rec.autos.simulators

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There are no DOS drivers for the TM NASCAR Pro wheel.  The programs you
run simply poll the gameport.  If your sound/game card is set up
properly in Win95/8 you should have no problem running ICR2 in a DOS
box.  If you are trying to run it by booting to DOS, you will need to
make sure that your soundcard drivers are installed and configured
properly in the config.sys and autoexec.bat files.  

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    I'm beginning to feel like a big fat freakin' idiot here...these are the
reasons why I always played the Win95 version.

    Anyways...if I run ICR2 in a DOS box, I get joystick support (YAY!) and
sound support.  Unfortunately, I cannot configure my controls without
interference from the mouse (BOOH!).  I can use the default controls
included for joysticks, but that means that the wheel steers, pushing up on
the shifter accelerates, hitting the brake is reverse, and I have to use the
keypad to shift.  Not an ideal situation.

    If I try to run ICR2 in DOS mode, then I cannot use the sound because it
hangs on the initializing digital sound bit before it boots into the game.
The game setup program identifies it as a SB16 using port 220, IRQ 5 and DMA
1.  It's actually a SBLive! Value, but the SB16 compatibility mode uses
these values (but also has a high DMA of 5...no place to spec that in the
setup), so it looks good.  Is there some secret to getting a SBLive! card to
work with this in DOS mode, or is it a lost cause?  If anybody has done it,
I'd like to hear how.

    Or, barring that, could somebody please email me a copy of their
CONTROLS.CFG file that is set up for a Thrustmaster Nascar/Formula Pro?  I
could just replace the default file with the correct one and be ready to
roll in a DOS box...

    Thanks for all your past help, hoping for some future help now...

    FWIW, I did finally find the patch to fix the mouse problem, so I'm
running like a dream in a DOS box.  Full sound, no garbled tracks graphics,
steering wheel works, etc.
    Now if only it supported resolutions higher than 640x480.  The gfx
engine is so old, I could probably crank this at 100 fps on my system at
640x480...wouldn't it be great to have 1024x768 racing?  Oh well...