On 1999-08-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Eko Priono> said:
>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.
Yes, I can play wav and midi files, as well as CD music -- all under DOS
with little problem. I noticed that Gary Maddox said that the "T3" variable
in the BLASTER environment indicated the SB Pro, so I changed that to T3
instead of the T4 in my statement to see what would happen. If anything,
the sound is somewhat better, certainly no worse. But it didn't prevent the
failure of any of the recording programs.
>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 CPU on this Toshiba Satellite is a 300 MHz Intel Pentium with MMX -- not
a Pentium II. I've only had *one* DOS program that runs fine on my 486 DX2
50 MHz machine that doesn't run on the Toshiba, and that's the Panther
terminal program. I had several other DOS programs written in old Borland
Pascal that needed a patch to make them run on the Toshiba. Before the
patch, these DOS programs gave a "runtime" error message. This is the case
with the Panther program (I replaced it QModem, another freeware terminal
program), which has a runtime error, but for which the patch doesn't work.
The Blaster Master program does not exhibit the runtime error -- it just
doesn't recognize my SB Pro compatible sound card, for whatever reason. It
can still edit sound files, but it can't play or record them. So I have
reason to doubt that excessive speed may be causing the problem with
Blaster Master. Has Gary Maddox said anything about this? Should I write
to him?
>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.
When I attempted to run the record.exe program under Win98, it gave an error
message saying that there was an error with the low level driver. This
seems to be just another way of saying that record.exe is incompatible with
*this sound card*. The record.exe program tells me (when running under PC
DOS 2000), while it's operating, that it's in 8-bit mode.
>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.
I can't find the "VOXKIT" program. The VEDIT2 program is available at
Creative Labs, but it gives me an error message (both under Win98 in a DOS
box and in PC DOS 2000) that says "Error 5311: wrong interrupt jumper
setting or interrupt error". And, of course, the VOC2WAV and WAV2VOC
programs aren't of much use without recording capabilities.
Jerry
Internet Montana
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