by Rotes Sapiens <rs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jun 22, 2005 at 05:58 PM
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:21:57 GMT, Never_Again
<invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:03:11 -0700 Steve Pushak came forth to
>rec.games.computer.doom.help and thus spake unto all:
>>Doom and some other old DOS games work (kindof) in the win2k DOS
emulation
>>however I can't get the games or the sound blaster DOS diagnose utility
to
>>recognize the IO ****t (0x220) for the old Sound Blaster card. The card
>>works; Windows uses it fine.
>>I'm missing something really simple. There should be a way to make this
>>work. Its a pain to have to boot into DOS just to run these old games.
>Win2000 does not allow direct access to sound hardware, that's the price
>you pay for the increased stability. You could try SFX2000
><http://www.softsystem.co.uk/page4.html>
(laggy even with a 3GHz CPU),
>or better yet, dual boot into Win98.
You could try dosbox which is a full blown dos emulator:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
or vdmsound which only emulates the sound:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/
I use dosbox a lot (which is still maintained). I found vdmsound hard
to set up and get working, and it doesn't seem to be sup****ted
anymore.
Sig:
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
-- Isaac Asimov
