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DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
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Should I expect Dosbox-X running on an MSDOS 6.22 host to have audio support? #4217

Open keenerb opened 1 year ago

keenerb commented 1 year ago

Question

I'm using your MSDOS build of Dosbox-X and it seems to work surprisingly well, all things considered.

The only caveat is that audio doesn't seem to be functional? Is this a feature that's expected to work and I'm not doing it right, or is audio simply not working in this configuration?

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joncampbell123 commented 1 year ago

I'm somewhat unfamiliar with the HX DOS extender and it's Win32 emulation but there's supposedly a way to enable sound. Other users including @Wengier have posted video caps of DOSBox-X on a later era machine using an AC'97 (or HD Audio?) chipset sound card for example.

maron2000 commented 1 year ago

Perhaps this closed issue helps. #3431

keenerb commented 1 year ago

That is interesting closed issue. I'm using a Soundblaster Pro compatible sound card, perhaps I need to try a genuine SB16 instead...

keenerb commented 1 year ago

For the record, virtualbox configured to use SB16 device ran the HX DOSbox build successfully with sound, albeit really CRAPPY sound.

I believe that answers my question. I would need a genuine SB16 or compatible card to get this to work, I think, although I will try one of the ensoniq audiopcis I have with the hx dpmi provider linked to in that closed ticket. Thanks for the help everyone.

Torinde commented 2 weeks ago

There is also a newer development of DOS driver for PCI and AC'97 chips:

Unfortunately neither the SBEMU nor the HX parts of those two projects are in sync.

@WarPath2020, FYI as well

DOSbox-X has bundled an older HX DOS extender v2.19. Would be good to update it to the one from SBEMU or to v2.22 when it's released.