The SB code is currently in a state of flux. Some changes to the code have been made which mean that I can separate the DSP handling from the rest of the SB code, making the main case statements simpler. In the meantime, Rutger Nijlunsing has provided a method for redirecting access to the MPU-401 chip into the main OS.
The Sound driver opens "/var/run/dosemu-midi" and writes the Raw MIDI data to this. A daemon is provided which can be can be used to seletc the instruments required for use on some soundcards. It is also possible to get various instruments by redirecting '/var/run/dosemu-midi' to the relevant part of the sound driver eg:
% ln -s /dev/midi /var/run/dosemu-midi |
This will send all output straight to the default midi device and use whatever instruments happen to be loaded.
make midid |
This compiles and installs the midi daemon. The daemon currently has support for the 'ultra' driver and partial support for the 'OSS' driver (as supplied with the kernel) and for no midi system. Support for the 'ultra' driver will be compiled in automatically if available on your system.
Copy the executable './bin/midid' so that it is on your path, or somewhere you can run it easily.
Before you run DOSEMU for the first time, do the following:
mkdir -p ~/.dosemu/run # if it doesen't exist
rm -f ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi
mknod ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi p |
Then you can use the midi daemon like this:
./midid < ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi &; dosemu |
(Assuming that you put the midid executeable in the directory you run DOSEMU from.)
You can disable the SB emulation by changing the 'sound' variable in /etc/dosemu.conf to 'off'. There is currently no way to specify at runtime which SB model DOSEMU should emulate; the best you can do is set the T value of the BLASTER environment variable (see sound-usage.txt), but not all programs will take note of this.