SBlive, Virtual PC & Dos 6.22

mjfmn · October 15th, 2003, 09:45 PM

Hi, thanks in advance for reading this. I have an SBLive WDM in my system, currently running XP. I wanted to play the old Dos games so installed Virtual PC 5.1, and installed Dos 6.22 on that. I've found different dos drivers for SB Live and tried them, configuring my config.sys & autoexec.bat files, but I keep getting the same error when I boot the virtual PC: PCI device detect failed. Is there a way to get dos to detect my PCI soundcard? Has anyone gotten this to work before? Thanks again! Mike

These are the first 4 lines in my autoexec.bat right now:
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\drv\creative\dosdrv
C:\DRV\CREATIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

TripleRLtd · October 15th, 2003, 10:02 PM

Welcome to Windrivers mjfmn!!!
We are going to need more than that!!!
What dos game are we talking about??
First, go to their website and see what THEY have to say about working in dos mode with XP.
Let us know, alright?

Rellik · October 15th, 2003, 11:41 PM

The thing about these Virtual PC programs is that the sound is emulated and the actual drivers for the SB Live won't work, so you need to find out what drivers will work.

To quote from the manual:

Quote:

Virtual PC provides 16-bit, 44-kHz sound input through Sound Blaster 16 emulation. This means that you can use a microphone to record sound directly into PC sound applications running on a guest PC.

Quote:

Component Guest PC emulated hardware
BIOS.............AMI BIOS
Chipset..........Intel 440BX
Sound Card.....Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ISA
Network Card...DEC or Intel 21140 10/100
Video Card.......S3 Trio 32/64 PCI with 8MB VRAM

Quote:

Sound

Emulates Creative Labs ISA Sound Blaster 16 card
Supports both DSP (sound effects) and FM synthesis (music)
Emulation includes two Yamaha OPL2 chips as well as a CT1345 mixer
Sound card is configured to use a base port of 0x220, IRQ 5, and DMA channel 1 (for 8 bit) or 5 (for 16 bit)
Supports 8-bit and 16-bit sound input and output

You may not even need drivers for dos, all you need to do is configure the game to use the above settings

confus-ed · October 17th, 2003, 06:58 AM

The only 'sure' way to get DOS games working properly is to run them from a real DOS prompt on a real DOS partition or disk .... none of this emulation pants !

So that means either dual boot or run your games on an 'old clunker'

.... much, much, much, much, much, much, much SIMPLER !

Archer · October 17th, 2003, 08:26 AM

As Confused has suggested either use a dos partition or a dos boot disk for easier configuration.

October 15th, 2003, 09:45 PM	#1
mjfmn Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1	SBlive, Virtual PC & Dos 6.22 Hi, thanks in advance for reading this. I have an SBLive WDM in my system, currently running XP. I wanted to play the old Dos games so installed Virtual PC 5.1, and installed Dos 6.22 on that. I've found different dos drivers for SB Live and tried them, configuring my config.sys & autoexec.bat files, but I keep getting the same error when I boot the virtual PC: PCI device detect failed. Is there a way to get dos to detect my PCI soundcard? Has anyone gotten this to work before? Thanks again! Mike These are the first 4 lines in my autoexec.bat right now: SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 SET CTSYN=C:\drv\creative\dosdrv C:\DRV\CREATIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

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October 15th, 2003, 10:02 PM	#2
TripleRLtd Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: SW Florida...eye of the storm. Posts: 7,251	Welcome to Windrivers mjfmn!!! We are going to need more than that!!! What dos game are we talking about?? First, go to their website and see what THEY have to say about working in dos mode with XP. Let us know, alright?

October 17th, 2003, 06:58 AM	#4
confus-ed Geezer Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: In front of my PC.... Posts: 13,091	The only 'sure' way to get DOS games working properly is to run them from a real DOS prompt on a real DOS partition or disk .... none of this emulation pants ! So that means either dual boot or run your games on an 'old clunker' .... much, much, much, much, much, much, much SIMPLER !

October 17th, 2003, 08:26 AM	#5
Archer Registered User Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Blighty Posts: 4,224	As Confused has suggested either use a dos partition or a dos boot disk for easier configuration.