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


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