sadly none of those two settings work. all i have done is a fresh install of windows 98 and gone to the website of the compaq and downloaded the drivers. i just tried some vxd drivers and it gave me a bsod. so im lost for answers
Follow these steps TO THE LETTER and don't spell anything wrong.
1. Open a command prompt window.
2. Go to drive C:
3. Type the command "edit autoexec.bat" and press enter.
4. Find the SET BLASTER line and change it to this:
SET BLASTER A240 I11 D1 H3 T4
5. Save the file.
6. Restart.
7. Now post the same screenshot picture you did before.
I'm going to guess that you're not editing the same C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file every time and that the file you had open there was not the right one at all. Also, try to get a picture of the whole screen.
World's foremost 486 enjoyer.
No, you have to leave the Autoexec.bat empty.
Open the Commandline inside Win98 and type SET
you see a Blaster Line (A220 I5 D1........)
Start your setup.exe from the game and select soundblaster with adress 220 and irq5 dma1.
Do not use the real settings your soundcard has (irq 11.....)
Windows 98 has a virtual soundblaster emulation build in.
your game runs then only with sound inside win98, not in real dos mode, cause in real dos-mode there is no soundblaster emulation.
I thought his sound card was natively SB compatible...
World's foremost 486 enjoyer.
It's PCI - there's essentially no such thing as PCI + natively SB compatible (modulo some funky corner cases), due to different IO ranges and DMA channels. His card is an ESS Allegro, not an Audiodrive (which would be natively SB compatible, but those are ISA cards).
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Alas, I'm down to emulation.
Aha... Sorry, somehow I was under the impression that it was an ISA bus ESS card 😅
World's foremost 486 enjoyer.
wrote:It's PCI - there's essentially no such thing as PCI + natively SB compatible (modulo some funky corner cases), due to different IO ranges and DMA channels. His card is an ESS Allegro, not an Audiodrive (which would be natively SB compatible, but those are ISA cards).
There are three general workarounds for this:
SBLink or PC/PCI (5 pin header)
DDMA (chipset hardware support)
DSDMA (TSR)
I suspect the Allegro chipset can work with DDMA.
ESS Allegro under DOS - Compaq Evo N600C
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wrote:It's PCI - there's essentially no such thing as PCI + natively SB compatible (modulo some funky corner cases), due to different IO ranges and DMA channels. His card is an ESS Allegro, not an Audiodrive (which would be natively SB compatible, but those are ISA cards).
It still ought to work from an MS-DOS Prompt in Windows 98SE, though.
Its a Laptop... so after reading peoples comments where to go to from here? ive read through all the threads relating to people with similar issues one thread was a way of emulating vxd however all the download links are dead.
Run your Games in CommandPrompt inside Win98 and set the Games to Soundblaster Pro A220 I5 D1.
Most Games will work that way, but not all.
wrote:No, you have to leave the Autoexec.bat empty. […]
No, you have to leave the Autoexec.bat empty.
Open the Commandline inside Win98 and type SET
you see a Blaster Line (A220 I5 D1........)
Start your setup.exe from the game and select soundblaster with adress 220 and irq5 dma1.
Do not use the real settings your soundcard has (irq 11.....)
Windows 98 has a virtual soundblaster emulation build in.
your game runs then only with sound inside win98, not in real dos mode, cause in real dos-mode there is no soundblaster emulation.
Already tried this. All games can't detect a sound card.
wrote:Run your Games in CommandPrompt inside Win98 and set the Games to Soundblaster Pro A220 I5 D1.
Most Games will work that way, but not all.
Thanks, I will try this.
Sammy wrote on 2017-03-21, 11:22:Remove the blaster-line from Autoexec.bat […]
Remove the blaster-line from Autoexec.bat
Install WDM drivers for your Soundcard.
Open a Dosbox inside Win98 andy type set
It should display a Blaster line with A220 I5 D1.
Setup your game with these Resources.
(Win98 has Build-in SBPro support if you use WDM Drivers.)
This worked for me, thank you! Great tip with using the set command to get the settings. Here's how I tested it using Duke Nukem 3D shareware:
Open command line window, type 'set' and look for the "BLASTER" line: A220 I5 D1
Run setup.exe in duke3d folder, go to sound setup
Sound FX card -> Sound Blaster, Address = 220, Interrupt = 5, 8-Bit DMA = 1, 16-Bit DMA = 5
Music card -> General Midi, Midi Port = 330
I was pretty impressed how good the Midi music sounds!
