Occasionally someone posts some information about playing games on the Risc PC PC cards which might be of use to someone else, but isn't general enough to get added to the games compatibility list. But rather than let this knowledge go to waste, I've decided to start collecting interesting postings on this page. I haven't edited people's text, but I have cut irrelevant paragraphs. All text is copyright its original author as stated.
Postings below are about:
allan@kaynine.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hi all, I purchased the original Worms and Worms Reinforcements, both of
which work fine apart from the video clips, and in Reinforcements, the
speech and digital audio (not the music) comes out in a crackle. I am
using a RPC600, with a DX4/100 card, with version 1.994 of the PC Card
Software. Can anyone help?
I've got a RPC600 with a DX-33 card. The video clips (annoyingly) will run
from DOS. Go into the directory called FMV and type:
PLAY -noskip
and they should play alright. Apparently the -noskip option is for slower
machines. I don't know about the sound as I haven't got a sound card.
allan@kaynine.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hi all, I purchased the original Worms and Worms Reinforcements, both of
which work fine apart from the video clips, and in Reinforcements, the
speech and digital audio (not the music) comes out in a crackle. I am
using a RPC600, with a DX4/100 card, with version 1.994 of the PC Card
Software. Can anyone help?
I don't know the game, but...
Create a Basic program containing SYS "Sound_Configure",1,208,48
. After
Worms has loaded, drop back to RISC OS and run the program. If the crackling
noise persists, quit PC and configure your external cache to write through.
Both are required for clean sound with Doom on the DX4-100 card.
Mr J A Hunt wrote:
What exactly does SYS "Sound_Configure",1,208,48 do?
One piece at a time (remember BASIC sets any omitted values to 0) :
SYS "Sound_Configure",1,208,48 | | | | | | | | +----------+--+--+--+-+-+-+--> Reconfigure sound system | | | | | | | +--+--+--+-+-+-+--> 1 channel | | | | | | +--+--+-+-+-+--> buffer length of 208 samples | | | | | +--+-+-+-+--> sample period of 48us (20833 Hz) | | | | +-+-+-+--> (0) Do not alter channel handler | | | +-+-+--> (0) Do not alter scheduler | | +-+--> (0) Do not pass go | +--> (0) Do not collect 200 pounds
I might be wrong about the last two :-)
Anyway, thought you might be interested to hear about a web site I found on my travels which offers links to demos of loads of PC games. There's links to demos of Duke Nukem 3D, Lemmings 3D, Fade to Black, Earthworm Jim, Command & Conquer, Quake etc.
Here's the address if you're interested:
http://happypuppy.com/games/link/
Also, from this page you can get to an even bigger database of links which are
listed in version order, so you can just look at demos for DrOSs or Windows 3.1
or whatever you like. This one's at:
http://happypuppy.com/games/lordsoth/
and it's got over 1,000 demos links on it!
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