From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Sound Blaster problem
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:23:00 GMT

    Please excuse me if this letter sounds a bit fragmented. I'm a bit
dazed, but I thought I better get this out before I go to bed.

    I just recently bought a used Sound Blaster, and I've been having some
problems with it.

    Some of the problems are:

    When I use Mod Play Pro and play a MOD, the screen freeses up when it's
using text. When it's using a .GIF (I found this out when I played a long
MOD.). the GIF is drawn on the screen pixel by pixel, from left to right,
very slowly. The sound is never effected, and I can still do the things with
the keyboard when the MOD is being played (ie: Skip, change speed, stop,
etc.).

    I can't use Recorder. When I try to record, it crashes, and when I try
and play a .VOC from disk, it crashes. Bad sign there right away.

    When I try and play Castle Wolfenstien 3-D, the digitized sound effects
sound like they're chopped up, fuzzy, or distant (When I'm right up close to
the character.). The game also crashes about 40 seconds into gameplay. Yay.


    I phoned up the person I bought it from and he said to try all the base
addresses with all the IRQ's. I did, and still nothing althought some
seemed better than others.

    Here's my config.sys:

DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 C:\STACKER.COM C:\STACVOL.000
DEVICE=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 c:\dos\nnansi.sys
DEVICE=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:1 c:\mouse\mouse.sys
files=25
BUFFERS=20

    I've been told to take out Stacker and try it, but there was no
difference. (I did all the base address and IRQ shuffling with Stacker off)
When I took out QEMM, ModPlay worked, but nothing else did. When I used
EMM386.SYS, it was no different than using QEMM.

    Here's my autoexec.bat:

@echo off
swapping off
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:1 c:\dos\vfont.com /d
prompt $e[1;32m$p$e[31m>$e[0m
set colordir=zip:bright cyan;exe com bat btm:bright white;doc txt prn me nfo:bri
set comspec=c:\command.com
set TMCFG=d:\TM\TM.CFG
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
set waffle=c:\waffle\system\static
set sound=c:\sb
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 /res=14064 /sqf c:\mouse\click.exe
path=c:\util;c:\bat;c:\stacker;c:\dos;d:\dos2;c:\virus
alias /r alias.lst
cls
swapping on

    I don't think anything in there means much to this problem, but I
thought I would toss it in anyways just in case.

    My system consists of:

    386-DX33
    2 megs ram
    Dexxa rodent in COM1
    Internal El-Cheapo 2400b modem in COM4
    4Dos 4.01
    IDE 52meg HD
    And other numerous nifty things that I've forgotten, but probly arn't
    inportant.

    I would also like to know if there is a way to find out what version
this Sound Blaster is. 1.0 bad? (I heard somewhere it is.) If so, is there
an upgrade?

    Thank you for taking the time to read to the bottom of this message. If
you have any help to offer, please contact me via Email at the sites listed
below. This is beginning to piss me off, and I'd like to get it as soon as
possible. Thanks.


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