Unfortunatley this is a known issue with audigy cards and xp (what os do you have?), creative doused the dos compatibiltiy with it, there is something you can run on the audigy cd that gives you dos compatibility with windows98 but even then i can't seem to get things to playback right and the sound sounds choppy but at least i can boot 98 and get sound from dos mame. incidentally mamew worked fine and has worked fine.(posted 8711 days ago)if you do figure out how to get dos mame working please post, anyone. well game guru got dos mame to work with arcade at home but i think he doesn't have a sound blaster audio card....