Harry Potter  wrote:
> Uhh...How do I play a SID file in the DOS version of SIDPlay?

 I've got your answer for you, but it took some
effort. After checking that the installation on my DOS laptop
was playing SIDs fine, I decided to give sidsetup.exe a test
run. It turns out that it deletes the old sidplay.cfg file
even if you cancel the set-up though, so I then had to run it
again to set up the sound card. And then the SID files would
no longer appear in the file selector!

After a lot of fiddling with the sidplay.cfg file to work
out what change I'd obviously made to it in the past in order
to make it work, I finally figured it out:

Change the line:
DAT_ext = .DAT
to:
DAT_ext = .SID

The manual sort of hints at this by saying that it supports
".DAT + .SID" files, but it took a long time for that to
sink in!

To be safe, I renamed "sidsetup.exe" "sidsetup.xxx" to
encourage me to think twice before sabotaging myself again.

SidPlay for DOS doesn't seem to support specifying files on
the command line like the Linux ones do.


P. S. VACSID seems to have the same probem, even with the
SID extension seemingly correctly set in its ".INI" file.
I don't know the cause of this one.

Open Cubic Player works well, but I spent some time
setting up the config file for that a long time ago.

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