Dos and the ESS chip

SkyHigH · 09-03-1999, 03:06 PM

Has anyone gotten a dos mp3 player to work with an ESS soundcard?

bab · 09-04-1999, 12:28 AM

I have a board w/ the ESS1488 chip on it running my system. The comp. is not yet installed in my car, but it seems to be working fine in dos on the bench. I have some noticeable background static but I think that may be a grounding/sheilding issue.
Still working the bugs out, but it does work
pretty well, even on my 486-overdrive. The
system hovers at about 50-60% cpu usage while playing.

SkyHigH · 09-04-1999, 11:20 AM

What software are you using?

bab · 09-04-1999, 02:08 PM

Well, I was using MPXPLAY and <a href="http://amp.mp3car.com">AMP2</a>.
However, I found out the reason I had so much static. It turns out that the 1488 chip is only 8bit. I couldn't find out any info on the chip and I assumed it was SB16 compat.
Oh well, so much for using this old system (at least it was free).
I hope you have one of the ESS16XX or 18XX chips.

SkyHigH · 09-12-1999, 01:47 PM

I have the 1686 or whatever it is, but i can't get mpxplay to play through it. Can't figure it out...

bab · 09-16-1999, 11:26 AM

Do you get any error messages?
Does mpxplay run but no sound?
How did you configure the sound card?
I got the sound to work by simply adding
the SET BLASTER tags in the autoexec.