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DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 13.01.2026, 16:43

For one of my retroPC with SB AWE64 I built SIMMConn2 adapter to expand the onboard DRAM (0,5MB) to 16MB using a common 72p EDO SIMM (max 28MB supported).
I was a bit disappointed that Creative's aweutil General MIDI emulation TSR that uses loaded Soundfont in RAM can work only for realmode programs (use NMI for port trapping).
But it seems there's modded DOS32A extender that can cooperate with aweutil to enable General MIDI emulation also for pmode programs :)
https://github.com/grepwood/dos32awe
Didn't try yet but soon :)
Maybe JEMM could adopt such feature...

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Complete thread:

• DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 13.01.2026, 16:43 (Announce)
  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 13.01.2026, 19:33
    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 13.01.2026, 22:53
      • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 14.01.2026, 08:49
        • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 14.01.2026, 16:26
          • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 14.01.2026, 20:12
            • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 15.01.2026, 08:17
              • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 16.01.2026, 04:19
                • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 17.01.2026, 02:09
                  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Khusraw, 17.01.2026, 07:52
                    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 17.01.2026, 15:54
                  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 19.01.2026, 12:04
                    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 20.01.2026, 01:19
                      • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 20.01.2026, 08:03
                        • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 20.01.2026, 13:14
                          • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 21.01.2026, 21:54
                            • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 23.01.2026, 18:59
                              • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 24.01.2026, 09:17
                                • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 25.01.2026, 07:51
                                  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 25.01.2026, 08:47
                                    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 26.01.2026, 00:17
                                      • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 26.01.2026, 03:29
                                        • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 27.01.2026, 08:47
                                          • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 27.01.2026, 18:25
                                            • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 29.01.2026, 19:23
                                              • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 05.02.2026, 11:30
                                                • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 12.02.2026, 04:32
                                                  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 12.02.2026, 09:59
                                                    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 14.02.2026, 05:05
                                                      • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 17.02.2026, 16:08