Cool that it worked! Be aware that jemm (from FreeDOS) causes crashes in some games, so you might want to look for a list of incompatible games before you pursue that option.
Hi Rees, thanks for testing it! It's been awhile since I tested SBEMU on a couple of my machines, glad they keep improving it and now it work on even more chipsets!
An extremely timely video for me; I finally got a screen for my trash-rescued Compaq Evo D510 SFF (which I've already tried FreeDOS on earlier). It has ac97, but I also have picked up an SB Live! and an SB 128 along the way.. and it looks like with Live! I have a good chance of getting the sound working in DOS, using SBEMU? Pretty exciting!
It's certainly how I first played Wolfenstein 3D back in the day, and I remember hearing it on a friend's PC with an Adlib card and being completely blown away. By the time we got Doom we had a PC with a SoundBlaster clone (ESS AudioDrive IIRC) so I never really experienced the PC speaker in Doom, but as expected they did a really good job with it.
Nice. I love modern solutions like this. There are so many very early 2000's "office" machines in e-waste that with a few tweaks can become very useful gaming systems with innovations like this.
Wow awesome vid and gives a great re-purpose to many early to mid 2000s PCs. Wonder if this makes the previous very good parallel port hardware solution now effectively redundant? Be great to see a vid comparing the two for e.g. game compatibility and sound quality
I recently tested this on a Lenovo gaming laptop because SBEMU has Intel HD audio support and let me tell you, playing Epic Pinball on a Core i7 laptop with a faulty GPU, with proper sound blaster audio coming out of it is nothing short of hilarious 🤣
Imo one of the best uses for emulation on DOS PCs is MAME 0.37b14, it runs a lot of earlier 80s arcade games quite well even on an MMX233 so it'd do even better on something like this.
The desk is awesome! Doom is awesome!! Everything is awesome!!! :)
Agreed!
Cool that it worked! Be aware that jemm (from FreeDOS) causes crashes in some games, so you might want to look for a list of incompatible games before you pursue that option.
Thanks for the tip!
Hi Rees, thanks for testing it! It's been awhile since I tested SBEMU on a couple of my machines, glad they keep improving it and now it work on even more chipsets!
Very glad to see you try this on here, lol at the shareware copy claiming Doom to be a sequel to Wolf3D though.
An extremely timely video for me; I finally got a screen for my trash-rescued Compaq Evo D510 SFF (which I've already tried FreeDOS on earlier). It has ac97, but I also have picked up an SB Live! and an SB 128 along the way.. and it looks like with Live! I have a good chance of getting the sound working in DOS, using SBEMU? Pretty exciting!
Glad to hear that it was useful, I'm certainly looking at producing a more in depth look at SBEMU in future. 😁
You keep improving that desk and Gene may want it back. 🤣🤣🤣
Finders keepers!
Ironically, PC speaker is the way I remember Doom. Thanks for the vid!
It's certainly how I first played Wolfenstein 3D back in the day, and I remember hearing it on a friend's PC with an Adlib card and being completely blown away. By the time we got Doom we had a PC with a SoundBlaster clone (ESS AudioDrive IIRC) so I never really experienced the PC speaker in Doom, but as expected they did a really good job with it.
Nice. I love modern solutions like this. There are so many very early 2000's "office" machines in e-waste that with a few tweaks can become very useful gaming systems with innovations like this.
\m/ Superb video as always Rees!
Wow awesome vid and gives a great re-purpose to many early to mid 2000s PCs. Wonder if this makes the previous very good parallel port hardware solution now effectively redundant? Be great to see a vid comparing the two for e.g. game compatibility and sound quality
I recently tested this on a Lenovo gaming laptop because SBEMU has Intel HD audio support and let me tell you, playing Epic Pinball on a Core i7 laptop with a faulty GPU, with proper sound blaster audio coming out of it is nothing short of hilarious 🤣
Nice work! you should also try some of those old DOS emulators, like x128 that will turn that desk into a ZX Spectrum.
Imo one of the best uses for emulation on DOS PCs is MAME 0.37b14, it runs a lot of earlier 80s arcade games quite well even on an MMX233 so it'd do even better on something like this.
@@thepirategamerboy12 indeed - when I used to visit my mum she had this old 286 and I got my gaming fix by firing that up.
YES!
Huzzah!
The only bad thing about it is the drive yellowing. Otherwise it's gorgeous.
What's the memory footprint like?
Good question, I shall have to investigate
I dont get it, why you dont play doom at win98 if theres driver for the ac97?