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Jemm386 5.86 is great! (Users)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 18.11.2025, 12:41

> I tried to modify Boost demo with pmwsetup as you suggested and it almost
> works but with VSBHDA the sound has slight permanent stuttering, maybe a
> bit downtone while with SBEMU it plays smooth.

With HDA, it plays ok with vsbhda, while with sbemu sound "disappears" after 1/2 second playing ( and video rendering seems to enter a loop, so the demo won't finish ).

However, on another machine with a SB Live card there is some stuttering, compared to what is rendered in a Win9x DOS box. OTOH, with Creative's SBEINIT the demo just crashes.

> BTW dos4gw programs prefer VCPI or DPMI? How it changes things with SB
> emulation? Or is it specific just to programs with PMODE/W stub?

I remember CauseWay: as default, it prefers VCPI, but if environment variable CAUSEWAY contains DPMI, it changes its opinion.

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Complete thread:

• Jemm386 5.86 is great! - Laaca, 11.11.2025, 20:41 (Users)
  • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - Japheth, 12.11.2025, 07:19
    • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - RayeR, 12.11.2025, 15:28
      • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - Japheth, 12.11.2025, 18:34
        • VSBHDA is also great (was: Jemm386 5.86 is great!)! - SuperIlu, 12.11.2025, 22:48
        • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - RayeR, 13.11.2025, 16:22
          • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - rr, 14.11.2025, 06:46
          • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - Japheth, 14.11.2025, 08:35
            • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - RayeR, 15.11.2025, 04:15
              • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - Japheth, 15.11.2025, 09:02
                • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - RayeR, 18.11.2025, 06:03
                  • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - Japheth, 18.11.2025, 12:41
                    • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - RayeR, 18.11.2025, 23:23
                      • vsbhda - BOOST demo with SB Live - Japheth, 19.11.2025, 09:40
                        • vsbhda - BOOST demo with SB Live - RayeR, 20.11.2025, 06:05
                          • vsbhda - BOOST demo with SB Live - Japheth, 20.11.2025, 11:24
                            • vsbhda - BOOST demo with SB Live - RayeR, 22.11.2025, 04:39
                          • vsbhda - BOOST demo with SB Live - Japheth, 22.11.2025, 18:20
                  • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - rr, 18.11.2025, 19:08
                    • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - RayeR, 18.11.2025, 23:24
    • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - Laaca, 12.11.2025, 22:41
      • Jemm386 5.86 is great! - Japheth, 13.11.2025, 04:23