Hi Jim,
Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track X using my minimalist cdrom2ui, but I think that would be sort of an INdecent open source alternative because it is too minimal :-D On the other hand, a QuickBasic solution sounds like something needing FreeBASIC in QB mode, or something which compiles into a large binary? That is probably too non-minimal?
I haven't written a CD Player either, but I would think it's not too hard. If you can read the waveform from the CD track file, and send that to the sound card - that seems like that's all you need to do,
Actually CDROM2UI is even simpler. It tells the CD/DVD/BD drive to play the audio track, which was a hardware feature of the drives for a long time. You have to connect the audio output of the drive to some input port of your soundcard. No messy transportation of audio data to sound cards which may be too modern to be supported by popular DOS libraries, although a few positive examples of media players for DOS with support for AC97 / HDA do exist. Just telling your CD drive to play a CD :-) On the other hand, it will NOT work if your CD drive is not wired to your audio hardware of if your CD wiring is muted in your volume control / mixer etc. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
