@Dominus
Thanks for the answer, I was expecting this a bit, at least with graphic cards, as they for sure can't handle the
needs of a new OS. I realized it right after posting...
I will still try to install a SB16, I think there exist adapters for ISA/PCI.
Even if its emulated, I guess you can't get closer to the original experience.
And I am having one gathering dust, so....
Connecting the PC Speaker to the soundcard - I am using Linux, only since half a year,
but what I found out so far, is, there are solutions for almost everything out there.
Maybe I can find something like the old speaker.drv, and switch between SB16/Speaker
(connected to onboard sound) with a hotkey.
May be possible with QJackCTL. Will take some time to set up for sure.
Frankly, my programming skills are very sub standard - at least in this forum. 😀
btw. cheers to VIenna, I got a flat there, too 😀
@beastlike
It was somewhere in the DosBox feature request thread, I think.
+1
I am building this machine for a private gaming room, where I allready have an original
Arcade cabinet with CRT that runs MAME in Dos 7.0...also gathered some old hardware for this
to make it work. It was quite of a task.
So the machine should be very uncomplicated to use, without any rebooting for different games,
and DosBox is best for that. My friends should be able to turn it on and just play, without too much
extra knowledge.
Allthough I am thinking about setting it up Dual boot, with a menu flashing for a second or so,
to boot it into ...... maybe Freedos, if that solves the problems with EMM386 / CWSDPMI and
all the different memory managers. I remember that I had SOME issues with that in the 90s.
Will check it out.
ISA Cirrus? Never heard of that one! I am a quite experienced sound tech and I will
compare the differences between the emulation / original SB sound, when the PC is up,
I am curious about that.
Will read about Cirrus, maybe I can get some.
PC speaker is also good for guaranteeing some alone time. 🤣
Not where I live 😁