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

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

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 16.02.2020, 18:56

> 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.

While I've never properly used OS/2, I'm still sympathetic. For years I thought OS/2 devs should partner with DOS ones, but nobody cared. (Certainly I'm not skilled enough to do much hacking.)

Can you confirm that ArcaOS runs okay under VBox? I think that was a big stumbling block for some people in the past (ring two? ugh).

Oh, I sadly haven't checked OS/2 Museum in several months, but it always had some interesting articles and commenters.

> So, I’m looking for ideas like:
> * Can you point me to some open source DOS Sound Blaster driver that can be
> adapted?

You could look at VSB.

> * Maybe it can be interesting to meet some developer that can be hired to
> create this bridge/driver.

Not sure, there aren't many professional devs around anymore. Maybe hire Ruslan??

> * Any other ideas of what can else on the DOS open source community can
> help with this idea?

freedos-devel mailing list might minimally help. But, mainly, people seem to always forget exactly what compilers and tools are available for DOS. So at least one archive of dev tools is on iBiblio, for FreeDOS, under /devel/ (or see Development package list).

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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