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How do I troubleshoot sound in dosemu?

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Mark Hobley

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Dec 8, 2007, 1:08:04 AM12/8/07
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I am using dosemu and dosemu-freedos under Linux. The emulator appears to be
working fine, but I get no sound from the dos games that I have installed. I
can't tell whether the problem is with the emulator, or with the installed
games.

How can I go about troubleshooting this? Is there a simple test program that
could be used to test the soundblaster emulation from within the emulated dos
environment? It would also be useful to know what type of sounblaster
emulation is provided, so that I know what type of card to select from my game
configuration menus.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

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Tris Orendorff

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Dec 12, 2007, 2:34:19 PM12/12/07
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markh...@hotpop.deletethisbit.com (Mark Hobley) burped up warm pablum in
news:39mp25-...@neptune.markhobley.yi.org:

> I am using dosemu and dosemu-freedos under Linux. The emulator appears to be
> working fine, but I get no sound from the dos games that I have installed. I
> can't tell whether the problem is with the emulator, or with the installed
> games.
>
> How can I go about troubleshooting this? Is there a simple test program that
> could be used to test the soundblaster emulation from within the emulated dos
> environment? It would also be useful to know what type of sounblaster
> emulation is provided, so that I know what type of card to select from my game
> configuration menus.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

If you try
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=soundblaster+emulation+linux+dosemu&btnG=Google+Search you
will find little info dated after 1990. it is much easier to find a 1990 computer, costing less than $20, with a
VGA card and SB-16 in it.

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Mark Hobley

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Dec 15, 2007, 4:08:23 PM12/15/07
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In comp.unix.dos-under-unix Tris Orendorff <tr...@remove-me.cogeco.ca> wrote:
> If you try
> http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=soundblaster+emulation+linux+dosemu&btnG=Google+Search you
> will find little info dated after 1990.

Unfortunately, that returned more than one result. (Many of the top results
return me back to this request for help.) Which URL was specifically related
to test software?

> it is much easier to find a 1990 computer, costing less than $20, with a
> VGA card and SB-16 in it.

Yeah, I know but this is not what I am after. I want to run existing dos
programs using dosemu on a range of computers.

(I use IBM compatible computers using Pentium compatible (32 bit, 586 or
higher) processors.

The sound hardware varies from computer to computer, and is rarely a true
Soundblaster 16.

Not all computers have ISA slots, and some computers are using onboard sound
hardware.

Mark.

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