2011/6/22, Eric Auer: > Note that SB Live! is not a SoundBlaster in the sense that SB 1.0, > SB 1.5, SB Pro, SB 2.0 or SB 16 are, it is not compatible to any > of those DOS game compatible cards. However, I seem to remember > that SB Live! comes with a quite good "virtual simulated SB16 in > DOS" style driver, so as long as you run that, your games might > be just fine.
The problem is, that during past years tried it several times - on various boards, using various settings - and it _never_ wanted to work. That's why I was wondering, if there is just anybody at all, who was successful in using that driver. > I think the driver needs EMM386 to be present and > some of the FreeDOS EMM386 / JEMM386 / JEMMEX variant versions > need a special command line option to allow the SB Live! driver > to do some strange things that it needs to do to simulate SB16. > This is of course documented in the EMM driver docs then... :-) Although I didn't try it under FreeDOS, but using various past DOS-es, I'm afraid, the problem isn't related to memory managers. > Talking about which, ISA slots are very rare now, That's why I kept a few old computers. :) > but as compromise: > have experience with the new GigaByte AM3+ GA-870A-UD3 mainboard yet? I've got very similar board: it's GA-M56S-S3, which works well with Windows, Linux, BSD-s, ForthOS, and even can be used to prepare "Hackintosh" in case of need (although I did'nt tried FreeDOS with this one... maybe it's time? ;). Has several PCI slots, so the cards collected during the years can still be used. In fact, I bought two such motherboards, to have spare one, since most probably it isn't manufactured anymore - but it's working so well. -- regards, Zbigniew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
