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Open Source DOS Sound standards! yay! (Developers)

posted by sparky4 Homepage E-mail, hell, 10.01.2013, 23:25

>
> If only it were that easy.
>
> The problem is, there never have been any official standards, only de facto
> ones. The de facto standard for DOS sound is Sound Blaster, and hardware
> (and VM) manufacturers who have any interest in DOS compatibility at all
> will emulate SB. Newer hardware is almost never directly compatible with
> SB, but some will provide a special DOS utility to provide SB emulation.
>
> If I were to write a USB sound driver (which I might actually try to do
> someday), it would virtualize a SB. However, unless something changes with
> regard to virtualization techniques from real/V86 mode, the virtualization
> would not work properly from protected mode (e.g., DPMI). You would need
> to make provisions in your program for that if you want it to work in the
> future with "real" DOS.
>
> If you want your program to work with the most hardware (real and
> virtualized) with the least amount of work, assume Sound Blaster. You can
> add other (non-SB) possibilities later on if you decide SB isn't enough.
Well we should start somewhere and maybe implement the driver into the FreeDOS Kernel!

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