derSammler wrote: ...just try other ones until you find one that works. This did the trick. I bought a case-mounted serial port/cable and it seems to just work fine. 😀

I've recently assembled a 486 DOS gaming computer, and almost everything is now up and running. The only problem I'm now having is that I can't get any mouse to work with it. I'd initially tried using it with an old PS/2 mouse plugged into the COM1 port by way of a serial-to-PS/2 adapter. When this …

A quick update: I managed to get past the divide-by-zero error. As I should have guessed, it was a speed problem; as long as I use Throttle before starting Windows, the error won't come up, and so I'm able to install the SB Pro driver linked above successfully. ...the bad news is that there's still …

I've tried selecting the Sound Baster options in Windows' driver list, and installing from the Windows disks as instructed. The problem is that I can try every IRQ/DMA channel combination and none of them will come up as valid. I'll see if I can find some Sound Blaster Pro drivers that work (it …

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this so please let me know if I should move it elsewhere. I'm continuing my efforts to get MS-DOS and Win3.1x working on a desktop computer from the early-mid 2000s I had around, and I would like to know if there exist any audio drivers compatible with …

derSammler wrote: This is a P4, why not just use DOSBox to play the game? Heh of course that's an option, but it's always more fun trying to do this the hard way. 😜

If I'm reading this right, it's an Intel 915G/P/GV of some sort. I may be able to get more specific than that if you need.

I use HIMEMX and JEMM386 (with the NOVME flag) to run Privateer. Works like a charm. Do you use XMSDSK with that, or the /MAX flag with HIMEMX? I'm working through this option now but I'm still getting the same scraping sound effects. Could it be something to do with the sound card? Or am I just …

I reverted to using EMM386 with 4MB of EMS, which I had tried before a few times but never with 3/4 of my RAM removed. I hoped this would make the difference, but of course it doesn't, irrespective of whether or not I use XMSDSK. (On an unrelated note, Rogue of all things is suddenly freezing every …

I tried CPUCACHE and SetMul, though both crashed when I tried using them with EMM386 so I've switched to JEMMEX for the time being. I've also physically removed three of the RAM sticks in the computer, which brings the overall RAM down do a slightly more manageable 1 GB. This at least keeps XMSDSK …

Are there any tools you recommend for doing that? Thus far, I've been able to limit available EMS using EMM386 (I've tried going as low as 4096, though 16000/16384 are the most commonly suggested) and allocate the remaining XMS to a ramdisk using XMSDSK. Neither has been able to fix the sound …

I've been spending the last couple of weeks installing MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 onto an early-2000s desktop computer I had around. For the most part I have it in good working order, but the infamous Privateer static-ey sound issue has been dogging me without any apparent resolution. I have tried the …

Limiting the scope of my question a bit, based on a little more experimentation: is 2.5+ GB of memory simply too large for some of these DOS games to run properly? And if so, is there anyway to limit or "hide" the memory from DOS so I don't have this problem?

I've been spending the last couple of weeks installing MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 onto an early-2000s desktop computer I had around. For the most part I have it in good working order, but the infamous Privateer static-ey sound issue has been dogging me without any apparent resolution. I have tried the …