I've been wondering about the annoying message:
"Unable to initialize your audio hardware".
I believe most of you know this when you try to run sierra games with audio support through your sound blaster.
I tried Moslo, I tried VDMSound, but still many games won't recognize my Sound Blaster(tm) on my Windows XP.
Today I tried to run one game configured with Tandy DAC instead of Sound Blaster, and surprisingly, the game gave no error message. Of course there was no audio because I don't have Tandy, but still - no error message, so I guess the game sends audio data to the driver and the driver just pass it on to non existing hardware without an attempt to initialize anything first.
I know that Ravi has some experience in reverse engineering drivers to sierra games, so maybe he can alter a Sound Blaster driver that simply sends the audio data to the sound card without first trying to initialize it.
Do you think it can be done?
What do you say Ravi? In your spare time maybe?