Hi Trent, FreeDOS cannot easily use NTFS drives. You can load NTFS4DOS (free for private use), but this creates a new shell and is is - maybe - not compatible to EMM386. Maybe the complex driver will even trouble your sound player. Similar for USB: There are free closed source drivers for USB in DOS, and they work in FreeDOS as good or bad as in other DOSes, but they are not trivial to install, and some are not compatible to EMM386 either. Not because it is OUR EMM386 - they are not compatible to any EMM386 at all.
Even for SoundBlaster PCI, the EMM386 compatibility needs a special mode, which you activate by the "SB" option of our EMM386. But okay. You want Impulse Tracker and console emulators. What kinds of consoles? I think the simplest and best way would be to use Linux. My PC is slighly slower than yours and has far less RAM, but still it plays all kinds of sound files just fine - If I had such drives, I could even read NTFS and USB disks without bigger problems on Linux. Same for video, but WMV9 is sometimes a bit too much for my CPU, then I have to mencode down to mpeg2 or mpeg4/divx first... Talking about Linux, with Linux ntfsresize you can shrink your NTFS partitions to get some space free for a FAT32 partition. On that, you can then install FreeDOS (wait for the beta 9 service release 1 update first) and play all your music without having to work with NTFS or USB DOS drivers. Then you only use Linux as helper for the DOS installation and do the rest with DOS. Eric ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
