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DOSCab + pure DOS + SB Live

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johnman001:
Try plugging a PS/2 mouse into  the PS/2 mouse port.

This issue was driving me NUTS with DOSCab......


Just my $0.02

2012:
Thanks for the advice, but I already tried that after reading your post in another thread on this forum. :/

minnegopher:
I am having the same problem that you are experiencing, 2012, but I am using a SB16 (PCI) card.  The GUI loads and goes through that motions to load a song, but it just stays stuck on "0:00".  I thought that this card was supposed to be the answer to our compatibility problems!

Anyway, I'm running DOS, and I get sound from Advmame, Advmenu, and ArcadeOS.  But, I do not get any sound from DosCab (or DAMP, for that matter).

I have tried a multitude of SET BLASTER settings, changing the "T" setting from 1-6, or removing the  SET BLASTER all together, and still no luck.  After I SET BLASTER, I also set the SBPCI variable and then load SBINIT from autoexec.bat.   Additionally, I have turned off the on-board audio, via the BIOS.

Is there anything else that I should try?

One more thing that may prove of interest to Chris... I'm running the newest Beta5... and if I omit the "H330" from my SET BLASTER, the DosCab GUI goes crazy once upon load.  To be more concise, buttons receive "phantom" keypresses and the song pages start flipping like mad.  This is all without me touching my keyboard or mouse.  I went into the .ini file and disabled the mouse, but to no avail.  This behavior goes away if I include the "H330" in the autoexec.  STRANGE, huh?  One more thing:  have you ever seen a problem where the blue dot-matrix fonts sometimes do not display?  (I'm running on a 15kHz arcade monitor, with Advcab's VBE.EXE running to display DosCab at 640x480. )  Sometimes when I run DosCab, they show up, and other times they do not.  I'd say that it's close to 50/50, as to whether I see the fonts, or not.

Thanks in advance for your input.

Chris:
Well, much as I'm sure you don't want to hear this, the SB16 PCI is not a "real" SoundBlaster either; it also emulates a SoundBlaster, just as the Live does.

However, I just read that bothe the SB16PCI and the SBLive use VCPI in the emulation process.  Do you have EMM386 loaded?  EMM386 is a VCPI provider, so if you are not loading EMM386 in the CONFIG.SYS, try adding it after the DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS:

DEVICE=EMM386.EXE

If you are loading it, make sure you are not using the NOVCPI parameter.

Does this help?

--Chris

minnegopher:
Thanks, Chris.   I had EMM386.exe loaded in my config.sys, but with both NOEMS and NOVCPI flags set.  So, I eliminated them, and tried combinations in between, but with no luck.  I still get sound in Advmame, but not in DOSCab.

Do you have any other ideas?  I'm kinda stuck with the SB16 PCI, at the moment, as I don't have any ISA slots on my P4 MB.  Thanks.

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