Universal Sound Card Drivers
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UNISOUND is a Freeware DOS-only tool useful to configure and initialize ISA PnP sound cards from serveral brands and models, like ESS, Creative, ALS, CMI, ADI, Yamaha, Diamond tech, Aztech, OPTi, Crystal, community-made ones like Orpheus, AWE64 Legacy... (And also some non-PnP cards, like early SB16 software configurable models which required DIAGNOSE.EXE, are supported and a few others). Works on all x86 CPUs (8088/8086/286/386... and higher). Check the TXT included in the ZIP file for full details. To get command line help, use: UNISOUND /H
It is not only an ISA PnP sound card configuration tool, it's more like a driver. To initialize some cards properly, the PnP part is not enough, as a lot of them need further initialization sequences that in most cases are bad documented or no documented at all, or are obscure. This tool tries to be (almost) all-in-one solution, trying to do a full card initialization, and set some mixer values, in only 50Kb. (Some cards as AWE cards, GUS PnP, or Maxi sound 64+SAM, CS4232... require special inits or firmware uploading. That is covered in the tool).
About bug reporting here: Please, provide all info and details you can. Unisound version, text outpunt in screen, brand and model of your card(s), chips you can see there, system specs, CPU, board, other cards you have, photos... more info in the mini-FAQ about Unisound tool near the end of this post
The main problem when you want to use your sound cards, is theconfiguration and initialization, as it depends on a lot of stuff, like:The type of CPU , if the machine has a PnP BIOS or not the PnP software touse (CTCM/CTCU for Creative, Intel ICU, propietary software for others)so finally you end up having a lot of files and a big mess of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT lines.
The /D Command line option is useful to disable a PnP sound card.This option will free all card's resources (I/Os, IRQs, DMAs) and willdisable all logical devices. The card will return to uninitialized state.
Creative:------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All Sound Blaster 16 cards, including all ViBRA16/S/C/XV/CL, Phone Blaster- SB AWE32, AWE64, SB32PnP. EMU8K initialization included (to enable FM and built-in wavetable sound, so no AWEUTIL /S needed. No soundfonts loading though).- Creative AWE Upgrade card (CT1920) init.
ESS AudioDrive:------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ES1868F single chip cards- ES1869F single chip cards- ES968 + ES688 dual chip cards in PnP mode- ES968 + ES1688 dual chip cards in PnP mode- Guillemot Maxi Sound 64 (ES1868 + SAM9407 versions only) SAM9407 firmware uploading and initialization included (to unmute output sound). Firmware itself not included
Roland:------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland Super MPU II MIDI PnP card. Not strictly a sound card, it's a MPU card only, but it's supported for initialization.
Ensoniq:------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Limited support for Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO card. Only WSS digital sound, line-in control, CD-in control and joyport are working. Any other function will require the original TSR and drivers.
Turtle Beach:------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Limited support for Turtle Beach Multisound Pinnacle card (PnP mode) Only joyport and MPU (onboard Kurzweil wavetable) are available. There are several board revisions of this card, with slightly different behaviours. If your card is not recognized, please add the option /FS and try again. Also note that it's possible that your card revision doesn't work at all.
Yamaha YMF74x and 75x are PCI sound chipsets, so no, they are not supported. This tool works with ISA cards only.About the Roland, there are not PnP Roland cards (at least, I don't know any), so, no.
Anyway, the intent of this tool, as I understand it, is to invoke the PnP configuration parameters for a broad range of audio cards that are usually impossible to find the original PnP configuration utilities for. It was not uncommon for generic / OEM / budget cards to lack a \"driver\" component that can be loaded in CONFIG.SYS either (the wedge shaped Aztech ISA cards that HP pumped out in the thousands, for example). The Aztech cards require that you invoke a proprietary PnP configuration utility at boot to initialize the hardware and set configuration, and then a separate .EXE mixer file to set volume levels... exactly like this utility. Instead of having to track down card-specific utilities for the numerous unmarked ISA sound cards that are otherwise impossible to configure for use in DOS games, this utility has you covered. I have at least 3 currently \"DOS unusable\" OPTI / Crystal / Analog Devices PNP ISA audio cards sitting in a pile that I haven't been able to find compatible drivers/config utilities for, so I'm stoked to give this utility a try. Providing a low footprint, generic solution to initialize a broad range of PnP ISA sound hardware is incredibly useful, like the CuteMouse driver it's sure to become a staple for making hard to ID hardware useful again without the fuss and drama of tracking down original or \"close enough\" configuration and driver software for each card you find out in the wild.
Edit: I hex-edited AZT1022 to AZT1008 in the .com file and that made it detect and initialize the card. Unfortunately games still can't play any sound (Duke3D setup complains about a possible DMA error), which is the same result I get with the Aztech PNP tool or Intel ICU, so it's 99% sure working fine and there's something else wrong.
I updated to version 0.65c with support for new vendor IDs for Aztech 2320 compatible cards (like your AZT1008). About your problem with no sound... I don't know what could be happening, it works well with my AZT1022 card and other user tested it with a AZT1006 ID card and worked well too... Are you sure you don't have conflicts with any other hardware Are you sure your card is not faulty did you test it in a different PC is it working under windows9x
Curious about the reason The ALSA drivers don't support microphones for my soundcard (Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 VX). Also, It does not handle audio output quite well. I have issues. Also, I'd really like some software like the windows-only \"Realtek Audio Manager\" that does effects to the audio such as echoes and so on.
Plug & Play in the modern sense of computing is very much an after thought for many users as computers just more or less work when hardware is installed properly. However older technology during the advent of PnP was often fraught with compatibility issues during setup or Port and IRQ conflict issues with other pieces of hardware in the setup. While not a driver, this DOS Tool attempts to be an all in one type configuration and initializing of ISA slot sound card in DOS with hopefully little fuss.
Though this tool is still very much in development. It has promise and many PnP sound cards are supported and working at the time of this article. Giving these cards a chance to breath new life in to what some consider to be less desirable hardware models. Working with vintage and retro computers can be frustrating but its nice to see an active community of people still striving to make simple and working solutions available so that everyone can still enjoy these machines.
The goal of the Universal Audio Architecture is to solve a very common problem in older Microsoft Windows products, that of inconsistent support for audio. Due to the lack of a common system by which audio devices could describe their capabilities to the operating system, not to mention a lack of ability to control those capabilities, audio device manufacturers (such as Creative Labs, Realtek, Turtle Beach and others) have had to provide a series of control panels and custom interfaces to let a user control the device. This, in turn, requires kernel-mode drivers so that the user's actions can be communicated to the hardware itself. Poorly written audio drivers have been a common source of system instability in Windows, especially with games that make use of extended audio card capabilities. These concerns prompted Microsoft to disable the audio stack entirely by default in Windows Server 2003.
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