jratcliff63367 / digpak Goto Github PK

The repo does not have the full distribution of SHELL; it is missing GUS, Turtle Beach, WSS, and other devices. I have those sources.
@volkertb Should I submit a pull request, or would you like the sources out-of-band to integrate in your own way?

oldsource is a bit ambiguous.

Also, maybe you can enable GitHub Discussions for this project?

Thanks. 🙂

Recently, there has been interest in creating digpak drivers for new devices, and possibly resurrecting digpak usage for new homebrew/retroprogamming. @volkertb , as one of the stewards of these sources, are there any plans to translate them to NASM?

I'm asking because I would like to strongly recommend NOT translating them to NASM, and instead leaving them as their original TASM "IDEAL mode" dialect. The main justification for this is that there is greatly added value in preserving their ability to be assembled in actual DOS, on actual old hardware, so that new development can be done against the actual new sound devices. There is no NASM DOS build that works on 286 or lower processors, so developing speed-sensitive code that must run on those processors must be assembled on another system and then copied over -- an inefficient workflow.

Additionally, IDEAL mode provides typing and other safeguards to ensure consistent code generation. Removing it might introduce side effects or other behavior that manifests itself as subtle or inconsistent bugs that may be difficult to troubleshoot.

Hi,

In the Readme it mentions that: "As per the agreement you should have signed, this source code is to be used
by The Audio Solution DigPak licensees for maintenence purposes ONLY!"
Is this still true? If not, what kind of license does the code fall under?

Kind Regards,
Leon