Hi Jerry,
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:14:21 -0700, Jerry J. Haumberger wrote:
> First, I want to be certain that I've adequately described
> the computer on which we're working; it's *not* a "survivor",
> but the OS (PC DOS 2000) *is* ...
Sorry for the drifting from your original question, but at
least now we know what system we dealing with... :)
> BLASTER=A220 I5 D0 T4
Since you have "BLASTER" environment parm properly configured,
I5 and D0 shouldn't be the problem. Also, in your previous post,
you said that you can play WAV files normally under PC DOS,
right? So, guess we could safely eliminate basic config and
compability mode issues from our suspect list.
This left just one reason I could think of why BM (Blaster
Master) failed to detect your sound card: _CPU_speed_. AFAIK
older DOS SB programs using many delay loops to communicate with
the sound card. It's possible that your CPU's extremely high
speed (300Mhz Pentium-II ?) renders BM's delay loops too short
to be usable. Gary might have second opinion on this...
> The "proprietary" mixer comes with Win98: the Yamaha
> OPL3-SA3. The performance levels for this mixer are set,
If the problem is your card's propetiary mixer _hardware_,
there's a simple workaround to *test* this: Run DOS sound
recorder programs _in_question_ under Win98's DOS Box as
exclusive task. Since Win98 device driver already initialize
the card, the programs should be able to record that way.
If you still get hissing noise, make sure that those programs
recording in 8-bit mode, not in 16-bit mode; you should be able
to find out this by opening the resultant VOC or WAV files in
Win98 and see their properties.
Back to your original question, CreativeLabs has three DOS sound
recorders that bundled with _the_original_ SB and SB Pro cards:
* VOXKit / VOXKIT, included with SB cards.
* Voice Editor 2 / VEDIT2, included with SB Pro cards.
* VRec / VREC, included with both SB and SB Pro cards.
The first two are menu-driven programs that enables you to
record, play, and compress _VOC_ files, the later is a command-
line program. You'll need VOC2WAV and WAC2VOC to convert to and
from WAV format. Don't know where to find them, though.
Anyone else, perhaps?
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