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From: tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 3.1 PC Speaker
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:01:45 GMT
Reply-To: tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
In-reply-to: cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Carl B Jabido)

In article <odt7Iiu00YVXI2lV47@andrew.cmu.edu>, cj00+@andrew (Carl B Jabido) writes:
>Okay, I've got the driver, but when does Windows actually use the
>sounds?  I get exclamation, question boxes all the time, but none play
>the sounds I configured.  One program, WinDock, which was designed for
>3.1 (really well designed, I'm gonna register as soon as I scrape up the
>dough), does use the sounds.  Does this mean that the program has to be
>designed for 3.1?  If so, then why don't the sounds do anything in the
>3.1 applets?

Just because the dialog box has a big "?" in it doesn't mean the
app programmer made the correct Win API system call that would generate
the Win event which causes the sound to execute.  The API call has been
there since Windows 2, I believe, but not everybody uses it- many
design their own warning/query dialog boxes.  I hope you're at least
getting sounds on startup and exit; that'll prove that it's working.

-Tom
tanida@esosun.css.gov
From: bruce@ais.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Bugs - Threat or Menace?
Date: 13 Apr 92 11:19:04 GMT
Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC

In article <1992Apr9.173838.6748@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, stevey@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Yegge) writes:
> In article <1992Apr8.214033.26879@ms.uky.edu> jkvanm00@nx29.mik.uky.edu (jonathan van meter) writes:
>>	I haven't tried eob 1 or 2 under windows 3.1 but I have successfully  
>>run Ultima Underworld with ZERO problems.  It's alittle slow but then again  
>>it's kinda slow in plan dos too.  The dos window in 3.1 is FAR better than the  
>>windows 3.0 window.
>>
>>Jonathan
> 
> Are you running it in a window?  I can't seem to get VGA graphics to work
> under 3.1 in a DOS window.  I tried it with, hmm...EOB II, I think.  I 
> didn't try it with Ultima Underworld since I've heard the double-buffering
> between UW's cacher and Smartdrv.exe can screw up your save files.
> 
> I get the "can't run this baby except in full-screen" message that I used
> to get in 3.0, and it suspends until I hit alt+enter.  I'm running at
> 1024x768x256 on an Orchid Prodesigner IIs.  Can I get VGA graphics to work
> in DOS windows at this screen resolution?  Help, anybody?

This is a function of the screen driver - apparently your screen driver
doesn't support VGA graphics in a window.  The normal VGA driver does, &
in my experience even supports DOS EGA/VGA graphics better than it does
CGA graphics.  Don't know why that is, but the DOS CGA graphics support is
-S-L-O-W- compared to the EGA/VGA graphics, at least with the hardware and
software combinations I've tried it on.

I don't know if the Orchid Prodesigner supports VGA graphics in a window,
you should contact Orchid & see if there is an update for the driver that
you are using ...

Bruce C. Wright
From: joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch  )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: DRDOS 6.0 and WIN 3.1
Date: 9 Apr 92 08:58:59 GMT
Organization: Upchurch Computer Consulting, Orlando FL

pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:

> We tried installing DR-DOS 6.0 on a 286-12 with AMI BIOS and C&T SCAT
> chipset (not exactly an exotic hardware setup - in fact DR DOS claims
> to explicitly support SCAT).  It crashed so many times - even while
> running the install and configure programs (I forget what they're
> called), that we finally took it off and put DOS 5 back on.  I've
> never had a problem with MS-DOS on any machine I've ever used.  It
> seems strange that DR-DOS would have so many problems just keeping
> itself running, and that was before we even tried running any apps on
> top of it.

It makes sense, when you think about it. A hardware vendor would have
to crazy to ship a system without checking if it was MS-DOS compatible,
but I suspect most don't bother to see if it has any problems running
DR-DOS, unless it comes bundled with the system. The ability to run
MS-DOS and Windows becomes in effect the definition of hardware
compatability.

(If your mail bounces use the address below. My map entry is new.)
Joel Upchurch/Upchurch Computer Consulting/718 Galsworthy/Orlando, FL 32809
joel@peora.ccur.com {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd,ucf-cs}!peora!joel (407) 859-0982
From: bakalov@WFUNET.WFU.EDU (Rudy Bakalov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: HELP: Windows 3.1
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:51:00 GMT


        Hello everybody:
        I madly need your help. I spent the whole day trying to install
Win 3.1 and I couldn't. It's a real shame-- I used to think my CS degree
has some value.
        The problems is that I still run 3.0 no matter how I install it.
First, I did try to upgrade. It did not work-- Setup died while copying
the FON files. I copied the first two disks onto my HD and run it again--
it was OK now.
        That is all for the time being-- I cannot run anything but the old
stuff. Moreover, now I *can* run only in S mode *despite* the fact that
386MAX doesn't support S mode! It is a nightmare. Windows cannot find two
files needed for E mode.
        I am sure that I run 3.0 because the prog. manag. says so-- running
Windows 3.0a in standard mode. I don't have screen saver, etc.
        I am running 386/25MHz, 4Mb, ET4000, Stacker, 386MAX.
        Please, help ASAP. I feel I am missing something very simple, but
I couldn't find it. I tried to install in a new DIR-- same effect.
        I WILL HIGHLY APPRECIATE ANY FEEDBACK.
--
                        "Good Taste is Always an Asset"

| Rudy Bakalov, MBA Student
| Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, NC 27109
| Internet bakalov@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu
| tel (919) 759-2199
| fax (919) 759-5830
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: ring@sapphire.egr.msu.edu (Michael Ring)
Subject: DELL-ATI Vantage Speed info
Reply-To: ring@sapphire.egr.msu.edu (Michael Ring)
Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 21:58:20 GMT

I received a ATI Vantage from Dell ($249) today.
The card has a feature connector with which the picture of a
standard VGA card can be passed to the monitor connected to the ATI.
There is no VGA card on board of the Vantage and I am pretty sure that
there is also no VGA on board the ULTRA card offered by Dell ($299)

I found out that the card has a very high performance for scrolling 
and line-painting but the screen update when you close a windows 
application is not as fast as with my SpeedStar ET-4000. 

I would like to know if the ATI Ultra with V-Ram has a reasonably
higher Performance than the Vantage. (Theory says yes but reality..)
If someone of you out there on the net has a 386`33 with bus-clock 
of ca. 11MHz and a Ultra card,please send me your results of the 
PC-Lab Benchmark V1.1 !!







Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: u790259@math.nthu.edu.tw (Sbkai (Tel 4803-R411))
Subject: Re: Question about, DOS 5.0, Win 3.1, OS/2 2.0
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:59:43 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jsmolnar@descartes.waterloo.edu
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 Sound Recorder not recognized as a server?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:08:12 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.170145.5280@news.Hawaii.Edu> todd@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
>Can anyone tell me how to make the Sound Recorder recognized as a server
>without reinstalling all of Windows 3.1?

Sorry, I am not at home, but I can piont you in the right direction.

In one of the INI files (I believe it was WIN) there is a section that lists
all the OLE servers and should have the sound record there and what the
files that can be linked and embedded are (extensions I believe, I could be
a little off though), so I think that the Sound Record wasn't listed properly
for some unknow reason...works fine here.


Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: floydb@rpi.edu 
Subject: re: SoundBlaster Pro Drivers for Win 3.1
Reply-To: floydb@rpi.edu 
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Admin. 
Distribution: world 
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:30:04 GMT

In article <BMnt29.Cwv@world.std.com> gunther@world.std.com (Gunther W Anderson) writes:
>I just talked to Creative Labs Tech Support, after a few days of busy
>signals, and they told me to either call their BBS or download the
>files from Compuserve.  Their BBS has also been busy for the past
>few days, so I ventured into compuserve.  It is in Library 1 of
>the Multimedia Vendors' forum (MULTIVEN), and is called SBPW31.ZIP.
>
>So, if that's all you need, give those poor techs a break and go
>straight to compuserve.
>
>By the by, I also discovered (was told) how to pronounce Brown Wagh --
>It's 'brown way'.
>
>Be seeing you,
>Gunther

could this file be uploaded to cica or umich?
From: sharif@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Thomas Abdallah)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Followup to SoundBlaster/MCV and Win 3.1
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:42:30 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523


First of all thanks to all who replied to my first post about this topic!

I've found out something very interesting which I thought should be shared
with the net.  It seems that there is a BUG (Oh No!) somewhere (I couldn't
get the folks at CreativeLabs to say exactly where) between the SoundBlaster/MCV
card and the PS/2 MicroChannel bus.  It doesn't manifest itself except when
you try to go into protected mode and send a signal to the SB/MCV card.

I couldn't get a definative response from Creative Labs but they suggested
the following as a 'temporary' fix.

	1	-	Fire up Win 3.1 in STANDARD mode.  Load all the
			drivers, configure the system, etc.

	2	-	Each time you boot the system, bring up Win 3.1
			in STANDARD mode again.

	3	-	Exit from Windows.

	4	-	Fire up Win 3.1 again, but this time in ENHANCED mode.

This has to be one of the goofiest quirks that I've run into in a LONG time.
For now I've opted not to use the SB/MCV for Windows applications, preferring
to stick with my lowly REAL mode DOS apps.  This sucks !

Thomas-Sharif Abdallah
sharif@lamar.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: Re: Boo Hiss MicroSoft
Keywords: Marketing Scam
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:43:24 GMT


More correction of OS/2 misinformation, although this one gives
OS/2 and IBM too much credit:

twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:

>So let me get this straight though. With OS/2, I can get OS/2 upgrade
>from Win 3.0 at about the same price as Win 3.1 upgrade, and if I
>don't like it, I can return it for money back and go ahead and get 
>Win 3.1? The IBM's OS/2 money back guarantee. Is this true?

Not true.  If you upgrade to or buy OS/2 2.0, you get 60 days of
toll free tech support.  If you cannot get OS/2 2.0 to install on
your machine, call tech support.  If nothing they say works at
getting OS/2 to install on your machine, IBM will refund your
purchase price.

The policy is aimed at fighting criticism that OS/2 won't run on
clones, not to woo Windows 3.0 users.  Although the upgrade from
Windows 3.0 to OS/2 2.0 requires the first manual page, and the
Windows 3.1 upgrade can be done with the 1st disk.  So you could
get both for $98.95.
-- 
John H. Kim                 | (This space to be filled when I
jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever 
uunet!jarthur!jokim         | to use as a disclaimer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales)
Subject: Making custom keyboard layout for Windows 3.1?
Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 06:04:17 GMT

I just bought Windows 3.1 today, and I've run into a keyboard problem.

I have been using a keyboard remapping TSR to move some of the keys on
my 84-key keyboard.  (After my custom remapping, ESC is where ~` used
to be; ~` is where BS used to be; and BS is where ESC used to be.)

Problem:  This remapping is being =ignored= by Windows 3.1.

I have tried two different remapping techniques, neither of which is
working:

(1) Checking the BIOS keyboard buffer after each keystroke (via Int 09H)
    and modifying the buffer as needed whenever one of the keys to be
    remapped is seen.  (KB84FIX.ZIP on SIMTEL20 -- which, by the way, I
    authored.)

(2) Hooking Int 15H, AH=4FH (keyboard intercept service) and changing
    the relevant scan codes.  (KEYMAP00.ZIP on SIMTEL20, with a modified
    keyboard map.)

I assume the reason my DOS-based keyboard remapping efforts are no good
in Windows is because Windows is processing keystrokes itself via its
own Int 09H handler, bypassing the ROM BIOS.

If I could design my own Windows keyboard layout and use it instead of
the existing layouts, I should be able to solve my problem.  Is this
possible to do in Windows 3.1?

I do =not=, by the way, want to either (1) buy a new and "better" key-
board or (2) learn to live without the remapping in question.

--
Rich Wales <wales@CS.UCLA.EDU> // UCLA Computer Science Department
3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (310) 825-5683
From: Norman.Russell@f43.n140.z1.fidonet.org (Norman Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Tseng ET4000 Drivers
Date: 6 Apr 92 10:06:04 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:140/43 - U of S Computing Se, Saskatoon Sask

Does anybody know where the latest version of the Tseng ET4000 video 
drivers, for Windows3, can be found? 
 
Would cica.cica.indiana.edu have them? 
 
How can I tell what is the latest version.  I have two different copies 
of the drivers, the file sizes are different.... So there must 
be some difference.  How can I tell what is the latest version? 
Is the file date the only way? 
 
 
      Norm 
 
 
... OFFLINE 1.35 * REALITY.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot universe? (Y/N/Q) 

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From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Tseng drivers at wuarchive
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:24:40 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam

tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida) writes:

>The Windows 3.1 Tseng video drivers are available at
>wuarchive.wustl.edu, in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS:
>-rw-r--r--  1 3007     archive    264448 Apr  7 12:15 et3-w31.zip
>-rw-r--r--  1 3007     archive   1066483 Apr  7 12:17 et4-w31.zip

>The first file is for the ET3000 boards.  The second is for the ET4000
>boards.

>These might help some of the "mysterious" problems that have been
>occuring that some people have had with Win 3.1 (note device drivers
>run at a lower ring level in the Windows kernel, and thus have
>a much greater potential than normal Win apps to cause erratic
>behavior).  Plus these drivers will give you mouse support in a DOS Window.

>I've heard there is/will be a Tseng BBS- if it's in operation, maybe
>somebody could post the phone #.  I don't have the time to mail the
>drivers out to those who request, but I think wuarchive might have
>a mail server (though I don't have any info on that since I just FTP).
>I'll try to get the drivers onto cica once cica comes back to the
>world of the living.  :-)

>-Tom
>tanida@esosun.css.gov

Can I use them for Windows 3.0 as well? Are there any enhancements
compared to the 01/92 version, or has 3.1 just been added, or are they 
for 3.1 only?

Marcel.
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 X	   Marcel Wijkstra   AIO   (wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl)
|X|	     Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science	
 X	       University of Amsterdam   The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: vick-paul@CS.YALE.EDU (Paul A. Vick)
Subject: Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows
Organization: a tiny, little division of yale.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:22:02 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.194109.17700@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith) writes:
>
>You had some pretty good comments.  I just wanted to note that for
>many people, staying with older technology can in fact be expensive
>too.
> [stuff deleted...]
>
>I'm not trying to be argumentative--I think Windows is a good choice
>for many people.  I just wanted to give the other side of the argument
>on that point.
>
>Steve Smith 
>

I know I said I wouldn't reply, but I thought I should say...

I agree completely. Leaving aside the issue of hardware upgrades (as
this has been hashed out many times over), no matter what software you
go with, the software companies are _always_ going to stick it to you.
Some are better than others--IBM's upgrade policy from what I've heard
sounds very good (free upgrades for bug-fix releases), Microsoft and
Borland are not always that hot. And given that Microsoft will start
pushing people to migrate to Win 3.1, the OS/2 and Win 3.1 price split
is minimal at the moment--unless you've already got Win 3.1. However,
I would argue that products with large install bases (DOS, at very
least, possibly Windows and I think in the near future OS/2), you are
less vulnerable to being pushed into upgrades, as companies are not
interested in slitting their own throats--witness the "cash cow" of
DOS at Microsoft. Anyway, I doubt we disagree on this point, so I'll
cut short my lengthy digression...

Paul
From: futrena@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: .wav/.voc problems...
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:12:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: wkuvx1.1992Apr8.131245.1262
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY


I have just received and installed MS Windows 3.1 on my system.  Included with
Windows 3.1 is a sound recorder/player/mixer.  The problem is that Windows uses
the WAVE, or .wav format for sound files.  All my files for my Thunderboard are
in the .voc format.  The Thunderboard can play the .wav sound files.  There
isn't any utility to convert the .voc format to the .wav format.

Could someone give me some ideas or point me in the right direction?


Nathan

"Jacking into cyberspace."
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Re: Pause before you consider OS/2 (was Re: Win 3.1 not THAT great.)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 21:08:30 GMT


In a previous article, demillo@juliet.ll.mit.edu (Robert DeMillo) says:

>According to InfoWorld:

>OS/2 2.0 will not support full-blown pre-emptive multitasking for
>         another 12-18 months. (Not sure what they meant by this,
>	 but it didn't smell right.) At that time, Windows NT
>	 will be on the scene.

Robert-

Perhaps you mistook the words 'premptive multitasking' with the
words 'sysmetric multiprocessing'.  OS/2 definitely has premptive
multi-tasking.  Not having symetric multiprocessing today is no big 
loss.  Does anyone even know anyone who owns a multiprocessing pc?
In a year when os2 2.1 comes out, and windows NT is finishing its
beta program, they may be more common, but multi-processing computers
are a very rare bird right now.  OS/2 2.1 is supposed to have
multi-processing support, like NT will some day.

Douglas Bell-
-- 
"We have developed Windows applications, but we didn't inhale."
          -Philippe Kahn, Borland International
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From: bregel@cs.washington.edu (Aaron Bregel)
Subject: Re: more bugs in 3.1
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:12:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.191319.10611@nic.unh.edu> pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
>
>But wait...it seems like _all_ my apps only allow one copy to run at a
>time under 3.1.  This includes WordPerfect for Windows (though I think
>it did this under 3.0 also), Wingz, MathCAD, and a few others, plus
>all the applets I've tried.  The only exceptions I've found so far are
>WinGIF 1.4 and anything in a DOS box.
>
>I clearly recall running multiple sessions of Solitaire under 3.0, but
>under 3.1, when I click on an icon, and that application is already
>running, it just activates the app's window.
>
>Was this behavior intentionally added by MS?  Is this an RTFM?
>
>Paul
>
I know this works with Winword 2.0.  If you want to have multiple copies 
running you must run share.exe before loading windows.
From: sjo@cci632.cci.com (Steve Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: ATI graphics drivers
Keywords: Vantage, Ultra, 24 bit color
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:26:04 GMT
Organization: Computer Consoles Incorporated


	Does anyone know if ATI supports 24 bit color drivers for the
Ultra and Vantage cards, or will support them in the future?

	I got to thinking about this last night (a very dangerous prospect
indeed! |-), so I pulled out the old calculator.  Here are the numbers I
came up with:

	640X480, 24 bit		921,600 bytes memory

	800X600, 24 bit		1.44 Mbytes memory

	1024X768, 24 bit	2.4 Mbytes memory.

	Would this be possible?  What would be required?  Just drivers, or
would a firmware upgrade be required? I own a Vantage, so upgrading to
1X4 Mb memory chips is no big deal.  I'm not sure about the Ultra.
Performance would decrease, but I imagine it wouldn't be any worse than
ATI's VGAWonder cards in 800X600X256 mode.

	So what do you think?



							SJO
From: jm@dhmoell.uucp (Joerg Moellenhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1
Keywords: Can't understand the trouble
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 16:19:00 CES
Organization: Joerg Moellenhoff

>>> scdorcy@lims05.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY) writes:
>>> Interesting.  Buy 3.1 and your recent 3.0 apps, if not made by Microsoft,
>>> won't work, so you better buy Excel 4.0 and Word 2.0.  And make sure you'r
>>> running MS-DOS 5.0.

>> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
>> Actually, PC Week even had some problems with Excel 3.0, so it
>> looks like you need to upgrade no matter who made the application.

>tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>For the record, I have used both Excel 3.0 and Word for Windows 1.1 quite
>extensively with Windows 3.1, with no apparent problems.  But of course if
>you'd rather believe PC Week than me...  :)

What Tom writes is right ! I installed Win 3.1 and got NO PROBLEMS. ALL apps
I use are working very, very good. Including TrueType and ATM 2.0 at the same
time (for testing I mixed TrueType and TypeManager-Fonts in ONE word - it
works fine... - also printing).
A little collection of tested programs (apps i use): WfW 1.1, WfW 2.0, Usher,
Excel 3.0, PhotoStyler 1.01, CorelDRAW 2.01, Designer 3.0, SimCity 4 W, Faxit
2.01, DynaComm 3.00.28, ABC FlowCharter, SQL Windows 1.4, Quest, Type Align 1.0,
PageMaker 3.01 and 4.0, PowerPoint, MathType, ScrapBook+ 2.1, and some more...

I think this software collection is good enough for the most of us...

J. Moellenhoff


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