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

Posted on 2024-04-10, 20:18

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Is the same bug present in the Orpheus II or does it use an alternate crystal chip without the bug? Just curious. No, the Orpheus II line incorporates fairly extensive hardware-level changes, as well as specific software support, to get around the problem. The design is still based on the same …

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

Posted on 2024-04-09, 20:44

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The problem with PCM volume is well-known. Please see my old response with details here . Also, it is important to keep in mind that, in Sound Blaster mode, most volume levels range from 0 (mute) to 7 (maximum volume); 8 is not a valid value. All entries are in a separate SB mixer section, and all …

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

Posted on 2024-04-05, 13:57

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There are a few important points to consider related to the recent discussion. Most importantly, a setting of WTHeaderVol=0 will not mute that source; a value of 0 means maximum amplification. Only in WSS mode , the appropriate setting would be WTHeaderVol=mute . If mode=sb (which is the detault), …

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Re: OPN music on an ISA sound card?

Posted on 2024-03-22, 16:10

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I think the main issue with OPL4 with computers is that Creative had no interest in it. Let's not give Creative more credit than they deserve. Had the OPL 4 arrived earlier, I suspect it would have dominated; I think Yamaha was just too complacent in raking in the profits from the YMF262 and …

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Re: Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-22, 15:06

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Ordinarily, IWSBOS is a separate executable, and is installed as part of the standard UltraSound PnP installation. This was the InterWave replacement for the older SBOS, and the tools were usually installed under C:\GRAVIS\ULTRASND by default.

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Re: Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-22, 06:58

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If an InterWave-based card is appropriately configured via IWINIT, the included IWSBOS will usually enable the features that you seek. Some things that use the original Ad Lib instrument definitions don't sound altogether terrible; for most things, the result is either laughably bad or unapologetic …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

Posted on 2024-03-03, 23:29

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This is certainly strange. Just so we know what we're dealing with, is the system generally stable otherwise? What is the speed of the 80286? Do you have another machine in which you can try the sound card, and does it work there? Since nothing else has worked, maybe you can try the latest release …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

Posted on 2024-03-02, 22:39

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When rebooting, I get to here, after which my computer hangs (and will not reboot even on ctrl-alt-del): Please help me, dear people of Vogons! Welcome to the forum! Hopefully you'll find that it's a useful, welcoming place, as many of us do. Only JazeFox could tell you for sure (and he seems …

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Re: The LlamaBlaster

Posted on 2024-01-15, 18:17

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Yeah I was thinking I'd need to isolate the CS/MCU from the rest of the bus while doing the initialization, and then attach them when done. A challenge with this is that the Crystal chip exposes so many address lines, in addition to the 8 data lines. This kinda smells like a pin-heavy cpld, if one …

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Re: The LlamaBlaster

Posted on 2024-01-15, 01:39

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Besides running the initialization routine, what other possibilities (if any) did you have in mind? One thing that is fairly popular with some people here is full jumper-based configuration. An MCU would let you read the desired configuration and apply it at boot, while (potentially) still allowing …

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Re: The LlamaBlaster

Posted on 2024-01-14, 22:52

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I'm not quite sure what you're planning for this yet, but it sounds like it can offer some interesting and unique possibilities. Having an MCU of some description that can insert itself in the CS4237's bus cycles could potentially allow one to get rid of some of its lingering annoyances. I have been …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

Posted on 2024-01-02, 17:03

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Feliksas wrote on 2024-01-02, 13:35: Greetings! Is there a source code available for this software? JazeFox has said, on more than one occasion, that he has not released, and does not intend to release, the UNISOUND source code.

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

Posted on 2023-12-16, 20:57

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Thanks for the fast reply. It's listed and not muted. Windows used to have a SB Live inside of it but everything else works fine? EDIT: ok, weird, Line-in works but NOT if I play a DOS game in Windows. I was testing with DOOM and get no music at all. If I play a MIDI in Windows, it DOES go through …

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

Posted on 2023-11-20, 06:18

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I had a quick look through all of this, and there is definitely something strange going on. The DUMP report shows what we already knew: the PnP BIOS didn't find or report any cards. So, the fact remains that even the BIOS designed for those boards cannot consistently find any PnP ISA devices. When …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2023-10-31, 01:36

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I thought I'd give an update on PicoGUS 2.0: boards are now in production at JLCPCB. I hope to get them by next week! Also, I have quotes out with some sheet metal bracket fabricators for a metal bracket for PicoGUS 2.0. That will raise the selling cost of PicoGUS 2.0 from $40 to $45, but I think a …

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

Posted on 2023-10-03, 05:00

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Speaking of which, the "TYPE" variable in SET - it's defaulted to 4 - can this be set to say TYPE 6? and is Orpheus II only SB Pro compatible and not SB16 compatible? The CS4237 provides compatibility with the second-generation (single OPL3) Sound Blaster Pro, so T4 is correct. You could set it to …

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

Posted on 2023-10-03, 04:57

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Figured it out, was entirely user error. I had set my oplirq to 7 in the orphinit ini. It was leftover from when I was testing/trying to resolve a conflict with a different device. The FM synth can have an IRQ assigned, but there is basically no reason to do so, as virtually no software ever made …

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

Posted on 2023-10-01, 04:40

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The Audiotrix Pro used a Crystal CS4231, so I suspect the drivers aren't doing anything TOO funny for the newer chip on the Orpheus cards. That's the key detail: the Sierra/Mediatrix driver works , but some of it is kind of sloppy or questionable, and doesn't support all of the less common …

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

Posted on 2023-10-01, 04:32

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I know someone who just got one of these [1] for 329 CAN$ + taxes and shipping . If your wife's needs are relatively modest, you can spend a little more time looking and find Intel-based machines for less. Just as an extra development machine for these purposes, that's likely the approach I will …

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

Posted on 2023-09-30, 06:31

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640K!enough here are the two files. I had a look at the two files, and it is indeed a peculiar problem. In the first case, it seems to behave perfectly. Then, with that adaptor installed on the secondary channel , the Crystal device doesn't enumerate or respond at all to any type of initialisation …

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