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First post, by jholt0147

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I have a Dell Latitude CPi-a 366XT and it runs early windows 9x games well enough and dos games in windows run okay. the drivers I have for windows 98 say they are MagicMedia 256AV, NM2200 with sb emulation. I checked the box to enable it but it doesn't seem to enable sound under DOS is there something I am missing or is the sound blaster emulation only within windows? If I could the sound working under DOS this would be my goto retro box. Right now only use it for Win9x games and dos games inside windows

Reply 1 of 5, by ragefury32

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It doesn’t exist (at least not on the CPiA). AFAIK the Neomagic NM2200 is AC97 and only offers audio in a DOS box. If it’s in a clean DOS environment it would either not work, or only have very limited sound. Some vendors (like IBM) does some strange things to ensure pure DOS compatibility (like use 2 extra Crystal sound chips in the case of the Thinkpad 600E), others only support AC97+DOS box. If you plan to use it with, say, Wing Commander Privateer? Nope, not gonna happen. Buy a Latitude CPM/CPiD instead. Those are more DOS friendly machines.

I had the same machine a loooong time ago, and can confirm that there is no support for pure DOS. You might be able to get some aspects of it to work (like PCM/wav) but others (FM/wave table synthesis) will definitely not work.

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Reply 2 of 5, by SteveC

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Wow just did a quick Google on NeoMagic and they're still going - their website has news from mid 2020 (but a Flash component to their home page haha!)

I remember when every laptop at one point around the year 2000 had a Neomagic 128 video chip in it.

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Reply 4 of 5, by ragefury32

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SteveC wrote on 2021-01-24, 00:00:

Wow just did a quick Google on NeoMagic and they're still going - their website has news from mid 2020 (but a Flash component to their home page haha!)

I remember when every laptop at one point around the year 2000 had a Neomagic 128 video chip in it.

Yeah, I have Neomagic on my Thinkpad 240s. They aren’t that bad as a 2D chip, but it’s always a good idea to sanity check yourself before expecting too much out of them.

Well, Neomagic as a fabless semiconductor firm is long gone - it’s now more of an eCommerce platform site nowadays with a rather mediocre reputation and an OTC/pink sheet stock that is valued at fractions-of-penny and practically no trade volume.

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Reply 5 of 5, by SteveC

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ragefury32 wrote on 2021-01-24, 18:33:
SteveC wrote on 2021-01-24, 00:00:

Wow just did a quick Google on NeoMagic and they're still going - their website has news from mid 2020 (but a Flash component to their home page haha!)

I remember when every laptop at one point around the year 2000 had a Neomagic 128 video chip in it.

Well, Neomagic as a fabless semiconductor firm is long gone - it’s now more of an eCommerce platform site nowadays with a rather mediocre reputation and an OTC/pink sheet stock that is valued at fractions-of-penny and practically no trade volume.

Ah OK fair enough 😀

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