Hello there!
First of all, yes I am serious, I still do own a DOS computer.
It has specs as follows:
Pentium Pro 133 Mhz (already slowed down by multiplier, actually it's a 233 Mhz processor)
32 MB RAM (could add another 64, but no need for that)
MS-DOS 6.22
Creative Labs SoundBlaster
CD-RW
Mouse
All in all it is a good system for playing games, I also still have old Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files and all other software which I need, even Windows and Word. The only problem which should occur should be too high speed, for that I have Moslo.
However I also recognized another problem... many games had problem with my old Creative Labs SoundBlaster 2.0 Pro (8bit), the sound/music was always distorted as being played too fast, it even continued to play too fast after I slowed everything down by Moslo or disabling L1/L2 cache. So... I just thought I get myself a different SoundBlaster. I got another 2.0 Pro, just to make use mine was ok, and I found the same problem to happen again.
Alright, I got myself a SoundBlaster 16 with ISA interface. Now I don't know what it is, but since I turned off the computer last time (a couple of months ago) the sound is not ok anymore, Privateer always crashes, giving me the error which I described in another post here, some other games also suddenly don't start anymore 'sound selection not matching hardware'. This actually cannot be as I know what I built into that computer and also installed all drivers which are needed.
I will first return back to my 2.0 and check if Priavteer or other games then, I know the 2.0 so I am sure I could solve most issues, unless the playing too fast thing.
I have another question... I know many people here also play Wing Commander games (esp. Privateer in this case) on older computers which also likely have SoundBlaster 16 under the hood (PCI interface this time) I also got 2 of these, but when I tried to get them to work it somehow didn't work out. I either had no sound or crashes. With the PCI version you even cannot manually select settings, only dumb presets, which actually don't even match Privateer, if I remember right. Now I wonder if some of you also have or had problems with PCI interface hardware or not? I'd like to find out if these issues I had are common or if it is just some settings wrong again? I guess I tried every possible configuration, all drivers present.
I must say that I have only installed the drivers from the original driver disc, I know these might be buggy, likely Creative Labs issued updated versions years ago, but right now there is no support available anymore for such old hardware from them, I have also checked the web for updates, but didn't find anything. If some of you might have updated drivers, or even know how to solve my problem
Hoping for replies. Any helpful comments appreciated. Privateer doesn't work on DOSbox on my other computers, tried everything suggested in the tech section here, but I never got sound. Maybe it's the onboad SoundBlaster of my other older PIII 933Mhz computer, I don't know. As I still own a good DOS PC I'd like to get everything to work on it.
DOS ain't dead...
WC4Life
First of all, yes I am serious, I still do own a DOS computer.
It has specs as follows:
Pentium Pro 133 Mhz (already slowed down by multiplier, actually it's a 233 Mhz processor)
32 MB RAM (could add another 64, but no need for that)
MS-DOS 6.22
Creative Labs SoundBlaster
CD-RW
Mouse
All in all it is a good system for playing games, I also still have old Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files and all other software which I need, even Windows and Word. The only problem which should occur should be too high speed, for that I have Moslo.
However I also recognized another problem... many games had problem with my old Creative Labs SoundBlaster 2.0 Pro (8bit), the sound/music was always distorted as being played too fast, it even continued to play too fast after I slowed everything down by Moslo or disabling L1/L2 cache. So... I just thought I get myself a different SoundBlaster. I got another 2.0 Pro, just to make use mine was ok, and I found the same problem to happen again.
Alright, I got myself a SoundBlaster 16 with ISA interface. Now I don't know what it is, but since I turned off the computer last time (a couple of months ago) the sound is not ok anymore, Privateer always crashes, giving me the error which I described in another post here, some other games also suddenly don't start anymore 'sound selection not matching hardware'. This actually cannot be as I know what I built into that computer and also installed all drivers which are needed.
I will first return back to my 2.0 and check if Priavteer or other games then, I know the 2.0 so I am sure I could solve most issues, unless the playing too fast thing.
I have another question... I know many people here also play Wing Commander games (esp. Privateer in this case) on older computers which also likely have SoundBlaster 16 under the hood (PCI interface this time) I also got 2 of these, but when I tried to get them to work it somehow didn't work out. I either had no sound or crashes. With the PCI version you even cannot manually select settings, only dumb presets, which actually don't even match Privateer, if I remember right. Now I wonder if some of you also have or had problems with PCI interface hardware or not? I'd like to find out if these issues I had are common or if it is just some settings wrong again? I guess I tried every possible configuration, all drivers present.
I must say that I have only installed the drivers from the original driver disc, I know these might be buggy, likely Creative Labs issued updated versions years ago, but right now there is no support available anymore for such old hardware from them, I have also checked the web for updates, but didn't find anything. If some of you might have updated drivers, or even know how to solve my problem
Hoping for replies. Any helpful comments appreciated. Privateer doesn't work on DOSbox on my other computers, tried everything suggested in the tech section here, but I never got sound. Maybe it's the onboad SoundBlaster of my other older PIII 933Mhz computer, I don't know. As I still own a good DOS PC I'd like to get everything to work on it.
DOS ain't dead...
WC4Life