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Re: Sound help for Win/OS2 and DOS session

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bikeguychicago@gmail.com wrote:
> I installed eCS 2.1 on old Thinkpad R60 laptop in inherrited. The sound works fine under eCS itself. It does not work, however, under Win-OS/2 or DOS sessions.
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> I'm trying to figure out how to get sound working under these environments. Since the R60, wasn't an OS/2 supported machine from Lenovo, there aren't any Win-OS/2 or DOS sound driver available on the Lenovo web site. Are there generic drivers that can be used instead?
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> Also, it's been quite a number of years since I last used OS/2 or a derivative, so I'll need some hand-holding and lots of instructions on what I need to do to install any required drivers.
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

You're pretty well out of luck for sound on DOS and WinOS2 unless you 
have really old hardware.
One option is to use DosBox, somewhat slow but good for many old games
Dave

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Sound help for Win/OS2 and DOS session bikeguychicago@gmail.com - 2017-03-17 19:45 -0700
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