DOS ain't dead - AC97 sound driver for DOS

AC97 sound driver for DOS (Announce)

posted by Khusraw , Bucharest, Romania, 28.04.2009, 10:27
(edited by Khusraw on 28.04.2009, 16:50)

> Well but who needs it? are you (not you personaly but few dos programmers
> here) planning to start making hundreds of sound apps? I would rather
> update allegro or midas library to support new cards if someone needs...

VESA VBE/AI was a good idea, sadly that because of various reasons it didn't become a standard. Ask yourself what would have meant for DOS in case most sound cards would have had VESA VBE/AI support. For me something similar would have been the cleanest approach for accessing sound cards in DOS.
But as you further imply, why to bother even to update allegro or midas for the very few who would need such a thing, when most emulators/VMs have very good support for SB (and in some situations even for GUS). If we have nothing better to do we can continue to write SB code, run it in emulator/VM and be happy.

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- AC97 sound driver for DOS - RayeR, 25.04.2009, 15:12
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