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Is the IntelHDA audio driver only available for 64-bit MenuetOS? According to the release notes, it was first included in version 0.96X, which seems to be 64-bit.

The developer has only made one 32-bit version (0.86) availabe, though. Would be great to have past releases available as well.

EDIT: Apparently the 32-bit versions have not come too far in the last 12+ years -- in 2011 (when the Intel HDA driver was released), version 0.85 of M32 was downloadable: https://web.archive.org/web/20110615210928/http://www.menuet...

I'm learning some assembly (on FreeDOS), so MenuetOS is interesting. Was hoping to test it (+ the HDA audio, for 24-bit playback -- and maybe try to make sense of the audio driver source, for a hobby project) on a Dell Mini 9, which is 32 bit. It's time to move on then, I guess.

Intel HDA audio driver is available for Menuet64. M64 also has under 1 ms audio latency, or even under 0.1 ms audio latency. Part of the latency setup is adjusting the scheduler interval up to 0.1 Mhz.

Thanks! ("Time to move on" = mmmaybe put those 32-bit machines aside, ohwell; I'm long time aware and still curious about MenuetOS, also as a huge fan of minimalist systems. The Dell Mini 9 is a really cool fanless netbook, though, esp for the ~5€ I paid for it, ha. Would be great to test MenuetOS with audio on it as well. That M64 latency is surely impressive.)

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