<SparTacuS> Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Try it and let us know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosh Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<SparTacuS> Posted May 24, 2004 Author Share Posted May 24, 2004 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[BM]Crusher Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 could it be run through DetachedProgram if you put the solitaire.exe in $$ folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcgremlin Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 you actually got it to play music during the installation?coolnessok so i've looked up this DetachedProgram and hmmi could set that to run a batch file that would install winampthen when finishedopen 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrynxx Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<SparTacuS> Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunil Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcgremlin Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 hmmmright after it sets up the devices i had it run this cmd file:Start sndrec32 /play /close "c:\TELE.Wav"CALL WAIT.BAT 275taskkill /f /im sndrec32.exeStart sndrec32 /play /close "c:\CHIC.WAV"CALL WAIT.BAT 140taskkill /f /im sndrec32.exeStart sndrec32 /play /close "c:\TECHC.WAV"CALL WAIT.BAT 240taskkill /f /im sndrec32.exewait.bat just is a ping bat to set up timerwell, two things happen. one bad and one goodgood thing: it does play the soundsbad thing: it pauses installation until sounds finish, making it pretty worthless to even include themthe quality is pretty bad probably because it uses my onboard sound instead of my sound card i have added... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[BM]Crusher Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcgremlin Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 there is no reason for adding music other than for just having something to occupy my time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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