Sound for DOS games on modern hardware? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Jun 2003

At 06:47 AM 6/19/03, you wrote:
...
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Hmm, I've got some Ultima titles like that.. 

Audio hardware is a fairly typical old software/modern 
hardware problem. 

FWIW, I've never had much luck w/ non-creative cards 
being used directly by programs that expect to 
talk to creative cards.. 

However, if you've WinNT/2000/XP in the mix you
might try this:  http://ntvdm.cjb.net/

(VMware is also a EXPENSIVE possiblity - but 
its sound drivers are not 100%) 
I've never used VMware.  I've have tried Virtual PC and found while it does
emulate the soundblaster the sound in most of the games that I have tried
skips.  There's a trial version of Virtual PC on the connectix site if I
remember correctly.  

There's also a DOSbox, freeware as far as I know and supposedly optimized
for running DOS games.  I haven't got around to trying it myself yet.  It
doesn't support protected mode yet, but as Wolf3D runs on a 286 that
shouldn't be a problem.  

...

You might also try to see if someone has ported
Wolfenstein to some other platform you've access to.
(The source was release quite some time ago)

YMMV/etc, of course. 

David

(Would a discussion of emulating 10yr old audio
hardware be considered on-topic?) 