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Title: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: david656 on August 28, 2007, 01:08:04 pm

hey

im building a DOS cab with arcade os and MAME and DOScab (jukbox software)

i obviously need to get a sound card that works with all of these !

i have been looking around and figured that its just easier to get on ebay and buy a old PCI card rather than try and get a SB Live! 5.1 i got to work!!

will this card work?  Item No. 120155319450

and if not whats the best card to look out for? as i really want something taht i plug in and works !



thanks

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: Green Giant on August 28, 2007, 01:27:50 pm

I am not to sure about the card you picked out, can't look it up now, but any sound card with dos support would work.  Probably just have to make sure you can still find the dos drivers first and thats it.

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: xmenxmen on August 28, 2007, 01:59:07 pm

If you can, grab a sound blaster 16 pci.

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: tk_42_1 on August 28, 2007, 02:09:26 pm

Doing a quick search on the Sound Blaster website shows they don't have DOS drivers for the SB Live! card.

Try sticking with an SB, SB16, or even try a PAS16 card. 

If in doubt check the manufacturer's website and see if they have DOS drivers for the card you are interested in.

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: david656 on August 29, 2007, 11:07:26 am

humm intrestingly my on board sound AC '97 started to work after i took out the AGP video card and used the onboard !

in windows MAME, arcade os and DOScab all get sound !!!! but its quite crackley any idea's??

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: SavannahLion on August 29, 2007, 02:41:35 pm

Quote from: pinballjim on August 29, 2007, 12:06:40 pm

Sadly, crackly sound is a hallmark of onboard audio.  :( 

I've never noticed. But OEM PC speakers sound so ---smurfy--- that ---smurfy--- onboard audio would be impossible to notice. You think it's because of bad shielding or a ---smurfy--- decoder?

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: BobA on August 29, 2007, 05:22:11 pm

Hint- Look at free items

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: tikbalang on August 30, 2007, 08:55:56 am

try this tool:

http://multimediaware.com/qv/qvfaq.html
http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/sbdetect.zip

Sound chip detection and config program under DOS. Ver 1.06

This program will detect various Sound Blaster compatible sound chips,
configure them and set the BLASTER variable correctly. You can call
this program in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

Free for non-commerical use

Options:
-h  Help. This help text.
-v  Verbose. Writes what's going on.
-p  Suppress search for nonPnP-Devices (probing ports)
-c  Select sound chip. If more than one sound chip was detected, then you can
    select the one that shall be used. Example: -c2 for the second sound chip.

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: esaelectrionics on August 30, 2007, 10:43:35 am

I had a right messabout getting sound for dos to work,
if i was you id buy a board with an ISA slot if you can find one (ebay !).
I have a ISA soundblaster 16 and sound blaster 2.0 and
both work perfect and sound nice.

It all comes down to motherboard, quite a few dont support pci soundblaster
devices. Asus p4c800 deluxe does, most pci soundcard works with this board for me but SIS chipsets - forget it :( , and most new motherboards wont touch a dos pci soundcard.











 

Title: Re: Which Sound card? 120155319450
Post by: RayB on August 31, 2007, 05:35:07 pm

I got my SB Live to work under DOS, but it was VERY picky about what slot and IRQ # to use.