Re: [Freedos-user] Getting sound to work in FreeDOS on Modern systems.

It's been a while since I got back to this. I just got a spare sound card
from my friend. It's a  Diamond Monster Sound MX400, which uses a
ESSCanyon3D chipset. I'll let everyone know how this turns out once I have
the time to test it in FreeDOS.





On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:07 PM, D Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well I finally found a ESS PCI card here:
>
> http://www.recycledgoods.com/item/32052.aspx
>
> Anyone have this card and if so have you already tested this on a modern
> motherboard without ISA slots?
> I planned on getting it but I want to check and see if someone tried this
> with FreeDOS and a modern motherboard, and in case it didn't work even if
> all the drivers have been loaded etc.
>
> I assume this unit isn't affected by the NMI requirement and DDMA judging
> by that other link earlier:
>
> http://www.it-he.org/sound.htm
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Dos386,
>>
>> > Intel ICH
>>
>> Pure AC97, does not attempt to support SB. Supported by
>> few modern DOS apps as AC97, not supported by old games.
>>
>> > ES1371/1373 AKA SB128PCI/SB16PCI, EMUxxx
>> > (SB512/LiveAudigy), ... (MPXPLAY)
>>
>> Supported by modern apps as AC97, comes with driver which
>> creates virtual SB, apparently needs NMI and EMM386...
>>
>> >> will no longer allow SoundBlaster or similar clone cards
>> >> to work correctly with Sound Blaster emulation.
>>
>> > NO, but that wasn't a working solution anyway
>>
>> Actually DDMA / TDMA on PCI slots worked quite okay on my
>> old K6-2 board which had PCI, ISA and AGP... At some time
>> boards stopped with DDMA support and more recently, TDMA
>> and/or NMI support stopped in nForce and Core2 etc boards.
>>
>> > SB Live24 (ask Laaca, I don't use old games)
>>
>> See above - even that might fail on modern boards.
>>
>> >> Note that more full emulators such as DOSEMU (Linux)
>>
>> > NOT a full emulator
>>
>> Correct. It only emulates the devices, not the CPU, which
>> makes it much faster than a whole-PC emulator :-).
>>
>> > BOCHS and QEMU do work in FreeDOS and can emulate SB16 ...
>>
>> I meant running them in Linux or Windows, but nevermind ;-)
>>
>> > so the only lacking thing is the connection from HX WINMM
>> > DLL to PCI sound hardware ;-)
>>
>> Cute idea actually! Run Bochs/Qemu with DOS as host,
>> using the Win32 support layer of HX, and then run
>> ANOTHER DOS INSIDE Bochs/Qemu to have sound...  Of
>> course it will be slow as hell, but it CAN work :-)
>>
>> >> Emulated CPU of course wastes CPU time
>>
>> > Much time, but a non-issue (or even desirable) for old games + new CPU
>> ;-)
>>
>> I remember that DOSBOX was too slow for my taste on
>> any normal single core CPU even though DOS games only
>> need CPU speeds of 486 or Pentium I times... :-p
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
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