Sound Blaster AWE64 Value 2MByte memory upgrade 

Yea its not anew mod but I only seen the Russian dude do it and some people that had some pictures. A friend sold his AWE64 Value to another friend this weekend and he had modded it to 2MB also the same way. Very low cost mod to do and most seems to agree 2MB is really the most useful amount for normal use, more seems to be bragging rights so yea this is a low cost way of getting some better sound font quality.

Yea if you have the tools and a left over ram stick its basically free and makes a good uplift in sound quality I think.

The problem I find with the AWE64 is that aweutil dont work with protected mode games and memory extension technologies so basically anything using DOS4GW dont work with aweutil /EM:GM Sure I can load the sound bank, I can use it in dos with supported software like DOSmid that can either use onboard ROM in native AWE32 mode or use the cards General Midi Emulation and I have a custom soundfont of 2Mb loaded and the sound is totally different and much improved but pretty much nothing else works natively but a few softwares so ram for soundfonts feels like a wast in dos. Games just hangs with GM enabled and its its biggest pitfall. Sure the drivers under windows allows dos games to run with General Midi emulation and a soundfont loaded in the ram bank but its not as much fun as native dos. A replacement for aweutil would be needed to sort this out it seems because crative failed to do it and I dont see any project out there trying to fix. AWE64 is a bit of a disappointment in DOS, in the end it runs best set to Sound Blaster 16 mode in dos, might as well have a SB16 then.

@ Right, I was also expecting from it much more, but what totally surprised me, was real Roland MT-32, that machine really sounds, like real synth from pop/rock 80's production (which it is :-)). If you want ultimate GM midi fun, try to get Yamaha MOTIF-RACK classic, it have also GM mode, it is a little bit tricky to use, but that is rebalanced with absolutely outstanding sound quality, you will not recognize that midi files, played through it, and also it should be quite cheape nowadays :-)

Sure but it requires other chips to address that extra ram. The gold version I think has a programed PLA to support 2+2MB if I recall. The schematics exists for that and there are new upgrades you can buy for more ram that will fit the expansion header. But the card it self can not address more without those extra PLA chips. web.archive.org/web/19980522062527/creaf.com/sound/64-gold/ct1930.pdf web.archive.org/web/19980522062536/creaf.com/sound/64-gold/ct1950.pdf Those PDF's has the schismatics for the different upgrade modules up to 28MB and the part list. The problem is that you need to program those PLA chips and those files idk where to find and the modern implementations dont use those chips it seems anyways.

Used for testing, more work to be done to it then it will find a home.

@ Sorry, I did not understand the answer...

@@ivanpedromuricy Yes its 16bit ISA. The card is in a box because its used for testing sound on motherboards.

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