First post, by FAMICOMASTER
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Hello again all.
I'm trying to get a PAS16 SCSI to work in my 286. By the looks of it, it's a PnP card.
This is the variant I am using: http://www.uncreativelabs.de/th99/i/M-O/53365.htm
I'm using the drivers from the driver library, and while they used to crash they now give mixed results.
No software can use it at all in any mode. No AdLib, no SoundBlaster, no PAS support works, DOS or Windows. When in the Customer Diagnostics program, however, it will (sometimes) detect the right board as a Pro Audio Spectrum (sometimes it detects Thunderboard, sometimes it detects various other makes and models that are not what I have installed). On a further chance, it will play digital samples flawlessly in 8- and 16-bit, with 11 and 22khz, and in mono or stereo. It also works in the 8-bit SoundBlaster emulation mode. This only happens in the diagnostics program.
FM support doesn't even exist - Just silence in every AdLib game I've tried. Loading the "FM.COM" TSR in the diagnostics folder will cause most games to hang or the system to reboot on launch. In the diagnostic software, it will produce some "sounds," a mix of garbled instruments followed by long pauses of silence.
I don't have any games that use the joystick, but the diagnostics program has what I would call a seizure. Joystick A flashes around the screen constantly and even exceeds the possible range shown. Joystick B is stuck pointing up and left forever. I don't even own a working joystick to connect to see if it would help - I have a Gravis Gamepad in storage that works, and a bunch of other joysticks from the Apple ][ era which probably do not work anymore. Sometimes, the joystick test program will actually play sound through what sounds like FM.
What the hell is going on with this card? Should I try a different driver? I recorded some of this phenomena and I'm uploading to YouTube right now so that I can post it here. In the meantime here are a couple pictures: