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 S16, and mpxplay reported that
> it could not initialize the card or a message to that effect.  Then I
> changed that to SBP and it hung as before.
>
> On 6/2/2015 4:59 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>> 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
>> player should work. Have you tried any yet, beside mpxplay?
>>
>> Mateusz
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/06/2015 22:42, John Hupp wrote:
>>> 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 probably unrelated to the direct
>>>> software problems, you need to have a cable connecting your CD drive
>>>> directly to your sound card in order to play audio DVDs. That's however
>>>> not necessary to play MP3 files (which are just data files)...
>>>>
>>>> http://superuser.com/questions/566611/sound-output-connector-on-cd-rom-drive
>>>>
>>>> Ralf
>>> 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.
>>>
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