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
