DOS Days

Aztech Multimedia Pro 16 IIB-3D PnP

Following the non-Pnp version of the Multimedia Pro 16 IIB-3D, this was the Plug & Play version.

	Released	1996
	Bus	ISA 16-bit
	FM Synth	Yamaha YMF262 (OPL3) or LS-212
	Audio Codec	Crystal CS-4231A-KL
	Chipset	AZT-2316/A/R Wavefront ICS (3rd gen chip)
	Standards	Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro 2, Windows Sound System, General MIDI
	Ports	Speaker-Out, Mic-In, Line-In (stereo), Line-Out (stereo), Game port
	CD-ROM	IDE
	Wavetable	Yes, WaveTide-compatible
	Plug & Play	Yes
	FCC ID(s)	I38-MMSN845
	Price	-
	See Also	Multimedia Pro 16, Multimedia Pro 16 IIB-3D

SoftMPU is known to work with the AZT-2316 chipset.

A non-Plug & Play variant of this card was also sold, called the Multimedia Pro 16 IIB-3D.

Audio from the Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16 IIB-3D can be listened to on the following game pages:

You can also compare the audio output of the Pro 16-II 3D side-by-side with numerous other sound cards in my Sound Blaster 16 CT2770 Retro Review.

Board Revisions

Competition

In the Media

Setting it Up

The original version 1.10 disks install below can be used to install and configure the card for DOS use. Here are some screenshots of the INSTALL.EXE utility running:

When you install the original v1.10 disk drivers, just 1 line gets added to CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=C:\MMPRO16\DRIVERS\EEPROM.SYS /88000000

and these 5 lines get added to AUTOEXEC.BAT:

SET GALAXY=A220 I5 D1 K10 P530 T6
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
SET SOUND=C:\MMPRO16
C:\MMPRO16\UTILITY\VOLSET /V:14 /X:14 /F:14 /C:14 /L:14 /M:0 /R:M

After installation and config is complete and you have rebooted, the UTILITY directory contains several DOS tools including:

CONFIG.EXE - Used to change the Base I/O address, IRQ and DMA channel that is stored in the EEPROM on the card.
HWSET.EXE - a command-line version of the CONFIG.EXE utility
DIAGNOSE.EXE - Used to test the various aspects of the sound card's output.
VOLSET.EXE - Used to adjust the volume and balance on each channel
SETMODE.EXE - Set the sound card to run in either Sound Blaster Pro mode or WSS mode
MIXTSR.EXE - a DOS TSR used to adjust the mixer settings on the fly. Uses ALT-/ to activate