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robin wrote:
> Many thanks to those who responded to my query about sound.
>      "Is it possible to communicate with the sound card
>      "from a program running under the DOS prompt?"
>
> Relevant replies received are below:--
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> "sTav"<marmro9@beztego.o2.pl>  wrote in message news:4d2ae704$0$2442$65785112@news.neostrada.pl...
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> | You must set in file config.sys line:
> | device=soundcard.sys (.com, .exe)  - sound driver for DOS
> |
> | and
> | in file autoexec.bat
> | SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4
> |
> | (I=interrupt IRQ, D=DMA channel, T=type SB compatible - usually 3 or 4
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> "Jack"<nospam@invalid.not>  wrote in message news:UsmWo.33486$ge2.27984@newsfe07.iad...
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> Windows NT products (like XP) will not allow a DOS program to do its own
> direct IOs. The program has to call Windows routines to handle IOs.
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> "Don Phillipson"<e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca>  wrote in message news:igci9m$rp9$1@speranza.aioe.org...
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> 1.  In principle, yes.   DOS apps can be set up to launch
> AUTOEXEC.DOS and CONFIG.DOS with custom settings
> for each app., the way Operating Systems MS-DOS and
> Win95 used to boot.
> 2.  Access to the sound card "from a program running"
> depends on how the program was coded in the first place:
> but most (especially games) were coded so as to enable
> access to the sound card.
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If it's not too late to respond - you could save yourself a lot of 
trouble by simply installing DosBOX - an opensource DOS emulator 
designed for running old DOS games.
There's a front end for it called 'D-Fend Reloaded' (google it)
which can preconfigure all your sound settings etc. on a per 
game/application basis.


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