Hi Ralf,
you had said that dosbox would not be simulating any soundcard: It is simulating a soundcard, that actually is one of the more important features of dos-oriented virtual environents. It just does not contain built-in drivers for the different, physical, real sound card of the user at the other end of the pipeline. So yes, it simulates a sound card but no, it cannot make audible sounds for anybody without the help of a host operating system. But it is important that it keeps dos games abstracted from the fact that the actual soundcard is not a dos compatible device. Eric >>> And DOSBox is not simulating any sound card, it is passing this to the >>> sound driver of the host OS. DOSBox does not have direct access to the >>> sound hardware... >> Virtual computers and dosemu / dosemu2 all do simulate a sound card >> and I am pretty sure dosbox also simulates one. The problem is that >> your games use the simulated sound card to make SOUNDS and the actual >> sounds have to somehow reach your REAL hardware :-) Which is why the >> host operating system needs drivers for your real hardware and your >> dosbox has to be able to use the host operating system for that... > That's what I said... > Ralf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
