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No 9x? I want to make double sure!

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First post, by Guest

Posted on 2004-01-21, 11:04

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I've been directed to VDMSound by a friend, who suggests that it'll make the sound during a dosbox game that I play better.

I use Dosbox on a PC with 98 (at home). VDMSound has several references to 9x support, though the 'no garuantees' clause is everywhere to be found.

Questions:
1) Is it possible and 'safe' to run VDMS and DosBox on a 98 computer with a decent degree of success?
2) How do I do it?
2.1) Do I download VCRedist, or 2.1.0 ?
2.2) Do I then (after rebooting) load vdmsound[1]..win9x.alpha1.zip?

3) Is this the latest stuff available? (Especially the alpha...)

4) I am currently on a NT4 machine so I dare not install 2.1.0. I did however run VCRedist.exe. (Haven't rebooted yet). Am I safe?

Reply 1 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2004-01-21, 16:05

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By DosBox i hope you mean NTVDM, not the DOSBOX emulator which is a different thing. VDMSound just enhances sound card support under windows ms-dos boxes. DOSBOX, on the other hand, is a complete emulator.

Reply 2 of 3, by Snover

Posted on 2004-01-21, 19:26

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VCREDIST isn't needed for NT/2K/XP. It's for Win9x only. It shouldn't have affected anything, only the update DLL for 2.1.0 is the problem.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 3 of 3, by vladr

Posted on 2004-01-21, 23:06

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Yeah, you can safely run VDMSound *alongside* DosBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/), though not together (they are two completely different and independent things).

Cheers,
V.

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