Well I do sympathise with you.
howeverthings are changing.
I used to have a couple synths a keynote external and a dectalk which
never ran right with xp at all.
Ofcause its a bit mute now, my systems well most of the newer ones I
have don't even have a serial port.
The later systems I have both desktop and laptop a like don't even
have a modem or moniter port.
its all usb 2 3 and hdmi now with wired and wireless broadband
connecters so unless you get a card or adaptor or something your
serial device may be no go.
Not to mention that some try to access ports directly which guess
what windows really gets cranky about.
Firstly its secured against direct access and second more often than
not it really doesn't connect to any physical ports these days unless
forced to its all vertual.
in the case with my dectalk express, the system tried to go through
sam and tried to directly interface with the hardware which windows
would not let it.
in the best case it would work but not run right speaking it through
the soundcard in a weird language and at worst windows would detect
something was trying to mess with its port and lock me out of starting the box.
The only way to fix it was to reformat.
After trying this at least 20 times and having to reformat almost
every time I surmised this was probably something to that effect and
stopped trying.
Ofcause it ended up not mattering as both synths broke and ports went away.
I have always said I'd get an external synth but with all the junk
thats going round with all the space and devices I have I've never
got round to it.
my first nettable system was in 1996 when I got my first pcmcia card modem.
Before I had dos but it was not for much at all.
At 08:53 PM 5/20/2013, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Yes, when I bought my game development computer I was still running
a dos computer for Email and the Internet. Then when it went bad I
bought a new Windows computer to do Email and the Internet on.
My game development computer also has an external USB Triple Talk
hardware synthesizer. It frees up the system resources that
Eloquence would take. Which is probably good when working in the
VB6 IDE. Even though I have worked in VB6 on the Internet computer
with Eloquence. But heck I still have an Accent stand alone
hardware synthesizer. It just is not as responsive with JFW as it
was with JFD.
I guess the hard thing is knowing if the newest really might be the
best, or if it is just hype from the company trying to sell
it. Interesting though that you found out that the third service
pack for your virtual XP really was not good.
I have not yet worked with the SHGetFolderPath function. I plan to
see if I can get it all working though.
BFN
Jim
Ohio is so friendly that Hi is it's middle name.
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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