DOS ain't dead - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx

Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx (Users)

posted by Arjay, 09.09.2010, 19:03

> That aside, i need to figure out a PCI-based sound card that's either an
> actual SoundBlaster or just in general any PCI-based sound card that will
> work as Sound-Blaster 16 compatable in ms-dos.

Some of the older Compaq EN's (when Compaq was still Compaq NOT HP) have both ISA and PCI. The EN's I have includes built in Intel audio and I've had zero issues with them under DOS including a demo that the demogroup that I was part of wrote our own SB player for. So if you look a getting a machine that may be a good choice as there were many around and also small foot print. Be aware many DOS programs will expect the BLASTER environment variable to exist.

> Sadly, i do have an original Sound Blaster AWE64 but the board i have is
> pci-only.
There is hardware available that may enable you to build a new DOS machine but use older Sound Blaster cards. e.g. USB 2.0 to ISA card ROHS (apparently supports DOS under Windows - note I haven't ever tested one so can't comment on these). Indeed the following informative thread reminded me you can buy "new" boards with ISA as well, e.g. ibase MB8880 - again I've not tested those.

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Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 08.09.2010, 01:41 (Users)
- Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Laaca, 08.09.2010, 10:09
  - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 08.09.2010, 17:02
    - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - bretjohn, 08.09.2010, 18:06
- Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 09.09.2010, 01:01
  - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 09.09.2010, 06:43
    - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Laaca, 09.09.2010, 07:38
      - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 09.09.2010, 07:57
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Japheth, 09.09.2010, 08:18
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - marcov, 10.09.2010, 09:27
    - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 09.09.2010, 10:23
- Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Arjay, 09.09.2010, 19:03
  - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 09.09.2010, 20:52
    - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Rugxulo, 09.09.2010, 21:27
      - Sound card for - DOS386, 11.09.2010, 01:36
        Sound card for - ecm, 11.09.2010, 02:07
        Sound card for | native hardware access - DOS386, 12.09.2010, 03:05
        Sound card for | native hardware access - kithylin, 12.09.2010, 17:35
        Sound card for | native hardware access - Laaca, 12.09.2010, 18:19
        Mpxplay - Rugxulo, 12.09.2010, 21:46
        Sound card for - RayeR, 11.09.2010, 02:27
        Sound card for - Laaca, 11.09.2010, 08:11
        Sound card for - ecm, 11.09.2010, 11:54
        Sound card for - RayeR, 11.09.2010, 11:55
  - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 09.09.2010, 22:47
    - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Arjay, 13.09.2010, 13:51
      - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 13.09.2010, 15:52
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Arjay, 13.09.2010, 18:04
    - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - yuhongbao, 04.10.2010, 01:01
      - Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 27.10.2010, 02:46
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Laaca, 27.10.2010, 11:23
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 27.10.2010, 21:21
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Rugxulo, 27.10.2010, 23:13
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 28.10.2010, 21:32
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - yuhongbao, 05.12.2010, 08:14
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 07.12.2010, 15:16
        Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 07.12.2010, 15:38