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Sound in old games
Name: Tom Date: August 7, 2002 at 15:48:41 Pacific
Comment:
I have a bit of a newer computer, but I love to run old dos games on it (brings back memories). But my computer has one of those soundcards that is built in, it isnt on its own slot. I am trying to figure out what kind of card it is and what the adress and inturupt and all that technical mumbo jumbo for it so I can get sound on all my favorite games. I do play the games through windows 98 on the msdos prompt if that means anything. any suggestions?
Name: jboy Date: August 7, 2002 at 19:20:18 Pacific
Reply:
Well, check under 'control panel' 'system' until you see the entries for your sound controller. This should identify the card or chipset. Select it and check 'properties' then 'resources' to get the hardware specs (IRQ, DMA etc).
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