Re:A Sound Card Before Its Time
by rahimnathwani on Friday August 17, 2018 @06:55AM
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I just remembered now. My PC at the time had an IBM Blue Lightning processor, and (I guess) IBM chipset motherboard. The PC wasn't IBM-branded, but had a sticker on it that said it was manufactured by IBM in Scotland.
Anyway, the SB 16 worked fine in Windows 3.1 and in Linux (Slackware, with kernel 1.1.59), but it didn't work properly in DOS for some reason.
I looked online and found that others with the same chipset had the same problem, and no one had found a solution.
So the only way to play Doom with sound on that computer, was to run the Linux version.
Anyway, the SB 16 worked fine in Windows 3.1 and in Linux (Slackware, with kernel 1.1.59), but it didn't work properly in DOS for some reason.
I looked online and found that others with the same chipset had the same problem, and no one had found a solution.
So the only way to play Doom with sound on that computer, was to run the Linux version.