From: Jerome S. <je...@sh...> - 2024-08-16 20:24:17
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Hi Eric, > On Aug 16, 2024, at 9:48 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel <fre...@li...> wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > please be more specific, which games crashed with sbemu for you, I honestly don’t recall. I only did a very little testing on one of my machines. I don’t even remember if it was the P4 or Atom. I was very busy at the time and it was sort-of working. I decided to try again later. When later arrived, I was aware of the VSBHDA fork. Which to my understanding of the documentation, works better with JEMM. So, I decided to try to get that working instead. > on which hardware and with which configuration, with which jemmex > error messages? Initial issues were no sound in some games. Random computer freezing and strangely frequent JEMM exceptions while just using the command line. Most of my testing was in two games. SaysWho and FreeDOM. SaysWho is that simple memory game I made. In part, it was to test the audio driver for my gaming engine. The game will use the PC speaker for sound. However, if an Adlib compatible sound card is present it will use that for audio. As you know, all those old SB cards and many others are Adlib compatible. That game would run and there would be no sound at all. Which meant it saw it was compatible with Adlib, but no sound came out of it. FreeDOM had sound. But, would freeze after a little while. > And which configuration of vsbhda made which of > the games work and which are still not working? Changing the BLASTER environment variable setting for the IRQ fixed it. I think using IRQ 2 instead of the more common default value was the solution. Both of those games now work without issue. I also recommend setting the emulator volume to max when loading it. If not specified, it can be very quiet. Without that setting, when testing on the ACER Netbook, it was barely audible at all. > Maybe you could even share the insight with Phil's Computer Lab? > > Thank you :-) Good to know that you got (most?) things to work :-) Yup, mostly working very well. Since I don’t play games often and to insure there are no conflicts when running the emulator, I don’t have either of the machines that need it for sound boot with the emulator running. If need be, I’ll can just run it later as needed for games. The ACER netbook has very small speakers and is barely worth having sound. The Toshiba P4 is a battleship sized laptop. Or, more accurately a desktop substitute. The audio from it is loud when the emulator running. My 486 notebook does not have a sound card in its docking station at present. My Pentium Pro has an SB AWE64 Gold and does not need the emulator. > Eric :-) Jerome > > >> Hi Eric, >> I was having similar issues. So, switched to VSBHDA. Afterwards, I >> was still experiencing lots of problems and submitted a bug report. >> But as it turned out, it was user error. I just needed to change >> the configuration settings and that fixed me right up. >> :-) >>>> On Aug 15, 2024, at 6:13 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel <fre...@li...> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi! I have been watching >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-AlpCEqpc >>> >>> where Phils Computer Lab tests SBEMU with the pre-installed >>> FreeDOS image which you can download from SBEMU's crazii... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Fre...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel |