This is just a silly idea that I might just try - unless anyone else has tried already?

When installing some Linux distros (Licoryce I think) I got a game of solitaire to play whilst waiting. I was wondering if this could be done via the "detached program"?

Any thoughts.

<SparTacuS>

Try it and let us know

yes, do try. Even if it is meant to be unattended, sometimes I'm still here waiting. It'd be nice to play something (that is if I dind't have a second computer to play something on)

well I tried 1 thing in the setup to play my mp3's on winamp

on t-god knows I installed it with movie maker's inf.

A friend of mine - on this site his name is cooldude or something - showed me how to play solitare while running setup. All you do is shift +f10 and type the exe for soliture and switch to full screen mode. It does work.

-gosh

Yea, just did a quick test.

Using gosh's method I can manually start and play;

Solitaire (runs OK)

Freecell (runs OK & automatically opens full screen)

Minesweeper (runs OK)

Solitaire (very jerky & slow but automatically opens full screen)

from around the 20 min mark.

Now I just need to figure out how to do it automatically.

<SparTacuS>

could it be run through DetachedProgram if you put the solitaire.exe in $$ folder?

well just run it from the cd

u have it as solitaire.ex_ i believe, on the cd just put the extracted version of it..

you actually got it to play music during the installation?

coolness

ok so i've looked up this DetachedProgram and hmm

i could set that to run a batch file that would install winamp

then when finished

open a song up?

or even better, a playlist of 4 or 5 songs...

or would there be a better way? and is there an earlier time i could get winamp installed at?

The linux distro I used a while ago which had a Tetris game during the install was... Caldera OpenLinux 2.0. Caldera, of course, d/b/a SCO nowadays (hawk-ptooey).

and now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

-syrynxx

Errrr.

I think I may have started the Summer Silly Season off a little early.

I wouldn't have thought that there was any drivers or such initialised at such an early stage to allow sound - but what do I know?

However, when I spent some time playing with PE it proved very difficult to get any sound without the support of plug'n'play etc, so you're basically looking for a self-contained app' that contains built in support for generic sound production. Does such an app exist?

i dont think so, because of the fact that it would need access to the windows irq settings, which basically tells windows where and what any particular hardware is.

So i dont think getting sound would be and easy task.

hmmm

right after it sets up the devices i had it run this cmd file:

Start sndrec32 /play /close "c:\TELE.Wav"

CALL WAIT.BAT 275

taskkill /f /im sndrec32.exe

Start sndrec32 /play /close "c:\CHIC.WAV"

CALL WAIT.BAT 140

taskkill /f /im sndrec32.exe

Start sndrec32 /play /close "c:\TECHC.WAV"

CALL WAIT.BAT 240

taskkill /f /im sndrec32.exe

wait.bat just is a ping bat to set up timer

well, two things happen. one bad and one good

good thing: it does play the sounds

bad thing: it pauses installation until sounds finish, making it pretty worthless to even include them

the quality is pretty bad probably because it uses my onboard sound instead of my sound card i have added...

don't you guys have discmans? or stereos? or portable mp3 players? if you answered yes to any of these questions then why bother getting sound to play during installation... it's a gimick, nothing more... personally though, i'd rather play solitaire than listen to music i have a radio, discman, mp3 player, stereo and another computer with speakers, and a tv!

there is no reason for adding music other than for just having something to occupy my time