Hi,
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Butterfly Close
<closebutter...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all! Please, tell me, how to install (under FreeDOS) Sound Blaster
> soundcard; (maybe somewhere exist some wiki, FAQ, or possibly you are
> expert?)
> ...
> By the way, embedded AC97 sound card works fine under DOS, in MPXplay, (!)
> (but not works under DOS mplayer or DESCENT DOS game)
Modern hardware is incompatible, so you need separate drivers, which
may or may not be (probably not) supported by your DOS programs. There
were some modern attempts to provide libraries with DOS sound support,
but not a lot of developers bothered to use them, hence they mostly
languished in obscurity.
Mpxplay has its own built-in drivers, so that's why it works. Old
games like Descent probably do not (though I vaguely remember they
"mostly" open-sourced that, so you could maybe?? rebuild, if you had
suitable library support, which is not really a safe bet).
Your best bet these days for "old" SB compatibility is "probably" an
emulator, e.g. VDMSound ("NT/2000") or XP's NTVDM or Linux's DOSEMU or
VirtualBox (maybe??) or (best?) DOSBox emulator. Especially for games,
most people use DOSBox these days (IIRC, e.g. ADG's review of
Descent).
http://www.pixelmusement.com/adg/ep0007.html
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