Hi JazeFox, just upping your topic because your tool is great.
That was so convenient!
Just tried and runned your binary and the sound card was initialized nicely.
Changed my retro pc life : just added it in autoexec.bat and that's all.
Tested with Vibra16C and CMI8330.
Thanksssss

I had troube using a non-pnp awe32 with a etherlink III pnp. The Tool always initialized the etherlink as unknown card type, until I discovered the /NOPNP option. I use this Tool on every dos install and Boot disk it is so awesome.

Hi @JazeFox, thanks for your tool who is great.

I've reported a issue with the Yamaha YMF719E-S in August about the DMA of the WSS part of the card who is not changeable using Unisound (only works with Yamaha og initializer).
The DMA is forced to 3 (whatever setting i put in SET BLASTER) and all games need DMA 1, only a very few accept to change to DMA 3.
For reference i've used this config : SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 H1 P330 W530 Q5 K1

Can you check on the issue when you have time ?
Thanks =).

TgamesFR wrote on 2025-10-28, 07:14:

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Hi @JazeFox, thanks for your tool who is great.

I've reported a issue with the Yamaha YMF719E-S in August about the DMA of the WSS part of the card who is not changeable using Unisound (only works with Yamaha og initializer).
The DMA is forced to 3 (whatever setting i put in SET BLASTER) and all games need DMA 1, only a very few accept to change to DMA 3.
For reference i've used this config : SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 H1 P330 W530 Q5 K1

Can you check on the issue when you have time ?
Thanks =).

Thank you and the other users for your words 😀

About Yamaha YMF71x, no issue there. DMA sharing between WSS and SB is a problem with Yamaha cards. Unisound prevents that.
To solve your issue, change the SB DMA to something different than 1 and then set H to 1, example:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 T4 H1 P330 W530

JazeFox wrote on 2025-10-28, 08:56:

About Yamaha YMF71x, no issue there. DMA sharing between WSS and SB is a problem with Yamaha cards. Unisound prevents that.
To solve your issue, change the SB DMA to something different than 1 and then set H to 1, example:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 T4 H1 P330 W530

Hi JazeFox, thanks for your reply.

Indeed now games who request DMA 1 works !

Fun fact, games configured for DMA 3 still works too, prob they auto fallback to DMA 1 if not found as it's the standard DMA for WSS.

Best Regards.

Hello, one week ago I got a IBM ThinkPad ED 380ED with CS4236B and I tried to install the old DOS Lemming games. Lemmings 1 and 2 works complete fine with sound. Unfortunately Lemmings 3D has sound driver errors, it only runs without sound. So I try it with unisound and to my surprise it does not detect a PNP Card altough I think it should be (Attachments). I think the problem is that the notebook has not a real soundcard? Please apologize I am really a rookie! Best regards!

UNISOUND can only be ran from pure DOS, doing things from within Windows is always going to fail.

It looks like you have a resource conflict with LPT port.

Tiido wrote on 2025-11-02, 12:26:

UNISOUND can only be ran from pure DOS, doing things from within Windows is always going to fail.

It looks like you have a resource conflict with LPT port.

Thank you for reply. I made a dos boot Floppy disk, unfortunatly with no better success (Attachments).

MartinausWien wrote on 2025-11-02, 15:42:

Thank you for reply. I made a dos boot Floppy disk, unfortunatly with no better success (Attachments).

try to disable the LPT1 port from BIOS (or jumpers on motherboard/i-o controller for older systems) only this will free IRQ7 and you will get rid of the resource conflict

keropi wrote on 2025-11-02, 15:46:

MartinausWien wrote on 2025-11-02, 15:42:

Thank you for reply. I made a dos boot Floppy disk, unfortunatly with no better success (Attachments).

try to disable the LPT1 port from BIOS (or jumpers on motherboard/i-o controller for older systems) only this will free IRQ7 and you will get rid of the resource conflict

Thank you, Bios is only for looking, I do not open the notebook for searching jumpers. In Win 95 it is possible to change IRQ to 5 for Audio but it is not possible to change LPT1 (Attachements). With A220 I5 D1 H1 P330 no PnP Card detected.

Thanks for creating this driver @JazeFox. I'm playing around with multiple sound cards and it's been extremely useful.

MartinausWien wrote on 2025-11-02, 17:55:

In Win 95 it is possible to change IRQ to 5 for Audio but it is not possible to change LPT1 (Attachements). With A220 I5 D1 H1 P330 no PnP Card detected.

Firstly, what Tiido said is correct: UNISOUND is only for pure DOS use; running it to re-configure hardware after Windows has finished initialising it is asking for trouble.

I have discussed similar IBM designs with others, and the conclusion seems to be the same: they don't leave the Crystal sound hardware in a mode where Plug and Play support is enabled. Since UNISOUND doesn't support the CS4236 or CS4237 in any other mode, it will never work, even in pure DOS. Some other solution will be required. You may have to try using the actual Crystal software.

Hi,

I have a MK1869 XTREME but am having issues with the AMD InterWave Gravis Ultrasound portion. ESS is working fine with no issues so far.

When a game's digital audio is set to the GUS, the PC will either freeze or become extremely slow when digital audio is being played.

When a game's MIDI music is set to the GUS, it works fine with no issues.

By game, I mean 'The Gene Machine' specifically. The PC freezes when launching Doom. Tomb Raider 1 has no audio. However Jazz Jackrabbit is working fine with GUS.

My mobo is using a bridge chip for ISA, ITE 8888, and there are previous reports of users having compatibility issues with GUS and this chip;
[SOLVED, sort of] Doom and doom 2 freeze at "calling DMX_Init" with GUS PnP (ITE 8888 bridge)

Before I write off my motherboard and downgrade to something else, I am wondering if this sort of issue could be resolved with a driver update within Unisound? Or is it a fundamental issue with the bridge chip and impossible to fix?

640K!enough wrote on 2025-11-04, 18:56:

MartinausWien wrote on 2025-11-02, 17:55:

In Win 95 it is possible to change IRQ to 5 for Audio but it is not possible to change LPT1 (Attachements). With A220 I5 D1 H1 P330 no PnP Card detected.

Firstly, what Tiido said is correct: UNISOUND is only for pure DOS use; running it to re-configure hardware after Windows has finished initialising it is asking for trouble.

I have discussed similar IBM designs with others, and the conclusion seems to be the same: they don't leave the Crystal sound hardware in a mode where Plug and Play support is enabled. Since UNISOUND doesn't support the CS4236 or CS4237 in any other mode, it will never work, even in pure DOS. Some other solution will be required. You may have to try using the actual Crystal software.

Thank you for this information. I tried to use VDMSounds but failed in Win95. No Problem, I have an other old Notebook with WinXP and there 3D Lemmings works with sound when it started in Win95 Mode. And at my latest Notebook Lemmings Revolution works when started in WinXPPack3 Mode. So now I have a Solution for every Lemmings Game! In Dos Box Lemmings 3D was too slow in comparision with original.