First post, by ceztko
First, greetings to all, I'm a newcomer!
I recently upgrade my old computer I used to play Dos and W9X games. I was lucky in finding a very good motherboard, the asrock Alivedual-esata2 that supports newer cpus (Amd AM2/AM2+ socket), has 1xAGP and 1xPCI-E16 sockets and is compatible with W9X. I thought of having found the perfect legacy system, when I stumbled on the problem of not working sound with Dos games: the SB16 emulation of my SB Live! is not working. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of the hardware requirements of SB16 emulation: it is probable that sound cards that rely on DDMA for legacy audio won't work on my system.
At this point, I can't change most of the components of my computer looking for old motherboards that still support my SB Live! Are there PCI sound cards with good SB/SB16 emulation that don't need any special motherboard feature? I tryed looking old forum posts or looking at sites like this, but the situation is not clear to me as the recommendation is often "looks for a compatible motherboard". As said before, this is not an option for me.
Please consider that at this point, I just care about compatibility with Dos games, not audio quality.
Thanks a lot,
Francesco