Music/sound program compatibility under OS/2? Anyone having probs?

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3 total messages Started by Chris Patti Fri, 02 Oct 1992 04:24

#1305

Author: Chris Patti
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 04:24

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hello, I'm buying a 486DX50 in 3 weeks, I'm currently trying to decide whether
or not to go with MSDOS/Windows (I despise DOS, but want full compatibility
with most windows apps) or OS/2 2.0 (a MUCH BETTER OS for *MY* needs, no flames
:)..

Could anyone who's having problems running sound/music apps under OS/2 let me 
know/post it here? It'd be interesting to find out if IBM's claims are true :)


Thanks,
	Chris Patti
	feoh@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Re: Music/sound program compatibility under OS/2? Anyone having probs?

#1306

Author: John H. Kim
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 06:52

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feoh@Gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Patti) writes:

>hello, I'm buying a 486DX50 in 3 weeks, I'm currently trying to decide whether
>or not to go with MSDOS/Windows (I despise DOS, but want full compatibility
>with most windows apps) or OS/2 2.0 (a MUCH BETTER OS for *MY* needs, no flames
>:)..

>Could anyone who's having problems running sound/music apps under OS/2 let me 
>know/post it here? It'd be interesting to find out if IBM's claims are true :)

Well, I'm on a "lowly" 386/33 32k cache 8MB ISA 160 Meg 16ms ESDI drive
with a SBPro.  (Whew, what a mouthful)

The only problem I've had with games using the SB is the digitized stuff
on Falcon 3.0.  A couple other games (Wing Commander, Wolfenstein 3D)
using digitized stuff works OK.  I've had no problems with music other
than pauses or slowdowns during heavy disk activity.  Playing MODs with
WOWII under OS/2 gave some barely noticeable (but nonetheless irritating)
pauses between each portion of music sent through the buffer.  The MIDI
program and all the other neat stuff that comes with the SBPro works
just fine (except for the slowdown mentioned above).

I would say with a 486DX50, if you get at least 16 MB (to cut down on
swapping and disk activity) and possibly EISA and/or SCSI-2, you should
be safe 98% of the time.  You could use boot manager to boot a DOS partition
just in case you ever run into problems.
-- 
John H. Kim                 | (This space to be filled when I
jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever 
uunet!jarthur!jokim         | to use as a disclaimer)

Re: Gravis Ultrasound

#1311

Author: Darran Edmundson
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 22:07

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adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:

>So... Did it really come out this time?  Is it in anybody's machine, singing
>away happily?  What's the scoop?!

Not yet.  Apparently they are still shrink wrapping in the factory (according
to the salesman Chris and the owner of Software Alley here in Vancouver).  My
name is 2nd on the list at SA which will likely have them late today or
early tommorrow.  I wouldn't expect delivery before early next week if you
live outside of the Vancouver area (just a guess).

-- 

Darran Edmundson
darran@chaos.phys.sfu.ca

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