On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 7:25 AM haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I heard about a dos program called temu , does it do what I > think it does , have anyone tried that , it didn't work , it > says I'm in protected mode , I changed to safe mode and it > worked "installed" , but my games didnt work because of safe > mode.
Hi You didn't give a link to TEMU, and I hadn't heard of it before. Doing some googling, I wonder if you're referring to this discussion on Vogons: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=27987 That person asked: "Is it even remotely possible, even theoritically, that a Sound Blaster/Pro/16 emulator be made for users of ANY sound card to be used in actual Dos?" But I think you might be interested in this discussion on DOS Ain't Dead, along similar lines: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/mix_entry.php?id=11947 Laaca summarized this very well: "It was here already many times discussed. The problem is non existency of wide accepted DOS sound API. So DOS most applications access sound card hardware directly." You mentioned TEMU, which I think is the Tandy Emulator. Here's a GitHub repo: https://github.com/volkertb/temu-vsb And in the Readme, it says: "VSB is a Virtual SoundBlaster - emulator of the digital audio SoundBlaster card. It works in most DOS games with digital sound." So you're probably thinking about VSB. But really, the issue is that DOS programs that played sounds (mostly games) would access the hardware directly. There is no "DOS Sound API" that applications could use to go through MS-DOS or FreeDOS to access a "sound device." That's basically what a Hardware Abstraction Layer does - and while you'll find HALs in modern operating systems like Linux or Mac or Windows, but DOS was around long before there was a HAL. If there is a software driver that can emulate a SoundBlaster from within DOS, so that DOS games can play sounds to something like an AC97 as though it were a SB16, I'd be impressed. But I think that's not possible. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
