BG>> OS/2 is next to hopeless for GM support, although I run my Roland
GT>Thanks for your suggestion Bill, are any of these cards able to play the
GT>GM music used in dos games under OS/2 ?
GT>As in Doom where music is General Midi and sound effects are in FM .

I notice Bill made a suggestion that you probably need to install MMOS/2.

If you _ONLY_ want to use your sound card for running DOS games (and that's
all I use mine for, and that almost never anyway - I prefer to play
Marathon on my Macintosh 8-) then you are best to install MMOS/2 then
remark out EVERYTHING except the .SYS driver for the card (the reason you
may need to leave this driver in is because some cards don't exist until
they've been inited by a driver, and it's friendlier to use the OS/2 driver
than the DOS driver in a VDM).

In this configuration, your DOS games will get unrestricted access to the
audio hardware and you won't experience the performance hit sustained by
those games bonking the hardware through a VDD.

My work machine uses a Vibra 16. I get YM3812 and OPL3 music out of the
games which of course I never, ever run anywhere near that machine. (But
anyway, there's my Performa 5200CD next to that machine, and Marathon,
Marathon 2, and Marathon Infinity, Star Trek Judgment Rites, and more...
;-)

My BBS machine uses a PAS16. When I get frustrated with what I'm doing on
my notebook, I fire up Extreme Pinball, Machine Heads, et al on the BBS and
release some tension. Again, I get OPL3 music out of that (and 16-bit
stereo PCM effects).


BTW, Doom uses FM for music and PCM for audio, just like other games. There
are very few games that simulate effects in FM, because it's CPU-intensive.
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Another World.

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0412809805 * http://www.zws.com/
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