First post, by TelamonLivesOn
Hello All,
I have recently purchased an ESS Audiodrive 668F from eBay under the impression it was a 1688F (as advertised) to replace my Sound Blaster 16 Value, which suffers from bugs. It does come with free returns within 30 days, but I am curious as to whether I can get it to work or not. My plan is to connect a Roland SC-55mk2 to it through the game port. However, when trying the driver disks with the enmpu.exe file (I already installed emmset.exe and emmvol.exe), it tells me that there is no IDE CD-ROM (I have a Panasonic one connected). I also tried softmpu, which did not seem to work either. My current CD-ROM Drive can read files fine from DOS, but does not play music CD's from Windows. Strangely enough, games like DOOM seem to work fine with the built-in MIDI and sound effects. I eventually found the schematics for my specific model: https://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/i/I-L/51695.htm, but nothing is changing.
I know my post may be somewhat confusing, but does anyone know the best DMA, IRQ, TSR Software, etc for this? I am low on budget and cannot go out to buy much more. Let me know if there is any other information I can give.