Hi Dos386, > Intel ICH
Pure AC97, does not attempt to support SB. Supported by few modern DOS apps as AC97, not supported by old games. > ES1371/1373 AKA SB128PCI/SB16PCI, EMUxxx > (SB512/LiveAudigy), ... (MPXPLAY) Supported by modern apps as AC97, comes with driver which creates virtual SB, apparently needs NMI and EMM386... >> will no longer allow SoundBlaster or similar clone cards >> to work correctly with Sound Blaster emulation. > NO, but that wasn't a working solution anyway Actually DDMA / TDMA on PCI slots worked quite okay on my old K6-2 board which had PCI, ISA and AGP... At some time boards stopped with DDMA support and more recently, TDMA and/or NMI support stopped in nForce and Core2 etc boards. > SB Live24 (ask Laaca, I don't use old games) See above - even that might fail on modern boards. >> Note that more full emulators such as DOSEMU (Linux) > NOT a full emulator Correct. It only emulates the devices, not the CPU, which makes it much faster than a whole-PC emulator :-). > BOCHS and QEMU do work in FreeDOS and can emulate SB16 ... I meant running them in Linux or Windows, but nevermind ;-) > so the only lacking thing is the connection from HX WINMM > DLL to PCI sound hardware ;-) Cute idea actually! Run Bochs/Qemu with DOS as host, using the Win32 support layer of HX, and then run ANOTHER DOS INSIDE Bochs/Qemu to have sound... Of course it will be slow as hell, but it CAN work :-) >> Emulated CPU of course wastes CPU time > Much time, but a non-issue (or even desirable) for old games + new CPU ;-) I remember that DOSBOX was too slow for my taste on any normal single core CPU even though DOS games only need CPU speeds of 486 or Pentium I times... :-p Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
