Loading drivers for ISA in dosBox v0.65 \ VOGONS

Loading drivers for ISA in dosBox v0.65

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First post, by Matt81

Posted on 2006-05-09, 02:06

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Hello, I have recently been looking into using dosBox to run an old application that never got supported by windows newer than win98. The application is for data capture - the card is ISA. I've recently purchased a PIV 3.4Ghz, 1Gb RAM, with ISA slots. I have the win98 drivers, and I'm sure there are dos drivers available too - firstly I'm not sure which ones to use. Although my main question is how do I load these into dosBox? I'm pretty certain I'm meant to edit the dosBox.conf file, but I do not have any knowledge of the language involved in editing this. My front end OS is XP. Failing using dosBox, I'm considering using VMware and running pure DOS or win98 through that in order to access the ISA. Any help & direction would be much appreciated,

- Matt

Reply 1 of 3, by mirekluza

Posted on 2006-05-09, 05:18

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You cannot use anything in DOSBOX unless the host OS supports it...

Reply 2 of 3, by Matt81

Posted on 2006-05-09, 06:27

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Ok, thanks for that. In that case, my options are to install win98 [which I've tried and failed miserably trying to get the video driver loaded - turns out the motherboard manufacturer decided not to give support of it's onboard VGA to win98 users] OR install DOS directly. Perhaps you could help me with the latter option - it is not a dosBox question, more a DOS question - how would I get DOS to recognise the ISA card? Something about editing the config/autoexec files? Cheers,
-Matt

Reply 3 of 3, by QuietGuy

Posted on 2006-05-09, 08:18

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Matt81 wrote:

turns out the motherboard manufacturer decided not to give support of it's onboard VGA to win98 users]

What kind of chipset is it? There are probarly loads of solutions on the web. Not really a DOSBox issue, but maybe I can help getting the correct drivers? 😜

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