| What brand sound card do you use for DOS games |
| Soundblaster or SB Pro 8 Bit |
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12% |
[ 1 ] |
| Gravis Ultrasound Classic, MAX, PnP |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Ensoniq Soundscape |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| SB ISA Compatibles such as Aztec, Reveal etc |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Newer PCI cards with SB support Aureal, Live etc |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Roland cards |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Soundblaster 16, 32 , AWE etc 16 bit |
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87% |
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Octocon888
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Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:36 pm
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u know come to think of it my first computer was an Atari ST  (proper good those were), then my first PC was er... 486DX2 erm i think it was running at 60mhz with turbo...not exactly sure. Ah those turbothings... great weren't they... these days we hav to o/c our PCs and just think if we can just press one button to make them go fasterit will make our lives better.
my point is this, when i had my first PC i was a teenager... and well i only wanted one thing.. games! since my ST was the king of games then. The exact details of the system has dissappeared, i simply can't remember  i can't remembe what sndcard it was or the gfx card, all i wanted was DOOM, PBF, wolf3D, 4D stuntcar (something like that), all the luca arts advertures, duke3D (by far the best shooter) and a few other games.
I would build a dos machine but it cost money just for games, thats y i rather want to be able to run those games on my current PC.. simple.
i know ppl love dos and d/l dos appz and go completely dos mad... sry to say i'm not that enthusiastic but i love anything retro, i even hav emus for my ST fantastic!
one game that should hav come out on dos-should be dungeon master!!! the first realtime 1st person game!
 sry i went of at a tangent.. |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 559
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| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:19 am
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| Alot of people end up giving dos era machines away for free. Its better to have the original equipment so all you do is spend time playing the game and not messing with your new os trying to get each game to work. |
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johpower
Way too much free time
Joined: 06 Jan 2003
Posts: 424
Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:15 pm
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| Unknown_K wrote: | | Wouldnt that card fall into the SB compatible PCI card section? |
Not really. It's an ISA 16-bit card refuses to agree with my Windoze PC so it stays in the DOS machine. There is a compatability mode but this negates some of the highend features. Old tech is annoying, eh?
Now I wish all the others had TB compatability! Why have super CD quality sound capacity but lousy electronics that hiss and hum like a 40's tube amp?! The TB Tropez attached to my 1980 80wt/ch Yamaha integrated amp and 4 speaker set plays clean music and shakes the house during Great Naval Battles. Happily/sadly TB still makes some of the best sound cards money could buy..... and I'll get one (PCI) on sale soon.  |
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Unknown_K
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Joined: 01 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:23 pm
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Yea, my SBpro 2.0 is a little hissy.. but it adds to the experience of the old games (cant beat old hardware for that).
Just about any of the newer PCi sound cards have a good S/N ratio.
My Aureal based cards are all dead quiet. I quit using my stereo for playing games because it was TOO easy to crank it up. I remember playing mechwarrior 2 back in the day hooked up to my old 80W stereo with 12" sub , it would rattle the house. |
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486 player
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 18 Sep 2002
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:08 am
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| Unknown_K wrote: | | it adds to the experience of the old games (cant beat old hardware for that). |
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johpower
Way too much free time
Joined: 06 Jan 2003
Posts: 424
Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 11:21 pm
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| I have a good Yamaha XG series PCI sound card. It was decent with a Windoze sound setup. I'm pretty sure the CD had drivers for DOS. Has anyone used one of these in DOS? |
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Unknown_K
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Joined: 01 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:08 pm
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| johpower wrote: | | I have a good Yamaha XG series PCI sound card. It was decent with a Windoze sound setup. I'm pretty sure the CD had drivers for DOS. Has anyone used one of these in DOS? |
I think the daughtercard attached to my sb16 is a XG type of card (only does midi). Sounds real nice
DB50XG or something like that, connects to the waveblaster header. |
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johpower
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Posts: 424
Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:51 am
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| Quote: | | In my opinion todays games need a good video card, the old DOS games needed a good sound card. |
And getting them to run with everything else while leaving you enough lower mem was sometimes a feat of legerdemain!  |
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johpower
Way too much free time
Joined: 06 Jan 2003
Posts: 424
Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:55 am
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| Unknown_K wrote: | | johpower wrote: | | I have a good Yamaha XG series PCI sound card. It was decent with a Windoze sound setup. I'm pretty sure the CD had drivers for DOS. Has anyone used one of these in DOS? |
I think the daughtercard attached to my sb16 is a XG type of card (only does midi). Sounds real nice
DB50XG or something like that, connects to the waveblaster header. |
It's a A301-G50 card w/YMF724F-V chip. |
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johpower
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Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:10 am
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| Quote: | | I use what win ME calls a "legacy Device" i don't know what it means, but it lists all the info i need, like port num, IRQ, DMA, Buffer, etc. |
"Legacy device" is windoze speak for non-plug and play. Your PC has probably defaulted to "sound blaster compatable" or something similar.
You might zero in on a better driver by taking a close look at the card. If it doesn't have an obvious info sticker or card ID number, see the chips. Use a magnifying lens if necessary. If there's an FCC# you can go to "fccid.com" (I think) to find out who made it but usually not much else. The FCC# may be obviously similar to the card's real name or part number. All this helps the search.
Write down any of the names, ID's or the chip number(s) and do a Google search to find the vendor, manuals, drivers, updates and other info on the card.
Very few cards of any type that I've had to find drivers for have escaped these methods of discovery. |
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computer_person
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Joined: 14 Apr 2003
Posts: 26
Location: Wherever,but mostly on the Internet
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:52 am
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| i have a Soundblaser 16 bit on my sucky computer. See: my computer sucks[/i] |
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Unknown_K
Way too much free time
Joined: 01 Oct 2002
Posts: 559
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 11:08 am
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| The Sb16 was the last creative product I really liked. I have a couple sb64's here, but those were free and used on non-game machines |
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johpower
Way too much free time
Joined: 06 Jan 2003
Posts: 424
Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 5:48 am
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| computer_person wrote: | | i have a Soundblaser 16 bit on my sucky computer. See: my computer sucks |
Pardon the late comeback, dude. So what sucks? Maybe we can sort it. |
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