I'm not sure about DOS 5.x, but I haven't experienced problems with running SBLive 1024 under MSDOS 6 nor DRDOS (the second one has always been my fav ;) And partially answering my own question: I replaced default.ecw with 8MB soundfont. GM sounds better now, but it's still far from perfect. Have to …

I know it's slightly OT, but thing bothers me since I set dual-boot with old good 6.22 again. Is there any way to emulate better GM sound on SBLive ? It sounds like utter crap in DOS games... I regret getting rid of perfect DOS souncard which GUS made. There is fine Yamaha tool for S-YXG emulation, …