Re: [Freedos-user] VSBHDASF

2025-07-27 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Jim, thanks for the news about V SB HDA SF! Now there's a fork of VSBHDA that "adds support for using soundfonts for MPU-401 emulation using TinySoundFont, and properly fixes it to make it work with games like Duke Nukem 3D." But it requires a lot of memory; from the website: "Requirements

[Freedos-user] Booting FreeDOS in QEMU with both LiveCD and BonusCD

2025-07-27 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Some folks use QEMU here (as I do) so I thought I'd share my updated QEMU config to boot FreeDOS. I prefer to keep my personal files on a separate virtual disk (D:) so I don't have to keep backing up & restoring all the time. That way, when I install each new FreeDOS monthly release, it's really e

[Freedos-user] VSBHDASF

2025-07-27 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
I just shared this as a news item on the website, but this comes up from time to time on the list and elsewhere, so I wanted to share here too: If you run FreeDOS (or any DOS) on real hardware, you will have problems getting sound to work with DOS games. That's because DOS doesn't have a 'hardware