What drivers are you using in Windows for sound? Does anything like "legacy audio" or similar show up in the device manager?

If not, then you will need to get an add-on sound card that supports DOS sound through Windows (somewhat easier to find) or one that supports DOS sound from real mode DOS... much rarer.

For PCMCIA sound cards, see here:
PCMCIA Sound Cards

You can also try VDMSound for Win9x...
Win9x + VDMSound **ALPHA**

Wrong forum. This forum is for DOS games on newer systems. Ask old hardware and old OS questions here: Marvin, the Paranoid Android

Moved.

Hello. Thanks for your response. The driver i installed is: ALi Audio Accelerator WDM Driver (ALi). I don't see a legacy audio option, however on cnet.com, i checked the specs of my laptop and for Audio specs, it reads: "Compliant Standards Sound Blaster 16/Pro".

What is the exact model of the laptop?

IBM Thinkpad R30 Type 2656

aemin wrote:

IBM Thinkpad R30 Type 2656

Your laptop uses the sound portion of the ALi M1535 southbridge which are based of the Trident 4DWave PCI sound chip (just like the SiS 7018 of the SiS 630/730 chips). It should emulate both Sound Blaster Pro and 16 and also got wavetable and some horrible FM-emulation. It probably needs to be initialized when running in pure DOS mode and needs a TSR for wavetable and FM.

If you're going to run DOS games from within Windows you should use VxD drivers instead of the WDM ones if VxD drivers exists.

Yes, i play DOS games from within Windows 98 SE. I dont really know what drivers i have installed, but now that i am searching for "VxD" drivers i can't really find that. Honestly i dont know what i should be looking for either. Searching "ALi M1535 VxD" is the way to go? or any VxD soundblaster driver will work? Where should i be heading?

Use the Windows 95 driver, I downloaded it for you.

thanks. i tried running the 95 setup, it says "ALi audio driver cannot be installed on windows 98".

Try manual updating of the driver in device manager.

I bet if you extracted the files you could manually install the 95 drivers in 98 by NOT using the setup program.

At the very most, the .inf file might have to be slightly modified but I kinda doubt it.

I dont know how to manually install without the setup 🙁

edit: now somehow i managed to do that, now windows is trying to install VxD driver at startup. i will let you guys know how it turns out.

well it got stuck there for like a hour, then i just did a reboot. it didnt work. any suggestions?

Hard to tell what's going on, perhaps the driver just doesn't like Windows 98SE? 😕

Kamerat wrote on 2018-07-26, 18:36:

Use the Windows 95 driver, I downloaded it for you.

I tried this win95 driver for my laptop, which has Ali 1535 chip, by manually updating driver using INF. It installed successfully. Unfortunately the SB digital audio is missing. The legacy PCI driver provides FM wavetable on address 220, 388, etc., which is working by default. I tried Skyroads and it has music, no sound effect. And some other game with sound driver setup, Sound blaster & Adlib is working for MIDI but unable to detect digital audio device. What a shame. it will be much better if it has digital audio.
I even tried WDM driver in combine with legacy PCI audio driver but when WDM exist the legacy audio driver can be installed and listed in device manager, but no bound device and not working.

hi guys, didnt want to create new thread so I thought I'll ask here.

I have a P133 laptop that has USB port on it and also PCMCIA slot. are there any USB sound cards I can use that would have DOS drivers that are Sound blaster compatible ?

Omarkoman wrote on 2023-04-06, 01:56:

hi guys, didnt want to create new thread so I thought I'll ask here.

I have a P133 laptop that has USB port on it and also PCMCIA slot. are there any USB sound cards I can use that would have DOS drivers that are Sound blaster compatible ?

Nope. PCMCIA or parallel port are really your only options.

There were also some laptops that had docking stations that had PCI and ISA slots.

What brand/model is your laptop?

its NEC Discovery 713L

Not sure exactly what sound card is in it, will need to install Windows 98 and see what it detects.

Cant find any PCMCIA sound cards on traditional channels.