Re: In search of Dr Riptide sound setup?

Posted on 2016-09-19, 00:37

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by ZanQuance

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There isn't any, the game detects the SoundBlaster automatically. PCspeaker as per the readme is forced with -pcsound added to the command line. Make sure the SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 is set before running the game, sometimes games don't like the space between BLASTER and the equals sign.

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-18, 11:11

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by ZanQuance

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AU30DOS.com requires that the environment variable be set pointing to where the AU30DOS.ini file resides so unremark the WINBOOTDIR=C:\WINDOWS in the autoexec.bat or manually type in: SET WINBOOTDIR=C:\WINDOWS into the command line and then load AU30DOS.com I presume since MP3's work that there is …

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Re: A3D 2.0 and EAX cards together in one machine?

Posted on 2016-09-17, 23:24

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by ZanQuance

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Yes and no, it isn't a full supported emulation/re-implementation of A3D 2.0, but it does make use of the geometry exposed by the games designed for A3D 2/3.0 When a game is designed for A3D 2.0's WaveTracing, a second smaller subset of level geometry is provided for WaveTracing to calculate …

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-17, 22:02

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by ZanQuance

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Yeah this is a strange problem indeed. The core looks okay from the dumb diag util, so the registers at least read and write. There could be other hardware issues preventing the final mixed output. Does it play sound okay under DOS games, using the AU30DOS.com? The Audio chain looks like this by …

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Re: A3D 2.0 and EAX cards together in one machine?

Posted on 2016-09-17, 21:44

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by ZanQuance

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It's one or the other and you'll have to do what that thread talks about and enable/disable the card you won't be using. They can coexist but will not work in tandem together. The solution is a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, or Game Theater XP which use Sensaura on the CS4630 DSP and will allow you to …

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Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going

Posted on 2016-09-17, 21:36

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by ZanQuance

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You mentioned a side scroller. Try it out with the techier guys who introduced themselves earlier. See what comes out of it and if you manage to have something playable. Note : "playable" here only needs to be a red cube that the player controls with arrows and press space to jump. In a test level. …

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-17, 07:13

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by ZanQuance

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Your AU8830 core appears to be just fine. Definitely try it out on another system.

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-17, 00:59

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by ZanQuance

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I've updated the utility to be a bit more thorough and removed a potential cause of a lockup. Run this version and post the log. This should now definitively tell if the hardware is okay or not.

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-17, 00:15

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by ZanQuance

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Ok your diag looks clean without any issues. Your on a high IRQ 11, while this "normally" shouldn't be the cause of any problems in general, you might try forcing it to a lower IRQ (5 or 7) in the bios for Windows 98 and see if that helps. There might be some known issues surrounding single PCI and …

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Re: Age of Mythology (what is the code to start it)

Posted on 2016-09-16, 06:59

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by ZanQuance

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xyzzy

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-16, 06:55

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by ZanQuance

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Run the included batch file not just the exe, or type in au30diag > diag.txt If it's not a software issue I strongly suspect that it's hardware. Check the card and also the motherboards PCI-X contacts and clean them if needed. Thanks but no need to post those software install/boot logs as they won't …

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-15, 20:28

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by ZanQuance

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Ok no problems, catcha later then

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-15, 20:07

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by ZanQuance

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In your first screenshot it locked up while testing the CrossTalk cells. In the second it completed okay but that's just the end of the card in the Equalizer area, there are many cells marked with default dead code and other funny hex messages, so no worries if you see those. It's not going to be a …

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Re: DOS screenshot and animated GIF database

Posted on 2016-09-14, 23:56

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by ZanQuance

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Bwahaha the Prince of Persia gif 🤣 [edit]wait...the gif keeps changing around as I page forward and back. Neat! the one I 🤣'ed at was the one with him getting chomped sliced over and over again.

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 problems

Posted on 2016-09-14, 23:05

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by ZanQuance

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Sorry, would have responded sooner but didn't feel too well yesterday. Run the attached (batch file) dumb diagnostic utility I whipped up ***"UNDER DOS ONLY"*** and post (attach) back the text file it generates. It's dumb because it does brute force writes to the registers and outputs those with …

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Re: Adlib sound.com

Posted on 2016-09-12, 23:18

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by ZanQuance

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Thanks, I'll keep using the old Aureal TSR as a reference for the new one. If the disassembly pops up send it my way, I'd like to compare as a reference for accuracy.

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Re: My Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 Review

Posted on 2016-09-12, 20:38

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by ZanQuance

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To minimize the "clicking after sample playback", you can try by disabling your high DMA channel (usually channel 5) and only use the low DMA channel (use the Diagnose utility for that). I experienced the same symptoms on my AWE32 CT3980 (which also has the CT1747 chip) and disabling the high DMA …

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Adlib sound.com

Posted on 2016-09-12, 02:01

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by ZanQuance

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Since I've gotten back to working on the new Aureal DOS drivers, I've been attempting to get my TSR detecting properly in each game and SB test applications. Today I was looking into writing the wrapper routines for sound.com, what all did sound.com actually do for the Adlib cards? Was the inner …

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Re: SoundBlaster (SB0570) aka Audigy SE/LS in DOS?

Posted on 2016-09-09, 20:36

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by ZanQuance

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As far as I know there isn't any support for that card in DOS. A live! would be recommended instead.

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Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going

Posted on 2016-09-08, 23:06

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by ZanQuance

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A point and click adventure would be fun. Or an escape the room game before a Vogon reads his poetry 😉 😉 I'd love to help, but I've dedicated all my time into this Aureal project of mine.

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