On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 6:22 PM Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > >> With MPXPLAY? The only app which supports HDA and AC97 :-) > > > > I use MPLAYER to demonstrate playing an MP3 file. Mplayer is a "no > > frills" way to listen to music files on FreeDOS, to say the least. > > But it works fine. > > > > I also use Open Cubic Player to play a WAV audio file. > > Which sound hardware options are supported by the two? > > Could we add one of them to the distro, assuming that > their license is more distro-friendly than MPXPLAY?
They are both already in the FreeDOS distribution. You can find them under "Sound Tools" in FDIMPLES. > >>> how to access your FreeDOS virtual drive from Linux > >> > >> With DOSEMU2? It just is a Linux directory from the start :-) > > > > The article shows how to use guestmount on Linux to access a virtual > > hard disk image. guestmount will recognize disk images from several > > popular virtual machines, including QEMU's "img" and "qcow2," and > > VirtualBox. > > > > Typical usage, to access the first partition in the freedos.img disk > > image file, and make it available from the /tmp/freedos directory on > > Linux: > > > > $ mkdir /tmp/freedos > > $ guestmount -a freedos.img -m /dev/sda1 /tmp/freedos > > Ubuntu says that a total of 130 MB of stuff would > have to be installed to use that :-o > > For comparison, mtools is 400 kB, only depends on libc > (it also suggests floppyd) and lets me do things like >[..] Guestfstools is installed by default on several Linux distributions, so I used that. And with Linux hard drives that are 1TB or larger, I guess many current Linux users probably don't mind installing 130MB. 130MB might be "bloat" but there it is. :-) Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
