Best Gravis Ultrasound for MS-DOS demos?
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Uhm. Basically what Gargaj said... :)
As an alternative software solution, you can use dosbox and emulate a GUS. Just modify dosbox.conf settings and retrieve GUS patch files.
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Sound#Gravis_Ultrasound
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Sound#Gravis_Ultrasound
Sylvao thx for the link!
It finally made me enable gus emulation in dosbox and now a complete new world of amazing dos-demos is open for me! yay!
It finally made me enable gus emulation in dosbox and now a complete new world of amazing dos-demos is open for me! yay!
Okkie, seems like "AltraSound" clone is the same thing as Synergy's sound card. I have Synergy ViperMax (GUS+SB), but I do not sure it has only 512 kb on board (as Wiki said). Need to check it.
There were lots of clones - the Wikipedia-page lists most of them I think.
Wow, I had never heard of those non-gravis gus cards. Apparently the extreme/viper (same card, according to wikipedia) is the ultimate one for DOS use. Me, I used the "classic" upgraded to 1MB (using chips from amiga!). Still have it.
If I was to use the thing in a Pentium 200MMX system on DOS 6.22 alongside a SB16 with a Yamaha MIDI daughterboard, would any card work?
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If you need extra RAM for your GUS you might be able to find extra memory on old graphics from that time.
yeah mine is expanded with gfxcard ram as well
olivil: GUS and SB can coexist pretty well, just take care that IRQ, DMA and ports are assigned properly.
Depending on the cards used to might be necessary to disable te gameport and/or cd drive interface in order to avoid port and/or irq collisions in case that relocation to a different address or irq is not possible.
Oh, and of course theres no need for SBOS or such ;)
Depending on the cards used to might be necessary to disable te gameport and/or cd drive interface in order to avoid port and/or irq collisions in case that relocation to a different address or irq is not possible.
Oh, and of course theres no need for SBOS or such ;)
If you intend to use both an SB16 and GUS in the same machine, then PnP might not be the best option. At boot before initialization it apparently grabs two random IRQs, which can cause trouble. As the only card under DOS, PnP seemed to be fine.
