TgamesFR wrote on 2026-03-18, 09:14:

- 1:1 authentic Yamaha OPL3 (very very very close to it) (it's so close that most won't notice any difference, huge step from th […]
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- 1:1 authentic Yamaha OPL3 (very very very close to it) (it's so close that most won't notice any difference, huge step from the one from Ensoniq).
- General Midi / Sound canvas support for all .SF2 (no longuer need .ECW bad soundfonts), we can now load any .SF2 file including big ones (require at minimum a Pentium III 1Ghz - Pentium IV for that).
- No longuer need any Creative/Ensoniq drivers or program
- Support volume levels adjustement for the Audigy 1/2/ZS cards !
- SPDIF Digital output support under DOS ! Yes now we hear sound from the SPDIF =)
- Reverse Stereo fixed for Sound Blaster Pro (was a flaws in the Creative driver)
- No longuer need EMS to be loaded ! (huge step too)

I've compared to a real Sound Blaster 16 we are really close now. Minus the ISA support ofc but it sounds great !

So since VDMSound for Windows 98 full support of MPU401 and VSBHDA for pure MS-DOS the Audigy 2 ZS show fully shows his capabilities for DOS.
It's strange nobody ever did a tutorial or a video about that, because it's really a huge step forward for DOS support on this card.

Is this some modified driver that you are working on? The EMS thing is very interesting and might allow it to work on my AM3+ board with 4GB+ ram, I wasn't able to get it to initialize the driver but I have no idea how to set up memory managers so it's probably something I'm doing wrong. Works flawlessly under 98SE otherwise.