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TURTLE BEACH MONTE CARLO Installation Utility for Windows95 (Version 4.00.36) 08 09 96 SOFTWARE PACKAGE CONTENTS The Windows95 Monte Carlo software package contains (1) 3.5" 1.44M diskette, for the installation of DOS mode and Windows95 drivers. INSTALLATION PROCESS It is recommended that you print this out and have a hard copy in front of you while installing the drivers. If you installed the beta drivers provided by David Gasior, be sure that you remove these first, before starting the installation. INSTALLING THE DRIVERS 1. Make sure you have the driver disk handy. If you downloaded this driver package, then you need to copy all the files in the ZIP on to a floppy disk. The driver should not be installed from a hard disk directory. 2. If Windows95 is running, select the START button and select SHUT DOWN, then 'Shut Down the Computer'. When you are clear to do so, power off the computer, and plug the Monte Carlo card into a slot. Even if the card is already installed, powering down is still a good idea. Leave the computer off for about a minute. Turning the computer off and then right back on can damage the peripherals inside. 3. Power on the computer. While it is booting up, hit the F8 key as soon as you see the message "Starting Windows95...". From the menu, select 'Safe Mode'. It will take a few minutes, but once you've entered Safe Mode, go to the Device Manager and double-click on 'Sound, Video, and Game Controllers'. Make sure that there is nothing listed there (aside from sound peripherals that you may still have in the system). Even though you may have uninstalled them before, Windows95 has the nasty habit of letting some drivers hang around. When you are finished, close the Device Manager. Click on the START button, then SHUT DOWN. Select 'Restart the computer' and let it reboot. 4. Once you enter Windows95 again, double-click on the My Computer icon and then on the Control Panel icon. Then double-click on the Add New Hardware icon. 5. When Windows95 asks you to search for new hardware, select 'no' and proceed to the next window. 6. Windows 95 will display a list of device categories that you can install from. Select 'Sound, Video, and Game Controllers', and then 'Next' to proceed. 7. Windows 95 will display another list of manufacturers and their products. Place Disk 1 (of this driver package) in your floppy drive, and click on the 'Have Disk...' button. It may bring up a dialog box asking which drive the disk is in. Select the drive the disk is in. 8. Once the disk is read, Windows95 will bring up a list of devices you can install. Each must be installed individually, though all do not have to be installed for the Monte Carlo to operate. Turtle Beach Monte Carlo This option is for the digital audio portion of the Monte Carlo. This is what provides the sounds for system events and sound effects in games. Turtle Beach Monte Carlo Joystick Port This option is for hooking a joystick up to the Monte Carlo. This will work only once the SNDINIT program has run to enable the joystick port. Turtle Beach Monte Carlo MPU-401 Port This option is for attaching a daughterboard to the Monte Carlo, such as the Turtle Beach Rio or the Yamaha DB50XG. By adding one of these, you will have realistic instrument sounds when playing MIDI files and games. This will only work once the SNDINIT program has run to enable the MPU-401 port. Turtle Beach Monte Carlo IDE CD ROM Controller This option is for those who are using the Monte Carlo as the controller for their IDE CD ROM drive. If your CD ROM drive is hooked up to the motherboard or another EIDE card, do not install this option. - Turtle Beach Monte Carlo Mitsumi CD ROM Controller - Turtle Beach Monte Carlo Panasonic CD ROM Controller - Turtle Beach Monte Carlo Sony CD ROM Controller These options are for those who are using the Monte Carlo as the controller for their proprietary CD ROM drive. If your CD ROM drive is hooked up to another interface card, do not install this option. 9. Click on the Turtle Beach Monte Carlo and then click on 'Next' to install the drivers. Windows95 will allow you to view the settings (via the 'Details' button) that it has determined will work for your system. Don't worry; you can change those later if you want to. Windows95 will then copy some files from the floppy disk then prompt you to finish. Click on 'Finish' and you will be asked to restart your system. Select 'yes' and restart. 10. When the computer reboots, a new program called SND4DOS will run before Windows95 loads. This is a one time only occurrence. It will ask you if you want to set up the Monte Carlo for Real Mode DOS. This is for those instances when you have a game or other program requiring sound that refuses to play under Windows95. It is also necessary to enable/disable the joystick port, MPU-401, and CD ROM interfaces on the Monte Carlo. Select 'Yes' to install these drivers. 11. When it comes time to pick the CD ROM attached to your Monte Carlo, you have many options. If your CD ROM drive is listed, you can either select it from the list (and have a driver installed for it) or if it is already installed, select 'Other' (and just have the Monte Carlo CD ROM interface activated, but no specific driver installed). Even if you will never use your CD ROM drive in Real Mode DOS, you must select the type of CD ROM drive you have, or the interface on the Monte Carlo will not be activated and therefore, will not work in Windows95. There are four options provided, all starting with 'Other' and ending with the controller (IDE, Mitsumi, Panasonic, or Sony). Choose one of these to set up just the controller, but no driver. In other words, if you have a CD ROM drive hooked to the Panasonic port, but there is no driver listed for your type, then you would select OTHER (PANASONIC) to enable the Panasonic interface, but not install a driver. If your CD ROM is being controlled by something other than the Monte Carlo (such as a motherboard IDE or another controller) select 'None' from the list to disable the interface of the Monte Carlo. 12. Once the SND4DOS program completes, it will reboot the computer and go back into Windows95. You can then use the Device Manager to make any changes to the digital audio settings that you need to. 13. To install any of the other Monte Carlo options, follow the above steps 4 - 8 again. This time, though, you will highlight whichever option you desire and click on 'Next' to install the drivers. When you are prompted to restart (or shut down) the computer, select 'no' and you can continue to add the other options. Once you are done adding, select 'yes' to restart the computer. SECTION I CHANGES TO YOUR SYSTEM Once the SND4DOS programs runs and reboots the computer, your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files will be changed. These are the lines that have been added/modified. CONFIG.SYS DEVICE=C:\SOUND16\CDSETUP.SYS /T:? (if the Monte Carlo is acting as the CD ROM controller) DEVICE=C:\SOUND16\CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000 (if you selected your CD ROM from the list - file name will be different depending on CD ROM selected) The CDSETUP.SYS driver sets up the interface on the Monte Carlo to whichever of the four controllers is needed. The syntax for this line is as follows ... DEVICE=[drive:]\[directory]\CDSETUP.SYS /T:[M/S/P/I/X] /P:[addr] /I:[IRQ] /D:[DMA] [drive] = drive where you have the driver installed [directory] = directory where the driver is located [M/S/P/I/X] = M is Mitsumi S is Sony P is Panasonic I is IDE drive X is disabled [address] = Port address for CD-ROM (320, 330, 340, 360) [IRQ] = Interrupt number (5,7,9,10,11) [DMA] = DMA channel (0, 1, 3) For example, the following line sets up the interface for a Mitsumi CD ROM ... DEVICE=C:\SOUND16\CDSETUP.SYS /T:M /P:340 /I:10 If you did not specify the /I or /D options, CDSETUP will automatically choose the default setting for the CD-ROM type your have specified. - For Mitsumi, the IRQ is 10 and DMA is disabled. - For Sony, they are both disabled. - FOR Panasonic, they are both disabled. AUTOEXEC.BAT: PATH=C:\SOUND16 (appended) SET SOUND16=C:\SOUND16 C:\SOUND16\SNDINIT /B SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 (settings may differ from these) SYSTEM.INI All changes to Windows will be made in the Registry, and nothing will appear in the SYSTEM.INI file. All previous entries will be deleted, hopefully. SECTION II SNDINIT.EXE - WHAT IT DOES SNDINIT is the new initialization/configuration program. This program runs at bootup to initialize the Monte Carlo. You can also run the program from the command line to change the Monte Carlo's settings. You can type the following command at the DOS prompt to get a list of parameters for the SNDINIT program. SNDINIT /? SECTION III VOLTSR.EXE - WHAT IT DOES The volume control memory resident program, VOLTSR.EXE, allows you to change volume using hot keys while you are in Real Mode DOS. The program must be run first for the hot keys to be act- ivated. The hot keys are Ctrl-Alt-U Raises the volume Ctrl-Alt-D Lowers the volume Ctrl-Alt-M Mute SECTION IV KNOWN PROBLEMS AND WORKAROUNDS 1) Full Duplex mode is available using these drivers. EnchancedFull Duplex mode is not available. This means that the WAV files you are working with must have the same sample settings (kHz, bit depth, and mono/stereo). 2) V-Synth is not available with these drivers. V-Synth was actually developed by Intel and named SoftNote. It is not compatible with Windows95, and at this time, Intel has not released new drivers for it. SECTION V SOUND BLASTER SUPPORT UNDER WINDOWS 95 DOS BOX With these drivers, the Monte Carlo can now act as both a Sound Blaster and Windows Sound System card under Windows. When setting up your DOS games, be sure that the sound card settings are the same as the settings that Windows95 assigns if this game will be played in a DOS window. You can have different settings for SB in Windows95 and Real Mode DOS if you wish, but games played under Windows95 will use the settings defined in the Device Manager. These may be configured at any time, and maybe changed as often as necessary for games that require different settings. Many DOS games have a difficult time running under Windows95. They were not designed to do it. To ensure the most ideal environment for these games, it is recommended you modify the Properties of the shortcuts that you create for each DOS game. On the "Misc" tab of the properties sheet, you can adjust the Idle Sensitivity property to High, and deselect all other options that may be checked. You can control the volume of sound in DOS programs running in a window. These will not work on some games, notably the ones that run in protected mode, such as DOOM and Rise of the Triad. The following are the hot keys to use. <CTRL>+<ALT>+M = Decrease Master Volume <SHIFT>+<ALT>+M = Increase Master Volume <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+M = Mute Master Volume <CTRL>+<ALT>+V = Decrease Digital Sound Volume <SHIFT>+<ALT>+V = Increase Digital Sound Volume <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+V = Mute Digital Sound Volume <CTRL>+<ALT>+F = Decrease FM Music Volume <SHIFT>+<ALT>+F = Increase FM Music Volume <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+F = Mute FM Music Volume SECTION VI FULL DUPLEX SUPPORT The Monte Carlo is a good sound card to use for applications like InternetPhone(tm), because of its full duplex capabilities. To enable Full Duplex mode, go to the Control Panel and select the Multimedia icon. Select the Advanced tab, and click on the Monte Carlo under Audio Devices, and then Properties, then settings. Be sure that the "Single Mode DMA" option is not checked. You must also make sure that you have selected a configuration that has two DMA channels being used. They must be different and paired as follows. Playback DMA: 0 1 3 Recording DMA: 1 0 0 This driver also does not allow EnhancedFull duplex mode. It will only work as Full duplex mode. The difference between the two is that Full duplex mode allows you simultaneous record and playback when the two files in use are set to the same sampling rate. In other words, both files would need to be 22kHz/16bit/stereo or both would need to be 11kHz/8bit/mono, etc. EnhancedFull duplex mode allows you simultaneous record and playback with the files being at differing sampling rates. Since the Monte Carlo does not have a DSP, this puts an enormous amount of work on the system's CPU. It has not been implemented in this driver release, and may or may not be implemented in an upcoming release. SECTION VII LEGAL STUFF IN NO EVENT SHALL TURTLE BEACH SYSTEMS OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION; DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS OF ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT, EVEN IF TURTLE BEACH SYSTEMS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. Portions of the code contained in this driver release are copyright by Microsoft and OPTi. There is no futher information at this time.