law@ee.ualberta.ca (Jamnan Law) (10/18/90)
The trakblas problem that was mentioned has nothing to do with 80386, but rather, the high speed of the machine. One recommendation that I can give is run 4DOS (available from simtel20) before you run trakblas and will see why the trakblas program hanged before. Another solution maybe to turn off the turbo speed before runing trakblas, but then, you may notice some "imperfectness" in the songs. After I solved this problem of trakblas, another problem pops up. It seems that trakblas only reads in certain amount of data (of the song, *.mod). So long song (large files like those > 64k) will stop suddenly.. so far, i only got two songs that exit "normally, smoothly" Any idea why this problem exists?
minakami@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Michael K. Minakami) (10/18/90)
In article <1990Oct17.135021.2026@IRO.UMontreal.CA> fasciano@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Massimo Fasciano) writes: >In article <y5J6q1w163w@zooid.UUCP> dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes: >>I'm not sure if this is the right newsgroup but... >> >>I recently downloaded Trakblaster v1.2, which is supposed to play Amig >>Soundblaster files on the PC using the >>Soundblaster card. Unfortunately it gets about 10 seconds into the song and >>locks up - I have to cold reboot. I'm using a 25mhz 386 and have tried >>running it with a stripped-down autoexec and config. Anyone have any ideas? >> > >Hi, > > i've tried TrakBlas on my 386/20 and it does the exact same thing (10 sec > into the song, it hangs with a divide error or something) > > A doc file that comes with the program says that the guy who prepared > the archive tried it on his 386 and it failed... Could this be a problem > with all 386 machines, or something more subtle? > Ditto on my 386sx/20 Michael Minakami -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The child can explain the man better than | Michael K. Minakami the man can explain the child. | minakami@neon.stanford.edu
David.Haigh@comp.vuw.ac.nz (David Haigh) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct18.010210.14987@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, minakami@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Michael K. Minakami) writes: |> In article <1990Oct17.135021.2026@IRO.UMontreal.CA> |> fasciano@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Massimo Fasciano) writes: |> >In article <y5J6q1w163w@zooid.UUCP> dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) |> writes: |> >>I'm not sure if this is the right newsgroup but... |> >> |> >>I recently downloaded Trakblaster v1.2, which is supposed to play |> Amig |> >>Soundblaster files on the PC using the |> >>Soundblaster card. Unfortunately it gets about 10 seconds into the |> song and |> >>locks up - I have to cold reboot. I'm using a 25mhz 386 and have |> tried |> >>running it with a stripped-down autoexec and config. Anyone have |> any ideas? |> >> |> > |> >Hi, |> > |> > i've tried TrakBlas on my 386/20 and it does the exact same thing |> (10 sec |> > into the song, it hangs with a divide error or something) |> > |> > A doc file that comes with the program says that the guy who |> prepared |> > the archive tried it on his 386 and it failed... Could this be a |> problem |> > with all 386 machines, or something more subtle? |> > |> |> Ditto on my 386sx/20 |> |> Michael Minakami |> |> |> |> |> -- |> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |> The child can explain the man better than | Michael K. Minakami |> |> the man can explain the child. | |> minakami@neon.stanford.edu I read in ibm.pc.hardware about someone using trakblas on their 20MHz SX, and who had the same symptoms. He simply slowed down his machine and the divide-by errors stopped - i.e. it works! Try it! Cheers. -- David Haigh. eckles@comp.vuw.ac.nz
jh5y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jordan Powell Hargrave) (10/21/90)
Does anyone know where I can find song files for Trakblas?
I just downloaded it the other day and I am quite impressed.
(Still doesn't do the Amiga justice. :->)
Thanks!
Jordan Hargrave
Carnegie Mellon UniversityDavid.Haigh@comp.vuw.ac.nz (David Haigh) (10/25/90)
In article <Ib8_VHe00WAuICRlw_@andrew.cmu.edu>, jh5y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jordan Powell Hargrave) writes: |> Does anyone know where I can find song files for Trakblas? |> I just downloaded it the other day and I am quite impressed. |> (Still doesn't do the Amiga justice. :->) |> |> Thanks! |> Jordan Hargrave |> Carnegie Mellon University Why don't you try: abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov 128.155.23.64 This is a major AMIGA archive site. I think this is where I FTPed some soundtracker modules... Be warned, some soundtracker mods do not seem to work with trakblas (just hang my machine), these may be noisetracker modules, but I can't say for sure. You may have to look quite hard to find them.... Cheers. -- David Haigh. eckles@comp.vuw.ac.nz