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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:59:26 +0200
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Subject: Re: WSS Audio Library with HD Audio support, MPlayer for DOS
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:18 PM, RayeR <glaux AT centrum DOT cz> wrote:
> Hi,
> this is primary for [HCI]Mara'akate, author of QDOS (I got mail
> returned so using this way) but others may be interested too. I upload
> on my site updated version of WSS audio library for DOS:
> http://rayer.ic.cz/download/wss.zip
> Many thanks to Khusraw for adding AC'97 and HD Audio (taken from Judas
> Sound System). I added PCI ids for latest intel chipsets series 5, 6
> and 7. I succesfully tested it on boards with ICH7 and H57 chipsets.
> WSS also supports legacy SB, GUS and WSS. This library is also used in
> latest MPlayer build for DOS: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=11001
>

AFAICS, this library has no license information in it,
nor does it document its heritage

> for [HCI]Mara'akate:
>
> Hi,
> I'm writting you according to previous discusion on google DJGPP
> group
> about QDOS and Judas sound system. Now there's alternative option -
> the
> WSS sound library. It was updated by Khusraw to support HD Audio same
> as
> in Judas. It should support GUS, SB, WSS, AC'97 and HDA. It is more
> compact - only 2 files so it maybe easier for you to implement it in
> QDOS.

With *very* brief looking at it, the library isn't _directly_ compatible
with quake's sound interface. However it is possible to incorporate
bits from it and/or modify it to fit the needs if its license is clarified.

As for bits of sound hardware knowledge, plenty is actually around
such as the allegro library (up to allegro-4.2.3.1), or ALSA...

--
O.S.