Reply 20 of 28, by BeginnerGuy
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wrote:This topic got me thinking about it again, so I tracked down another seller with a copy of the book in new condition. Sent him a question asking if it has the disk or not and will definitely buy it if it does (cost is quite a bit more then it would be from a thrift store though, so that sucks). I do like collecting these things too, but in a lot of cases I've had to settle for ISOs of the CDs that I end up not getting. Hopefully one of us gets lucky and is able to get the disk. 😀 If not, you're right that most of these books tend to put a lot of the code directly in the book itself too.
Mine came with the disk (it's a single 3.5" floppy). Couple of read errors but I managed to copy it, not bad for a 25 year old floppy. Sometimes you do get lucky with cheap thrift books 😊
It seems to just be a couple of freeware programs that I've come across on many other disks from books of the same time period like Blaster Master unregistered, a few sound files in .voc, .rol, and .cmf format packaged into an installer, no source files. I'll send you a copy if you need.
Contents are quite broad and generic (There is a section on deciding what speakers to buy), starting with a little back history on sound blaster cards (up until the CT 1600, where this book was released), explanation of MIDI and FM synth. Lots on software such as talking parrot, sbaitso, play and record utilities, mixer controls, multimedia software, and sequencer plus pro). SPUTMON (sputter monitor), Blaster Master, and so on.
The programming section is an appendix of around 60 pages, there is no ready made code for you to dabble with, but it seems to have everything I need. knowledge of 80x86 assembly is assumed by this book, instructions are written like this:
Initializing the DSP for Voice
1. Write a byte value of 01h to DSP reset port 2x6h
2. Wait 3 microseconds
3. Write 00h to DSP Reset port
...and so on.
I will get to work writing some short programs to test it out throughout the week 😀
Sup. I like computers. Are you a computer?