LPT Sound Card In CD Drive is Almost Awesome

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Published on November 17, 2018 2:46:42 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAlkgAaX4A4

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This sounds so good on paper to add sound to a 486 laptop. Unfortunately, it has one problem.


I really want to like this, it is just so limited by the Windows requirement. If there were a way to get this thing working in DOS it would be perfect. Well, maybe not this, one of the thin drives would be better.

My DOS knowledge isn't the best, so I don't know if it would be possible to somehow force the W95 driver to work under DOS. I imagine it's using some more complex features of W95 though. A standalone TSR program for 386 and 486 could probably be written to redirect the output. But that would require some significant reverse engineering. I'd almost rather make my own laptop from scratch with an onboard SB16.

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