#Grollier Encyclopedia
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Thanks for your response to my questions about the Grollier Encyclodedia.
Message # 41071 from Jack Halpern turned out to be the way to go with Redbook
sound. (Bernard Seeff's technique in message # 40714 worked, but involved
loading an extra driver into memory.) The drawback with Redbook sound is that
you cannot get sound along with videos. I called Software Toolworks tech
support today and got the answers that allow the use of the PAS16 sound board,
which gives sound with the videos and in the other areas where sound is
available. The technique is:
1. Run the INSTALL program on the Encyclopedia CDROM. 2. Choose Sound Blaster
from the sound board choices. 3. Choose 220 as the beginning hex address range
at
the prompt that asks this. As I recall this is the
default. 4. Choose IRQ 5 at the prompt that asks for this info.
As I recall this was not the default. 5. Respond to the other prompts as
needed for your
system.
My STW.BAT file looks like this:
set NGMTMP=C:\STW eeswap %NGMTMP%\swapfile.fil >NUL eepgm -eD -d2 -nC:\STW\
-p60:70:0:0:1:1 -cMVCD001 -a5 %1 %2 %3 %4 eeswap /r
My CONFIG.SYS file has the following line for the sound card:
devicehigh=C:\STW\sndbk12.sys 1 5 220 2
(The line created with the INSTALL program wrote it as device=….. I changed
it to devicehigh=… to take advantage of DOS 5's ability to use upper memory
for device drivers.)
Now I and my kids are able to see the videos with the sound. Even my
anti-computer wife was impressed!!!
Mike Brubaker 73137,36
Any software that insists on specific IRQs and DMAs should be suspect.
IRQ5, for example, is the usual default IRQ for LPT1 and would be impossible to
use on my system. Unless you can change all their defaults, this is very sloppy
and unfortunate programming.
Jack?
a slip-up! IRQ5 is generally empty, or used for LPT2, on the machines that
have two parallel ports. IRQ7 is used by LPT1.
And even then I use my soundcard over IRQ 7, which is its default. No harm
apparently.
Regards Black Peter
Well, I assume if you're not printing something at the same time as you're
playing something it shouldn't make much difference. I have both my modem and
the Seiko label printer on IRQ4 since I can't imagine using them both at the
same time.
Some BIOS setups differ from others, I suppose. On both my computers LPT1
defaults to IRQ5. Irrelevant to me, since I have something on both LPT1 and
LPT2 anyway. What I really need is more than 15 IRQs; I'm full up and I've got
everything shared I can think of. Lost my last available (11) when I stuck in
the BusLogic SCSI board.
Jack,
that's a new one for me, how many cards do you have in your box, that you've
run out of IRQs? Mind you, I've only got 11 & 12 left, I think.
And I've one slot open but that's blocked by cables. Out of 8.
Black Peter
Actually, I've got two slots open since I was able to consolidate some
cards. However, with two EISA FastSCSI-2 boards in the system, that's 2; LPTs
take 2 more, COMs 2 more, sound board 1, 5 are reserved for BIOS use by the
EISA chip set, and I forget what the rest are. It would be simple if I had an
all-EISA system, since EISA sorts itself out and resolves all conflicts, but,
alas, they don't. Oh, yeah–TIGA board takes 1 when in use, and I'm still
forgetting a couple. At any rate, they're not there.