Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Card Driver

2012-06-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, As mentioned, sadly, most "classic" (old) DOS software knows nothing about cards outside of a limited range like SB16 and GUS. Everything newer (e.g. AC97 or HDA) is almost always incompatible. So it's unlikely you can just "plug in" a driver to make it work. If you can recompile some apps

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Card Driver

2012-06-06 Thread Kenny Emond
Here's some more info on my sound card (I got it from running the command "mpxplay.exe /sct"): VIA VT8233, port: EC00, irq: 255, chiprev: 50, model: 9012 --- A FreeDOS User -- Live Security Virtual

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Card Driver

2012-06-06 Thread Santiago Almenara
Short answer: you can't DOS programs where made to be compatible with specific hardware. The success of your program was to have a broad hardware compatibility. In the case of sound, every program was SoundBlaster compatible because almost everybody have one, games for instance. I have to buy a

[Freedos-user] Sound Card Driver

2012-06-06 Thread Kenny Emond
Hey, I need to know how to find, figure out, configure or whatever my sound driver. I need a driver for my sound card, but I don't know how to do it. If this helps at all, somehow Mpxplay magically got the sound to play through my PC speakers, while all my other programs and games (mostly the ga