On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 02:35:34 -0700, Jerry J. Haumberger wrote:
> Yes, I can play wav and midi files, as well as CD music --
> all under DOS with little problem.
What kind of 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.
Shouldn't be the problem, IIRC:
T3 = SB Pro (8-bit stereo DSP, dual OPL-2/YM3xxx FM chips)
T4 = SB Pro 2 (8-bit stereo DSP, OPL-3 FM chip)
T5 = SB 16 (16-bit stereo DSP, OPL-3 FM chip)
The DSP is used for digitized sound (WAV/VOC) playback/recording,
the FM synthesizer for playing MIDI files. These chips are
backward compatible.
> 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.
Strange, why BM can't detect Jerry's SB Pro 2 compatible?
If "BLASTER" env parm exist, does BM scans for possible IRQ
conflict? AFAIK only port num required to detect the card...
> 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".
That's it! Could be either IRQ conflict or it expects certain
IRQ (7 ?). To be sure, I've just put up a simple utility to
test the sound card. Try run it from Win98 DOS box and PC DOS,
then let us know the results. Click the URL below to get it:
http://members.tripod.com/~survpc/download/sdtest.zip
The program might interfere with EMM386, you could either "rem"
it out from CONFIG.SYS, or add more DMA buffer to compensate.
Also, SDTEST is rather out-of-date, if it can't detect anything,
most likely because of your CPU speed. Just give it another
try with MOSLOW or another CPU slow-down utility.
BTW, what "DOS setup program" you use to initialize the sound
card under PC DOS 2000? Does it use *.CFG or *.INI file?
--Eko
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