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

Posted on 2021-05-10, 22:20

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by ElBrunzy

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I was able to reproduce that problem using two midi player (winamp in_midi and virtual jukebox). Using microsoft mpu401 driver it would not allow both to play together complaining that the device was in use. Using the Music Quest MPU401 I was able to play both winamp and vjukebox to the mpu401. But …

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Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on 2021-05-06, 04:08

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Hi OPLx, I'm preparing my computer to receive the SAAYM. I'm so glad it's happening and soon I'll be able to listen to my favorite arcade music on original hardware thanks to the SAAYM and SBVGM, I can barely believe it! The card has a bit more onboard configuration than I expected, I did some …

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Re: Best tracker MODS ever [1988-2020]

Posted on 2021-05-06, 03:26

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People release "good" module pack now and them. I hunt them too, Byrd, they are awesome to discover new stuff and make for fantastic playlist. I look forward to add spacedrone808's to my collection, I think he worked quite hard putting it together.

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Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on 2021-04-30, 03:40

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Ok I understand, you wrote YM2610(B) meaning ym2610 + ym2610b. Probably in an attempt to save everybody's time that I lamentably negate 😳

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

Posted on 2021-04-30, 00:57

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by ElBrunzy

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All this interest towards WSS sting my curiosity. I know next to nothing about WSS, I thought it was a specification like MPC or something like it. So please pardon my ignorance but I wonder what's the advantage of using the WSS instead of the SBPro ? Does "newer" Sierra games (like SQ5 or PQ4) only …

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Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on 2021-04-28, 04:46

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Right, awesome is totally the word here ! I counted that this would add support for 307 new titles just from vgmrips (ym2203 = 218, ym2608 = 56, ym2610b = 35), on top of the 372 new from ym2151. Now I totally am motivated to finish my new setup with the SAAYM and collect all those vgm files, I …

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Re: Tandy 3 Voice Sound - SN76489 ISA Soundcard Project

Posted on 2021-04-28, 04:02

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by ElBrunzy

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I saw the TNDLPT at Serdashop, but I would prefer the ISA version. Now you are talking ! I prefer it that way too 👍. Do you know about the tndy nano from matze79 too ? It's a fun project that is not too hard to build since there is no SMD component. I would think he still have some kit available. …

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

Posted on 2021-04-28, 02:41

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by ElBrunzy

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Thanks for the EDIT, I was about to run the dump utility after init the card, silly me... This i845 motherboard was nothing but trouble since I got it lately. Now things start to settle down and I can finally start to enjoy it. There is thing I have never seen before in this Phenixs AWARD bios, for …

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

Posted on 2021-04-27, 15:18

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by ElBrunzy

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There you go sir, I have no clue what you have in mind, but if you want anything else I'll be just glad to have the chance to help.

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2021-04-27, 02:56

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hard1k wrote on 2021-02-09, 13:00: participated in the questionnaire Omg, the questionnaire! Why the hell did I used my private mailer for that... oh well, at least now I know how to setup SpamAssassin 😅

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

Posted on 2021-04-27, 01:22

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by ElBrunzy

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Thanks a lot 640k!Enough ! 😃 With your workaround I can continue my game of Simon The Sorcerer ][ enjoying it's awesome music on the sc88 without any ambient sound FX shredding my ears to bits. I'll keep my attention on a mixer that would allow me to adjust on the fly any sound source I have and …

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

Posted on 2021-04-14, 19:35

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the digital out sounds amazing! I remember being very enthusiast about the digital output of soundcards and searching in every way possible to tap in the pcm signal before the DAC my vintage soundcards. Eventually someone challenged me about it and made me realize pcm is not always the best way to …

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

Posted on 2021-04-13, 03:01

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by ElBrunzy

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For the mixer issues, I am still experimenting, both to figure out where the problem comes from, and whether there is anything we can do to correct the behaviour. There are a few things that could cause this, and some of them cannot be helped. As keropi said, if the game's driver manipulates the …

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

Posted on 2021-04-12, 13:58

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by ElBrunzy

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Hi foil_fresh, my guess is that you use "C:\orpheus\orpheus.bat" on top of your autoexec.bat which will end it after orpheus.bat, have you try to use "call c:\orpheus\orpheus.bat" instead ?

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

Posted on 2021-04-12, 00:14

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by ElBrunzy

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I experimented a bit more on that tonight. I realized 0.52a was not latest version but the same behavior could be reproduced with 0.52b and 0.53b-beta. So I took a bit more time reading about the unisound documentation, configured it correctly and tested with that. I had the same result as orphinit! …

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

Posted on 2021-04-10, 02:41

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by ElBrunzy

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Hi, I have a problem using the orphinit.exe so I was reading the forum to see if it was addressed already and I came across the 2020-12-03 post where 640K!enough explain how to post a question, so here is the requested form: 1 : My problem is that I cannot lower the PCM volume on my card. SB audio …

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

Posted on 2021-03-30, 19:28

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by ElBrunzy

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Are there settings in the BIOS to change PCI/ISA IRQ from PnP to manual and then let you set IRQs to "legacy ISA" or similar? Great, that was it Cyclone3d ! Unlike the IRQ, I dont think I tested putting the DMA on legacy ISA, and I'm not so sure I used legacy ISA or ISA/PNP. Well, now I know my ISA …

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

Posted on 2021-03-30, 03:39

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by ElBrunzy

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@ElBrunzy Are you sure your Pentium 4 system fully supports ISA DMA? Not at all, carlostex, not at all... In fact I think you might be on to something here. I did try TEST-SBP.EXE (1.91 and 1.82), io address test is okay, but it stop at IRQ, saying it cannot be detected. Manual mode dont help. But …

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

Posted on 2021-03-28, 20:53

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by ElBrunzy

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Please dont be sorry, I felt it might be more useful if we discuss some aspect of the card in public anyway. I hope I have not been indelicate at bringing my questions to the forum. All other games I did try so far worked perfectly and the support you gave me installing the card was outstanding. 1] …

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

Posted on 2021-03-28, 04:52

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by ElBrunzy

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Hi I have several questions about that excellent card and I'm afraid to abuse keropi's time since he has been so generous already at helping me setting it up in my computer. Now it's in a pentium 4, but who knows where it will be tomorrow since I'm always reorganizing my setup in an effort to …

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