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From: mchstu01@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Disney Sound Source tech info
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:14:32 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town



I am looking for some technical info concerning the Disney sound source D/A 
board used in some games.

I would like to know how it is latched and what pin on the parallel port
connector is used to do this.  I would also like to know the process 
used by software to automatically detect this device.

The reason I am asking is that I have built the stereo-on-one board for
ModPlay 2.19b and would like to convert it to also work with games that 
use the Disney Sound Source, such as Castle Wolfenstein.

Thanks in advance

Stuart Michie
University of Cape Town

email : MCHSTU01@UCTVAX.UCT.AC.ZA
From: cnd@castle.ed.ac.uk (C N Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: CMF --> MIDI convertor - again...
Date: 10 Nov 92 10:10:29 GMT
Followup-To: C.Duncan@ed.ac.uk
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service

In article <1992Nov8.113654.8409@discus.technion.ac.il>, s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il (Yaniv Golan) writes:
|> The person who has sent me a CMF --> MIDI convertor the previous week -
|> please send it again - Somehow i have managed to lose it... I need
|> it quite desprately. Sorry for the trouble,
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> Yaniv Golan
|> E-Mail : s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il

I too would be intersted in a CMF -> MIDI converter. Is it available by anon ftp from anywhere?

Charles Duncan
C.Duncan@ed.ac.uk
From: hien@Think.COM (Hien Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Help! -- My PAS-16 is noisy
Date: 10 Nov 1992 19:38:21 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: marley.think.com

In article <1992Nov10.134532.8961@cci632.cci.com>, pjb@cci632.cci.com (Phil Busardo) writes:
|> In article <1dlvk8INNfg1@CATEGORY.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> lu-chien-ping@cs.yale.edu (Chien-Ping Lu) writes:
|> >
|> >After I installed my PAS-16 card, some scratchy noises keep coming out 
|> 
|> I've got a similar problem.  I'm getting an intermediate scatchy sound.
|> 
|> The sound, however, is only coming out of one channel.  Is this the same
|> 

I think I got a PAS-PLUS (it came with the NEC Multimedia Gallery with minimal 
documentation).  It is mostly quiet up to about 75% of max volume.  However,
once in a while, I get what sounds like feedback.  A high pitch whine would 
slowly grow in volume.  It may say for a few to tens of seconds and then 
disapear.  Does anyone know what causes this?

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From: swkgohw@nuscc.nus.sg (Sir Launcelot Du Lac)
Subject: NEC CDR-84 SCSI Controller Card
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:50:01 GMT

Hail People!

I've ordered the NEC CDR-84 with the SCSI controller card.  Just like to
find out a few things before the package arrives.  Which IRQ and DMA
wouldst the SCSI controller card or cd-rom take by default?  Can they be
adjusted if it clashed with my other devices.  Currently, my SB Pro
takes IRQ 5 and DMA 1, and my Microsoft Mouse uses IRQ 7.  Would these
be problematic?

Also, I'll be trying to hook the internal audio out on the CDR-84 to the
CD-in on my SB Pro.  Would there be a problem findind a connecting wire
to do this?  The CD-in on the SB Pro is a 4 pin thingaming, I don't know
what the config is for the audio-out on the NEC CDR-84.  There was some
entry on this awhile back but I missed it.

Eagerly awaiting enlightenment.


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From: chri4000@w254zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Christian Klass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: What is SB Pro 4.0????
Date: 13 Nov 1992 11:35:13 GMT
Organization: ZRZ der TU-Berlin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: w254zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de


Hello,
since I own a SB Pro (The `newer one` with OPL-3), I now
wonder that there is already a new one out: the Soundblaster Pro 4.0
by CPS (hope this is right).
Well, what is the difference between this card and mine?????

Greetings,
           Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: sgil@netcom.com (Steve Gilbert)
Subject: Re: Help for MOD files
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:41:07 GMT

macross@wam.umd.edu (Steve Ji-Chang Hong) writes:

: 	Can anyone tell me where I can ftp some .MOD sound files?
: 	Thanks

The following sites have very good libraries of music files:

		info.brad.ac.uk
		saffron.inset.com
		snake.mcs.kent.edu

A large collection of Windows files, including lots of sound related
stuff, can be found on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.
--
Steve Gilbert					(sgil@netcom.com)
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From: norlin@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.music,alt.binaries.sounds.d,alt.sb.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Okay, ModEdit 3.01 available (was Re: MODEDIT 3.0 now available)
Keywords: MODEDIT 3.0, MOD editor, IBM, module
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:02:39 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

fuzzbox@world.std.com (U.F.Orb) writes:

>norlin@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) writes:

>>ModEdit 3.0 is completed.  It is currently available on:

>>ftp.uu.net: /tmp/moded300.lzh
>>saffron.inset.com: /pub/incoming/moded300.lzh

Location update:

saffron.inset.com: /pub/players/moded301.lzh
ftp.brad.ac.uk: /incoming/safe/moded301.lzh

>why did these two sites only have moded301.lzh and not moded300?
>I haven't tried running it yet, but let's just hope it's not a 
>trojan, shall we?

Unfortunately, I discovered a very minor error hours after releasing
ModEdit 3.0 (I hate it when that happens).  So, I fixed it and immediately
reuploaded it.

So, official word: ModEdit 3.01 is the latest version.

Norman Lin
norlin@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
From: pjb@cci632.cci.com (Phil Busardo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Help! -- My PAS-16 is noisy
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:45:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cci632.1992Nov10.134532.8961
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY

In article <1dlvk8INNfg1@CATEGORY.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> lu-chien-ping@cs.yale.edu (Chien-Ping Lu) writes:
>
>After I installed my PAS-16 card, some scratchy noises keep coming out 
>of PAS-16's stereo out port, but when I heard from CD-ROM dirve's headset
>jack, there is no such noise. I checked the manual, and found that the noises
>may come from the oscillator on the motherboard. I followed the instructions
>on the manual which suggests I put T:1 to the end of MVSOUND.SYS to use hte
>on-board oscillator. However, nothing changed. Noises still coming out.
>Can anybody, especially PAS-16 owners, on the net give me soem help?
>
>--CP

I've got a similar problem.  I'm getting an intermediate scatchy sound.

The sound, however, is only coming out of one channel.  Is this the same

for you?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: PAS16 and my modem!!
Reply-To: fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:40:29 GMT


|>
|>I have a PAS 16 and for some reason when the card's driver is installed, it
|>makes a mess of my modem.  My term program (qmodem) will send out the dial
|>command and the modem responds to the command, but it will register nothing on
|>the screen.  Even though a carrier is on and the modem CD light is on, the
|>program doesn't recgonize the carrier.
|>
|>Every thing is fine when I REM out the driver for the sound card.  
|>---IRQ/DMA are set at 3
|>
|>Can someone tell me how to fix this?
|>
|>Jay
|>

Isn't IRQ3 the IRQ for COM2?  If you have the modem on COM2, that is probably
what is happening.

Burns
From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:34:55 GMT
Subject: Re: PAS16 I/O address space is a mess
Organization: Center for Primal Scream Therapy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard, duke@dion.trl.oz.au writes:

> People have queried the ravenous IRQ appetite of the PAS 16, but have
> you seen the I/O port list? Dozens of addresses splattered over the
> whole address space. Why coudn't they be tidy and allocate one or two 
> blocks of contiguous space? There seems a great danger of I/O conflict
> with other hardware the way they have done it

     With one or two large contiguous address spaces, the PAS16 would
virtually be guaranteed to conflict with something, somewhere.  By
spreading the addresses about, there's probably a slightly lesser chance
of a conflict.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:39:13 EST
From: Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: SBPro file formats and MCI [22] C N Duncan

In article <27777@castle.ed.ac.uk>, C.Duncan@ed.ac.uk says:
>
>   I see posts about converting between different
>   file formats but it appears to me that there are (at least) two
>completely different types of sound files (I use 'sound' in its broadest
>   sense) -
>      a) digitised sound at one of several sampling rates/resolutions
>      b) MIDI synthesiser sounds
>   I assume I can, in principle, convert between any type a) sounds or any
>   type b) sounds but not between a) and b).

Actually, you can convert from your b) type sounds to a) type sounds quite
easily, such as converting a .MOD file to a raw sound file then to other
formats.  In fact, every time you play a .MOD file on a SB, a PAS, a parallel
port DAC, or even your speaker, the program that plays the .MOD is actually
converting the file into a raw sound file format, and feeding it directly
to your sound device.  It should not be that much harder to direct the output
to disk.  Of course the files may be SUPER long....:-)

Sorry I don't know about .CFM files.  I think the Adlib card used to use
.CMF files, so if that's what you're talking about....

       Matthew E. Bernold             MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
         <<APOCALYPSE>>                  meb@haydn.psu.edu
From: dmatiske@nd.edu (David Matiskella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: The GUS and software...
Date: 12 Nov 92 02:43:32 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Organization: University of Notre Dame

In article <BxKHxF.K6@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca
(Yuri Lee) wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knows the number of the people to contact  in
order to obtain programming information for the GUS? I know some posted
about thier being a developer package available but I los that posting. Any
help will be appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Stuart M Lichtenthal)
Subject: Using the PC Speaker under DOS
Summary: Windows 3.1 speaker.drv wonderful, want to use in DOS
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:33:40 GMT

Dear Internet:

The only nice sounding speaker driver I've ever heard is the
one Microsoft released with Windows 3.1.  I wonder if there is
a way to make this driver work with straight DOS programs?

Does anyone know how to get that speaker driver to work with
DOS?  Or know of an easy way to write simple DOS programs which
make use of the speaker?

Stuart Lichtenthal smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: yoshi@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Yoshi the Dino.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: ScreamTracker (.STM) file-format
Keywords: ScreamTracker
Date: 8 Nov 92 00:34:46 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

I am currently looking for documentation on how a ".STM" file is
setup. For those of you who "dont know" what an STM file is, it
stands for "Scream Tracker".

	Please, if you have documentation on how these types of
files are setup, MAIL ME THAT DOCUMENTATION!!!
	I am in desperate need of information. Thanx!!! I hope
I can count on you... cause usually IBM's arent too reliable.
No offense. :)
						Yoshi.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: bjornhk@dhhalden.no (BJORN HAAVARD KLEVEN)
Subject: Re: The GUS and software...
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:48:02 GMT

In article <721500385.1477.0@unix7.andrew.cmu.edu> Kevin Wengcheong Cheng <kc3b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:46:25 -0500 
>From: Kevin Wengcheong Cheng <kc3b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>Subject: The GUS and software...
>OK, so everyone's chattering great things about the GUS's potential.
>But noone has said anything about software support for it right now
>and in the near future...
>Could someone point out which companies ( ie games ) are supporting the
>card and if/when/how much a developer's kit will be available?!?

Currently, a lot of companies are planning to support it (e.g. Sierra On-
Line), but nothing has actually materialized yet. Support in it's most basic 
form isn't more than a driver, though, so I don't think it will be too far 
away. 

SDK's for the GUS is currently not available from Gravis, but soon a new SDK 
will be released wich won't require the user to sign the infamous Non-
disclosure agreement. This new SDK will also be esasier to use, I understand.
>
>It's a tough choice between getting a card for gaming and synthing...

Yep, but I'm sure the GUS will be supported in most future games. Remember 
that the card is very new.

>
>/<evin
>ps. which also brings to mind... I guess the Multisound is a bit overpriced
>for gaming, huh?

The MultiSound isn't usable for gaming at all, since it isn't supported by 
any game! The GUS, however, is compatible with most games thru SBOS, and 
will be supported by a lot of games in the future. The Multisound probably 
won't since it is still (in spite of Turtle Beach' not ver dramatic price-
cut on an already overpriced product) a typical high-end product with a 
small (non-gaming) customer base.

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From: ming@werple.apana.org.au (Ming Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Unreal Demo
Date: 7 Nov 1992 18:20:50 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

a5544@moncol.monmouth.edu (JONATHAN ALFERNESS) writes:
>Once again, I am writting to ask if anyone knows why I am unable to do a
>get on an ftp of Unreal... I tried to FTPS and am sure that I have enough space
>on my end, but anyway I do it I get a "File too Large" error...

I had this problem with files over 1024 Kb, it was due to the system limiting
the maximum size of any single file that I was allowed to create (I think).

Unfortunately I do not know of a way around this (short of becoming the
superuser!).  You could try to get the file from a BBS...

Anyone out there know if it is possible to FTP a file in parts?!?


Catch ya,

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From: fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: Midi Hum   *** Please Help ***
Reply-To: fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:52:12 GMT


In article <1992Nov13.141455.23635@cci632.cci.com>, pjb@cci632.cci.com (Phil
Busardo) writes:
 
>When I run midi into my keyboard, a Casio FZ-1 (don't let the name fool
>you, this is a great keyboard!) it will playback fine.  But, when I    
>attempt to run midi out of the keyboard I get this loud humming sound.
>The PAS will still record midi from the board, and the sound doesn't 
>affect anything, but it is still pretty annoying.  Once I've finished
>recording midi, I usually just unplug the midi out cord from my keyboard
>to get rid of the noise.  Anyone know where the hell this sound is coming
>from.  I had the same exact problem (same noise too) with my Blaster.

It sounds to me like maybe you have a ground loop of some sort.  You might
try reversing the power plug on the FZ-1 (is it a bug?  that might not be
possible).  An isolation transformer might help to, or a powerline noise
filter.

Burns
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.music,alt.binaries.sounds.d,alt.sb.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.ibm.pc
From: fuzzbox@world.std.com (U.F.Orb)
Subject: Re: MODEDIT 3.0 now available
Keywords: MODEDIT 3.0, MOD editor, IBM, module
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:44:59 GMT

norlin@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) writes:

>ModEdit 3.0 is completed.  It is currently available on:

>ftp.uu.net: /tmp/moded300.lzh
>saffron.inset.com: /pub/incoming/moded300.lzh

why did these two sites only have moded301.lzh and not moded300?
I haven't tried running it yet, but let's just hope it's not a 
trojan, shall we?
-- 
Jason Bilsky   fuzzbox@world.std.com 
"Got enough guilt to start my own religion."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.music,alt.binaries.sounds.d,al
From: tlhouse@nyx.cs.du.edu (fiver)
Subject: Re: MODEDIT 3.0 now available
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: MODEDIT 3.0, MOD editor, IBM, module
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 00:52:38 GMT


Doing a conversion between piano-roll and standard musical notation would
be fairly difficult, although I think there is a program out there
(usually goes by the name of MUSICI*.???, called Musician) that will take
a ROL file and print it in standard staff form .. 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: rbarclay@trentu.ca (ROSS BARCLAY)
Subject: Parity Errors Because of PAS16???
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Trent University Computer Services Department
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:01:00 GMT


I have recently purchased a PAS16 am am extremely happy with it.

However, I was having a hard time juggling my IRQ's and DMA's and once I 
got that straightened out I started getting memory parity errors as Windows 
was about the load/display the desktop.

I just assumed that my motherboard memory was bad, until I heard that the 
PAS16 can generate these errors. I would really appreciate any help I could 
get. BTW, the parity errors occur only about 1/5 of the time that I load 
Windows. 

In windows, my DMA is 7 and my IRQ is 10.

Thanks.

___________________________________

 Ross Barclay - RBARCLAY@TRENTU.CA
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From: norlin@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.music,alt.binaries.sounds.d,alt.sb.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MODEDIT 3.0 now available
Summary: MODEDIT 3.0 is here
Keywords: MODEDIT 3.0, MOD editor, IBM, module
Date: 8 Nov 92 09:44:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: constell.1992Nov8.094411.3153
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

ModEdit 3.0 is completed.  It is currently available on:

ftp.uu.net: /tmp/moded300.lzh
saffron.inset.com: /pub/incoming/moded300.lzh
ftp.brad.ac.uk: /incoming/moded300.lzh

I will upload to more permanent sites (such as SIMTEL) as soon as possible.

ModEdit 3.0 is a shareware Amiga MOD file editor for the IBM PC family of
computers, supporting all video cards and many output devices (including
the PC speaker).  MOD files, for those who don't know, are 4 channel
digitized music files.

ModEdit 3.0's features include:

   o  Easy, intuitive piano-roll entry of notes
   o  Mouse support
   o  Dropdown menu interface
   o  Sound output to PC speaker, Soundblaster, D/A converter on LPT port,
      or compatible devices
   o  Online help for editor keys
   o  Single keystroke switching between major program functions

Registered version includes:

   o  Real time recording via keyboard
   o  EGA/VGA 43/50 line support
   o  Track tracing
   o  Automatic saving of all samples in a MOD

ModEdit 3.0 is, I believe, the easiest and most intuitive MOD editor for
the IBM.  Try it, and let me know what you think.

Norman Lin, author of ModEdit 3.0
norlin@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
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