SB Emulation in MS-DOS/Windows 98 SE B-8
Music Options
Most MS-DOS games offer a menu choice for sound when they start up. If you have
a choice between General MIDI and MT-32, always choose General MIDI, since it will
provide you with the best sound quality. If you need to use MT-32, you must first
switch from the General MIDI instrument set (the default) to the MT-32 instrument
set using SBEMIXER. Be sure to switch back to the General MIDI set when you are
finished using the MT-32 instrument set.
Digital Audio
Options
Sound Blaster Audigy supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16,
and Adlib digital audio emulation. If an application provides all these as options,
specify the choices in this order:
1. Sound Blaster 16
2. Sound Blaster Pro
3. Sound Blaster
4. Adlib
MS-DOS Mode
Utilities
The Sound Blaster Audigy card includes a few MS-DOS utilities. These utilities
require the Sound Blaster Audigy DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to be loaded.
SBECFG.EXE
Use the SBECFG.EXE utility to obtain the hardware settings and the status of the
Sound Blaster Audigy card. Typing
SBECFG.EXE
at the command prompt displays
the following hardware settings:
❑
PCI Hardware Settings: Port, IRQ
❑
Sound Blaster Emulation: Port, IRQ, DMA
❑
MPU-401 Emulation (GM, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1) Emulation: Port
❑
Adlib Emulation: Port
The emulation settings appear only if they are enabled.