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Playing Music in WinAmp while playing a video game with sound on an ISA sound card. Possible?

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First post, by DoomGuy II

Posted on 2015-03-15, 18:03

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I'm just curious to see if I can be able to play a video game with sound while having WinAmp play music in the background using an ISA sound card. I have a Sound Blaster 16 installed and obviously it can't be accomplished on that card. I also have a YMF-719 installed and while I can have one sound card play music and the other for game sound, I want to see if I can be able to do both on one card. Any thoughts?

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Reply 1 of 7, by jwt27

Posted on 2015-03-15, 18:07

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Any sound card can do this. Under Windows, the audio streams are mixed in software, unless one application takes exclusive control of the sound card.

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Posted on 2015-03-15, 18:16

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jwt27 wrote:
...unless one application takes exclusive control of the sound card.

I think that's the problem I'm trying to solve. Wasn't exactly thinking this through properly since I want to see if there is any way I can play a video game with sound while having WinAmp play music in the background using an ISA sound card.

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Reply 3 of 7, by kixs

Posted on 2015-03-15, 18:58

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if there is any way I can play a video game with sound while having WinAmp play music in the background using an ISA sound card.

Yes, you can.

Requests are also possible... /msg kixs

Reply 4 of 7, by jwt27

Posted on 2015-03-15, 19:13

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In Windows 7 there's a checkbox named "allow applications to take exclusive control of this device", under the sound card options. I believe earlier Windows have this option too, but I don't recall where it's located. I'd suggest looking around in the control panel.

Reply 5 of 7, by kixs

Posted on 2015-03-15, 19:25

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kixs wrote:
if there is any way I can play a video game with sound while having WinAmp play music in the background using an ISA sound card.

Yes, you can.

I guess you are trying this on Win95 or 98? You have to use SB16 drivers with DirectX support. You should be able to do what you want with it. Also use DirectX out in WinAMP.

Try this ones:
http://files.mpoli.fi/hardware/SOUND/CLABS/SBW95UP.EXE

Requests are also possible... /msg kixs