Re: help getting sound on DOS from a ESS sound card

Posted on 2023-10-10, 14:22

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by Stainlesscat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

just tried selecting bot 16 bit and 8 bit under sound settings in Blood\Duke3D but that damn red error shows up always :( You are using an VIA apollo based chipset. I believe these have intrgrated sound blaster pro emulation which can be enabled or disabled in the bios. Make sure these aren't …

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Re: NVIDIA 6800 PCIe (6-Series) works on Windows XP but not recognized on Windows 98SE ( PCIe to PCI Bridge)

Posted on 2023-05-24, 06:20

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by Stainlesscat

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

There are 4 "Unknowns" 1. PCI Programable Interrupt Controller 2. PCI System Management Bus 3. PCI System Peripheral 4. Unknown Device Don't know if there is any other usable tool that could look at the device IDs for these unknown ones... Need to know if VEN_10B5&DEV_8112 (your PCIe-to-PCI bridge) …

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Re: AMD RV280 [Radeon 9200] driver for Windows NT 4.00 SP6a

Posted on 2023-04-19, 11:04

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by Stainlesscat

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

On nt 4.0, I got the radeon x300 and 9600 xt working with the dell OEM drivers provided above. Unfortunatly these don't provide opengl support and the required ICD dll is not available with this driver package release which is a shame. To add salt to the wound, the catalyst control panel has the …

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Re: Patch for Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me to run on newest CPUs

Posted on 2023-04-19, 10:36

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by Stainlesscat

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Kudo's to finding this bug and patching the win9x kernel. It makes me wonder what other types glitches are unearthed because of a newer processor architecture.

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-19, 10:05

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by Stainlesscat

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To be clear, crazii is the SBEMU developer. I am just interested, in seeing the project flourish. My prediction is this project reached its peak and is already overblown. Well since the project is open-sourced, i highly doubt this will stall. Anyone can contribute to the project and improve upon it …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-04-05, 12:52

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by Stainlesscat

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in Marvin \ Sound

Good News! With the HP T5530, I fixed the bug for VT833 and now it's working - just overlooked a tiny bug. Tested with a few games all working, except that duke3d will freeze on exit, I don't think it's caused by SBEMU, probably VGA related, but I forgot to verify it without SBEMU, you guys can …

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-03-30, 04:21

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by Stainlesscat

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this is great, i can finally use my old foxxconn board that i have lying around for a long time equipped with the TPM pin headers.

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-03-20, 17:58

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by Stainlesscat

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'm not sure if this will help but here's the data sheet for the VIA vt8235 & vt8237r+ southbridges. as far as i'm aware these chipsets all carry some form of AC'97 codec, in which MPXplay play's fine in "VIA" mode on my build with a VIA chipset. it's an p4m890 with vt8237r+ chipset. sbemu inits …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-03-19, 20:09

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by Stainlesscat

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I'm not sure if this will help but here's the data sheet for the VIA vt8235 & vt8237r+ southbridges. as far as i'm aware these chipsets all carry some form of AC'97 codec, in which MPXplay play's fine in "VIA" mode on my build with a VIA chipset. it's an p4m890 with vt8237r+ chipset. sbemu inits …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-03-19, 18:49

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by Stainlesscat

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in Marvin \ Sound

@stamasd: Please read my post again. I already wrote, MPXPlay plays nice on this one. But SBEMU not. So something is wrong (either with me or with SBEMU). And no, its not a HD codec, its oldstyle AC97. EDIT: Just saw on Wikipedia, there is a 8237"A" variant which indeed has HD-Audio instead of AC97 …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2023-03-14, 17:13

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by Stainlesscat

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i have an vt8237r plus southbridge based computer on an Biostar p4m890-m7. i'm also having simliar problems in which SBEMU successfully inits but no sound blaster audio actually works in games. the SETBLAST.exe tool detects an IRQ conflict of some sort but i don't rely on this tool often.

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Re: Choice of soundcard for a fast win98 computer

Posted on 2023-01-21, 18:10

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by Stainlesscat

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in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah those gold connectors sure are sweet looking, is the quality of the sound output any better between these two? This is me, but I'd bet I could not tell the difference (not withstanding directional 4.1 versus 5.1) as far as audio quality. I'd pick the newer card made in 2001, versus 199(8 or …

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Re: Cheap but we’ll performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2023-01-03, 11:01

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by Stainlesscat

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in Marvin \ Video

They were not good for 2D DOS gaming either. Which 2D DOS games looks (or works) bad especially ? I'm just curious. Right now I have Rage IIC PCI in my P133 rig and can check it. Also can check same games with Rage Pro AGP in P3/BX. I remember my Rage IIC was usless for Keen Dreams aka the …

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Re: P4 Northwood: My fastest Win98 PC - 1.16 Ghz to 3.0 Ghz

Posted on 2022-05-18, 13:56

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by Stainlesscat

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Hi there folks, i believe to get the solo-1 working on higher chipsets with sb-link. you'll need to use kamerat's pciset initialization script he has here on vogons. once you set the bits for serial interrupts policy (S-IRQ) and set the dma mode to PC-PCI. The card should work in dos as normal …

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Re: Newly made PCMCIA sound card

Posted on 2022-01-09, 23:32

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by Stainlesscat

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you should try tyrian2000 and turrican 2, these two games are nortorious for being picky on some sound blaster's and clone cards.

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Re: PCI Sound card for Windows 3.11 & Dos 6.22?

Posted on 2021-12-08, 22:23

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by Stainlesscat

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I found another ZIP with Aureal 8820 drivers with a slightly different file size. Not sure if it's another version. I think there is only one version in the wild for Windows 3.11... ver. 3.1 from 4/29/1998 - I would gladly test any other version. Unfortunately, this version doesn't work on newer …

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Re: Get sound in Windows 3.1x with Vortex 2 sound card

Posted on 2021-12-08, 01:38

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by Stainlesscat

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in Marvin \ Software

Hi there, a little bit of a thread necro. but to answer your question, You cannot use the vortex 2 dos driver to use with windows 3.xx. the TSR will unload itself from memory before windows boots from dos. using the test-sbp program from within windows dos prompt behavior is normal if not in a …

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Re: PCI Sound card for Windows 3.11 & Dos 6.22?

Posted on 2021-12-06, 21:45

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by Stainlesscat

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in Marvin \ Sound

Hi guys i wanna add that the vortex 1 au8820 chipset has windows 3.1 drivers. they even work without relying on legacy dma features that other pci sounds require. i attached the drivers to this post.

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Re: Yamaha YMF724 on i845

Posted on 2021-10-25, 04:18

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by Stainlesscat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you for the info. Went into the system properties and noted that a usb controller was using the interrupt 5. So disabled this one. Also noticed that an IRQ steering was using the interrupt 5. Was unable to disable this one. If I try to uncheck IRQ steering under PCI Bus and reboot the system, …

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Re: Windows 98 SE VM on a Ryzen 3000 not working

Posted on 2021-10-17, 18:08

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by Stainlesscat

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Masking VME didnt have any effect for me and I think its not the real problem. Reason why Windows 98 VM needs binary translation is not VME, but some bug in memory management I found on this link https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2015/08/win9x-tlb-invalidation-bug/ And even with binary translation, it …

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