Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (ISA)

[sharkeeper]

Will this card work OK with older DOS games?

I have a SB 16 SCSI-2 but I wanted to use the wavetable synth on the AWE. If the AWE won't work I'll have to throw my Turtle Beach Maui daughterboard in there and *try* to find the DOS drivers for it. :Q (FM Synthesis is HORRIBLE!) Duke3D has pretty good MIDI musical tracks...

Cheers!

 

[bluemax]

The AWE64 was awesome in DOS, though there were one or two games (very few) that didn't recognise it as an AWE32 for the synthesizer.

Load a really good GM synth (Nothing better than this one!) and you'll have top-notch gaming.

Oops... the Synergi GS soundfont requires 24 or 48MB of RAM. Umm... I guess you'll have to stick to the standard 4MB GM set. It's okay..... I guess. You can always get a 3rd party memory module like I did. I have a 28MB AWE64 card but no ISA slots to put it in...

I'm-a gonna' get me one of those Soyo Pentium4 motherboards with ISA slots just to use my classic Roland LAPC-1 and 24MB AWE64 along with the new SB Audigy2 and other modern hardware.

What can I say? I likes' me MIDI!

 

[Mday]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
Will this card work OK with older DOS games?

I have a SB 16 SCSI-2 but I wanted to use the wavetable synth on the AWE. If the AWE won't work I'll have to throw my Turtle Beach Maui daughterboard in there and *try* to find the DOS drivers for it. :Q (FM Synthesis is HORRIBLE!) Duke3D has pretty good MIDI musical tracks...

Cheers!

yeah, it will work fine, just configure it properly when you boot to dos (autoexec.bat et al)

 

[sharkeeper]

The AWE64 was awesome in DOS, though there were one or two games (very few) that didn't recognise it as an AWE32 for the synthesizer.

Excellent! That's precisely what I was looking for! Thanks!

Cheers!

 

[bluemax]

I need the AWE64 original software... all I have is the card.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

I have two floppys that came with my card, one is called "Sound Blaster AWE64/AWE64 Gold Driver Disk", and the other is called "Configuration Manager Installation Disk". I assume you need the first one. I copied these disks to my hard drive and zipped them up, so if you want them, just write back, or send me a PM.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: SpeedFreak03
I have two floppys that came with my card, one is called "Sound Blaster AWE64/AWE64 Gold Driver Disk", and the other is called "Configuration Manager Installation Disk". I assume you need the first one. I copied these disks to my hard drive and zipped them up, so if you want them, just write back, or send me a PM.

Its good to see people like you helping others out