PSA: You can use your motherboard's HD Audio for DOS games in Windows 98/ME now thanks to WDMHDA, an HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME
PSA: You can use your motherboard's HD Audio for DOS games in Windows 98/ME now thanks to WDMHDA, an HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME
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GitHub - andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA: HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME
HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME. Contribute to andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA development by creating an account on GitHub.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34761352
(Thanks to /u/O_MORES for posting this elsewhere)
There's a brand new HD audio driver for Windows 98/Me called WDMHDA.
Since it's a WDM driver, it will play nice with the Sound Blaster Emulation Layer built into Windows 98/ME (sbemul.sys).
And it actually works. Here's Windows 98 and this codec tested on a Ryzen 9 PC: https://youtu.be/uhWyH0TsrCc