Re: A3D 1.0: SB Live! vs. Aureal Vortex 1 quality

Posted on 2019-02-07, 17:47

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Welcome! A3D 1.0 was only a basic software HRTF implementation with some distance filtering, AU8820 Vortex 1 ASIC's do no have any hardware HRTF to accelerate A3D 1.0. Every other card that offers A3D 1.0 should be using the same algorithms Aureal licensed out at the time and should sound about the …

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Re: ASP403 - The Neverending Project

Posted on 2019-01-18, 18:03

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Crystal Dream doesn't work on the original Aureal DOS drivers. But works on the new ones. Sadly no, they aren't ready for prime time yet 😀 but progress is always a good thing. BUMP!!!

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Re: It's now illegal in Japan to mod your console :o(

Posted on 2019-01-14, 17:01

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And they plan to enforce this law on the million of consumers that have modded consoles how? this law ain't gonna last long...

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Re: Searching an old DOS game

Posted on 2018-12-18, 15:02

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Reminds me of Trugg by Digital Workshop, but that isn't really Jetpack like but does have a sideways perspective...hmmmm

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Re: Pure DOS gaming system with 100% digital audio output

Posted on 2018-12-09, 21:37

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[edit] The new S/PDIF tool I worked up is just a temporary fix for Stretch and shouldn't be used in general, so I'm removing the link here. a better fix will be in the new mixer tool update instead.

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Re: Pure DOS gaming system with 100% digital audio output

Posted on 2018-12-09, 19:49

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Ruthan, there is an MS-DOS mixer which enables SPDIF created by Zanquance at Release -New Aureal DOS Mixer Util- Unfortunately, I could not get SPDIF working properly with the utility in MS-DOS with my Superquad Vortex2. Recorded audio in Audacity just shows up as pure PCM noise, which I did not …

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Re: Turtle Beach Montego 2 S/PDIF Pin out ?

Posted on 2018-10-25, 20:20

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by ZanQuance

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Sorry for late reply //Montego II I2S jack //Top row //Pin2 = 0v //Pin4 = 0v //Pin6 = 1.63 sclk, S/PDIF //Pin8 = 0v //Bottom Row //Pin1 = 0v //Pin3 = 3.3 volts //Pin5 = 3.3 volts //Pin7 = 5 volts

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Re: Is it safe?

Posted on 2018-08-17, 16:23

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by ZanQuance

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Ask yourself instead this, does plastic stop CRT radiation from "leaking" out? answer: no it doesn't, it is purely cosmetic, as long as the tube itself isn't damaged you should be okay.

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Re: X58 (ICH10) PC+ Yamaha7x4 /AureaV1 Sound-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list+research+ultimate configs, WIP- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-08-13, 16:50

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by ZanQuance

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Well, maybe it was leaked or someone has/had NDA to get the secret documentation. "Yes that is true" -Magic Man, entrusted with is more accurate. Suffice to say you aren't missing much...everything is emulated in software, Aureal wanted to keep costs cheap and thus the Vortex family were made, no …

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Re: X58 (ICH10) PC+ Yamaha7x4 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list+research+ultimate branch configs, WIP- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-08-01, 17:42

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Aureal V1 (orchid one) at home - its working, even as advertised in Realmode. I never heard so bad midi (not really similar to original music at all), in comparison with Yamaha or Creative !Live is really awfull and to be noted that some people like Rayer, even say that Yamaha's midi is bad.. The …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 22:51

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1) will a bit reformulate my question, is there any paper specs / features with real effect how to compare sound cards which are working on modern systems (Core 2 or faster) in pure DOS, at least somehow? Not that I know of, most cards have their own unique SB compatibility layer, and have many …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 19:39

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Could you compare it with Yamaha 72x/74x or SB audigy / !Live /ESS Solo-1 have they also only 3 channels? No not really, the channel count is highly irrelevant, all I meant was that DOS SB support on the Vortex1 and Vortex2 are the same across both cards, as they "only" use 3 audio channels for …

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 15:17

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Still nobody answered what are difference between Aureal Vortex 1/2, Vortex 1 cards are cheaper, would be dos sound same as with Vortex 2 and difference is only with Windows 98 and later OSes? With Aureal what you see is what you get, in the product briefs they state the features as posted in the …

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Re: X58 PC+ Yamaha744 sound card-pure Dos7.1- compatibility list and research, work in progress- gurus needed

Posted on 2018-07-10, 17:58

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12) Only other Sound Card, which make sense to try on X58 machine is Aureal Vortex 2, im right? The AU8830 will only operate on newer machines if they still have LPC support on the chipset, looks like the X58 does. Legacy SB/Adlib ports are hardware captured and need to be accessible. The AU8830's …

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Re: Need help using both a Vortex 2 and SoundBlaster 16

Posted on 2018-06-04, 17:50

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Hello everyone :) Because the Vortex 2 TSR reads the initial settings every IRQ of the card, this fix has to be made to the TSR itself. Use this patched version and it shouldn't respond to any Adlib port r/w. [edit] Also I don't have any recording mixer settings implemented in that mixer utility …

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Re: Best Sensaura Implementation

Posted on 2018-04-30, 17:14

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by ZanQuance

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Here's my sensaura/a3d dll swapper setup, the batch files are set for c:\a3d\ so just extract the files there and put the bat files on the desktop for ease of use 😀 It has every Sensaura dll I could find

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Re: Best Sensaura Implementation

Posted on 2018-04-27, 18:34

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by ZanQuance

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Sorry you are all running into issues, I would love to help solve some of them but I had to put my Win98 machine up and finish a work deadline this week...I will try and help when I can. Just as a suggestion update HL to version 1.1.10 (1.1.12 gives me issues) it seems to work best with the DLL's I …

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Re: Best Sensaura Implementation

Posted on 2018-04-24, 21:11

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by ZanQuance

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Sensaura info does the job;attached below. Minerva is on this page

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Re: Crackling sound in some games with Aureal Vortex 2

Posted on 2018-04-23, 19:51

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by ZanQuance

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Half way down this article it shows the low-pass filter the Audigy2 applies. I replicated the issue on my machine and am tracing down where the crackles are actually spawning from. It occurs most often with 8-bit 11kHz audio samples. I also have cracking on my other soundcards, but I want to know …

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Re: Crackling sound in some games with Aureal Vortex 2

Posted on 2018-04-22, 22:38

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by ZanQuance

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If you look at the original quake wav in Audacity and the new one, and listen to them side by side you will hear and notice a clear difference between the two. The Audigy is performing a low-pass filter on the signal cutting out the high frequencies where the crackles are present in the original …

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