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Hi all, I am glad to see things continuing here
I have been away for a while, just back.

I have set up a new -old system and
am trying to configure it to play some of
my library of older games, and am having
problems with the sound,

I set up a Win 98SE system with 20 GB
HD and 512 RAM, plus a Audigy Z3 Sound
card and Geforce FX 5500 Video Card with256
RAM, which I am hoping will play the olddies
up to the more reasoanble new ones like URU
and so forth. My tech who set it up said it
would play the older ones fine, but so far
Discworld I plays fine but NO sound at all, and
Heart of China ditto, plays fine, but no sound.

My previous 98SE office computer used to
play everything fine, it just has an old Soundblaster
Card and simple video card, Kyrandia, and all
were fine with all sound, I just tried Discworld
on it, and got the sound effects but no music and
Heart of China would not even start, it says:

unable to initalize the sound driver, sound card
interrupt is already in use by another card.

from my research , my office computer has
a netword card in it and may be causing that
problem.
my own computer may need VDM? Not sure,
do you have any thoughts? I would appreciate
any suggstions.
thanks in advance.
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I really am a bit rusty with the whole IRQ, DMA h@ll, but you could run the command SET from the command line. One of the lines appearing should be something like
.The game expect the soundcard to respond on the addresses specified in the BLASTER variable. Instead, some other card is using them.

You should check the 'Hardware Manager' (in Windows) to see if there are any exclamation marks in the list of devices. If there are, you have a conflict and have to change either the soundcard setting or the other card (the Network card might be it). Depending on the type of card and driver you might be able to set the adresses form Windows. Some older cards require you to set a jumper on the card itself and some network cards (3COM 3c509 and 3c905's especially) only let you set these from a special boot disk.

Hope this helps a bit :)

thanks Reup, I will check to see, I did glance at the Device
manager this AM and it appeard to have no conflicts, I suspect
that the new network card and set up has taken a port
that the sound card wants, but i will have to tinker with it,
i have my own new system to use, so if i can use VDM then I will
be fine, thanks again

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Try installing a DOS sound driver for your sound card