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Executor 1.99q10 -- QAPLA'! (Success!)
Once again, ARDI has completely and utterly "WOW"ed me. I just installed
E/D 1.99q10 on my machine and IT IS SWEET!!! Whatever you're doing with
your new sound library, keep it up (aside from fixing bugs, of course) --
hte new sound sounds GREAT, and is much smoother, especially in the
arcade/shoot-em-up type games I play e.g. Solarian, Maelstrom, etc. And
it actually seems to run at a decent pace under Win95, except of course
for lacking the VESA 2.0 features (for some reason, I can only run UniVBE
under straight DOS...)
The new sound code seems to initialize cleaner. Prior versions would
always cause my speakers to make a LOUD **POP** noise when Executor first
starts up, which really grated on my nerves (kinda like someone drawing
their nails down a chalkboard). This does not occur in 1.99q10. Yes!
I'm not sure why others are having problems with the new sound code, but
I certainly am not. It works like a charm for me. I have a genuine SB16
Basic card (a fairly recent model, from last year I think) at I/O 220,
IRQ 10, DRQ 1/6, and MIDI I/O 330. (this is due to the Adaptec SCSI and
network cards I have in my machine, which insist on taking DRQ 5 and I/O
300, respectively). My BLASTER environment variable is set, and I run
the SB16 programs (SB16SET and SBCONFIG) from my AUTOEXEC.BAT. Perhaps
some of the folks having problems are forgetting to set these things up,
or can't (For example, I'm not sure if SB clone cards' SETUP programs set
up a BLASTER environment variable, etc.) I disabled these for the
longest time, since I figured that Win95 was properly initializing the
sound card and all... until a few of my DOS-based games started losing
their sound, that is.
Anyway, keep up the good work ARDI!
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