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legacy sound blaster emulation for DOS

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2023-03-22 · latest 2025-11-03

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  1. For old DOS games and programs, there is this: https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU
    comment by coolcoder613 · 2025-11-03 · in Writing FreeDOS Programs in C
  2. …an old laptop on bare metal. There even exists this to emulate SoundBlaster on a modern sound card: https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU
  3. What about FreeDOS? FreeDOS with SBEmu is really nice for an instant DOS machine on real hardware: https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU/releases
    comment by DrNosferatu · 2023-12-18 · in Ventoy
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    SBEMU – Run your retro games with on board audio via Sound Blaster emulation
    story by vkaku · 2023-10-20 · 3 comments
  5. …of something more Windows-friendly (AC97), which doesn't have good DOS drivers. Now there's SBEMU ( https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU ), which can emulate SB/SBPRO/SB16 on top of newer PCI-based sound cards, including AC97 ones, solving that…
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    Legacy sound blaster emulation for DOS
    story by doener · 2023-04-06 · 0 comments
  7. Like vintage computers? https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU Sound Blaster emulator running on modern PCI/AC97 sound cards. Involves sound, deep knowledge of x86 CPUs (VM86/virtual and protected modes, memory protection, supervisors, privilege…