Reply 20 of 40, by Skyscraper
I think it is time to test the sound card to see if it works.
I will build a DOS 6.22 + Win 3.1 box to test the card.
If the card works as well as I hope I will use this box for games that need General Midi or Roland MT-32 emulation.
In the future I am thinking of buying a real MT-32 if I find a cheap one locally or at least within the EU.
The box clearly states that this sound cards Midi/Joystick interface is "Roland MPU-401 compatible".
Im thinking of using an unlocked Pentium II "Klamath" so I can change the speed from ~133 mhz to ~375 mhz. This will make it easy to avoid the Borland Pascal compiler bug.
I have an Aopen i440BX AX6BC that I think will let me choose 2x multiplier but it dosnt support lower FSB than 66 mhz.
Another option is a QDI Legend i440BX Brilliance 1 but that board will not let me choose FSB >83mhz with a 66 mhz FSB CPU.
I also have an unnamed Slot-1 board that support lower fsb but it has jumpers...
The video card is also a hard choice.
In my other boxes I use S3, Nvidia and/or 3dfx cards.
I have a nice AGP ATI Rage Pro 8mb that I would like to find use for but all ATI cards seem to have scrolling issues in some games.
Other video cards with Windows 3.1x drivers I can choose from.
Nvidia: Riva128, TNT and TNT2
3dfx: Rush (PCI), Banshee and Voodoo3
Matrox: Millenium II (PCI), G100 and G200
S3: Trio 64 (2mb,PCI) and Virge (2mb,PCI).
Perhaps the Riva 128 would be a good choice since the TNTx seems to have bad drivers for Windows 3.1x?
Another option is the Banshee but it seems a bit overkill in a Windows 3.1 box.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.