I recall one that was in a book about writing dos games or doom like games (it was terrible, but it had a great explanation of RLE files (PCX!)), but of course it was 16-bit only and I didn’t even have a decent 16bit dos extender back then so doing anything ‘big’ was impossible….

I somehow suspect that audio support on Linux is still … just as bad as it was in 1993.

Good, yes. Free, no. The Miles Sound System was pretty good, and there was at least one good sound library available (the name of which escapes me–perhaps it was HMI).

Continuing in the fine tradition if iD’s software’s lacking sound support… After the DOOM fallout its no surprise they did their own thing, and in the age of Windows and hardware abstraction at least we don’t have to deal with it either…

Odd for better or worse there never was any good/free abstraction stuff for MS-DOS…..

I think that is the AdLib… it’s optional in the configuration for some reason, it works perfectly fine… I always end up building my own Win32 exe’s of Qemu so I can “enjoy” some fine MIDI action of the late 1980’s and 1990’s….

And the P330 means that a (more or less) MPU-401 compatible hardware is at I/O port 330. Not sure if qemu actually emulates that.