First post, by Oerg866
Hi,
please find my latest creation here:
https://github.com/oerg866/via_ac97.866
VIA_AC97.866 is a driver and mixer configuration program for MS-DOS that lets you configure Legacy Audio features of VIA motherboard south bridges, found on many old VIA-based motherboards in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
These chipsets have hardware-based legacy audio support, with lackluster and barely functional vendor-provided drivers.
VIA_AC97.866 does not need a TSR to enable basic Sound Blaster, MIDI and Game Port functionality.
In addition, this program lets you change the volume mixer settings, which the VIA drivers do not support.
Without parameters, it uses the values configured by the BIOS and only powers up and unmutes the audio codec.
Additional configuration can be done using command line parameters.
V97TSR is also available, which is a VIAFMTSR.EXE replacement with a much newer and more accurate FM core to provide a much better OPL3 experience.
I have repsoted it in the Sound forum and deleted the original post because it's more fitting.
Hope it is useful to you!
Best,
Eric