Hi Tom! As I understand it you cannot really make any use of initialized sound hardware in DOS except for a few -- very few -- programs that are aware of this very specific sound hardware.
You may have noticed that /back in the old days/ every program/game had to be configured for the specific sound card in order to use it. Even within a family of sound cards there were incompatibilities. For example, games that ware written for Sound Blaster 1.0 (aka Game Blaster) und Sound Blaster 2.0 were not able to produce SoundBlaster sound on a more modern Sound Blaster Pro or Sound Blaster 16. The reason for this is very simple: there is no standardized sound API on DOS. So every sound card and driver created its own API and every application has to be written to support this very sound card (series). The only solution for /modern DOS/ would be to write an emulation for a well supported sound card for older programs and games. That would be, say, a SB16 emulation driver for AC97 and HD-Audio on-board sound cards. So every DOS program/game would see the well supported SB16 and -- if supported by this very program or game -- would be able to use it through the emulation. I think this is how DOSBox does support sound. If you do find a practical solution though -- I would be interested too! Cheers, userbeitrag On 2016-12-18 23:58, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Do such programs to init the sound hardware work with all sound hardware? > I have on-motherboard Intel high-definition audio and remember reading on > this emailing list that it was not supported in any DOS. > > I get sound in FreeBSD and NetBSD. > > Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
