First post, by mattlacey
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I recently got my hands on an IBM PC 340, which is a P100 with 16MB of RAM and an onboard S3 chipset. I've added an AWE 32, one of the value models (CT3910). I can only get music in DOOM if I run diagnose.exe first with the /DPMU switch (http://www.os2museum.com/wp/sound-blaster-dia … sabled-mpu-401/)... even if I then run it and save the settings I won't have music after rebooting until I run it again. It's not a PnP card, and I've set the various addresses etc. to 'Unavailable' in the BIOS. I *think* this is correct, the BIOS shows those reserved by the system and the rest you can toggle between Available and Unavailable, so I'm assuming "Unavailable" means count those as used because I've configured hardware as such.
Any ideas on what I need to do to avoid having to run diagnose on every startup?
Also, for the life of me I can not get any audio apart from PC Speaker for Commander Keen 4 — it detects the Soundblaster but I just get nothing out... any clues? Weirdly it shows the available memory has a little over half of what 'mem' reports.
On an unrelated note is there a good (cheap) source for 3dfx-style passthrough cables? I've got an Orchid Righteous 3D just begging to be connected 😀 Damn it feels good to have a DOS PC again.