On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:51:53 +0100, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
> The VESA audio is nice (on paper), I didn't know about it. But I > understand it is an INT API, so it would require to have some kind of a > TSR that sits in memory all the time, and responds to such INT calls. I think this is the most elegant way. This is how packet drivers and USBDOS work. You only have to load the driver once and then it's available for any program. (And while we're at it, let's create a modern standard for TCP/IP TSRs.) Maybe we should indeed use the VESA interface, as it's the closest thing to a standard (but where is the documentation?). Another option is DOSSound, although its API is too AC97-specific in my opinion (since that's its purpose). The best option for old software would be Sound Blaster emulation drivers, of course. But since trapping I/O ports requires protected mode, it might not be compatible with various extenders (e.g. VSB only supports real mode programs because of this). But I admit that I don't know much about this. > The QV approach (if I got it right) seems to be about providing some > kind of external files (*.SDR) that are used directly by the main > program. I have no idea how it works under the hood, since there is no > source code nor public API available online, but the basic principles > looks sexy to me. They are just renamed EXE files. I don't know how they are called though. > The basic idea is that since apparently there are still people investing > time and effort into developing sound drivers for DOS (QV, MPXPLAY...), > it would be great to somehow make this reusable for other projects. I agree. BTW, the PCI.SDR driver for QV seems to be based on Mpxplay drivers. Look at it with a hex editor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
