DOS ain't dead - Sound Blaster, DOS and OS/2 Warp

Sound Blaster, DOS and OS/2 Warp (Developers)

posted by martiniturbide , Quito, Ecuador, 16.02.2020, 14:40

Hi

I’m Martin Iturbide from the OS/2 community and I usually hang out on the OS2World.com forum (I’m the administrator there). Maybe you remember that OS/2 Warp has a Virtual DOS session (DOS VDM) that allowed it to run DOS programs too.

The audio on DOS VDM worked this way, you installed the OS/2 sound driver and also you needed to install the DOS sound driver on the DOS VDM. So, you installed a Sound blaster driver on OS/2 and a DOS sound blaster driver on the DOS session to have audio on both places.

But things has changed for OS/2 (and for the new ArcaOS which is an OS/2 OEM version), now we have a sound driver based in ALSA called UniAud, and for DOS something was created called DTA (DTAudio) that can make the DOS VDM sessions to produce sound and Win-OS/2 sessions too. But DOS programs have support for sound blaster and not for that DTA kind of audio, so we don’t have sound on DOS applications.

What is required is some kind of DOS Sound Blaster emulator driver that can bridge the request for audio from a sound blaster supported DOS application to the DTA driver so OS/2 Warp can get back the desirable DOS VDM sound support.

So, I’m looking for ideas like:
* Can you point me to some open source DOS Sound Blaster driver that can be adapted?
* Maybe it can be interesting to meet some developer that can be hired to create this bridge/driver.
* Any other ideas of what can else on the DOS open source community can help with this idea?

Thanks for reading.

Regards
Martin Iturbide
OS2World NewsMaster
Quito - Ecuador

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Complete thread:

Sound Blaster, DOS and OS/2 Warp - martiniturbide, 16.02.2020, 14:40 (Developers)
- Sound Blaster, DOS and OS/2 Warp - Rugxulo, 16.02.2020, 18:56
  - Sound Blaster, DOS and OS/2 Warp - martiniturbide, 17.02.2020, 02:53
- Sound Blaster, DOS and OS/2 Warp - marcov, 17.02.2020, 09:25
  - Sound Blaster, DOS and OS/2 Warp - martiniturbide, 17.02.2020, 14:15
    - Sound Blaster, DOS and OS/2 Warp - Laaca, 17.02.2020, 16:22