Congrats FreddyV! This is amazing work.

Is it possible to make the OPL2/3 port user definable? If you find this a odd request, the reasoning behind it is i have 2 OPL3 cards in my system but none of them is at port 388h, because my dual OPL2 PAS is at 388h. This would make this program great to test OPL ports, like Sound Blaster Base port +8 which mirrors OPL2 at 388 and even acessing OPL3 at the Sound Blaster Pro/16 at Base Port and other cards like an Adlib Gold at port 398h for instance.

I have an asm routine that you can feel free to use to take user input and convert ascii to hex, so that would save you time. It's from that Lost Vikings MPU-401 port changer i made years ago. If you want it, let me know.

Hi, does not seem to work on a ATI Stereo F/X card. The ATI Stereo F/X card DSP is usually detected as 2.01 on Creative Sound Blaster software, Mod Master XT detects it as a BlasterBoard.

Thanks for this! This is fantastic! I just put it on my Tandy 1000 TL/2 and I'm blown away by hearing some of my favorite MODs on this machine, through the Tandy DAC. I was used to only ever hearing Tandy 3-voice music in games, or the super low quality Deskmate Music program on this computer.

I wish there was a tracker program for this computer; I have yet to find one. I also have a Sound Blaster clone with a real Yamaha chip on it, but can't find any Adlib trackers that work on this machine.

dysamoria wrote on 2023-12-07, 18:15:

Thanks for this! This is fantastic! I just put it on my Tandy 1000 TL/2 and I'm blown away by hearing some of my favorite MODs on this machine, through the Tandy DAC. I was used to only ever hearing Tandy 3-voice music in games, or the super low quality Deskmate Music program on this computer.

I wish there was a tracker program for this computer; I have yet to find one. I also have a Sound Blaster clone with a real Yamaha chip on it, but can't find any Adlib trackers that work on this machine.

Cool,

Finally one person who tested on a Tandy DAC 😀

The Tandy 3 voice music is based on really poor recorded samples, having crack in it !
It is a total waste compare with what this machine can do, Tandy did a bad job on this, really 🙁

I had to import a TL/2 from the USA for this, it cost me 600€...

There is no tracker.
One other .MOD Player exist, but it is really poor in handeling effects and support only 4 channels .MOD
This player also use a 64Kb buffer, so it pre compute 64Kb before starting the music 😀
I modified the output filter (Capacitors values) to increase the TL/2 output frequency range, and it is much better than any Sound Blaster.

Hi,

If you are curious how it work 😀

https://github.com/FreddyVRetro/MODMXT

Woohoo!! 😁

Now all I need is time to write that game I keep threatening to write...

MobyGamer wrote on 2024-02-17, 22:08:

Woohoo!! 😁

Now all I need is time to write that game I keep threatening to write...

😀
Need to finish the "sound system" Api

FreddyV wrote on 2024-02-17, 13:06:

Hi,

If you are curious how it work 😀

https://github.com/FreddyVRetro/MODMXT

Very generous. Thank you!

I really like the software 😀 the floppy issue seems to also happen on CF card. Tested two PC's, and browsing directories and files shows garbage, or does not show some folder at all. I have absolutely no file system issues outside of Mod Master so looks like there's something it really doesn't like about removable media 😀

Apart from that, it's a great piece of software that beats the crap out of most competition in terms of playback quality and fidelity (not even talking about the amazing performance!)
Hope to see more updates and particularly a fix for that directory problem as I'm a sucker for CF cards in old computers 😁

FreddyV wrote on 2024-02-17, 13:06:

Hi,

If you are curious how it work 😀

https://github.com/FreddyVRetro/MODMXT

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111 <<<3333

Boohyaka wrote on 2024-02-24, 20:11:

I really like the software 😀 the floppy issue seems to also happen on CF card. Tested two PC's, and browsing directories and files shows garbage, or does not show some folder at all. I have absolutely no file system issues outside of Mod Master so looks like there's something it really doesn't like about removable media 😀

Apart from that, it's a great piece of software that beats the crap out of most competition in terms of playback quality and fidelity (not even talking about the amazing performance!)
Hope to see more updates and particularly a fix for that directory problem as I'm a sucker for CF cards in old computers 😁

Thanks,
With the source available, if somebody want to check 😀

I also published to GitHub to be able to continue dev on it later, in a more simple way.

Hi everybody, please where can I find a big DRO file archive compatible with Mod Master XT 1.0 ?
I've downloaded about 20 files from a site, but Modm tells me "invalid format".

Thanks!

I'm trying to use Mod Master XT with an ES488 card - 12-bit sound card

Doesn't work...

Mod Master correctly detects DSP 2.01, and all settings - 220h, IRQ 7, DMA 1.
Using the default 16000 Hz.
But it hangs when trying to play any .MOD file...

Note that neither Inertia Player nor QuickView Pro can use that card at more than about 22 kHz, which suggests lack of the "High-Speed" mode.
But it shouldn't affect operation at 16 kHz, right?

I'm also wondering about the "Continuous DMA mode" - it's the same as "Auto-initialize", right?
How can I make sure if the card properly supports it?

Any other ideas what may be wrong?

Grzyb wrote on 2024-07-21, 20:56:

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I'm trying to use Mod Master XT with an ES488 card - 12-bit sound card

Doesn't work...

Mod Master correctly detects DSP 2.01, and all settings - 220h, IRQ 7, DMA 1.
Using the default 16000 Hz.
But it hangs when trying to play any .MOD file...

Note that neither Inertia Player nor QuickView Pro can use that card at more than about 22 kHz, which suggests lack of the "High-Speed" mode.
But it shouldn't affect operation at 16 kHz, right?

I'm also wondering about the "Continuous DMA mode" - it's the same as "Auto-initialize", right?
How can I make sure if the card properly supports it?

Any other ideas what may be wrong?

Hi,

No more than 16KHz sounds like if Autoinit DMA is not supported, even if it say DSP version 2

The continuous mode is no more supported.

FreddyV wrote on 2024-07-22, 08:26:

No more than 16KHz sounds like if Autoinit DMA is not supported, even if it say DSP version 2

I tried frequencies lower than 16 kHz, even 5 kHz - still doesn't work.

On the other hand, the card seems to work fine in Windows 98SE, using the "Sound Blaster or compatible" driver.
I can even play 44 kHz MP3 files in Winamp.

It seems that ES488 lacks something, but it's not as simple as the lack of auto-init DMA...

Currently testing AVID Sound Booster Pro - probably an OEM variant of Sound Blaster Pro 1...

Mod Master correctly detects OPL2 and DSP 3.01, but fails to realize that DSP 3.x + OPL2 = SB Pro 1, not 2.

Other than that, seems to work fine, at least for .MOD playback...

I'm testing this with Toshiba T3200, 286/12 EGA. Only problem is that I can't get it to play stereo on SB PRO, I don't know how to do it and user interface is quite hard to read on plasma. No monochrome display support switch?

Edit: got it, mouse is the only way to get on those settings.

Hi,

I started again to work on Mod Master XT Source.

I got it compiling from the GitHub repository and corrected a bug in the Tandy Port selection....

I may check something else before sharing it.

Boohyaka wrote on 2024-02-24, 20:11:

I really like the software 😀 the floppy issue seems to also happen on CF card. Tested two PC's, and browsing directories and files shows garbage, or does not show some folder at all. I have absolutely no file system issues outside of Mod Master so looks like there's something it really doesn't like about removable media 😀

Apart from that, it's a great piece of software that beats the crap out of most competition in terms of playback quality and fidelity (not even talking about the amazing performance!)
Hope to see more updates and particularly a fix for that directory problem as I'm a sucker for CF cards in old computers 😁

Hi,

Can you please explain me again how I can reproduce the problem ?

FreddyV

Mod Master 1.02 almost complete.

- Tandy base port corrected
- VGM display with Tandy/CMS corrected.