no

leileilol wrote on 2022-06-26, 20:24:

no

precise answer. Although I think if there has ever been the need to fake a card.

You're not going to run those old .386/.VXD device drivers and DOS TSRs on "new platforms".

Sound card faking attempts were done with VDMSound and SoundFX2000 to a limited buggy degree in the early 00s prior to DOSBox obseleting NTVDM workarounds, and as DOS16 NTVDM's pretty much dead for at least a decade....

leileilol wrote on 2022-06-26, 21:21:

You're not going to run those old .386/.VXD device drivers and DOS TSRs on "new platforms".

Sound card faking attempts were done with VDMSound and SoundFX2000 to a limited buggy degree in the early 00s prior to DOSBox obseleting NTVDM workarounds, and as DOS16 NTVDM's pretty much dead for at least a decade....

That clears Dos emulation. Win32 Games that look for a particular sound driver, or a particular sound card, do they exist. Very old Win32 games would list a Sound Blaster compatible as the minimum so I ask here if any Win32 game from the time did such a thing

There are certain games like Eradicator which can use AWE cards in interesting ways. A few DOS titles also have native (enhanced) ESFM support which can sound kinda neat.

These are edge cases though, not the norm.

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2022-06-26, 21:38:

leileilol wrote on 2022-06-26, 21:21:

You're not going to run those old .386/.VXD device drivers and DOS TSRs on "new platforms".

Sound card faking attempts were done with VDMSound and SoundFX2000 to a limited buggy degree in the early 00s prior to DOSBox obseleting NTVDM workarounds, and as DOS16 NTVDM's pretty much dead for at least a decade....

That clears Dos emulation. Win32 Games that look for a particular sound driver, or a particular sound card, do they exist. Very old Win32 games would list a Sound Blaster compatible as the minimum so I ask here if any Win32 game from the time did such a thing

In general, no. Windows abstracted hardware access for this very reason, to avoid software needing to specifically support hardware. Back in the day I used to play MS Golf with a "PC speaker" sound driver because I didn't have a sound card.

The one exception would be extensions such as EAX/A3D. But those were never required.

Plasma wrote on 2022-06-27, 00:52:

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2022-06-26, 21:38:

leileilol wrote on 2022-06-26, 21:21:

You're not going to run those old .386/.VXD device drivers and DOS TSRs on "new platforms".

Sound card faking attempts were done with VDMSound and SoundFX2000 to a limited buggy degree in the early 00s prior to DOSBox obseleting NTVDM workarounds, and as DOS16 NTVDM's pretty much dead for at least a decade....

That clears Dos emulation. Win32 Games that look for a particular sound driver, or a particular sound card, do they exist. Very old Win32 games would list a Sound Blaster compatible as the minimum so I ask here if any Win32 game from the time did such a thing

In general, no. Windows abstracted hardware access for this very reason, to avoid software needing to specifically support hardware. Back in the day I used to play MS Golf with a "PC speaker" sound driver because I didn't have a sound card.

The one exception would be extensions such as EAX/A3D. But those were never required.

Hmm so that clears it then. There's no need of emulating an entire sound card for Windows, except for proprietary features.