Hi, On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Michael C. Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > A Soundblaster is the industry standard card.
You mean "was". :-( To say modern soundcards are incompatible is an understatement. Your only hope is really old hardware or emulators (DOSBox, QEMU, maybe DOSEMU). > If you have a 100% true > Soundblaster 16, freedos can use it. I successfully tricked Windows > 98SE dos drivers for a PCI soundblaster 16 to work in Freedos. There > should be an open source replacement driver for the soundblaster 16 > cards, but I don't know how similar these cards really are. I hope an > OSS driver is part of freedos 1.1. The only two people offhand that I think?? know anything about soundcards are Michael Kostylev and Atila Padar. The former allegedly ported OSS to DOS at one time for Mplayer (but he's not active anymore). Also, Atila is the Mpxplay dude who has ported bits of ALSA for his program. Very imcomplete, but at least having proof that somebody can do it is hopeful, right? But anyways, my real point is that (as Pat V. had mentioned months ago) we should probably focus on importing drivers from another OS, e.g. FreeBSD. I think there have been several attempts in the past at making such "portable" drivers, but I don't know how useful they would be to us. (If I wasn't such a noob, I'd try myself, but that's way way way beyond me.) I mention the following URLs here just for reference on the odd chance that it helps somebody somewhere: http://code.google.com/p/rosetta-os/w/list http://www.projectudi.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
