Mediavision Jazz PCMCIA Sound Card and Windows 95 [6/4/97]

Of course i don’t have anything to do with Mediavision. Mail
me any comments, suggestions, corrections etc, thanks. Forgive my bad english.

You can find this file at my current Web page : http://www.pacher/net

Contents

1. What is the Mediavision PCMCIA Sound Card
2. How to make it work under Windows 95
   1. With Windows 95 Card & Socket Services
   2. With old Card & Socket Services, or without any
   3. As a PCMCIA joystick card

1 What is the Mediavision PCMCIA Sound Card

This is a 16-bit sound card, OPL-3 music compatible based on the
Mediavision Jazz 16 chipset. It’s a PCMCIA card with a dongle with audio
line-in, headphones, microphone, volume control, midi/joystick port. It has
drivers with or without socket services.

The PCMCIA sound card can work well under Windows 95 with adlib
music or joystick but it crashes fairly often on digital sound. And
Mediavision doesn’t supply any Windows 95 drivers for this card (official
policy is that it doesn’t work).

2 How to make it work under Windows 95

2.1 With Windows 95 Card & Socket Services

Well, it’s a big hack just now, hopefully in time i will be able to
determine exactely what is necessary.

First copy all the Mediavision files from a windows 3.11
installation of the Mediavision PCMCIA Sound Card. Obviously you need at
least all the files which are in the oemsetup.inf. You need all the medvsn
stuff already installed on your computer under Windows 3.11.

Second put them in a directory with the oemsetup.inf
file, which is also available at my Web site.

Third, add to your Windows 95 config.sys, the emm386.exe line
with X=D800-D8FF ie exclude needed when the Mediavision Sound Card is used
without card & sockets services.

Fourth, boot Windows 95, go to Configuration Panel and choose add
sound hardware, Have disk, and point to the location of the oemsetup.inf
file. Then add all the stuff needed.

Now the card will hopefully work, but only if each time before you
insert it under Windows 95, you do an execute setsound.com. There might be
a problem if you set some startup sound files as it will play and fail
before you can execute setsound.com from windows 95.

2.2 With old Card & Socket Services, or without any

I haven’t tried it, but all the preceding stuff should work ok,
you’ll need to put your PCMCIA card before starting Windows 95
though (or run setsound.com as above).

Please email me all your experiences about it becoz as you can
see, this stuff is still very experimental. Note that i haven’t been
able to make the Midi Interface work, because you can’t select it with the
new Windows 95 Midi Mapper.

2.3 As a PCMCIA Joystick card

Well, I just bought a subnotebook (Digital Hinote Ultra) with
integrated sound. To use the joystick function under Windows 95 just
install the Mediavision stuff for dos only, add X=D800-D8FF to your
EMM386.EXE line and then and /F to the setsound.cfg in the Mediavision
directory (you might have to change the IRQ too) so that the adlib
music of the card doesn’t clash with the integrated sound of the laptop.

Then just execute setsound.com after you insert the card to
enable the joystick (it works very well) and add the default Windows 95
joystick driver to the Windows 95 control panel. Of course the integrated sound
of my subnotebook means that it will difficult for me to do any further
work on making the sound card work under Windows 95.