Subj : Full Sound in DOS
To   : ALL
From : Elf
Date : Sat Jul 24 2021 21:43:00

I am wondering if anyone might have some ideas on getting a Sound
Blaster 16 PCI card working fully in DOS. Here is what I have and what
I'm trying to do.

  Dell Dimension 3000, 512MB RAM
  GeForce FX 5500 256MB video card
  Windows 98SE
  Sound Blaster 16 PCI with full software/drivers

So I am trying to play a DOS game, Commander Keen 6 for example. The
sounds work, but not fully. For example, all the sounds as far as I know
are working with the exception of when I die or when I jump and hit my
head on an upper level. Normally, when I play this game in DOSBox, there
is an extensive, funny sound when I die and when I jump and hit my
helmet on the upper level there is a kind of 'dink' sound. Those two
sounds don't play on the Windows 98SE box even though when I installed
the included drivers from the accompanying CD with the DOS drivers too.

My son and I noticed that even in a Windows game he used to play, some
of the sounds are absent, like the background music sounds.

I thought I read something online about PCI vs ISA and that I might have
trouble getting this to fully work in DOS. But, I don't understand why
if the CD that came in the box with the SB 16 PCI card had the option by
default to install the DOS drivers too, not just Windows drivers.

Any way, if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.

Oh, in the DOS game there is no option to configure the sound card
beyond picking Sound Blaster or Adlib, that's it.

Thanks all!!




~Elf

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