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

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 09.09.2010, 21:27

> I think my best bet is just going to be finding an older pentium-based
> board somewhere cheap and using that, or might be cheaper to just buy a
> sound blaster Live! card online and use my athlonXP board.
>
> Regardless, it'll be a little while before i buy either, i have to sell
> some old hardware on ebay to get some money so, we'll see later.
>
> Thank ya'll for all the useful information though :)

VDMSound? DOSBox? DOSEMU? Then you wouldn't need a separate machine set up or have to buy any additional "compatible" hardware (though they use emulation, of course).

I prefer DOSBox for DOS sound stuff since it works well (meant for games), supports SB or GUS or other stuff. But typically you need 1 Ghz cpu just to emulate a 486. DOSEMU is much faster (V86) but "somewhat" less compatible with things that fiddle with ports (SB). VDMSound is abandoned because of some modern Windows incompatibility, so it no longer works there (Vista, 7) from what I've heard. But perhaps you're using XP anyways, so it should? work there.

P.S. I do have an AWE64 on my old P166, and it's ISA PnP, I guess. It apparently needs drivers for Adlib sound (e.g. music in BioMenace), but I was able to (eventually) find that on Creative's site. But yeah, manufacturers are annoyingly closed minded about supporting third-party OSes. That's why emulation is much easier ... if admittedly less than ideal in some ways (ahem, DOS386).

Complete thread:

• 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