First post, by kobalt
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Hi,
Long time reader of these forums, and also first post.
After having being Thinkpad collector for years, I recently started building a DOS / Win9x retro station, using spare parts i've been collecting through years. Despite I am very happy with old Thinkpads, they lack the ability to plug a Gameport controller, and I can't find a PCMCIA / Pc card offering this feature. That's why I'm now moving to a desktop solution.
Current set up uses a Pentium 3 866 on a Gigabyte mobo(GA-6VTXE), 512 mb ram, and a Asus Radeon 9250 GPU. OS is Win98 SE.
This mobo has an ISA port, so i'm using an old Addonics A151-a00 ISA sound card I got in my boxes. It sports a YMF719 sound chip.
Have installed Yamaha drivers (to get more options than with Win98 embedded drivers), set up the card to "Hifi" "Excellent quality" and a mpu-401 emulation for dos.
Sound is working well in the few games I've tested so far, but only in mono. Can't get stereo working.
Playing .wav files with media player gives the same result : nice sound, but mono only.
The output was very loud, i read somewhere to add a jumper in JP1 to disable the amp, it works nicely and indeed reduces the insane output level without this jumper.
I can't find info the output of this sound card ? Is there any way to enable stereo sound ?
Also, since I'm relatively new to this, i've read you can some sort of module to enhance MIDI sound bank. Could you please provide more infos about this ?
I've been watching a lot of videos from "PhilsComputerLab" (thx for you very nice work by the way), and he often talks a lot about a dreamblaster wave table module. Is it this kind of module I should be looking for ?
Thx
