On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:

$ padsp $old-program

Yes, that is exactly the thing I was trying to remember.

Unfortunately, didn't work. Commandline complaint says it can't open the sound device nor connect to ESD. I have only the foggiest, indistinct recollection that something called "ESD" had something to do with sound a long time ago.

Oh well, probably not really worth pursuing. At this point it's probably easier to just dust off some ancient machine from my garage and install a suitably old OS, if my real goal is just letting my kid play some old games. Thanks for the help!

-Alan