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Re: PCI sound card for MSDOS 6 or Opendos 7 ?

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From: Bill
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 00:00
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In article <7dnrgsc2311feuus98lov79820lmiluhge@4ax.com>, Peter D. Hill
<peter@skyshack.demon.co.uk> writes
>I have got a Sound blaster PCI64V and it won't work in dos mode even
>from Dos7.  Win95 says code 2 error?  Int 5 is set to Legacy (ie: not
>PCI/PNP) and is free, LPT int share on or off has no effect.  If
>Legacy Emulation is on then Int 7 has to be switched between Legacy
>and PCI/PNP every time it boots else no sound in Win95.  

I can't check as my card is not in a machine at the moment, but the
original Ensoniq AudioPCI on which this PCI64 card is based was supposed
to work in real mode DOS.

The Ensoniq paperwork suggests that it needs the DOS driver, apinit.com,
which in turn requires Emm386.exe to be loaded.

Two other relevant DOS programs are apconfig.exe and apmixer.exe, with
the obvious functions. I think these will respond to the /? parameters
to give a help file.

Ensoniq's documentation implies that the thing should work from raw DOS,
but elsewhere implies that the drivers should be loaded from
Dosstart.bat when reverting to real DOS, and the 'book' starts by saying
that the card requires W3.1 or W95. 

Sorry I can't help more, but maybe these clues will point somewhere?
-- 
Bill Holt              bill@itsound.demon.co.uk
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From: Bill <Bill@itsound.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: PCI sound card for MSDOS 6 or Opendos 7 ?
Date: 2000/05/02
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