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UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.82a

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Reply 780 of 790, by 80386SX

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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

Reply 781 of 790, by AncapDude

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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.

Reply 782 of 790, by TgamesFR

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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 =).

Reply 783 of 790, by JazeFox

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TgamesFR wrote on 2025-10-28, 07:14:
Hi @JazeFox, thanks for your tool who is great. […]
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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

Before posting, please, read the FAQ in the first post and TXT! IT's important if you want a good support. Thanks!
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Reply 784 of 790, by TgamesFR

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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.

Reply 785 of 790, by MartinausWien

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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!

Reply 786 of 790, by Tiido

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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.

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Reply 787 of 790, by MartinausWien

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Tiido wrote on Yesterday, 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).

Reply 788 of 790, by keropi

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MartinausWien wrote on Yesterday, 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

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Reply 789 of 790, by MartinausWien

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keropi wrote on Yesterday, 15:46:
MartinausWien wrote on Yesterday, 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.

Reply 790 of 790, by TheIpex

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