![]() ![]() When software uses Sound Blaster cards in DOS it usually reads resource information from the BLASTERĮnvironment variable. and the M/75 not having audio offers a benefit in not waking/irritating my wife since the volume control on the Versa (fn+F6) is a bit of a noise-maker "squeak, Squeak, SQUeak, SQUEAK!!. That said, I still use the M/75 a lot though because I sometimes like to play DOS games to chill at the end of the day. Problem was it conflicted with the ESS688 in my P/75, causing hanging upon playing audio files in Windows at the time, and crashes/no sound in DOS. I have the P/75, it shares the same dock with the M/75, 40EC, and V/50 I have.Ī workaround I used for awhile was to put a SoundBlaster pro 2.0 in the docking station and only play the games that needed it to work while docked. Set Blaster does not work either, at least, not normally.īut if you want MIDI & Sound from that era, some good laptops that DO have that include the Versa P/75, NanTan 9200/5110D, ThinkPad 755, and Samsung Sens 800, just to name a few. Have to use the Microsoft provided EMS driver because the FreeDOS version won't play ball with WSSXLAT. I did try getting the SB Compatibility working in FreeDOS 2.1 using the 1.0 and 2.0 driver sets and using EMM386.exe and WSSXLAT with no success. But that's true of anything that can make use of that feature. Under a Killing Moon (4 CDs!!) - Music AND Speech AND Sound Effects via WSS in DOS (this thing has a lot of compatibility with a lot of souund cards, if it won't work with Killing Moon, it probably does not exist until after 1996).Įmulators will work with SB Emulation in Windows, NESticle runs GREAT with WSS. Queen Tetris - I swear I got this working on the M/75 in FreeDOS NASCAR 2, Music and Digital Audio w/ Speech ![]() Lighthouse for DOS (Sierra) - sound effects only The 7th Guest (some releases), I have a release that does not unfortunatley Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist CD (w/speech) - audio, no sound effects Here's some games that work in DOS with WSS. Most games that do support at least sound effects through WSS from pure DOS have their own drivers and were made in 1994 or later - most of these are Sierra titles. The SoundBlaster emulation does not do MIDI, it only does digital audio. For me to even figure out what the M/75 had for sound, I had to unscrew and remove the PCMCIA cage from the motherboard as the chip was under there, the only sound chip was the CS-4231-KQ. OPL is usually hosted on a separate chip. I know with the Crystal it's because it's marketed as a "Business Audio" chipset. ![]() This means no Adlib/MIDI audio on these computers. I've read Zenith and Toshiba were in the same boat on some models, probably using the same chip since your struggles sound like mine. I know the Versa M/75 does not as it does not have it on the board. Sorry if I repeat a lot of stuff - I've been tinkering a TON with this one.įirst off, almost any laptop with the WSS/compatible chipset may or may not have the OPL. 02 on this since I'm using an NEC Versa M/75 with the Crystal CS-4231-KQ chipset for DOS gaming quite a lot, and I"ve been using that laptop for over a year. (And yes I pick Sound Blaster Compatibility when I boot up) Here are the contents of my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. I even tried changing the IRQ of the Sound Blaster emulation to 5 and then setting the games to use that instead, in case it was a confusion between the physical and emulated cards with the IRQ, but still no dice. Jazz tells me to configure my sound card and won't start up as if the card isn't even there. Games I've tried so far are Doom and Jazz Jackrabbit. I run it with the settings above but still no dice.įor the games I use the option of Sound Blaster, 0220h, IRQ 7, DMA 1. The setup tells me to run a configuration program to write to the CONFIG.SYS file to configure my sound for DOS. Sounds load no problem.įor the Sound Blaster Emulation I set it to use the address of 0220h, IRQ 7, DMA 1, and I have tried both enabling and disabling Single Mode DMA with a DMA Buffer Size of 32 but that hasn't done anything noticeable. My sound card is using the address of 0530h, IRQ 7, DMA 1. ![]() To start, I setup the drivers in Windows. I'm using the Windows Sound System 2.0 disks (5 disk set) for the installation. The system is equipped with Windows Sound System hardware and I'm supposed to be able to get sound with my DOS games with Sound Blaster emulation that comes with the drivers. I have freshly installed DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 on my Toshiba T4800CT laptop, and I cannot get the sound to work in DOS. Before I begin, can a moderator please remove my other thread about looking for the Windows Sound System 2.0 floppies? I didn't get any replies, found them, and I started a new thread to draw fresh eyes to a new problem. ![]()
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