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SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 16.02.2023, 07:42

> It seems to be a TSR "wrapper" which will provide SB-compatible emulation
> bare metal modern DOS systems for modern PCI chipsets such as IDH, HDA, AC'97

Actually, it IS a ( protected-mode ) TSR. The cool thing is: it provides SB emulation not just for protected-mode, but also for real-mode ( more exactly: v86-mode ). The thread title "OPL3 sound driver for <...>" is also misleading, because it doesn't just include a ( software ) OPL3-synthesizer, but has full digital sound ( SFX ) support.

> Also, UNISOUND was mentioned in that thread, which seems to be a sort of
> wrapper like the new project of SBEMU, but I never could get UNISOUND to
> work with my modern core i3/i5/i7 systems on bare metal DOS, with modern
> PCI audio chipsets.

I might be wrong, but AFAIK UNISOUND is supposed to generally initialize sound HW on legacy systems ( which may sometimes, in case of PnP, be pretty awkward ). I'm not aware that it provides anything for modern systems.

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Complete thread:

• SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Japheth, 16.02.2023, 05:36 (Announce)
  • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Zyzzle, 16.02.2023, 07:04
    • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Japheth, 16.02.2023, 07:42
      • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Zyzzle, 16.02.2023, 08:03
        • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Rob, 16.02.2023, 16:15
          • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - CandyMan, 17.02.2023, 16:39
            • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Zyzzle, 20.02.2023, 02:59
          • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Japheth, 17.02.2023, 16:56
            • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Rob, 17.02.2023, 19:19
              • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Laaca, 17.02.2023, 23:05
                • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Rob, 18.02.2023, 08:47
  • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - RayeR, 10.03.2023, 06:39
    • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - Zyzzle, 11.03.2023, 03:10
      • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS about to enter beta stage - RayeR, 16.03.2023, 00:40
        • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS - SBA IRQ bug fixed, new beta - RayeR, 19.03.2023, 18:13
          • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS - SBA IRQ bug fixed, new beta - fritz.mueller, 05.01.2024, 20:49
            • SBEMU - SB emulation in DOS - SBA IRQ bug fixed, new beta - RayeR, 30.01.2024, 22:42