Re: some comments re: dosemu 1.1.99 (fwd)

[Dave Phillips <dlphilp@bright.net>]

Stas Sergeev wrote:

>> Very cool, I'll check it out. However, I should note that I've always 
>> been able to initialize vapimpu.com as long as :
>> 1. the version number was appropriate
>
> Version of vapimpu.com?

I've successfully used versions 1.26 and 1.33. Vesion 1.51 didn't work 
even with the IRQ flag. I'm eager to try your improved code: I just 
received a report from another DOSemu + Sequencer Plus user who states 
that the SAPI drive also loads correctly. IIRC that driver is supposed 
to access the OPL3 soundchip but he says he can't get it working 
correctly on his laptop. I think it's probably a hardware problem, or 
perhaps he needs to invoke a command-line flag when he loads the driver.

>> Can you cite where I've referred to using the PC-speaker driver
>
> Well, I might be confusing something, but I
> thought you have some relations with
> www.linux-sound.org, haven't you? If so,
> here is a quote:
> ---
> PC Speaker
>          PC Speaker Driver old driver from Humboldt University in Berlin
>          PC Speaker Driver Patch from Erik Inge Bolso
> ---
> If you have nothing to do with that site
> then I might have confused you with someone
> else.

Ah, I see what you're talking about now. I thought you were referring to 
those links in the context of DOSemu. So you have an improved speaker 
driver available ? Tell me where it's located and I'll gladly add a link 
to it. (Yes, linux-sound.org is mine).

>> Outstanding, that's most encouraging. I'm now using the FreeDOS 
>> package available from dosemu.org, but I don't find setver in its bin 
>> directory.
>
> setver doesn't matter in that case as FreeDOS
> is not supposed to work with Windows (probably
> any), this is from official sources.
> I tested with PC-DOS.
>
>> Can you recommend a version to use with FreeDOS ?
>
> Version of what?

Setver. Never mind though, I did some searches and discovered that 
setver has been dropped from the FreeDOS development tree. I tried 
spoofing the version in the FreeDOS config.sys file (as the docs 
suggest) but it made no difference. See below...

> If you have any version of
> M that doesn't require Windows to run, this
> version might be appropriate. Otherwise use
> MS-DOS or PC-DOS to run Windows.

Aha, so FreeDOS will not run Windows ? Okay, I'll see if I can access 
MS-DOS on another drive here, I think I still have it installed somewhere.

Thanks for the help, Stas. I'm very impressed with DOSemu's 
capabilities, particularly its audio and MIDI support. You're all doing 
a fantastic job !

Best regards,

Dave Phillips