A step forward on one front. Mpxplay was not really hanging -- it was
taking 30 seconds to start!
I ran mpxplay -sct and it identified a SBP card (Soundblaster Pro). I
thought changing SoundcardName=AUTO to SoundcardName=SBP in mpxplay.ini
might fix the slow start, but that does not help as
It turns out that mpxplay was not hanging as I thought. It was instead
taking 30 seconds to load.
It turns out further that the precise format of the BLASTER variable is
important here. The Media Vision installer created SET BLASTER=A220 D1
I5 H3 T4. But mpxplay was choking on the fact that
On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote:
Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work? What about a CD player
that's known to work with FD 1.1?
I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup and selecting the first menu item at boot.
Just to cover all the bases, and probably unrelated to the direct
On 6/2/2015 4:16 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote:
Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work? What about a CD player
that's known to work with FD 1.1?
I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup and selecting the first menu item at boot.
Just to cover all the bases, and
On 6/2/2015 1:42 PM, John Hupp wrote:
Hah! I did indeed forget to reconnect the cable during the various trials.
But as you also note, it is unrelated to the software problems. I still
get nothing with the cable connected.
I just thought to mention it for those case you mentioned that
Also, the cable is needed only if the player uses the CD-player audio
capabilities. MPXPLAY does not, it reads and processes audio tracks
himself instead.
You will need to fiddle with your mpxplay.ini file for sure. But as for
a 'CD Player that works with FreeDOS', I'd say that pretty much any
I saw little in mpxplay.ini that seemed like it was capable of
immediately hanging the system. I commented out UseLFN to no effect. I
also changed SoundCardName from AUTO to S16, and mpxplay reported that
it could not initialize the card or a message to that effect. Then I
changed that to
What's your BLASTER setting from autoexec.bat?
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:20 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote:
I saw little in mpxplay.ini that seemed like it was capable of
immediately hanging the system. I commented out UseLFN to no effect. I
also changed SoundCardName from AUTO to
Thanks. I'll have a closer look at mpxplay.ini. But no, though I have
tried several CD players, I have not tried any other sound file players
except the sound card's playfile.exe utility that works with WAV's.
On 6/2/2015 4:59 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
Also, the cable is needed only if the
That machine is not running at the moment (and it's late here), but from
memory: A220 D1 I5 H3 T4.
In connection with that, it's perhaps worth noting afresh that DOOM
sound works when set to use Sound Blaster.
On 6/2/2015 7:31 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
What's your BLASTER setting from
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