Comment on Wish I still had a CD player
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I see that’s Windows NT 3.1, but now I’m curious, did they have a Windows 3.11 version of the M$ CD Player app?
I loosely recall Win3.11 CD playback requiring DOS drivers and somewhat proprietary Windows software provided by the sound card manufacturer…
CyberTaco@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A driver and loading mscdex in dos yes, proprietary Windows software no, at least for a standard IDE/ATAPI cd rom drive. CD data would work as long as the dos driver was installed right, and for cd audio, Windows 3.1x has a driver that comes with it called “[MCI] CD Audio” that will need to be installed in Control Panel -> Drivers. :-)
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