SOUND BOARDS: TURTLE BEACH
Various Boards
Last update: 12/26/97
- Phone:
- 800-645-5640, 510-624-6200 (business), 510-624-6265 (tech support)
- Fax:
- 717-767-6033
- BBS:
- ??
- e-mail:
- davez@tbeach.com,
support@tbeach.com,
sales@tbeach.com
- Web:
- http://www.tbeach.com; see also
http://www.io.com/~timur/turtlebeach.html,
Timur Tabi's page on getting Turtle Beach boards running.
Maui
- Type:
- Wavetable
- Chipset:
- ??
- CD-ROM:
- ??
- Street price:
- ??
- OS/2 Drivers:
- Unavailable (but
MPU-401 driver may work)
- Drivers from:
- --
- Comments:
- I've received one
report of success with the TB Maui and the MPU-401 drivers, though the
individual reports having to boot OS/2, initialize the card using the
provided DOS software, and reboot. (Presumably booting DOS first to
initialize the card would also work.)
Monte Carlo
- Type:
- FM synthesis
- Chipset:
- OPTi 928
- CD-ROM:
- ??
- Street price:
- ??
- OS/2 Drivers:
- Available
- Drivers from:
- OS/2 ftp (uses
opti928.zip or 929_v2.zip drivers)
- Comments:
- This board appears to be a typical OPTi 928 design.
Multisound
- Type:
- Wavetable
- Chipset:
- ???
- CD-ROM:
- ??
- Street price:
- Discontinued (?)
- OS/2 Drivers:
- None (?)
- Drivers from:
- --
- Comments:
- As far as I know, this is a discontinued model with no OS/2 support.
One person has gotten the Windows drivers working under Win-OS/2, however.
One or more of three things seems to have been necessary for this: (1)
Removal of all Multisound programs from the boot drive; (2) installation
of SoundBlaster 16 drivers to get Win-OS/2 settings notebook items for
sound; and (3) have an EMMExclude statement in SYSTEM.INI and
appropriate addresses for MEM_EXCLUDE in the OS/2 settings notebook for
ProgMan (I'm assuming that this user launches Windows programs via the
Windows Program Manager).
Tropez
- Type:
- Wavetable
- Chipset:
- ICS WaveFront (2115), others
- CD-ROM:
- ??
- Street price:
- ??
- OS/2 Drivers:
- Under development
- Drivers from:
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
- Comments:
- In theory, this board can be made to work with a hodge-podge of
drivers. IBM has released an ICS2115 driver to support MIDI with this
board, and used in conjunction with CS4231 drivers for digital audio, should
work with OS/2. To do this, install the CS4231 driver first, but
without any MIDI support (OPL3 or MPU-401). You may also
want to use the OPTi MAD16
initialization driver rather than the CS CWCONFIG driver; I've seen
some reports of this working well, but others of it conflicting with
the ability of the ICS2115 drivers to find the hardware. Then install
the ICS2115 drivers. The above recommendations come from Timur Tabi,
OS/2 sound driver guru; and I've received one report of something
similar working, though this person installed MPU-401 support and then
manually hacked the installation of the ICS2115 driver to replace it.
I've also seen reports of success with the opti928.zip
driver for OPTi-based boards.
Tropez Plus
- Type:
- Wavetable (?)
- Chipset:
- Crystal Semiconductor 4232
- CD-ROM:
- ??
- Street price:
- ??
- OS/2 Drivers:
- Available
- Drivers from:
- OS/2 box, Crystal's web or ftp sites.
- Comments:
- I've seen reports that this board should work with the
Crystal Semiconductor 4232 drivers included with OS/2 or available
from CS, but I've not seen any reports of actual success.
The one report I've seen indicates that the CS4232 drivers produce
fine .WAV file playback, but no MIDI.
Copyright © 1996, 1997, Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
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