DOS Games Discussion

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?

johpower 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?

I think the daughtercard attached to my sb16 is a XG type of card (only does midi). Sounds real nice

DB50XG or something like that, connects to the waveblaster header.

In my opinion todays games need a good video card, the old DOS games needed a good sound card.

And getting them to run with everything else while leaving you enough lower mem was sometimes a feat of legerdemain!

Unknown_K wrote:

johpower 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?

I think the daughtercard attached to my sb16 is a XG type of card (only does midi). Sounds real nice

DB50XG or something like that, connects to the waveblaster header.

It's a A301-G50 card w/YMF724F-V chip.

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.

"Legacy device" is windoze speak for non-plug and play. Your PC has probably defaulted to "sound blaster compatable" or something similar.

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.

i have a Soundblaser 16 bit on my sucky computer. See: my computer sucks[/i]

The Sb16 was the last creative product I really liked. I have a couple sb64's here, but those were free and used on non-game machines

computer_person wrote:i have a Soundblaser 16 bit on my sucky computer. See: my computer sucks

Pardon the late comeback, dude. So what sucks? Maybe we can sort it.