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Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 20.03.2024, 11:46
(edited by Japheth on 21.03.2024, 12:40)

Yes, that may be possible with the next release of vsbhda - it has support for 16-bit DPMI.

Tyrian2k revealed a couple of bugs in the current SB emulation code - they're not 100% fixed, SFX sound crackles quite a bit. And I guess there's also a crash later. Perhaps those things got fixed for the final release.

Since Win3.1 in standard mode is a 16-bit client, it might also work with vsbhda - I haven't tried yet. The Creative SB software makes use of undocumented DSP cmds, as I had learned...

https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA/releases/download/v1.4pre1/vsbhda14.zip

Btw, some technical info: the 16-bit variant has been created with OW 2.0 ( like the 32-bit variant ), although OW does NOT contain any 16-bit DOS extender. So it's still pure 32-bit code (wcc386 used as compiler), just made sure that both EIP and ESP registers always have their hiwords cleared.

[Added 21.3.:
A little addition to handle the infamous "Runtime Error 200" for quite a few 16-bit Borland binaries. Now Jazz Jackrabbit should also work...
]

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 20.03.2024, 11:46 (Announce)
  • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Rugxulo, 21.03.2024, 05:52
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Laaca, 21.03.2024, 18:36
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 21.03.2024, 21:42
  • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 23.03.2024, 02:58
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 23.03.2024, 10:54
      • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 24.03.2024, 02:18
        • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 24.03.2024, 05:06
          • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 25.03.2024, 22:42
  • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 26.03.2024, 06:16
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 26.03.2024, 08:34
      • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 26.03.2024, 13:48
        • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 27.03.2024, 02:17
          • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 27.03.2024, 06:33
            • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 27.03.2024, 14:06
              • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Laaca, 27.03.2024, 17:35
                • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 28.03.2024, 04:39
    • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 27.03.2024, 14:27
      • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 27.03.2024, 16:02
        • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 27.03.2024, 17:39
          • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Zyzzle, 28.03.2024, 02:49
            • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 28.03.2024, 06:34
          • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 28.03.2024, 04:43
            • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - Japheth, 28.03.2024, 06:10
              • Tyrian 2000 in DOS with sound on PCIe only machines? - RayeR, 29.03.2024, 20:20
                • VSBHDA 1.5 pre - RayeR, 15.05.2024, 07:06
  • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - Japheth, 20.04.2024, 10:41
    • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - rr, 20.04.2024, 20:07
      • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - Zyzzle, 21.04.2024, 01:56
        • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - Japheth, 21.04.2024, 10:39
          • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - Zyzzle, 22.04.2024, 13:31
    • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - rr, 22.04.2024, 20:07
    • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - 0ffer, 28.04.2024, 08:57
      • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - Rugxulo, 28.04.2024, 11:16
        • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - 0ffer, 28.04.2024, 12:35
          • Windows for Workgroups 3.11, FreeDOS, MS DOS 8, HIMEM etc. - mceric, 28.04.2024, 16:41
            • Windows for Workgroups 3.11, FreeDOS, MS DOS 8, HIMEM etc. - 0ffer, 29.04.2024, 00:57
      • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - roytam, 28.04.2024, 11:43
        • VSBHDA v1.4 (final) has been released - 0ffer, 28.04.2024, 12:37