Response to Bloody sound problems in DOS, again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Winxp!? Thats worse than ME for pure DOS. Heres what you do.

Wipe the computer and install win98SE edit the c:\msdos.sys file and remove the read only setting. Change the loadGui = 1 line to 0. Your computer will now boot in to DOS.

Your soundcard shoulde be a ISA soundblaster16, about £10 on ebay. You need ctcm.exe and diagnose.exe. Add the lines to your autoexec....

c:\sb16\ctcm.exe c:\sb16\diagnose /s

Your computer will now boot in to dos and have sound setup.

Finally you need to add the various memory bits to your config, himem, emm386, cwsdpmi etc, Im working on the best settings for this at the moment.

I have a PC mounted inside an arcade cabinet using these settings and it boots from cold to arcadeos game selection in about 20 seconds, with full sound. Good luck, hope this helps some people.

Neil

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