Santiago Almenara schrieb: > Thanks for all your answers. > >>From all your mail, I understood this: > > - There is not such thing as "VESA audio"
Unfortunately... > - SoundBlasters, especially SB16, are the common "de facto" for DOS > system (I used to have an ISA one, so I won't be able to use it anymore, > besides I think my parents threw away my 1995 computer after I moved). > - Right now, there is not emulation software for it. (VDMsound is for > windows). There is some emulation software for PCI cards but it needs proprietary hardware. > So I have three possibilities: > > 1. Use VMware or Dosbox. Or Bochs, Qemu, DOSEMu, many others... > 2. Buy an old SoundBlaster 16 PCI card. That would be a waste. Rather buy SB Live (cheap and good) or Audigy (I should have purchased this, I think it's even better and still works in DOS, but untested). > 3. Start a project to make my card work under FreeDOS/MS-DOS. Yeah, PLEASE DO IT! > 1. I don't want to use emulation software. I want real 16-bit DOS. That's > why I started the thread in the first place.. Actually, it is working very > well with my old software. The only problem is that I can't make sound work. I also prefer this, works better then DOSBox. > > 2. I've found in eBay some used SB16 PCI cards. I think I will find the DOS > drivers almost everwhere, except for the Creative driver page. I am not > trying to make it work under WinXP or Vista. They'll be un-configured > there. Do you think they will work with my 3-year-old P4 system? Are old > PCI slots compatible with the new ones? SBLive works well on XP, Vista untested. Probable the same for Audigy. > 3. I was thinking that a new project would be very interesting. However, I > have neither enough technnical skills nor enough money to fund a new > project. I know some programming, though. I could (a) Adapt my sound card to > FreeDOS. (b) Create an ALSA DOS-wrapper to make to convert SB calls to sound > cards calls. > > Approach (b) has this PROS: > > - Wrapper performance issues won't be a problem because today PC's should > handle DOS programs very well. > - ALSA's broader compatibility with sound cards. And they are always > adding new cards too! > - ALSA (how software communicate with a sound card) and DOSbox (how games > & programs communicate with a SB card) are free so you can start a new > project using source code of both of them. Yep. > I don't have much time or enough technnical knowledge right now. But I am > sure all the information I need is out there on the net! It is and you can also ask here, seams Eric could theoretically write such a thing. > > > Regards, > > Santiago > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
