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REMUS, Universal sound card emulator for MS-DOS

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First post, by butterfly

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Does anyone know about this "emulator"?
The author claims it's a "unversal soundcard emulator for MS-DOS" and unfortunately it only runs in 386 protected mode;
That makes it, as to my knowledge, unusable under Windows XP.
That's a shame cos it claims to emulate:

Adlib (OPL2), D/A Converter (aka DAC), Gravis Ultrasound, PC Speaker, Sound Blaster, Stereo-on-1 DAC, Yamaha 3-8910 PCM

using the following devices:

Adlib (OPL2), D/A Converter, Gravis Ultrasound, PC Speaker, Sound Blaster, Stereo-on-1 DAC.

That seems a very ambitious project but alas it looks discontinued.

Here's a link to the latest and maybe least version of it

http://cd.textfiles.com/darkdomain/programs/d … rs/remus04g.zip

P.S.: It looks like you'll need a download manager to download that

Reply 3 of 4, by 5u3

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Yeah, I remember REMUS.
The best purpose of the emulator would have been running GUS-only scene productions on SB cards, too bad many of them wouldn't work in protected mode...

I still use RDOSPLAY today, unfortunately the author lost his sources in a HD crash, and so it feels rather "unfinished" (lots of crashes).

Another terrific utility from the same guy was RDOSUMB, an UMB driver that doesn't use protected mode. Later UMBPCI became more popular, but if you have a 386/486 with a chipset that doesn't work with the other "hardware UMB drivers", there is a pretty good chance it'll work with RDOSUMB.

Reply 4 of 4, by butterfly

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Thanks. I am trying to run remus with the help of VDMSound but I still get the message "ERROR: Processor is already in Virtual86 mode" (using VDMS without reading the docs/forums). I'll google out for RDOSPLAY.

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