That’s awesome everyone, thanks for the insight. It sounds a lot more involved than I first expected. I’m going to read up on what you guys are talking about and go from there!
> On Sep 15, 2020, at 7:05 AM, ZB <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:45:46PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > >> Actually you can even find relatively modern quad core >> computers with IDE :-) The problem is that when you want >> DOS compatible sound hardware, you want something with >> ISA slots and those went out of fashion 20 years ago. > > Yes, that's the best choice - but if not available, then more recent mobo > with chipset featuring DDMA ("Distributed DMA") also won't be that bad. > >> There are a few PCI soundcards with limited DOS support: >> Some come with drivers which simulate a SoundBlaster, but >> those do not work with protected mode games, while others >> use hardware tricks which only work on mainboard chipsets >> which still have a bit of ISA style even while the boards >> have no have actual ISA slots. > > That "bit of ISA style" is called DDMA. > > Probably the best choice among a few PCI-soundcards working under DOS will > be Yamaha YMF-724/744. > > More about this: > https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=48553 > https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=48133#p497926 > -- > regards, > Zbigniew > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user