Dos and sound

[Eri]

I am a keen follower of "old" games, and it was to my great
disapointment that after installing windows 2000 I found
that many of them would not work anymore or that "sound"
became serious problem as no "dos" sound drivers where
available.

Is there a solution to my plight? Or should I simply try
to revive an old 486 with dos on it?

Any ideas would be welcome

 

[Bernhard Dietrich]

I am a keen follower of "old" games, and it was to my great
disapointment that after installing windows 2000 I found
that many of them would not work anymore or that "sound"
became serious problem as no "dos" sound drivers where
available.

All the hardware used by DOS programs is emulated by NTVDM. However in
Windows 2000 NTVDM does not support soundcard emulation (and in Windows XP
only very basic sound emulation is supported).

So you will need a 3rd party soundcard emulation.
SoundFX from www.softsystem.co.uk and VDMSound (freeware) from
http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/ can do that.

 

[Alex Marshall]

VDMSound usually works very well for emulating legacy sound cards. For some
games you can also find new engines that allow you to run them under
Windows. There is ScummVM for example which can be used to play most of the
old LucasArts adventure games with native sound support and enhanced
graphics. The 7th Guest and 11th Hour both have updates that allow them to
run in Windows using DirectX, and a project called Doomsday that can run
games such as Doom, Doom II, Hexen and Heretic under Windows with full sound
and OpenGL support.

 

[Aleksander Schalburg]

VDMSound usually works very well for emulating legacy sound cards. For some
games you can also find new engines that allow you to run them under
Windows. There is ScummVM for example which can be used to play most of the
old LucasArts adventure games with native sound support and enhanced
graphics. The 7th Guest and 11th Hour both have updates that allow them to
run in Windows using DirectX, and a project called Doomsday that can run
games such as Doom, Doom II, Hexen and Heretic under Windows with full sound
and OpenGL support.

You migt consider to install WIN98 in a separate partition. That way you can
run your games in WIN98 and other stuff as usual. It works neatly and best
if WIN 98 is installed first and then win 2000 (not update bur NEW install)
in another partition. You will then have the option when turning on your
computer to select which system you want for your session

Rgds
Aleksander