X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Martin Str|mberg Subject: Re: DOS version and Audio Card for DOS\DJGPP\ALLEGRO application Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <7g0r8.118566$%g7 DOT 3782327 AT twister2 DOT libero DOT it> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (NetBSD/1.5_BETA (alpha)) Message-ID: <1017945709.765543@queeg.ludd.luth.se> Cache-Post-Path: queeg.ludd.luth.se!unknown AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: 04 Apr 2002 18:41:49 GMT Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Date: 04 Apr 2002 18:41:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: queeg.ludd.luth.se X-Trace: 1017945709 news.luth.se 286 130.240.16.109 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Nirvana wrote: : Which DOS should i use? I wish to have a very fast boot and i need a : operating system compatible with DPMI and my program, developed with DJGPP. : FreeDos is OK? FreeDOS should be ok. DJGPP program works fine there for me. : Wich Audio Card should i use? I have an old audio card and probably i will : try to use it but sound card are cheap and i can buy one if the difference : is visible (the embedded computer will do nothing else than playing files). : It should be Allegro compatible (Sound Blaster should be compatible, i : think) and very easy to configure under pure DOS, any suggestions? Try the one you have (unless it's the one requiring hardware modifications). If that doesn't work buy another one, but check carefully that it supports plain DOZE. I just tried Soundblaster Live in FreeDOS and it requires EMM memory, which is one thing FreeDOS doesn't have. An alternative is Linux. Right, MartinS