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How to get AWE32's wavetable working in DOS?

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My AWE32 is CT3780. I want to get onboard EMU8000 wavetable into dos games but no matter what settings I am using it is always mute. The wavetable is working fine when testing with diagnose program and it's all working correctly in windows 3.1 but it never works in any dos game I have tried. Either waveblaster or generalmidi doesn't bring any output while the settings are correct.

I have also checked the correct settings: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-...S-INC-Sound-card-SOUNDBLASTER-AWE32-CT-8.html

Only "Rise of the Triad" game works with wavetable but that's because in sound setup there's dedicated AWE32 setting in music selection.


What am I missing here?
 
Wavetable is midi. any game working with midi will use it. you cant just run 'any game' and expect it to work. It must use midi.
 
I think I finally found something.

"The AWE32 didn't use its MPU-401 port to access the EMU8000—Creative decided to expose the EMU8000's registers directly, through three sets of non-standard ports, and interpret MIDI commands in software on the host CPU. "

Then I found this AWEUTIL command:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfZOiM2pvg4


It seem that's the missing part I somehow totally missed and no help or readmes mentioned that. Anyway now that I found this command, I have got a new problem. Everytime when I put that command on and then go to game setup, what happens is this: either in music setup when trying change settings or when I start the game, they go totally nuts and tilts instantly. Is my card actually broken? My AWE card is the only one in entire computer so there shouldn't be any IRQ resource issues.
 
There's no PNP setup available in bios. I need to test this in my win95 computer since it contains PNP setup in bios.
 
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