Re: Why does the .wav on Windows 95 startup jitter on my PC?

Posted on 2020-03-03, 16:47

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by Cloudschatze

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...could it be that something is interrupting during start-up also ? Could be. I don't know that I want to further speculate without knowing exactly what is being played at startup though. Another option that hasn't been mentioned is minimizing the playback impact by reducing the rate of, and/or …

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Re: Why does the .wav on Windows 95 startup jitter on my PC?

Posted on 2020-03-02, 17:50

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by Cloudschatze

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What is playing as the startup sound? I'd assumed it was the default, but perhaps it's not, and is something of a longer duration?

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Re: Why does the .wav on Windows 95 startup jitter on my PC?

Posted on 2020-02-27, 16:13

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by Cloudschatze

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Wasn't able to find the MCI suggestion either. Control Panel > Multimedia > Advanced [tab] > Media Control Devices > Wave Audio Device (Media Control) > Properties [button] > Settings [button] The default setting is 4 seconds. Something between that, and the maximum of 9 seconds, ought to solve the …

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Re: Why does the .wav on Windows 95 startup jitter on my PC?

Posted on 2020-02-25, 15:15

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by Cloudschatze

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Increasing the MCI wave playback buffer will also resolve this issue.

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-22, 03:10

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by Cloudschatze

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I'm not sure why it isn't mentioned in the NTCC document, but Media Vision was sued by Creative, for the same copyright-infringement claim leveled against Aztech. They settled, with Media Vision entering a licensing agreement. Rich Heimlich gives a pretty insightful account of this, wherein the …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-22, 01:02

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Creative isn't nearly as bad off as you'd think. They're still around and developing new products, despite the near-complete disappearance of their once-dominant market. That's amazing, frankly. It's my opinion that, even in a world without Creative's "antics," Ad Lib, Media Vision, and Aureal still …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 18:45

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by Cloudschatze

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It was See here Right, so that's for the full word mark of "ADLIB PERSONAL COMPUTER MUSIC SYSTEM," including the drawing, which wasn't used. Then wouldn't "SB Compatible" also be a factual statement and fall within fair use for other vendors that were sued over that statement? Yes, absolutely. …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 18:15

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by Cloudschatze

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What, exactly, should Creative have licensed from Ad Lib? Concerning use of the name, "Ad Lib" doesn't even appear to have been trademarked, but regardless, "Ad Lib compatible" is a completely factual statement, falling within fair use.

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Re: Need Help on Choosing Roland SC-55

Posted on 2020-02-21, 17:09

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by Cloudschatze

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I've tested and posted about this myself. There are some specific changes with drum set "fallback" between 1.xx and 2.xx units, but the fallback of capital tones behaves exactly the same on both. Just to clarify though, since it seems to be a source of confusion, an SC-55 with 2.xx ROM is NOT an SC- …

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Re: Need Help on Choosing Roland SC-55

Posted on 2020-02-21, 16:56

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derSammler wrote on 2020-02-21, 16:36: For the Mk.II, the ROM version doesn't matter. It's only important for the Mk.I, because only 1.20/1.21 still has capital-tone fallback (later ones don't)... This is incorrect. All "SC-55" units proper, regardless of whether the ROM version is 1.xx or 2.xx, …

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Re: Adlib Driver for Sound Blaster SFX?

Posted on 2020-02-21, 16:52

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by Cloudschatze

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I'm not aware of a generic driver/redirector, but the OmniMusic, DIGPAK, and AIL sound libraries/routines support digital audio playback via the OPL2, as applies to titles that use those solutions. You might want to consider the Disney Sound Source as an alternative though, which provides better …

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Re: AVM Summit (Kurzweil Synth) GM Performance vs Turtle Beach Pinnacle

Posted on 2020-02-20, 02:33

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Attached are the contents of the diskette that accompanied my (formerly-owned) Summit.

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-19, 19:37

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Creative's case is that of an adopted standard, rather than one explicitly defined, where a considerable segment of the software industry "standardized" on the digital audio playback capabilities and routines of the Sound Blaster early on. Perhaps my EQ is just super-low, but I'm having a difficult …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-18, 18:48

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...it’s pretty obvious that Media Vision was Creative’s main threat, and to whom they played catch-up on and off for a number of years. Consider the following: Nov 1989 – Creative releases the Sound Blaster 1.0 Apr 1991 – MediaVision ships the MPC-compliant, stereo, 2xOPL2-based Pro AudioSpectrum …

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Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 01:49

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If what you want is good signal-to-noise ratio.... What to avoid: - early SB 16 For what it's worth, an appropriately configured SB16, early or otherwise, can be respectably quiet. From my highly-disappointing thread that touched on this very subject: https://www.symphoniae.com/soundcard/RMAA/ …

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-09, 17:24

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brassicGamer wrote: The Sound Blaster Fairytale For what it's worth, the August, 1987 date attribution for the Creative Music System is correct, and relates to its release in Singapore.

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Re: Hearsay 1000 for IBM PC - a missing piece of PC sound history from mid-eighties

Posted on 2020-02-07, 04:33

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by Cloudschatze

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I think Echo PC II should be supported by lots of games for PCM sound output, as there's DIGPAK (by John Ratcliff) support. And AIL, by extension. Unfortunately, the PCM playback method/routine of the later Echo PC II isn't compatible with the earlier Echo PC+, limiting known software support of …

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Re: Hearsay 1000 for IBM PC - a missing piece of PC sound history from mid-eighties

Posted on 2020-02-06, 22:01

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by Cloudschatze

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Agrajag27 wrote: Hope that helps in some way. Yes, thank-you! What a shame though. I'm not familiar with Street Electronics' history, but when contemplating PC audio "what-ifs," they probably missed an opportunity or two.

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Re: Hearsay 1000 for IBM PC - a missing piece of PC sound history from mid-eighties

Posted on 2020-02-06, 21:06

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by Cloudschatze

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It would be great to validate some of the mentioned software support, if that's at all possible with the later driver set that you found. I'm afraid I can't help with the original software - I passed on a chance to obtain a complete card several years ago, and have no idea where it might have ended- …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2020-01-24, 04:05

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by Cloudschatze

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Not sure how likely a scenario it might be, but it's possible the system's EEPROM contents are corrupt. Any change in behavior if you run SETUPTL /A, toggle between DISK > ROM > DISK, save, and reboot?

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