Condor.07 wrote on 2026-06-14, 23:34:

Any game with Vortex 1, only Music works, SFX never works. From what I understand I think the problem is with the motherboard, I have an AsRock X58 Extreme6. I think the only one is Yamaha. I should point out that the driver installs without any problems.

I just tried a Vortex 1 on my machine and it worked fine, both FM and SFX in real DOS. So it is probably a kink in your motherboard setup. Maybe try other PCI slots or play with IRQs (5 vs 7)...etc.

I also tried both SBEMU and VSBHDA and both failed miserably. SBEMU loads but hangs on the moment a game loads, and VSBHDA hangs on loading it in Autoexec.bat...

wbahnassi wrote on Yesterday, 19:12:

Condor.07 wrote on 2026-06-14, 23:34:

Any game with Vortex 1, only Music works, SFX never works. From what I understand I think the problem is with the motherboard, I have an AsRock X58 Extreme6. I think the only one is Yamaha. I should point out that the driver installs without any problems.

I just tried a Vortex 1 on my machine and it worked fine, both FM and SFX in real DOS. So it is probably a kink in your motherboard setup. Maybe try other PCI slots or play with IRQs (5 vs 7)...etc.

I also tried both SBEMU and VSBHDA and both failed miserably. SBEMU loads but hangs on the moment a game loads, and VSBHDA hangs on loading it in Autoexec.bat...

A while ago I put up a thread about what I observed when I revisited Aureal sound cards on newer boards (B75 in that case, as it still had native PCI).

IMO the issue with Aureal cards is more IRQ than DMA. Its DMA emulation trick is the only one that works with newer chipsets, but its IRQ tricks can be hit-or-miss among chipsets and board configurations. On some boards (a G41 board of mine) it worked perfectly fine, but in most cases the sound would keep looping.

Probably you need to make the PCI sound card use the same IRQ you're going to configure for SBPro emulation. However, most modern boards do not offer options to manipulate such and they usually make PCI/PCIe slots use only IRQs 10 and 11, while leaving other IRQs to onboard appliances (USB, Network, HDA, etc.).

BTW: I wonder if anyone had figured out how Aureal's driver installation in Win9x detect whether the card is on a "primary" or "secondary" PCI slot? Apparently, Aureal's Win9x drivers are intelligent enough about configurations that will not make SBPro emulation work properly (so-called being on "secondary" PCI slot), and will disable SBPro emulation by default in such circumstances.

Unfortunately, I've tried everything with Vortex!
Disabled all BIOS support
IRQ 5-7...
Change PCI slots
Nothing, nothing, nothing...
Sbemu and VBSHDA work with their limitations in some games; even Roland MT-32 emulation works on Monkey Island

As for Hackintosh, I'll tell you right away that on an X58 you can get up to the latest version of Catalina 10.15.8; later versions are practically out!
In my case, OpenCore doesn't work, only with Clover, and not even the latest versions.

As a guide, just follow this: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/unibeast-i … ased-pc.285366/

The hard part isn't installing it, but creating the USB stick.
Any guide you find won't work on Windows or even MacOS Mx.

The only way to create it is to have a previous MacOS installed. I installed Sierra High in VBox and then followed the guide above.

This way, it will work perfectly!
For the graphics card, I recommend AMD; if you want Nvidia, you can go up to 10XX.

Then, once the installation is complete, you can add something with Clover Editor.
For example, I boot everything from GRUB2, so Clover is practically invisible when MacOS starts.