Hi Flox, > No, I have a SB Live! 5.1 PCI soundcard...I had tried the driver for > SB16 emulation, but it wasn't compatible with some drivers so I never > used it. With old mainboards I mean more or less 2, 3 years.
The SBLive / SBPCI driver emulates SB16 in software, so it is only compatible with games which are EMM386 compatible (the driver uses the same protected mode) and you may have to adjust other aspects of your config to make JEMM386 or other EMM386 compatible with the SBLive driver. But apart from that, the SBLive / SBPCI are probably the only cards with DOS SB16 emulation in pure software. This makes them (potentially) work in any PC which has PCI... Alternatives are ForteMedia FM801 (simple 5.1 AC97 chip with some nice SBPro hardware emulation) and running DOS in a protected mode operating system with a *virtual* SB16 soundcard, for example in a Linux Dosemu or in Windows dosbox or in multi platform Qemu or Bochs. Problem with FM801 is that the emulation only works if your mainboard still at least knows what ISA is, I think this is something related to PCI/ISA DMA handling... On a too new board, FM801 only gives you Adlib/OPL3 sound but at least that it does in pure hardware :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
