Installation on Linux

Prerequisites:

• Have Linux up and running (of course...)
• A wavetable synthesizer on /dev/midi00 and a working /dev/dsp if you want real time music and sound, otherwise output to midi and wave files is also possible.

Optionally, you can use a software midi interpreter, such as the midid program from the DosEmu project instead of /dev/midi00.
• Have the Bochs source code installed, preferably the current version (991023a) and a suitable compiler (gcc will do). Other versions of Bochs may require a bit of manual tuning and may result in rejected patch chunks.

Installing the patch:

• Unpack the patch somewhere, for example with "tar -xzf bochs-sb16-991028.tar.gz". It will unpack into its own directory bochs-sb16-991028, so as not to overwrite any important files.
• Install it by copying bochs-sb16-991028.dif to the main Bochs source directory, and then call

patch -p0 < bochs-sb16-991028.dif
It will change all the files that have to be changed, install the new files. After this, delete the old and obsolete files by doing a
make all-clean.
• It may be necessary to run ./configure again, depending on your configuration. If you get compile errors, try this! But remember to back up your config.h file as it will be overwritten.
• Change config.h to reflect your system.  Most importantly, the BX_SOUND_OUTPUT_C class has to be defined according to your system.
• Recompile Bochs and install the new executable file.

Setup:

• Setup the SB16 emulation in your .bochsrc, according to the example in the Readme file or the .bochsrc of the distribution.
• Try it, and (hopefully) enjoy!