i am trying to play an old video game on my macbook pro (backyard baseball), it wouldn't open regularly due to the classic environment so i made a cd and opened it as a program that will run windows on a mac. now i have a problem saying it can't detect a sound card. how do i get to run with this sound card issue? thanks
I wouldn't imagine that game will run on a Mac. PC games are written for a windows environment and it's looking for a sound source to use and can't find it. I would suggest you shelf it and look for a Mac based baseball game.
ok so i don't plan on giving up on this game any time soon. i will get it to play, is there any way i can get it to think there is a sound card? possibly using emulation or something? i have the game to basically run. it opens up i can use it through out a certain point then the only problem when i actually try to open up a game from the title screen it gives me a video card preference hint, and then the sound card error.
If it's an old DOS based game, you sometimes had to set up the sound module separately. I've never worked with a Mac OS but if there is a way to emulate old OS's I would try to emulate it with Windows 3.1 or 95. Also the parameters for the sound card would be IRQ=5, I/O range= 220, and have it set for a Sound Blaster 16 or Ensoniq 1377. Those were two very popular sound cards way back when.
