Machine will be mostly used for XP

Use software solutions or USB.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Machine will be mostly used for XP

Use software solutions or USB.

Hello and thanks for the replay, but can You be a little bit more specific? If You mean DOS emulation by that from XP, then it's no fun and looses meaning from having this hardware setup.
I'm dedicated to go as hardware as possible for this to accomplish.

Btw motherboard that I have is Intel D865GLC, with 865 chipset and ICH5.

Ditch the Audigy2 and get a SB Live or Audigy1. The 2 dropped DOS support. And ditch XP for 98 if you want DOS games.

The_ED wrote:

I would want to try this combo: Audigy 2 ZS (PCI) + Game port/Midi bracket + CHill & Phill adapter + DreamBlaster S2, so the question is - Would it work? Maybe there's someone in this forums, that have tried the same or similar configuration under the real DOS conditions.

ATM i have shady CT4810 PCI sound card, that does work in DOS with clunky SB16 emulation and kinda good GM quality, but after hearing some DreamBlaster MIDI samples I'm all over it.

The Audigy 2 ZS and the CT4810 can only use their own MIDI synth under DOS, they doesn't work with external MIDI devices.

doaks80 wrote:

Ditch the Audigy2 and get a SB Live or Audigy1. The 2 dropped DOS support. And ditch XP for 98 if you want DOS games.

The Audigy 2 ZS works fine under DOS with the Audigy DOS driver and an utility that maps the audio correctly.

Kamerat wrote:

The Audigy 2 ZS works fine under DOS with the Audigy DOS driver and an utility that maps the audio correctly.

Thanks dude, that's more optimistic replay, that I like to see. 😀 I did some searching about 2 ZS and DOS thing before starting post and when I found modded Audigy12 drivers I saw a light at the end of the tunnel. My main concern was more about 2 ZS and MPU-401. Reading Audigy1 manual, it states something about Gameport/MIDI MPU-401 emulation, thats why I had hope that creative had left some of its support on 2 ZS as well.