First post, by Volo
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Dear Sirs,
I have been poking this issue for a while now. I have a PC with Sound Blaster 16 and want to make it work with Daemon-Tools emulated disks on my Win98SE.
As you may know, VxD drivers don't support Red book audio virtualization - you need VDM drivers.
After weeks of poking around I've stumbled on Russian Windows 98IF project (http://bust.narod.ru/98if.html), They have WDM drivers for SB16! (If you'd like to test those - unzip all of the attached files into Latin-named folder and install it instead of the present SB16 drivers - be sure to manually set the card's Ports, IRQ and DMAs in Device Manager, as drivers default settings are incomprehensible). Documentation states they've ripped these WDM drivers from Windows ME.
Drivers work - sorta. I've cleared most of issues with Windows games (Sound works, i can hear CD-music), but I've lost DOS compatibility!
DOS games just can't detect or address SB16 with VDM drivers (they worked with VxD). I now have no sound - only CD-audio in DOS games.
Could you please assist me with restoring DOS compatibility of VDM Sound Blaster16? Do you have any experience with Win ME drivers on Win 98?
Your messages shall be appreciated. Properly working SB16 WDM drivers would be a Holy Grail for us, retrogamers.
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