Ladislav,
I agree. Miles is probably the most common sound interface ever used in DOS
and no other so far could be called a "standard". There is also HMI who is
pretty common as well, but I know very little about.
Mr. Miles has been very attentive in answering my e-mails. He explained me
that the MSS no longer belongs to him and that most of the information, he is
unable to disclose, but that if he may be able to help, he'll get me what he
can. He also answered many of my questions.
Of course, MSS is totally commercial, but I want to point out how important
it is to put attention to how it works. My approach, so far, as regards the
Miles Sound System, is only to build a patch... a half-driver that can be
placed where applications expect to find the MSS, and which will redirect the
output to the actual sound driver. In the spec I'm developing, I've called the
main driver "dimi-driver" and the patch "teri-driver". I also refer to
theoretical emulation drivers as "semi-drivers", that would also redirect the
output to the dimi-driver, although I am not thinking of developing one. These
names are arbitrary and chosen only for the sound of the words (except "Dimi",
which is my cat's name, he, he).
Although the teri-driver development is something I'm desperate to work
upon, I am conscious on how important it is to leave such task for the moment
that at least one dimi-driver is ready. I'm currently working on the main CPOS
interface, where the NSS module (a dimi-driver) and the Code-1 module (Unicode
support) are going to be hooked. I have been modifying some things I've
realised that are not good as I originally planned them.
Lucas
--- On Mon, 2/11/09, Ladislav Lacina <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Ladislav Lacina <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Pre-presentation of a project
> To: [email protected]
> Received: Monday, 2 November, 2009, 10:31 PM
> I want to react to part about the
> sound system..
> I also strongly advocate Miles sound system in various
> discussions about DOS sound interface. It is modular, many
> programs and games support it and new drivers for new PCI
> and integrated cards can be written for it.
> The DigPak/MidPak more or less only different name
> for DOS part of Miles sound system.
>
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