Theoretically for most dos games you only need to put "SET BLASTER=a220 i5 d1" or something else along those lines into your config.sys file to get sound working, as most games have their own customized drivers built in.

Zone 66 is notorious for being difficult to run. You might want to just stick with DOSBox in this case.

Gramcon wrote:

The game's help file says to boot with nothing in memory, but how am I supposed to get sound without loading a driver????

Perplexed, I played this game back in 1996, wish I could remember how I did it.

Some drivers load differently than others. (SBINIT.COM and SBEINIT.COM, used for PCI Sound Blaster cards, require EMS, for example.)

You might be able to get away with loading a driver and then doing a soft-boot with CTRL-ALT-DEL (but not by pressing the Reset button or shutting down the computer), being sure to specify the appropriate SET BLASTER line.

Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm still getting nothing. Just setting the blaster variable without a driver does nothing with these sound cards. I also tried an ESS1868. I'm going to try a Creative ISA card next, but I'll have to purchase it. I would like to go oldschool and not use emulation...

The computer I'm working with is kind of a kludge -- a Compaq LTE/Elite 4/75 laptop connected to a docking station. The docking station adds an IDE hard drive, cd-rom, and two ISA expansion slots, one of which I've populated with a sound card.

The cool thing with this setup is there's a switch on the back that lets me choose which hard drive to boot -- the notebook HDD which loads WIN95, and the docking station HDD that loads DOS. I like this old rig -- built to last.