Outstanding review! Sound output demo, all jumper configuration, all connectors, addons. I couldn't ask for more!

I just got my hands on an early 90's 486 PC with one of these cards, and it's got the same exact date code. Neat!

thanks for the PC speaker music. really took me back with that.

Another great video Phil. Great to see. Reminds me that I really need to take some good photos of all my Isa audio cards to add to the archives.

@DhinCardoso

2 жыл бұрын

Dude! Do this! Save the retroworld - keep it alive ♥

Its funny how always I end to watch my subs videos you upload a video just in time, like the cherry on the cake :D

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

That's awesome :D

You've got an interesting channel!

yey i love those color jumpers when i had my soundblaster16 pnp i did not know anything about computers, now i am amazed on how much i missed on :]

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Nice :D I purely replaced them to make it easier to show which does what.

It doesn't seem to me that the "single cycle DMA bug" is really a bug at all, but just an inherent problem with how single-cycle DMA works. Auto-init mode was the solution to that problem, which this card supports. It's been almost 20yrs since I did some SB programming, but if I remember correctly, early Sound Blasters didn't have the auto-init mode so that's why older games don't support it.

Old style back to life :-)

Nice Card Thanks Phil

Yamaha YMF262 man, it never disappoints!

CT1740 was my very first sound card! :) Later I added a Roland SCD-10 MIDI board.

@sopokoira

Жыл бұрын

It was mine too :) I remember it was called SB16 Basic Edition back in the day. Later added GUS Ace along with it, since demo scene was a big thing then (and today) in Finland.

I have this card! It worked great under windows 95. But it's in my Tandy TL/2 1000 now.

Got a nice CT2230 that is just waiting to be put into a nice DOS build at some point.

Thanks for this video. I was having a bloody awful time trying to get Wings of Glory running on my P3/Win98 machine. I used your msdos PIF and SB emulation software (as it's an SBLive) but it kept crashing out when starting (ran fine without sound set up) I then used my P233 which has a Soundblaster 16 installed. Needed to get the DOS drivers set up though and ended up going to the creative site and downloading a set that was for Win95 DOS to get them installed (the packs on your site that I tried needed pure dos or win3.1). All good, now I managed to play one of the games of my youth! Took a look of messing about though (I got it running in dosbox but its just not the same :D)

@philscomputerlab

5 жыл бұрын

Yea Windows 98 is pretty easy enough, but DOS can be a challenge to get going. I try my best to put in place tools to help, but every system and configuration is different, so often one has to do a bit of messing about :)

@ByteSizeThoughts

5 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab Indeed - but the effort was worth it to get my computer MS DOS ready, I am luck that I have a few machines to rely on. Really appreciate your help as the website and video instructions were easy to follow. Now I fully understand what you mean when you talk about sound cards with good DOS compatibility

Im surprised that creative still had the drivers on their website. I remembered in the past that they really suck at giving support on their website for old hardware.

Thank you for the in depth video. The world of DOS sound cards is such a hassle, with no perfect solution for every case and many popular cards featuring irritating hardware bugs and noisy output. I find it very surprising how most people didn't know about those issues at the time. I can't imagine any popular hardware manufacturer releasing hardware with that kind of bugs and getting away.

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

darak2 I had no clue at the time. I did they one clone card once, and went straight back to Creative. It was only like many, many years later that I heard about the issues.

@darak2

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, all the games spoke directly to hardware, so having an original Creative card was worth it. I went from a Pro to a SB16 to an AWE32 and continued using Creative cards even when their value was questionable compared to integrated audio. Now I know, in insight, how other companies probably made better cards with cleaner sound and less issues, but 100% compatibility was never guaranteed in DOS since every game did things differently and nobody was really serious about following specs. Probably every sound engine ever made for DOS was buggy in one way or another, it really was a case of 'it works in my card, let's hope it works for others'. Developers were partly to blame, but at the time quality documentation was scarce even for professionals. I had a Soundblaster 2.0 development kit at some time, and I remember it as a massive book full of blatant mistakes and sample code which often would refuse to even compile.

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

That is a good point. Having one company dominate, does have its benefits. Just imagine having to support 6 different sound standards. So that was good. I'm pretty sure I had such a card back in the day, it was certainly one of the early models and it had jumpers. But I do remember getting stuck notes in Doom sometimes, so maybe it was an even older card. It was a Sound Blaster 16 Basic AFAIK, but I will never know for sure... The good old Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster 2 are the most trouble free. They just work. No mixer or anything to adjust :)

@darak2

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, my first SoundBlaster used switches in the card and was hassle-free. No crappy software in your AUTOEXEC.BAT making your boot time slower either. I remember when I got that card and how disappointed I was when I realized most music would use the FM chip, which I considered a small upgrade from the ZX Spectrum I had before. The Tetra Composer MOD demo that came with the card changed my mind, but unfortunately very few games ended up using tracker music (but hey, Deus Ex was one of those, best main game theme ever!). I eventually went to appreciate Adlib music and realized it was rarely used to its full potential. Most developers just had their musician compose in some expensive MIDI equipment and converted that data straight into Adlib notes, alongside some patches that often came from some library or previous game and didn't really resemble the original instruments. The result was often a mess, but I guess there was no easy way to port the same music in a huge variety of platforms and sound hardware.

Phil, according to the manual on "Stason" your green jumpers on DAS0 and DAS1 will select DMA 0, and not 1 as you proclaim. Manual says DAS0 needs to be open, DAS1 closed. Could it be a mistake? Edit: Even the PDF on your own website says so.

@philscomputerlab

2 жыл бұрын

Yea seems a mistake!

Have a 486 rig I built this year and tried about 8 vintage sound cards including this one and eventually settled on the SB Pro 2. Best card for compatibility on a native dos rig in my opinion. Sound Blaster 16 gave me issues. The AWE32 card sounds great to me in Tie Fighter but wouldn't work at all for midi in other games.

@coreyoliver3182

6 жыл бұрын

I built my 486 rig after watching your vids btw. Brings back all the feels from the old days. Hoping to get my kids playing DOS edutainment games one day like I used to. (It's got a vga crt monitor also for authenticity)

@KrunkTheMadMan

6 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling. I have about 10 project pcs I need to finish, but I can never get any one of them "perfect" so they stay in a mess.

I have the CT1740 card but it's 059325 and Duke 3D is fine. Thanks for the video Phil.

@matthewtully1745

3 жыл бұрын

Are you using a wavetable board?

@deanodley

2 ай бұрын

I have a CT1740 059334 with a Yamaha DG50XG daughter-board attached and also don’t experience lag in DN3D with high sample rate FX. The card is identical as far as I can see apart from the fact that it doesn’t have that resistor fix.

NEVER seen old Duke Nukem lag like that.

Phil, great video as always. Have you made a video comparing all the OPL3 chips on the different SB16/32 AWE models? If you have enough cards, it should be very informative for the people hunting old sound cards. Thanks!

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Lucas Milani No, I will make individual reviews as this suits my pace.

@HappyBeezerStudios

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe throw some OPL3 emulations on later cards and software solutions in the mix. Like some soundofnts tha claim to be like the OPL3.

The jumper settings can also be found on the original documentation, if you still have such. And if Creative ever does drop the files from their site, typing the model number and " jumper settings " into a web search engine will yield the information needed.

@HappyBeezerStudios

6 жыл бұрын

Talking about dropping files, I had quite the trouble getting drivers for my SB 128 PCI (Using an Ensoniq ES1373) that work when rebooting into DOS. The card works fine with the drivers from the Creative website, but they only provide the latest drivers which dropped MPU-401 emulation. In he end I found an image of the original driver CD that came with the card somewhere on the web.

Good explain every episodi!

1 working ct1740 just popped up on ebay for a decent price and i instantly snatched it up

@pentiummmx2294

5 жыл бұрын

i also found a ct1770 sb16 scsi with the dsp 4.05 that is free of the hanging note bug, i don't use midi devices, only FM synthesis so i don't really care about if the card has the hanging note bug or not

@philscomputerlab , brilliant, back in the day everything was jumpers and installs, your video is perfectly clear, and a must see for anyone that wants to see how things got setup back in the day. There are some things i wish you talked about for example in AWE32 there are 2 installs, one is something called CTCM and the other thing is the driver, im not sure why but it would be nice if you make a video regarding that because some sound blaster cards require a second install?

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

The CT1740 doesn't use PnP and therefore doesn't need CTCM.

At 4:55 the position you have shown activates the on board amp. If you want line out you put the jumpers in the upper position!

My first sound card was a SB16 MCD ASP - and even in Windows, the ASP was rather pointless... Played around with the Jamie O'Connell FM synth driver in Windows 3.1 - it gave better rendering of midi GM files, eventually put some cheap no-brand wavetable add-on to it. Pretty sure it's still languishing in an old machine, as I carried it through a couple of upgrades before being forced to go PCI.

Recuerdo tener una Diamond que funcionaba en puerto ISA. Tenía el jumper que sonando en mono amplificaba un gabinete hi-fi de mi casa que en aquel entonces era de 25 watts (12" woofer y 2" highs). La salvedad era que para tener esa fuerza quedaba en mono, de modo que en estéreo debía usar los "altavoces multimedia"... Entonces quise conseguir una segunda tarjeta para aplicar el jumper de modo contrario por si era posible tener doble mono potenciado o amplificado (canales L y R), con el tiempo fui cambiado de computador y olvidé aquello. Quedé con la duda pues, si podía usarse así. ¿Alguna experiencia al respecto?

I'd be interested to see some turtle beach cards reviewed if that was possible? About to re-purpose our old pro audio studio 16 in a dos rig. Maybe mediavision cards too?

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe at a later stage, I've got some other that I need to get through first :)

Will a SB16 WavEffects also work well in a 486-era rig? I have one lying around and I was wondering what the difference is on a technical level.

Hi Phil, Nice review I had one back in the days don't know the revision, but is was very good. But Comming from the ISA era and the AWE64 most of the time the jump is made to the SB Live, while in between there were the SB PCI64 and PCI SB128 as well, do you have any to share your thoughts on those? Are they any good for a mix build W95/98/DOS/W2K machine? (I build one based on SD cards so I can switch quickly, but looking for a proper Creative Sound Card.) I have 1 ISA slot shared with 1 PCI slot that I can use for a sound card.

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Stefan Lelieveld If you're using DOS, ISA is the way to go.

@armorgeddon

6 жыл бұрын

Unless I'm confusing KZreadrs here Phil did a video on an Ensoniq PCI card which is basically the same as SB PCI 64 a short while ago. From my experience both SB PCI 64 and PCI 128 both suck for both DOS and Windows. If you're prepared to give up on EAX sound then maybe something like a Guillemot Maxi Sound 64 would be a card to consider. It's ISA but still does 4 channel DirectSound3D in Windows.

Do all/some SB16 cards support ADPCM? Also, in the event somebody reads this comment looking for clarification of the difference between OPL and CQM, I found an audio sample posted on Wikipedia comparing the two sounds: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FM_Comparison_-_Genuine_Yamaha_OPL_FM_vs._CQM.ogg TL;DR: CQM has a stronger warble effect.

Wasn't too long ago I would have said these were a good cheap card for retro gaming machines, but now days, even these are getting more scarce and prices, like on all of this retro gear, has gone up. Seems like the Vibra16 based cards are the bargain retro cards at the moment. SB32 ( not awe32 ) might be a good alternative to the SB16 as the SB32 ( CT3600 ) cards are still pretty reasonable and offer nearly the same feature as the full AWE32.

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Yea pretty much. I'm starting to look at cheaper alternatives, that I have always dismissed, but I'm not finding it quite a bit of fun. I checked out the ESS AudioDrive and they are great, but there are others with chips from Aztech and Opti that want to try. And of course the Yamaha ISA cards, they are excellent.

hey phil can you do a video on CDROM Support of sound blaster cards?? i have a ct3600 i want to add a cdrom to my 386dx40 but i cant get it to work! its a nice 8 slot ISA board with 8Mb RAM, 1992 amibios + unichip 4800 chipset; a video on how to get cdrom working on ISA BIOS that doesnt support ATAPI via the sound Blaster ide port would be very helpful!

Hi Phil, I got a SB16 CT1770, recapped enterely by me, change some values of the caps, using the recomended by the manufacturer of TDA2025, the FM music sounds amazing with good bass and cristal clear highs, but the level of noise are quite high. How did you get a quiet recording of the music? Can you use Reality Adlib Tracker and play "alloyrun.rad" to compare with other FM soundcards? best regards!!

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

I'm locked in with these games for testing with other videos. To get a good recording, you got to mute the inputs in the mixer.

@manuelignaciogalafeherrera259

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for you reply ;) Can you use Tyrian OST for your audio test?

Duke Nukem was working really slow, how could you find the slowest 486DX? :))

Hi Phil, i recently installed a sb16 card on a win95 machine, i dont know why but upon boot windows gave me some erros about something changed in the system, when i shut down windows i chose to return to DOS and doom1 refused to load, it gave an error. I had to remove everything from the autoexec and config files, the only way to play DOS games was using a floppy disc with modified config and autoexec files with the soundblaster lines, after that games runned fine. WIn95 is kind of crap for retro games?

Mine didn't have the volume thingy , so I might've had a later model that came together with a Creative 2x speed CD-ROM drive :)

@fullmetaljacket7

6 жыл бұрын

Oxygenic same here! It was a 486dx2, back in 1993

@HappyBeezerStudios

6 жыл бұрын

Check out the model # on it. it usually is something like CT2230. Then search for that chip to figure out which card exactly it is and how it behaves with the DMA clicking hanging notes and FM synthesis.

I would love to see a review of the Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum. It has a distinctive sound, and it's the card that I grew up with in the 90s. I wish I still had the card...if I did, I would send it your way!

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

I think I have the PAS 16? What "distinctive" sound did it have?

@quantumfoam42

6 жыл бұрын

It did a good job of Soundblaster 16 emulation, but some games specifically supported the Pro Audio Spectrum and I believe they had slightly different music. The first game that comes to mind is One Must Fall 2097.

I have that sound card (soldered on ASP/CSP processor) that has DSP v4.11 sadly (Would be great to get a DSP v4.05 chip to solder on) which will be used in my K6-2 machine and I also have the CT2740 that has a Socket for the ASP/CSP processor, DSP v4.11 (CT1747 Chipset with integrated FM Synthesizer and bus, so no Level 1 hanging note bug, just level 2 hanging note bug [legitimate]), and a Yamaha DB50XG for GM/XG files and games on the CT2740.

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Nice!

I'd like that you try the sound blaster awe 32 compared for example with the sb 16

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

piecaruso97 Don't have one and I'm basically prices out. But there are more of other interesting cards to look at.

Wait, what does the SB Pro do that the SB16 is not compatible with? I thought the only difference was that SBPro used dual OPL2, which may work differently than OPL3 for stereo OPL music. I'm not aware of something on the DAC side, and I didn't quite follow what Phil was saying there.

@ajax700

5 жыл бұрын

IIRC SB16 can't do SB PRO stereo FM (dual OPL2). Of course beign creative they claimed FULL compatibility with SB PRO on the box, and after the people found out about the issues.

Are you sure the added resistor is original? I have a rev 4 as well, but it doesn't have the resistor patched in: retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_soundblaster_16_asp_ct1740.html

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

I've seen images with the resistor online, but who knows...

The pci version of soundcards like this should have Yamaha ymf262 opl3 chip just like the isa card version. But some are rebranded for a reason. However it has balanced perfect bass and treble fm synth and all soundbanks. So uh some people does not want to use awe32 or awe64 but it’s still kick ass but they still don’t want to use it in some particular computers since Clint/lgr is having issues with either one of stereo channel output.

This card is PC History and should be an obligatory love for retro enthusiasts like ourselves :-)

SB16 all the way. I think the 2770 is pretty nice; i use it together with a sc55+mt32 (i volume down/mute the device i don't want or which sounds less good ;)) and it's plug and play. Just need to run device=ctcm.exe and then init it with ctcu /s

5:45 According to the jumper sheet on your website, shorting both DAS0 and DAS1 means you set up channel 0 for the low DMA.

@codefenix5460

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed the same thing. Do we know which setting is truly DMA 1?

Can you plz do a Video on 8-bit isa IDE , Also can you use IDE with the in a XT?

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think this is an IDE interface, but for the propriety Panasonic / Creative drive.

@MichaelHuth

6 жыл бұрын

There was the Creative Labs Multimedia Starter Kit that combined a SB16 with Creative branded Panasonic CD-ROM.

I installed this card using the drivers in the link and the ms dos boot menu. I tried the test sounds but the speakers just make a crack noise and thats it. everything seemed to work installing. jumpers are correct i think.

Check out the CT2290.

Oh my god， I just have the same sound card, but the value edition...It has been 20 years ago, and now it is still in box like new..

What about a comparison between the AWE64 Value and Gold editions? I have the Value, thought about going for the Gold but would like to hear the difference before deciding. I would like to heade the difference in music and straight sound effects. Using intros of Duke Nukem 3D without music covers a nice range of effects and digital voice.

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

I stopped doing that, it was too much work. I will do individual videos, but use mostly the same games. Also, I explicitly mention the strengths and weaknesses of the cards, so that should be a good start :D I wouldn't read too much into it, as sometimes a different machine can make a card sound better or worse. Especially when it comes to the noise.

@GiSWiG

6 жыл бұрын

The one thing I've learned is that you just have to hear things yourself. No ones ears are the same. I remember in high school a teacher had a CRT TV facing the wall with nothing glowing. I heard the whine all through class and it bugged the heck out of me. The next day it was still on, still bugging me so I asked if I could get up and turn the TV off. The teacher told me that it was off but I insisted it was on. He goes back, hits the power button and said that yes, it was on. Apparently, I was the only one that could hear it.

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is so true! A good example is a review of an Aztech card coming up. Over headphones I could hear pretty much all Sound Blaster effects and speech being distorted or scratchy. But later, I watched the video on the TV and couldn't really hear those details. So I think a lot of people will be happy with how it sounds, which will affect the recommendation as it's actually a mint card and dirt cheap.

probably my first sound card...

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

For many of us I think, although for me it was the older Sound Blaster 1.5. I skipped anything with Pro, so it was straight to the 16. Actually, I did try a non Creative card first, it was a huge let-down, so I "ran" back to Creative right away and got the SB16 + Roland wavetable board.

Isn't SoftMPU a workaround for the DMA sounds?

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

No its to add intelligent mode to the MPU-401 interface.

I have the Sound Blaster 16 MCD CT1750 I cannot find manual and drivers.

The set BLASTER line is not necessary add or the installer already make one in the autoexec.bat?

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Makoto Enoki The installer takes care of all of that!

@dabombinablemi6188

6 жыл бұрын

The installer should add the lines to the autoexec.bat, however if you use a SB Live card I recommend checking anyway-I've found that the drivers love having the lines in the wrong positions and the sound won't work in games that reuire real DOS mode unless the error is corrected.

@BandanazX

6 жыл бұрын

The environment value just makes it easier for games to 'detect' the card. Old games didn't need it; you set the configuration to use the correct hardware settings manually. You only need software to adjust the mixer.

Hi Phil I have a sound blaster pro 2 ct 1600 I'm looking for the software for it could you help me thanks , I have a old zeos 486 dx2 50 mhz and it has the sound card but I don't know what model software I should use

THE HERCULES FORTISSIMO II!

Hello Phil, I have the same card in a 486DX66, and it works great with sound, however, I cant get a joypad to be recognized, I dont see anything in your vid, or the install, any idea how to get joystick recognized? thanks!

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

Make sure the gameport is active, there is a jumper!

@fourby4toy

3 жыл бұрын

Jumper shows it as active

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

@@fourby4toy Hmm, does the board or the IO controller have a game port? It might just be a header even...

What is depth of card ? Thanks

I heard the ct1600 us the best sound blaster made for dos gaming

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

"Best" is totally subjective, pretty much every sound card has it's own signature and it does depend a lot on the game, with later games, a Sound Blaster 16 are often the way to go.

i have 2 of these NoiseBlasters

So much better than the clones

My first PC has the Vibra 16. Is there any difference between the vibra and the sound blaster 16?

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

I will for sure take a look at a later stage.

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

I will for sure take a look at a later stage.

@uranium5694

6 жыл бұрын

PhilsComputerLab ok thanks a lot!

Hi Phil, a friend of me gave me a Soundblaster AWE32 CT2760 + DB50XG from 1994, can I use the drivers from your website from the Sound Blaster 32 CT3670 to install them for my card in Windows 98? I have plugged the card into my system but Windows isnt seeing any device, is this normal? Usually some device is detected when entering a PCI slot, or is it with ISA different? I checked and since the card is default set to IRQ7 I had to disable the printerport because this also uses IRQ7. Still no luck.

@philscomputerlab

5 жыл бұрын

Yes windows 98 is PnP and should install drivers automatically. I do recommend installing the driver update, which you can get from the Creative website.

@bram9498

5 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab hmm i was already a bit worried that its not normal my Windows 98 doesnt recognize my audio card, not even a unknown device in the device manager. The card works fine in Dos, i went through the Diagnose program and tested the sound. So the problem i have is Windows 98. These are the settings from the Diagnose tool: DSP version: 4.13, Base I/O: 220H, Wave Table: 620H, MPU401: 330H, IRQ: 7, DMA: 1, 5. The driver update could only work if Windows actually sees a card, otherwise the update does nothing i think. Any suggestions because iam really stuck...

@bram9498

5 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab What are the basic steps for this soundcard to get it to work in Windows 98? Just plug it in the computer then let Win98 install de drivers automatically, then install the update? So i dont need to install anything in Dos and therefore autoexec.bat doesnt need any extra lines of code?? Iam confused what is manditory to get it to work.

CT2740* from 1994-1999 as main soundcard! (Start: Socket 3 486 66MHz. End: Socket 7 K6-2 300@400MHz) Then my country called aka conscription... After = Socket A(462) and 1400 MHz THUNDERBIRD♥ with SBLive! 5.1 SB0060. *Still alive and back in the original Tulip PC from 1994.

where can i get that boot app where you can choose extended memory, mouse etc?

@philscomputerlab

Жыл бұрын

www.philscomputerlab.com/ms-dos-starter-pack.html

Why do you use Kindle to show info? :D

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Because this is the only use I found for it >

How can I get the original Lemmings?

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Abandon-ware, unless it pops up on GOG one day.

I never owned a real SoundBlaster card. We were poor. All I ever owned was a cheap "SoundBlaster compatible" card. That card lasted me a good 12 years. So I guess it wasn't that crappy!

the lengendary AWE32 plz !!!

What model sound blaster is best for playing dos games?

@nilswegner2881

6 жыл бұрын

Alex4SiliconValley the sb Pro 2 if you want to have good compatibility with older dos games

I get a better bass response from my SB16 than my onboard realtek sound card on my main Windows 10 PC. IDK why.

If I'm planning to use all external midi units such as mt32 and sc55 is this a better option than awe64 gold?

@philscomputerlab

4 жыл бұрын

No it's not, many Sound Blaster 16 cards have a buggy MIDI interface that can produce hanging notes in some games! Google it, it's a well documented issue!

@ScanlineCity

4 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab awesome thanks Phil. Reason I ask is that for whatever reason I cant get my Awe64 gold to transmit a midi signal to my roland midi devices. Specifically the sc55mk2. Perhaps there are specific settings I have to configure? I feel like iv tried everything

@philscomputerlab

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScanlineCity Hmm AFAIK the only thing you need to check is that one jumper on the AWE is closed for MPU401 to work. But otherwise it should just work. Make sure to test both the MIDI input and output cable, sometimes they are mislabelled.

@ScanlineCity

4 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab ok thanks! I didn't know the awe64 had jumpers. I will look into it. You inspired me into this hobby...thanks again Phil!!!!

@philscomputerlab

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScanlineCity I'm sure we'll figure it out, it's nothing overly complex. Have you confirmed that the Sound Canvas is working? Like with a USB MIDI adapter, or another sound card with MIDI interface?

next time please use the monkey island theme music as a tester =]]] thanks for all these videos =]]

fuck im literally crying over the memories of me playing warcraft 2 in my old mmx with a sound blaster 64 (after somehow my sound blaster 16 melted, seriously! how many times have you seen a sound card explode, as in big-hole-on-big-chip?)

how to fix all these issues (replace all the caps)

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

+Charles thekinglov I doubt it will fix the DMA clicking bug and the hanging note MPU-401 issue.

@pentiummmx2294

5 жыл бұрын

the hanging note bug is from the dsp chip, 4.12 and 4.13 dsp chips had that so called bug, 4.05 didn't have the bug

@matthewtully1745

3 жыл бұрын

What about the lagging in Duke 3d with a wavetable board?

Is there a revision of the SB16 that has no issues?

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Don't know, this is my first Sound Blaster 16 I checked out :D

@linoxyard

6 жыл бұрын

PhilsComputerLab Every revision I check out has either the DMA issue or the midi bug, or it's one of those Vibras with the CQM, which sounds harsh and inaccurate :(

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

Have you tried an ESS AudioDrive? With the 1868 or 1869 chipset, they are pretty good. I will check out more cards as we go along, Aztech, Opti and others!

@linoxyard

6 жыл бұрын

PhilsComputerLab I've seen your review of it, and I got curios. I tried to find one, but they are pretty hard to come by here in Italy

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

They should be really easy to find...

I seem to have an issue getting the driver installed. My system is a SS7 K63+ with Win98, when I restart to Dos and try to install the driver, I get an error that I'm trying to install from Win95 and it closes out. Not sure why that is, anyone run into this issue?

@philscomputerlab

Жыл бұрын

That issue is more complex than it seems: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jJ2Hr5epharHkpc.html

@MarshalArnold

Жыл бұрын

@PhilsComputerLab thanks a ton Phil, this got me up and going! I had a good look at the Readme as well, so have a much better understanding of the steps you followed as well. Crazy how things worked back then, but now I'm basking in some OPL goodness. That's again!

@philscomputerlab

Жыл бұрын

@@MarshalArnold Awesome 🥰👍

The Sound Blaster 16 is _THE_ archetype DOS soundcard. It's the first Sound Blaster with CD quality stereo sound. Compatibility is unmatched; it's backward compatible with the original Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, and Adlib. The Sound Blaster 16 established the baseline of what a sound card needs to do that survives to this day. It's only technical shortcoming is the lack of Full Duplex audio in the early versions. I bought a Sound Blaster 16 ASP shortly after they came out. The ASP version was particularly expensive, but I convinced myself that the ASP was the future or some nonsense. Almost nothing used the ASP, certainly no games. The whole idea of the ASP was that it was a hardware processor for audio, including compression, which was still in its infancy. Unless you were recording sound, it's of no use. I'm considering buying a retro system. One of the non-negotiables is that the system has to have ISA for perfect DOS Sound Blaster compatibility.

Why do you sound German?

@phreeze83

6 жыл бұрын

he IS :) but now lives in Australia

@m9078jk3

6 жыл бұрын

He was originally an Austrian that now lives in Australia but has plans of conquering New Zealand while wearing a Pickelhaube.

In your soundcard reviews you are not mentioning and comparing what kind of amplifier is on the card. This card and many other higher quality sound cards come with a Philips amplifier. Look very closely and you will find a tiny component with a Philips logo on it. On shitty shitty cards without an amplifiers the sound signal can not be controlled by a mixer and the signal is faint. Cheers.

AWE32 here, the famous CT3600, i dont like it ..hanging note bug destroys the pleasure

Hi Phil. Do you still use Creative Sound Blaster MB3 software? I have a problem with this software. Please, if you still use it, could you check this thread on Creative forums and just let me (just reply on this comment) know if you have seen similiar issue during MB3 expluatation. Thank you. Link: forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=742089

@philscomputerlab

6 жыл бұрын

I only used it for making that video.

@edgarm7416

6 жыл бұрын

I see... Thanks anyway.

Can't believe these titles, has so awefull music compared to the Amiga version.