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arellano80
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noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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where I can get the driver and the complete application for Windows 3.1 and msdos 6.22 for Sound Blaster 16.

I can not make Text'LE work

I have gone down but some work one thing and the other does not work.

testing in pcem 13.1, I created a profile with AMI 486 Clone and Sound Blaster 16, with msdos 6.22 and Windows 3.11, but I can not get the full set of the driver for Sound Blaster 16. :?:

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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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I've this CD-ROM with some SB drivers: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsfYUL_MlCt-hNRfWrscUt-kVwkTdg (size is about 12MB)
See the readme files to know for what is each one.
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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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Google "vogons Sound Blaster 16"
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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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Run the SB16 installation disks from dos starting from the first floppy and point it to your Windows folder when it asks. Then the next time you start Windows 3.1 it should immediately set up the card and add program groups.
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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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VOGONS Vintage Driver Library:

Sound Blaster 16 Drivers:
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.ph ... enustate=0, everything works, but without textassist support.

Sound Blaster 16 CD:
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.ph ... enustate=0, it works half-way, textassist does not work, CSP.SYS fails.
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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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Hello friends, hope all is well. Sorry to bump this thread, but has anyone been able to make Sound Blaster's Text Assist to work on Windows 3.1/3.11?
I was able to kinda make it work on Windows 98 but so far could not make it work on Windows 3.11 whatsoever.

Just in case:
Machine I'm running within PCem: Award SiS 496/497
Intel DX4-75
8mb RAM
Sound Blaster 16

Error message I get on Singing Text: "The speech engine cannot be opened. Speech commands cannot be executed."
Error message I get on Text Assist's Control Pannel: "Unable to open driver".

I have installed all drivers possible to install in the machine, even SB's PnP Manager but to no avail up to this point.

I appreciate the help and insights.

Thanks!
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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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I dont know what to say, it worked perfectly for me on my emulated mr386 and awe32
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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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wishusknight wrote: Wed 10 Aug, 2022 12:23 pm I dont know what to say, it worked perfectly for me on my emulated mr386 and awe32
Hi wishukknight, thanks for the reply, I have tested by cloning the machine and switching to AWE32 but it didn't work as well, same error messages.

I have been trying everything possible but didn't manage to get it to work. I hop anyone could help on this as it's the only thing missing so I have the perfect 486 from my hey days! :)
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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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So I've given this another try and I'm still facing the same issue, in case anyone has any ideas I'm willing to try anything to overcome this. Thanks!
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Re: noob question Sound Blaster 16 dos6.22/w3.11

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Small update: I gave it another try by changing SB16's IRQ to 7, it was set to 5 before. I did this as SB's default IRQ in Dosbox is 7 and Text-to-speech works without issues there, however for some reason I still get the error message of the picture above. Also tried wishusknight Mr386 with AWE32, same error message.
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