I need some help with my computer.  My sound card does not work in DOS, but
my gameport (which is on the soundcard) does.  If it helps any, I am using
an IBM Mwave sound card, on an Acer Aspire 2461 Pentium 133.  My primary OS
is Win 95

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Does the sound card work in Windows?

The MWave stuff is weird, in that it uses software to do a lot of what other
hardware would do in the hardware.  I've never tried to get MWave anything
to work under DOS, but I suspect you would need a DOS program to be the
software half of the sound card.  Did it come with one, or is DOS considered
too old to support these days?

Yeah, a *lot* of the recent not-so-expensive add-ons save money by 
offloading brainpower to the OS.  "Home" modems especially, as well as 
Iomega products, some printers, etc.  Trouble is, outside of the target 
OS (typically Windows) the add-on won't work.

I'm fairly sure the MWave device built into my dad's IBM notebook came with
a modem driver for DOS, but I don't remember if it came with anything else
for DOS.

The MWave stuff does have a neat point.  Since it's all software, it was
possible to upgrade the modem from 14.4 to 28.8 just by downloading new
software.  I suppose I should look into whether it can be taken all the way
up to K56/Flex that way too.

The MWave card came with the computer.  I don't know if it came with any
software.  Should I check the MWave web site (assuming they have one) to try
to find the software I need, or should I just buy a Soundblaster?

Check the web site for a driver, which is likely to be there.  Awful lot 
of popular games still use DOS!  

The game port probably still works because game ports are pretty 
primitive anyway.

Ok.  THanks for the help

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