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Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker (Users)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 05.05.2009, 08:10

> For those of us who are unfortunate to have a exotic soundcard incompatible
> with soundblaster or AC97 (and DOS ). Here are a few programs that
> can play music through the internal speaker. Quality isn't that great but
> it is better than nothing. I will add this to the DR-DOS wiki soon.

I assume this means that Mpxplay doesn't work with your machine?

> * Digital Sound
> System or DSS. In DSS.ini to use the PC speaker change the following
> lines to...
> [SoundDevice]
> Device=8
> Run HDPMI32.exe (Or something like it) and then DSS.exe. It can play *.mp3
> and *.wav files of any size. It comes with it's own TUI and seems to work
> the best!

Is this the same DSS written by Sergey Sapelin in Watcom C++? (Haven't tried it yet, but I did find its srcs recently, probably from some post of Laaca from a few months ago, but I forget exactly ....)

> *
> SBPLAY
> plays *.wav files through speaker if no soundblaster is selected. To use
> add the following line to autoexec.bat...
> SET BLASTER=NOSB

This has a nice file manager-ish interface, can also play .VOC or samples from within a .MOD. Crappy license, but it does come with sources (oddly).

GLX is a .MOD / .XM / .S3M player that works on old machines (e.g. 286 XT) with PC speaker or better ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/sound/glx212.zip (no srcs, somewhat imperfect compatibility)

Here's a tiny .WAV player via PC speaker w/ .ASM src: http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=9635

Complete thread:

• Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - rCX, 04.05.2009, 18:21 (Users)
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - RayeR, 04.05.2009, 23:10
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - Zyzzle, 04.05.2009, 23:38
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - Rugxulo, 05.05.2009, 08:10
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - tikbalang, 05.05.2009, 09:17
    • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - RayeR, 07.05.2009, 02:23
      • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - Zyzzle, 07.05.2009, 03:04
        • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - RayeR, 08.05.2009, 14:29
          • Playing Music/audio through PC Speaker (TMA's tbmod) - Rugxulo, 11.09.2009, 07:01
            • Playing Music/audio through PC Speaker (TMA's tbmod) - rr, 11.09.2009, 21:59
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - DOS386, 05.05.2009, 14:04