Yamaha DS-XG PCI sound card DOS problems

Posted on 2014-03-22, 01:40

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by King_Corduroy

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Hello all, I recently got my hands on a Yamaha DS-XG PCI sound card but I'm having issues getting it to work with DOS games. I know it is supposed to be sound blaster compatible and in fact it detects as a Sound blaster Pro 2.0 and works fine in Warcraft 2. I just can't get games like The Dig or …

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-17, 17:59

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by King_Corduroy

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Yeah they are certainly nice looking computers albeit a bit finicky at times, it's a shame Packard Bell pulled out of the US market my nostalgia for the brand name would have probably made me buy a new computer with their logo on it. :P I have no idea why I can't get that card to work but rather …

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-16, 18:43

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by King_Corduroy

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lol I grew up using this exact machine, unfortunately my original one was tossed in a moment of stupidity :( . Earth 2140 ran great, besides I already got it to run earlier with the original sound card. (although it was not the proper drivers so the sound was very very VERY quiet.) Ok well I will …

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Versions of the SB PCI 128

Posted on 2014-03-16, 17:45

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by King_Corduroy

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Does anyone know what all the different version numbers of the Sound Blaster PCI 128 mean or which version is the retail version? I know with the Sound Blaster Live! cards there are tons of OEM versions and only two or three real full versions so I assume the PCI cards work the same.

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-16, 17:34

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by King_Corduroy

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Can a sound blaster 16 produce the nice sound quality for later games though? I also want to play games like Earth 2140 on here and Close Combat 1 & 2. Earth 2140 uses CD Audio. Also does the Sound Blaster 16 have all those annoying OEM versions? If so which is the retail version. I have Windows …

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Re: DOS CDROM drivers

Posted on 2014-03-15, 22:53

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by King_Corduroy

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🤣 Well I seemed to have fucked things up. Somehow my BIOS is not detecting the CDROM drive after installing Win95 from CDROM. 🤣 What to do now... 🙁 NVM I fixed it. I put it as slave to the HDD and put it on that ribbon. It would seem something is wrong with the other ide ribbon. 😁

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-15, 21:29

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by King_Corduroy

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So what would you recommend? A Sound Blaster 16 or something?

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Re: Earth 2140 runs choppy in DOSbox

Posted on 2014-03-15, 19:47

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by King_Corduroy

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Probably, it's an old one though.

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Re: DOS CDROM drivers

Posted on 2014-03-15, 19:45

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by King_Corduroy

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Oh my gosh! Thank you dude! It works flawlessly! :DDD Thank you again! You really helped me out here. But what does all the options mean in the autoexec? (/m:15 /e /s /v)

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Re: Earth 2140 runs choppy in DOSbox

Posted on 2014-03-15, 17:16

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by King_Corduroy

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No the sound card is completely useless it's the SB0200 model and it only works under windows. 🙁

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-15, 17:13

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by King_Corduroy

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Yeah which means it should work in the Packard though since it is a Pentium 1 133mhz with 16mb ram, a proper vintage machine. Which is why I said that I'm thinking that the OEM Sound card may simply not support SB16 emulation under DOS. Also he had put a different board in yes, it was some form of …

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Re: DOS CDROM drivers

Posted on 2014-03-15, 16:59

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by King_Corduroy

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Yeah the CD-ROM is detected by BIOS the original 8x drive that came with this machine was shot so I replaced it with a 48x and bios detects it and it knows what to do with it in windows. However when I boot into DOS I cannot use the drive and MSCDEX is not working properly, so that means it's simply …

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Re: Packard Bell Sound Card.

Posted on 2014-03-15, 06:09

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by King_Corduroy

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Thanks for the help man. 😁 I'll keep looking but since I have the Masterdisk I should be able to get the CD to recognize under dos, then I can return it to factory defaults. I'm just having a heck of a time getting DOS to see the drive. 🤣

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DOS CDROM drivers

Posted on 2014-03-15, 06:02

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by King_Corduroy

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Hello all, I seem to be having some trouble getting DOS to recognize the CD-ROM in my Packard Bell. I am using some generic ATAPI dos drivers I found figuring it should work seeing as that's what windows looks at it as. So when I installed these drivers they went to the folder "C:\CDROM\" and it …

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Re: Packard Bell Sound Card.

Posted on 2014-03-14, 22:10

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by King_Corduroy

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Oh lol Yeah it says AD not AS, that was a typo. If you look at the shots once I fix them you'll see. And thanks! I just recently found a matching keyboard for 2$ at goodwill, I just walked up to the pile of electronics and there it was on top. lol I'm still looking for a monitor since the LCD I have …

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Packard Bell Sound Card.

Posted on 2014-03-14, 21:24

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by King_Corduroy

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Hi all, I have recently acquired a Packard Bell Platinum 55 computer and Nostalgia readings are off the scales captain! We have never encountered a phenomenon of this kind before! :P Seriously though, I have since bringing it home installed Windows 98 SE on it but for the life of me I cannot get the …

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2014-03-14, 18:05

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by King_Corduroy

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Yeah I have now bought a Packard Bell Platinum 55 which is in mint condition. I was using it simply to transfer files to my PCjr by shoving the 5.25" drive in it but now I'm trying to get it to work properly so I stuck in that Sound BLaster Live! OEM card and it works great under windows, but once …

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Re: Sound blaster Live Dos Sound Emulation

Posted on 2013-12-18, 05:31

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by King_Corduroy

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I'm using a Sony Viao PCX-RX860 so no idea what the board is but it is a 1.6ghz p4 with 512mb ram and 3 or 4 pci slots. I was basically asking the same thing in the windows section and eventually someone said the quickest fix is to toss the SB live card and go buy a SB PCI 128. So eventually that is …

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Re: Earth 2140 runs choppy in DOSbox

Posted on 2013-12-18, 00:36

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by King_Corduroy

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It is indeed the Win95/Dos Version, infact I am pretty sure that is the only version there ever was. I am having problems with a Soundblaster Live! card so DOS games will not detect the sound card and will not run (No problems with games designed to run in windows). While eventually I will replace …

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Re: SoundBlaster Live! SB0200 issues.

Posted on 2013-12-17, 19:28

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by King_Corduroy

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Darn, I just bought this too. :'( (Cost 5 bucks :P So not a huge deal at least it sounds decent for windows games.) Oh well live and learn right? Now I know what to look for, thanks guys. I will probably buy the PCI 128 since thats what my father used on our first PC (Which I threw away in a moment …

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