Hi, I hear that ForteMedia FM801 based cheapo PCI sound cards are pretty DOS compatible without extra drivers, you should try to get one of those (I never managed to, the cheap PCI sound cards now all use crappy CMedia chips with good Linux / Windows sound and mostly broken DOS sound). Best for DOS are of course ISA soundcards with SoundBlaster compatibility of any kind (preferrably stereo 16 bit of course). Some newer PnP ISA cards need the BIOS setting "PnP OS installed: no" or need a PnP init tool like Intel Plug and Play Manager or some software which ships with the card / can be downloaded, but after that, all ISA SB compatible soundcards are really SB compatible. This is not the case for PCI soundcards with some less-compatible chipsets like the SoundBlaster Live PCI: Those need big complex special (downloadable / shipped with the card) drivers to simulate DOS SoundBlaster compatibility while the hardware is not actually very compatible.
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