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Pete:
Hi Martin

I think you are now at the point where I was a few years ago.

No, DTA does not produce sound in DOS - unless using the included player, dosapp.exe, to play a wav file.

My solution was to simply drop DOS/Win16 - ie do not install - in favour of Dosbox. As I only run the occasional dos game and no win16 apps at all this works fine for me.


Regards

Pete

Martin Iturbide:
Thanks for the reply Pete

I will stop to squeeze out DOS-OS/2 and put focus on DOSBox to run DOS games.
And I will also test Win-OS/2 further with some Win16 games, since DTA seems to be working there.

Regards

Dave Yeo:
There really wasn't many Win 3.1 games as it was crap for gaming and so easy to switch to DOS.

xynixme:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on February 04, 2019, 05:20:17 pm ---put focus on DOSBox to run DOS
--- End quote ---
IOW: download DOSBox for Windows to play your legacy games, get used to its inferior video performance, and don't try another OS. We've got both, with support for cheap 80386 hardware. Albeit our DOS tends to be mute, which doesn't support the unique selling point.

Martin Iturbide:
Hi.

Now I will change a little bit the subject, but focus on the ArcaOS gaming machine. Now I'm trying some OS/2 games that uses SDL, Qt, etc and I found some issues.

1) There are some games that depends on SNAP (SDDHELP$), is there any trick to make them run on a non SNAP installed machine? or it would be better to recompile that games.
Example: Barrage.

2) I think there are some conflicts with the SDL libraries and some games. I need to test that futher. Any suggestions about SDL at the moment?

Are these ones the last runtime ported?
- SDL-1.2.15-20160303.zip
- SDL2-2.0.4-20160225.zip

Regards

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