I tried that already. I got the EMM386 to load which is required for the
Sound Blaster drivers to load correctly in DOS, but it fails when I ran the
SBTEST.exe. I already tried adjusting the the IRQ, Address, etc., nothing
same results each time, it fails. Even tried the SB in the strings, I get
the same thing, no sound.
It has to do with the DDMA and NMI feature of the motherboards that was
ditched sometime around in 2001.
So if anyone has a modern motherboard that's using FreeDOS, I.E. able to use
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and above, and have been able to get the sound working,
please tell me what sound cards you are currently using.
This was the source I read up regarding a possible workaround, and Aureal
Vortex 2 was one of the cards mentioned, but has anyone tried taht card and
confirmed so?
That card will support only Sound Blaster Pro Emulation though I'm not sure
if that's enough for most of the early to mid 90s released DOS games.
So for anyone reading this that that plays games with FreeDOS on modern
systems or any motherboards without ISA slots and have manage to get the
digital sound and midi music to work, please give me advice.
Thanks!!
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi D Z,
>
> > www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131232
> >
> > There are no ISA slots available I'm afraid. I do have 2 PCI slots, have
> > tried the SB16 emulation with a Sound Blaster Live! Value PCI card but
> the
> > emulation test/diagnostics fails each time.
>
> As far as I know, the SB Live! PCI creates a virtual soundblaster
> in software and sends audio to the AC97-ish hardware, so in theory
> you should not depend on the chipset / DDMA / ISA compatibility.
>
> Only hardware based emulation such as ForteMedia FM801 or CMedia
> often have that problem. On the other hand, hardware based often
> means that you have OPL3 FM hardware, which often works even if
> DMA fails. So if your focus is on FM / Adlib, you can try that.
>
> There was something about the SB Live! software - maybe you need
> to load EMM386 or JEMM386 (www.japheth.de) and maybe you have to
> add a "SB" or similar command line option for (J-) EMM386, too.
>
> You may want to use X=from-to options or otherwise reduce usage
> of UMB when you use (J-) EMM386, as in particular on newer main-
> boards there can be unmarked areas which must not be used by DOS
> while at the same time there are no signs that would help EMM386
> to find such areas. Examples are sound, USB, SATA, RAID, NIC...
>
> > The software based SB emulator sounds like it's worth a try but I won't
> get
> > the music to play in DOS games since the FM synthesizer isn't supported
> :-(
>
> Note that more full emulators such as DOSEMU (Linux) or whole-PC
> emulators (Bochs, Qemu, etc) can simulate whatever hardware they
> want, including FM synth :-). Emulated CPU of course wastes CPU
> time, emulating only other hardware (SB Live drivers, Dosemu) is
> faster and using only real hardware (FM801) is of course fastest.
>
> Eric
>
>
> PS: Why did mameworld move?
> >> they are now:
> >> http://easymamecab.mameworld.info/
> >> http://vsynchmame.mameworld.info/
>
>
>
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