On 1999-07-26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>On 26 Jul 99, Jerry J. Haumberger wrote... >>Hello again, folks... >>If any of you out there could refer me to a freeware DOS program >>for recording sounds on a system (wav, dat, voc or whatever) with >>a microphone and SoundBlaster or SoundBlaster Pro compatible >>sound card, I'd be delighted! I've hunted all over the Internet >>(Simtel, Garbo, Creative, etc., etc.) and just can't seem to >>locate anything like it. There's hoards of freeware sound file >>players, but freeware DOS programs that use a microphone seem to >>be almost nonexistent. I'd hate to think that those of us >>"DOS-heads" must rely on another OS just to use a microphone... :( >And to think, Linux has a standard command line recorder. I wouldn't >mind seeing that for DOS. >Something like that sb02 below I suppose. >Here's some SimTel stuff that may or may not do what you want. >ftp://put/simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sound/ >sample20.zip... >sb02.zip... >spchtool.zip... >vat061.zip... >WAVmaker 1.0 digital audio/music system... After testing all of the above-suggested programs, I found none that either worked with my Sound Blaster Pro card or that offered true *recording* features with a microphone. Some of these programs were only source code, and I'm not able to compile them for my needs. The recorder program mentioned by Mr. Goldenberg only works for the SB16, not my Sound Blaster Pro card. I suspect that there's a lot of work involved with this type of software that's not freely available like other types of programs -- especially for the dwindling DOS market. There doesn't seem to be an actual problem with using DOS for multimedia, like recording wav files with a microphone, there's just too much competition with Windows these days. A few Sound Blaster card versions have such utilities written for them through the manufacturers, and some don't. Unluckily, my Sound Blaster Pro card doesn't have this type of DOS support. :( I've found that I can duplicate just about anything done with Windows (some times more satisfactorily!) with the DOS environment -- except for this one function. And in this latter instance, it's just a matter of neglect, not impossibility. Jerry Internet Montana -*- Let there be sublimity without complexity! Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Registered To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
