From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:01:08 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 959 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Wednesday 13 October 2004 Number 959 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: DOS support was Sound Cards : Gavin Miller **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:22:15 +1000 From: Gavin Miller Subject: Re: DOS support was Sound Cards Kev, > BTW, when you say DOS compatibility is gone, do you mean native DOS > from a DOS boot, or DOS from a DOS session in eCS? Does it make a > difference? Does a DOS session in eCS get sound support via eCS, or > must the DOS session have its own sound support drivers? I mean DOS in any form. DOS is dead it seems. SB live has no native DOS drivers except for MS-DOS 7.10 (or win95 without gui ;-) ). There may still be a download for DOS somewhere. It 'can' work in windows (not sure about 3.1) with SB16 emulation drivers (which are not supplied; at least on my CD they're not). For OS/2 the actual sound card driver has all the support for MMPM, DOS & WINOS2. However the SB live drivers thus far afaik do not support DOS or WINOS2 sessions. Unfortunately I've had to forgo playing my fav DOS games under eCs for this reason. Also, even if the SB live drivers supported sound under DOS sessions, it would have to do so under the old 16 bit card addresses. eg. Addy 220, IRQ 5, DMA 1, HDMA 5. A large sum of DOS games look automatically at these addresses, or only have this range selectable in setup. Have a google for OS/2 soundcards. There is a page with info on what card supports what. As to availability of the hardware....?? Cheers G ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------