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	Win9x + VDMSound ALPHA :: 2002-12-16 @ 05:13 am
vladr Old-timer Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 889 Location: Montréal, QC, CAN	Chris has finished school (I think), so here goes. Seems to work more or less fine on Win98 in VmWare, so it should also work on a "real" Win98. To install: 1) Very important - get VCREDIST.EXE from http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcef...redist.exe (mirror at http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefor...redist.exe) and install it. It should ask you to reboot when it's done. 2) Get the Win9x'd VDMSound (attached to this post) and unzip it in what will end up being the VDMSound directory (e.g. C:\VDMSOUND), then run INSTALL.BAT (registration of "VDMConfig.dll" should succeed, if not repeat step 1 above, reboot and try INSTALL.BAT again). 3) Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT as indicated during INSTALL.BAT (to make the VDMSPATH environment variable point to the installation folder) and restart Windows. To use: 1) Go to the VDMSound installation directory (e.g. "cd C:\VDMSOUND"). 2) Run DOSDRV.BAT ; ignore the error about the "Tip of the day". Do report any other errors. 3) Change directory to where the game is and run the game/application. VDMSound settings are port 220, IRQ 7, DMA 1. All virtualized, so it doesn't matter what values your soundcard actually has physyically, always use the values above. NOTE: before running DOSDRV.BAT a second time (even in a different DOS box!) you should run VXDSBOOM.EXE first to completely unload VDMSound. Cheers, V. NOTE: Jez jas complied the files updated since the original release along with the Win9x Alpha into a single zip. You will find that updated version here. Last edited by vladr on 2008-3-28 @ 05:08 pm; edited 2 times in total VDMSound.win9x.src.alpha1.zip (344.6kB) - Downloaded 764 Time(s) VDMSound.win9x.src.alpha2.zip (344.62kB) - Downloaded 666 Time(s) VDMSound.win9x.bin.alpha3.zip (336.12kB) - Downloaded 976 Time(s)

	:: 2002-12-16 @ 06:40 am
Nicht Sehr Gut l33t Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 3630	Congratulations to Vlad and Chris. I had the honor of the being the first downloader. Of course, I figure it's only a matter of hours before we see numerous posts: Where's the GUI? This is more complicated than the other one...etc... Heh.

	:: 2002-12-16 @ 02:26 pm
vladr Old-timer Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 889 Location: Montréal, QC, CAN	It's alpha, for God's sake, stop bitching about the GUI! All the credit should go to Chris for this one, my input to this was minimal (the adaptations to VDMSound were trivial, the bulk of the work was the VxD). Cheers, V.

	:: 2002-12-16 @ 03:53 pm
Nicht Sehr Gut l33t Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 3630	Quote: Originally posted by vladr [B]It's alpha, for God's sake, stop bitching about the GUI! There you go Vlad, now we have a ready cut-and-paste response. Heh.

	:: 2002-12-16 @ 06:13 pm
Z_God Newbie Joined: 2002-12-16 Posts: 15	Works for me too in VMware in Linux with 98 FE. It runs really slow for me though, the sound is skipping alot, but that is probably VMware and not VDMs9x. Has anyone tried it in 95 yet? Edit: Just tried it in 95 in Win4lin: After clicking on install.bat I get the following error from RegSvr32: LoadLibrary("VDMConfig.dll") failed. GetLastError returns 0x0000001f. When loading vxdinit I get a VDD Error: Failed to load configuration library (VDMConfig.DLL). Last error reported by Windows: (translated from dutch) 0x0000001f - A device connected to the system, doesn't work. Please make sure that VDMConfig.DLL is in the current directory or that its location is in the PATH, and that it is a valid image. The Win4lin sound drivers suck though, they might be causing the problem. I also found out I had set the wrong vdmspath in 98 at first. Somehow it seems to work 50% of the time without that path set correctly. Last edited by Z_God on 2002-12-16 @ 07:43 pm; edited 1 time in total

	:: 2002-12-16 @ 09:46 pm
vladr Old-timer Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 889 Location: Montréal, QC, CAN	For Win95: you need the latest DLL's from vcredist.exe. If you did install them then get DEPENDS from http://ntvdm.cjb.net/files/redist/ and open the DLL in DEPENDS to see what the issue may be. Cheers, V.

	:: 2002-12-16 @ 11:17 pm
Snover WHAT WHAT IN THE BUTT?! Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 5199 Location: You are likely to be eaten by a grue.	Hey, Vlad, where's the GUI? (I'm gonna drive this one into the ground. UNIFICATION!) _________________ Colin Snover Zetafleet Web Development Believe it or not, we have posting guidelines always.

	:: 2002-12-18 @ 04:48 am
Nicht Sehr Gut l33t Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 3630	Quote: Originally posted by Snover [B]UNIFICATION!) For the NT version I presume. Th Win9x version is just barely there. But yes, the NT version needs to be "unified", too many people downloading a piece here and there and wondering why it won't work. The Gui needs to be standard, we're starting to see more and more Win9x "orphans" showing up who need it.

	:: 2002-12-18 @ 01:53 pm
Marauder Newbie Joined: 2002-11-13 Posts: 18	It works! I've been using SB Live before and it has pretty bad 8Mb E-MU Wavesynth. Now I loaded a 32Mb soundfont and fired up System Shock and I'm getting better music than ever. Vlad and Chris are my heroes But it's Alpha allright, it has crashed my machine(total freeze) four times, never while playing but after exiting from the game or after closing the dos window.

	:: 2002-12-18 @ 06:27 pm
jez Member Joined: 2002-09-24 Posts: 151	Vlad & Chris... Great work I've had mixed results though... although MadTV1 does have some sound, it doesn't have other parts of the sound, and the sound tends to hang. I'm wondering if it's relying on a SET BLASTER line in autoexec.bat. What exactly is this version of VDMsound emulating? SB? MIDI? Adlib? Could you give us the other ports, like the MIDI port, which it uses? Also, are these ports fixed because it's an alpha, and they're just the defaults, or will they always have to be these values, because it's a limitation of the VxD? Thanx. _________________ == Jez ==

	:: 2002-12-18 @ 07:28 pm
jez Member Joined: 2002-09-24 Posts: 151	Apparently it was relying on the SET BLASTER variable Put 'SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330' in autoexec.bat and the sound works perfectly, _and the mouse works_!!!!! Great! Had to guess at what the low and high DMA, and the MIDI port was though. If that's being emulated at all yet? _________________ == Jez ==

	:: 2002-12-18 @ 07:30 pm
jez Member Joined: 2002-09-24 Posts: 151	Sorry for multiple posts... Emulation of sound for MadTV1 was perfect. However, with Detroit (by Sierra), it locked up very quickly if I told it to use the Sound Blaster with 220/7/1. Telling to use Adlib was more successful, although it locked up after about 5 minutes. A few teething troubles? _________________ == Jez ==

	:: 2002-12-18 @ 09:25 pm
Nicht Sehr Gut l33t Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 3630	Quote: Originally posted by jez [B]A few teething troubles? Well as an Alpha, you should expect that, but have you confirmed that it will run consistently without VDMSound?

	:: 2002-12-18 @ 09:36 pm
jez Member Joined: 2002-09-24 Posts: 151	<I>have you confirmed that it will run consistently without VDMSound?</I> I have, and not only that, but it runs consistently from WindowsXP's VDMsound. _________________ == Jez ==

	:: 2002-12-18 @ 09:38 pm
DosFreak Freaky Ram Thing Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 7362 Location: Your Head	Haven't had time to look at the Alpha but does this ver have a logging function? _________________ Game Acronym List DosBox CVS Builds DosBox Wish List DosBox FAQ PC Game Compatibility List DOSBox Video Tutorial Quote: I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious

	:: 2002-12-19 @ 05:08 am
Nicht Sehr Gut l33t Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 3630	sigh This is with an AS40GT Motherboard with a Philips "Acoustic Edge" Soundcard (PSC706) VXDSLOAD caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> at 0000:00000009. Registers: EAX=00000000 CS=01f7 EIP=00000009 EFLGS=00010206 EBX=836b3000 SS=01ff ESP=0063fe2e EBP=0063ff78 ECX=05000000 DS=01ff ESI=81b7dc68 FS=4947 EDX=00000000 ES=01ff EDI=00000000 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 00 40 06 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 00 54 ff 00 f0 28 Stack dump: 000001ff 004010fc 00000000 b5600040 0000bff8 dc680000 000081b7 78560053 6f6c7364 45006461 00004558 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Bombs out right after vxds1.exe is run and the message is typed out.

	* UPDATE * :: 2002-12-19 @ 01:10 pm
vladr Old-timer Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 889 Location: Montréal, QC, CAN	Have you set VDMSPath properly? In any case, Chris says: Quote: I found a problem where the win32 thread ended up waiting on a semaphore that did not exist. I also found a problem where I was not returning the right thing on exit and caused the vxd to remain loaded. Attached is an updated version of vxdsound.vxd and vxdsound.asm. With this version it seems vxdsound can be loaded successfully 100% of the time (at least on my computer). See attachment for new version of the vxd. V. vxds0002.zip (7.36kB) - Downloaded 3154 Time(s)

	:: 2002-12-19 @ 01:12 pm
vladr Old-timer Joined: 2002-06-30 Posts: 889 Location: Montréal, QC, CAN	jez wrote: Apparently it was relying on the SET BLASTER variable Put 'SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330' in autoexec.bat and the sound works perfectly, _and the mouse works_!!!!! Great! Had to guess at what the low and high DMA, and the MIDI port was though. If that's being emulated at all yet? The functionality is the same as XP. Actually all emulation DLL's are the same (except that I had to rebuild them as ANSI as opposed to UNICODE for Win9x). The only "different DLL" is VDDLoader. V.

	:: 2002-12-19 @ 01:49 pm
Pege Newbie Joined: 2002-12-19 Posts: 3	Guys, I could kiss you! Finally I can get my Xcom Apoc's sounds working with my SB Audigy Very nice job! BTW my first post here, w00t! _________________ If you're arguing with a stupid guy, make sure he isn't doing the same.

	:: 2002-12-19 @ 02:03 pm
Pege Newbie Joined: 2002-12-19 Posts: 3	Sry for double post, but this forum doesn't allow me to edit my posts... Does it mess with my original sound card setup if I put "'SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330" in my Autoexec.bat? And does it allow other games to access my original sound card setup if I don't have the DOSDRV.bat running? _________________ If you're arguing with a stupid guy, make sure he isn't doing the same.

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