Re: Legacy Sound (was Re: [SWCollect] DOS sound in Win 98SE)

2004-04-01 Thread Jim Leonard
Lee K. Seitz wrote: crossed my mind to wonder how much longer it will be until you can't get anything but USB joysticks? Joysticks take a fair amount of beating and everything's going USB, so in another decade, will it be nearly impossible to find joysticks compatible with old hardware? As long a

Re: Legacy Sound (was Re: [SWCollect] DOS sound in Win 98SE)

2004-04-01 Thread Jim Leonard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: installed). I really liked the Soundman (TB not bad either, had some interesting MIDI). Any game which had no soundcard support (ie PC speaker) actually played through the Soundman without any mods/tricky Those are rare, hang onto those. I wish I had one when I was mak

Re: Legacy Sound (was Re: [SWCollect] DOS sound in Win 98SE)

2004-04-01 Thread AvatarTom
In a message dated 04/01/2004 8:49:05 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You want a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch.  You hook up one keyboard, one mouse, and one monitor to the box, then the box connects to multiple computers.  They're not cheap, though.  And, as best I know

Re: Legacy Sound (was Re: [SWCollect] DOS sound in Win 98SE)

2004-04-01 Thread Lee K. Seitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stated: > >I was thinking about hooking up both computers side to side and using one >monitor. Is there some sort of adaptor thingy that would allow me to do this, >hook both up to my main monitor? Of course would only use one computer at a time. You want a KVM (Keyboard, Video

Re: Legacy Sound (was Re: [SWCollect] DOS sound in Win 98SE)

2004-04-01 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard stated: > >Finally, you can use an actual older card if your motherboard has an ISA slot. > This only applies to computers 3 years old or older, of course. Which also >leads to another option: Build yourself an older computer and fill it with >legacy hardware. I was thinking abo

Re: Legacy Sound (was Re: [SWCollect] DOS sound in Win 98SE)

2004-04-01 Thread AvatarTom
In a message dated 04/01/2004 1:00:42 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Finally, you can use an actual older card if your motherboard has an ISA slot. Well Jim I was thinking about doing just that as my "upgraded" PC does not have ISA slot. Was going to try my "old machine" wh

Legacy Sound (was Re: [SWCollect] DOS sound in Win 98SE)

2004-03-31 Thread Jim Leonard
(I hit "ctrl-enter" when I meant to hit "enter" -- here's the full message:) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you know I play mostly "classic" games. I use 98SE with SB Live card. Can be very tricky to get sound to work, sometimes nearly impossible. Someone told me about VMDsound but that seems to be