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- Impulse Tracker and Windows '95
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- Not much here, because I haven't been playing around with it much.. but...
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- First of all you need EMS to run Impulse Tracker. This can be achieved by
- creating a shortcut to IT.EXE, and setting the EMS-Auto or some other
- specific value AS LONG as you don't have "noems" in your config.sys (if you
- don't know what this means, you can probably assume that it's not there)
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- Also note that sometimes, the presence of the mouse cursor/changing graphics
- can prevent IT from operating in the background. Use Ctrl-M to disable this.
-
- 1) GUS Users.
-
- I haven't been able to get hold of the UltraSound Windows '95 drivers to
- test with the program, but *WITHOUT* them installed, the routines seem
- to work fine, as long as the tracker's window is highlighted. If you move
- to another window, then it takes ages for each update to occur UNLESS you
- read Drivers.TXT which will tell you how to avoid this.
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- 2) SB 16/AWE 32 Users.
-
- Impulse Tracker's Sound Blaster 16 driver should be completely compatible
- with Windows '95 now. In some cases, the command line parameters
- IT /s3 /ixx /dxx
- have been requried, although this seems to be a rarity.
-
- If Window's starts swapping EMS memory to disk, then you're gonna be in
- *big* trouble when playback starts, due to the fact that the mixing
- routines need to access the memory quickly, and disk-swapping simply takes
- too long! You will know that the memory is being swapped to disk if, when
- you move onto a sample on the sample list, disk access occurs. This is
- because the memory is accessed to draw the waveform.
-
- The SB16 drivers work quite happily in the background of Win95 also.
-
- I finally managed to encounter a computer which wouldn't accept IT's
- SB16 drivers - when you pressed F5 to play, it'd just sit there without
- progressing (it actually *thinks* it's playing)..
-
- The fix is reasonably simple and really stupid ->
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- Goto "My Computer", right click -> properties -> device manager -> sound,
- video -> SB16
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- Now go to the "resources" tab, and unclick "Use automatic settings"
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- Either:
- 1) Change your MIDI port from 300h to 330h or
- 2) Select a 'basic configuration' which doesn't include the MIDI port
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- ( 3) Get an updated driver from Creative Labs )
-
- Click OK, then click OK on the warning message.
-
- There is a good chance that it should work now. I believe this is a bug in
- the older Win95 SB16 drivers. (I *know* that the SB16 driver I have prevents
- MIDI in DOS boxes and causes problems because if I remove it, MIDI works
- flawlessly in DOS boxes in in Win95)
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- 3) SB Pro Users
-
- Impulse Tracker's Sound Blaster Pro driver should be completely compatible
- with Windows '95 now. In some cases, the command line parameters
- IT /s3 /ixx /dxx
- have been requried, although this seems to be a rarity.
-
- If Window's starts swapping EMS memory to disk, then you're gonna be in
- *big* trouble when playback starts, due to the fact that the mixing
- routines need to access the memory quickly, and disk-swapping simply takes
- too long! You will know that the memory is being swapped to disk if, when
- you move onto a sample on the sample list, disk access occurs. This is
- because the memory is accessed to draw the waveform.
-
- The SB Pro drivers work quite happily in the background of Win95 also.
-
- 4) ALL users
-
- Finally, if you STILL can't get Impulse Tracker to work under Windows '95,
- then you'll have to try to use it under a Vanilla DOS bootup. You have to
- press F8 when the computer first starts up, and select Command Prompt.
-
- If you are not experienced with DOS, have someone show you how to do this,
- and setup any requirements (eg. EMM386)
-
- You need the following lines in your CONFIG.SYS file:
- DEVICE=<path>\HIMEM.SYS
- DEVICE=<path>\EMM386.EXE RAM H=255
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- eg. if the files are in your C:\DOS directory, you need this:
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- DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM H=255
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-
- - Jeffrey Lim
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