Being a Yamaha XG sound card, I understand that General MIDI of these cards only sounds in Windows but the driver also initializes the MPU-401 port in pure MS-DOS. Does General MIDI sound in pure MS-DOS outside of Windows, or does General MIDI only work in Windows? Thanks.
It was what I feared, these types of sound cards want the General MIDI to be heard through Windows and not by pure MS-DOS, however it is heard so enormously well in MS-DOS games that there should be there has been some implementation for pure MS-DOS, and I hope it is not because both Soundblaster and MPU-401 are sharing the same IRQ in the setupds, they must be different IRQs, the same thing for autoexec.bat. But I've been thinking for several days and perhaps it could be possible to have Yamaha XG General MIDI in pure MS-DOS, through a Soundblaster AWE32 or other compatible with General MIDI in pure MS-DOS and that has a wavetable header, and add a DB50XG in it, as the Soundblaster AWE32 can achieve sound with General MIDI in pure MS-DOS thanks to the aweutil command, a wavetable does not need any driver but the wavetable is connected as if it were a serial port on the card and through the MS-DOS driver of the AWE32 and the MIDI port and Wavetable port of the AWE32 it would be possible to make a DB50XG sound by itself, the AWE32 driver is what would be responsible for making a DB50XG sound since the wavetables do not need drivers as well the external MIDI modules through the game port that do not need drivers either and an AWE32 is compatible and sounds with General MIDI in pure MS-DOS, and this would perhaps be the solution, or get a Yamaha MU-90 module through the game port, that would achieve having Yamaha XG in pure MS-DOS.
Thank you for the work ! Does the YMF 740 use the same drivers as the YMF 724 and 744 ?
Yes the YMF 740 uses the same drivers. It belongs to the DS-XG family (YMF 7xx).
@@spyros86 Thank you for the confirmation :)
So, the one i have is onboard not external. Is it the same? It can do all these sound modes?
Can you tell me the specific model of your motherboard ?
Being a Yamaha XG sound card, I understand that General MIDI of these cards only sounds in Windows but the driver also initializes the MPU-401 port in pure MS-DOS.
Does General MIDI sound in pure MS-DOS outside of Windows, or does General MIDI only work in Windows?
Thanks.
Some time ago I searched about GM Midi support in pure DOS and unfortunately I found that it can't be done.
It was what I feared, these types of sound cards want the General MIDI to be heard through Windows and not by pure MS-DOS, however it is heard so enormously well in MS-DOS games that there should be there has been some implementation for pure MS-DOS, and I hope it is not because both Soundblaster and MPU-401 are sharing the same IRQ in the setupds, they must be different IRQs, the same thing for autoexec.bat.
But I've been thinking for several days and perhaps it could be possible to have Yamaha XG General MIDI in pure MS-DOS, through a Soundblaster AWE32 or other compatible with General MIDI in pure MS-DOS and that has a wavetable header, and add a DB50XG in it, as the Soundblaster AWE32 can achieve sound with General MIDI in pure MS-DOS thanks to the aweutil command, a wavetable does not need any driver but the wavetable is connected as if it were a serial port on the card and through the MS-DOS driver of the AWE32 and the MIDI port and Wavetable port of the AWE32 it would be possible to make a DB50XG sound by itself, the AWE32 driver is what would be responsible for making a DB50XG sound since the wavetables do not need drivers as well the external MIDI modules through the game port that do not need drivers either and an AWE32 is compatible and sounds with General MIDI in pure MS-DOS, and this would perhaps be the solution, or get a Yamaha MU-90 module through the game port, that would achieve having Yamaha XG in pure MS-DOS.
Hello, nice sound! That picture is from an Intel MU440EX?
Thank you Alberto ! Yes the picture is from my Intel Maui motherboard
@@spyros86 great I was looking for that yamaha chipset as I found one of these motherboards and wanted to know how it sounds. And it sounds great!
@@RetroTinkerer I am very glad that you find it useful ! That's the point of this video !
You can also check the sound of ymf 740 on windows games ruclips.net/video/mzStqpBdUtM/видео.html
@@spyros86 Thanks!