Retro PC Gaming part3

Well I guess this Geforce 2 GTS is starting to grow on me. It's not all that terrible looking after all if you do some tweaking with it. I've adjusted the color profile and bumped up the digital vibrance, both made a pretty big difference.

This used Sound Blaster card was a bit of a hassle to get working properly and I still have two devices in my hardware manager that are not set up correctly. I believe one of them is the legacy 16 bit sound blaster compatability. From what I have read there is supposed to be 2 drivers for the sound blaster live in 98, one for the windows driver and one for the dos driver. I am not sure yet if this is correct. It does seem, however that all my sound is working ok on windows programs, but not with older DOS programs. There is currently nothing in my DOS autoexec.bat and config.sys files that are located in the c:\ directory. I have tried running some DOS games in "real DOS mode" as well and still no sound. I am starting to think maybe this sound blaster live is a little 2 new to handle older DOS programs but I really haven't dug into the problem enough yet to give up on it. I may have faired better if I had purchased a sound blaster 128 PCI or even this Ensoniq card I was looking at. I do have another machine, a 266 Pentium 2 with a Sound Blaster AWE 64 ISA card in it. Even under 98 this seems to work better on DOS games.

Basically I have forgotten a lot about setting up 98. I used to be a pro at this stuff and now it's like speaking French (well maybe not that bad) but has it been so long. I have been struggling to jar my memory back into shape on things like config.sys and autoexec.bat files. Another thing I seem to be experiencing is that it's like picking through the runes of a lost city trying to get information on some of this stuff. It just seems like finding the info I need for 98 is harder then finding info on the newer operating systems. That is mainly the reason I decided to document my journey here. Don't get me wrong, I know there are a lot smarter guys than I am out there, but when it comes to PCs there isn't a whole lot I can't figure out on my own. The other alternative is to run DOSBox on this P3 but that is just sort of killing the point then. I think the best thing to do is probably have use my P2 266Mhz to run these types of older dos programs. I am even starting to think about just running plain old DOS 6.22 on it. I might give Windows 95 as it's really just sort of a DOS shell. I'll get back to this, sorry if I sounded a bit scatterbrained but I am brainstorming while I am writing this.