That’s awesome everyone, thanks for the insight. It sounds a lot more involved
than I first expected. I’m going to read up on what you guys are talking about
and go from there!
> On Sep 15, 2020, at 7:05 AM, ZB <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:45:46PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>> Actually you can even find relatively modern quad core
>> computers with IDE :-) The problem is that when you want
>> DOS compatible sound hardware, you want something with
>> ISA slots and those went out of fashion 20 years ago.
>
> Yes, that's the best choice - but if not available, then more recent mobo
> with chipset featuring DDMA ("Distributed DMA") also won't be that bad.
>
>> There are a few PCI soundcards with limited DOS support:
>> Some come with drivers which simulate a SoundBlaster, but
>> those do not work with protected mode games, while others
>> use hardware tricks which only work on mainboard chipsets
>> which still have a bit of ISA style even while the boards
>> have no have actual ISA slots.
>
> That "bit of ISA style" is called DDMA.
>
> Probably the best choice among a few PCI-soundcards working under DOS will
> be Yamaha YMF-724/744.
>
> More about this:
> https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=48553
> https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=48133#p497926
> --
> regards,
> Zbigniew
>
>
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