Sound problems

Sound problems

[Ignaz Forster]

Hi there,

I just wanted to play a quite old game called "1869" again. The game 
works fine, but I can't hear any sound. I think it's Adlib-sound, but 
I'm not sure.
Regarding that problem I have further questions:
1. What version of dosemu should be used? At the moment, I'm using the 
latest stable version (1.0.2).
2. I tried to set up the midid-device as described in the 
sound-usage.txt.  When trying to run it as a standalone application, it 
says "Driver failed to init: <Name of the emulated card> <device>". It 
happens with all the available emulations and devices. When opening the 
program for dosemu with the command
    midid < ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi &
the output
    [3] 3082
appears. What message should occur there?
3. I read on http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas, that midid isn't 
required at all when using a SoundBlaster Live. As I have that card, 
could anybody explain how to use it (or show me a tutorial)?

It would be great if anybody would know some answers to the questions above.

Thanks,
Ignaz

Re: Sound problems

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Ignaz Forster wrote:
> I just wanted to play a quite old game called "1869" again. The game 
> works fine, but I can't hear any sound. I think it's Adlib-sound, but 
Adlib is not implemented yet.
Expect it within a year after
my new SB code is integrated into
the distribution, which will also
take an unknown amount of time...

> 2. I tried to set up the midid-device as described in the 
midid have nothing to do with Adlib,
it is for MPU-401 midi (GM and MT-32
are supported).

> 3. I read on http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas, that midid isn't 
> required at all when using a SoundBlaster Live. As I have that card, 
> could anybody explain how to use it (or show me a tutorial)?
See sound-usage.txt section 3.2.2.2
but it won't help you with Adlib
anyway, so...

sound problems

[Andrew McCready]

I installed dosemu-1.1.99.1 and tried to run starcon2
under xdosemu (with freedos), but after playing
between a 1/10 and 2 seconds of sound, the sound cuts
out and I get lots "ERROR: SB: direct write buffer
overflowed!" errors. 

I assumed I missed something in the install, so I
tried running dosamp, but it works fine. 

I noticed in one of the threads here that it might be
a problem with DIRECT_WRITE_FREQ in linux.h being too
high or too low, so I tried each of the following
values: 6000, 11025, 3000, 1500, 200, 20, 1, 22050.
But the sound would still cut out within the first
second or two.

Any idea how I can fix this?

I'm using the alsa 0.9.6 driver and /proc/asound/cards
says the following:
0 [V8235          ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
                     VIA 8235 at 0xd400, irq 11

Thanks, Andrew

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Re: sound problems

[Eemeli Kantola]

Andrew McCready wrote:
> I installed dosemu-1.1.99.1 and tried to run starcon2
> under xdosemu (with freedos), but after playing
> between a 1/10 and 2 seconds of sound, the sound cuts
> out and I get lots "ERROR: SB: direct write buffer
> overflowed!" errors. 

Why not try "The Ur-Quan Masters" (from http://sc2.sourceforge.net/) 
instead?

-Eemeli