Sound for DOS games on modern hardware?

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Date: Thu Jun 19 05:11:00 2003

I've got some Sound Blasters and Sound Blaster compatibles that I'd
be willing to trade for. Some ISA or Nubus parts might do.







At 12:27 PM 6/18/03 -0700, you wrote:
> > In a fit of nostalgia, I was wanting to cruise around "Wolfenstein 3D"
> > and "Spear of Destiny" - I still have my original *purchased* copies
> > from 10+ years ago (on-topic!). What I'm having problems with is
> > getting the sound to work. I've tried in two different machines,
> > the "odder" one being my A7V motherboard with a PCI Turtle-Beach
> > Montego Bay II card (it has no ISA slots). I've tried fiddling with
> > the "SET BLASTER" statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT, but I can't come up
> > with a way to get either game to see the PCI sound card.
>
>Were you able to find DOS drivers for this card at all? Or was it actually
>advertised as being Sound Blaster compatible (specifically)?
>
>I eventually had so much difficulty that I went and bought a real Sound
>Blaster 16 (Fry's still sells them -- even for ISA!). This went in my
>486DX4/133 that I reserve for old DOS games.
>
>The Windows 98 machine around here does in fact have DOS emulation drivers
>that make it look like a Sound Blaster Pro, which is sufficient for most
>games to run on that, too. It's a bizarre AT&T specific card, although the
>chipset doesn't look all that weird.
>
> > Are there any good sound card probe programs for DOS that could
> > go looking for my card and prove it can be found? I know the IRQ,
> > but being a non-Creative Labs card, I can't verify the I/O setting,
> > nor the DMA channel, and especially not the "T"ype for the BLASTER
> > environment variable.
>
>There was a program that Apogee used to distribute that did just that
>(something like SetBlaster or something was the title). They might have
>it for download, or it might be in one of their downloadable demos (I
>think the Xenophage and/or Wacky Wheels games had some version of this).
>
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