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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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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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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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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Re: Looking for a old game.

Posted on 2013-12-17, 18:15

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by King_Corduroy

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I think you completely are missing the point of what I meant. The guys who are going to release it on steam are 2 of the original developers who worked on it in 1998. So I am saying rather than buy it from a company who is obviously not making any games or really doing anything with the games they …

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Re: Looking for a old game.

Posted on 2013-12-17, 17:33

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by King_Corduroy

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Well I assume they will no longer be able to distribute it when (if my info is right) they make it available on steam. But my point was that they do not add anything to it, they had nothing to do with the making of the games and so they are making money off of something that they put zero work into. …

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Re: SoundBlaster Live! SB0200 issues.

Posted on 2013-12-17, 17:28

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by King_Corduroy

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No luck so far... I see that others are experiencing the same issues though so I don't think this is a quick fix.

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