THANK YOU for the support, hard work and efforts towards bringing us Adlib/OPL3 + SB16 PCM.

Apart for work and business, I use VMware on my free time to relive and pass time with glorious releases of the past, and to tell the truth, most of all It is fussy and tiresome to use one PC for DOS, another for Windows 9x and another for WinXP for more modern Software,
I always wanted to virtualize all those machines as to avoid the constant switching and have the readily available and should any problem arise just to restore the image to a previous state.

Sooo, THANK YOU!
Keep up the awesome work and do keep us posted whenever you can with Interesting news about your work and your progress towards Immortality!

Also I would like to add (very important) that my Windows 95 VM crashes with a critical error when I shut it down when the sound.virtualDev = “sb16” line is present in the VMX. But not otherwise.

I am currently on VMware Workstation 15.5.6 and got it working in a Windows 95 VM for which I earlier had AudioPCI as the sound device but now have SB16. It works in several DOS games I tried – Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s The Jungle Book, Dangerous Dave, M-Cycle Racing, Virtual Pool, Electronic Arts Grand Slam Bridge II.

But at the same time it crashes and takes down the whole VM when I tried to check Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Prince of Persia 1 and 2 (as noted). In other games like Disney’s The Lion King or Disney’s Aladdin, it produced no sound (note that Aladdin requires both XMS and EMS) if running from DOS. Anyway it’s safe to run it from DOS with a VM snapshot so even if the VM crashes, Windows won’t get an improper shutdown.

Once VMware Workstation 16 final is out and ready for purchase, I am eager to upgrade to it. I will check how much then it has improved and report back. Also the DirectX 11 and USB 3.1 Gen 2 (20 Gbps) virtualization support in VMW Workstation 16 is something I want anyway.

I looked through your list but have still not yet tested much myself. I have obtained a real SB16 (yay!) and have been comparing it with our emulation and trying to make things match more closely… Once I handle the “low hanging fruit” and have our emulated SB16 looking more like a real SB16, I will try to find the time to do some real testing. Easier to fix the known discrepancies first… After that will come debugging whatever still doesn’t work.

ES1371 improvements in this release focus on host OS support… ES1371 should now work with newer sound APIs compared to before: DirectSound on Windows hosts, AudioQueue on macOS hosts, and coming soon will be PulseAudio on Linux hosts. The guest OS side should see little or no difference to the behavior of the emulated device.

That Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 improvements are what for Win95/Win98 virtualization?