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piemanmoo
29-10-2005, 04:19 AM
long story short, as I dont want to bore you to death with tales of my life, I found this old CD-ROM recently that I haven't played in about 10 years. It's this old game called 3-D DINOSAUR ADVENTURE, and from the system requirements, it seems like it was from the Cretaceous Period itself. Now, I've got the game set up, but the sound driver it needs is called Sound Blaster 16, and my fancy sound driver of the future doesn't seem to work with it.

So the question is, how can I get the sound from the game to play on my computer? I have Windows XP, and the driver I ahve right now is Realtek AC97 Audio, I think. Anyways, what do I have to download to get it to work?
da-geezer
29-10-2005, 04:25 AM
ah yes, back in the day when drivers for specific sound cards were bundled with the games.

Is it possible to switch the driver from SB16 to SoundBlaster Pro, or to SoundBlaster AWE32? Most DSP chips and sound cards are SoundBlaster compatible; try all the SoundBlaster options in the config menu first.

If it doesn't budge from SoundBlaster 16, then I'll pass it on to the next guy.
Paradigm^
29-10-2005, 11:05 AM
I have a SoundBlaster 16 card.

Not in my computer, of course, but it's one of the things I rescued from my mum's old 3.11 machine before it got sent to PC heaven.
rob.nunn
29-10-2005, 04:39 PM
I've got an ISA-socket (8MHz & 16bit all the way) soundcard in a still-running machine.

DOS gameage! yay!
Lagmeister
29-10-2005, 04:44 PM
I wish I still had my old 486 working, it was great, the original wolf, duck tales, diggory, it roxxored.
Eccles
30-10-2005, 12:16 AM
It sounds like it's DOS based. If so, you may have some luck with DOSBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net), which is am emulator aimed at getting old DOS games working.
rob.nunn
30-10-2005, 04:19 AM
Oh my, I have stumbled across teh helpfulness...

essential DOS-in-Windows utilities list (http://www.dosgames.com/essential.php)

The 5th one down sounds (ha-ha) like exactly what you need:

VDMSound-

DOS Soundblaster Emulator for Windows NT/2000/XP:
If you are running Windows NT/2000/XP and would like to have sound in your DOS applications, VDMSound is a Soundblaster emulator which will allow you to do just that!

Hope that helps.