Deliplayer won't work on Windoze 7 !?

[ChaosLord]

I bought a brand new intel core i5 quadcore 3.1Ghz pc with Windoze 7 so I could run WinUAE at a decent speed for once.  And of course I want to do a few other things to.  So far Chrome is working ok.  But...

I installed Deliplayer 2.50 beta.  It seemed to install fine without any error messages.   It is listed in the start menu but when I run it I get a msg "Could not start Deliplayer".

When I right click on a mod to listen to it there is NO CONTEXT MENU.  No "Open with Deliplayer" option is there like with my ancient windoze xp box.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR :destroy:

I can't even listen to mods on this computer?!?!?!

What do I do?!?  I can't write good code unless I am listening to some mods.

Does anyone in the world use Deliplayer on Windoze 7?

[ChaosLord]

Winamp with mod plugin?

According to Wickedpedia: Winamp is useless since it plays the mods incorrectly.

[ChaosLord]

Uh...

I hear they have MOD players for the Amiga. I bet they run under WinUAE...

Amiga does not have players for many pc mod formats.

The good thing about deliplayer was it played every format in the universe (except MEDmods).

[ChaosLord]

Popular applications like WinAMP are able to play the major module formats (XM, IT, S3M, MOD) in a similar method to the way you would play an MP3. However, WinAMP in particular is unable to accurately play certain effects that are quite common in module formats, for example offset and portamento commands, which can significantly affect playback.

[ChaosLord]

Do you need a quadcore for decent speed?

You definitely need more than 1 core.

I have a single core PC that could never emulate an Amiga at full speed.  Not even close.  And it was burning my entire 1500 Mhz of CPU power.

[ChaosLord]

I use this on Windows 7, plays everything I've thrown at it:

http://www.xmplay.com

The user interface on this one is just megafantastically waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo smallll.  WTF kind of drugz are these ppl on?!?

Do u know any secret trix to use a user interface with human-readable fonts?

The user-interfaces I tried were only suitable for 320x256 screenmode or maybe possible 640x480.  I am using 1280x1024.  The fonts are totally unreadable.   Also, no context-menus is a drawback for me.

[ChaosLord]

Hey Smerfy,

I love HippoPlayer more than anybody.  Its awesome.  But the coder stopped updating it many years ago and so it does not support some PC mod formats such as .it mods that PC DeliPlayer does play.

So I am trying to find a W7 way of playing mods.

Also DeliPlayer PC version plays SidSongs which certain other PC modplayers don't seem to play.

I am trying to have just 1 program to rule them all.

It just seems kind of silly to burn an entire core of my PC to run WinUAE just to run HippoPlayer. :insane:

But it looks like I might end up doing that.

I still hafta give that BZR player a try first tho.

[ChaosLord]

Use BZR Player, it plays everything you got and is actively developed:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=35976

Okey thanx 4 the advice!

It seems better than the others except it has no repeat button

I have to have a repeat button.

A mod player with no repeat play feature doesn't work out for me


I filed a bug report with the coder of the first 3 bugs I found (and attached a screenshot).  We'll see what happens.

[ChaosLord]

No way are the others better than UADE as it emulates an Amiga and uses the original 68k assembly replay routines from Delitracker and Eagleplayer.

Unless your MODS sounding accurate and number of formats supported are not high on your list of priorities.

When I said "the others" I was not referring to UADE as I have not tried it yet due to not having this thing called Cygwin installed.  Also I figure it won't play .it mods.  Also Delitracker and Eagleplayer crashed my Amiga countless times so bringing those up does not really inspire confidence  I was always a Hippoplayer fan.

Still its nice to know that the UADE option is there.

I sorta got sidetracked testing BZRplayer, reporting bugs and explaining some coding techniques to make BZRplayer a better player for everyone.  I hope it works out in the end.

[ChaosLord]

OK I have DeliPlayer working fine under Windows 8 Pro 64-bit.

All you need to do is install it as normal then select properties, then click the compatibility tab and select "Run this profram in compatibility mode for Windows XP (service pack 3) and select ok.

then run as normal :-)

I will happily try your idea but here is the deal:

I needed to backup my 1.5TB Amiga external drive.
I have a brand new puter with USB3 and Windoze 7 so this should be easy right?

Wrong!

Windoze 7 copied some files in some kind of random order then just locked up.  Its been stuck on the same file for over 12 hours now I and I don't know what to do.

The drive has all my mods on it.  The hard drive light flashed off and on all night long.  But the drive is not making any grinding noises.  What the heck is it doing?

I used to ALWAYS have this problem on Windoze XP.  I could not copy any set of files over around 400GB or it just locked up. :mad:

My bro told me W7 was fixed and and so advanced that it could actually copy files from one drive to another just like a 1985 Amiga.

I don't know what to do now.  Its just sitting there flashing the light off and on and all my mods are on that drive.  I can't seem to access the drive while its copying... So I can't try ur Deliplayer fix to see if it works or not.

I hope it is not burning a hole in my Amiga drive! :cry:  My whole life is on that drive!  Why can't Windoze 7 just let me copy some files and make a backup?!? :confused:

[ChaosLord]

Ok I finally finished backing up my Amiga drive.  I got zillions of error msgs about the filenames being too long.  Which is impossible as I was copying from one NTFS drive to another NTFS drive and the filenames were identical!  If it works on one drive it must work on another drive right?

I had to keep going in and manually shortening pathnames and doing things over.  ugh.

Ok so I started DeliPlayer 2.50b using compatibility mode and:
1. Repeat play is completely broken.  It never ever replays the mod.  It just dies.  I have it set to play 99 times but it only plays once then croaks.

2. After it plays the mod exactly one time, I can't tell it to play another mod.  It just sits there doing nothing.  

3. I have to completely quit the program and restart it to play another mod.  No fun at all

While writing this message I kept trying different things and mashing random buttons.  And I got it to repeat one time then it died as usual.