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[Double_H]

Hi ..
Im a Big Fan of Adventure Games
But i have a Problem with the sound while running Dos Box
i have windows 98
i dont think i have soundblaster ..but i have VIA audio Controler
and i dont know how to Find my I/O and IRQ

any help ????

[Tom Henrik]

DOSBox uses 7 IRQ as standard. Either that or 5.

[Double_H]

Originally posted by Tom Henrik@Nov 6 2004, 04:51 PM
DOSBox uses 7 IRQ as standard. Either that or 5.

i meant i dont know what is My sound card IRQ

How can i find it?

[Eagle of Fire]

If you have no clue, trial and errors should do the trick. That's what I did all the way back in the old days...

Be sure to write it up somewhere when you do find it tough...

[Unknown Hero]

Try every option available in game setup! On that way you'll find your IRQ! k:

[Tom Henrik]

When you use DOSBox, you don't have to worry about your own soundcard.

It uses SoundBlaster.

[Fenris]

I am not a DosBox expert but it does not matter which IRQ is used by your Soundcard. DosBox will emulate a virtual SoundCard. So the game will send all Sound Information to DosBox which will redirect it to your SoundCard automatically.

When you start DosBox there you will be several lines prompted, one of them should look like this:

Z:\>SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 T6

Now a short instruction on how to configure the Sound for a Dosgame played with DosBox:

220 => I/O Address
7 => IRQ
1 => DMA Channel
5 => High DMA Channel (if needed)

I hope this will help you.

[aaberg]

Fenris is right, no matter what hardware you have, you have a 8 bit or 16 bit soundblaster in dosbox. It's the same with memory and CD drives. No matter what your hardware is, dosbox turns your computer into a 286 or 386 with standard emulated hardware.

Originally posted by aaberg@Nov 6 2004, 10:37 PM
No matter what your hardware is, dosbox turns your computer into a 286 or 386 with standard emulated hardware.

Well, that's not entirely right I think. It depends actually on your machine how fast the emulation will be. The slower it is, the slower the emulation speed. Thus you can also say, the slower the emulated computer.

[aaberg]

Of course the emulation speed depends on the computer, but if you have a fast computer, you can always turn the speed down in dosbox. But that was not what I meant. What I meant was, that your other hardware (Soundcard, cd drive, processor type, etc) is a standard in Dosbox, which almost every game works on.