/vr/ - Retro Games

Forgot link
https://www.retrorgb.com/sound-blaster-1-0-firmware-reverse-engineered.html

I thought DOSBOX already emulated this fine? I mean, most games sound bad, but that's because not a single American composer knew how to program FM synth and the games sounded bad back in the day, too.

>>7122462
I believe it's more about accurately reproducing the effects of the original hardware rather than the capabilities of the music authors. Kind of like using a 2000 build of ZSNES vs using say, a recent build of bsnes to play games. You can get by with both, but one is going to be more like the original, deficiencies and all.

>>7122462
Soundblaster 16 emulation is the default but you can change it to Soundblaster 1 emulation if you want 8-bit mono sound.
So maybe somebody working on a dosbox fork will make the option nobody uses a bit more accurate.

how long until an aureal vortex is reverse engineered?

>>7122437
I want a GPL-compatible reverse engineering of the Gravis Ultrasound. It's a bitch to install it on DOSBox.

>>7122462
>I thought DOSBOX already emulated this fine?
Dosbox FM synth emulation is a huge fucking joke. Dune 1 is probably still broken in it even today.

PCEM is much better; although the adlib gold surround emulation is pretty bad, but no other emulator does that at all (and maybe like 4 games do anything with it).

>>7122437
I hope it means they start on the 2.0 which is the sound I remember for old DOS games that I loved. I did get the new MPU-401k and Orpheus sound cards for ISA. It is nice to have new hardware to help preserve my old memories. While Roland MT-32 is real nice alongside the clean sound from the Orpheus OPL3, I am just more used to the OPL2 that was on the Sound Blaster 2.0 cards.

>>7122437
fuckin awsome

how much longer until we can throw an fpga sound card into an ms-dos gaming rig

>>7122669
PC is a real monster innit

>>7122437
A nice cheap knock-off card for retro PC builds.

>>7122695
I haven't played a DOS game on a real Soundblaster since the 90s, so I'm sure my perspective is warped.
>>7122669
I plug in a real Roland midi device to my PC for DOSBOX. Because Windows 10 doesn't support midi anymore you need to download a third party midi device selector, but that's it. The midi passes right through Windows into DOSBOX. Sounds amazing.

>>7122441
>>7122437
>posting a "news" article
>about a news item that happened literally 2 years ago
Don't advertise here Hakeem, or I'll go kill a cow.

>>7122553
>aureal vortex
It wasn't good

>>7123108
huh?

>>7123070
Reread it anon
The firmware was extracted 2 years ago, was just this month that the firmware was reverse engineered and now we've got the (kinda) original sourcecode with comments of said firmware.

>>7122529
what about the other 14 sound blasters, are they supported