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- SHOOT THEM TROUBLES WITH VARMINT'S EITTRIS!
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- Your prsonal guide to overcoming hassles and problems with
- Varmint's EITtris version 1.22a.
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- I want to mess around with the configurations.
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- - Great! Edit EITTRIS.CFG. It is self-documenting. You can play around
- with all kinds of stuff in there, like what music gets played, music
- volume, game speed, play options, etc... You should know, however,
- that if you make any changes to play options, high scores will be
- disabled.
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- EITtris crashes! What do I do?
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- - It might be the graphics. EITtris uses VESA SVGA graphics, and some
- cards do a terrible job of implementing the VESA standard. There are
- three tings you can try:
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- 1) edit EITTRIS.CFG and uncomment the "HIRES" line. This will try
- to run EITtris in 1024x768 graphics mode. For some reason there
- are some cards out there that can handle 1024x768, but not 800x600.
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- 2) Try downloading a great shareware program called UNIVBE.
- It has been known to fix a lot of problems. The web site for it is:
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- http://www.scitechsoft.com/univbe.html
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- 3) Try talking to your video card vendor. They might have a video
- BIOS upgrade available.
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- - It might be your sound card. EITtris uses only Sound Blaster and
- Sound Blaster compatable sound cards. Try these things:
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- 1) Make sure your BLASTER environment variable is set, and that it is set
- correctly. Type 'set' at the DOS prompt and look for a variable
- called 'BLASTER'. If you don't see one, you'll need to add a line
- for it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. e.g. If your Sound Blaste
- uses I/O address 220h, IRQ 5, DMA channel 1, and is a SB2.0 or
- better, this line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT should work fine:
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- set BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3
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- The T part indicates the level of sound blaster you have.
- T4 = SBPro2.0, T5=ProMCV, T6=SB16
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- 2) Edit EITtris.cfg and uncomment SBVERSIONFIX. This forces EITtris
- to assume your have the oldest (most compatable) type of Sound
- Blaster card.
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- 3) If #1 or #2 don't help, probably the only thing you can do is edit
- eittris.cfg and uncomment either the PCSOUND or NOSOUND paramters.
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- Hey, I'm not getting any sound from my sound card when I play EITtris!
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- - Edit EITtris.cfg and make sure that the NOSOUND and PCSOUND options
- are not uncommented.
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- - If you are running WIN95, make sure there are no other applications
- open that use the sound blaster, or try running EITtris in DOS
- compatability mode.
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- I can't play my favorite MOD's and S3M's in EITtris!
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- - EITtris has only a limited ammount of memory for modules. When
- you run EITtris, look in the ABOUT... section to see the largest
- music file size that you can load. (Actually, multiply that number
- by about 0.65 to get the file size of the largest module you can
- load. ie: 180KB is really 180 * .65 = 117 Kb)
-
- Booting from a "clean" DOS boot disk is usually a good way to free
- up some more of the memory space under 640Kb.
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- Holy Cow this is a great game! I can't possibly send you enough money!
-
- - That's OK. $50 will do.
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- My favorite S3M sounds like $##$#%!
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- - Varmint's Audio tools (VAT) generally does very well at playing back MOD's
- and S3M's faithfully, but at this point, it is possible there is
- still a bug or two lurking in there. Please email me and tell me where
- I can get the offending module.
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- - There are a few sound systems that aren't happy with VAT. In that
- case, I apologize, and suggest that you run EITtris with the PC speaker.
- Later versions should be better at the sound stuff.
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- My midi files don't work with EITtris any more!
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- - That's 'cause I took out the midi code to make more room for MOD's
- and S3M's. The midi stuff sounded bad anyway.
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- The game is slow and jerky.
-
- - If you are on a slow computer (486/33 or less), you might want to
- chop the SAMPLERATE parameter in ivan.cfg down to 11000, or you
- could just choose PC sounds.
-
- - If you are on a really slow computer (386/16), then you have my
- condolences. New, low-end Pentium motherboards run around $200.
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-
-
- I type "eddie2" and nothing happens!
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- - Isn't that interesting...
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