[psk] Running DOS programs with generic]

[Andre' Kesteloot]

John Rabson wrote:

> -----FW: <XFMail.990407193335.hugo.rabson@zetnet.co.uk>-----
>
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 19:33:35 -0000 ()
> From: Hugo Rabson <hugo.rabson@zetnet.co.uk>
> To: John Rabson <word.factory@zetnet.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: FW: [Lowfer] Re: [psk] Running DOS programs with generic sou
>
> Hi,
>
> My father suggested to me that I might be able to help you. I've been
> playing with SoundBlasters & laptops lately.
>
> Have you established what chipset your laptop's sound device uses? It
> would help a lot. You could go to www.windrivers.com & see if they have
> drivers (for Windows, you heard me right *g*); then, you could find out
> who provides them & ask those people if they have DOS drivers too. (I don't
> think there's a site dedicated to DOS drivers, you see.)
>
> Also, have you considered the possibility that the hardware is supported
> by the "Sound Blaster clone" driver(s) floating around? A lot of DOS-based
> software - games, for example - manage to support all manner of eccentric
> sound cards. I'm running a Toshiba 4020 with some bizarre sound chip AND
> YET not only does MS DOS's Sound Blaster driver work just fine, so does
> Linux's SB driver (8-bit only). Just a thought.
>
> Hugo
>
> On 07-Apr-99 John Rabson wrote:
> >
> > -----FW: <Pine.GSO.3.95.990404190016.14062J-100000@oso.slonet.org>-----
> > On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Rick Williams wrote:
> >> I am successfully running the built in sound card that comes with the
> >> Gateway 350 Pentium II machine I recently purchased. It works well on
> >> any MS
> >> Windows application.
> >>
> >> The problem is that there are no DOS drivers that I am aware of that
> >> came
> >> with the card. So when you run a DOS program in the DOS box or as a
> >> full
> >> blown DOS program, the programs indicate that there is no sound card
> >> installed.
> >>
> >> The sound card is a Crystal 3D made by Crystal Semiconductor.
> >>
> >> By the way, does anyone know of a send/receive progam that actually
> >> operates
> >> as a true widows program for either rtty or cw? It seems that with the
> >> various hooks that windows has in gaming and sound etc. nowadays, and
> >> the
> >> faster machines, that it would be possible to write programs completely
> >> in
> >> windows and not use DOS anymore. Or is DOS still that much faster that
> >> you
> >> need to do things as a DOS program?
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Rick Williams, KV9U
> >> Misty Ridge Farm
> >> Heifer Raisers
> >> Viroqua, WI
> >>
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