On 1999-08-09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Gary Maddox> said:
>If you're having problems recording under DOS, it could be that it
>is only SB Pro compatible for playback. Since it is a laptop, it's
>probably a single chip based soundcard. ESS makes a compatible chip
>that is included on many motherboards. Since SB Pro support is
>needed primarily for DOS games, recording support could have been
>left off.
It records fine under Win98, like it's supposed to. I doubt that
Toshiba was worried about supporting the same capabilities under a DOS
system. I'm not really surprised; after all, this Toshiba Satellite
notebook was designed for Win98, and they surely hadn't anticipated
satisfying someone desiring to record sound under DOS when designing this
"low-end" notebook system. But I've done just about everything else I
wanted to do with it under DOS. At least it plays wav, voc and midi files
well under DOS -- and for that matter, sound is not a *critical* issue for
my sort of work, especially since I'm not blind. We know that recording
with DOS has been well established with important programs, like your own
Blaster Master, and there are other more difficult challenges for DOS than
sound programs.
>Something else that occured to me yesterday is if your
>card is using an IRQ that's not originally supported by the SB Pro,
>BM and many other programs won't work. If you have the SET BLASTER=
>parms correctly set, and I recommend you typing "SET" from DOS and
>having a look at your environment to verify this, BM should find
>your card if it's really compatible. Win98 could also be the
>problem. ...
The "set" command indicates the following under the PC DOS 2000 partition:
BLASTER=A220 I5 D0 T3
MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
The only time I got an IRQ error message I when I tried to use a DOS
recorder program (compatible with the SB) under a DOS session in Win98. The
setup utility with the sbpup.exe package doesn't allow me to alter the IRQ
from 5 to 7; it seems there's only *one* configuration of settings it'll
accept, and nothing else.
Jerry
Internet Montana
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