Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi! > >> I am not using any kind of virtualization software for it. > > Okay so you use DOS in real hardware. > >> Do you think this card is also compatible with the Intel HDA ??? > > Depends. Modern mainboards use HDA or AC97 for sound. > Only modern DOS software like MPXPLAY can use AC97, > not sure whether any DOS software can use HDA. In any > case, your old games have BUILT-IN drivers which you > cannot replace. Either your soundcard is ISA SB16 or > SBPro compatible or it is not. There is hope, though: > > In PCI soundcards which have it, Adlib / OPL3 / FM > "music" will usually work. PCI Soundcards which try > to be SB16 / SBPro compatible in hardware often only > work on older mainboards (up to K6-2 or PentiumIII?) > for DOS, on newer boards they turn into AC97ish-only. > > However, SBLive / SBPCI typically come with a driver > which works like a small dosemu virtual computer: It > lets DOS games use your real hardware, but if they > try to access the soundcard, they are connected to a > simulation which pretends being SB16 while the real > sound is forwarded to the actually AC97 hardware of > the real SBLive / SBPCI soundcard. Only works with > games which are emm386 compatible. Luckily most are.
> There is also a driver called VSB Virtual SoundBlaster > which tries to do the same simulation trick but free > (not bundled to soundcards). It only does SB 1.0 afair > and only works either without emm386 or with the QEMM > variant of it yet. Also, it can only output sound to > simple real hardware (printer port Covox, maybe also > the internal PC beeper speaker). You are over floating newbies with to many informations and by the way this VSB thing is for a non-programmer useful for almost nothing. > Still it would be a > good starting point for generic virtual soundcards: > Using code from dosemu, bochs, qemu, alsa-project etc, > one could make VSB support SB16 / SBPro simulation as > input and output to real AC97 / HDA. It could also be > converted to be MS emm386 or free JEMM386 compatible. That's a topic I summarized some time ago http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.DevelSound > That said, it would need helpers and/or money to be done. I don't think it will even happen that *someone* from *outside* the community will ever take this challenge. Even if you post at some service auction site (rentacoder or whatever) I highly doubt you can find anyone who is able to do it. So by the way, what's YOUR price? :) After you told us we can think about collecting the money. That's imho the only realistic approach. > > Eric -mr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
