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From: dlou@dino.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
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Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Registers
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Date: 14 Aug 90 07:51:46 GMT
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In article <1990Aug14.042014.12967@Neon.Stanford.EDU> minakami@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Michael K. Minakami) writes:
>Has anyone gotten a Sound Blaster program to work under Windows? I thought
>it'd be kind of neat to play some music while using QVT or something, but
>apparently the two don't like each other. Maybe something to do with using
>the DMA channel?

If it's just music you'd like to play, wouldn't you wnat to use the
CMS chips or the AdLib capabilities instead?  Kind of a waste for a
DAC voice channel to be playing digitized music.

I'd imagine the problem is that the DAC might be using COM 2's
interrupt (which in turn might be connected to a mouse).  In that
case, using the CMS or Ad Lib sections would be the way to go...

Does anyone know how to program the CMS or Ad Lib chips?


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