HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: adb@teal.csn.org (Alan D. Bryant)
Subject: Logging
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:07:55 GMT

All the talk about starting a pirate station (or NOT) is starting to get 
boring.  How about some logging data?

I'll start:  I heard KXKVI on 4/5 at 04:45 to 05:11 UTC on 7415 kHz.  The
signal was weak, and faded in and out a great deal.  The content was much like
The ACE newsletter has noted in the past: new age music mix and commentary
with lots of IDs in between.  

This is the first pirate I've logged after a great deal of trying on my
part.  Signals are weak in the western US anyway, which I'm sure explains
part of it.  Anyone else catch this one, and if so, how well did you hear 
him?

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Friday, 17 Apr 1992 09:58:42 EDT
From: <F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Running the jukebox sb program under windows

   Sorry I can't remember the exact name of the program.  But the windows
program which will allow you to play .mid files I keep getting UAE's which
keep hanging the machine.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a
later version of the program out?  I mean, when this program bombs, it
bombs!
   Also, is there an FTP site which has a good selection of song/voice
files?

                                                                [Tim]
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: aharder@jarthur.claremont.edu (Alan Keith Harder)
Subject: Digital channel
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:56:43 GMT

 Does anyone have info on programming the digital channel on a soundblaster?
 I found a file on the fm voices and figured that out, so I thought I'd
 check out the digital voice....
 specific questions would be what port(s) to I send to, and what do I send
 to make a sound....
 
Xref: sparky alt.sb.programmer:123 rec.music.synth:7868 comp.music:2398
From: campnest@lonestar.utsa.edu (Armando F. Campnest)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer,rec.music.synth,comp.music
Subject: Re: MPU-401 compatibility for SB MIDI
Date: 12 Apr 92 07:38:19 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

My problem is the exact opposite: is there any way to make an MPU-IPC card
emulte an SB or Adlib via Softz?
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: n8941750@beaker.cc.wwu.edu (Andrew Hollands)
Subject: Amiga Format
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:45:20 GMT

I remember seeing on this group a while back some information about a
program to convert VOC files to an Amiga format (suitable for use as samples
in .MOD file construction).  As I remember, it involves removing the VOC
file header (1st 128 bytes?).   There was also reference to a small PD
utility to accomplish this task.   Can anyone direct me to where I can find
this utility?   Thanks in advance...            

Andrew Hollands
n8941750@henson.cc.wwu.edu
From: chadley@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Lazlo)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Re: SB Pro Speaker Connection
Keywords: Soundblaster,Pro,SB,volume
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:00:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.45266
Organization: Computer Science hosebrain at Purdue University

In article <1992Apr8.020852.15528@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> s_d_seab@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Stephen D Seabury) writes:
>I have a SB Pro, and I hooked my speaker up to the Speaker connector
>on the board.  The speaker came through disproportionally loud, so I
>attached a resistor in parallel.  This helped, but does anyone know of a
>way to control the volume using through software?
>
>Derek Seabury

Did you think to try turning the volume knob down??!!  This isn't meant to
offend you, but it seems to be the easiest and by far the most logical method
of curing your dilemma.  (Not to mention being recommended by the operation
manual....)

Hosehead
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Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: msmith%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Matthew Smith)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 & SB Pro
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:09:51 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

In article <1992Apr16.083532.1@tesla.njit.edu> kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu writes:
>Does anyone use Windows 3.1 with the soundblaster pro?
>I do and when I exit windows, sometimes it kicks in the adlib sound
>noise to the speakers and drops the dos.  The only way I know to stop the
>sound is to hit the reset switch on my 386.  Does anyone else have
>this problem and/or a solution?
> - Kirk

I use the SB Pro with Windows 3.1, however, I needed to get the updated 
driver from Creative Labs.  Their BBS carries it.  408-428-4464.

Matt Smith
msmith@peruvian.utah.edu
From: andrean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andre Arianto Nurwono)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Sources on programming MIDI file ?
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:29:37 GMT
Reply-To: andrean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andre Arianto Nurwono)

Hello. I was just wondering why nobody has programmed the SB
to be a MIDI instrument by itself, that is, so people can
participate in exchanging MIDI musicfile compositions without
actually having ANY MIDI Hardware ! Just the SB !
Any suggestions ?

						Thanks,
						Andre N.
From: dacole@lagrange.waterloo.edu (Dave Cole)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Re: FTP Site listing?
Keywords: FTP, SB programs
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:25:39 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: University of Waterloo

In article <1992Apr9.203021.13550@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, azwrkshp@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Karl Rueb) writes:
> What are the best FTP sites for DOS and Windows 
> Sound Blaster (Pro) programs?
> 
> Karl Rueb
> <azwrkshp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>

I also would be really interested in this.  I've looked, but haven't
  found anyplace with a good quantity:quality ratio...

dave
dacole@descartes.waterloo.edu
Xref: sparky alt.sb.programmer:121 rec.music.synth:7838 comp.music:2387
From: jarhart@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Jason Arhart)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer,rec.music.synth,comp.music
Subject: MPU-401 compatibility for SB MIDI
Date: 11 Apr 92 06:17:07 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines


     Is it possible to, through software, make the Sound Blaster's MIDI
compatible with the MPU-401 standard?  My guess is that since most MIDI
control is done through ports, filtering the I/O would require hardware.
Is this correct?  And if so, are there some programs that use interrupts
instead, allowing a driver to be written specifcally for those programs?
If the only solution is through hardware, is there one other than to buy a
new MIDI board?  Any info is greatly appreciated, as I can only use my $600
worth of MIDI hardware with SPjr right now.

Thanks,

Jason Arhart
jarhart@slate.Mines.Colorado.edu
From: jarhart@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Jason Arhart)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Jeffrey S. Lee's e-mail address
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:35:36 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

Does anybody know it?  My site doesn't seem to recognize smylex.uucp, and I
would like to ask him some questions that nobody reading this group has
answered.

Thanks,

Jason Arhart
jarhart@slate.Mines.Colorado.edu
From: kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Win 3.1 & SB Pro
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:35:32 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Does anyone use Windows 3.1 with the soundblaster pro?
I do and when I exit windows, sometimes it kicks in the adlib sound
noise to the speakers and drops the dos.  The only way I know to stop the
sound is to hit the reset switch on my 386.  Does anyone else have
this problem and/or a solution?
 - Kirk
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: kleinow@engin.umich.edu (Leonard Kleinow)
Subject: Re: Sources on programming MIDI file ?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 19:57:11 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <70233@ut-emx.uucp> andrean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andre Arianto Nurwono) writes:
>Hello. I was just wondering why nobody has programmed the SB
>to be a MIDI instrument by itself, that is, so people can
>participate in exchanging MIDI musicfile compositions without
>actually having ANY MIDI Hardware ! Just the SB !
>Any suggestions ?
>
>						Thanks,
>						Andre N.

Microsoft Windows 3.1.
 
It plays, thru its Media Player utility, .MID files of MIDI data thru
the soundblaster. Great fun.

Leonard Kleinow
kleinow@warhol.art.umich.edu
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: FAQ list for this group?
From: lotter@cc.und.ac.za (Eddie Lotter)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 11:43:21 GMT
Organization: University of Natal (Durban)
Keywords: FAQ


Is anyone compiling a FAQ for this group?

Eddie
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Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: tcobbs@zeus.calpoly.edu (Travis Cobbs)
Subject: .VOC header format
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 03:44:28 GMT


Does anyone have the format for the header info in a .VOC file?  Also, are
they a constant size, and if so, how many bytes long are they?
            Thanks
	  --Travis Cobbs
From: bma7200@zeus.tamu.edu (Bryan A.)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga Format
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:41:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr8.184520.22608@henson.cc.wwu.edu>, n8941750@beaker.cc.wwu.edu (Andrew Hollands) writes...
>I remember seeing on this group a while back some information about a
>program to convert VOC files to an Amiga format (suitable for use as samples
>in .MOD file construction).  As I remember, it involves removing the VOC
>file header (1st 128 bytes?).   There was also reference to a small PD
>utility to accomplish this task.   Can anyone direct me to where I can find
>this utility?   Thanks in advance...            
> 
>Andrew Hollands
>n8941750@henson.cc.wwu.edu

Well, I wrote a small program VOC2MOD to convert VOC digitized sounds to 
MOD format sounds.  If you want, I'll send you source (it's in Turbo Pascal)
and/or the actual program.  By the way, it's freeware.

Bryan Armstrong
BMA7200@ZEUS.TAMU.EDU
From: jarhart@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Jason Arhart)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Can't get channels 4-9 to play
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:22:18 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines


     I am trying to write an interface for the FM music chips on my Sound
Blaster, using for reference the document "Programming the Adlib/Sound
Blaster FM Music Chips" by Jeffrey S. Lee.  I can't get channels 4-9 to
play music.  I am resetting the card first by setting all the registers to
zero, and I am calculating the correct register number for the channels,
based on the chart in the document.  What might I be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Jason Arhart
jarhart@slate.Mines.Colorado.edu
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: s_d_seab@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Stephen D Seabury)
Subject: SB Pro Speaker Connection
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 02:08:52 GMT

I have a SB Pro, and I hooked my speaker up to the Speaker connector
on the board.  The speaker came through disproportionally loud, so I
attached a resistor in parallel.  This helped, but does anyone know of a
way to control the volume using through software?

Derek Seabury
From: lic@physics.usc.edu (Li Chen)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: SB A/D,D/A and DSP info needed
Date: 14 Apr 1992 17:19:31 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.usc.edu

Can anybody provide any technical information on SB's A/D, D/A and
DSP ports? I want to do some experiment with it.
From: robert@solan.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Speech synthesis register on AdLib???
Keywords: Adlib speech
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:55:48 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology


While browsing through Jeffrey S. Lee's magnificent reference on the
AdLib registers, I spotted a register not mentioned anywhere else.

Register 08 is said to be the CSM mode / *Speech synthesis* register.  
What does this mean?  Can the AdLib be used for playing samples or what?  

BTW, I've heard this being done in the Space Ace arcade game (speech on AdLib).



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pain  -  Watch for my VGA/SB demo!
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 snail-mail to Stud.techn. Robert Schmidt, stud.post 170,
               Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, NORWAY
From: azwrkshp@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Karl Rueb)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: FTP Site listing?
Keywords: FTP, SB programs
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:30:21 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: University of Waterloo

What are the best FTP sites for DOS and Windows 
Sound Blaster (Pro) programs?

Karl Rueb
<azwrkshp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
From: gautemyk@idt.unit.no (Gaute Myklebust)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Re: .VOC header format
Date: 10 Apr 92 11:17:12 GMT
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology

In article <1992Apr10.034428.108940@zeus.calpoly.edu>, tcobbs@zeus.calpoly.edu (Travis Cobbs) writes:
|> 
|> Does anyone have the format for the header info in a .VOC file?  Also, are
|> they a constant size, and if so, how many bytes long are they?
|>             Thanks
|> 	  --Travis Cobbs

I picked this up in some newsgroup, but Ive lost the original authors name (sorry). Anyway, here it is:

Byte	
0-18    "Creative_Voice_File"
19-20   1A1A
21      00
22-25   0A012911
26      01                the first block
27-29   The length of sound block -2 in reverse order. e.g., for 44033
byte sound blick, it reads E2AB00
30      Sampling Frequency. The arrangement is strange. But A6=44KHz
31      sound format 00=8 bit, 01 = 4 bit, 02 = 2.5 bit, 03 = 2 bit
32 and thereafter        raw sound datas

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Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Things Not To Do, #462
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 05:56:28 GMT
Organization: Living in a satellite fantasy, waiting for the night to end.

Here's a "don't" for you.  Don't stay up 'til 3:30 in the morning on a
weekday reading ZODIAC in one sitting.  It builds in a particularly
creepy way.

Are there any other exhaustive books on Zodiac aside from that one?  I'm
felling particularly masochistic this week.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
From: ramon@convex.com (Ramon Dominguez)
Subject: Re: Mafia, Gambino Family
Keywords: John Gotti, Wise Guys
Organization: The Arts Babblative and Scribblative
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:13:58 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <1992Apr15.160754.12194@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> marlow@golf.egr.msu.edu (Michael J Marlow) writes:
=>
=>   Has anybody been following the recent trial of John Gotti recently?
=>Basically, are there any other books or good sources of info on his life
=>since the book "Mob Star" about him?
=>    Also, does anybody know of information on the witness protection program
=>(like good books, or magazine articles) that allows wise guys to get a new
=>start on life and avoid prosecution for their crimes.
=>    Basically, I like to follow books about the mafia and how they take over
=>legitament bussiness and exert their influence on politicians, unions, police, etc..
=>    Sometimes real life can be more interesting than Hollywood!
=>
=>               Mike.
=> 

I'd like to recommend "Donnie Brasco" by Joseph Pistone.  It is the first-hand
account of an undercover FBI agent who infiltrates the Mafia, and almost
becomes a "made guy" (a member of the "family").  It is very exciting reading
and covers the mob from the bottom (where "Donnie" makes his first contacts)
up to the highest levels.  Pistone remained undercover for (I believe) *seven*
years on this one case.  He retired from the FBI after the case broke and
entered the witness protection program (along with his family).


-- 
Ramon Dominguez             | "Work is the curse of the drinking class"       
Convex Computer Corporation |                            --Oscar Wilde
ramon@convex.com            | "Ceci n'est pas une .signature file"
From: mannonen@kontu.cc.utu.fi (MANNONEN)
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
Subject: books
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:01:00 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland


	I am still interested in books written about true crime
	from a psychological perspective.
	Any suggestions?

	e-mail: Mannonen@Kontu.utu.fi
From: reykja@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Reykja Sigurdsson)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 08:48:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Dead Criminals Don't Kill
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime

 In response to the statement that dead people don
't kill again...

 while that is obviously true, I would think that most people 
would find the idea of The State having the power of life or 
death rather frightening. Governments are not benevolent. 

 who is it that should commit these executions? 

 How about on-site capital punishment? 

 Incidentally -- yes -- I am a liberal. And I am a liberal who does not 
trust governments. Period. End of paragraph. 

                                             -reykja


Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
From: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
Subject: Re: Dead Criminals Don't Kill
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
	<abeals.702588800@melange> <19882@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 03:40:08 GMT

In article <19882@castle.ed.ac.uk> asr@castle.ed.ac.uk (Angus "Fluffy" Rae) writes:

[...]

   **Please, no flames from the arms lobby. I may have a view of the states
   that is thoroughly incorrect, I only pick stuff up from 60 Minutes
   repeats and Hunter S Thompson articles. 

Which shows exactly how much you know about the "states".
From: goddard@sklib.usask.ca
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
Subject: Books on  Serial Killers
Date: 15 Apr 92 04:36:14 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan

>Can someone give me some good titles on books relating to serial
>killers or rapist? Im very interested in the subject and it would
>be a great help..since I havent found any in any "good" book stores.
>
>bwebster@wam.umd.edu


"Alone with the Devil : famous cases of a courtroom psychiatrist"
by Ronald  Markman, M.D. and Dominick Bosco
Bantam Books, 1989
ISBN: 0-553-28520-3

features quite a good section on "Richard Chase - Vampire of
Sacramento" among other serial killers...

Heather
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
From: bwebster@next06pg2.wam.umd.edu (Bryan Earl Webster)
Subject: Books on Serial Killers
Keywords: murder, rape...serial
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:46:57 GMT


Can someone give me some good titles on books relating to serial
killers or rapist? Im very interested in the subject and it would be 
a great help..since I havent found any in any "good" book stores.

bwebster@wam.umd.edu
From: abeals@autodesk.com (Andrew Scott Beals, KC6SSS)
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
Subject: Dead Criminals Don't Kill
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:33:20 GMT

sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>Florida is one of the most enthusiastic users of the death penalty,
>which its proponents say is a deterrent to crime.  The facts (as
>usual) demonstrate otherwise.

Dead criminals don't kill again.

It is because mealy-mouthed bleeding-heart liberals like you that
we have a legal system that lets the criminals go "Because they
were abused as a child." or "They've learned better now." or
my all-time favorite "He's paid his debt to society."
--
Andrew Scott Beals	abeals@autodesk.com, kc6sss@n6eeg.#nocal.ca.usa.na
147.300MHz+, 440.900MHz+ [ctcss 114.8Hz]
Vivu libere a>u mortu!
From: joanne@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Joanne Petersen)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:09:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Things Not To Do, #462
Organization: Hewlett-Packard PAITC Data Center
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime

And the worst thing is that they never arrested anyone for the killings.
:-(

(There aren't any other books on Zodiac, as far as I know.  There are
a few short mentions about the Zodiac in some of the compendium true
crime books, but nothing as detailed as Greysmith's book.)
From: marlow@golf.egr.msu.edu (Michael J Marlow)
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
Subject: Mafia, Gambino Family
Keywords: John Gotti, Wise Guys
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:07:54 GMT
Reply-To: marlow@golf.egr.msu.edu (Michael J Marlow)
Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University


   Has anybody been following the recent trial of John Gotti recently?
Basically, are there any other books or good sources of info on his life
since the book "Mob Star" about him?
    Also, does anybody know of information on the witness protection program
(like good books, or magazine articles) that allows wise guys to get a new
start on life and avoid prosecution for their crimes.
    Basically, I like to follow books about the mafia and how they take over
legitament bussiness and exert their influence on politicians, unions, police, etc..
    Sometimes real life can be more interesting than Hollywood!

               Mike.
 
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime