Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 959
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:01:08 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Wednesday 13 October 2004
 Number  959
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  DOS support was Sound Cards : Gavin Miller <drumextreme at impulse dot net dot au>

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Date:  Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:22:15 +1000
From:  Gavin Miller <drumextreme at impulse dot net dot au>
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
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