First post, by pewpewpew
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I freely admit that trying to follow SB threads on Vogons makes my head spin...
I'm assembling my A7V133 as a DX7 W98SE box for the few WIN games that XP won't run, and occasional DOS. (For DOS I can also use 200mmx & 486dx wt SB16 & SBPro2.) I've installed a SBLive because people have said it's pretty good in DOS, but I've just had a "waitaminute" moment:
This board already has onboard sound with an SBPro legacy mode.
Is the SBLive pointless then? Or better, or worse, or...? Has someone been down this road already?
All I've found so far
VIA AC97 DOS Drivers?
by 5u3 » 2005-10-28 @ 00:12 The legacy sound option was available on older VIA chipsets, like the 686B southbridge. Seems they […]
by 5u3 » 2005-10-28 @ 00:12
The legacy sound option was available on older VIA chipsets, like the 686B southbridge. Seems they discontinued this nifty feature in their newer products.
You didn't even need DOS drivers for this onboard soundcard, all you had to do is to set the BLASTER environment variable and it worked! The drawback was that it only emulated a SB Pro - no 16bit sound under DOS, but better than no sound at allI'm not aware of any PCI card that comes with a decent SoundBlaster emulation for DOS. The least ugly solution would be an Ensonic AudioPCI or early SoundBlaster PCI card. They are said to have useable DOS emulation, but it doesn't work with games that refuse to run in protected mode.