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- 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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