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Christian Reinbothe

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Dec 23, 2009, 3:30:07 PM12/23/09
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Hello,

I have an IBM ThinkCentre with a SoundMAX
Sound Card. I want to play old DOS-Games.
Where do I get the DOS-Drivers for this
SoundMAX (I scanned the net, but I did not
get anything).

Please help.

Christian


Ross Ridge

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Dec 23, 2009, 5:04:43 PM12/23/09
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Christian Reinbothe <Christian...@T-Online.DE> wrote:
>I have an IBM ThinkCentre with a SoundMAX
>Sound Card. I want to play old DOS-Games.
>Where do I get the DOS-Drivers for this
>SoundMAX (I scanned the net, but I did not
>get anything).

MS-DOS didn't use sound drivers. Each game had it's own code that talked
the sound card directly.

If you're trying to play MS-DOS games under Windows XP or newer, the
usual suggestion is to use DOSBox:

http://www.dosbox.com

An alternative is to use the MS-DOS emulator built-in Windows, along
with VDMSound which provides much better sound card emulation.

Ross Ridge

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Christian Reinbothe

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Dec 26, 2009, 1:03:35 PM12/26/09
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Hello,

I have some questions:

Is the SoundMAX compatible with the Soundblaster?
If so, how do I set the BLASTER-variable to the right
value?

Greetings Christian

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Ross Ridge

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Dec 27, 2009, 11:59:46 AM12/27/09
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Christian Reinbothe <Christian...@T-Online.DE> wrote:
>Is the SoundMAX compatible with the Soundblaster?

Nope. You have to use a program like DOSEmu that will emulate a
SoundBlaster.

Christian Reinbothe

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Dec 28, 2009, 8:17:07 AM12/28/09
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Thanks a lot. Christian

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