But a DOS player would be much nicer... ;-) btw: Some BIOS version have "Legacy Sound" option, which provides SB16 compatiblity. MPXPLAY also supports some modern cards AND have support of networks (ask the author!!).
Bye Flo On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:14:53 +0100, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Samuel, > > short answer is yes, you can use DOS to create a networked > music player on a PC with a modern soundcard, but no, you > cannot get all your wishes implemented for free :-). > >> Is it possible to install freedos on a 266 mhz pII ibm thinkpad laptop >> with a wifi network card (pcmcia) and play music over smb or nfs with >> my crystal something sound card? Or is it simply not possible because >> freedos have no multitasking (?) or there are no driver for my sound >> card or wifi card. > > Probably the latter. I think somewhere in the WIKI or FAQ there is > a list of three very old PCMCIA WIFI cards which come with DOS > drivers. Ever since then, manufacturers stopped to provide DOS drivers > for their cards, and WIFI is much harder to support than normal LAN. > > However, many common "wired" network cards, in particular PCI and > onboard ones, do have DOS drivers, for example on crynwr.com :-). > > I have no idea if there are "crystal something" "drivers" for > sound in DOS. Almost all DOS games ONLY support SoundBlaster > compatible sound cards, and it is almost impossible to change > that with external drivers. SoundBlaster PCI / Live does it, > but they create a whole virtual environment for that, and not > all games can stand that. But luckily you only want to play MUSIC > and the modern MPXPLAY media player for DOS does contain built- > in drivers for modern chipsets, including many AC97 compatibles. > > Remaining problem is the "network drive letter" one. If your > server would be DOS, too, you could use the network mode of > our SHSUCD driver suite to mount a remote cdrom or cdrom ISO > file with the music. I know no NFS drivers for DOS, but there > are clients for FTP / HTTP / mail / news - probably less useful > for you as you want to have a continuous connection instead of > downloading music from your server to the player from time to > time? You could conceivably also use ancient technology like > INTERLNK or LapLink or the FileMaven link thing, but most of > those either require a DOS server or cannot be used in the > background. As you said, DOS is essentially single-tasking, so > only things which are specifically written as drivers can be > used in the background. The remaining possibility is SMB/NETBIOS, > and as a DOS port of SAMBA is probably not ready yet, you would > have to use the (free but old) MSCLIENT, the microsoft client > for Windows network/shared drives. It uses a lot of DOS RAM but > it seems to work okay in FreeDOS apart from that... > >> I could install windows 95 but'll have a much longer boot time... > > You could use a light version of Linux, or just disable everything > which is not needed for playing music :-). It will be much easier > to install compared to configuring all the networking and msclient > stuff for DOS, but it might be less cool than using DOS ;-). > > Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Florian Xaver Webdesign, Sword (DOS GUI), personal site: <http://www.flox.at.tf> oZone - desktop enviroment f. DOS, Win, Linux: <http://www.flox.at.tf> Blutrausch - Wiki zum Kultfilm: <http://www.blutrausch.at.tf> Dr-DOS Wiki: <http://www.drdos.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
