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Porting VDMSound to linux

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Are there any plans to port VDMSound to linux? Or is it even possible?

Reply 5 of 9, by MajorGrubert

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Anonymous wrote:

Or is it even possible?

Sorry, but it is not. VDMSound is not a DOS emulator, it just provide virtual devices to the standard Windows NTVDM, so a DOS program believes it's running in a machine with a SoundBlaster card and a few more things. Since it's not a full emulator or a full VDM, it cannnot be ported to Linux.
If you want to run old DOS programs inside Linux you need dosemu or DOSBox.

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Major Grubert

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Reply 6 of 9, by bushwakko

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🙁

Wasn't sure excactly what VDMSound did, that's why I asked. thanks for the info 😀

too bad dosbox is REALLY slow in linux. should be possible to make a dos-wrapper in linux too though, without having to emulate everything. 😀

anyone know of such a project?