For troubleshooting purposes I would (temporarily) break out the audio CD-playing code into a separate program--essentially write your own audio CD player. It would be better if the above code logged the error code if the mci functions fail, and also it would be better if those MCI_*_PARMS structs …

Around that time the default shifted from "analog" CD playback (where the computer just sends brief commands to the drive saying play track 2, etc., and the audio goes directly from the drive to the sound card via a cable) to "digital" CD playback (where the computer "rips" the digital audio from …

Hi all, Many old PC games stored their music as redbook CD audio tracks, and sometime in the early 2000s (Windows XP) this broke due to some change in Windows, or at least that's what I remember reading at some point. Programs like inmm.dll, DxWnd, and probably more are able to fix this problem, but …

What model Tape Drive ? could be faulty cables, they can cause intermittent issues. Also if the Tape drive is a early scsi-2 you need to set the Adaptec bios speed to the device to 10Mb not 20 or 40... OnStream SC-50. It is SCSI-2 (dunno what's early), but I have tried speeds between 10.0 and 2.0, …

I have tried with "auto termination" configured as true, and I've also tried bridging the termination pins on the drive, since it's the only device connected to the PCI card. I don't think this is the problem, but perhaps I need to set "auto termination" to false.

Hi all, I'm doing a data recovery project with some old tapes, and because the tape drives are SCSI, I have two Adaptec AHA-2940/2940UW SCSI Controller PCI cards. This has been a several months long project involving writing custom drivers and reverse engineering firmware. But, that's not relevant. …

It's been a few months, and it took a lot of work, but, we've managed to make a patch to make the game work on Windows 10. The problems we had to fix were much worse than I originally thought. The source code / download for the patch is available here: https://highwayfrogs.net/thread/59/run-on- …

I run a Frogger modding community. Frogger's Adventures is an old game which I'd like to get working on modern machines, as do many of our community members. I tried installing the game on Windows 10 with the real discs I played 15ish years ago, but unfortunately the game crashes upon startup. It …