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problem solved! i installed win98se, then the vxd drivers from esstech website. it generated a .ini for my pc, which i hope will work for others. here is the link to dos only drivers for the es1980 maestro3 pci soundcard: http://www.filegunner.net/file-viewer.php?id=790994-ES1980D.ZIP important note …

it didn't work. here are the files i used if anyone is interested: http://filegunner.net/file-viewer.php?id=456931es1980.zip

thanks for reminding me. the info seems promising. i'll let you know if it works.

i'm trying to configure an ES1980 Maestro-3 pci sound card for use in DOS. forum search says ESS cards are SB compatible and easy to setup for DOS but this one is giving me problems. when i load ESSAUDIO.SYS in config.sys and ESSAUDIO.COM in autoexec.bat, it says i need to enable something in …

while we're at it, what does sdd, univbe, univesa and similar drivers really do? does it fool the software into thinking that i have such and such hardware; and translate an oddball video resolution into one that my actual hardware can use? i already have a vesa3 card (geforce2mx-200 64mb) but i …

results of MEM.EXE: Memory Type Total Used Free ---------------- -------- -------- -------- Conventional 640K 12K 628K Upper 128K 93K 35K Reserved 384K 384K 0K Extended (XMS) 64,384K 10,180K 54,204K ---------------- -------- -------- -------- Total memory 65,536K 10,669K 54,867K Total under 1 MB …

in reply to the original post, i believe axel216 is possible, as i have 628kb free after booting msdos 7.10. here are my configs: MSDOS.SYS ;SYS [Paths] WinDir=C:\WIN9X WinBootDir=C:\WIN9X HostWinBootDrv=C [Options] AutoScan=1 BootGUI=0 BootDelay=0 BootMulti=1 DisableLog=1 DoubleBuffer=0 Logo=0 …