Let's play - Getting sound to work

If you want to play DOS games, you probably want to hear the original sounds. In this video, I'll show you how to get sound to work on FreeDOS.

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[samuelsaady]

Thanks, very helpful especially when I’m just getting into the dos gaming scene

[casualretrocollector]

It’s now high time to redo this video, on a native machine running freedos and SBEMU!

[Kanerade]

Could you make a tutorial on installing freedos on a usb instead of a hard disk? That would be very helpful

[emem]

Great! I will try whether my favorite DOS games will work under QEMU with sound!

[ChilapaOfTheAmazons]

Thank you, Jim, for these videos!

I have two video suggestions for the future:

1) Where is FreeDOS going, which features are coming in 1.3 and in the subsequent version after that.

2) How can people contribute to the development of FreeDOS, both kernel and userspace (this is complex enough that it might require more than one video).

Keep up the good work. 😀

[rednibcoding]

I'm really amazed by freeDOS! Maybe you could make a video on how to setup freeDOS on qemu.

[denczy_kiss]

Hello ! How to set sound for games like "karateka" that don't have configuration program. ty.

[ticiusarakan]

i don't understand, what about real hardware? for example eeepc. is there some kind of wrapper, emulator or soundblaster translator in free dos itself?

[WalterandGaming_Music]

is it possible to do this on real hardware, not on an emulator?

[lucius]

Tried to get sound properly working with FreeDos on VirtualBox. Works, kind of. Games like FreeDoom or Doom have sound, as most of the stuff i could get over FDimples. But old games like Frontier Elite 2, Larry etc. Sound does not work. Guess the Virtual Soundblaster in VirtualBox is somewhat incomplete.

[ericwood]

I'd be mightily impressed if you could get a Crystal SoundFusion to work.

[xLuVo]

ive got real hardware set up with freedos. do i need a dedicated sound card, or can i just do this and it works with onboard audio? ive tried this with a dedicated soundblaster, but i only got music, no game sound and when i tried this with onboard audio, nothing came at all

[KJJHN]

Hello, could you please cover I/O on the parallel port? Specifically a blinky led on the parallel port would be fantastic. I'm thinking I'll be using Turbo C++. Thanks!

[OpenGLever]

I never had to provide a H and P option for the soundblaster configuration in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Could you tell me, for what H and P is good for?

[kxmode]

I have FreeDOS and that exact same blaster setting, but no audio.

Machine settings for audio:

[X] Enable audio
host audio driver: default
audio controller: ICH AC97
Extended features: [X] Enable audio output

[jothain]

It's been ages since I've used dos and once actually tried FreeDOS. One thing I'm very curios is that is memory management easier to do these days? Yeah I'm talking about that pesky 640 and as kid that himem.sys and emm386. Could it possibly be easier these days to make memory related settings or is it still a hassle, meaning backwards compatibility. I have older Pentium laptop with sb compatibility and it has Dos and Windows. But it would be cool to have FreeDOS to have more freedom with settings. I really don't have such interest to tweak those settings as I had as kid :D

[michaeljtessmer]

How to set up sound with FreeDOS under virtualbox.

[pacman]

this doesn't help if you're running real steel with the integrated sound chip

[Italian_Isaac_Clarke]

It runs badly, but maybe because it's an old build (of the OS).

[troglodude]

Getting dos audio in winows 98 is a bitch