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Article #4043

Re: Trakblas

#4043
From: David Haigh
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 1990 21:58
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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
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|>
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|> 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
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From: David.Haigh@comp.vuw.ac.nz (David Haigh)
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Subject: Re: Trakblas
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