Subj : Re: SidPlay for DOS? To : Harry Potter From : Computer Nerd Kev Date : Thu Aug 16 2018 23:58:19 Harry Potter wrote: > Uhh...How do I play a SID file in the DOS version of SIDPlay? I've got your answer for you, but it took some effort. After checking that the installation on my DOS laptop was playing SIDs fine, I decided to give sidsetup.exe a test run. It turns out that it deletes the old sidplay.cfg file even if you cancel the set-up though, so I then had to run it again to set up the sound card. And then the SID files would no longer appear in the file selector! After a lot of fiddling with the sidplay.cfg file to work out what change I'd obviously made to it in the past in order to make it work, I finally figured it out: Change the line: DAT_ext = .DAT to: DAT_ext = .SID The manual sort of hints at this by saying that it supports ".DAT + .SID" files, but it took a long time for that to sink in! To be safe, I renamed "sidsetup.exe" "sidsetup.xxx" to encourage me to think twice before sabotaging myself again. SidPlay for DOS doesn't seem to support specifying files on the command line like the Linux ones do. P. S. VACSID seems to have the same probem, even with the SID extension seemingly correctly set in its ".INI" file. I don't know the cause of this one. Open Cubic Player works well, but I spent some time setting up the config file for that a long time ago. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _# --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .