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The question: >>"....3. Has anyone had any luck geting any games at all to work with IBM's >>soundblaster DOS emulator, if so which games? The bogus response from (Michael J. Verne) :-) To the games question: don't count on it. "SoundBlaster compatability" is a relative thing. While the MWave chipset is technologically fantastic, the multimedia world does not revolve around fantastic technology. It revolves around Creative Labs. The best I can tell you (and what IBM will tell you) is that what works works & what doesn't doesn't. Anything written to talk register-level to a SB card, like Doom & Heretic, won't work on anything but the SB & a few others, like Sony, that have it figured out. I seem to recall some of IBM's funky SB drivers were written for Windoze only, so DOS games need to be run in a DOS full-screen session, but I don't remember if it was MWave. I don't do much w/multimedia anymore. Its a common mistake, this should be in the FAQ. The "C" series of think pads, 750C, 750Cs, 755C, 755Cs, ... use a custom audio chip that is _NOT_ register compatible with the sound blaster. IBM provides a hack (sbaudio) that trys to work by using the "virtual" mode of the 486 to trap accesses to the sound blaster I/O addresses and emulate those accesses in software. This hack does _NOT_ work on DOOM and any game that uses a "DOS Extender" to go into 32 bit mode while operating (and more and more of them do since there are most 386 and above systems out there). IBM provides windows drivers and they do work for windows applications. The "CE" series 755CE, etc. Which use the Mwave chip *are* register compatible with the sound blaster. This is one of its advertised features. If you have the built in modem (modem connector on the _back_ of your ThinkPad) then you have an MWave chip. You _can_ run DOOM and games like this, on this chip, because writing to the soundblaster port addresses does the "right thing" as far as the MWave is concerned. These machines are more expensive then there 'C' (non-MWave) cousins. --Chuck