From:	ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kaaven)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	rsxntdj (equals?) trouble
Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 1998 06:16:16 GMT
Organization:	Arctic Net AS
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Since I, like many others, like to listen to some background music
while they program, and I run win 3.x, I have made a couple of ports
of Amp (the very one WinAmp is based on). The first is already known,
the Allegro adaption (so you can play MP3's in your Allegro games)
available from http://www.arcticnet.no/~ovek/files/dosamp.zip

Since this is suboptimal while I'm running windows, I also tried to
make a version in rsxntdj. Apart from the problem that most of the
rsxntdj tools doesn't work under win 3.x (I have the latest win32s)
for some reason, so that I had to build libmm.a from mmsystem.dll at
the office for some reason, there seems to be problems at runtime.

Specifically, fread() bombs. What th... How am I supposed to write a
player if it can't read a byte from a file without aborting? Anyone
experienced this?

I will of course release the sources to my Windows Amp (WinAmp, here's
would-be djgpp competition), and it could be a good example of Windows
interface code for all those RSXNTDJ newbies, but I would prefer it if
those sources were actually tested to work satisfactory. But I doubt
there's anything wrong with the sources that causes this crash,
because I haven't even touched Amp's original file reading code.

If anyone would like my exe-file to test if it works under win95, or
debug it, just give me the word. I only have my win3.x computer
available at the moment, so the RSX debugger doesn't work for me.

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