From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: Sound support (2), using hardware directly Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:54:13 +0400 Message-ID: <42DCF7F5.7090508@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: > Yes, I am aware of the MIDI support in Dosemu, but I thought it was > only for General Midi compatibility. No. On the software synth side, midid have the -m option which will give you some basic mt32 support. As for the directly passing the midi stream to the wavetable - this is also possible and described, and will allow you to use your AWE synth fully, provided it all goes via the mpu-401 in a pass-through mode (almost always this is the case). So you can try and see if there are any differences with what you now have - there shouldn't be, but you won't need root, which is very important in some cases. > Sounds great! I'll watch the Dosemu > development and try things out when > they get released :) Well, the primary goal is to design the very simple but robust sound subsystem from zero, so that it won't depend on OSS, but can work also with ALSA and anything, and so that it can work with many more DOS progs than the current one does. But the OPL3, again, is not in the list of the primary targets:) Of course porting the MAME OPL3 emulator to the planned sound system must be easy, but we'll see where this all will end up. It will probably take some time before something can be released though - the main problem is that the current code also happened to work somehow, and the replacement is possible only when the new code matches the current one in the functionality, which can take long enough.