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First post, by matti157

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As per my title, I am using the Audigy SB0090 on a computer running Windows 98

In Windows playing a midi file on my Roland works fine

If I open a dos window instead the sounds are played from the card itself and not from the external device. I am trying with the dosmid player, but it does this with games as well.

Obviously I installed the DOS drivers for the audigy (which emulate the sound blaster 16)

Any ideas?

Last edited by matti157 on 2023-01-17, 11:02. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 3, by Joseph_Joestar

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I don't think this is possible in pure DOS on SBLive/Audigy cards.

Under Win9x you can of course select your preferred MIDI device using Control Panel > Multimedia > Audio > MIDI Music Playback, but nothing similar can be done in pure DOS.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 / Audigy2 ZS
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Reply 2 of 3, by Gmlb256

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It really depends on the sound card driver. By default, the selected MIDI device in Multimedia Control Panel won't emulate the MPU-401 interface for DOS applications within Windows.

For some reason people still doesn't get it. 😒

Reply 3 of 3, by matti157

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Too bad Creative doesn't allow it then
I guess there isn't some external tool to capture the direct flow to the board and redirect it to the joystick port