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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: <gillius AT mail DOT rit DOT edu>
Subject: Fw: [AD] Allegro & Win XP & DJGPP
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:31:12 +1100
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

With allot of people using Win XP is it worth putting this in the FAQ
section 3.3?

I downloaded it and it works on XP. The midi sounds are not emulated 100%
correctly, but it does work.

Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gillius" <gillius AT mail DOT rit DOT edu>
To: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AD] Allegro & Win XP & DJGPP


> Andrew Cottrell wrote:
>
> > Just a note to let people know that Graphics works under Win XP with
Allegro
> > 3.9.40 and DJGPP CVS 2.04 snapshots.
> >
> > Sound does not work on my PC as the sound card is PCI based and there
are no
> > legacy drivers for Allegeo to find/use.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
>
> There exists a program called VDM Sound that is a "sound driver" for DOS
> for Windows 2000/XP.  It works with anycard.  What it does is emulates a
> SB16 in DOS and then uses normal Windows sound, so any sound card can
> use it.
>
> I have not installed or used it myself because I have no DOS apps, but
> to me it appears to be mature (it is in version 2.0.4, and has been
> around since WinNT).
>
> http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/
>
> Gillius
>
>