First post, by Tek
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First post!
Hi guys, I've lurked and searched on here for months whilst I've been assembling a decent DOS / Win98SE machine. I've settled on a PII 400, 512mb, SBLive! and RIVA TNT setup. I've gotten the hardware all working in harmony and today marks my first day as a retro PC gamer 😀
Hankering for a bit of DOS action, I started by trying to play Sam & Max Hit the Road. Okay, so I load up the game in Windows, I can hear the music but when I start a new game, I get a message about sound cards not being detected, then a mute a game. Back at the main menu I can choose to select a sound board, the screen flickers for a bit and returns me to the main menu. So I figure this is a job for "pure" DOS.
I fire up DOS and the CD-ROM drive isn't recognised. So I do a few searches here and on Google and before long I realise my computer has no DOS drivers. No MSCDEX, no MOUSE.COM, nothing. Autoexec.bat is completely blank. I created a boot disk from Control Panel but short of that I'm not certain what to do. Is there a de-facto method to getting DOS support in Win98? My plan was to create a desktop shortcut with extra information (CD, Mouse etc) but there's so much conflicting information out there (Oak vs others).
Any help you guys can be for a first-time poster would be really appreciated. As I said I've searched, but I'm yet to find a sticky or a one-stop solution to getting full DOS support on 98SE. Thanks guys.
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