DOS ain't dead

Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. (Developers)

posted by marcov, 13.12.2012, 22:51

> > I think SoundBlaster is dead, I don't think (m)any people will use it.
> > Sure, it's well-documented, even fun (I guess, never tried) to program
> for
> > it, but it's fairly useless. Not trying to discourage you, just being
> > realistic. :-/
>
> My [possibly false] supposition is that there are still quite a lot of
> systems with Sound Blaster emulation out there.

Afaik dos games often work under win9x with the emu10k1 (audigy1) cards, when the dos driver initializer app (on the CD) is run in the dos box.

I heard that some people also had gotten it to run with audigy2.

Complete thread:

• Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - myrkraverk, 09.12.2012, 23:41 (Developers)
  • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - RayeR, 10.12.2012, 03:09
  • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - Japheth, 10.12.2012, 11:42
    • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - RayeR, 10.12.2012, 18:04
  • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - bretjohn, 10.12.2012, 15:52
    • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - myrkraverk, 10.12.2012, 21:22
  • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - myrkraverk, 10.12.2012, 21:16
  • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - Rugxulo, 10.12.2012, 22:03
    • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - myrkraverk, 13.12.2012, 14:07
      • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - marcov, 13.12.2012, 22:51
        • Waiting for 3 (or 3.3) microseconds? 286 and up. - RayeR, 14.12.2012, 01:12