21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
11:07 a.m.
Bryan Pope wrote:
Waaahh!! :( Well, I am glad I asked here before I started pulling my
hair out trying to get a PCI SB to work under DOS. :)
I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it doesn't work well. Try it
and first try a game that has Adlib sound only, see how it plays. Then
try digital.
A good litmus test is Doom (shareware is fine). If the Adlib/FM music
and digital sound effects are going at the same time, and you don't hear
any cracking/popping/looping in the digital sound (which would indicate
a problem with auto-init DMA), then you're golden. Any problems you
have after that point you can blame on the game :-)
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Any PCI card is probably not going to be able to
support legacy DMA type
transfers, but siimple SB port 220H I/O shouldn't be a problem with PCI
It's not, but without DMA the cards are nearly useless. It limits them
to FM/MIDI synth output only. No digitized sound output whatsoever.