Posted by Sirwinston on 21, 2001 at 3:53 AM:
In Reply to: Re: The best of both worlds... posted by Ohso on 20, 2001 at 6:16 PM:
I never thought about forcing IRQ values; I always have so much hardware in my system that the SB16 emulation, when I've tried it, has always given me weird values that DOS games don't really like. I must say that I like having the AWE64 for DOS games, though, if for no other reason than that some of the later c. 1995-7 DOS based games have special sound modes to take advantage of the AWE32/64 line. I have heard that the Live! produces a "cleaner" sound though.
I might have to try that when I finally have to upgrade to a board with no ISA slots. As it is, I've been making the presence of at least one ISA slot a prerequisite for buying any motherboard, but sooner or later the ISA will be dropped entirely.
I too collect a lot of older DOS games, and old "demo scene" stuff as well. I finally completed the Commander Keen series last night--it took me the longest time to find a working link for #6.
The only thing that bothers me is that, when I finally build my own cabinet, I'm going to want to write an interface for all these disparate games, from MAME and other emulators to old DOS games to Q3 and Elite Force and Alice, to make them all available in a way that makes sense and looks good from one unified desktop. The more Dos and Win and Mac games I get, the more complicated that's going to be. ;-)
Oh, the sweet pain I will be enduring at that point... :-)