yu-d@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (Moonrise Programmer) (11/17/90)
Having lately acquired a SoundBlaster I ftp'd trakblaster but I'm having problems running it. I have a 386/33 with SVGA and a sound blaster. When I try to run Trakblaster (version 1.2 BTW) with some .MOD files it plays for about 20-30 seconds (sounds great!) and then gets a divide overflow error and hangs the machine. So my question is, is there a newer version perhaps that will work on a 386? There was a very short text file that mentioned it not working on somebody's 386 but it wasn't too clear. If there is a new version can somebody perhaps uuencode it and mail it to me or indicate an ftp site that has it? Thanks. David Yu -- David "as in" Yu -=- DrepuS -=- The One Who Programs by Moonlight! The Ohio State University - Land of the Buckeyes! If ya know what ya know then you know what you need. If you know what you need then go get it. yu-d@cis.ohio-state.edu : Secretary of the OSU-ACM
hshaw@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Hubert Shaw) (11/17/90)
yu-d@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (Moonrise Programmer) writes: > Having lately acquired a SoundBlaster I ftp'd trakblaster but I'm >having problems running it. I have a 386/33 with SVGA and a sound blaster. >When I try to run Trakblaster (version 1.2 BTW) with some .MOD files it plays >for about 20-30 seconds (sounds great!) and then gets a divide overflow error >and hangs the machine. So my question is, is there a newer version perhaps >that will work on a 386? There was a very short text file that mentioned it >not working on somebody's 386 but it wasn't too clear. If there is a new >version can somebody perhaps uuencode it and mail it to me or indicate an ftp >site that has it? Thanks. > David Yu There are two solutions to your problem. 1) Slow down your 386 to 8 mhz. For most people this has solved the divide by zero problem. 2) Run a TSR to trap the divide by zero overflow error. The 4DOS command shell already does this, so if you want a far superior command shell and the ability to run trakblaster @ 33mhz try installing it. It is available on SIMTEL and chyde.uwasa.fi. ----------------------------- Hubert Shaw INET: hshaw@neon.stanford.edu