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Article #82026Re: Which sound card for a legacy-only DOS computer?
From: Peter Emanuelsson
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:48
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:48
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:16:33 +0200, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems, Prism <prism_emf@no.yahoo.canned.co.meat.uk> wrote: >Zdark wrote: > >> Come to think of it, I think the Awe32 line had some midi support but >> the midi patches were all in the card's rom. > >That's not quite how it goes. An AWE64 is basically just an AWE32 with >the Creative Software Synth applet thrown in, and in PnP - which is not >actually a good thing if you want to run DOS games. The AWE32 had 512k >RAM as standard and could be expanded with SIMMs up to 8 megs. Not 8, 32! (2x16MB) But the AWE32 could only utilize 28MB of it, or something like that. And I've never had a problem with PnP + old DOS games, since there is a "PnP driver" (or whatever you want to call it) and a config program to set up the card so it works "as a SB16" in DOS. Have played many old DOS games with my AWE64 without any problem. Of course, I might only have been lucky... ;) -- May all spammers die in horrible pains!
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!mephistopheles.news.clara.net!news.clara.net!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!217.209.241.197.MISMATCH!news-stoc.telia.net!news-stoa.telia.net!telia.net!nntp.inet.fi!inet.fi!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!62.127.77.83.MISMATCH!'newsfeed1.telenordia.se'!algonet!news2.tninet.se!not-for-mail From: Peter Emanuelsson <peter_e@may.all.spammers.die> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.games, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech Subject: Re: Which sound card for a legacy-only DOS computer? Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:48:02 +0100 Organization: Telenordia/Algonet Lines: 26 Sender: peter_e@algonet.invalid Message-ID: <5ZvUP7jO9LDKgtbkAx1djzktaFlz@4ax.com> References: <bqp1s20210c@enews1.newsguy.com> <K6JAb.1821$nz.617@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3fd36e81$0$939$39db0f71@news.song.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: kairos.algonet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: green.tninet.se 1070898582 21775 213.150.135.237 (8 Dec 2003 15:49:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@telenordia.se NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:49:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit