It's a lot of fun seeing all the different setups. Bought this CRT many, many years ago but I can't find anymore, where I got it from or how much I paid for it. but it was probably quite cheap. Haven't used it once, but in theory, is this a good monitor or should I throw it out? https://www.cnet.com …

So, that program for the Solo didn't really work, but I discovered an interesting piece of information. Settlers 2 Gold has a setup program from Miles Audio (1995). It SPECIFICALLY lists the ESS688 as an option for digital sound! - under pure DOS auto detection for this card FAILS, as does the one …

ISA DMA is needed for the digital audio in real DOS (or in some cases emulated ISA DMA). TDMA and DDMA were some DMA modes used by the ESS Solo PCI card but I do not know how your ESS Audio Drive Plug and Play is connected in your Omnibook. Perhaps it's worth taking a look at the DOS utilitys for …

If this is your card then perhaps it dosn't fully work in DOS, the driver has Plug and Play and "no DMA" in it's name. Perhaps this was the driver package you got sort of working in Windows 98? Hewlett Packard (HP) ESS ES688 Plug and Play AudioDrive (no DMA) Free Driver Download http://www. …

Small correction: - when using Windows 98 with the correct driver, now iMuse (from Dark Forces setup) detects the card correctly during auto detect and I can play digitised sound, but the sounds don't come out very clean, there's always a bit of "stuttering" going on (in Windows the sound is very …

Salutations! I have been trying to fix a problem for the last days and good old search engines have been leading me to this lovely forum many times. Sadly, my exact problem was never discussed. I got an Omnibook 600ct here with a ESS688 and I'm trying to enable digital sound FX in MS-DOS 6.22. It …