No need to get upset. Your question referred to the card you purchased Not upset at all. I was just displeased because probably my question wasn't very clear. "sound card X" in my question referred to any sound card able to use a wavetable daughterboard in pure dos. I'm sorry for the …

Arrrgh...i shouldn't have pointed at all about my "Terratec DMX" and NOT "Terratec DMX xfire ". This first supports a wavetable daughtboard, and does mean that it doensn't need a ram loaded samples bank when installed. Again, I weren't interested in my board: I've asked how it's accomplished using a …

Is not the Terratec Dmx xfire . Is just the Terratec Dmx, that has an ESS ES1970 Canyon-3d chipset: a completely different beast. Not really interested in my specific card at the moment: I'd like to know an experience of using a wavetable daughtboard in a dos enviroment, and how it's accomplished. …

My just buyed Terratec DMX is coming. In the mean time, I'd like to inform about using an external wavetable (using the waveblaster connector). I suppose this feature must be exposed by the dos driver, so the it may be not available depending on the card, but can you cite me an example of using an …

@leileilol: are there sound cards that provide MIDI trough real OPL-3 supported by xp?

Please, someone can explain me what "a fast 2d card" should mean? As far as I know, 2d pc graphics is not much more than updating a framebuffer in video card memory. So, as long as your cpu, video card and system bus are fast enough to transfer bits from main memory, you should see smooth rendering …

Lol, there are no errors. Timidity++ should be installed somewhere in the cygwin directory structure. Try to run it using tab completition of cygwin shell. Alternatively, you can try this old windows build. timidity is old and unmaintaned: if availabe on cygwin, you should really try fluidsynth. The …

"Windows/DirectX centric" is just adversting in the form of "optimized for Windows XP" that does mean nothing. Dos dosn't require anything special: it just require a compliant bios and a x86 cpu. Dos games don't differ much: as long they don't do very stupid assumptions about the hw, they mostly …

@dh4rm4: i haven't really listed my system. I should specify my area of interest with dos games, that is all games post 1989. So yes, the computer I have prepared may not be suitable for very old dos titles. In my clarification, I've already admitted that dosbox already support more hw variants so …

Why looking for a world of trouble when you have DOSBox?. Yeah, I know this isn't what the OP wanted. I highly support projects like DOSBox. But, I'm sorry, we are still at the point where a 64bit processor like the amd64 x2 can more compatible with ancient 8086 instructions than DosBox. Still, a …

I investegated the matter: reading better this article, it seems that ESS chipsets are very good with dos compatibility and don't require special mb features. They don't have great sound quality, but people that want to play dos games (like me) often just want to ear something and don't care about …

Thanks for the interest Malik, but simply SB16 emulation of the Live! and many other cards from different vendors is not possibile on motherboards that do not support some peculiar low level features (namely DDMA using a NMI), no matter what driver you use. I don't know if there's a trend within mb …

All Sound Blaster Live! had a gameport. Look ebay.

Thanks. If someone points another card to evaluate, otherwise I will just look for the Aureal Vortex 2.

First, greetings to all, I'm a newcomer! I recently upgrade my old computer I used to play Dos and W9X games. I was lucky in finding a very good motherboard, the asrock Alivedual-esata2 that supports newer cpus (Amd AM2/AM2+ socket), has 1xAGP and 1xPCI-E16 sockets and is compatible with W9X. I …