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From: popeye@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Richard Buck)
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Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Registers
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Date: 15 Aug 90 23:21:28 GMT
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wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) writes:

>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?

>When I tried to play some .voc files in windows it bombed with an error saying
>to increase the DMA buffer size in system.ini.  As yet I haven't tried that so
>I don't know if it works or not.

I had the same idea and ran into similar problems. I tried running organ in
the background and it sounded like a sick cow. It gave me the impression that
the S.B. is a real system hog. Sure would be nice if some windows wizard 
could write some code to play things in the background (hint, hint).

I'd be interested to hear any ideas on this subject. 
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