VDMSound

VDMSound is an open source (licensed under the GPL) emulator of legacy sound card devices for Microsoft Windows, designed to allow video games and other applications written for MS-DOS to run on modern operating systems. Its author is Vlad Romascanu.

VDMSound emulates Adlib and Sound Blaster cards (standard, pro and 16), parallel port DAC, and an MPU 401 midi interface.

Design

As opposed to DOSBox, which emulates an entire x86 personal computer with DOS, VDMSound emulates only portions of the DOS environment and the sound hardware. This results in reduced system load and thus the games run faster than under DOSBox on the same hardware specifications, but at the same time VDMSound does not provide the same level of compatibility as DOSBox.

History

The project was discontinued in mid-2002, when additional improvements in emulation were no longer possible due to limitations in the Windows kernel. The sound emulation code from VDMSound has since been integrated into DOSBox. [ [http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=12613 VOGONS :: View topic - Is the latest version of VDMSound 2.1.0? ] ]

Since VDMSound is not compatible with Windows Vista, thus making the whole project obsolete, current version 2.1.0 beta is likely to be final version.

References

External links

* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/ VDMSound download (v2.0.4)]
* [http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=2071 VDMSound v2.1 public beta]
* [http://vogons.zetafleet.com/index.php?c=6 Official VDMSound Forum]