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Michael Fulbright (msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu) wrote:
> I am announcing the release of a OS/2 V2.0 device driver for
> the Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro. I have a brief description
> of the driver posted below. I am looking for people who want to
> test the driver for me on their systems. The driver is
> available via anonymous ftp on

I downlaoded and installed the driver last night and it seems to work fine.

I do not have a SBPRO so I only tested the device driver. All you need to
do is copy a sound file to SBDSP$ and it plays. The VOC header causes a
very small (almost unnoticeable) 'pop' as the header is 'played'.

One thing to remember, which is not in the docs is if copying files to the
device, use the /b option otherwise the copy stops at the first EOF (I
think there may be one in the VOC header!!!)

so 'copy filename.voc /b SBDSP$' works great. I had chkdsk and 2 DOS apps
running at the same time and there was no change in sound quality. If I run
VPLAY from a DOS session in these circumstances, it pauses every now and
again and the sound quality deteriorates. 

One problem I did have was that because the test programs are written for
EMX I could not ocmpile them with GCC 2.2.2. For some reason DosDevIOCtl is
in the GCC include files but could not be found in the library.


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