Re: [Freedos-user] HX DOS extender with AC97 and HDA soundcard support

[Guillem León]

Just for clarification, does this only work with programs loaded inside dosbox 
inside HX, or is there any way to get it to work under DOS directly, with HX 
loaded but without DOSbox? I'm still thinking of dualbooting one of my machines 
with DOS but I need some way of doing either USB serial port emulation or 
modern soundcard support for speech synthesis.

> On 16 Feb 2016, at 22:47, Eric Auer  wrote:
> 
> 
> Forwarding from: www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14645
> 
> HX DOS Extender 2.17+ with modern sound card support (Announce)
> 
> posted by Wengier, 16.02.2016, 22:33
> 
> As many of you already know, HX DOS Extender, the best DOS extender out
> there is no longer maintained by Japheth. One major issue that HX 2.17
> (the last version by Japheth) exists is that it only supports a
> SBpro/SB16 card. More recently however, Ruslan Starodubov, the author of
> modern sound cards support for QuickView Pro 2.60, has decided to update
> HX 2.17 to support these modern sound cards such as AC97 and Intel HDA
> too. Yesterday he released HX 2.17+, which currently features
> experimental support for Intel HDA sound cards. The download page is at:
> 
> http://sound-dos.ucoz.ru/
> 
> Please note that this is a very important milestone in the history of
> DOS, as the vast majority of DOS sound apps/games out there (except
> certain programs such as QV 2.60 and MPXPLAY) currently don't support
> modern sound cards such as AC97/HDA directly, and there is no SB16
> emulation driver available for these modern sound cards; however, since
> DOSBox (the best DOS emulator) provides good SB16 emulation and we are
> able to run DOSBox under HX DOS Extender, and so if HX DOS Extender
> supports modern sound cards like HDA, then all DOS sound apps/games that
> work in DOSBox would be able to play sound through DOSBox's SB16
> emulation of these sound cards under HX DOS Extender. This is
> functionally pretty much like a SB16 emulation driver for modern sound
> cards in real DOS. Once we are able to get sound cards like AC97/HDA to
> work reliably with HX, then the no sound issue with the majority of DOS
> sound apps/games will be completed resolved by the SB16 emulation of
> these sound cards within HX+DOSBox in real DOS. So please don't hesitate
> to test your HDA sound cards under HX 2.17+ now and report any issues
> encountered. In case you want to try a recent DOSBox build that run
> under HX, you can try the one built with MinGW below with long filename,
> mouse copy/paste and DBCS support:
> 
> http://bit.ly/1laDvGX
> 
> Download both HX and DOSBox, then make sure DOSLFN is loaded and run
> DOSBox with "dpmild32 -g dosbox.exe". In my experiences it currently
> works best with Japheth's HX 2.16, which is still accessible from the
> page below (download both HXRT and HXGUI packages). When using with HX
> 2.17 or 2.17+, you might need to replace its VESA32.DLL file with the
> one from HX 2.16.
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20140904175113/http://www.japheth.de/HX.html
> 
> Wengier
> 
> 
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[Freedos-user] HX DOS extender with AC97 and HDA soundcard support

[Eric Auer]

Forwarding from: www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14645

HX DOS Extender 2.17+ with modern sound card support (Announce)

posted by Wengier, 16.02.2016, 22:33

As many of you already know, HX DOS Extender, the best DOS extender out
there is no longer maintained by Japheth. One major issue that HX 2.17
(the last version by Japheth) exists is that it only supports a
SBpro/SB16 card. More recently however, Ruslan Starodubov, the author of
modern sound cards support for QuickView Pro 2.60, has decided to update
HX 2.17 to support these modern sound cards such as AC97 and Intel HDA
too. Yesterday he released HX 2.17+, which currently features
experimental support for Intel HDA sound cards. The download page is at:

http://sound-dos.ucoz.ru/

Please note that this is a very important milestone in the history of
DOS, as the vast majority of DOS sound apps/games out there (except
certain programs such as QV 2.60 and MPXPLAY) currently don't support
modern sound cards such as AC97/HDA directly, and there is no SB16
emulation driver available for these modern sound cards; however, since
DOSBox (the best DOS emulator) provides good SB16 emulation and we are
able to run DOSBox under HX DOS Extender, and so if HX DOS Extender
supports modern sound cards like HDA, then all DOS sound apps/games that
work in DOSBox would be able to play sound through DOSBox's SB16
emulation of these sound cards under HX DOS Extender. This is
functionally pretty much like a SB16 emulation driver for modern sound
cards in real DOS. Once we are able to get sound cards like AC97/HDA to
work reliably with HX, then the no sound issue with the majority of DOS
sound apps/games will be completed resolved by the SB16 emulation of
these sound cards within HX+DOSBox in real DOS. So please don't hesitate
to test your HDA sound cards under HX 2.17+ now and report any issues
encountered. In case you want to try a recent DOSBox build that run
under HX, you can try the one built with MinGW below with long filename,
mouse copy/paste and DBCS support:

http://bit.ly/1laDvGX

Download both HX and DOSBox, then make sure DOSLFN is loaded and run
DOSBox with "dpmild32 -g dosbox.exe". In my experiences it currently
works best with Japheth's HX 2.16, which is still accessible from the
page below (download both HXRT and HXGUI packages). When using with HX
2.17 or 2.17+, you might need to replace its VESA32.DLL file with the
one from HX 2.16.

http://web.archive.org/web/20140904175113/http://www.japheth.de/HX.html

Wengier


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