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From: ruslan@uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Deluxe (music) and DJ printing
Keywords: DMCS, DeskJet, DJ, printer
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.190229.20209@uncecs.edu>
Date: 13 Aug 90 19:02:29 GMT
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Can someone help me print from DMCS to my HP DJ?
	
Basically - I dusted off DMCS, of all things.  I know, yech.  But it's the 
only program I have that can build SMUS files, prints, plays, and isn't 
copy protected (if you send back for the unprotected version, anyway.)

FYI - Both Deluxe Paint III (version 3.21) and Deluxe Music have a bug in 
that they won't work on my 2500/30 (running the current 1.3.2) UNLESS I 
turn off the 030 caches.  It's apparently the sin of self-modifying code.  
EA knows about it.  Today they ("Steve") said they're working to fix 
that for the next 2.0 compatible, 3000 compatible version of Deluxe Paint.  
However, they have no intention to ever fix ANYTHING with Deluxe Music.*

Well, I can get Deluxe Music to run (by lobotomizing my caches.)  I can get 
it to play (though it takes over the audio device.)  But as for printing with 
my Hewlett Packard DeskJet - it prints one stave/staff and then ejects the 
page, continuing on the next page (which also gets just one staff...)

I need to hack (a copy of) my 1.3 DeskJet printer driver, or do something to 
give similar results.

Is there anyone who can step me through a CMD routine to find out what's 
weird with the driver?  Does anybody have a successful hack with PrtDrvGen?
NewZap?

Does anybody know what is causing that form feed command?  

Does SuperDJ - or any other HP DeskJet driver - fix this sort of thing?
I've tried the BetterDJ (the freebie version of SuperDJ) and it doesn't
help for this problem.

I know, if I get serious I'll get another music package, including one that
has better printing in general.  (I'd consider that Dr. T's Copyist stuff if 
it didn't have disk-based CP.)  But if I can figure out how to fix this, I'll 
have fixed the same DJ form-feed problem I have with one or two other
packages I'm using, too.

Thanks.

Robin LaPasha

*BTW - if you think that screaming at EA for a fixed DMCS version may make
them change their mind, the guy said to send complaints/begging/etc. to
them directly at - Electronic Arts, Product Support, P.O. Box 7578,
San Mateo CA, 94403.  He said he'd be happy to forward fixit requests to
the department that made the decision not to ever fix DMCS. 
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Robin LaPasha              |Keeper of the Amiga
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