Is any project for the sound card driver in dos?

Iam...@gmail.com

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Jul 16, 2008, 8:59:52 PM7/16/08

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Do any boy plant to code drivers for the sound cards of dos?No only sb
but also the lastest onboard cards.

Silence dos is not well.

I hear that the drivers must get some approch to the EMM386?Is it
right?
I search the internet and i can not find any useful information about
this.

Sjouke Burry

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Jul 16, 2008, 9:29:46 PM7/16/08

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I carefully salvage any SB/SB PRO/SB16/SB32 I come across
in old throw away PC's.
And I found out that MIDI and MOD music sounds best played
with an SB PRO.
The 16 and 32 are a pain in the butt because of plug and pray
hurdles.

Jim Leonard

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Jul 16, 2008, 11:14:45 PM7/16/08

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You won't, because modern cards don't have the same hooks that DOS
programs need. Your best bet is to install and run DOSBox, which
emulates both DOS and popular soundcards.

Bill Leary

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Jul 16, 2008, 11:37:33 PM7/16/08

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Check the BIOS settings for your onboard sound devices. Often they have an
option to emulate and Sound Blaster of one kind or another.

- Bill

Iam...@gmail.com

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Jul 24, 2008, 9:25:56 AM7/24/08

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Hello guys. I found this while i searching the internet.I think it may
explain why the driver need emm386.exe.
http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/archive/hist/0791.html
It said that there is a undocumented API for EMM386 which provide a
means of virtualizing IO
ports under DOS.
I think it would be useful for us to make a AC97 driver.

tikbalang

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Jul 27, 2008, 6:31:18 AM7/27/08

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On Jul 24, 9:25 pm, Iam...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello guys. I found this while i searching the internet.I think it may

> explain why the driver need emm386.exe.http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/archive/hist/0791.html

> It said that there is a undocumented API for EMM386 which provide a
> means of virtualizing IO
> ports under DOS.
> I think it would be useful for us to make a AC97 driver.

Virtual Sound Blaster v2.02

This is a program written by Andrew Zabolotny a long time ago when few
people owned Sound Blaster's but many had Covoxes and similar things.
It will emulate a real Sound Blaster (1.x) on PC-Speaker or on a
Covox. The emulation is relatively accurate, but FM synthesizer is not
supported, thus it will play only digital sound. It was tested on a
number of DOS games.

website:
http://zap.eltrast.ru/

direct download:
http://zap.eltrast.ru/en/dldos.html
http://zap.eltrast.ru/data/vsb202.zip

source code:
http://cs.ozerki.net/zap/pub/vsb/src.zip
http://cs.ozerki.net/zap/pub/vsb/tasm.zip

homepage:
http://zap.eltrast.ru/en/frames.html

maybe vsb can be updated to support SB 2.x and provide a sound layer
for dos. most dos apps and games require SB, so this must be emulated
as a tsr, and channel the output to the pc speaker, covox (lpt1), or
to the new sound chipsets (ac97, intel ich, etc.). mpxplay has been
using ac97 for a long time now, without loading any 3rd party drivers.

the output to pc speaker and covox must be maintained because:

a.) vsb already supports it
b.) lpt1 and pc speaker exists in most pc hardware
3.) it's easy to make or modify diy circuits for these two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing

tikbalang

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Jul 27, 2008, 7:00:34 AM7/27/08

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On Jul 27, 6:31 pm, tikbalang <tikbal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Virtual Sound Blaster v2.02
>

vsb website is down. you can email andrew here: zap AT homelink DOT
ru
email me for the files.

~~~
tikbalang AT gmail DOT com

tikbalang

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Jul 28, 2008, 10:19:01 PM7/28/08

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i uploaded the files here:

http://www.uploading.com/files/840FIGSO/sndemu.zip.html
http://uploaded.to/?id=d7dcje

sndemu.zip (~600kb) - a collection of soundcard emulators for dos.