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Title: Is there a PCI sound card that works in DOS?
Post by: wakerlet on June 23, 2004, 09:50:38 am

I have a PIII 800Mhz Dell that I want to load Mame DOS on.  The problem is it does not have an ISA slot.  I need to know what PCI sound cards out there support DOS.  Keep in mind that I will not have Windows installed so I need one that has a dos install program or one where someone knows exactly what to place in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Please share your thoughts if you know of a solution.

Thanks,
Todd

Title: Re:Is there a PCI sound card that works in DOS?
Post by: SirPeale on June 23, 2004, 10:54:29 am

SB16 PCI
Ensoniq PCI
A lot of Yamaha based cards

Should all work.

Title: Re:Is there a PCI sound card that works in DOS?
Post by: delta88 on June 23, 2004, 11:17:48 am

Todd Todd Todd,  ;)

I would load up xp pro and mamewah or ultrastyle. If you have decent mem in the unit you will not notice any differance. in some cases it may even be better.

I had a PII 267 Mhz with 256 mb ram in it and I ran xp pro with mamewah verticaly.

Title: Re:Is there a PCI sound card that works in DOS?
Post by: maraxle on June 23, 2004, 01:50:11 pm

Quote from: delta88 on June 23, 2004, 11:17:48 am

I would load up xp pro and mamewah or ultrastyle. If you have decent mem in the unit you will not notice any differance. in some cases it may even be better.

A PIII 800 is definitely on the border of whether DOS or Windows would be better, but since that's not your question, I'm not going to needlessly lecture you one way or the other.  

I would have to second Peale's recommendation the SB16 PCI.

Title: Re:Is there a PCI sound card that works in DOS?
Post by: spystyle on June 23, 2004, 07:10:54 pm

I'd try Windows 98, no matter what hardware you have there is definately a driver for it at www.driverguide.com