21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
10:42 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI + DOS?
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I figured you people had a stash of ISA Soundblasters, Gravis Ultrasound,
Yamaha dxb50, Roland, and Ensoniq Soundscape cards laying around just for
retro gaming. ISA slots survived into the Pentium 3 era atleast (which tend
to be way too fast for DOS gaming anyway).
On 2/21/2006 at 11:13 AM Jim Leonard wrote:
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. IIRC the Aureal support was fairly poor. Just a
warning.
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