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From: hshaw@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Hubert Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: TrakBlaster, what/where is the latest version?
Keywords: SoundBlaster, TrakBlaster
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.002651.11259@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Nov 90 00:26:51 GMT
References: <86017@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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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.

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         Hubert Shaw
INET: hshaw@neon.stanford.edu