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- README for the UltraSound Plug & Play
- December l995
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-
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- It is highly recommended that you read through this readme file and follow
- the given advice in order to take full advantage of your UltraSound Plug &
- Play sound card. If you have further problems regarding game settings,
- please refer to our Games Help (games.txt) for more detailed advice. You
- may find it more handy if you can print this readme file and games help
- file out and refer to them whenever you want advice in configuring your
- UltraSound Plug & Play card or setting up your games.
- ***************************************************************************
-
-
-
- Before installing your UltraSound Plug & Play
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- You must remove any Windows 3.x drivers from you previous sound card before
- installing your UltraSound Plug & Play card. This includes any Windows 3.x
- drivers that you are using within Windows 95. The UltraSound Plug & Play
- will not be set up correctly if these drivers are not removed.
-
-
-
- Rebooting During Setup in Windows 95
- ------------------------------------
-
- It is possible that Windows 95 may ask you to reboot your computer during
- the setup. We recommend that when asked to reboot, you press No. Our setup
- program, when finished, will reboot your machine.
-
-
-
- Joystick Driver (Windows 95)
- ----------------------------
-
- When installing your UltraSound Plug & Play, Windows 95 may prompt you for
- a Joystick Driver. Choose the "Default Windows 95 Driver" option. It may
- then ask you for your Microsoft Windows '95 CD.
-
-
-
- Cakewalk Express
- ----------------
-
- After installing Cakewalk, you will be asked which MIDI devices you wish
- to use for MIDI IN and OUT when you run it for the first time. For your
- MIDI IN device select "UltraSound MIDI IN Port" and for your MIDI OUT
- device choose "MIDI MAPPER".
-
-
-
- Recording from Microphone
- -------------------------
-
- To reduce background noise, the MIC input is muted by default. To enable
- the MIC input, simply load up the UltraSound Mixer applet and un-mute
- the MIC.
-
-
-
- CompuServe Information Service
- ------------------------------
-
- To access the Internet through CompuServe you will need to first install
- WINCIM from the included CD-ROM. This will take you through the necessary
- sign up procedures either as a new user or as someone with an existing
- account. Remember there is a free one month introductory membership
- included with 10 free hours of Internet access.
-
- Once WINCIM has been installed you can then install the Internet Web
- Browser found in "Netlauncher". This is also located on the CD-ROM. You
- will be up and running, ready to surf the net.
-
- We have also included some other great Internet utilities including Real
- Audio and Internet Phone. Real Audio allows you to listen to live or
- pre-recorded audio broadcasts over the Internet. Check out their Web page
- at WWW.REALAUDIO.COM. Internet Phone was the first to bring us real time
- telephone style conversations over the Internet. They also have a Web page
- at WWW.VOCALTEC.COM.
-
- Enjoy your surfing.
-
-
-
- EMM386.EXE
- ----------
-
- We are providing a Microsoft authorized update for the EMM386.EXE file.
- This update includes a fix that will assist our Sound Blaster Emulator
- (IWSBOS) driver to work more effectively.
-
-
-
- UltraSound Compatibility
- ------------------------
-
- Our setup program will set your card up to support UltraSound supported
- applications. In order to be UltraSound compatible, you must have the
- followings:
-
- 1) at least 512k RAM on-board. (Pro versions have 512k RAM
- already installed)
- 2) installed UltraSound RAM support from the CD-ROM.
-
-
-
- PREPGAME.EXE
- ------------
-
- This program, when run, has many features:
-
- 1) It will fix problems with EPIC MEGAGAMES games and UltraSound
- compatibility (Pro version only).
- 2) It will give the user Native (Direct) UltraSound support for
- the UltraSound Plug & Play card from games that use the
- HMI sound drivers.
- 3) It will automatically fix problems with the Pharlap extender.
- 4) It will automatically update version 1.92 of DOS4GW to
- version 1.97.
- 5) It will automatically update the sound drivers for IndyCar.
- 6) It will automatically update the sound drivers for Origin
- games so that they will work with IWSBOS.
-
- We have provided 3 Epic Megagames games on our CD and you must run this
- program before running the game as an UltraSound for the first time.
- Please note that this is for users with the Pro version only.
-
- HMI drivers can be identified by having the following three files:
-
- Hmidet.386
- Hmidrv.386
- Hmimdrv.386
-
- Prepgame should be run before playing any games that you install on your
- computer. You must run prepgame in the directory where the above files
- exist for prepgame to make the necessary changes.
-
-
-
- Sound Blaster Emulation in Windows 95 DOS Box
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- GUS Prompt will set up your UltraSound Plug & Play card with the same
- settings as your Windows 95 environment. This will alleviate any problems
- with running the same game from within Windows 95 or from MS-DOS Mode.
-
-
-
- SETULTRA.EXE
- ------------
-
- This program works with Windows 95. It ensures that your UltraSound Plug &
- Play card has the same settings in MS-DOS Mode as it does in Windows 95.
- This will alleviate any problems with running games is MS-DOS Mode. This
- program is called automatically upon startup of Windows 95.
-
-
-
- IWSBOS
- ------
-
- This program is a Sound Blaster emulation driver. To enable the UltraSound
- Plug & Play's Sound Blaster emulation, you must run IWSBOS before running a
- game. You will also need to run IWSBOS before running the sound setup for
- the game. In the sound setup, select the following settings: General MIDI
- music or Sound Blaster music and Sound Blaster digital.
-
-
-
- MEGAEM
- --------
-
- This program is also a Sound Blaster emulation driver. If IWSBOS (refer to
- section on IWSBOS) does not work with a game, use MEGAEM to enable the
- UltraSound Plug & Play's Sound Blaster emulation. MEGAEM must be run
- before running the game. You will also need to run MEGAEM before running
- the sound setup for the game. In the sound setup, select the following
- settings:
-
- General MIDI music and Sound Blaster digital. If the General MIDI music
- setting does not work, select Sound Blaster music.
-
-
-
- Sound for games (UltraSound Plug & Play Pro Version)
- ----------------------------------------------------
-
- Before running games with your UltraSound Plug & Play Pro:
-
- 1) Run prepgame.exe from your game directory. (refer to PREPGAME.EXE
- section)
- 2) Use GUS Prompt if you want to run the game from a Windows 95 DOS box.
- 3) If the game's list of supported sound cards includes UltraSound, select
- it and play the game
- 4) If the game's list of supported sound cards does not include UltraSound,
- run IWSBOS. (refer to section on IWSBOS)
- 5) If IWSBOS does not work, run MEGAEM (refer to section on MEGAEM)
-
- Note: Unless your card has RAM installed and RAM support is installed from
- the CD, you will hear no sound if you set up your UltraSound Plug & Play
- as an UltraSound.
-
-
-
- Sound for games (UltraSound Plug & Play)
- ----------------------------------------
-
- Before running games with your UltraSound Plug & Play:
-
- 1) Run prepgame.exe from your game directory. (refer to PREPGAME.EXE
- section)
- 2) Use GUS Prompt if you want to run the game from a Windows 95 DOS box.
- 3) Run IWSBOS. (refer to section on IWSBOS)
- 4) If IWSBOS does not work, run MEGAEM (refer to section on MEGAEM)
-
-
-
- EPIC Pinball
- ------------
-
- IWSBOS (Sound Blaster emulation driver) does not work with EPIC Pinball.
- Please use MEGAEM to enable the UltraSound Plug & Play's Sound Blaster
- emulation (refer to MEGAEM section). As well, remember to run prepgame.exe
- before running the game (refer to Sound for Games section).
-
-
-
- IWINIT Not Detecting my Sound Card
- ----------------------------------
-
- Due to the nature of Plug and Play devices, IWINIT may not properly
- initialize your sound card in DOS. If this occurs, you will see a message
- stating that "Interwave Card Not Found". This usually occurs when exiting
- into MS-DOS mode from Windows 95. If this happens, simply run IWINIT once
- or twice more until the card is initialized.
-