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From: galt@baby.dsd.es.com (Greg Alt - Perp)
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Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Commands
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.212620.16106@dsd.es.com>
Date: 8 Jun 91 21:26:20 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.190758.15386@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, msherk@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Murray Sherk) writes:
> The SoundBlaster Developer Kit omits some important information about
> how to drive the card directly. Instead, they just tell you how to use their 
> library routines. ("If we don't let you do it, you don't want to do it.")
> 
> Example: In reading from the DSP, you do what the SDK says on page 7-5 only 
> after sending the command 20h. I figured that out by disassembling parrot.exe.
> 
> Before I go disassembling everything else in sight, does anybody know 
> the rest of the omitted commands: e.g. Write command, Speaker on/off, etc.?

I have some source code for accessing all of the .VOC commands....  It will load
the driver, and let you do everything.  I will post it in a week or two when
I can get time (after finals).
    Greg