Hi Zbigniew! > Tried several times to use "ordinary" Soundblaster Live! under DOS - > and _never_ was able to make any use out of this card under DOS.
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. 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... :-) > Maybe someone of you managed to configure this card for DOS? Good question :-) Anybody? > Just out of curiosity, since I've got ISA cards, that I'm using with no > problems whatsoever - but I'm wondering, was it possible at all? That > dos utility, which I've found on CD shipped with card, doesn't work as > expected. Talking about which, ISA slots are very rare now, but as compromise: have experience with the new GigaByte AM3+ GA-870A-UD3 mainboard yet? It sounds very interesting - all old ports AND all new ports, such as fast USB3, fast 6 GB/s SATA, FireWire, PCIe, PCI, 7.1 HDA audio, S/PDIF out (optical and coax) and GBit-LAN, but also still has IDE, printer port, serial port and even floppy possibilities :-) (no ISA) Eric PS: Suggestions for similar motherboards are also welcome :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
