First post, by JustRob
So I picked up this old PC and installed Windows 98 SE on it, wanting to use it for mainly dos games. But I'm a total newb and maybe I made a wrong decision.
This old thing has integrated VIA AC'97 sound, which I found doesn't work well for most dos games.
However, I did get it to work with some. Jazz Jackrabbit and Extreme Pinball both work when I select any of the Sound Blaster options in the Setup program, and Rayman 1 works if I use the auto detect thing it has built into the game itself, it then selects the Sound Blaster Pro sound card.
Then there's Doom. If I run the setup program and select Sound Blaster for the music, I still won't hear any music. But, sound effects work fine.
Skunny (I dunno if anyone even knows that game) refuses to play music even if I select Sound Blaster in the setup program, but like Doom, it plays sound effects fine.
Then there's Skyroads, which doesn't come with a setup file whatsoever, and doesn't offer any in-game configuration options. Once again, no music, but sound works fine.
So it seems that for most games music is the problem while sound effects generally always work.
I guess my question is, is there any way to get music to work across the board for all of my dos games? It seems really finnicky.
