Any DOS genius around?

killerkebab · 10-09-2008, 13:52

I'm having a bit of trouble configuring my sound card in my other computer to work with most DOS games. It is an ESS Audiodrive 1869 which should have sound blaster emulation.

I opened autoexec.bat in notepad and added the line:

Code:

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4

To emulate Sound Blaster Pro, on port 220, IRQ5 and DMA1 (I think it is supposed to emulate SBPro, I've tried other numbers next to 'T' to no avail)

Note I am using Win98 on that computer, and whilst some DOS games do work fine, most are soundless (any win98 games work with sound by default). It really is dependant on the game. Any ideas for anything else I should do? If not, any ideas for a place to buy an old Sound Blaster card that is guaranteed to work with DOS?

10-09-2008, 13:52	#1
killerkebab Vodka Martini Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Bristol/Reading Posts: 656	Any DOS genius around? I'm having a bit of trouble configuring my sound card in my other computer to work with most DOS games. It is an ESS Audiodrive 1869 which should have sound blaster emulation. I opened autoexec.bat in notepad and added the line: Code: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 To emulate Sound Blaster Pro, on port 220, IRQ5 and DMA1 (I think it is supposed to emulate SBPro, I've tried other numbers next to 'T' to no avail) Note I am using Win98 on that computer, and whilst some DOS games do work fine, most are soundless (any win98 games work with sound by default). It really is dependant on the game. Any ideas for anything else I should do? If not, any ideas for a place to buy an old Sound Blaster card that is guaranteed to work with DOS? __________________