5u3 wrote:You can increase your chances by running the CPU at the slowest possible clock (50 MHz is possible with both DX2 and DX4, boards without PCI bus sometimes go even slower). With disabled caches and depressed turbo button it should work.
Yes, I've read about the disabling cache method. Sadly, my current classic system which is a Pentium 133 (P54), with 40MB of EDO RAM, still can't detect my AWE64.
My contemporary Q9300 system can play the games under Dosbox perfectly, but I miss my LAPC-I's wonderful Music in pure DOS. Not only that, but playing the games in DOS really brings back the nostalgic classic gaming years back to life.
5u3 wrote:BTW, wasn't there some kind of patch to fix the SB detection problem in older Sierra games?
Yep, I've tried the GoSierra, SBSierra, and numerous other specific game patches from Sierra Help Files, but to no avail. And I've also used numerous slowdown utilities - Throttle for Dos, Slowdos, ICD, Moslo, etc... the "sweet spot" is hard to get and still unable to get Sierra use my SB. Perhaps, I should use my original Sound Blaster 1.5 card...hmmm.. I haven't tried that method yet...
Anyway, I saw a good 486 based system with the intel 486DX2-66 processor on ebay.. guess have to continue shopping..... and put maybe a 486SX processor to slow thing further...