Privateer sound: two-soundcard solution (or not)

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BK255

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OK, here's the thing.

I went through all my old peripherals after I gave up on getting Privateer to not choke on my SBLive; I threw in an old Turtle Beach Montego (first-generation A3D) after I found out that it allowed for a DOS-only installation. I left the Live in and put the Montego into a spare PCI port (I know, Privateer wants an ISA card, but I ain't got no slots for one!), so - in theory - I've got one sound card working in DOS and the other working in Windows.

I plugged in the values of the Montego into Privateer's install program, and when I started up PRIV, the el-cheapo speakers I'd plugged into the Montego started playing the Privateer theme.

yay!

Only once the sound effects started, the digital speech and such turned to hash. I tried to lower the EMM386 memory from 16384 all the way down to 4096 in increments, but all that did was give me longer bursts of static.

Here's my config.sys:

device=himem.sys /testmem:off
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 16384 RAM I=B000-B7FF
dos=high,umb
rem device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
fileshigh=30
buffershigh=30
stacks=18,256
lastdrive=z

And my autoexec.bat:

@ECHO OFF
rem LH A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001
echo.
SET WINBOOTDIR=C:\TBEACH
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 T4
C:\TBEACH\ASP4DOS.COM
SET windir=C:\WINDOWS
rem SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
SET COMSPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\
SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET DIRCMD=/og /a /p
LOADHIGH=a:\MOUSE.COM
C:

Now, with SBEINIT not running or anything, the Live shouldn't be chewing up the resources for the Montego, as far as I can tell ... of course, maybe I totally misunderstood something about how it works.

Is there a solution that doesn't involve me yanking out my Live and totally messing up my setup?

Thanks.

BK
 
Take 2 on config.sys

Ak - should have disabled smilies.

Config.sys:
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 16384 RAM I=B000-B7FF
dos=high,umb
rem device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
fileshigh=30
buffershigh=30
stacks=18,256
lastdrive=z
 
Cancel that...

Pulled the Montego, threw in a Creative Ensoniq PCI - found DOS drivers for all non-Live Creative cards, and they seem to work pretty well - and lo and behold, the machine spoke.

As a public service, I will post the working autoexec and config tomorrow, that others might benefit; it's too late for me to think tonight...

Sorry for the bother.
 
Re: Cancel that...

Originally posted by BK255
Pulled the Montego, threw in a Creative Ensoniq PCI - found DOS drivers for all non-Live Creative cards, and they seem to work pretty well - and lo and behold, the machine spoke.

As a public service, I will post the working autoexec and config tomorrow, that others might benefit; it's too late for me to think tonight...

Sorry for the bother.
Click to expand...
Hey, schweet! Thanx in advance for the info you'll provide.
 
Config, autoexec

Bear in mind, I got the drivers for the Creative cards from someplace, don't quite remember where - the file name is sbpci.zip, for what that's worth in a Google search.

And also bear in mind, this is NOT a perfect solution, merely one that works. After a while, the sound begins to deteriorate somewhat, getting more static-y; haven't figured out a workaround for that.

My config.sys:

device=himem.sys /testmem:off
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 8192 RAM I=B000-B7FF D=128
dos=high,umb
rem device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
fileshigh=30
buffershigh=30
stacks=18,256
lastdrive=z

My autoexec.bat:

@ECHO OFF
rem LH A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001
echo.

rem For SB Ensoniq PCI
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET SBPCI=C:\DOSDRV
C:\DOSDRV\SBLOAD
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT

rem For Montego
rem SET WINBOOTDIR=C:\TBEACH
rem SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4
rem C:\TBEACH\ASP4DOS.COM

SET windir=C:\WINDOWS
rem SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
SET COMSPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\
SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET DIRCMD=/og /a /p

LOADHIGH=a:\MOUSE.COM

C:

...

I refused to load the drivers for the Creative Ensoniq into Windows, so Windows Me sees only the SBLive I have installed; conversely, the DOS boot disk only sees the Ensoniq.

As an aside: I just got a copy of the Privateer CD from eBay, and read in the installation manual that it can use *either* EMS or XMS memory?

Don't know what to make of it, but I'll dupe my boot disk and see if anything comes of it... no guarantees, though.

BK
 
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