Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi, > >>> was some effort to collect funds to make people like >>> Japheth, Tom, Georg, Arkady (just examples!) do it. >> You mean the thread in bttr? > > Yes. And I mean please mention ALL URLs in ONE easy to > google in the list archive mail: DOS soundcard Wiki, > VSB ponderings Wiki, BTTR fundraising thread, (etc?) :-)
This 'easy to google' is easy said. It's already it's own 'sport'. I am not convinced of the point of further improving this wiki site, enough written down. As soon someone is seriously interested I am glad to help, but until then it's a waste. >> Do you avoid the question of YOUR price? > > Well, to have lots of time, I would probably stop > other work. Then you should assume 500-2500 Euros > per month depending on charity, mood, taxes, cost > of living, insurances etc. For doing it as a side > project next to real life and normal job, making > or modding VSB into JEMM386-AC97-HDA-SB16-coolish > is simply too much work, or maybe I am too lazy. > >>> You are right that I should at least try VSB once, >> hell, YES! > > Have you tried it? Yes. >>> internal PC speaker it will still be more useable than >>> covox-only. > > Based on the assumption: Speaker is better than no > sound at all and people are no longer techy enough > to build their own Covox... > >>> Or does VSB already support PC speaker? >> Didn't work for me for anything. > > Did you try without emm386 and with real-mode games, > for example commander keen or something? What do the > VSB docs say about which features to expect in VSB? Yes, without emm386. It just freezes, guess my hardware is to new. >>> I also wonder whether it would be easier to start from >>> "scratch" by porting dosemu sound code into a JLM. >> or the DOSBox code... [or Bochs or Qemu or...] > > Depends on which one is easier to port IMHO. C would be good. > >>> would be interesting to hear from Japheth how well the >>> JLM interface is suited for simulating I/O port based, >>> ISA DMA accessible and IRQ generating devices... > >> Why not mail him? > > Feel free. Or just forward the snippet above :-) > >> Seriously, where and how he should advertise it? > > He could put some more docs on the JEMM386 homepage, > or maybe put existing JLMs along with some more docs > such as commented "how X did Y" snippets in a devel > kit download or something... Think of xcdrom32 etc? > Yet even xcdrom only uses, not simulates, IRQ/DMA. > >>> PPS: That said, MPXPLAY and Arachne are probably the >>> two most "wished to be resurrected" DOS projects now. >> The sound project not? > > Arachne and Mpxplay already do work on various hardware. > Arachne has issues with limited features, Mpxplay with > limited hardware support, but as you say, VSB is not in > use at all because it is much more limited than those. > So for practical reasons, continuing Arachne / Mpxplay > might make more people happy for less work than new VSB. > > Eric > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
