Microphone support

[jadasse]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Whenever I feel like recording something in some of my VMs, but when I stop recording, I am playing back nothing.

Describe the solution you would like
I think the best way to solve this is for you guys to add sound-in device support (e.g., a microphone input)

Additional context
By the way, my microphone is built-in.

[Torinde]

joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues/1824

There are 6 DOS, 30 Win3.x games and ~150 Win9x/XP games supporting microphone input.

DOSbox-X:

the framework is now there in the Sound Blaster emulation for recording audio in general, though at this time, only generated fake source are supported. They are: silence, hiss, and a 1KHz test tone. If you record audio in the guest the recording should contain that generated audio.

Some further TODO items (and lists of games and software):

default to the fake silence source until the user confirms with the interface they do in fact intend for the DOS program to record them
Faking input from a WAV file

[Torinde]

Microphone is required for some interactive games like Fin Fin.

• Mic not working with Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold #4675

[Torinde]

MAME 0.278:

• Native WASAPI support on Windows and PipeWire support on Linux.
• Support for sound input for emulated systems that have microphones or other audio capture hardware.
• Support for multi-channel input and output.

[jadasse]

joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues/1824

There are 6 DOS, 30 Win3.x games and ~150 Win9x/XP games supporting microphone input.

DOSbox-X:

the framework is now there in the Sound Blaster emulation for recording audio in general, though at this time, only generated fake source are supported. They are: silence, hiss, and a 1KHz test tone. If you record audio in the guest the recording should contain that generated audio.

Some further TODO items (and lists of games and software):

default to the fake silence source until the user confirms with the interface they do in fact intend for the DOS program to record them
Faking input from a WAV file

DOSBox-X seems to have finally implemented microphone

[Torinde]

Related:

• Introduce sound input infrastructure #4063

[tokariu]

I wasn't aware that there is no way to record audio in 86box yet until I tried to. therefor I want to highlight this request, because it makes a lot of sound and sampling tools useless without audio input.

[Hornet512]

i wanted this too, i think it would be a nice feature, since VirtualBox can do it, but 86box has better emulation accuracy.

[DFXThomas]

Oh, yes. Please make this work. I'd love to use Windows 3.1's audio recorder again!

[DFXThomas]

I am still hoping / begging for this. 🥺