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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2019-06-02, 21:45

Tiido wrote: WSS works on purely 8bit bus so having only 8bit slot doesn't preclude it. I mean 8-bit DAC/ADC, not 8-bit bus. WSS may only use 8-bit bus, but it surely supports 16-bit DAC/ADC. Which means the table in this post is wrong about WSS support, at least for those cards with no 16-bit …

Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2019-06-02, 17:14

Practically all of the 1st generation sound cards supports Adlib, Sound Blaster Pro II, Windows Sound System, Disney Sound Source & Covox Speech Thing. The Sound Galaxy NXPro, NXPro16 & Pro16/Basic16 definitely supports all of the above standards, but I'm not 100 % sure of the BXII, NXII & later …

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-30, 09:14

Neither Arkanoid 2 nor Bubble Bobble use SOUND.COM However, it's a good idea to try SOUND.COM, and some games which uses it (eg. Locomotion), to see if they properly detect and operate Adlib.

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-29, 14:53

Well, there may be some incompatibility. I recall playing Arkanoid 2 with some ESS card - worked fine, but I reckon it was ES1869. Anyway, make sure that ESS card is properly initialized: ESSCFG, ESSVOL, or something like that.

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-29, 14:20

Bubble Bobble doesn't detect sound card either, instead reads config from BUBBOB.CFG Delete that file, and then it should ask what devices to use.

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-29, 13:13

OK, just had a look... Arkanoid 2 doesn't detect sound card, for Adlib you need to run it with "ark2 a" command, then the config is stored in DOH.CFG, so next time you need no command line parameters.

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-29, 12:54

SBFMDRV is used by some Creative's software bundled with early Sound Blasters, I forgot what exactly, perhaps Intelligent Organ and/or PLAYCMF ? As for some games not detecting Adlib... maybe the machine you're running them on is too fast?

Re: PC-DOS 7.1 and WfW 3.11

Posted on 2019-05-26, 03:50

The likes of Instant File Access and modded File Manager certainly prove MS ware telling fibs about win3.* accessing fat32 drives. I think you're mistaking two different things: - type of FAT filesystem (FAT12/FAT16/FAT32) - support for long file names File Manager doesn't access disks directly, so …

Re: SVGA diagnostics software

Posted on 2019-05-26, 02:10

X-VESA seems interesting indeed, but there's one problem - it uses a non-standard 90x30 text mode for menus, and I've already found one card where that mode fails to work correctly. So I'm still looking...

Re: SVGA diagnostics software

Posted on 2019-05-25, 04:39

The above don't seem to perform video memory test, and this is the most important feature I'm looking for. I want something like MemTest86 (comprehensive testing using various patterns), but for video RAM, rather than system RAM.

Re: SVGA diagnostics software

Posted on 2019-05-25, 00:31

Jo22 wrote: On DOS ? Dr. Hardware ? Looks like just a sysinfo program, I can't see any options to test video RAM integrity, or enter various video modes. VBETEST (a part of UniVBE) seems OK for testing various video modes, but I can't see it doing any video RAM tests.

SVGA diagnostics software

Posted on 2019-05-24, 23:49

I'm looking for some program to test various SVGA cards - mostly ISA, VLB, and early PCI ones. The program must run under pure DOS. Ideally, I want something like Checkit 3.0, ie. test video memory, and display some test patterns in all the modes. And small enough to fit on a 1.44MB diskette along …

Re: Where to get bracket for Vibra 16S?

Posted on 2019-05-23, 11:32

Is the speaker out for PC speaker output? Because the card itself contains PC speaker in connector. No. Sound cards typically have one of these (or both) outputs: - line out, where you connect an external amplifier - speaker out, which comes from the card's built-in amplifier, so it can drive …

Re: Where to get bracket for Vibra 16S?

Posted on 2019-05-22, 22:17

EDIT: I don't think you are necessarily missing components. Based on a quick comparison, your card just lacks and IDE header (with its corresponding logic chips) and a speaker out connector (with its two capacitors). These were sometimes purposely omitted from some cards to save costs. Indeed, I've …

Re: Where to get bracket for Vibra 16S?

Posted on 2019-05-22, 20:16

That card seems to lack more than just a bracket - also a bunch of capacitors, and a transistor. A complete CT2800 looks like this - http://hw.fagear.ru/wp-content/uploads/20140413_615962.jpg Probably not worthy of spending any resources to fix it...

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