Hi, Just a few more tidbits:
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did test a bunch of things on my old P4. Most of it didn't work. I've forgotten most of the programs I stumbled upon back in the day. Even then, I didn't use them enough to claim to be intimately familiar with them. One such app (I think?) was Damp (WIP), an old DJGPP-based .MP3 player, but even that doesn't work on my P4. Of course, that's no surprise since it's apparently Allegro-based. Oops, I take it back, even he admits (2001) in his README.TXT to preferably use SB16 or "download the Linux driver source code ... and write a full Live! driver for Allegro" (which of course no one did, apparently). Allegro doesn't support DOS anymore, so the last version we have is 4.2.2 circa 2007 (on DJGPP mirrors: /v2tk/allegro). > Almost the only thing that did work was PC speaker. At least some rare tools > support that: Impulse Tracker does (optionally) work with PC speaker output, so it works. (But it's hard to hear with the a/c running. Yeah, gotta get rid of the smell of burnt noodles, doh! I can't cook, sigh.) Another program that I forgot about is RealMIDI, which FreeDOS mirrors for us: http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=realmidi While it doesn't work with all .MID files (sadly, my favorite MAPLELEF.MID that I found years ago), it does (optionally) have a .WAV writer, so you can later use the (included!) PLAY.EXE to play .WAV through PC speaker as well. The simplistic (single-tone) MIDIPLAY works with MAPLELEF.MID, but it assumes that the highest note is always the main melody, which isn't always true. Cubic Player may have a .WAV writer too, I can't remember. Oh, and let's not forget Trixter's Monotone (PC speaker) tracker. ;-) Obviously it's better to have proper sound support, but (as cheesy as it sounds) I still think PC speaker is better than nothing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user