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From: bevans@gauss.unm.edu (Mathemagician)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Music Studio 3.0 troubles (PC)
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Date: 28 Aug 90 17:24:07 GMT
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In article <499@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:

>I just bought Music Studio 3.0 from Radio Shack for my vanila XT clone (not
>a Tandy computer).

>I'm having a couple problems getting it to work:

>1) It will not recognize my Joystick. When I use F10 - Setup and select the
>   mouse options, the Joystick option is dim and not selectable! It will not
>   let me select the Joystick option.
>   I suspect that Tandy computers use a different method for talking to a
>   Joystick than normal XT clones. Hence the software doesn't see that I do
>   indeed have a Joystick port and a Joystick. I don't have a mouse.

I do believe that is the case.  The joystick ports on a Tandy are
not the same as joystick ports that you can get on a board.

>2) When I press "F1 - Help", I get a window that pops up and says that it
>   cannot find "DMHELP.ACC". This file was no where on ANY of the distribution
>   disks that I received!

Since you said you didn't have a Tandy machine, I am assuming that
you do not have a copy of Deskmate.  If the program is asking for
anything that begins with DM, then it is a Deskmate program/driver.
I would venture that is the reason it can't find it.

>3) For printing, there doesn't seem to be a selection for EPSON printers.

That's not a bug, that's a feature!  ;-)

Actually, since I think Music Studio is a Deskmate-like program, it
would follow the scheme of Deskmate.  That is, it only supplies
drivers for IBM Graphic printers (like the Tandy DMP 13* printers),
the HP Laserjet, and various Tandy printers (like their daisywheel).

I don't think Tandy makes an Epson printer clone so I would sorta
doubt they'd include an Epson driver.  Along the same lines, I'm
a little mad that there isn't a PostScript driver in Deskmate.

>4) When I select "IBM GRAPHIC" (in printer setup) it says that it cannot load
>   the driver. I know that the "DM??IBM.RRS" file exists and is indeed in the
>   proper directory.

This is a little more difficult.  I'm not sure what the problem might
be.  The only thing I can think of is that it's a bad file or that
the program is not looking where it thinks it's looking.  Anybody else?

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