Not sure its relevant for AO486 and Windows 98 but I remember that VDMS sound was a great way back in the day to run DOS games under Windows. I think it worked very well under Windows XP as well. It helped make DOS under Windows support DOS audio cards.Neocaron wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 3:36 pmWell my experience on Windows 98 has been pretty stable, if that is any indication, not blazing fast, but stable.Caldor wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 1:18 pmYeah, that should work. Last I tried using Windows 98 in AO486 it was very unstable though, so I have been avoiding it since. I have gotten Daemon Tools to work under Windows 95 and it does support audio CDs, but I have not tested that part of Daemon Tools in AO486 yet.Neocaron wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:34 am
Yeah one of my idea as a solution for the music, is to mount the cd on deamon tool with analog audio activated on windows 98 (daemon tool works like a charm), but I have one hurdle and I wish I could get some idea to ge around it... For this to work I need ms-dos to start games in ms-dos windowed mode, but so far any game I tried to boot with dos 6.22, 7, even 8 are hanging at the start command.
If I manage to get Alien Trilogy to work in windowed mode, I'm pretty sure the music would be run by the deamon tool analog audio emulator with probably a performance penalty but it should work... Any idea on how to get that working? I remember as a kid being able to start these dos games and run them while windows 98 was running as well so it should be possible. And in my case Windows 98 as been very stable and usable, combine with QEEM. I can even play some native app like Caesar III.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated
As for DOS games under Windows 98. That should also work, but depends a lot on the game. Some games wont be happy to have Windows loaded into the memory and I do think with the games that are already pressed on performance like Duke Nukem 3D, they probably wont be happy about trying to run under Windows. I have been wanting to try again with Windows 98 to make a new installation and see if it might have gotten more stable since last I tried, which must be more than 6 months ago now.
Maybe I shoud try with windows 95, I used Daemon tool 3.47 if I recall correctly. But all the games I tried stalled in dos windowed mode (totally unrelated to daemon tool) so that had been frustrating. I also managed to install windows ME for the fun of it, using the upgrading path, it's the only way to get the video drivers to work.
Reading up on it, it might have only been XP, and probably also Windows 2000, because it seems to be Windows NT specific:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=2389