Guess what. Oh. You already guessed. Aww shucks.

Anyway. I managed to get Impulse Tracker working in DOSEMU, a DOS emulator for Linux (well more of a hardware emulator really). I had to make dosemu.bin suid root, and configure it to use the VGA stuff. I have to run it in a Linux console, not in X. Graphically, it now worked beautifully. With DOSEMU's default configuration, it detected an SB Pro, but wouldn't play anything.

Turns out all I needed to do to get the sound working was SET BLASTER=stuff. So now I get sound! Only 8-bit, I'm afraid, and that means no filters - but it's better than nothing. And I'm sure the DOSEMU crew are hard at work on the SB16 emulation ...

In other words, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY~!

Just thought I'd post and let you all know that it is possible to get Impulse Tracker working in Linux. So I don't have to cope with a buggy Wine 'emulation' of ModPlug Tracker any more. Yay

Oh, and FT2 doesn't start because it doesn't detect a mouse - I haven't configured that yet. I'll edit/post later if I get that working.

Well, happy for you!
I use Bochs all the time for similar purposes (aka: running old DOS apps that I use frequently)
Did you see my older screenshots of my desktop (the 'post desktop thread')?

I'm running Kyrandia, PCGlobe, etc.
In my opinion, Bochs is better that DOSEMU, because you emulate a total CPU, so you can not only emu DOS, but other OS too (pretty cool)
Try it:
[url http://bochs.sf.net/]

I understand what you say, it cost me a lot to make it work 'safe'.
I'm a die hard fan of abandon games so I try every one that falls on my hands, and I use Bochs for that, altough some works weird or don't work at all...

Bad news I'm afraid: FT2 doesn't like the SB emulation. I can't get it to play; I click play and nothing happens. Oh well

But DOSMUS, the music editor whose screenshot is featured here, works beautifully

[EDIT] Oh by the way, Fenix Blade works! No MIDI, but then I never get MIDI on Linux so there's not much point in trying to configure it for DOSEMU.
[EDIT #2] Lemmings doesn't work. It makes DOSEMU abort with "General protection".

Don't hold your breath waiting for better sound support in DOSEMU.

I wouldnt hold your breath. Maybe try it under VMWare.

Don't wait because it seems like nothing has changed on that front for a long time.

Duh.. Ofcourse VMWare has the same problems as Bochs.. Know what bochs used to be called? FreeMWare

Too bad its an entire System. You really won't get what you want unless you do it your self.. Its like running 1 OS on two different machines.. Thats bound NOT to work very well or at all.

Fenix Blade, the program to test DOS stuff with

[edit] To make my statement clearer, I mean if you can't get Felix Blade to work, you might as well find a better DOS (shell)

Meanwhile I've been hacking at DOSEMU trying to implement SB16 support. So far I've got it so that ITSB16.DRV makes some evil noises (and if I output the 'audio' data to a file I find fragments of text and such), and ITSB16.MMX generates silence. With both, IT proceeds through the pattern data at half speed. So I'm still struggling with that.

The good news is I haven't broken the SB Pro support yet

[EDIT]
Yay. More good news. ITSB16.DRV and ITSB16.MMX both work now, except it's still half the speed it should be. But at least it's music. Line Wars and other Allegro games work fine, and they play stuff at the right speed - as do my QB programs. No change in FT2, I'm afraid - it still doesn't work. The half speed bug with IT will be fixed shortly, except I might not manage to find out exactly where to apply the fix. Still, the troublesome cases should be pretty unusual ones. Recording has hardly been looked at, so that will probably return garbage or silence depending on the weather.

Would someone be willing to try FT2 with VDMSound and let us know if it works? If it does, then I can start stealing code.

[EDIT #2]
Impulse Tracker now works beautifully. The only slight problem is that IT generates a 45454 Hz stream but the OSS set-up on my computer rounds it to 44100 Hz, so it plays slightly slower and lower pitch than it should. But still, it works, and I get filters. One less reason to boot to Windows. Yay!

I shall get some food, after which I'll probably upload a patch for DOSEMU if I'm not too tired.

Oh, and thanks Matt

SB16 PATCH FOR DOSEMU IS HERE :P

So now you too can get filters with Impulse Tracker in Linux. ;)

But I'd still like to know whether FT2 works in VDMSound, if anyone's willing to give it a go ... See my last post.

I e-mailed two of the bigshots behind DOSEMU, so they should see it

Click that link. I effectively gave instructions on what to apply the patch to.

Sorry, far too tired to think about design ...

And I'm gonna ask again for someone to test FT2 with VDMSound, just to make sure no one misses it

I got it running fine but the sound department didn't work too well.
i.e. as long as there wasn't any sound to output, it worked fine. when i clicked play it slowed to a crawl and sounded flatulent.