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Soundcard emulation in DOS on non-legacy hardware. Possible? (Emulation)

posted by Daniel3D E-mail, Netherlands, 02.11.2022, 13:51

Yes, THis is the kind of stuff I was looking for. It may be possible to make a combination of these to support a wide range of newer hardware.

For Windows, everything is money. Hardware manufacturers themselves develop their Windows drivers in exchange for their brands being recommended by Microsoft
In GNU/Linux, there is not corrupt commercial agreement, because the OS is non-commercial, Independent teams and individuals that like low level programming and research reverse-engineer Windows drivers and are constantly updating databases with new drivers for the hardware that's coming. Then, the OS developers include these drivers.

But few to nobody are supporting DOS now, so for a single person who wants to do this, it's a huge task that would take a long time and, by the time you complete it, there will be new hardware and you need to update it.
This is not feasable in the long run. So i am thinging in the line of Wrappers and API ussage for as far as it can be made without the need of constant updating.
I guess it will be in the range of products that supported DirectX but I do not know.

For graphics, there's somewhat more hope. I don't if it is still so, but until recently, most graphics accelerating cards had VESA 3 support. Even with VESA 2, it's already very easy to provide graphics support in DOS, for SuperVGA modes. Of course, if you want support for old games, VGA compatibility is the key. VESA is software, not hardware.

Thanks for all the input.. It gives me hope..

Daniel

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