Re: Terratec EWS64S synthesizer does not work
Posted on 2021-10-23, 18:09
Why don't you ask the seller? They should support you.
Re: Is there a way to prevent DOS games from changing your sb mixer settings?
Posted on 2021-10-23, 08:07
Performance loss is practically absolute zero unless you decide to refresh the values thousand of times per second which is meaningless. Especially considering the CPUs speed difference in the PC world mentioning the performance loss is simply a theoretical chewing gum . Plenty of interrupt sources …
Re: Is there a way to prevent DOS games from changing your sb mixer settings?
Posted on 2021-10-23, 07:44
Much simpler approach that will work even on XT machines is to periodically overwrite persistent mixer settings :) I am not much of a game player but how exactly do the games disrupt the mixer settings? By the way from all EMMs EMM386 sucks and its IO trapping API won't do any good with protected …
Re: DOSLIB Sound Blaster speed tests: What does the card *actually* do with the sample rate?
Posted on 2021-10-21, 20:16
Very interesting topic. Unfortunately the DSP 4.13 firmware hasn't been reversed and is used as-is within MAME for example. Too pity no other 4.xx firmware dumps are available. These tests also could indirectly reveal which SB clones used clean room reversing and which used directly the DSP firmware …
Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card
Posted on 2021-10-19, 08:49
MIC IN is a dedicated microphone input with all parts present on the path as per Crystal design documents. It cannot be used for any other input or switched to something else (to be used as an extra line-in for example, this will not work as copymaker found out) Stop copying others' designs and …
Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card
Posted on 2021-10-19, 03:55
I feel now mic port should be dedicated to mic gear and not suitable to use with other kinds of sound sources. I wouldn't use mic port for sake of normal line-in purpose anyway. I'm not sure about the nature of the noise, but trying that always entails some risk. The microphone input has additional …
Re: REQ: Audigy2 ZS Note Book PCMCIA Model SB0530 Driver CD
Posted on 2021-10-10, 03:03
I know, I kind of gave up on it, the ESS onboard card sounds really nice (although I can't use it under PURE DOS mode) You wouldn't have been able to use the SB0530 in "pure" DOS too...I have that PCMCIA SB0530 SB card. Do you want me to make an ISO image for you or at least compare it with that on …
Re: AWE64 Gold, Soundfonts and General MIDI in MS-DOS
Posted on 2021-10-09, 11:19
Jo_Jo, you are flooding the topic and you know it!
Re: AWE64 Gold, Soundfonts and General MIDI in MS-DOS
Posted on 2021-10-09, 11:06
We were discussing programming here, not fiddling with the GUI from a user's perspective. Moreover windows is not desired at all here!
Re: AWE64 Gold, Soundfonts and General MIDI in MS-DOS
Posted on 2021-10-09, 10:33
Here is an excerpt from the readme for the Creative's API: c) SF2 DOS library Now the AWEDIP comes with 2 sets of libraries. 1 to support SBK (SoundFont 1) and another set to support SF2 (SoundFont 2). Major differences between these 2 sets of libraries: SBKLIB SF2LIB ====== ====== i) NRPN support …
Re: AWE64 Gold, Soundfonts and General MIDI in MS-DOS
Posted on 2021-10-08, 16:48
Will it be really useful if you could load and play SF2 soundfonts under DOS? Which soundfonts that fit within the 28MB limit of the AWE's cards' RAM would you use? Isn't there a way to convert properly SF2 soundfonts to SBK format and use them that way? To my present info the only third party SBK …
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V
Posted on 2021-10-07, 21:31
New version 1.9 of DOS32AWE released, the download link is in the first message. Added Sim City 2000 fix which might be useful in other games too.
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V
Posted on 2021-10-06, 20:34
New version 1.8 of DOS32AWE released, the download link is in the first message. System Shock game is now working. The bug is in the game which for no apparent reason overwrites some interrupt vectors . The fix could be useful in other games too.
Re: Dreamblaster S2 General MIDI Daughterboard Review
Posted on 2021-10-06, 20:26
"Nice" is subjective. "Poor quality" also 😀. But if you think that "anything will make it better" just look at the gazillion clones (OPTi, aztech, etc. apart from yamaha and ess) and think once again if you can.
Re: Dreamblaster S2 General MIDI Daughterboard Review
Posted on 2021-10-06, 19:40
kolderman wrote on 2021-10-06, 18:58: Well the AWE64 value without ram expansion is one of the worst sound cards in existence so just about anything will make it better. On the contrary - it is good enough for those who have the wits to use it.
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V
Posted on 2021-10-06, 12:55
Gmlb256 wrote on 2021-10-06, 12:25: ...on this forum, it could rely on VCPI services. Of course, this happens when run under 386 EMM but it is solely the DOS extender that uses VCPI in that case and not the linear executable (.LE) of the game for sure.
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V
Posted on 2021-10-06, 07:05
...This obscure game is doesn't work well without EMM installed despite using DOS/4GW, so DOS32AWE can't be used on this game. The game is obscure because it is extremely buggy. Of course, it does not use expanded memory at all (try EMS:N qemm parameter) so it is unclear what it needs (ironically …
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V
Posted on 2021-10-05, 18:25
New version 1.7 of DOS32AWE released, the download link is in the first message. Finally Sim City 2000 is supposed to be working flawlessly. The bug is in the game which sometimes overwrites unallocated RAM . A spare buffer is dedicated now which handles such buggy behavior. Could be useful in other …
Re: Swaping DAC on SB16
Posted on 2021-09-30, 01:18
Lol, Whatever people want to do with their own hardware is their own business. I'd be throwing stones in glass houses if I started ripping into people for trying to improve/repair their hardware. I'd be certainly disappointed if people were deliberately trashing rare hardware for no good reason, …
Re: Swaping DAC on SB16
Posted on 2021-09-30, 00:42
:) not really a waste if you think about it. The features of a 2230 make it a superior card to a awe64 value in a few ways. Real opl3 vs atrocious cqm. Wavetable header. Not pnp. Also it doesn’t have bugs just like the aw64. Plus this make it low noise like the awe and the aw64 was a parts card I …
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