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
