It occurs to me that at least some of the CD players have D: hard-coded as the drive location. If you had a suggestion for which that was configurable, that might help.
On 6/3/2015 9:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: > With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD > player working. > > I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got > the sound card working in Windows. I also established how to connect > the standard 4-pin audio CD connector on the CD-ROM drive with the > non-standard 3-pin connector on the sound card, and CD Player then > worked in Windows. > > But when I returned to FreeDOS with this now-known-good cable > connection, my two CD players still failed just as before. > > I'd like to test with different CD players than CD-V and ACP. > Suggestions? > > On 6/3/2015 6:30 PM, John Hupp wrote: >> 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 >> D1 was before I5. When I edited the string to SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 >> H3 T4 instead, the player loaded in a second or two! >> >> ============== >> >> So now all I need to do is get a CD player working. >> >> On 6/2/2015 3:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: >>> I have sound working now with a Media Vision Jazz16 card (aka Pro >>> Sonic 16, an ISA PNP card) and DOOM, setting up the game to use the >>> card's SoundBlaster emulation feature. >>> >>> The Jazz directory also has a playfile.exe utility and a few test >>> WAV's, and these work. >>> >>> But so far I have gotten nowhere with playing mp3's or CD's. I'm >>> starting with some apps that worked for me under FreeDOS 0.9 and/or >>> 1.0. >>> >>> Mpxplay just hangs the system immediately, before anything appears >>> onscreen. I downloaded the MPXP160D.ZIP version. >>> >>> Likewise I have not gotten any audio CD player to work. I tried ACP >>> and CD-V (v19) so far. ACP's screen appears with a track list, but >>> hitting enter to to start Playing the first track does nothing. CD-V >>> simply generates an "Invalid media!" error. (I could add that the >>> CD setup is fine for data CD's.) >>> >>> 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. >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
