Dosbox is an emulator that emulates an x86 processor and PC hardware. In this way, it is similar to qemu or bochs. It goes one step beyond in that they added to the emulator a DOS-like interface that maps the native file system into the DOS system calls, as well as the remaining DOS and BIOS system calls.
"Sound blaster" refers to a set of ISA boards that were manufactured in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These cards were backward compatible in both hardware and API. The most common was the Sound Blaster 16 (SB-16) that emulators like dosbox, qemu and bochs emulate and map into the host operating system API. This is why the program recognizes sound blaster in dosbox. Most likely, your sound hardware is not SB-16 compatible, which explains why the program does not recognize your sound subsystem. Mpxplay is capable of recognizing many more cards, including Intel ICH (PC97) and Intel HDA which is common on most recent computers. Pat On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Garrison Ricketson < garryricket...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, every one, > Just to say hello and I have been reading the "news letters", > as the come in,.. > Actually maybe one question, I may have asked this along time ago, and > either missed > the answer, or never was one... > I have a PacMan game, that is intended for Dos, it runs well with FreeDos, > also,..but > it never can detect "sound blaster", and that is the only sound device it > can use... > The game, dose not run in Windows, nor is intended to, but with Dos Box it > will, > When run from Dos Box, it dose detect "sound blaster",...and the sound > works.. > When I boot with Dos, it (the pac man ) runs well, but dose not have > sound,..and the same when > I have booted with FreeDos....Ok apparently, in the windows partition,there > is > either "sound blaster" or a emulator...howver since niether of my Dos > partions, "read" the > windows partition(NTFS)...no "sound blaster" is detected....So,How can, or > where can > I get "sound blaster" (or a emulator), for Dos,...? Do I need to get a > whole new "SB",.. > that is for Dos?.... MPXPLAY, is working great for music, on the FreeDos, > ...so the > sound capabiltys are there, but this PacMan, and it is in the readme doc, > will only > work with "sound blaster"... > Ok well thats about it, for now.... > from Garry > visit my webb page:http://garryspages.webs.com > My New page,"my gallery" > http://www.GarrysPaintings.webs.com > Garrison Ricketson > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > >
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