SBEMU Sound Blaster Emulator With 'Untested' VIA VT8235 Chipset

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Using the Doom Desk PC to test out the new SBEMU Sound Blaster emulator under DOS using the VIA VT8235 AC97 audio chipset.

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[RetroTinkerer]

Hi Rees, thanks for testing it! It's been awhile since I tested SBEMU on a couple of my machines, glad they keep improving it and now it work on even more chipsets!

[thepirategamerboy]

Very glad to see you try this on here, lol at the shareware copy claiming Doom to be a sequel to Wolf3D though.

[humidbeing]

Cool that it worked! Be aware that jemm (from FreeDOS) causes crashes in some games, so you might want to look for a list of incompatible games before you pursue that option.

[RetroTechChris]

Thanks Rees! This is just what I was looking for.

[einokeskitalo]

An extremely timely video for me; I finally got a screen for my trash-rescued Compaq Evo D510 SFF (which I've already tried FreeDOS on earlier). It has ac97, but I also have picked up an SB Live! and an SB 128 along the way.. and it looks like with Live! I have a good chance of getting the sound working in DOS, using SBEMU? Pretty exciting!

[JenniferinIllinois]

You keep improving that desk and Gene may want it back. 🤣🤣🤣

[massdrivermusic]

The desk is awesome! Doom is awesome!! Everything is awesome!!! :)

[RetroRecollections]

Nice. I love modern solutions like this. There are so many very early 2000's "office" machines in e-waste that with a few tweaks can become very useful gaming systems with innovations like this.

[SelectaDockiii]

Wow awesome vid and gives a great re-purpose to many early to mid 2000s PCs. Wonder if this makes the previous very good parallel port hardware solution now effectively redundant? Be great to see a vid comparing the two for e.g. game compatibility and sound quality

[TheRealCheesemaker]

Ironically, PC speaker is the way I remember Doom. Thanks for the vid!

[HappyCodingZX]

Nice work! you should also try some of those old DOS emulators, like x128 that will turn that desk into a ZX Spectrum.

[DaveVelociraptor]

What's the memory footprint like?

[RyanMercer]

The only bad thing about it is the drive yellowing. Otherwise it's gorgeous.

[cleanycloth]

I recently tested this on a Lenovo gaming laptop because SBEMU has Intel HD audio support and let me tell you, playing Epic Pinball on a Core i7 laptop with a faulty GPU, with proper sound blaster audio coming out of it is nothing short of hilarious 🤣

[Limaa]

nice, what about sound cds SATA and IDE compatibility? and how to burn the image in na hard driver? can I drag and Drop do DOS BOOT?

[mangostain]

I dont get it, why you dont play doom at win98 if theres driver for the ac97?

[jediknight]

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