The following list of programs have been found to work with the Virtual Sound Blaster:
Creative Labs' Voxkit.exe
Creative Labs' Vplay.exe
Creative Labs' Vrec.exe
Creative Labs' Parrot.exe
Creative Labs' Dr. Sbaitso.exe
Disney's Jigsaw
Gary Maddox's Blaster Master
David Young's Silly String
Microsoft's' Flight Simulator 4.0
Electronic Arts' Boxing 4-D
SSI Dungeons and Dragons, Eye of the Beholder
Lucas Films' Monkey Island
Interplay Battle Chess II
AdLib's Sound.com
AdLib's Jukebox.exe
AdLib's Composer.exe
IBIS's Play it by Ear
IBIS's Rhythm
IBIS's Sound Sculpture
Lawrence Productions McGee
Lawrence Productions Katie's Farm
*Broderbunds' Carmen San Diego
*Broderbunds' Treehouse
*Broderbunds' Kidpix
*requires a special entry in the [386enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI file:
VIRTUALHDIRQ=FALSE
The negative effect of this switch might slow down hard disk accesses on 386 16 MHz machines.
Windows MultiMedia Extensions are not installed. Edit the SYSTEM.INI
file in the windows directory; add the following lines
if they are missing. You must ensure there are no other parameters
on the mmsystem.dll line.
sound.drv=mmsound.drv
drivers=mmsystem.dll
On many laptops a power manager is used to monitor power source levels. This driver will be added to the DRIVERS line in addition to MMSYSTEM.DLL, this causes the setup program to report "You must load multimedia extensions." Comment the line with a ";" add the following line and restart Windows then run setup again.
drivers=mmsystem.dll
1.) Make sure power is supplied to the Audioport.
Try using an AC-adapter for testing.
Try replacing the batteries in the Audioport.
2.) Check to see if LPT1 prints. This will show if the LPT1 port is active.
3.) Use the PLAYPCM DEMO.VOC Bxxx in DOS to test the Audioport.
On some laptops, the Zenith Z note & IBM 700c PS/2 for example, the system's parallel port does not reset on a warm boot. These systems must be cold booted after the AUDIOPORT is attached.
PS/2 Model 77
On the IBM PS/2 Model 77 and several other micro channel IBM's, a DMA channel is assigned to the parallel port. This must be disabled through software for the AUDIOPORT to work.
Make sure the following is in SYSTEM.INI, 386[enh]
device=sb2ap.386
Some software looks for a BLASTER variable to detect Sound Blaster support.
Make sure you have a SET BLASTER line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. The line should read as follows:
SET BLASTER=A220 D1 I5 T3
Audioport
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