Hi again, >>Not sure why Michał mentions Yamaha YMF724
> I've lots of issues with this card. > Shame on me for not getting a > motherboard with ISA slots. After trying several different PCI soundcards which claim some level of ISA Sound Blaster compatibility, I can tell you that your luck will also depend on how much ISA your PCI mainboard still supports with special retro DMA etc. So basically this only worked well for computers which were only slightly too new to have ISA slots. After that, things do indeed get ugly and success also varies from game to game. But this most likely also happens with MS DOS. None of the cards worked for more than non-DMA or OPL3 on too new mainboards. Maybe SB PCI or SB Live would be the exceptions. I have not tried those because those are known to require protected mode drivers to simulate compatibility in software instead of relying on mainboard hardware help. The SB Live drivers may work better with MS EMM386, but the drivers fail to work with specific games in the way they do or do not cooperate in protected mode use in all DOS brands. And the nicer protected mode SB16 simulation is DOSEMU2 or DOSBOX, I think. Some "SB16 on HDA hardware" could be nice to have in real DOS, but that has a bad balance between the complexity and desire to have it if you have DOSBOX/DOSEMU. > A lot of games I tried with JEMM386/JEMMEX had some really jarring > issues. They varied from the game gracefully crashing to... In context of the above: Does the same happen if you do NOT load the special PCI soundcard drivers? I would think that the trio JEMM386 plus PCI sound plus protected mode games is most evil, while real mode games and ISA or no sound might be just fine with the same JEMM386. Of course some daring command line options for JEMM386 are still a source of stability risks. You are free to change those. Please be more specific about how FreeDOS DOSFSCK fails to repair FAT (FAT16? FAT32?) damage by crashing games in situations where Linux (also with DOSFSCK?) fixes it. Having crashes which cause FAT damage is really frustrating, but I would have to know more details to think about which repairs types FreeDOS repair tools (either CHKDSK or DOSFSCK) fail to offer yet. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
