For USB sticks I've always used these: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/43605-maximus-decim-native-usb-drivers/ Also, can you isolate what is taking so long during the boot process? I recall having longer boot times with DHCP in a PC way back then that was connected directly to a PPPoE router, so try …

No point using a YMF719 + Sound Blaster 16 in the same PC. Yes the Yamaha has OPL and SB Pro emulation but the SB 16 has OPL as well, depending on which model you choose of course. The SB 16 will also work with almost, if not all games that support SB Pro even though people say that the SB 16 will …

Had a look at the link you provided and the card that guy has is a different card to mine. Mine sounds absolutely fine and not "muddy" as he describes it as. What really put me off was that the board as shown in the ad looks exactly like the board in that article. 16 bit sound only really affects …

Upon close inspection that card is the ESS968F, and according to this guy (http://goughlui.com/2012/11/29/tech-flashback-the-golden-age-of-sound-cards-and-creative-labs/), it is a bit rubbish :-( As far as clones go, how is the digital sound of that YMF719? Is is SBPro/16 compatible without a TSR? …

Hello everyone! I've got a nice old Pentium 133 that I've been playing with recently, but the problem is that the only sound card I had to put in it was my old SBLive! While things sound decent enough within Windows 98 (not taking OPL into account), under DOS the compatibility is a bit dodgy, and GM …

VPC is not a decent solution for DOS games. It's not designed for running DOS games and I dare say it never will be. Well, I also like to install several operating system, so that's why I bothered getting it in the first place (if it were just for games I'd rather have bought an old and cheap …

DosFreak: This page one of those I found, but nor Google web serach nor news group search provided me any information on how to configure it, not just to enable 16-bit sound but to change any of the other settings (8-bit DMA, IRQ and etc.). About DOSBox, well, I haven't tested it because I've just …

Enable the "compatibility mode" in the installation executable: theorically this sould fool the setup procedure and things should be OK, although this do not always work, like in Constructor (the Windows 95 version). Enable the compatiblity mode in the game executable as well, if the game itself …

Why do you want SB emulation for? ms-dos games? It would be better using DOSBox, then. I tried DOSBox once, but had speed problems with me... Maybe I'll try again, as it has been updated. IIRC, Windows 9x doesn't have sound emulation. up to your sound card drivers. Windows 98 SE and ME have sound …

I'm not very sure if this is the right place to post this but I found no other place to. I am using XP+VDMSound as my main system and I'm happy with that, but I also dualboot with Windows 98 to use some DOS-Win95 games that refuse to run in WinXP. In XP the emulation is done via VDMSound (and I put …

Have you already tried to update your bios... maybe the updated one will shou the "Legacy" thing. Some vendors hide some options they think that are dangerous... you can also try dumping your bios to a BIN file and use some bios editor to try to unhide them Also, maybe it is enabled by default in …

Uh, how is that an idiotic feature? It is reporting the correct OS version, that is what it's supposed to do. CKeene : I answered that way because it is weird for XP to be able to report the correct DOS version when the OS which version is requested is not even being executed (and may not even be …

ActiveDesktop is definately not dead. I tried once in Windows XP and it seems that ActiveDesktop is allways active and the "disable" option is just hidden (sometimes when it freezes and I "reset" it, it gives me that message abou ActiveDesktop being disabled, it seem that MS simply updated …

ME is not that bad, really. The main problem in ME is, besides System Restore, that it ships BETA versions of Internet Explorer (and, due to IE integration, a whole Beta shell) and Media Player. The MS-DOS hiding thing is annoying as well. But it have its pros: it ships the best memory manager in …

Sorry for the double post but I found no way to edit the previous. Windows 2000 (and probably XP) ships with SETVER.EXE utility that is able to fool applications to make them think they are in a specific DOS version, like the SETVER.EXE from DOS. Simply open config.nt (inside Windows\System32 in XP) …

Uh, how is that an idiotic feature? It is reporting the correct OS version, that is what it's supposed to do. Second of all that's not DOS, Windows XP is based on NT and does not have any trace of DOS at all. That is just a command shell. Calling it DOS 8.0 would be completely and totally wrong. XP …