Your videos and tutorials for the AWE64 Gold were EXTREMELY helpful. Even when I had it back in the day I do not think I ever set it up while using Windows 95 for proper command prompt only support. Thanks to you sharing the proper files and explaining it I was able to properly set up my CT4540 AWE64 Gold I recently received today after not owning one since the late 90's. I greatly appreciate the help!
I recently installed an AWE64 Value with a SB Live! in the same computer. It seems Creative knew some people were going to do this, as when the AWE64 is detected by the SB Live VXD drivers, it disables automatically its MS-DOS emulation part and let it fully relying on the AWE64 to do that task. It is amazing how well that combination works. Pure MS-DOS with excelent FM, bug-free MPU, and AWE features plus Windows 98 with EAX and unlimited SoundFont memory with the other Synths available. It also trully defeats the purpose of getting an expensive AWE64 Gold or AWE memory upgrades. I also got this fully working with an Audician 32 plus + SB live, but it was a lot harder, as i had to do some registry tweaking in order to keep SBpro/16 compatibility fully working in both cards at the same time using different resources, specially because of the FM 388 address which was not changeable and caused conflict. This combo was also not so feature rich than the AWE64+Live for DOS games, but allowed having the Live taking care of the sound effects, and the Audician only do the FM OPL syntesis in DOS games.
This card is phenomenal. I was fortunate to find one with a Creative 4 MB upgrade module (for 8 MB total), but didn't act quickly enough to obtain a SIMCONN adapter. I bought another one in 2009 for another build when nobody wanted them ($25 at the time). They are horrendously expensive today, but, for anyone looking for one of these, a regular AWE64 also works very well, is much cheaper, and still provides AWE32 compatibility for DOS games. The AWE64 Gold has gold connectors and split RCA outputs for your speakers, but unless you have insanely sharp hearing or use headphones, I haven't noticed any significant differences in the audio quality when it comes to MS-DOS games. The Gold also has 4 MB of SoundFont RAM built-in (the regular AWE64 has only 512k), but if the goal is strictly AWE32 compatibility, you can save loads just getting a regular AWE64.
Having built a retro gig a few years ago, i was mega lucky to have been able to buy a NOS awe 64, sealed, from the US. What hit me in the face when first using was the stereo image the card produced. I could not believe it. Stereo sounding like 3D, and that's without the 3d effect on.
Another thing with AWE64 is that you could install an alternative driver called KX or something like that. It gave you 100% power and control over the DSP and you could design your own effects!
I teared up when I heard the win 98 startup sound :') I had 98 when my brother had Vista at the time it came out. Sadly, my Win 98's Hdd pins broke when I was trying to put in a bigger HDD, and everything messed up. I didn't know what I was doing back then, but now I miss it T_T All is well~!
I knew a few people with this card back in the late 1990s. I remember that when they used Steinberg Cubase VST with it, they had to manually and individually adjust when each sequencer audio track started, by adding a delay otherwise the tracks would play out of sync with each other! This problem was sorted when the SoundBlaster Live! came out. The other thing with the AWE64 is it was a noisy card, even for the time but it was a very good value for money card.
In the video at around (05:30) during reconfiguration of the card, you chose option 1 which sets the MPU I/O Port to 300 instead of 330. This doesn't give a conflict. Later in the video (at around 10:33) you choose the 330 option. Just wondering is this was the cause of a crash. Or maybe you edited the video together after correcting the inital mistake.
I can't remember if it's this or the AWE32, but I'm sure I still have one of these cards inside an old PC gathering dust in my house. I never had the heart to discard it or the PC, as it was insanely "state of the art" (I remember it also had a fancy DVD drive with cables looped around the back that played Wing Commander IV on DVD) when I first bought it many years ago. Came across this randomly while watching your tweak videos, and it not only made me nostalgic but made me kinda want to dig out my old hardware bits and pieces and see if any of them can be salvaged for retro purposes!
Just bought one with the SPDIF-OUT slot cover. Really enjoy your videos. It has got me inspired to build a retro win98 machine. My first Win PC since 97. So I will only be upgrading by a year.
that sound from Doom at the very end sounds quite familiar.. I had the AWE32 at the time in my first computer ever. Those were amazing times and wavetable synth MIDI was a thing. I actually LOVED to hear those sounds. Yes, they weren't incredible when looking back now but I loved how it sounded compared to FM and was very disappointed when a game had my favourite music format, MIDI, and wasn't Sound Blaster AWE compatible
I don't know why you have compatability issues with DOS - the AWE64 is fully compatible with both AWE32 , SB16 and Pro 2. I played lots of games under MS-DOS 6.22 with my AWE64 when I had it - I remember, because some 3Dfx games ran better under DOS than Windows 9x - so I would dual-boot through System Commander between MSDOS6.22 and Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000....
I bought an AWE64 CT4520 (not Gold) and I got the hanging note bug, which surprised me for such a late release card (1997 on the board). So I've gone back to my SB 16 WavEffects (CT4170). At least it doesn't suffer that particular bug.
Great review, Phil! I love my Awe64 Gold and use it in my K6-III, Windows 98se build. For pure DOS, I just stick with the awe32 option in my games. For Windows, I actually like the way the 4MB sbk sound font sounds.
One of the greatest features of this card is Vienna 2.0 You can do this with soundfonts almost everything! PS.: I still have one for my retro PIII machine ;-)
Please make a video of yamaha sound cards like ymf 754 Hoontech SoundTrack i-Phone Digital XG , or xwave 6000 pro , i love those card and love to know about ability of yamaha cards can do.
Phils. I have a AWE32 that died. And i have a SoundBlater Live 5.1 PCI and a Yamaha 744Pro PCI. And i have a AWE64Gold (for repair, needs capacitors, but assume its good). What cards you will be using if you had this cards? Its a pentium 3 1400Mhz. Iam thinking of using only AWE64, but AWE64 missing OPL3. Yamaha 744Pro have OPL3 if iam not wrong, but its a PCI card. Maybe its a good ideia to use the Yamaha 744 Pro in Windows and AWE64 in DOS? Or just use AWE64 for everthing?. Pentium 3 have the power to run dosbox for some games. Other possibility is to stick with one card (for exemple AWE64) and use dosbox for "problematic" games. What are your susgestion? Iam trying to make a "all in one" DOS-Win9x to early XP era computer (Swap HDDs when i want another OS). I have a P3 1400Mhz, 512Mb of Ram (can take 1,5Gb) and a Geforce 4 MX440.
I like the Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold and Sound Blaster AWE64 Value because they have the Reverb and Chorus as well as 3D Stereo Enhancement settings as shown in this video.
These things are a lot of fun. I use All Sound Tracker and you can actually use the EMU chip and the OPL3 at the same time. Can even throw some PC speaker in there if you are feeling like it. The emu filter is weird though. It cuts volume and the resonance doesn't peak any higher than the instrument level so you have to make everything really quiet if you're using the filter. Also, the FM is my fave. I use it for recording all my AT2 songs.
Using the FM hardware synthesizer or using the Add hardware synthesizer at 4-operators mode with the SPDIF output to record to new high-quality sound cards, can be achieved the studios quality sound
I got one of these AWE64 Gold cards and got it all setup and configured using your guides but I know found out these cards will not play the audio for Sierra games correct. Games like Freddy Pharkas and Gabriel Knight. Any way to fix this issues or how can I use this Card for just Windows 98SE and then use another card for DOS? Each time I try adding another card it just messes everything up for me.
@@philscomputerlab Okay, thanks for reply. I get mb on socket 370 with pentium 3 800 MHz + voodoo 3 3000. I thinking to buy awe64 ct4520 because motherboard have one ISA slot and also bios have option to disable cache l1 and l2. Maybe stupid question but i want also some windows games like nfs 2, incoming, carmageddon 2 and this games will have sound on this older sound card?
Awesome video! Thanks Phil - I always enjoy your sound videos. Could you perhaps do a video or video series on getting an MT-32 or SC-55 to work with a Yamaha YMF-718s and SoftMPU?
Evert Coetzee The only Yamaha card I have is this Audacian or something like that. That card is pretty straight forward, much easier to get going than the AWE64 Gold :) A general video about SoftMPU might be interesting though.
I also have one of those Audician 32 cards. which is just a YMF-718s, from what I could gather it's very compatible with SoftMPU. But yeah, I was going to offer to send you one of my Yamaha cards if you couldn't find one - I have a YMF-718s and YMF-719. I would really like to invest in something like an MT-32 or SC-55, but because of the very high shipping costs and risks of importing it to my country, I want to be at least 99% sure of the quality before I take the plunge.
I wanted to cover the Audician 32 anyway, because I got it complete, with box and drivers and I know that many have this card. It has wavetable and an external MIDI port, so it should work fine. No hanging note bug either and the output quality is very good. What's the difference with the 719?
Visually, there is no difference. The parts look to be the same on both cards with very slight PCB layout differences. I know you can use the same DOS driver on the YMF-715 to YMF-719 series, so SoftMPU will probably work fine with any of them too.
9:30 - My first soundcard was a Gravis Ultrasound so I've dealt with worse... But this seems like a *terrible* limitation for a soundcard designed for MIDI music, to be unable to reliably emulate the (non-"smart"-mode) MPU-401 interface, which would be the most common way for games to provide MIDI music if they don't support the sound card natively. I have to wonder if maybe they did that on purpose to drive software authors to natively support the card instead...?
The tools also worked on my Value Edition. The added value of RAM i believe was offset by using main RAM as storage of soundfonts. Also in my later Live!, Audigy 2 and X-Fi.
Had SB AWE64 for some time when upgraded home PC at late nineties. Was quite disappointed about interference from digital circuitry. Like chirping and hissing when CPU load changed. SB AWE32 I had before, wasn't noisy at all.
I may have missed you mentioning this in the other AWE64 videos on your channel, but is the AWE64 100% backwards compatible with every Sound Blaster card (i.e. SB16, SB Pro etc.) that came before it?
Mostly, but not with Stereo Digital from SB Pro, it will only play Mono. Not a big deal though, as those games with Stereo FX support, have SB16 support anyway.
@@philscomputerlab Does that mean all games which support stereo through SB Pro were designed around mono, or just most/a lot of them were? I guess the biggest reason I'm asking is because, in first-person shooters and racing games, if there's someone approaching from the left or right, I like being able to hear which direction they're coming from for the sake of "strategic planning."
@@Entrepid83 You got to realise that DOS games are ancient. Stereo sound effects, and music, is not something old games supported. Sometimes the MT-32 offered Stereo in really old games, but usually only much newer games like Descent have Stereo sound.
@@philscomputerlab Hmm...and Descent is a game where stereo would be really good to have. I'll have to take a look into some stereo-capable DOS sound cards then. Are there any cards/videos you'd recommend for Sound Blaster Pro, Pro 2 and beyond?
This thing needs with loaded user banks imitating SC-55, MT-32, DB50 comparision with real SC-55, DB50, MT-32. With reverb and chorus off, certainly. In several games. Such to check in how much degree it may replace real popular devices, especialy SC, MT wich were used by developers in common.
Please help, I just got this card it works with games after 1996 like doom, duke 3d which has sound settings, but not working with old games like wolf3d, when I run it, the sound blaster option is not even enabled, does that mean it is not compatible with old games? or I can use aweutil.exe to fix this? please advise. 🙂
With the SIMMCONN module (with a 32mb EDO ram) it seems to remember my soundfonts after reboot (even shutdown). So I do not need to load the soundfont over and over again. Something I just noticed that you said in this video here.
Interesting at is uses Dynamic RAM, which requires constant refreshes to store information. In short, this can only work if the computer receives power.
Can you tell me where to find the 32MB expansion pack? Also the cable for midi out. Which Midi device is good for this card? Any other options to expand this card?
great video. i have 2 questions: you have the original cd for awe64 (not gold)? the adapter for more memory, works for awe 64? (not gold/ct4500) sadly is hard to find both here (Brazil)
+Kurt Hectic dei sorte por achar uma placa de som aqui mesmo, tecnicamente pelos review é melhor que uma awe64, mas para achr outra vai ser raro :( Ao menos suporta memoria edo normal ahuahau
How is the quality of the FM-synthesis? I have both an AWE64 gold and a SB16 with discrete OPL3 chip and I'm trying to decide which card to use in my P2/233 retro machine. I'll be playing games from 1989-93 as wel as newer games.
It isn't a true Yamaha chip, but a copy... so it doesn't sound exactly like OPL2/OPL3. Whether or not that bothers you comes down to how good your ear is/ how much you want that original FM sound.
i like the ct4170 the most, because it plays mostly old dos-titles and mostly all demoscene-stuff. the awe64gold has a lots of problems with dos and damascene-stuff. if you have a dual boot-machine dos/win9x driver-resources must be the same. otherwise win9x will change the configuration of the card an dafter booting dos, you have to configure the resources again. In GLdoom/heretic/hexen (win9x) the Mixerfunction does not work. You can't change the Volume of the music only. the sfx is alway effected. The CT4170 does not have this problem.
I had and still have an AWE64 Gold. However, I could never get it to work under Windows 98. Windows 95 always worked perfectly. I'm wondering if the driver was bad or maybe it was the motherboard of the newer PC that didn't like ISA cards. But a great video. :)
@@little_fluffy_clouds Yes, I have heard that from several people. I just could never get mine to work. So I ended up getting a Sound Blaster Live for my 98 machine and that worked perfectly.
Why are idiots on ebay charging £200 for these? listed as RARE uhm, nope theyre not, they made millions of em. but ive learned something from you here phil, i didnt know the PC_SPK header goes from the card to the motherboard, i thought it connected directly to a speaker, this is very cool to know as my SB Live! has this pinout.
Hi! Its new for me that you can add EFX on FM, cool! Its possible to make this on the Windowsmixer or Setup to or only on DOS and is this saved and working after new started PC?
Yes I believe you can do the same under Windows in the EAX control panel. Add reverb, chorus and other effects. Under DOS the settings are not saved, but easy to add to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file so it configures it automatically when you start your computer.
@@philscomputerlab Hi Ok I will search, but i think there war nothing in Windows and AWE has no EAX Control Panel or do you use other drivers? Btw, you can listen to my special AWE version from Thunder Force IV here: th-cam.com/video/COZyhM5Meo4/w-d-xo.html
@@philscomputerlab ty. Though I already bought Audigy 2 ZS SB0350. Its price on eBay dropped from 150€ to 30 with transport, within a week. Saw at least 5 in Europe for that price ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Great Channel Phil!, I have a tough question. What it's better for Retrogaming (on a 486DX4-100, 64MB Ram), a SB16, AWE32 or AWE64Value? I'm picky about FM synthesis, Actually I have a Cristal CS4235 and sounds like a dying dog, in 1997 I did have an Opti 82C931, that was a really good SBPro clone, specially on FM and 3D Stereo. The game I use to testing cards is Tyrian2000, the FM synthesis are so awesome and beautiful, specially the FMdrums ;)
PhilsComputerLab hahaha you kill me ;) I don´t have access to one, but I have a SB16 and AWE64 Value, probably SB16 are better, because have a discrete opl3 backward comp with opl2/adlib games
lorecast162 The Sound Blaster Pro 2 is a great card and many people use it. The way I see it, if you are into the older games, then you might be better off with the Sound Blaster Pro 2, especially if you want that authentic OPL3.
DOSBox? Blaspheme :D I usually just use a card with DVI output and use a DVI > HDMI dongle to capture :) For older machines, like a 386, I use a VGA > HDMI scaler. Unless the video is clearly about DOSBox, you can be assured that everything I do is on real retro hardware.
PhilsComputerLab I've been running through a lot of issues trying to record my Windows 98/XP PC, for now I'm just going with S-Video directly to my capture card (Hauppauge HD PVR) until I can find a less flickering and blurry solution :D
You won't get one, there is a lot to it. I'm thinking of doing a video series on this, but it's a really complex topic. A really simple answer is that the AWE64 is better for newer games, the Audican32 Plus better for older games.
I got an AWE32 CT3670 and I couldn't figure why the heck the PC Speaker pins were so distant, I couldn't reach them with the chassis cable... what kind of cable do I need to hook it to the mobo's PC speaker pins ?
The chassis cable? That IS the actual speaker of the case. That doesn't go into the sound card, but you connect it to the motherboard. You can mod a CD Audio cable, or get something like this: www.ebay.com.au/itm/40-Way-Rainbow-Color-31cm-Flat-for-Arduino-Jumper-Cable-Wire-1P-Home-Appliance-/321819198104?hash=item4aedeb4298:g:1PwAAOSwT6pVuabI You just need two wires. Connect to the sound blaster and then to the two outer pins of the 4 pin PC speaker on the motherboard.
Yeah, if only I could figure out which pins on that motherboard are for the PC Speaker, I wouldn't need to redirect the PC Speaker to the audio card that way.... and before you tell me to check the manual, there's no info and I can't even find the manual for the exact model of that motherboard (from the "What manufacturer and model is this motherboard" thread I made on Vogons)
Such a great card. I used this for MIDI sequencing back in early high school and I always loved the way it sounds. It is paired with a Roland RAP-10 in my DOS box for some really beautiful sounding gaming nostalgia =) By using a short male-to-male 1/8" phone cable, I just daisy-chain the RAP-10's output into the AWE's line-in. Utilizing the excellent DOS mixer utility, it.makes for a great dual card setup without the need for an external mixer.
Hi. Need some help. I have a Ct4380. It works OK in Windows XP, but the speaker out is mute. Do you know if there's some issue with xp? Or may be the spk out is dead... Thanks
excuse me phil, if you read me from the heaven can you come to the earth to listen me 😅. i have the ga-5ax like you(mine 4.1), i have crackling noises with the 64 value, i tried to disable every single option in the bios(with tweakbios too, seems it keep the changes, but not after rebooting the computer) , fsb 66x5.5 and nothing worked. i think is speed issue, agp, pci bus or isa, already tried pio mode, slow ram or isa bios, is there any config for the isa bus write-read to lower it?, pci-bus agp tweak for lowe the fsb, maybe im totally wrong but i dont know what can i do
@@philscomputerlab coincidentally i just finished testing all day.I dont have another Isa but i have tested a vibra 128 and the problem persist, even is worse.The vibra is a lot more quieter than the awe (using external aplifier). It happens with midi music in games, digital is rare, just ocasional. Tested using only low level dma, not solved the problem. After a lot of hours, the only thing i saw which made a difference is set trebble & bass to 0 in the mixerset, the problem is not solved completely, im testing just with duke3d setup. Im thinking if the real problem is another thing and this is just fixing it a little or or that some sounds are not playing as they should.
@@philscomputerlab I have changed the half capacitors of the board with panasonic low esr. The phisical appearance 3 of them had a very small difference compared to the other ones. Is my first time changing them, so it was a bit difficult, in the process a blown some of the external capacitor's ground point layer (someone explained me how to repare it), tested all the grounds and are okey. Idk if that blown ground points can be the reason or is due to the other half capacitor not changed, i have performed speedsys, around 15-20 3dmark test (2600gpu voodoo3 & 6000 amd k6-2) and memtest and is working okey, i dont have any boot speaker sounds too. Im going to buy some desoldering copper mesh, repair the ground points and chsnge the other ones.
PhilsComputerLab Ah ok because my computers integrated graphics card is a S3 and I wanted to make sure everything is alright c:. Man you have been a great help especially with my pentium 3 machine. And now u helped me with my pentium 1 machine. Well time to hit the local thrift shops to find a 386 c:
PhilsComputerLab Didn't even plan to use it in DOS, but rather in Windows NT 5.x (2000/XP) and 6.x (Vista/7/8. There are drivers which make it work on NT6.x). For DOS and 9x I have an AWE64.
+Windows Ninety Five 66 It has CQM. The AWE64 Gold is not the card for OPL3 purists, there are much better choices. But it has many other things going for it. The ability to apply chorus and reverb to FM is one such highlight.
im not really that picky with the fm synthesis on the sound cards, i have heard worse, like the crystal fm synthesis on a emachines etower pc that i used.
+Windows Ninety Five 66 I just ordered a soundblaster 16 ct2830 which has a YMF262 chip and is non PNP, i know that cause i see the dip switches on it. I saw one for $15.99 on ebay.
Can I apply the reverb and chorus effects or even 3dse on a second isa card's fm output? I'm looking for a reason to get the awe64 gold lol. So can I disable the fm emulation on the awe64 (have it not be audible) and pick a different card on another slot with a real opl3 chip in a game's setup but still be able to apply the gold's effects on it?
philscomputerlab Have you tried it? Shame then. Anyways how is the soundblaster 16 support on the awe64 gold ? (sorry if you did mention this, I skipped through the video) Is it virtually identical to the non-clone sb16 cards in terms of it working with practically every game under dos? Or are there issues?
+philscomputerlab Got it Working, the Soundfonts on Windows9x work great with AWEControl Sofware,. Enough for today, i´ll leave the DOSMode config for tomorrow, and next up is the MIDI Emulation through USB (when i get the adapter). Thanks for the quick answer !
+Sacco Belmonte I have four and the all work great :) The Audigy is a PCI card, so not that useful for DOS gaming. But for Windows XP I do like the Audigy 2 ZS, a great card!
I got these cards mainly because I'm a musician and wanted to use soundfonts. The awe64gold had like 4mb, and that was pretty cool at the time. Of course later on with the Audigy (I had the one with the external rack) Creative made it so you could load your sf2 in RAM. Pretty revolutionary considering the price of a sampler was prohibitive.
Except that the Value edition is noisy as hell and requires RAM cards to utilize any custom soundfonts. I’m rather fond of the 4MB E-Mu Systems GS soundfont and you can’t use it on the Value edition out of the box.
Your videos and tutorials for the AWE64 Gold were EXTREMELY helpful. Even when I had it back in the day I do not think I ever set it up while using Windows 95 for proper command prompt only support. Thanks to you sharing the proper files and explaining it I was able to properly set up my CT4540 AWE64 Gold I recently received today after not owning one since the late 90's. I greatly appreciate the help!
I recently installed an AWE64 Value with a SB Live! in the same computer. It seems Creative knew some people were going to do this, as when the AWE64 is detected by the SB Live VXD drivers, it disables automatically its MS-DOS emulation part and let it fully relying on the AWE64 to do that task. It is amazing how well that combination works. Pure MS-DOS with excelent FM, bug-free MPU, and AWE features plus Windows 98 with EAX and unlimited SoundFont memory with the other Synths available. It also trully defeats the purpose of getting an expensive AWE64 Gold or AWE memory upgrades.
I also got this fully working with an Audician 32 plus + SB live, but it was a lot harder, as i had to do some registry tweaking in order to keep SBpro/16 compatibility fully working in both cards at the same time using different resources, specially because of the FM 388 address which was not changeable and caused conflict. This combo was also not so feature rich than the AWE64+Live for DOS games, but allowed having the Live taking care of the sound effects, and the Audician only do the FM OPL syntesis in DOS games.
This card is phenomenal. I was fortunate to find one with a Creative 4 MB upgrade module (for 8 MB total), but didn't act quickly enough to obtain a SIMCONN adapter. I bought another one in 2009 for another build when nobody wanted them ($25 at the time). They are horrendously expensive today, but, for anyone looking for one of these, a regular AWE64 also works very well, is much cheaper, and still provides AWE32 compatibility for DOS games. The AWE64 Gold has gold connectors and split RCA outputs for your speakers, but unless you have insanely sharp hearing or use headphones, I haven't noticed any significant differences in the audio quality when it comes to MS-DOS games. The Gold also has 4 MB of SoundFont RAM built-in (the regular AWE64 has only 512k), but if the goal is strictly AWE32 compatibility, you can save loads just getting a regular AWE64.
My best setup ever in old PC DOS computer was AWE64Gold + Yamaha SW50XG + MIDI keyboard
I have the standard version of awe64 , and learned a lots of things about it. Thanks
Having built a retro gig a few years ago, i was mega lucky to have been able to buy a NOS awe 64, sealed, from the US. What hit me in the face when first using was the stereo image the card produced. I could not believe it. Stereo sounding like 3D, and that's without the 3d effect on.
Another thing with AWE64 is that you could install an alternative driver called KX or something like that. It gave you 100% power and control over the DSP and you could design your own effects!
I teared up when I heard the win 98 startup sound :')
I had 98 when my brother had Vista at the time it came out.
Sadly, my Win 98's Hdd pins broke when I was trying to put in a bigger HDD, and everything messed up. I didn't know what I was doing back then, but now I miss it T_T
All is well~!
+Justin Omoi (Artist Tutorials) Funny how a short tune can evoke such an emotion.
PhilsComputerLab Yes! :')
I knew a few people with this card back in the late 1990s. I remember that when they used Steinberg Cubase VST with it, they had to manually and individually adjust when each sequencer audio track started, by adding a delay otherwise the tracks would play out of sync with each other! This problem was sorted when the SoundBlaster Live! came out. The other thing with the AWE64 is it was a noisy card, even for the time but it was a very good value for money card.
In the video at around (05:30) during reconfiguration of the card, you chose option 1 which sets the MPU I/O Port to 300 instead of 330. This doesn't give a conflict. Later in the video (at around 10:33) you choose the 330 option. Just wondering is this was the cause of a crash. Or maybe you edited the video together after correcting the inital mistake.
I can't remember if it's this or the AWE32, but I'm sure I still have one of these cards inside an old PC gathering dust in my house. I never had the heart to discard it or the PC, as it was insanely "state of the art" (I remember it also had a fancy DVD drive with cables looped around the back that played Wing Commander IV on DVD) when I first bought it many years ago.
Came across this randomly while watching your tweak videos, and it not only made me nostalgic but made me kinda want to dig out my old hardware bits and pieces and see if any of them can be salvaged for retro purposes!
Just bought one with the SPDIF-OUT slot cover. Really enjoy your videos. It has got me inspired to build a retro win98 machine. My first Win PC since 97. So I will only be upgrading by a year.
That's awesome :)
Thanks for the videos; I'm a fan.
My review for this card would have been super short: "Best Sound Card Ever."
(Audigy 2 being the only contender.)
that sound from Doom at the very end sounds quite familiar.. I had the AWE32 at the time in my first computer ever. Those were amazing times and wavetable synth MIDI was a thing. I actually LOVED to hear those sounds. Yes, they weren't incredible when looking back now but I loved how it sounded compared to FM and was very disappointed when a game had my favourite music format, MIDI, and wasn't Sound Blaster AWE compatible
lino vi i had a awe32 and could also choose general midi and it worked.
Best soundcard ever made - so sad I threw mine out years ago when I skipped having desktop computers.
I don't know why you have compatability issues with DOS - the AWE64 is fully compatible with both AWE32 , SB16 and Pro 2.
I played lots of games under MS-DOS 6.22 with my AWE64 when I had it - I remember, because some 3Dfx games ran better under DOS than Windows 9x - so I would dual-boot through System Commander between MSDOS6.22 and Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000....
Nice Video. A pretty decent card, replacing my SB32 in late '96. Both ISA and PCI versions carried my gaming needs until the SB Live! came along.
I bought an AWE64 CT4520 (not Gold) and I got the hanging note bug, which surprised me for such a late release card (1997 on the board). So I've gone back to my SB 16 WavEffects (CT4170). At least it doesn't suffer that particular bug.
Great review, Phil! I love my Awe64 Gold and use it in my K6-III, Windows 98se build.
For pure DOS, I just stick with the awe32 option in my games. For Windows, I actually like the way the 4MB sbk sound font sounds.
Code1D10T Yes this card is very well suited for Super Socket 7 machines :)
One of the greatest features of this card is Vienna 2.0
You can do this with soundfonts almost everything!
PS.: I still have one for my retro PIII machine ;-)
Please make a video of yamaha sound cards like ymf 754 Hoontech SoundTrack i-Phone Digital XG , or xwave 6000 pro , i love those card and love to know about ability of yamaha cards can do.
Bought one of these with an original memory module for less than 10 euro, pretty proud!
Nicely done!
Phils. I have a AWE32 that died. And i have a SoundBlater Live 5.1 PCI and a Yamaha 744Pro PCI. And i have a AWE64Gold (for repair, needs capacitors, but assume its good).
What cards you will be using if you had this cards?
Its a pentium 3 1400Mhz. Iam thinking of using only AWE64, but AWE64 missing OPL3. Yamaha 744Pro have OPL3 if iam not wrong, but its a PCI card. Maybe its a good ideia to use the Yamaha 744 Pro in Windows and AWE64 in DOS?
Or just use AWE64 for everthing?. Pentium 3 have the power to run dosbox for some games. Other possibility is to stick with one card (for exemple AWE64) and use dosbox for "problematic" games. What are your susgestion?
Iam trying to make a "all in one" DOS-Win9x to early XP era computer (Swap HDDs when i want another OS). I have a P3 1400Mhz, 512Mb of Ram (can take 1,5Gb) and a Geforce 4 MX440.
I like the Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold and Sound Blaster AWE64 Value because they have the Reverb and Chorus as well as 3D Stereo Enhancement settings as shown in this video.
Radical Edward also Kainia Karia Agreed. It adds a bit of spice to some of the older games, that have no MIDI support.
Personally, I don't like reverb or chorus as a solid effect over every sample. It needs to be selective of some kind to sound any good.
Hi, yes AWE64 Gold 🙂 There is one CT8908 (or CT8907) chip that the normal AWE64 don't have, what does it do exactly?
These things are a lot of fun. I use All Sound Tracker and you can actually use the EMU chip and the OPL3 at the same time. Can even throw some PC speaker in there if you are feeling like it. The emu filter is weird though. It cuts volume and the resonance doesn't peak any higher than the instrument level so you have to make everything really quiet if you're using the filter. Also, the FM is my fave. I use it for recording all my AT2 songs.
I have ct4500 and ordered ct4890 for my p2-400, nice video, thanx for the links.
I wish I had known about sound fonts back in the day!
Using the FM hardware synthesizer or using the Add hardware synthesizer at 4-operators mode with the SPDIF output to record to new high-quality sound cards, can be achieved the studios quality sound
I got one of these AWE64 Gold cards and got it all setup and configured using your guides but I know found out these cards will not play the audio for Sierra games correct. Games like Freddy Pharkas and Gabriel Knight. Any way to fix this issues or how can I use this Card for just Windows 98SE and then use another card for DOS? Each time I try adding another card it just messes everything up for me.
I have a little question, AWE64 driver in ms dos need to have expanded memory enabled ?
There is no driver needed, running AWEUTIL will simply initialise the card :)
@@philscomputerlab Okay, thanks for reply. I get mb on socket 370 with pentium 3 800 MHz + voodoo 3 3000. I thinking to buy awe64 ct4520 because motherboard have one ISA slot and also bios have option to disable cache l1 and l2. Maybe stupid question but i want also some windows games like nfs 2, incoming, carmageddon 2 and this games will have sound on this older sound card?
Sounds cards improved drasticly, unlike headphones.
Modern day 100$ asus wil trash 1990s 1000$ esi or Turtle beach
Awesome video! Thanks Phil - I always enjoy your sound videos. Could you perhaps do a video or video series on getting an MT-32 or SC-55 to work with a Yamaha YMF-718s and SoftMPU?
Evert Coetzee The only Yamaha card I have is this Audacian or something like that. That card is pretty straight forward, much easier to get going than the AWE64 Gold :) A general video about SoftMPU might be interesting though.
I also have one of those Audician 32 cards. which is just a YMF-718s, from what I could gather it's very compatible with SoftMPU. But yeah, I was going to offer to send you one of my Yamaha cards if you couldn't find one - I have a YMF-718s and YMF-719. I would really like to invest in something like an MT-32 or SC-55, but because of the very high shipping costs and risks of importing it to my country, I want to be at least 99% sure of the quality before I take the plunge.
I wanted to cover the Audician 32 anyway, because I got it complete, with box and drivers and I know that many have this card. It has wavetable and an external MIDI port, so it should work fine. No hanging note bug either and the output quality is very good. What's the difference with the 719?
Visually, there is no difference. The parts look to be the same on both cards with very slight PCB layout differences. I know you can use the same DOS driver on the YMF-715 to YMF-719 series, so SoftMPU will probably work fine with any of them too.
+Evert Coetzee In which country are you living?
I still have one, and a Roland MT-100. Both are great
9:30 - My first soundcard was a Gravis Ultrasound so I've dealt with worse... But this seems like a *terrible* limitation for a soundcard designed for MIDI music, to be unable to reliably emulate the (non-"smart"-mode) MPU-401 interface, which would be the most common way for games to provide MIDI music if they don't support the sound card natively.
I have to wonder if maybe they did that on purpose to drive software authors to natively support the card instead...?
Good stuff. I am going to use this card to Play Quake on my Pentium 166 machine
The tools also worked on my Value Edition. The added value of RAM i believe was offset by using main RAM as storage of soundfonts. Also in my later Live!, Audigy 2 and X-Fi.
+Martin Klinge Good to hear, thanks.
im hurting - I have one of these somewhere but I can't find it. I fear it has been thrown out by mistake.
Had SB AWE64 for some time when upgraded home PC at late nineties. Was quite disappointed about interference from digital circuitry. Like chirping and hissing when CPU load changed. SB AWE32 I had before, wasn't noisy at all.
I think I still have an ISA AWE32 card somewhere in a box.
I may have missed you mentioning this in the other AWE64 videos on your channel, but is the AWE64 100% backwards compatible with every Sound Blaster card (i.e. SB16, SB Pro etc.) that came before it?
Mostly, but not with Stereo Digital from SB Pro, it will only play Mono. Not a big deal though, as those games with Stereo FX support, have SB16 support anyway.
@@philscomputerlab Does that mean all games which support stereo through SB Pro were designed around mono, or just most/a lot of them were? I guess the biggest reason I'm asking is because, in first-person shooters and racing games, if there's someone approaching from the left or right, I like being able to hear which direction they're coming from for the sake of "strategic planning."
@@Entrepid83 You got to realise that DOS games are ancient. Stereo sound effects, and music, is not something old games supported. Sometimes the MT-32 offered Stereo in really old games, but usually only much newer games like Descent have Stereo sound.
@@philscomputerlab Hmm...and Descent is a game where stereo would be really good to have. I'll have to take a look into some stereo-capable DOS sound cards then. Are there any cards/videos you'd recommend for Sound Blaster Pro, Pro 2 and beyond?
@@Entrepid83 Descent supports Sound Blaster 16, so all is good then.
This thing needs with loaded user banks imitating SC-55, MT-32, DB50 comparision with real SC-55, DB50, MT-32. With reverb and chorus off, certainly. In several games. Such to check in how much degree it may replace real popular devices, especialy SC, MT wich were used by developers in common.
What an awesome card this was....I dont even remember what i did with it,might even have it somewhere i hope.
Had one of these and upgraded the ram too. Was great but very noisy. Replaced it in 2004 with a maudio 2496 then back to an Emu 404 now Focusrite 8i6
Please help, I just got this card it works with games after 1996 like doom, duke 3d which has sound settings, but not working with old games like wolf3d, when I run it, the sound blaster option is not even enabled, does that mean it is not compatible with old games? or I can use aweutil.exe to fix this? please advise. 🙂
How the heck do i get this thing to output to my Sound Canvas SC55mk2. I have all the cables configured but I get nothing.
Hi Phil, will the setup guide here apply to a standard none gold
64 AWE 64 version?
Yesssss!
Is there difference in built (beside having gold connection), and drivers between AWE 64 and Gold version?
With the SIMMCONN module (with a 32mb EDO ram) it seems to remember my soundfonts after reboot (even shutdown). So I do not need to load the soundfont over and over again. Something I just noticed that you said in this video here.
Interesting at is uses Dynamic RAM, which requires constant refreshes to store information. In short, this can only work if the computer receives power.
Can you tell me where to find the 32MB expansion pack?
Also the cable for midi out.
Which Midi device is good for this card?
Any other options to expand this card?
hey guys, any idea where i can get the old cakewalk and vienna version ?
great video. i have 2 questions:
you have the original cd for awe64 (not gold)?
the adapter for more memory, works for awe 64? (not gold/ct4500)
sadly is hard to find both here (Brazil)
Kurt Hectic The adapter is only for Gold. There is a different SimmConn for the non-Gold cards. The CD I have is a copy I found online :)
do you know where i can find the adapter? and can you give a link for download?
The links are in the video / descriptions. I bought the SimmConn from a friend. Might check on eBay and other auction places.
Ok, thanks :)
+Kurt Hectic dei sorte por achar uma placa de som aqui mesmo, tecnicamente pelos review é melhor que uma awe64, mas para achr outra vai ser raro :(
Ao menos suporta memoria edo normal ahuahau
How is the quality of the FM-synthesis? I have both an AWE64 gold and a SB16 with discrete OPL3 chip and I'm trying to decide which card to use in my P2/233 retro machine. I'll be playing games from 1989-93 as wel as newer games.
It isn't a true Yamaha chip, but a copy... so it doesn't sound exactly like OPL2/OPL3. Whether or not that bothers you comes down to how good your ear is/ how much you want that original FM sound.
Hi, nice video. I want to ask you if the AWE64 works similar to AWE64 gold. Thanks
***** Yes but it has less memory onboard. The Gold is quieter. I have a normal AWE and it has an audible hiss of background noise.
philscomputerlab Thanks for the answer :)
+philscomputerlab
just order the CT4390 on ebay 29.99 , AWE 64 GOLD
IS this a good deal?
Yea that's fair value I would say!
Luck star?? Wonder if that is LG or just a knock off of “Lucky Goldstar”
i like the ct4170 the most, because it plays mostly old dos-titles and mostly all demoscene-stuff. the awe64gold has a lots of problems with dos and damascene-stuff. if you have a dual boot-machine dos/win9x driver-resources must be the same. otherwise win9x will change the configuration of the card an dafter booting dos, you have to configure the resources again. In GLdoom/heretic/hexen (win9x) the Mixerfunction does not work. You can't change the Volume of the music only. the sfx is alway effected. The CT4170 does not have this problem.
I had and still have an AWE64 Gold. However, I could never get it to work under Windows 98. Windows 95 always worked perfectly. I'm wondering if the driver was bad or maybe it was the motherboard of the newer PC that didn't like ISA cards. But a great video. :)
I have the Gold running on a P-III Win98SE system and it works flawlessly
@@little_fluffy_clouds Yes, I have heard that from several people. I just could never get mine to work. So I ended up getting a Sound Blaster Live for my 98 machine and that worked perfectly.
I have one in my W98 machine :P
I remember lusting after this card as a teenager. Ahh.
Why are idiots on ebay charging £200 for these? listed as RARE uhm, nope theyre not, they made millions of em. but ive learned something from you here phil, i didnt know the PC_SPK header goes from the card to the motherboard, i thought it connected directly to a speaker, this is very cool to know as my SB Live! has this pinout.
Nice board!
That expansion memorie, what is this used for? Whats was the need of those memories back in the day?
Ty. Cya
Necr0manceR To load larger Soundfonts as shown in the video :)
Ah Tanks! :)
Didnt got this info while watching the video! xD
My english is not that good and your acent sometime tricks me! ehehehe
What would be the difference with a non-gold AWE64 card? Breathtaking work with the videos. Keep it up as always Phil.
The golden RCA connectors for sure, and maybe the on-board memory? Should be well documented on the Internet!
I think the Gold has 4 MB on-board and the non-Gold 512k.
I think the Gold has 4 MB on-board and the non-Gold 512k.
Gold RCA, 4MB onboard, and expandable to 8MB-36MB. Mine also came with a free Cakewalk Music Sequencing software.
Hi! Its new for me that you can add EFX on FM, cool! Its possible to make this on the Windowsmixer or Setup to or only on DOS and is this saved and working after new started PC?
Yes I believe you can do the same under Windows in the EAX control panel. Add reverb, chorus and other effects. Under DOS the settings are not saved, but easy to add to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file so it configures it automatically when you start your computer.
@@philscomputerlab Hi Ok I will search, but i think there war nothing in Windows and AWE has no EAX Control Panel or do you use other drivers?
Btw, you can listen to my special AWE version from Thunder Force IV here:
th-cam.com/video/COZyhM5Meo4/w-d-xo.html
Does AWE64 non-Gold also support setting Chorus and Reverb in DOS?
Yes!
@@philscomputerlab ty. Though I already bought Audigy 2 ZS SB0350. Its price on eBay dropped from 150€ to 30 with transport, within a week. Saw at least 5 in Europe for that price ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@netiturtle150 must have been a temporary thing. I bought mine for under 30 a bit over a year ago.
this sound font method also works with the live! 5.1
Great Channel Phil!, I have a tough question.
What it's better for Retrogaming (on a 486DX4-100, 64MB Ram), a SB16, AWE32 or AWE64Value?
I'm picky about FM synthesis, Actually I have a Cristal CS4235 and sounds like a dying dog, in 1997 I did have an Opti 82C931, that was a really good SBPro clone, specially on FM and 3D Stereo.
The game I use to testing cards is Tyrian2000, the FM synthesis are so awesome and beautiful, specially the FMdrums ;)
For FM? A Sound Blaster Pro 2 :)
PhilsComputerLab
hahaha you kill me ;)
I don´t have access to one, but I have a SB16 and AWE64 Value, probably SB16 are better, because have a discrete opl3 backward comp with opl2/adlib games
PhilsComputerLab for oldgasmic sound the pro 2 is the best! i even found one in my house. can't wait to try it
lorecast162 The Sound Blaster Pro 2 is a great card and many people use it. The way I see it, if you are into the older games, then you might be better off with the Sound Blaster Pro 2, especially if you want that authentic OPL3.
yup
Did you record the dos part with DOSBox or some dos-compatible capture card ?
(I'm Elia1995 from Vogons, by the way)
DOSBox? Blaspheme :D
I usually just use a card with DVI output and use a DVI > HDMI dongle to capture :)
For older machines, like a 386, I use a VGA > HDMI scaler.
Unless the video is clearly about DOSBox, you can be assured that everything I do is on real retro hardware.
PhilsComputerLab I've been running through a lot of issues trying to record my Windows 98/XP PC, for now I'm just going with S-Video directly to my capture card (Hauppauge HD PVR) until I can find a less flickering and blurry solution :D
What are the pros and cons of the AWE64 vs the Audician 32 Plus? I've looked all over - Google, Vogons, etc, but can't find a clear answer.
You won't get one, there is a lot to it. I'm thinking of doing a video series on this, but it's a really complex topic. A really simple answer is that the AWE64 is better for newer games, the Audican32 Plus better for older games.
PhilsComputerLab Thanks a bunch, that answer actually works very nicely for my purposes
Nathan Hardy Great :)
YOu also got a gravis ultrasound? I love that card too.
Great card. Great video.
Hi Phil, is the AWE64gold better for a Pentium1 (Dos/Win3x) or Pentium2 (Dos/Win3x/Win9x).
+drzeissler It's a great card for both. It really depends on what you want to do, so I can't make a choice.
+PhilsComputerLab Ok, thx. so no better option for an ISA-soundcard on fast P1/P2 then.
I got an AWE32 CT3670 and I couldn't figure why the heck the PC Speaker pins were so distant, I couldn't reach them with the chassis cable... what kind of cable do I need to hook it to the mobo's PC speaker pins ?
The chassis cable? That IS the actual speaker of the case. That doesn't go into the sound card, but you connect it to the motherboard.
You can mod a CD Audio cable, or get something like this: www.ebay.com.au/itm/40-Way-Rainbow-Color-31cm-Flat-for-Arduino-Jumper-Cable-Wire-1P-Home-Appliance-/321819198104?hash=item4aedeb4298:g:1PwAAOSwT6pVuabI
You just need two wires. Connect to the sound blaster and then to the two outer pins of the 4 pin PC speaker on the motherboard.
Yeah, if only I could figure out which pins on that motherboard are for the PC Speaker, I wouldn't need to redirect the PC Speaker to the audio card that way....
and before you tell me to check the manual, there's no info and I can't even find the manual for the exact model of that motherboard (from the "What manufacturer and model is this motherboard" thread I made on Vogons)
It's a 4 pin header on the motherboard. Usually at the front.
Just asking how much is one of these worth
Such a great card. I used this for MIDI sequencing back in early high school and I always loved the way it sounds. It is paired with a Roland RAP-10 in my DOS box for some really beautiful sounding gaming nostalgia =) By using a short male-to-male 1/8" phone cable, I just daisy-chain the RAP-10's output into the AWE's line-in. Utilizing the excellent DOS mixer utility, it.makes for a great dual card setup without the need for an external mixer.
Very nice! Yes, the RAP-10 is often overlooked. I don't have one for example.
Hi. Need some help. I have a Ct4380. It works OK in Windows XP, but the speaker out is mute. Do you know if there's some issue with xp? Or may be the spk out is dead... Thanks
XP is quite the mismatch, I've never attempted to use an ISA sound card with Windows XP. Best OS to use is Windows 98 SE and it's built-in MS-DOS 7.1.
Does that midi sound pack included to modern cards?
I still have one working too :)
excuse me phil, if you read me from the heaven can you come to the earth to listen me 😅.
i have the ga-5ax like you(mine 4.1), i have crackling noises with the 64 value, i tried to disable every single option in the bios(with tweakbios too, seems it keep the changes, but not after rebooting the computer) , fsb 66x5.5 and nothing worked.
i think is speed issue, agp, pci bus or isa, already tried pio mode, slow ram or isa bios, is there any config for the isa bus write-read to lower it?, pci-bus agp tweak for lowe the fsb, maybe im totally wrong but i dont know what can i do
Well have you tested other ISA sound cards?
@@philscomputerlab coincidentally i just finished testing all day.I dont have another Isa but i have tested a vibra 128 and the problem persist, even is worse.The vibra is a lot more quieter than the awe (using external aplifier).
It happens with midi music in games, digital is rare, just ocasional.
Tested using only low level dma, not solved the problem.
After a lot of hours, the only thing i saw which made a difference is set trebble & bass to 0 in the mixerset, the problem is not solved completely, im testing just with duke3d setup.
Im thinking if the real problem is another thing and this is just fixing it a little or or that some sounds are not playing as they should.
@@jorge7317 How are the capacitors on the board? Might need replacing.
@@philscomputerlab I have changed the half capacitors of the board with panasonic low esr.
The phisical appearance 3 of them had a very small difference compared to the other ones.
Is my first time changing them, so it was a bit difficult, in the process a blown some of the external capacitor's ground point layer (someone explained me how to repare it), tested all the grounds and are okey.
Idk if that blown ground points can be the reason or is due to the other half capacitor not changed, i have performed speedsys, around 15-20 3dmark test (2600gpu voodoo3 & 6000 amd k6-2) and memtest and is working okey, i dont have any boot speaker sounds too.
Im going to buy some desoldering copper mesh, repair the ground points and chsnge the other ones.
@@philscomputerlab Recaped all the board, the pop still here in the left side, maybe is the awe64 caps?
Hey phil its Tommy again and, I was wondering, what is the best 2D card for dos games?
+VoiceActingGod No such thing :D But in general good compatibility is with Nvidia, S3 and 3dfx. Matrox and ATI have issues with some DOS games.
PhilsComputerLab Ah ok because my computers integrated graphics card is a S3 and I wanted to make sure everything is alright c:. Man you have been a great help especially with my pentium 3 machine. And now u helped me with my pentium 1 machine. Well time to hit the local thrift shops to find a 386 c:
What rca adapter is needed Phil?
can i install this on windows 95
Yes!
Can a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital emulate MT32 like the AWE64?
+MrGreenMineral Hmm that's a complex question. I know you can load a MT-32 SoundFont map, but I don't think it will work from DOS.
PhilsComputerLab Didn't even plan to use it in DOS, but rather in Windows NT 5.x (2000/XP) and 6.x (Vista/7/8. There are drivers which make it work on NT6.x). For DOS and 9x I have an AWE64.
+PhilsComputerLab It did work with my X-Fi XtremeMusic in WindowsXP.
Hi Phil, get review of SB 32 AWE please :)
Hmm, I actually don't a single AWE 32...
Take you'r time mate :)
I remember my dad saying this was old garbage back in like 2008, and told me to throw it out. So i just threw it in the garbage, lol.
he meant gold garbage.
does the AWE-64 have the fm synthesis like on the sb16, if so, i bet its CQM.
+Windows Ninety Five 66 It has CQM. The AWE64 Gold is not the card for OPL3 purists, there are much better choices. But it has many other things going for it. The ability to apply chorus and reverb to FM is one such highlight.
im not really that picky with the fm synthesis on the sound cards, i have heard worse, like the crystal fm synthesis on a emachines etower pc that i used.
+Windows Ninety Five 66 I just ordered a soundblaster 16 ct2830 which has a YMF262 chip and is non PNP, i know that cause i see the dip switches on it. I saw one for $15.99 on ebay.
Wish i could find mine. :(
Can I apply the reverb and chorus effects or even 3dse on a second isa card's fm output? I'm looking for a reason to get the awe64 gold lol.
So can I disable the fm emulation on the awe64 (have it not be audible) and pick a different card on another slot with a real opl3 chip in a game's setup but still be able to apply the gold's effects on it?
igorbog88 I'm afraid that doesn't work.
philscomputerlab Have you tried it? Shame then.
Anyways how is the soundblaster 16 support on the awe64 gold ? (sorry if you did mention this, I skipped through the video)
Is it virtually identical to the non-clone sb16 cards in terms of it working with practically every game under dos? Or are there issues?
The AWE is basically a SB16 + AWE :)
I doubt you will find a game that doesn't work with it.
philscomputerlab
Ah that's great then. Thanks.
Awesome dood......
Is the MB_Pro connector AC97?
+Martin Klinge I don't think so.
Phil can i use the drivers on your webpage for a non-Gold AWE64? I ended up getting the CT4380. Thanks
+Mastran77 Yes, absolutely! The driver package also works with other cards, such as the AWE32 and Sound Blaster 16 :)
+philscomputerlab Got it Working, the Soundfonts on Windows9x work great with AWEControl Sofware,. Enough for today, i´ll leave the DOSMode config for tomorrow, and next up is the MIDI Emulation through USB (when i get the adapter). Thanks for the quick answer !
DOS mode is a bit of work, but I've also covered this in another video of mine :)
lol phil is a metal head...
I had two of these, I blew the amps on both of them somehow. Shitty cards. The Audigy was way better.
+Sacco Belmonte I have four and the all work great :) The Audigy is a PCI card, so not that useful for DOS gaming. But for Windows XP I do like the Audigy 2 ZS, a great card!
I got these cards mainly because I'm a musician and wanted to use soundfonts. The awe64gold had like 4mb, and that was pretty cool at the time. Of course later on with the Audigy (I had the one with the external rack) Creative made it so you could load your sf2 in RAM. Pretty revolutionary considering the price of a sampler was prohibitive.
the audigy was excellent of awesome too.
yeah! but it's helpful too!. some are intended for ms-dos games or windows games.
These cost hella lot these days.
They said the same thing 10 years ago. Prices will just keep going up.
Gold version is overrated and overpriced. Value version works as good as the gold for DOS games.
Except that the Value edition is noisy as hell and requires RAM cards to utilize any custom soundfonts. I’m rather fond of the 4MB E-Mu Systems GS soundfont and you can’t use it on the Value edition out of the box.
Maybe... but the card's simply gorgeous.
ahh so your here to do a review.
today there is a awe64 only that said gold.
if only somebody has pentium 1 and pentium 2 processer chip for these types of soundcards.
Great video but...if you would’ve pronounced it as “awe 64” instead of “a-double-u-eee 64,” you’d have cut out a lot of cumbersome speech.
我國中就知道要有16歲女孩唱歌了。
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This Reverb/Chorus is terrible. What a useless function.