PC Spkr still not outputting, Documentation issues, suggestions

Is this list even alive anymore? I have roughly 80 emails, and they span
back to 2014. Where do the bochs people communicate anymore? The svn
seems to be more or less alive.

Okay, so a few issues, mainly pertaining to sound stuff, and some things
pertaining to the config interface. These have been issues for years.
I'm mainly using 2.6.8, but I've also had the same issues with the repo
version.

#1. How the hell do I get output from bochs when a program tries to beep
the pc speaker? I'm running linux, with sdl and sdl2 available (does
bochs not handle sdl2 yet?). I know that bochs can detect when the
speaker is turned on, because it displays "frequency=xx" each time that
changes, and the frequencies look more or less reasonable (for the
musical notes being played). I've tried adding sound: and speaker:
directives from various documentation I've found, but those cause a
panic. This isn't just for game playing stuff--I'm also tinkering a
little with basic OS dev stuff, and want to try little things as if I
were on a real machine (real floppy disks take forever to write to, and
they're very error prone, plus I have to set up the machine with the
floppy drive, which doesn't have a good place to leave it when I'm
between using it)

#2. Config documentation. Under the soundblaster config...For a lot of
options, I'm given the option to set the wave/midi mode, or enter ? for
help on that. Being told to enter 0-3 at the prompt isn't very helpful.
What do those options do? The documentation is seriously out of date.
They could do anything! Why doesn't the help say anything about what
they do?

#3. Why doesn't the config have options for the pc speaker and es1370?
Are they simply not that important?

#4. If there's an unknown directive in the config, I'm told it couldn't
read the config file, then the emulator panics (Why?!). If I tell it to
alwayscont, it simply prompts me to enter another file name. Other than
the panic behavor, I would expect the rest of the behavior. Why does it
panic instead of just asking the user to enter a good filename, or just
hit enter to cancel?

#5. The documentation is super out of date!

#6. bochs.sourceforge.net has a lot of pages that will load the page's
top head menu, but nothing below that. Seems to be a problem with the
cgi...I noticed it on several pages, one of which is the bochs-dev archives.

#7. Where is the preferred bochs dev communication channel anymore? Is
there an IRC? Has the real development moved somewhere else? Is bochs
actually dead?
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