So I ordered this thing of AliExpress, miraculously enough it arrived unscathed and I set to work trying out various games and software on it. All seemed to be working fine, until I was trying out a DOS MIDI player (dosmid). After about half an hour of testing various MIDI files, it seems to have …

Just the standard "SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4" in AUTOEXEC.BAT

I checked out the Edison drivers, and they're actually Windows drivers so I can't install anything.

This is in a laptop, so there are no jumpers for me to change. I tried adding SET BLASTER to AUTOEXEC.BAT previously, and nothing would come up on boot, probably because it lacked the files necessary to use the SET BLASTER command.

Thank you, but even though there's one that says "ES688 Audiodrive Full install for Dos", it's actually for the ESS968 and doesn't work. I also wasn't able to find a compatible driver in the "ESS ISA cards DOS, Win 3.x drivers" download either.

I just have the 3.1 drivers installed for Windows, but a few games I've tried won't let me use Sound Blaster emulation because they don't detect the appropriate environment variables like "SET BLASTER". I was wondering if there was a DOS driver I could install that would enable this.

I've got Inertia Player 1.2 on an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT. It has an ESS688 sound chip. When I run the isetup program to configure the sound device, I select the options required to get it working with my sound chip, but when I load the main program it just displays random characters on …

I have a Toshiba laptop with an ESS688 sound chip running DOS. I'm playing Master of Orion 2, and I notice that it supports both the ESS688 and the Sound Blaster Pro options in the setup program. Which one is best to use? Will I get better sound from using the SB Pro option, or is it best to always …

I have a tiny PC with an AMD Geode GX, which is a rebranded National Semiconductor Geode GX2, which in turn is an improved copy of the Cyrix MediaGXm. The only drivers I have found for it support Windows XP only. However, it is FAR too slow to run XP, it really only has the power to run Windows 98. …

I can't seem to find a driver for this. There isn't one available on Creative's website, so I assume that they never bothered making one for it. Is my best bet to just install the OS and use the drivers Microsoft provided?

I'm on a bit of a Crystal drive right now, having bought an interesting Crystal-based card for a Windows 98 PC I recently built. This topic is a pretty hard one to Google, and Wikipedia doesn't seem to have a page regarding Crystal and their sound cards. Can anyone help me compile a list of cards …

I have the CT4170.

I just installed Munt, using the 1.07 MT-32 ROM, and am attempting to use it to play MIDI files with Windows Media Player. I'm finding that the majority of the voices are too quiet, and one is too loud, drowing out the rest. I've attached an example in MP3 format, along with the original MIDI file. …

I ordered a replacement sound card, and while I wait for it to arrive I'm getting the drivers together. It seems that there is a WDM driver available for 98SE/2k, but it appears to lack things like the Crystal control panel. Should I just forget about it, or should I install the old VXD driver first …

Okay, I moved the jumpers to the LIN OUT position, and while it does affect the sound output (I have to turn up the sound volume in Windows), there is still hiss from the left channel accompanied by loud crackles and such. I'm thinking this card is borked and needs to be tossed, which means I'm …

I just put together a Pentium II retro battlestation. I originally intended to use my SB Live! Value, but I couldn't get any sound from it despite the drivers being installed and Windows believing it was working fine. I replaced it with an SB 16 WavEffects which, while it produces sound, is having …