Greetings;
For the past week I have been experimenting with the ancient operating systems (dos, windows 1 through 2000 Pro). One of my accomplishments was making sound work in Windows 95c running in Workstation 9 hardware mode (see below).
However, I do still have two unknown devices showing in device manager. Unknown Devices Beta 1.4.20 gives the following information about them:
Has anyone had any luck in finding Windows 95 compatible drivers for these two devices?
As for making sound work in Windows 95c while still at Workstation 9, I used the following steps:
- Create a new VM of type "Other" and version "MS-DOS"
- FDISK and format /s the hard drive
- Copy your DOS/Windows 3.x soundblaster 16 install package to the newly formatted hard drive and install it (I used the default c:\sb16 location)
- This generated the following AUTOEXEC.BAT lines for me:
SET SOUND=C:\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S
C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q
Change your VM to type "Windows" version "Windows 95"
- Install Windows 95 normally and you should have sound.
- Continue on with installing vmware tools and the rest of your Windows 95 configuration.