Hi,
Sorry, but you're outta luck unless you write your own driver. Cards
from Audigy 2 and above never received this kind of care and support.
Your best bet would be to actually not use a PCI card at all and instead
use an ISA card. DOS games are designed specifically around ISA cards,
as consumer grade PCI sound cards were not a thing until 1998.
Still, even if you use a PCI card with a driver that emulates an ISA
device (this is not how Yamaha YMF724 works), you are still running the
risk of breaking a lot of games. When I had my Vibra 128, I needed to
have a memory manager loaded to start the driver. And when there was a
memory manager, some games refused to start because they had memory issues.
If you get a Yamaha YMF724 like me, you're a little safer. It's a good
compromise between compatibility and quality - you get a SoundBlaster
Pro 1.0 and most games will work - all without the need for a memory
manager. On the downside, your motherboard either needs to support
Distributed DMA (in southbridge) or it needs to have a SBLink header
which provides the missing pins that ISA has and PCI doesn't. Another
downside is that you are at the mercy of the BIOS' whims if you can't
manage DMA channel assignments. There are a few games like MDK and Micro
Machines 2 that do not take it very well if your sound card is on DMA 0.
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 07.03.2021 o 00:10, Jerome Shidel pisze:
Hi,
On Mar 6, 2021, at 6:03 PM, Joao Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
Search the net and found a site regarding audigy card link
<https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=1282> and hope that works for
you.
I also have one in case and have the CD never used with freedos.
Thanks. However, I was there earlier today. They are talking about an
Audigy (1st Gen). They say that those drivers aren’t believed to work
with an Audigy 2. Mine is an Audigy 4. I didn’t see anywhere that they
got Audigy 2+ working. But, maybe there is another thread somewhere or
some has done it with different (or later) drivers.
Thanks though.
:-)
Jerome
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