First post, by truemaster
hello im new here. i just find and old pc the specks are
pentium 3 800mhz
ram 384mhz
mobo compaq spare 203966
soundblaster live the chip on the board says ct 4830
one dvd rom
one floppy drive
20gb hdd
and guess what. i format it with win98se for old dos gaming the cd is bootable so no need for boot disk
fist thing i install the unofficial sp3 and the usb drivers my win98se rig can now read usb flash devices 😊
i belive i found and install all the drivers (much difficult to find drivers for this board)i have only one unkknow device i bet is the onboard sound.
now when play dos games in windows everything about audio is fine. the live sb have good sb16 emulation. if i exit to ms-dos mode the game cant find soundblaster. my temporaly solution for games that dont work ok in windows is dosbox (dosbox doing ok even on win98se really great program) but then i aquire this pc the only thing in my mind was to play everything without the dosbox emulation. so the question is what can i do for the soundblaster to work in only dos enviroment?? i dont want to try things on my own like modify anything in confiq or autoexec the thing i know for sure is you screw with win98 or any other dosbased os. its gona screw you for hours in return. thanks for your time