DOS ain't dead - vsbhda v1.6

Japheth

Germany (South),
11.06.2025, 10:39

vsbhda v1.6 (Announce)

Hello,

there's a new release of vsbhda available: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA/releases/tag/v1.6

More or less just fixes, but as a result the program now supports Win3.1 in Standard Mode. However, since the DOSX.EXE supplied with Win3.1 - which is the DOS Extender in Standard Mode - is a PL0 program that won't allow another PL0 program to be active, it must be replaced by the DOSX.EXE of HX.

My (few) tests revealed one problem only: FreeDOS isn't compatible with the task switcher duo WSWAP.EXE/DSWAP.EXE supplied with Win3.1. MS-DOS or (E)DR-DOS don't have this problem. That means, sound works in Win3.1 with FreeDOS, but better don't try to launch a "DOS-Box".

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MS-DOS forever!

DOStuff 12.06.2025, 03:33 @ Japheth	vsbhda v1.6 Post reply
	Nice feature. Plenty of folks will enjoy it. I had suggested people try, sometime ago. But I never dug too deep into it, myself. Glad to see the extra steps taken, and further contributions provided to the community. Thank you, Japheth

Japheth

Germany (South),
13.10.2025, 14:00

@ Japheth

vsbhda v1.8, hdpmi 3.23

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Hello,

There's a new vsbhda release, v1.8: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA/releases

It's supplied with a new version of hdpmi, v3.23; quite a few very interesting fixes there: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HX/releases/tag/v2.23

vsbhda runs on real hardware and has been tested to work with VMWare, Qemu & VirtualBox ( these environments support both HDA and AC'97, VMWare additionally ES1371 ). They also support SoundBlaster emulation natively, of course, but this is often of "minor quality".

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MS-DOS forever!