Re: Sound Blaster pci 128 Ensoniq Chip issues in DOS

Posted on 2014-02-10, 11:39

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by Zaxxon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@maximus:thanks i'll try those asap @jorpho:yes,its on autoexec,its LH mscdex.exe /D:MSCD001,and indeed it works. i have two lines,because,for some reasons,the windows's cd driver recognize the first line,while if i boot in pure dos,only the second line is used to detect the cd rom driver.

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Re: Sound Blaster pci 128 Ensoniq Chip issues in DOS

Posted on 2014-02-09, 22:03

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by Zaxxon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i got the drivers from an internet site which hosted lots of old drivers,can't remember the name though.the config and autoexec are the following: autoexec.bat SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6 SET SBPCI=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\AUDIO\DOSDRV mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi) …

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Sound Blaster pci 128 Ensoniq Chip issues in DOS

Posted on 2014-02-06, 16:12

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by Zaxxon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i recently dug up my old pentium celeron with a sound blaster pci 128,detected as a model with an ensoniq chip.i installed it fine on windows 98,and all windows games have sound and music correctly,but many many dos games refuse to have sound or music.when i go to the setup for those games,even if i …

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Re: Any alternative to vdmsound?

Posted on 2014-02-06, 14:19

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by Zaxxon

in Windows

in Windows

It's a forum here on Vogons... As for how much a SB 16 costs, why don't you check your ebay or whatever other means you have to get one... i know where to look for,problem is that i don't know how much its real value would be nowadays..keep in mind i checked all the second hand pc markets here in …

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Re: Any alternative to vdmsound?

Posted on 2014-02-05, 14:18

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by Zaxxon

in Windows

in Windows

DosFreak wrote: Very Old Games on New Systems but I did suggest geting a sound card that works for your current system. how expensive are genuine sound blaster 16 nowadays? or post in Marvin to solve your hardware problem. what\who is marvin? 😀

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Re: Any alternative to vdmsound?

Posted on 2014-02-05, 11:29

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by Zaxxon

in Windows

in Windows

Either get a better sound card or use dosbox on a modern pc. for whose who may concern,unfortunately i'm unemployed at the moment, i had to sell my quad core for money,and all i have to pass some time while looking for job is that old relic there.beside,wasn't this a forum about old games\system? …

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Re: Any alternative to vdmsound?

Posted on 2014-02-04, 23:02

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by Zaxxon

in Windows

in Windows

already tried that..super-duper slow on win 98 :\

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Any alternative to vdmsound?

Posted on 2014-02-04, 22:09

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by Zaxxon

in Windows

in Windows

As crazy as it sounds,i actually need vdmsound on windows 98,since my sound card has troubles with some dos games(either if they're run in windows or pure dos).i searched around here and i found an alpha version by Chris chua,i managed to install it fine on windows,98 but it just doesn't work,all …

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Re: Death rally issues on real dos(and possibly windows)

Posted on 2014-02-04, 11:08

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

i know that port,but if i wanted to play it on amodern pc,i would have used dosbox.beside i tried that version on my win 98 machine and is super slow.they probably added some stuff to the main code

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Death rally issues on real dos(and possibly windows)

Posted on 2014-02-03, 22:26

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

it was probably been asked to death here,judging on how many posts i found..but none of them has a solution(to my issue anyway).basically,i'm trying deat hrally on a 1999 pentium celeron machine with win 98 on it.if i try to run the game on windows,it will complain about not having a compatible svga …

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Re: Unable to start or join lan games in same room with same connection

Posted on 2014-02-02, 19:41

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by Zaxxon

in Windows

in Windows

yeah the internet connection works perfectly,no problem at all,navigating and downloading fine.i wanted to try that lan cables thing on two pc as well,but then i thought that it was strange that it used to work perfectly some weeks ago with a pc connected to the wifi and my pc to the lan cable. …

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Unable to start or join lan games in same room with same connection

Posted on 2014-02-02, 00:23

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by Zaxxon

in Windows

in Windows

i have a windows 7 x86 dual core duo machine,my friend has an asus laptopt with winodws 8.we used to play lan multiplayer old games here in my house,with same connection(me using the lan cable,he using the wifi)for games such as half life,aliens vs predator 2 etc.strangely though,lately everytimes …

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Re: help with dos games crashing with "general fault protection" error

Posted on 2014-02-02, 00:18

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

thanks i'll give it a try

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Re: help with dos games crashing with "general fault protection" error

Posted on 2014-01-29, 14:14

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

back in 1995,when i had my old sound blaster 16,all the games with midi songs i played were fantastic,not even dosbox can replicate the goodness of that sound card,especially in games like duke nukem,fatal racing etc Yes, the MIDI on the PCI Sound Blaster cards is rather poor for DOS games ( …

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Re: help with dos games crashing with "general fault protection" error

Posted on 2014-01-28, 23:04

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

jwt27 wrote: Zaxxon wrote: ...but the audio quality is abysmal. So it's a Creative after all? 🤣 back in 1995,when i had my old sound blaster 16,all the games with midi songs i played were fantastic,not even dosbox can replicate the goodness of that sound card,especially in games like duke nukem, …

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Re: help with dos games crashing with "general fault protection" error

Posted on 2014-01-27, 16:52

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

yeah,and not even a genuine one,is sort of a sond blaster rip off.to be exact its a sound blaster pci 128,but the chipset is not a "true" sb one This doesn't really make sense. If you want to put it that way, you might as well say that Creative never released a PCI sound blaster card. Creative SB …

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Re: help with dos games crashing with "general fault protection" error

Posted on 2014-01-26, 21:38

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

A PCI based Creative card? yeah,and not even a genuine one,is sort of a sond blaster rip off.to be exact its a sound blaster pci 128,but the chipset is not a "true" sb one

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help with dos games crashing with "general fault protection" error

Posted on 2014-01-26, 18:59

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

edited for the most sensible amongst you,before seeing two replies stating THE SAME EXACT THING i'm trying to run two games,namely Inferno(1995) the original floppy version.i tried it with both dosbox and a real 1999-ish pc with a boot disk into DOS.yet i get the general fault protection error.i …

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help with dos games crashing with "general fault protection" error

Posted on 2014-01-26, 12:18

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

i'm trying to run two games,namely Inferno(1995) and Apache longbow (1995).apache is a rip version,inferno is the original floppy version.i tried them with both dosbox and a real 1999-ish pc with a boot disk into DOS.in both of them i get the general fault protection error.i tried them in dosbox and …

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Re: Are there any generic VESA drivers for dos/win xp?

Posted on 2013-11-27, 21:00

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by Zaxxon

in DOS

in DOS

yep they're about 4-5 euros so its more affordable.the thing i'm interested right now is another one though...is to make the damn glide drivers recognized by window xp..some games that are 3dfx only,like the first turok and also quake 2,recognizes the glide perfectly.other games that SUPPORTS glide …

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