L4MD4 wrote on 2025-08-07, 18:16:

3lectr1c wrote on 2025-08-05, 03:50:

Trying to run it under DOS mode in Windows 98.

I'm not sure what you mean, by "DOS mode". If you mean anything other than booting straight to DOS (before Windows loads) don't do that.

If you are trying to accomplish this sort of thing from a Win98 dos prompt, there is VDMSound for Win9x; but it is buggy and not for slower machines.

Is there no way to make this work under DOS mode? Being forced to run pure DOS would be an enormous pain.

What's the verdict for the best, tiny laptop that can run SBEMU successfully (including the new soundfont support) these days?

I've been looking through my box of old laptops and I've found an old Dell Latitude X1 - a 2005-ish sub-notebook; slightly larger than an EEE PC 900, but still functional and the battery holds (some!) charge. It's a 1.1GHz Pentium-M on Intel 915 chipset.