I think someone on Bttr has such an emulation sound driver for Intel hda or
ac97.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM <userbeit...@abwesend.de> wrote:
> Hi Tom!
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> As I understand it you cannot really make any use of initialized sound
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> hardware in DOS except for a few -- very few -- programs that are aware
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> of this very specific sound hardware.
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> You may have noticed that /back in the old days/ every program/game had
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> to be configured for the specific sound card in order to use it. Even
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> within a family of sound cards there were incompatibilities. For
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> example, games that ware written for Sound Blaster 1.0 (aka Game
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> Blaster) und Sound Blaster 2.0 were not able to produce SoundBlaster
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> sound on a more modern Sound Blaster Pro or Sound Blaster 16.
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> The reason for this is very simple: there is no standardized sound API
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> on DOS. So every sound card and driver created its own API and every
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> application has to be written to support this very sound card (series).
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> The only solution for /modern DOS/ would be to write an emulation for a
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> well supported sound card for older programs and games. That would be,
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> say, a SB16 emulation driver for AC97 and HD-Audio on-board sound cards.
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> So every DOS program/game would see the well supported SB16 and -- if
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> supported by this very program or game -- would be able to use it
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> through the emulation. I think this is how DOSBox does support sound.
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> If you do find a practical solution though -- I would be interested too!
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> Cheers,
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> userbeitrag
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> On 2016-12-18 23:58, Thomas Mueller wrote:
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> > Do such programs to init the sound hardware work with all sound hardware?
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> > I have on-motherboard Intel high-definition audio and remember reading
> on this emailing list that it was not supported in any DOS.
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> >
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> > I get sound in FreeBSD and NetBSD.
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> >
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> > Tom
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