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I am trying to play "Under A Killing Moon" but it won't recognise my soundblaster card. As far as I know it's a Soundblaster 16 or PCI something, anyway I need to boot the computer from a floopy cos I need CD rom support. It doesn't autodetect any soundcard and I tried all from their list of possibles and none worked even though a number of Soundblaster cards where in there including 16. I've tried many things like adding bits from Dosstart.bat to autoexec.bat but to no avail. It keeps telling me when I do this I need emm386 driver loaded and I can't seem to find out much more about that. Any help would be much appreciated! I don't think it matters but just in case the computer's also got Windows 98 on it. Also it has two hardrives, the directory for the game resides on the second but changing it to C drive made no difference. Any help would be appreciated!
Check out the NAME website for DOS drivers compatible with PCI SB Cards:
http://www.mameworld.net/dosmame/other.php
listed under downloads.........
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"anyway I need to boot the computer from a floopy cos I need CD rom support"
Actually, no -pretty much anything that can be loaded from a floppy disk can also be loaded from the hard drive (only faster) - it's just a matter of setting up config.sys & autoexec.bat on c: or editing dosstart.bat
Most DOS games require a setting: BLASTER= either in autoexec.bat, dosstart.bat or even from the command line. You may or may not require drivers for DOS, or possibly a small program to 'initialize' the card (like SBinit)
It would be helpful to know the specific card model#
The game appears to require memory management to be loaded with EMM386.EXE, either in config.sys or through Windows depending on how you run it (DOS mode or DOS session in Windows)
Bleat at me no longer.
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In "autoexec.bat" which can be opened with a text editor add the follwing line to see if the sound works, if not you may have to change the settings:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1
The parameters are as follows:A220 is the I/O Port address
I5 is the IRQ or Interupt number
D1 is the DMA number
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