First post, by ux-3
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I've just read the "best to worst" thread in the PC section (for the (n+1)th time), but decided not to pollute it with my individual concerns. So I start a thread here.
I am in the process of building a Pentium 2-slowdown PC for backward DOS compatibility. Ideally, it will have two ISA ports.
I currently face two problems in the sound department
1. Making choices and
2. getting them to work
Since 1. is very difficult, I started out with 2., hoping to see what can be done in the first place. I don't get that to work either. So I need help with both.
Here are my cards that I consider options:
Yamaha Clone DB NECXR385
Waveblaster
SB16 CT 1740, DSP 4.04, no "hexen bug" but rather noisy
AWE32 CT2760, DSP 4.13,
AWE32 CT3980, DSP 4.13,
AWE 64 Gold
ESS 688FC based (SC1610/11) with all jumper config and Yamaha OPL
ESS 1868F (PT230x Schubert),
Terratec Maestro 32/96 Ver 1.0 (reboot bug but very low noise)
I currently favor the CT2760 with the yamaha DB clone. My plan was to add the ESS 688 for SBPro compatibility. Since both are NON pnp cards, I hoped to configure them manually. But I don't get this to work. While the ESS works on IRQ5, IO220 and DMA1 alone, I don't get it to run on any other setting - even as standalone card. To me, this seems the prefered solution.
The Maestro 32/96 was a quiet alternative favoured by some, so I picked it up. I am still struggeling to keep the IRQ at 5 using terratec.exe. I have to figure out how to configure it in DOS boot.
(Edit in: The AWE64 Gold is a nice option too. But I guess I have to move the daughterboard on a SBpro compatible companion.)
And then I have to figure out how to get two cards running. I naively thought I only have to give them different resources. Then select the resources in the game setup and be done. But somehow this plan seems to fail... 😒
Any suggestions, links, guides or prayers?