First post, by Almoststew1990
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I have a Soundblaster Live that does SB sound effects pretty well but poor FM synthesis
I have a C-Media 8738 card that does FM synthesis pretty well (I really like its tone) but no SB sound effects.
Combined they would make quite a nice PCI solution!
....so....
However I am failing at the first hurdle. I install the 8738 drivers. This puts a few lines into autoexec.bat. This is straight after the lines setting the keyboard language to UK, otherwise I haven't added anything to it (it's a fresh DOS 6.22 install).
C:\PCIAUD\SETAUDIO /IO240
SET BLASTER=A240 I5 D3 H7 T2
It originally had more typical A I D H T values but I changed the autoexec to the values above. I want the SBL to have the default values so games that don't let you manually configure their sound options use the SB live.
The idea is (was) I would then run Liveinit.bat which would overwrite the "current" sound settings with the proper A220 I7 D1 H5 T6, but, on another Windows PC I edited the Liveinit.cfg to use 398 as its FM port!
Would this even work?
This was just meant to be a bit of fun as I have several proper ISA cards I can use. This is on a 440BX board.