Editted by eL_PuSHeR: MOVING TO PC

I deleted your other topic. It was the same. Please, avoid crossposting.

A few dispersed thoughts:

1) Your CPU may be TOO FAST for ms-dos in general.
2) Try entering bios and disabling plug&play aware OS. It will help assigning "regular" IRQs and Addresses to your sound card. I would choose IRQ5 instead of IRQ7 for SB16. Just a matter of preference than anything else, though. By the way, when setting plug&play aware OS to no (disabled), manually selecting an IRQ may be unnecesary. Just try it and notice what addresses are assigned. You may need also update ESCD on bios (Extended System Configuration Data). You just have to enable this option once.

Please, keep us posted on how it goes.

P.S: If you need to learn more about bios, I recommend you visiting the excellent Adrian Rojak Pot Bios Optimization Guide (or BOG)

Interesting... I've also got MS-DOS 6.22 installed on my new box, and it seems to work well. As a matter of fact, I can even run the 3dfx version of Tomb Raider 1, because I've found a Glide2x.ovl for my ancient Voodoo 2 that works with AMD chips. Pretty cool, actually! However, I've only been playing TR1 for a short while, and I can't get sound, because as far as I can see the Realtek ALC 850 AC'97 sound built-in into the chipset doesn't support DOS at all (but I would love to be proven wrong!).

On the bright side, I had no problem at all to get it to recognize the AOpen DVD-ROM player, and the NEC DVD-R writer, because DOS-drivers were available. (Oddly enough, I didn't even need two drivers, as the one driver supports both drives at once.)

The box is a 939 Newcastle AMD 64 3500+ plugged into an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum with the nForce 250 Gb chipset, 512 Mb dual channel DDR 400 RAM, an ATI 9600 Pro, and two IDE hard disks, an IBM 40 Gb and a Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 160 Gb. Plus the afore mentioned Voodoo 2, of course, and some other bits and bobs.

Any of you guys still doing anything like this? I've been thinking about putting together an old box with some old sound cards and 3dfx stuff. However wondering what i can do in a PCI only world and DOS.

I've only just recently discovered that Tomb Raider 1 can actually run in Dos 6.22 without windows or special drivers and run on a VooDoo1 card at 640x480. I think that is way cool. Does anything else do something like this?

Thanks.
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I have done quite some testing in this regard.

MS DOS 6.22 works just fine on both, a netbook and modern Phenom 2 system. Easiest is to create a bootable USB stick and put your games and drivers onto that.

Games work just fine, speed can be controlled through BIOS if you have a good board (e.g. on a Phenom 2 you can set the FSB to 100 and multi to 1 on some boards so you have a 100 MHz PC). Throttle, which disables L1 cache also works on modern machines.

Getting the PCI sound to work is the real challenge however. In a nutshell they don't implement the necessary bits in the BIOS anymore and it's simply a real pain. I couldn't get any Creative card to work full stop.

So in a nutshell, just stick to DOSBox if you have such a fast machine!

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

MS DOS 6.22 works just fine on both, a netbook and modern Phenom 2 system. Easiest is to create a bootable USB stick and put your games and drivers onto that.

I wasn't aware that was possible. Do you need special drivers?

Nope, just a BIOS that supports booting from USB and a tool to create the USB drive (its from HP).

Wow. That's a lot more convenient than setting up a bootable FAT16 partition, and I doubt the performance penalty would be of any concern with DOS games.

Yup FAT16, DOS 6.22, a few games and demos and off you go.

If there was any sound solution that would make the whole thing more interesting.

I have up on finding a PCI sound card that works on a modern AMD chipset mainboard...

Since P4 (even prescott) is not that far away from Athlon XP (barton), why not (like myself) go for Abit KT7A (AGP + 5 PCI + 1 ISA) and plug in any good old ISA sound card. DOS works flawlessly 😉