Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/5/2020 1:46 PM, Eric Auer wrote: 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,

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
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

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/5/2020 10:47 AM, Eric Auer wrote: 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

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > So... SLICER is something like TAR? If you feel the need to compare it to something, then it is most like tar than anything else. But, only in in one aspect. It is more like an installer in another. > A tool to put many > small files in one large file and back, uncompressed? No.

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
> hey dude on my windows xp desktop now, virtualbox or older > older version dont suppport xp, virtualpc 2007 is the only option Why not use dosbox, bochs or qemu, ...? Please answer to freedos-user. Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user
hey dude on my windows xp desktop now , virtualbox or older older version dont suppport xp , virtualpc 2007 is the only option i have Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 5, 2020 5:36 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 7/5/2020 4:07 AM, haytam.fr--- via

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ralf and Haytam, > First of all, DOS (any DOS) does not have a concept of "drivers". Any > such endeavor would be up to the application using a specific sound card > (feature). Indeed, but... > And DOSBox is not simulating any sound card, it is passing this to the > sound driver of the

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/5/2020 4:07 AM, haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user wrote: wait a second , if dosbox is opensource and is able to simulate a sound blaster 16 and redict the sound to Intel HD , why not someone (developer) take the code from dosbox and put it into freedos as an optional package , this is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, if you do not believe that anybody will fix bugs, why do you even update the FreeDOS distro? Please make at least some published list of all bugs you encounter and discuss it here, too. It CAN happen that people fix bugs, even of other maintainers. What are the new beta fdisk 131

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > On Jul 5, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > it worries me that you SILENTLY dropped a newer fdisk and > switched to an older version because they both have bugs, > but the older version has less bad bugs. Please explain all > bugs which you have encountered

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, it worries me that you SILENTLY dropped a newer fdisk and switched to an older version because they both have bugs, but the older version has less bad bugs. Please explain all bugs which you have encountered and what keeps us from using a fixed even newer FDISK version. About the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > On Jul 5, 2020, at 7:23 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! Looking at the 720k boot disk for the installer, > I noticed that FDISKPT.INI and FDISK.INI are quite > large as the former contains many "definitions" of > unknown partition types and the latter contains only > comments and the

Re: [Freedos-user] Is Freedos 1.3 RC2 stable?

2020-07-05 Thread Jerome Shidel
HI, > On Jul 4, 2020, at 7:21 AM, abramelin--- via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Since releases are rare, I want to burn a Freedos image to a disc for > long-term use. Is 1.3 RC2 stable enough, or do you recommend I stick with > 1.2? And what are the biggest differences between the two? > >

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hey Haytam, please read my mail carefully: Dosbox is originally for Windows and Linux, so it uses the sound drivers of Windows and Linux if you have HDA. You can run some Windows programs in DOS using HX, but I do NOT know whether HX has sound drivers. Probably not! And please answer my

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Looking at the 720k boot disk for the installer, I noticed that FDISKPT.INI and FDISK.INI are quite large as the former contains many "definitions" of unknown partition types and the latter contains only comments and the end of file marker, so I suggest to reduce the comments (mention that

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user
wait a second , if dosbox is opensource and is able to simulate a sound blaster 16 and redict the sound to Intel HD , why not someone (developer) take the code from dosbox and put it into freedos as an optional package , this is possible dosbox is open-source , i do think this is a good good

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Haytam, if your modern music players did detect your HDA sound chip, but nothing could be heard, you should contact the maintainer of the music player. There probably is a volume control bug for your specific chip. Regarding DOOM on your hardware: As you know, it does not contain HDA

[Freedos-user] Hey

2020-07-05 Thread haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user
is there any hope for an sound blaster 16 - opl - wave blaster - Midi emulation , i tried all of this options in doom hoping for them to work but they did not , i tried an modern music player that supports Intel HD and detected it , but the music didnt work , i didnt hear anything , I dont know