Aureal 3D and EAX sound emulation

[Torinde]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Run games and programs in A3D or EAX mode. Lists: 1 (some of which "Requires sound card with Aureal A3D support", a lot A3D info on this site), 2, 3, 4, 5

Related technologies for 3D/positional/spatial audio from that era:

• QSound: AWE32 3D, Trident Q3D 2.0, ESS1948
• Sensaura: ESS Canyon3D/MX400, ES1992 Canyon3D-2/I/O Magic Typhoon supporting also I3DL2, Soundstorm
• SRS: Media Vision Pro3D/Premium3D, Crystal CS4237B (chip emulated by 86Box)
• EarSound IAS - 11 games, including some exclusively supporting that standard such as Quake II, Civ2, Mechwarrior2
• DirectSound3D

What you want

emulation of:

1. Vortex 2 AU8830 / Diamond Monster Sound MX300 / SQ3500 / A3D 3.0 / EAX 1.0
2. Ensoniq AudioPCI / AC'97 / A3D / EAX 1.0 - PCem/86box, QEMU, Bochs emulate that
3. Sound Blaster Live! / Audigy / X-fi / EAX 5.0 - combination of Ensoniq AudioPCI and AWE32/64, #3378

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional information

https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/pull/4716 added support for OPL stereo-extension, 4-ch output.

Related: https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure/issues/449

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[Torinde]

from the 86box discussion linked above and from 86Box/86Box/discussions/2795:

• A3D techdoc.pdf; Aureal Linux Hacking - usable drivers for Linux, "The current reverse engineering work can be checked out of the cvs using the "aureal_re" module"; A3D-to-Vista+ wrapper
• Live! and Audigy/LS and Audigy 2 Value/NX/ZS source code documentation (potentially partial). https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/sound/pci/emu10k1

Audigy is maybe the last Win9x soundcard. After that remains only X-fi - as the last for WinXP and the last before moving completely to software based solutions?

[Torinde]

EAX-to-Vista+ wrappers EAX emulators, including Wine From Wikipedia Live!, Audigy, X-Fi

• The kX Audio Driver is an independent, Free Software WDM driver under the GPLv2 for all EMU10K1 and EMU10K2-based soundcards. These Drivers offer more control over the DSP. @kxproject
• X-Fi: Creative finally released their driver under a GPL license. The driver (snd-ctxfi) was included in release of ALSA 1.0.21
• Audigy: User daniel_k (Daniel Kawakami) from Creative's forums does maintenance updates to keep compatibility with the latest version of Windows and implements several non public fixes.

[Torinde]

Audigy is the last Sound Blaster to support DOS/Win9x X-Fi is the last Sound Blaster to support WinXP Both support Dolby Digital #4124

[Torinde]

Illumos also has drivers: code Live! and Audigy/2/4

Creative Labs EMU10k1 [Sound Blaster Live! Series]
Driver: audioemu10k
PCI ID: 1102,2
Originating manifest: driver-audio-audioemu10k.p5m
Creative Labs EMU10k2/CA0100/CA0102/CA10200 [Sound Blaster Audigy Series]
Driver: audioemu10k
PCI ID: 1102,4
Originating manifest: driver-audio-audioemu10k.p5m
Creative Labs CA0108/CA10300 [Sound Blaster Audigy Series]
Driver: audioemu10k
PCI ID: 1102,8
Originating manifest: driver-audio-audioemu10k.p5m

[Torinde]

https://github.com/sbemu-x/sbemu-x/issues/12#issuecomment-1837526761 mentions multiple open source repositories with sound card drivers - covering both Aureal and Creative models among others: OSS project, FreeBSD sound driver sources, ALSA drivers, IBM Audio Interface Library for 32-bit DOS (AIL/32) v.1.05

[Torinde]

Aureal3D 1.0-3.0 to DirectSound3D wrapper

• https://github.com/worknd/A3D-Live
• http://www.worknd.ru - documentation
• https://www.neogaf.com/threads/your-old-pc-games-might-sound-the-same-again-theres-an-a3d-aureal-wrapper.881030/

ABIT UA11 - Sensaura driver: DirectSound3D, Sensaura ZoomFX, I3DL2, Creative EAX 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0

• http://www.worknd.ru/abit_ua11.html