Rave from the grave: device drivers

[zeitghost]

I've got an ISA() board wot I dug out of the junk room.

Can anyone remember if I need a driver for Win98 (or 95) to do direct access on the damn thing?

Otherwise I suppose it's dos.

Ho hum.

[VectraMan]

Wasn't that what VxDs were for? I.e. a protected mode to real mode bridge. A Windows process isn't going to be able to directly access a physical address.

[AtW]

Depends on a board, they should have or had drivers, Windows 95 is likely or Windows 3.1 even.

Not many drivers for boards worked for DOS, apart from SoundBlasters and such popular ones.

[zeitghost]

It appears I can write some POS that'll run in a dos box on Win9x.

I suppose that may or may not be satisfactory.

The board is 20 years old, so it comes from the Win2 era.

And the files on the 5.25" diskette are in GWBasic.

Which Qbasic can't read apparently.


It appears that the card works.

And I found a copy of GWBASIC on an ancient 286 at home.

The hard disk of which is about 15 mins away from total disaster.

I paid £155 for that disk in 1991.

They just don't make things to last any more.

[xoggoth]

I remember that. Good it was.

[oversteer]

Does your qbasic have that game where the gorillas throw bananas at each other?

[zeitghost]

Sadly not; they don't seem to have included it in the "olddos.exe" from M$.