Well, we thought it would never happen - Ken Silverman had abandoned DOS game development, he said. But then he bought a computer pre-installed with Windows XP , and discovered that, surprise, surprise, VESA doesn't work. So he has released a fix. Here's the problem with VESA 2.0 running under …

Well, we thought it would never happen - Ken Silverman had abandoned DOS game development, he said. But then he bought a computer pre-installed with Windows XP , and discovered that, surprise, surprise, VESA doesn't work. So he has released a fix. Here's the problem with VESA 2.0 running under …

There may well be a PCI version of the AWE64, but both the original and the "Gold" versions were ISA bus. For compatibility, any modern Creative SoundBlaster is worth investigating if you're running a Windows NT-based OS. ISA cards are really good if you're going to use DOS.