Running old dos games under windows 98

[Arkitech]

Whenever I try to run a dos game in 98 I can never get the sound to work, but if I run that same game in NT it works fine. Any clues on how to run those kind of games in 98?

 

[dowxp]

what is your sound card?

 

[Arkitech]

sb live card

 

[Shagga]

Do you have a dos command line like -

SET BLASTER = A220 I7 D3 T4

in your autoexec.bat file in the root directory?

If not you will need to load it. This enables sound within a dos environment.

 

[syborgs]

Did u install "dos support" drivers for your live card?

Mines used to work when i had win98. Once u have them installed...u goto device manager and look for "sb16 emulation" or something...look under properties ...and check out the port/irq/dma ....and punch them into dos games "setup"...and they should work.

try a dos game that auto-detects your settings (such as original warcraft 2)....if it works it'll mean you have the sb16 emulation definately installed. Then u just have to go figure out the settings manually.


good luck.

 

[Oyeve]

If you have all the dos stuff for SB loaded it might be the irq that is assigned to the card. Most old dos games dont use some IRQs like irq #8 9 13 14.

 

[Arkitech]

thanks guys

 

[GregMal]

I've only got a few legacy DOS games on my Win98SE machine.
But they all work thru DOS windows so I guess I'm lucky......
Greg