How to get sound in MS-DOS.?

Question

How to get sound in MS-DOS.?

Answer 1

Hi from Brazil Natasha,

In the autoexec.bat, located in C:\, you need to add a command line, to execute the program that controls the sound on your computer. I´ve done this a lot, in the 90's to play Quake or Duke Nukem, but today, with the "Prompt of MSDos" you dont need to do this action again...

Send me email if you want, asking more about it....

Kisses...

Answer 2

For the sound card to work properly in MS-DOS, the MS-DOS drivers must be downloaded and/or the autoexec.bat and config.sys must have lines specified within them. The lines in the autoexec.bat may look similar to:

SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND  

The above line is specifying where the sound drivers are located. In the above example, this is the location of the creative labs sound card drivers.

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6

In the above line this is specifying the sound card settings. Below is a listing of each of the important settings and what they represent:

A220 = The Input/Output Range

I5 = Interrupt Request

D1 = Direct Memory Access

The above settings are generally always used with most sound cards. If you are unsure of your settings when configuring a sound card in a MS-DOS game it is recommended you try the above three settings first