DOSEMU and ALSA

DOSEMU and ALSA

[Edgar Kalkowski]

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Hi!

It would be really great if DOSEMU could use ALSA for sound and midi output!
Another project that has implemented this is DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/).

Apart from that I like DOSEMU very much and it's also much faster than DOSBox!
But it's a pity I can't hear the great midi tunes from Settlers 2 ...

Best regards

Ed
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Re: DOSEMU and ALSA

[Dave Phillips]

Edgar Kalkowski wrote:
> It would be really great if DOSEMU could use ALSA for sound and midi 
> output!
> Another project that has implemented this is DOSBox 
> (http://www.dosbox.com/).
>
> Apart from that I like DOSEMU very much and it's also much faster than 
> DOSBox!
> But it's a pity I can't hear the great midi tunes from Settlers 2 ...
Hi Edgar,

I simply create this symlink to a legitimate ALSA device (a virtual MIDI 
port in this case) :

$HOME/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi

The link is to /dev/snd/midiC2D0 (because the virtual MIDI device is the 
third sound device in my system) and it works beautifully for working 
with my favorite MIDI sequencer for DOS (Sequencer Plus Gold). Let me 
know if you need more clarification how this works.

Best,

Dave Phillips
http://linux-sound.org