Forwarding from: www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14645 HX DOS Extender 2.17+ with modern sound card support (Announce)
posted by Wengier, 16.02.2016, 22:33 As many of you already know, HX DOS Extender, the best DOS extender out there is no longer maintained by Japheth. One major issue that HX 2.17 (the last version by Japheth) exists is that it only supports a SBpro/SB16 card. More recently however, Ruslan Starodubov, the author of modern sound cards support for QuickView Pro 2.60, has decided to update HX 2.17 to support these modern sound cards such as AC97 and Intel HDA too. Yesterday he released HX 2.17+, which currently features experimental support for Intel HDA sound cards. The download page is at: http://sound-dos.ucoz.ru/ Please note that this is a very important milestone in the history of DOS, as the vast majority of DOS sound apps/games out there (except certain programs such as QV 2.60 and MPXPLAY) currently don't support modern sound cards such as AC97/HDA directly, and there is no SB16 emulation driver available for these modern sound cards; however, since DOSBox (the best DOS emulator) provides good SB16 emulation and we are able to run DOSBox under HX DOS Extender, and so if HX DOS Extender supports modern sound cards like HDA, then all DOS sound apps/games that work in DOSBox would be able to play sound through DOSBox's SB16 emulation of these sound cards under HX DOS Extender. This is functionally pretty much like a SB16 emulation driver for modern sound cards in real DOS. Once we are able to get sound cards like AC97/HDA to work reliably with HX, then the no sound issue with the majority of DOS sound apps/games will be completed resolved by the SB16 emulation of these sound cards within HX+DOSBox in real DOS. So please don't hesitate to test your HDA sound cards under HX 2.17+ now and report any issues encountered. In case you want to try a recent DOSBox build that run under HX, you can try the one built with MinGW below with long filename, mouse copy/paste and DBCS support: http://bit.ly/1laDvGX Download both HX and DOSBox, then make sure DOSLFN is loaded and run DOSBox with "dpmild32 -g dosbox.exe". In my experiences it currently works best with Japheth's HX 2.16, which is still accessible from the page below (download both HXRT and HXGUI packages). When using with HX 2.17 or 2.17+, you might need to replace its VESA32.DLL file with the one from HX 2.16. http://web.archive.org/web/20140904175113/http://www.japheth.de/HX.html Wengier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
