When you say that you plugged in the "digital cable," did you mean one of these, that connects the back of the CD-ROM drive to an internal port on the Sound Blaster?

If not, then that could be what you're missing.

I thought that Win9x also needed this cable, so you would not get CD audio there without it?

Do you have the MIXERSET program (installed as part of the Sound Blaster DOS software)? Try checking if CD Audio may be muted there.

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When you say that you plugged in the "digital cable," did you mean one of these, that connects the back of the CD-ROM drive to an internal port on the Sound Blaster?

If not, then that could be what you're missing.

yeah at first, i didnt have it and it corrected the audio tracks missing in windows.
still i didnt had any sound, so i went in the win95 mixer and the volume was muted.
right after, the music was back in windows BUT
i thought it would also correct the audio in Dos, but to my surprise it didnt ...

thats why ive come to ask help here 😀
is there a possible way that its also muted in dos ? like it was in windows 95

escarioth wrote:

is there a possible way that its also muted in dos ? like it was in windows 95

Yup. Check the sliders and output tickboxes in MIXERSET under DOS.

dr_st wrote:

I thought that Win9x also needed this cable[..]

Perhaps it does. I can't remember details of Win9x anymore.
XP at least has an option to change between digital/analogue playback.

If digital playback is enabled, XP will do the playback itself via the data cable.
Just like when you're attempting to rip a CD-ROM.

Some older Windows games using MCI commands aren't impressed by this method, though.
They will still insist to control the first CD-ROM drive directly (stop/play/select track/time index).

In this case, the audio is played by the drive itself and an audio cable is needed (analogue or S/PDIF).

gdjacobs wrote:

escarioth wrote:

is there a possible way that its also muted in dos ? like it was in windows 95

Yup. Check the sliders and output tickboxes in MIXERSET under DOS.

hmm.. didnt have this one installed.
so i went and install it from the SBdriver utilities i found around Vogons.

every sliders were at 100%....wich i found weird.
went back to try a game in dos that need a audio track.
everything works.....what the hell. something was probably set wrong and just
getting into mixerset corrected the prob.

Gdjacobs thanks ! 😁

Wrong forum. This forum is for DOS games on newer systems. You should ask questions involving old hardware in Marvin. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

collector wrote:

Wrong forum. This forum is for DOS games on newer systems. You should ask questions involving old hardware in Marvin. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

ah crap i did the exact same mistake like last time 😖
so sorry, ill take note of this

collector wrote:

Wrong forum. This forum is for DOS games on newer systems. You should ask questions involving old hardware in Marvin. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

While I can understand the "ask questions involving old hardware in Marvin", the claim "this forum is for DOS games on newer systems" is based on what, exactly?

The forum description says "Getting old DOS games working". No mention of new systems, old systems...

The list of topics in the forum seems to be a mix between general discussions of old games, general discussions of DOS, as well as also getting DOS games to run on various systems, old and new.

Maybe the forum system needs more clarifications / another overhaul?

I think this is part of being inducted into Vogons lore.

VOGONS stands for Very Old Games On New Systems so by default discussions should be geared towards that.

DosFreak wrote:

VOGONS stands for Very Old Games On New Systems so by default discussions should be geared towards that.

You know that and I know that, but how should the average newbie know that? Is the meaning of the acronym explained anywhere on the main page? Or even the FAQ? 😕

dr_st wrote:

DosFreak wrote:

VOGONS stands for Very Old Games On New Systems so by default discussions should be geared towards that.

You know that and I know that, but how should the average newbie know that? Is the meaning of the acronym explained anywhere on the main page? Or even the FAQ? 😕

I just noticed that it's in the logo above, but it's barely legible. I thought that it was simply boxes until just now. In fact, I've visited VOGONs now and then for probably the past 15 years and never knew what it stood for, even though I recognize that as the long-time logo.

I agree that this site is confusing, especially for newbies. There are so many different subforums, many that seem to overlap and some with oddball names (like "Marvin"). It's as if the site is intentionally being highly technical and using its own lingo to scare newbies away. It is sort of nice that most here are geeks and very knowledgeable, but much of the point is lost if we have few people to help.

I guess you have never read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Who needs to read it when there's movies? 😀

I still need to listen to the original. I'm a fraud. 🙁

Moved.