Help: Playing Tunes with Fall 99 DT ???

Subject: RE: Help: Playing Tunes with Fall 99 DT ???
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 08:51 PM

Mr Greenhaus makes an excellent point. I would suspect that the scale of commonality is now tipping in terms of having a sound card installed. My question may be clumsy, but is there some form of 'bridge' which will allow the DT tunes to be played via the soundcard on newer PC's? I'll have to do some fiddling. Regards, John

Subject: RE: Help: Playing Tunes with Fall 99 DT ???
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 06:50 PM

The computer speaker was one of the few areas of commonality amongst the various flavors of PC. If they've taken it away, all I can say is ..."mutter mutter mutter..."

Subject: RE: Help: Playing Tunes with Fall 99 DT ???
From: MMario
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 05:06 PM

a lot of newer computers are coming out without the traditional "pc-speaker"

Subject: RE: Help: Playing Tunes with Fall 99 DT ???
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 12:14 AM

Well, I thought I had it all figured out. I followed Snuffy's advice and copied pkunzip.exe over to the directory/folder where I had the database. On the screen it worked fine - the words came out one-by-one, just like they're supposed to. One problem - no sound. I'm wondering if maybe my new Pentium III has no "computer speaker," and the only sound I get now is from my sound card. It that's the case, maybe we'll have to come up with a MIDI version of the database....
If that's the case, maybe Dick Greenhaus will scream "ENOUGH!!!!" and go back to a vanilla-only DOS version of the database, huh?
But am I right? Is it likely that my Pentium III has no computer speaker?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Playing Tunes with Fall 99 DT ???
From: Snuffy
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 06:09 AM

I had this problem. You have to have Pkunzip.exe in the same directory. It was left out of the download, but you can find it on the web and download it (its only 29k)

Best of luck

Snuffy

Subject: Playing Tunes with Fall 99 DT ???
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 12:37 AM

Help.

I have downloaded and installed the Fall 99 version of the DT both as a Standalone and with Donkey Reader.

When I search for a song, it finds the song and its lyrics just perfectly. However when I scroll down, highlight the play "tune" line and hit reture, the player opens and keeps giving a file not found message. This does the same thing in Donkeyreader.

After Fall 99 version installation unpacks, the tunes stay in their zip file as "tune.zip". Do they have to be unzipped for the player program to find them? I know in previous versions of the DT the player went to the zipped file. Do I have to set a parameter?

Has anyone else been able to play the tunes from the downladed version?

Thanks JAB.