SB16 Audio with MSDOS 6.22
SB16 Audio with MSDOS 6.22
I have the SoundBlaster drivers installed, set BLASTER line in autoexec.bat, yet am having trouble getting audio working with Doom 2. I figured this would be a fairly standard configuration. Does anyone else have audio working in such a config?
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Re: SB16 Audio with MSDOS 6.22
Working audio is ambiguous, e.g. playing WAV files or MIDI ? Because it's a game I imagine that MIDI is the issue here. You could duplicate your setup in DosBox and see (hear...) what happens there. You could also try to play a small WAV file, that should work after a correct install. And about that one: use sbbasic.exe to install.... Which you might already have done.
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Re: SB16 Audio with MSDOS 6.22
You don't need the SB drivers for DOOM to play music.
I just tried the DOOM 2 demo. The SFX seems not to work under Virtualbox, only randomly producing loud noises. The SFX seems to work out of the box.
For music/midi you will need a Linux host and VMusic (shameless self-advertisement) . With it adlib & awe32 work (adlib is significantly slowed down though).
I just tried the DOOM 2 demo. The SFX seems not to work under Virtualbox, only randomly producing loud noises. The SFX seems to work out of the box.
For music/midi you will need a Linux host and VMusic (shameless self-advertisement) . With it adlib & awe32 work (adlib is significantly slowed down though).
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Re: SB16 Audio with MSDOS 6.22
I haven't yet had success getting sound to work right in games in a DOS machine.
Granted, I'm quite new at the moment, so there's a lot to learn, but as of now, I've done the settings, I got the game to work, but the sound is very quite, and horribly distorted. I don't know if there's a better quality sound emulator available, some yet-unknown driver to install in DOS, or something else yet to try. But for now, it's bad.
Given what you've put here, I am suspicious there's a problem with the VB DOS sound emulator?
Granted, I'm quite new at the moment, so there's a lot to learn, but as of now, I've done the settings, I got the game to work, but the sound is very quite, and horribly distorted. I don't know if there's a better quality sound emulator available, some yet-unknown driver to install in DOS, or something else yet to try. But for now, it's bad.
Given what you've put here, I am suspicious there's a problem with the VB DOS sound emulator?
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Re: SB16 Audio with MSDOS 6.22
The SB16 emulation is not perfect. I don't know what game you are talking about, though. Many games work as-is without problem.
DOOM2 mentioned above now seems to work better (I'm not sure when it was fixed or if it was an issue with my setup).
Don't bother looking for "different drivers". There are no drivers.
Also VirtualBox and all other virtualizers are always going to have issues with timing on these timing-dependent games. It is unavoidable unless you want to trade-off a lot of throughput.
DOOM2 mentioned above now seems to work better (I'm not sure when it was fixed or if it was an issue with my setup).
Don't bother looking for "different drivers". There are no drivers.
Also VirtualBox and all other virtualizers are always going to have issues with timing on these timing-dependent games. It is unavoidable unless you want to trade-off a lot of throughput.