CH>   Just wondering. I am on a Win2000 box and downloaded some
 CH> source code (serveral infact) for playing sound bits through
 CH> the sound blaster.

if its the source stuff that we used to play with back in the DOS days,
then you problem would appear to be that win2000 doesn't allow direct
access to the hardware like win9x and earlier did...

to play sound files in your current environment, you may have to switch to
a compiler and such so that you can access the windows internal APIs
directly... you won't be setting any DMA or IRQ settings at all because you
can't gain direct access to the hardware...

what error message/code (exactly) do you get when you try your current methods?

not all lowlevel coding is/was done with the REGS structures... some are
done with inline or ASM... if you are trying to link in a precompiled OBJ
file, you can't tell what's being done in there...

)\/(ark