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First post, by akira07

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i am currently playing Theme Hospital ...and my game run without sound.

i am using a ess1988 allegro sound card on my laptop(its build in .. not that i want) .... and i downloaded the latest driver but there seems to be no dos support. i checked with tech sound at ess and they confirm with me that there is no dos support for that card. 🙁

when i run the setsound.bat file for theme hospital, i cannot find my sound card in the list of available soundcards for that game, and i also tried choosing almost all possible sound cards to no avail.

therefore i am wondering is there any drivers/programs/application that can emulator a SB16 ? or is there anyway i can get the sound card to be recognised by those dos programs.

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- OS : WinME
- Sound Card : ESS1988 Allegro

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Reply 7 of 14, by Snover

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Unfortunately, I can't help you. You're either going to have to buy it from eBay or another source or go with your crappy non-working DOS version. Although, now that I think about it, you may try installing the Theme Hospital patch, which includes a Windows exe.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 8 of 14, by akira07

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well ... still gotta thank you for all ur help.

lastly ... do u happened to know where can i find the patch ? .. if not then its ok ... thanx anyway

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Reply 9 of 14, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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akira07 wrote:

i am using a ess1988 allegro sound card on my laptop... and i downloaded the latest driver but there seems to be no dos support. i checked with tech sound at ess and they confirm with me that there is no dos support for that card.

I find that a little hard to believe. More likely is that they simply didn't want to get involved in a support issue for DOS/WinME. I found a set of drivers that say it has DOS support for ESS1988 but I need to go download and check them, 1st (_very_ slow site). Will get back with you.

Reply 11 of 14, by akira07

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i search google and i found some site on it ...

but i am still wondering how to get the dos driver of essaudio.com to work ... its seems to be a dos driver for ess card but i am not too sure whether it will work for mine ...

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Reply 12 of 14, by akira07

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Snover wrote:

Search Google, for God's sake! Needing some help is one thing, but asking someone else to do all the legwork is annoying!

i am sorry if this bothered you ... i am just asking if u got any idea where can i find it. if u tell me u dun, i will do the search. i am definitely not asking u to do the search for me ...

so sorry for the miscommunication. but thanx for the help anyway.

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Reply 13 of 14, by akira07

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Nicht Sehr Gut wrote:

I find that a little hard to believe. More likely is that they simply didn't want to get involved in a support issue for DOS/WinME. I found a set of drivers that say it has DOS support for ESS1988 but I need to go download and check them, 1st (_very_ slow site). Will get back with you.

thanx for the help ... i appreciate it very much but u can simply just give me the link and i try out the rest myself. i myself found so site which offers essaudio.com but as i mentioned above i not too sure if it is compatiable with my sound card.

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Reply 14 of 14, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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akira07 wrote:

just give me the link and i try out the rest myself.

http://www.crete.com.tw/support_main.htm and searched for ESS1988.

NOTE: this is a 15 Megabyte download. I've got the the DOS-only drivers here (with slight corrections to the instructions).

BTW, have you already patched your ME for DOS access? If you haven't, you'll probably need to...

Check http://members.aol.com/axcel216/ under "WinME tricks", look for "EDIT BOOT FILES". You'll find a lot of useful info and links to the 3 un-official patches for restoring DOS access.

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