGUS to either DMA 1 or 3 so I’ll try changing it to 3. Well, yeah, the PI is sitting on a 8 bit bus interface so no access to high IRQ and DMA. That sucks.

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Re: Monkey Island 1 & 2 Ultimate Talkie

Posted on 2023-09-05, 22:42

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by carlostex

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The ultimate talkie might be hardcoded to use DMA 1 for speech. Sound Blaster should be using DMA 1, GUS can use High DMA 7 and it will be fine 99.9% of the time.

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2023-08-20, 22:04

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by carlostex

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Success! Thank you for suggesting this, it did the trick! Happy to help! Remember that it's important to keep the AdLib Gold on a range that nothing else writes to it. In my case a PAS and the Gold at 388h was immediate disaster with the MVSOUND.SYS driver writing on that range screwing up the …

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Re: Looking for IBM Music Feature Card owners

Posted on 2023-08-18, 21:51

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by carlostex

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Too bad there was never an AIL driver for this card, I really like the OPP sound chip. The only thing that sucks about this card design is that the Yamaha 2164 registers aren’t exposed directly on the ISA BUS so everything has through MIDI

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2023-08-17, 05:46

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by carlostex

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Unfortunately my GoldLib appears to have died. :( I was testing it in a 486 DX-33 build. Initially it worked and I was able to detect and configure it just fine. I'd been adding and testing other sound cards. At the time I was mainly working with the AWE64 and Yamaha Audician 32. Then went back to …

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Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2023-08-08, 23:11

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by carlostex

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You’re a good guy Fagear, happy you’re ok.

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Re: Sound card ideas for a multi-sound card 486 setup?

Posted on 2023-08-08, 23:07

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by carlostex

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The issues with the GUS Extreme might come from the ES1688 chipset, it might be trying to write something into the AdLib Gold range, which most obvious symptom might be a completely fucked up mixer. Yeah I believe it is the ESS chip. Unfortunately the Ultrasound initializer doesn't allow for much …

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Re: Sound card ideas for a multi-sound card 486 setup?

Posted on 2023-08-06, 22:21

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by carlostex

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The issues with the GUS Extreme might come from the ES1688 chipset, it might be trying to write something into the AdLib Gold range, which most obvious symptom might be a completely fucked up mixer. The AdLib Gold really needs the 388 -> 38Dh range just to itself. Of course you can try to change to …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2023-08-06, 12:30

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by carlostex

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Are there any Mr. Bios Bioses for my build? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=95290 https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/sunlogix-80386-33-40-micro-express-computer#downloads https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=90596 It uses a Forex chipset, so try a version that for that …

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Re: Sound card ideas for a multi-sound card 486 setup?

Posted on 2023-08-06, 10:20

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by carlostex

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BTW something else I remembered: My main DOS PC is a Pentium MMX which most of the time is underclocked to 100, so that would guarantee timing issues with the Gold card. My board also has a long ISA bus since I have 6 slots for ISA, so i noticed something interesting. Despite configuring all the …

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Re: Sound card ideas for a multi-sound card 486 setup?

Posted on 2023-08-06, 10:10

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by carlostex

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Keep this in mind: AdLib Gold takes the range BASE ADDR + 5 more consecutive addresses. So if 388 is selected it will take 388/389 for OPL2, 38A is CTRL ADDR, 38B is CTRL DATA, 38C is DSP ADDR and 38D is DSP DATA. Any other card that will write to 38A to 38D range will fuck up and confuse the hell …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2023-08-02, 12:10

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I wonder if the effect is similar to the Sound Blaster Pro with its dual OPL chips synthesizers that could play in stereo. No. AFAIK, SB Pro 1 plays only the left OPL2 when in AdLib compatibility mode. Same as with the Dual OPL2 Pro Audio Spectrum. To play in stereo games need to specifically send …

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2023-07-28, 19:41

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by carlostex

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Having the GoldLib / AdLib Gold work with a YMF / Crystal / ESS card is rather simple since the latter cards are flexible in their configurations. These being PnP usually don't hog resources like other cards do. With PAS cards it's a different story though, because the Gold cards grab the resources …

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2023-07-27, 22:27

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by carlostex

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I was trying to get the GoldLib working along side a GUS Extreme and Orpheus II LT, and in both cases encountered various issues when the latter cards were enabled. For example, trying to run the Gold setup program would cause lock-ups. Never had any issues with the setup locking up, only the …

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2023-07-27, 20:35

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by carlostex

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I’m wondering how feasible, would be to improve this design, taking only 3 things in mind: 1- Making the card more tolerable of faster systems; 2- Somehow the card sometimes seems to lose its configuration, needing to reset the CTRL chip, improve that; 3- Add the 16bit part connector with one …

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Re: Roland RAP-10 outputs in MONO only!?

Posted on 2023-07-26, 09:18

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by carlostex

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Years ago I bought one of these cards cheap on eBay. Caps were completely dead and leaking. Took them off, gave the card a good bath and recapped with what I had. The card had nice volume again and sounded absolutely beautiful. Yeah a lot of caps but worth it.

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Re: Five sound cards in a 386 (Gravis UltraSound, Adlib Gold, Roland LAPC-I, Game Blaster CMS, Yamaha YMF719)

Posted on 2023-07-23, 05:54

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by carlostex

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Suggested config: Yamaha YMF: A220 I5 D1 AdLib Gold: A388 I3 D3 CMS: A210h GUS: A260 I7 D7 The CMS suggestion comes from something I did a while ago, project to patch CMS games into port 210h. Or you can use MIDIto. CMS/Game Blaster game patching and setting a new standard!

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Re: Best Sound card choice for Yamaha DB50XG or use with 2 card?

Posted on 2023-07-20, 14:41

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by carlostex

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@badmojo Which ESS soundcard have you? How are you satisfied with sound quality? I don't actually have an Audiodrive anymore, I prefer a YMF719 based card these days, but this is the one I used in the past: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=341216#p341216 That was a great card. Hey hey!!! …

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Re: Five sound cards in a 386 (Gravis UltraSound, Adlib Gold, Roland LAPC-I, Game Blaster CMS, Yamaha YMF719)

Posted on 2023-07-17, 19:25

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by carlostex

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The AdLib Gold probably grabs resources from the machine via its EEPROM configuration right after boot. It would be nice if the clone card had the ability to only grab resources via a dos utility only, that would make it easy to choose between an SB card or AdLib Gold. Would have been nice if the …

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Re: An AdLib-Compatible Card (1986) Older than AdLib (1987)

Posted on 2023-07-09, 01:44

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by carlostex

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So original ports for this card are 0x39E/39F?

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