01-06-2025, 06:16 AM
why do you want to do this in a commercial language product abandoned over 30 years ago? if you have qb64pe, why do you still need the old code? do you have clients on ancient computers, those that couldn't even run windows 3.1? then there would be sense to what you're requesting. still, i don't think users of ms-dos were that eager for mp3 playback.
when i had soundblaster i was overjoyed just getting any wave playback, all five seconds of it at the highest quality of 22050hz 8-bit. because it was a tandy computer. when i plugged in the frecking purchased soundcard, it disabled the dac on the tandy which sucked.
if your ancient computer could run windows then it could probably be done via mci. but likely that is a function of windowsxp.
another way is to join the "testing" for freebasic using djgpp to force a 32-bit programming system into a 16-bit operating system. you'd be interested in faq entry #9:
https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/FaqDOS
when i had soundblaster i was overjoyed just getting any wave playback, all five seconds of it at the highest quality of 22050hz 8-bit. because it was a tandy computer. when i plugged in the frecking purchased soundcard, it disabled the dac on the tandy which sucked.
if your ancient computer could run windows then it could probably be done via mci. but likely that is a function of windowsxp.
another way is to join the "testing" for freebasic using djgpp to force a 32-bit programming system into a 16-bit operating system. you'd be interested in faq entry #9:
https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/FaqDOS