Ryan Underwood wrote:
Just wondering where can it beVarious other adlib-related things, like Sierra AGI/SCI interpreters that
used besides dosemu?
are ported, plugins for sequencer software, etc. Of course one could always link in AdPlug or the mame opl2, but the server would simply be a
concurrent-execution method of accessing the same functionality so the
adlib-client program can simply forward the writes and worry no more after that.
Yes, that can be usefull. The downside of that approach is that the program can itself keep the /dev/dsp busy (like dosemu does) and your adlib server will conflict with an app trying to output the sound. Of course for the cards that allows multiple streams this is not a problem, but for others (like the pc-speaker:) this can be troublesome. Perhaps the only solution would be to make dosemu to use some sound server and to make your adlib server to use the same. By linking dosemu with mame opl emu and implementing the mixing (which is necessary for dosemu anyway) doesn't have the aforementioned problem. The alternative could be to implement the entire SB in a separate server. DMA needs to be in another thread/process anyway, so nuking the SB out of dosemu and to a separate server process can be great I think.
I copied over my Win-OS2 install, which is a hacked WFWG3.11 from IBM for
use with OS/2, that is a DPMI client instead of VCPI. But, I couldn't get it to run yet. :(
Probably you have to try 3.1 instead of 3.11.
Its weird though. It seems like doing this is turning dosemu into what plex86 tried to be. :)
I don't know much about plex86, but the power of dosemu is in its great integration in a linux environment, i.e. ability to work with the mounted filesystems, networking etc. Also dosemu has a good speed due to running the progs natively rather than emulating the CPU (emulating only the privileged instructions is not a big slowdown). Does the plex86 have all that?
Interesting, I will take a look at it.simx86 and implement some missing features to it rather than using a bochs as a CPU-emu server as you suggested.
To make your life easier here is a patch that resurrects a real-mode part of simx86 (prot mode is still broken but it was functional in the past) https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1662943&forum_id=8386
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