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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-14, 19:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

And the sound is exactly the same as with AWEUTIL. That is only true if you use the SYNTHGM.SBK file provided by creative. As I said previously, that file is so small because it simply maps the instrument patches to existing samples in the card's ROM. If you load a real soundfont in its place, you …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-14, 18:59

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-10, 16:27

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Work in progress (when time permits). This is just an interesting fact. When using IRQ 5 the DMX sound engine (which is used by DOOMs) is very stable (under clean DOS - no time for memory managers tests right now). The whole concept is meant to be changed. By the way the most available way to change …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-10, 04:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For DOOM I discovered that if your AWE card is set to any other IRQ other than IRQ 5, this leads to instability. Still investigating. I guess any DMX sound engine game should be stable like this. Doesn't make any sense, DOOM (or any game that uses the DMX sound engine) should run stable regardless …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-09, 21:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For DOOM I discovered that if your AWE card is set to any other IRQ other than IRQ 5, this leads to instability. Still investigating. I guess any DMX sound engine game should be stable like this.

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-08, 17:51

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

How do you load this bank with AWEUTIL? Are you sure you are not working under Windows? Renamed the bank to SYNTHGM.SBK and loaded it with the option /EM:GM. Not running Windows, modified MSDOS.SYS to boot directly into DOS. Does it sound differently that Creative's soundbanks? The DOOM 1 and 2 …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-08, 04:57

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Kamerat wrote on 2021-09-07, 23:29: FANTA_General MIDI bank 2 (FANTAGM2.SBK) How do you load this bank with AWEUTIL? Are you sure you are not working under Windows?

Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2021-09-07, 20:53

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in SoftMPU

My first impression from SoftMPU (1.91) is too bad -- it is not compatible with the AWEUTIL (when loaded as TSR with /EM:xxx) - the Creative's semi-software MIDI emulator for AWE sound blasters under DOS.

Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2021-09-03, 18:53

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in SoftMPU

Question: has anybody tried using SoftMPU with the 386MAX memory manager? And if so, did it work? 386MAX is supposed to be compatible with the I/O port trapping API of Microsoft EMM386. I'm asking this, since 386MAX might eventually be made open source, and bundled with FreeDOS. See https:// …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-03, 01:09

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Gmlb256 wrote on 2021-09-02, 18:31: georgel wrote on 2021-09-02, 18:30: Gmlb256, is the BIOS of your Socket 7 motherboard AMI? Award BIOS. Now, with the latest BEFORE_A.COM your problem should have been resolved. All motherboards work now for hours.

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 20:36

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The archive in the first message was updated. Only BEFORE_A.COM file within the archive was updated but the fix is functionally significant. @digger, no DOS extender is designed to work only in PL0. How do you think they work in a Windows DOS box for example?

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 18:30

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Gmlb256, is the BIOS of your Socket 7 motherboard AMI?

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 17:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I hardly could be the person who can reverse these proprietary .sbk AWEUTIL formats considering the fact that nobody else has done it for the last some 30 years...I think they were meant to be hard to reverse in order to keep the .sbk creators from possible stupid lawsuits for bank copyright issues.

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 15:40

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

This is after using AWEUTIL as TSR and rebooting the computer after the issue (I do that kind of thing to verify stability), otherwise I won't be testing, reporting and posting here at all. Thank you for testing but if you remove dependent modules that are meant to be part of one whole set-up you …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 15:11

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

jesolo's desire for alternative 3rd party MIDI softbanks and/or converter from/to other formats is completely offtopic!

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 14:52

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The I/O channel check error happens every time when I attempt to run the game without using AWEUTIL for MIDI emulation Doesn't thas mean you are not installing AWEUTIL? Why would you use DOS32AWE if you are not using AWEUTIL for MIDI, there is no reason for this. Please double check for the other …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 14:35

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The behavior you describe without AWEUTIL installed as TSR (which is a must in our case) is normal. DOS32AWE is meant to be used ONLY with preinstalled as TSR AWEUTIL. Otherwise use the ordinary DOS Extender. If you don't install AWEUTIL there is no program to handle the CPU part of the MIDI …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 14:24

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Did testing with the new version yesterday. DOS32AWE still crashes after time passes even if I executed BEFORE_A.COM (what tweaks it does to improve stability?) prior starting AWEUTIL as a TSR. Also the actual MPU-401 found on the AWE64 (thru gameport) get messed up that I can't use it (got a I/O …

Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2021-09-02, 10:10

in SoftMPU

in SoftMPU

Question: has anybody tried using SoftMPU with the 386MAX memory manager? And if so, did it work? 386MAX is supposed to be compatible with the I/O port trapping API of Microsoft EMM386. I'm asking this, since 386MAX might eventually be made open source, and bundled with FreeDOS. See https:// …

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode

Posted on 2021-09-02, 09:01

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

What about earlier protected mode games -- do they use SysEX messages; give an example of such game , please? I've never insisted on using MT32 .sbk instead of GM .sbk where inappropriate, don't get me wrong. Just my testing setup for the DOS32AWE was that and for the project debugging it was …

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