What brand sound card are you guys using for dos games
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I have Yamaha XG card...
I have a good Yamaha XG series PCI sound card. It was decent with a Windoze sound setup. I'm pretty sure the CD had drivers for DOS. Has anyone used one of these in DOS?
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Re: I have Yamaha XG card...
I think the daughtercard attached to my sb16 is a XG type of card (only does midi). Sounds real nicejohpower wrote:I have a good Yamaha XG series PCI sound card. It was decent with a Windoze sound setup. I'm pretty sure the CD had drivers for DOS. Has anyone used one of these in DOS?
DB50XG or something like that, connects to the waveblaster header.
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Re: I have Yamaha XG card...
It's a A301-G50 card w/YMF724F-V chip.Unknown_K wrote:I think the daughtercard attached to my sb16 is a XG type of card (only does midi). Sounds real nicejohpower wrote:I have a good Yamaha XG series PCI sound card. It was decent with a Windoze sound setup. I'm pretty sure the CD had drivers for DOS. Has anyone used one of these in DOS?
DB50XG or something like that, connects to the waveblaster header.
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"Legacy device" is windoze speak for non-plug and play. Your PC has probably defaulted to "sound blaster compatable" or something similar.I use what win ME calls a "legacy Device" i don't know what it means, but it lists all the info i need, like port num, IRQ, DMA, Buffer, etc.
You might zero in on a better driver by taking a close look at the card. If it doesn't have an obvious info sticker or card ID number, see the chips. Use a magnifying lens if necessary. If there's an FCC# you can go to "fccid.com" (I think) to find out who made it but usually not much else. The FCC# may be obviously similar to the card's real name or part number. All this helps the search.
Write down any of the names, ID's or the chip number(s) and do a Google search to find the vendor, manuals, drivers, updates and other info on the card.
Very few cards of any type that I've had to find drivers for have escaped these methods of discovery.
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Sound card
i have a Soundblaser 16 bit on my sucky computer. See: my computer sucks[/i]
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Too bad everything cannot be DOS-operated.
Oh well.
I LOVE DOS and I LOATHE WIN!!!! :Angry: :Angry:
Too bad everything cannot be DOS-operated.
Oh well.
I LOVE DOS and I LOATHE WIN!!!! :Angry: :Angry:
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Re: Sound card
Pardon the late comeback, dude. So what sucks? Maybe we can sort it.computer_person wrote:i have a Soundblaser 16 bit on my sucky computer. See: my computer sucks
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