my soundcard is listed as "RealTek AC97 Audio for Intel Audio Conntroller" in the win95 device manager. also in a win95 dos box when i type set, among other things i found BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 P300 which is not present in config.sys or autoexec.bat also it uses a PCI slot i was able to play wav files using quickview in a windows dos box but under plain dos i get the message NO SOUNDCARD even after i put BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 P300 in my autoexec.bat is it possible for me to use my soundcard under plain dos? does it require additional drivers? the installation CD only had drivers for windows and linux i donot wish to sign

what i meant was put set BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 P300 in my autoexec.bat i donot wish to sign

Inside Windows sound works because your sound driver emulates a SoundBlaster 16 card for DOS-based programs. In pure DOS you'll need an additional DOS resident program that does this kind of emulation or you'll need to enable the "Legacy Sound Support" option in your bios setup (if this option exists)

thanx, can you please specify such programs which i can use, and if possible where i can download them also the soundcard has linux drivers. will this be of any use under plain DOS i donot wish to sign

http://computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/16104.html http://www.dosthealt.f2s.com/page2.htm "Sound Chips manufactured by CMedia (CMI8328/329/8330/8338/8738) on either PCI cards or incorporated on thea motherboard have full support. SiS7018 incorporated on the motherboard has full support. VIA VT82C686A/VT82C686B/VT8231 chipsets incorporated on the motherboard are supported if there is also a Sound Blaster setting in the BIOS which needs to be enabled. Creative Sound Blaster plug'n'play ISA and PCI format sound cards have full support, with drivers for the SB PCI and Live available form Mame. Sound Chips found on recent motherboards are generally classed as AC97, Scitechsoft have drivers for the following chipsets incorporated on the motherboard, AC97 (ATI SB200, SB300, SB400, Intel ICH2, ICH3, ICH4, ICH5, ICH6 and nVidia nForce, nForce2, nForce3) and HDA (ATI SB450 and Intel ICH6, ICH7), though may support other Sound Chips and PCI Sound Cards."

Depends what you want to do. If you want to play sound, you should try MPXPLAY. It has native support for some newer cards and on-board chips. No drivers are required. It is not usable as a driver, it will not make any external apps working. LINUX drivers are not useful in DOS for users by now unfortunately, they would be interesting for devepolers only.

hi FreeDOSfan, i just tried MPXPLAY and its just what i was looking for. thanks a lot. i donot wish to sign