[Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?

2005-03-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Nicholas, thanks for informing me that CMI sound chips suck. I agree with you on that by now :-). Lucho has sent me his drivers (initializers) for DOS, and my SB AWE32 diagnostics tool got happy after using them, even played sample sounds, but most games still only worked Adlib- or OPL3-wise.

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?

2005-03-06 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi Eric, You have a CMI8738 where the OPL cell actually works? This is news to me and my contact at C-media would very much like to know about this. As far as we knew, only CMI8338 has a working OPL. All the CMI8738 samples I can locate have OPL that either sounds silence, or the output is all

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?

2005-03-04 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:19:04 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi Eric, Apart from that, he simply recommends using actual ISA sound cards ;-). Oh ... no! We can't stay in ISA world anymore, even PCI will be replaced by PCI-Express. I wonder how well the SBLive / SBPCI drivers work in DOS, now that

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?

2005-03-04 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:19:04 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi Eric, Apart from that, he simply recommends using actual ISA sound cards ;-). Oh ... no! We can't stay in ISA world anymore, even PCI will be replaced by PCI-Express. I wonder how well the SBLive / SBPCI drivers work in DOS, now that