Live! - Windows 98 - old DOS games?

# I'd like to get my old Li've! Value card working with an old Windows 98SE machine so I can play some DOS games... ?I found the Win9x driver here. ?However, it doesn't appear to include any SB6 emulation drivers with it.
Sooo... Does anyone know where to get the Li've! SB6 emulation drivers so DOS games will work under Win98 ?
Thanks!?

ltwally wrote:
?Windows 98 includes AWE32 drivers, yes. But it only includes Windows drivers. It does not come with any drivers for DOS access.
DOS games still need some form of driver that provides DOS programs with hardware access - either an old TSR or Windows driver. Either way. But a DOS game will not work without one or the other. Back to square one, either way.
The "driver" you think you need is built into DOS games. Typically, you run a setup step where you choose your soundcard from a menu of choices that the game offers.
You probably also need an AUTOEXEC.BAT line, like:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D H5 P330? T6
The BLASTER variable is used by DOS programs for sound configuration information:
? Base I/O address? (A) 220
? IRQ??? (I) 5
? Low DMA??? (D)
? High DMA?? (H) 5
? MPU40 I/O address (P) 330
? SB type (SB6)? (T) 6
?This specifies an SB6 using the most-common values. I'm not sure how this differs when an AWE is involved, or even if it does.
Again, the only reason you need the DOS drivers for the SBLi've is that the card came along too late to get support in DOS programs, so you need a translation layer that makes it appear there is real SB6 (and MPU40) hardware which the DOS program can operate, but which is actually a translation to the capabilities of the SBLi've.
-Dave
?[email protected]

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