20 Jun
2003
20 Jun
'03
8:36 p.m.
At 12:17 PM 6/20/03 -0600, you wrote:
AARGGH!
Read Ethan's posts. He can NOT use ANY ISA sound cards, because the
computer
does not have any ISA slots. Period.
So, can anyone answer Ethan's question about how to get a PCI sound card
to work
with a ca. 1994 MS-DOS game?
What about using a PC emulator? I run DOS inside Windows using Virtual PC
and sound works, though it does skip in some games.
There are other PC emulators that I haven't tried yet. Bochs and DOSbox
comes to mind. DOSbox may be the better one to try as it's freeware (as
far as I know) and is designed specifically to run DOS games on Windows
PCs. A known limitation is that it currently does not support 32 bit
protected mode, but for wolf 3d and other pre DOS4GW games this shouldn't
be a problem. I'll get around to trying it one of these days.
If the 2 cards will coexist or he's willing to replace his current card it
may be worth looking for a SB PCI64. I use one and compatibility with
older software is usually pretty good.