Whenever I run the program, I get an error that says “BLASTER environment not found, what the?!…”. Whats wrong?
NT2 requires your soundcard to have DOS drivers. You can usually find out if you have DOS drivers by typing “set” at the command prompt. There should be a line that says “BLASTER=(your config)”. Your soundcard maker should have DOS drivers on their website or installation discs (i.e. Soundblaster PCI / Live! / Audigy users will have to enable “Soundblaster ISA Legacy emulation support” in their windows system properties, in sacrifice of a free port, IRQ, DMA…). A: NT2 might not work on an operating system that doesn’t allow a program to communicate directly with the hardware. Full DOS compatibility is reccomended. However, for people with Windows 2000 / XP (and shoddy OEM legacy emulation drivers for newer sound cards), a possible solution is to execute NT2 with VDMSound. NT2’s output might have a bit of latency (although user-adjustable), but will nevertheless sound flawless on the newer OS’ enviroments if configured correctly. Furthermore, virtualization software that is able to de