Win98SE in DOS mode on a PentiumIII machine with a Crystal Sound Card

Hi guys

I have to have a DOS program running on a pc. I have installed Win98SE on a machine and audio is working fine in this environment. I want to make a DOS program play sound from the DOS mode. I have tried to enter DOS in various ways. However, I can't seem to get it to work with sound.

My question is what should be loaded in the config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to produce sound in DOS? I expect that the driver for the audio card, as well as a DirectX should be installed? (Is the DX necessary).

When this is done. Is it needed to program the software in any special way or simply to program when sound is needed?

I know DOS is a long time ago. Nevertheless, I hope one of you can help me.

Best regards

Martin from Denmark

 

When trying to get a program to work in dos, forget about window's drivers. DirectX is for games running under the windows operating system environment, not for a dos based game at all.
You would need to load the sound card drivers from either Config.Sys or Autoexec.Bat, it depends on the card manufacturer and the driver as to which. Some can use both for different files. I have seen most of them use the Config.Sys file, using a command similar to one of these.
Device=C:\Folder\Driver.Exe

In Autoexec.Bat;
C:\Folder\Driver.Exe

Look through your driver files for a Text file telling which file(s) to use.

Some of these dos games need to be configured individually by their own configuation program.
In this respect you would need to know it's address (ex. a220), the IrQ in use (ex. i7), and it's DMA (ex d1).
While in windows, open a Dos window, type in set and press Enter. You may see a line similar to this. This is the info you will need in this respect.
Blaster=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 E620

This info may also be found in the Text files for the card.