Sooo, 8 years later there's this guy who finally shows up to share his experience on the matter. Didn't have anything else better to do today, so here it goes...
1. You may have to use DB version 1.13. I can't get 1.14 to do it.
2. Assigned optical drive letter has to be the first available letter immediately following the last HDD letter. In other words, if Drives A and B are not used (typical of missing floppy drives these days), and you have HDD/partition letters of C,D,E, and F - Then the CD-Rom drive has to be letter G. For some strange reason you can't have any assignment gaps following the HDD's. After making the changes, it's best to reboot before making an attempt.
3. It only works while being ran directly from the editor. Running from an executable almost always results in a crash.
4. You may still get a load error on the first run. If so, hit F12 and F5 again.
Finally it works!
LOAD CDMUSIC (track#),1
PLAY MUSIC 1
Other than this glitch, DarkBasic is still fun to play with. Runs on Windows 7 too.
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