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Hi i am new in here but i was wondering if the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro (SB0360) can be used in Windows 98 AND Dos? I hasve a Windows 98 computer and i want to play some windows games and DOS games on it, but my current sound card is totally useless, it makes noises all the time, and i have recently purchased the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro, and i didn't even think about if it can be used in DOS and i don't mean DOS mode inside Windows 98.If someone can tell me if the '9x DOS Mode Support for Audigy 2' drivers can be used on this card, i would be very gratefulThanks in advance,Standtall007. Newbie Posts: 6 Joined: 2018-6-24 @ 14:50.
The Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro can be used in Windows 98 as the driver CD should have Windows 98 VXD and WDM drivers.However, the DOS support on this card may only work in Real Mode DOS (through the '9x DOS Mode Support for Audigy 2' drivers) and not in a Windows 98 DOS Box.Also, regarding the sound quality of this card in DOS (also applies to the Sound Blaster Live! And Sound Blaster PCI 512), the General MIDI support is provided by an Ensoniq AudioPCI wavetable file (.ecw, of which only 3 are known to exist - 2MB, 4MB and 8MB) and the Adlib FM support (OPL2/OPL3) is somewhat decent (for a Creative PCI sound card, there are Yamaha YMF7xx sound cards that can do this 100% accurately) but it can sound rather inaccurate at times.In Windows 98, you can use SoundFonts for better General MIDI playback quality, but you cannot use them in DOS or a DOS Box using the VXD drivers (same applies for the Sound Blaster Live! And the Sound Blaster PCI 512). However, using the WDM drivers, they may work in a DOS Box (but this method has issues and you don't get FM emulation and SB16 digital sound support).Overall, the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro should be a decent card for use in Windows 98 and DOS.
Newbie Posts: 14 Joined: 2016-10-22 @ 14:45. I have found it works very well in Dos, that is probably the latest cards creative made that still work in real mode Dos. I'm not sure if the Audigy 4 would work (it might?).
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Is the model SB360 on the card? If so the only reason I got the regular 2ZS (SB350) over that card was the platnium lacking the internal pins to add a gameport joystick.The weakest part is OPL3 emulation and it needs emm386.
I have found the DACWAV to be better than a SB16 for SFX in games that play digital samples etc. General Midi is decent enough with the 8MB waveset.
You can also run SBEmixer.exe and tick a box to support MT32. It also sounds decent in games that don't use sysex. I have paired mine with a SB16 to use for it's OPL3 and disabled everything else on the SB16.Newbie Posts: 78 Joined: 2004-7-29 @ 13:51 Location: DOS.
Standtall007 wrote:Hi and thank you so much for replying, i will definitely try out those drivers so i can run in dos mode, and not dos box modeIn case you are wondering, here are a few clips of what this card sounds like under DOS (provided by member Kamerat):Duke Nukem 3D theme song using the 2MB DEFAULT.ECW AudioPCI wavetable file:Duke Nukem 3D theme song using the Adlib FM OPL2/OPL3 emulation:Doom E1M1 and E1M2 using the Adlib FM OPL2/OPL3 emulation:And a few Adlib Tracker sample songs:RBFACTRY.A2M:ALLOYRUN.RAD:WHLCHAIR.DFM:Newbie Posts: 14 Joined: 2016-10-22 @ 14:45. Use the following driver for DOS (this one comes with the 2MB waveset):Unzip it to a directory, read the info in the.txt files. The only file you have to touch is the ctsyn.ini file to point to the folder you unzippped the file to. The IRQ, DMA, Midi port and OPL port are set in that file, leave them as they are.Whenever you run sbeinit, it will create the set blaster line for you. Type 'SET' in DOS to display it after running sbeinit.
You then have to run Audigy12.exe (it takes up no memory). After that run sbego.exe to test the sound is working. When everything is working you can run sbemixer.exe to change the wav/midi/cd volume levels.The Dos drivers are completely independent of win98 (works with or without it installed), I use it on a system that only has Dos installed. This is the same Dos driver (sbeinit ver 5) for all versions from the Audigy-1 right up to the 2ZS platinum Pro.Lastly download the 8MB waveset from:extract the 7zip file and rename the file eapci8m.ecw to default.ecw.
Then copy default.ecw in to the folder you extracted the Audigy Dos drivers in the first part. Also make sure in the ctsyn.ini file that the path with default.ecw in it points to the folder you extracted the dos drivers to.The only program in the Audigy Dos drivers that I don't know what purpose it serves is Sbeload.exe.Newbie Posts: 78 Joined: 2004-7-29 @ 13:51 Location: DOS. AvalonH wrote:Use the following driver for DOS (this one comes with the 2MB waveset):Unzip it to a directory, read the info in the.txt files. The only file you have to touch is the ctsyn.ini file to point to the folder you unzippped the file to.
The IRQ, DMA, Midi port and OPL port are set in that file, leave them as they are.Whenever you run sbeinit, it will create the set blaster line for you. Type 'SET' in DOS to display it after running sbeinit. You then have to run Audigy12.exe (it takes up no memory). After that run sbego.exe to test the sound is working.
When everything is working you can run sbemixer.exe to change the wav/midi/cd volume levels.The Dos drivers are completely independent of win98 (works with or without it installed), I use it on a system that only has Dos installed. This is the same Dos driver (sbeinit ver 5) for all versions from the Audigy-1 right up to the 2ZS platinum Pro.Lastly download the 8MB waveset from:extract the 7zip file and rename the file eapci8m.ecw to default.ecw. Then copy default.ecw in to the folder you extracted the Audigy Dos drivers in the first part. Also make sure in the ctsyn.ini file that the path with default.ecw in it points to the folder you extracted the dos drivers to.The only program in the Audigy Dos drivers that I don't know what purpose it serves is Sbeload.exe.I have tried the top most link and downloaded the file, and when unpacking the file it gives me no ctsyn.ini, only a setup routine to install the drivers via a setup.exe file, so i don't know if you mean that i should run the setup file first and then look after the ctsyn inside the installed folder? Newbie Posts: 6 Joined: 2018-6-24 @ 14:50. AvalonH wrote:Use the following driver for DOS (this one comes with the 2MB waveset):Unzip it to a directory, read the info in the.txt files.
The only file you have to touch is the ctsyn.ini file to point to the folder you unzippped the file to. The IRQ, DMA, Midi port and OPL port are set in that file, leave them as they are.Whenever you run sbeinit, it will create the set blaster line for you. Type 'SET' in DOS to display it after running sbeinit. You then have to run Audigy12.exe (it takes up no memory). After that run sbego.exe to test the sound is working.
When everything is working you can run sbemixer.exe to change the wav/midi/cd volume levels.The Dos drivers are completely independent of win98 (works with or without it installed), I use it on a system that only has Dos installed. This is the same Dos driver (sbeinit ver 5) for all versions from the Audigy-1 right up to the 2ZS platinum Pro.Lastly download the 8MB waveset from:extract the 7zip file and rename the file eapci8m.ecw to default.ecw. Then copy default.ecw in to the folder you extracted the Audigy Dos drivers in the first part. Also make sure in the ctsyn.ini file that the path with default.ecw in it points to the folder you extracted the dos drivers to.The only program in the Audigy Dos drivers that I don't know what purpose it serves is Sbeload.exe.I have tried the top most link and downloaded the file, and when unpacking the file it gives me no ctsyn.ini, only a setup routine to install the drivers via a setup.exe file, so i don't know if you mean that i should run the setup file first and then look after the ctsyn inside the installed folder?I messed up the first link, (windows setup files).
Use this link instead: (contains the already installed files, including ctsyn.ini, just unzip to folder of choice)then follow the instructions as before and it should work.Lets say you unzipped the above emu10dos.zip file to the path c:AUDIGY2You then need to add the following line at the end of your Autoexec.bat fileSET CTSYN=C:AUDIGY2Next open the ctsyn.ini file and changeWaveset=c:AUDIGY2DEFAULT.ECWthat should be it.Newbie Posts: 78 Joined: 2004-7-29 @ 13:51 Location: DOS.
ECW v3 - ECW/JP2 SDK v5.3(June 14, 2016)Type of formatWebsiteECW ( Enhanced Compression Wavelet) is a optimized for aerial and satellite imagery. It was developed by Earth Resource Mapping, and is now owned by part of. The format efficiently compresses very large images with fine alternating contrast while retaining their visual quality.In 1998 Earth Resource Mapping Ltd in company founder Stuart Nixon, and two software developers Simon Cope and Mark Sheridan were researching rapid delivery of terabyte sized images over the internet using inexpensive server technology. The outcome of that research was two products, Image Web Server (IWS) and ECW. ECW represented a fundamental mathematical breakthrough enabling (DWT) and inverse-DWT operations to be performed on very large images very quickly, while only using a tiny amount of RAM. For ECW patents, see.
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For IWS patent, see. These patents have been obtained by ERDAS Inc. Through the acquisition of Earth Resource Mapping on May 21, 2007. Indirectly owns these patents because they acquired in 2005 who had acquired ERDAS Inc in 2001.After became an image standard, ER Mapper added tools to read and write JPEG2000 data into the ECW SDK to form the ECW JPEG2000 SDK. After subsequent purchase by ERDAS (themselves subsequently merged into Intergraph), the software development kit was renamed to the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK.
Of the SDK was released on 2 July 2013.Properties information can be embedded into the ECW file format to support applications.Image data of up to 65,535 bands (layers or colors) can be compressed into the ECW v2 or v3 file format at a rate of over 25 per second on an i7 740QM (4-cores) 1.731 processor using v4.2 of the ECW/JP2 SDK. Data flow compression allows for compression of large images with small requirements.
The file format can achieve typical compression ratios from 1:2 to 1:100.The ECW Protocol (ECWP) is an efficient streaming protocol used to transmit ECW and JPEG2000 images over networks, such as the Internet. ECWP supports ECWPS for private and secure encrypted streaming of image data over public networks such as the Internet.There is a very fast read-only SDK supporting ECW and JPEG2000 which is available for no charge for desktop implementation for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
A read / write SDK can be purchased for desktop and server implementations for Windows, Linux and MacOSX). A full functioning server implementation (using ECW, JPEG2000, ECWP and JPIP) is available within the (formerly IWS) license.A previous version of the SDK (3.3) is available in open source, and can be used for non-Microsoft operating systems, such as Linux, macOS or Android.References.