Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!eckles From: David.Haigh@comp.vuw.ac.nz (David Haigh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Trakblas Message-ID: <1990Oct18.215839.1171@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 18 Oct 90 21:58:39 GMT References: <1990Oct17.135021.2026@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <1990Oct18.010210.14987@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Reply-To: eckles@comp.vuw.ac.nz (David Haigh) Organization: Computer Science Dept, Victoria Univ, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Lines: 55 Nntp-Posting-Host: pencarrow.comp.vuw.ac.nz Originator: eckles@pencarrow.comp.vuw.ac.nz 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 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