It should work by connecting the output of the PicoGUS into the line-in port of the AWE64 Legacy and the WP32-McCake sound is fed through the WaveBlaster connector. The only thing that you should be worrying is about setting the resources for both sound cards.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-11-06, 03:40:

It should work by connecting the output of the PicoGUS into the line-in port of the AWE64 Legacy and the WP32-McCake sound is fed through the WaveBlaster connector. The only thing that you should be worrying is about setting the resources for both sound cards.

You mean I/O port address, IRQ, and DMA? Do cards with multiple sound chips typically share the same resources? For example the PicoGUS has support for GUS, Tandy 3-voice sound, and I think an OPL2.

Do I need to worry about having an OPL3 on the AWE64 and an OPL2 on the PicoGUS. I think both cards also support an MPU-401 (I need to double check). So long as the port, IRQ, and DMA don't collide between ISA cards, I should be good?

thisIsLoneWolf wrote on 2023-11-06, 05:44:

So long as the port, IRQ, and DMA don't collide between ISA cards, I should be good?

Yes. In the PicoGUS don't use the AdLib and MPU-401 emulations.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-11-06, 13:10:

thisIsLoneWolf wrote on 2023-11-06, 05:44:

So long as the port, IRQ, and DMA don't collide between ISA cards, I should be good?

Yes. In the PicoGUS don't use the AdLib and MPU-401 emulations.

Can you disable the parts of PicoGUS you don't want to use?

Now I just have to hope I can still purchase these cards.

thisIsLoneWolf wrote on 2023-11-06, 16:02:

Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-11-06, 13:10:

thisIsLoneWolf wrote on 2023-11-06, 05:44:

So long as the port, IRQ, and DMA don't collide between ISA cards, I should be good?

Yes. In the PicoGUS don't use the AdLib and MPU-401 emulations.

Can you disable the parts of PicoGUS you don't want to use?

It depends which firmware is currently loaded on the PicoGUS, you will be likely using the GUS one in most situations.

thisIsLoneWolf wrote on 2023-11-06, 16:02:

Now I just have to hope I can still purchase these cards.

You should have no problem getting a PicoGUS, but the AWE64 Legacy seems less certain. Last update in the official Legacy thread was in 2022.

I’m running with a picogus paired with a Als100 card using a s2 wave table card
The picogus output goes into the line in of the other card
Just have make sure address/irq/dma are different

Pickle, when using Tandy 3-voice sound on the PicoGUS, does the digital playback work? Tandys usually had 3-voice + DAC.

well until tonight i havnt tried any tandy stuff. So going off the wiki i needed to use tndy redirect and maybe patch. Found that eye of the beholder did not need to be patched.
tndy wouldnt run with emm386, so expanded only and the default tndy options worked. That produced the beeps and boops.
But reading you comment is about a dac option which sounds different? Is there a specific game that uses it?

Outrun uses the Tandy DAC.

Many of the old Sierra games took advantage of the Tandy DAC for sound effects.