Hi, On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > > What I need for my Dell is a sound blaster pro driver that works on > an ESS chip without windows being there. Windows turns the chip on > somehow. The programs are for DOS running under windows. None of the > drivers are for dos alone, even if they claim to be. Add windows to > the background and they work but who wants that.
But what kinds of things are you trying to play on it?? What file formats or programs?? Are you just looking for a universal driver that emulates ye olde SB16 entirely (100%), thus working with (almost) all "classic" DOS software?? Allegro 4.2.2 was the last DJGPP release, AFAIK. One of their examples was PLAY.EXE, which could play *.mid or *.voc or *.wav. I'm not sure if you need an additional PATCHES.DAT file (converted by pat2dat on Soundfont .sf2 or whatever) for your particular machine. Heck, maybe your machine isn't (properly) supported, dunno. All I'm saying is that one of the few well-supported libraries / toolsets was Allegro, so (generally speaking) it is one of the foremost things to test if you're trying to see if your sound hardware works under DOS. (Actually, I don't remember if PLAY.EXE was broken / regressed since Allegro 3.1.2. I had put the older .EXE on my RUFFIDEA, and it worked on my old AWE64, but that was years ago. No idea if either will truly work for you, but it's worth a shot. Well, 4.2.2's version works fine under DOSBox [SB16/OPL3], at least.) http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/djgpp/current/v2tk/allegro/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/current/v2tk/allegro/all422b.zip/allegro/bin/play.exe A quick run of PLAY.EXE (without filename) shows the following supported hardware: =============================================== Sound code test program for Allegro 4.2.2, djgpp By Shawn Hargreaves, 2007 Usage: play [digital driver [midi driver]] files.(mid|voc|wav) Digital drivers: ESC - Soundscape ESS - ESS AudioDrive WSS - Windows Sound System SB16 - Sound Blaster 16 SBP - Sound Blaster Pro SB20 - Sound Blaster 2.0 SB15 - Sound Blaster 1.5 SB10 - Sound Blaster 1.0 MIDI drivers: AWE - AWE32/EMU8000 DIGI - DIGMID OPL3 - Adlib (OPL3) OPLX - Adlib (dual OPL2) OPL2 - Adlib (OPL2) MPU - MPU-401 SB - SB MIDI interface If you don't specify the card, Allegro will auto-detect (ie. guess :-) =============================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
