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- From: dtauritz@wi.leidenuniv.nl (Daniel R. Tauritz)
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- Subject: Aria Soundcard FAQ v1.20
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:46:30 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Math. and Comp.Sci.; Leiden Univ.; Leiden; the Netherlands
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- Summary: This posting discusses hardware related issues concerning soundcards
- based on the Aria chipset from Sierra Semiconductor Corporation.
- Originator: dtauritz@hermes
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- Archive-name: PCsoundcards/aria/faq
- Submitted-by: Daniel R. Tauritz
- Posting-Frequency: irregular
- Last-modified: 13-February-1997
- Version: 1.20
-
- =============================================================================
- === THE ARIA FAQ VERSION 1.20 ===
- === ===
- === Copyright 1997 Daniel R. Tauritz ===
- === Released on February 13th 1997 ===
- =============================================================================
-
- COPYRIGHT Distribution of this document by individuals for
- non-commercial purposes is permitted. Commercial use of the
- information contained requires the explicit permission of the
- author. Parts of this document may be included in other
- non-commercial works provided the author is acknowledged.
-
- DISCLAIMER In no way is the author liable for any damage resulting from the
- use of the information contained in this document.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- INDEX
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1 - INTRODUCTION
- 1.0 - Why this FAQ ?
- 1.1 - Some things you should know...
- 1.2 - What's new !
- 2 - ARIA SOUNDCARDS
- 2.0 - The Aria System
- 2.1 - Product specific information: Features
- 2.2 - Advocacy
- 3 - VARIOUS TOPICS
- 3.0 - Troubleshooting
- 3.1 - Supported operating systems
- 3.2 - General MIDI & DOS
- 4 - ARIA PROGRAMMING MATERIALS
- 4.0 - Software Development Kits
- 4.1 - Freely available programming materials
- 4.2 - Commercial libraries
- 5 - PROFESSIONAL USERS OF ARIA
- 5.0 - Software companies
- 5.1 - Mytec Technologies (Greg Schmidt)
- 6 - CONTACT INFORMATION
- Appendix A: Aria FTP Departments
- Appendix B: Aria Mailing List
- Appendix C: Aria World Wide Web Site
- Appendix D: How to contact Aria soundcard manufacturers
-
- =============================================================================
- === 1 - INTRODUCTION ===
- =============================================================================
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1.0 - Why this FAQ ?
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Aria is the name of a family of audio chipsets produced by Sierra
- Semiconductor Corporation (further referred to as Sierra). In this document
- soundcards based on one of the members of the Aria family will be called Aria
- soundcards. This document is aimed at everyone who already owns an Aria
- soundcard, or wants to learn more about Aria soundcards in general. It focuses
- on hardware related Aria information including developers information. See
- Appendix A for other documents of interest. The Aria Support List, by the same
- author, for example, focuses on software related Aria information.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1.1 - Some things you should know...
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Some standard abbreviations:
- * FTP - File Transfer Protocol (A method for retrieving data via the Internet)
- * WWW - World Wide Web (A system for locating information on the Internet)
- * SDK - Software Development Kit (Product specific programming information)
-
- The Aria Internet Department presently consists of:
- * The Aria FTP Departments (see appendix A)
- * The Aria Mailing List (see appendix B)
- * The Aria WWW Site (see appendix C)
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1.2 - What's New !
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Alas, Sierra seems to have ceased producing the Aria chipset. To my knowledge
- all manufacturers of soundcards based on the Aria chipset have also
- terminated production. If you can still find an Aria soundcard for sale you
- can probably get it at a real bargain price...
-
- Upon many a request I have added complete installation archives for 16-bit
- Aria Windows drivers to the Aria FTP site (in the drivers directory). Thanks
- to a number of people who supplied me with the zip files.
-
- Info concerning the use of the Prometheus Aria 16se SCSI controller under
- Win95 was added in this release thanks to Sharon Meigs.
-
- =============================================================================
- === 2 - ARIA SOUNDCARDS ===
- =============================================================================
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.0 - The Aria System
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- There exist two generations of the Aria audio system. The old system utilised
- the SC18051/2/3/4 ROM chips and a discrete analog mixer. The new family
- utilises the SC18056/7/8/9 ROM chips and an integrated SC18075 mixer chip.
-
- Both generations offer the following features:
- - 32 Simultaneous voices
- - General MIDI compliant with all patches defined by the General MIDI
- Specification
- - AdLib and SoundBlaster compatibility is provided at the register level
- - Joystick Port
- - MPU-401 UART MIDI Port
- - Full Duplex
- - 16-bit DAC (distortion<0.1%, 92 dB typical signal-to-noise ratio)
- - Mixer noise: -70 dB max
- - DSP chip: A 42 MHz TMS320C25 (Texas Instruments)
- - 32 MB RAM/ROM DSP address space
-
- In addition the old system offered:
- - 3 stereo inputs: DAC, auxiliary (CD-ROM) and external
- - 8-bit linear level control on auxiliary and external inputs, independently
- adjustable
- - DAC output level controlled by DSP
- - external input is selectable for line level or microphone level
- - 10 bit ADC (Except for the Sonic Sound made by Diamond which included a 16
- bit ADC)
- - frequency response: 20 Hz to 16 kHz - 3 dB
- - distortion : 0.5% max
-
- While the new system improved on that:
- - 5 stereo inputs: DAC, auxiliary 1 (master output), auxiliary 2 (CD-ROM),
- external and microphone
- - 6-bit logarithmic level control on all inputs, independently adjustable
- - treble and bass tone controls
- - 16 bit ADC
- - frequence response: 20 Hz to 19 kHz - 3 dB
- - distortion : 0.2% max
-
- The DSP can execute multiple DSP applications simultaneously if enough DSP
- RAM is available and the load doesn't exceed its capabilities. Aria
- soundcards of both generations come basically in two flavors. Those with and
- those without speech recognition. The ones without speech recognition come
- with 8 kWords DSP RAM, the ones with usually have 40 kWords DSP RAM aboard.
- Also, the new Aria system generation offers reverb effects if enough DSP RAM
- is in place. In practice this means that only the more expensive Aria
- soundcards offering speech recognition also offer reverb effects, though the
- cheaper cards could also offer reverb effects if they were outfitted with
- more DSP RAM. To do this you'll need to fill the two empty DSP RAM sockets on
- your Aria soundcard with two 32 KB 20 ns SRAM cache chips.
-
- The Aria ROM chips offer the following features:
-
- Basic features: Aria PCM Audio, Aria Synthesizer, Sound Blaster Emulation
- Feature Table :
- OLD ROM's NEW ROM's
- | SC18051 SC18052 SC18053 SC18054 SC18056 SC18057 SC18058 SC18059
- RAM |------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 8 | 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0
- 40 | 0.5 1.0 0.5+L 1.0+L 0.5+R 1.0+R 0.5+R+L 1.0+R+L
-
- Legend: 0.5=0.5 MB Samples,1.0=1.0 MB Samples,R=Reverb Effects,L=Listener
-
- In addition there is a QSound DSP application available from the Aria FTP
- Departments for use with all the ROM's and a Reverb DSP application for the
- older ROM's.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.1 - Product specific information: Features
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Legend: AD=ADC resolution; J=JUMPERLESS
- TMC-950=Future Domain TMC-950 SCSI-2 chip memory-mapped
- A6960=Adaptec 6960 SCSI-2 chip (330 Kb/s)
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Soundcard |Manufacturer |ROM|#MB|AD| SCSI |J|
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- AltaPro/S |AVM Technologies |053|0.5| |Adaptec|n|
- AltaPro/S1 |AVM Technologies |054|1.0| |Adaptec|n|
- AltaPro/SA |AVM Technologies |053|0.5| |Adaptec|n|
- AltaPro/S1A |AVM Technologies |054|1.0| |Adaptec|n|
- Aria 16 |Prometheus |056|0.5|16| no |y|
- Aria 16se |Prometheus |058|0.5|16|TM-9C50|y|
- AudioBahn 16 Pro |Genoa Systems |054|1.0|10| 6960 | |
- CyberAudio |Alpha Systems | | | | | |
- Omnivox |Kingston Technologies| | | | | |
- Sound 2000 |Add Tech |053|0.5|10| ? |n|
- Sound Epitome Wave|DevitronicEngineering|051|0.5|10| yes |n|
- Sound Pilot |Cardinal Technologies| | | | | |
- Sonic Sound Rev.A5|Diamond |051|0.5|16|TMC-950|n|
- With upgrade kit: |054|1.0|16|TMC-950|n|
- Sonic Sound Rev.B2|Diamond |056|0.5|16|TMC-950|y|
- TESS |Zoltrix | | | | | |
- ViVa Maestro 16 |Computer Peripherals |051|0.5|10|Adaptec|n|
- ViVa Maestro 16 VR|Computer Peripherals |053|0.5|10|Adaptec|n|
- VR |Alpha Systems | | | | | |
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.2 - Advocacy
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- When I would recommend Aria:
- * If you are looking for a cheap wavetable synthesis soundcard with bullet
- proof SB emulation and digital recording and playback up to 16-bit 44.1kHz,
- try for example the Aria 16.
- * If you are looking for a cheap wavetable synthesis soundcard with bullet
- proof SB emulation, digital recording and playback up to 16-bit 44.1kHz, a
- SCSI-2 interface, reverb effects and speaker-independent non-continuous
- speech recognition capabilities, try for example the Aria 16se.
-
- =============================================================================
- === 3 - VARIOUS TOPICS ===
- =============================================================================
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 3.0 - Troubleshooting
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Aria soundcards, certainly the newer jumperless ones, are usually extremely
- easy to install and configure. And if there is a problem the trouble
- shooting sections in the operating manuals are pretty decent and often the
- problem can be solved without much complications. However, there is one
- undocumented feature of the jumperless cards which in rare cases can cause
- problems. The configuration of IRQ's, DMA channels, etc. is done via a device
- line which is executed first in the CONFIG.SYS and reads as follows:
- DEVICE=C:\ARIA\BIN\soundcfg.sys C:\ARIA\aria.cfg
- Normally this should be sufficient, I had a case however where executing
- ARIATEST resulted in "DSP not responding" or something similar. The trick is
- to change the RBA port address, which is somehow used for the configuring of
- the jumperless cards, to a non-conflicting port adress anywhere between 280
- and 330 hexadecimal. Prometheus technical support informed me on this issue
- and suggested using port address 298, which worked fine. The device line was:
- DEVICE=C:\ARIA\BIN\soundcfg.sys C:\ARIA\aria.cfg 298
- Yes, it's that simple!
-
- If you are experiencing problems using the SCSI adapter on your Aria
- soundcard try disabling shadow RAM. If this solves your problem then enable
- the various blocks of shadow RAM one by one until you spot the block causing
- the trouble. Leaving this block disabled should solve the problem.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 3.1 - Supported operating systems
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * MS-DOS & MS-Windows 3.x (Native support, Adlib/SB compatibility mode)
- * Windows 95 (Windows 3.x drivers & native SCSI support)
- * OS/2 3.0 Warp (Native support)
- * Linux (Adlib/SB compatibility mode???)
-
- Windows 95
- ----------
- If you installed Win95 over Win3.x you may already have sound working,
- if not, or you did a fresh install, these are the Aria installation
- instructions:
- 1. Go to "Control Panel", then "Add Hardware".
- 2. After the "Add Hardware Wizard" appears hit the "next" button.
- 3. Select "no" when asked if you want Win95 to search for installed hardware.
- 4. Select "Sound, video and game adapters" from the device list.
- 5. Hit the "have disk" button and then the "browse" button.
- 6. Select your Aria installation directory, then the subdirectory WIN.
- (For example, C:\SONIC\WIN)
- 7. The file "oemsetup.inf" should now be highlighted. Select "OK".
- 8. The "Add Hardware Wizard" should now be able to complete installing the
- Aria drivers in Win95 and restart the system with sound working.
- If you've got an Aria 16se you can use Win95's native support for the
- integrated SCSI controller. Just make sure all references to Aria's real
- mode SCSI drivers in your config.sys & autoexec.bat are removed. If SCSI
- support isn't automatically enabled you can do it manually by selecting the
- Future Domain TMC-850/M/MER/MEX SCSI Host Adapter via the Control Panel. Auto
- play works great!
-
- HOW YOU CAN HELP: I suspect the SonicSound SCSI controller will also work fine
- with the native TMC-850 driver. Can anyone confirm?
-
- OS/2 3.0 Warp
- -------------
- Native OS/2 Warp Aria drivers are available from the Aria FTP department as:
- ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/audio/aria/drivers/aria16.zip
- These drivers were made for IBM's Aptiva systems employing Aria 16 soundcards
- from Prometheus Products. For all those not in the possesion of an IBM Aptiva
- just ignore the readme file included in aria16.zip and install as follows:
- 1. Open an OS/2 command line window
- 2. Switch (if necessary) to the partition from where you boot Warp
- 3. Execute the following command sequence:
- a. cd os2/boot
- b. attrib -r clock01.sys
- c. attrib -r clock02.sys
- 4. Unzip aria16.zip into a directory
- 5. Enter the OS/2 Multimedia Folder and execute Multimedia Application Install
- 6. Specify as source the directory where you just unzipped aria16.zip
- 7. Select Aria Audio System 16 in the features list and then double click
- install.
- You may need to change some of the associations, but basically, this is all!
-
- Linux
- -----
- HOW YOU CAN HELP: If you have gotten sound out of your Aria soundcard under
- Linux (for example in SB mode) then please contact me!
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 3.2 - General MIDI & DOS
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- This is probably the most frequently asked question I have received the last
- few months: "Why can't I select General MIDI in a DOS game like DOOM?"
- The answer is that Aria supports all the patches defined by the General MIDI
- specification, but lacks a MIDI interpreter in hardware. The MIDI interpreter
- must therefore be emulated in software and that is why under DOS you always
- need Aria drivers to get General MIDI support. The issue of native Aria
- support under MS-DOS is the focus of the Aria Support List.
-
- =============================================================================
- === 4 - ARIA PROGRAMMING MATERIALS ===
- =============================================================================
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 4.0 - Software Development Kits
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Sierra has produced in the past the following three Aria SDKs:
- * SSDK (Synthesizer Software Development Kit)
- * LSDK (Listener Software Development Kit)
- * LSDK Upgrade Kit (upgrades a SSDK to a LSDK)
-
- These kits are however no longer being produced and, the stock having run
- out, are not available from Sierra anymore. The newest version of the SSDK
- can be downloaded from the Aria FTP Department, subdirectory
- 'programming/ssdk'. Here you'll find the newest versions of the manual (v2.2)
- as well as the software (v2.5). Please read the accompanying text files prior
- to downloading the zip files. There are no royalties involved and there are
- no restrictions on the use of the materials included in the SDKs except that
- you may not make them public and distribution of source code is only allowed
- if a majority of the code is of your own creation, not simply copied from the
- development kit. So, for example, it is perfectly legitimate to write an
- audio driver for Aria using the SDK and distributing its source code as
- Public Domain, Shareware, on a commercial basis or any other way you see fit.
-
- Following are the descriptions of the basic kit (SSDK and part of LSDK),
- the listener kit (rest of LSDK and LSDK Upgrade Kit), and some notes
- concerning Aria Listener source code.
-
- Basic (SSDK/LSDK)
- -----------------
- Contents: Manual (version 2.2) + 3.5" disk (version 2.5)
-
- Disk contents:
- - DOS Applications Interface Library Source Code (see manual; chapter 6)
- - Interrupt handlers in assembly (Make files for Microsoft & Borland)
- - User function calls in C (Make files for Microsoft & Borland)
- - Source code for ARIATEST, CDVOL, ECHOMIDI, PLAYMIDI, PLAYWAVE, RECWAVE,
- SBVOL and VOLUME
- - Synthesizer Patch Bank Editor
-
- Manual contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Installation
- Chapter 3: Communication Interface
- 3.1 - Registers
- 3.1.1 DSP Registers
- 3.1.2 Sound Blaster Registers
- 3.1.3 MIDI Registers
- 3.1.4 Joystick Registers
- 3.2 - Memory
- 3.2.1 System ROM Configurations
- 3.2.2 Memory Layout
- 3.3 - Music Synthesis
- 3.3.1 Aria Synthesizer
- 3.3.2 Sound Blaster Emulation
- 3.4 - Digital Audio
- 3.4.1 Data Transfer Procedure
- 3.4.2 Direct Input and Output
- 3.4.3 Direct Memory Access
- 3.5 - DSP Commands
- 3.5.1 System Configuration Commands
- 3.5.2 Digital Audio Recording and Playback Commands
- 3.5.3 Aria Synthesizer Commands
- 3.5.4 Mixer Commands
- 3.5.5 Audio Effect Commands
- Chapter 4: Voyetra Sound Factory
- Chapter 5: Microsoft Windows Multimedia Extensions
- 5.1 - Audio Driver Features
- 5.2 - Driver Configuration
- 5.3 - Waveform Output
- 5.4 - Waveform Input
- 5.5 - MIDI Output
- 5.6 - MIDI Input
- 5.7 - Auxiliary Audio
- 5.8 - Extended Aria Control Interface
- Chapter 6: DOS Application Interface
- Chapter 7: Tools
- 7.1 - Patch Editor
- 7.2 - Patch Bank Utility
- 7.3 - Play MIDI Utility
- 7.4 - Echo MIDI Utility
- 7.5 - Play Wave Utility
- 7.6 - Record Wave Utility
- 7.7 - Aria Board Test Utility
- Appendix A: Patch Bank Formats
- Appendix B: ROM Wave Libraries
- Appendix C: Specifications
- Glossary
- References
- Index
-
-
- Listener (LSDK/LSDK Upgrade Kit)
- --------------------------------
- Contents: Manual (version 1.1) + six 3.5" disks (version 1.00)
-
- Disk contents:
- Games API for DOS
- Speech Recognition API for Windows (SRAPI)
- Windows Developers Examples for SRAPI
- SRAPI Step Debugger
- Vocabulary Development System (2 disks)
-
- Manual contents:
- Section I: GoodListener Cookbook
- Section II: Speech Recognition API Programmer's Guide
- Section III: Speech Recognition API Functional Specifications
- Section IV: Aria Listener Game API Functional Specifications
- Section V: Vocabulary Development System Manual Version 3.1
-
- Aria Listener source code
- -------------------------
- Though the Aria Listener manual states that the source code for the Games API
- is included, it isn't, nor can Sierra provide it. However, if you have a
- legitimate reason requiring this code you can contact Dave Corley, director
- of Customer Support at Voice Control Systems, Inc., and request a copy.
- Contact information: E-mail address: dave@vcsi.com
- Phone number : +1-214-386-0300
- Address : 14140 Midway Road
- Dallas, Texas 75244, USA
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 4.1 - Freely available programming materials
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The Aria FTP Departments have a directory 'programming' with two
- subdirectories. In 'sdk' you'll find the Aria SSDK, see paragraph 4.0,
- and in 'contrib' you'll find:
- * ariainit.zip - initialization code replacing soundcfg.sys
- * ariawave.zip - digital audio playback programming example for DJGPP
-
- The 'mother' of all programming FTP sites is:
- x2ftp.oulu.fi:/pub/msdos/programming
- where you can also find in the subdirectory 'mxlibs':
- * dmkit150.zip - AIL, MIDPAK & DIGPAK driver libraries (Miles Design, Inc.)
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 4.2 - Commercial sound driver libraries
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The DSMI (Digital Sound Music Interface) kit of Otto Chrons, author of DMP
- (Dual Mod Player), includes a digital sound driver for Aria. DSMI is used in
- such illustrious software as DMP and The Morgul Player. For more info see
- the DSMI document included in dmp400.zip which can be found at:
- ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/audio/players
-
- =============================================================================
- === 5 - PROFESSIONAL USERS OF ARIA ===
- =============================================================================
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 5.0 - Software companies
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Software based on the AIL and/or MIDPAK/DIGPAK libraries potentially supports
- Aria in native mode. As does software based on the DSMI (=Digital Sound Music
- Interface). The following companies have produced software specially
- crafted to take advantage of the speech recognition capabilities of Aria
- Listener:
- - Globalink (VoicePower)
- - Impressions (When Two Worlds War)
- - Interplay (Startrek 25th Anniversary Special Aria Edition)
- See the Aria Support List for more info on them.
-
- If YOU know a company offering software specially crafted to take advantage
- of Aria Listener then please contact me so I can add it to the list.
-
- The following sections are devoted to companies employing Aria themselves.
- If YOU know of such a company which not has been included below, then please
- contact me so I can add another paragraph.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 5.1 - Mytec Technologies (Greg Schmidt)
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Mytec Technologies is a Toronto, Ontario, Canada company developing a
- fingerprint verification device. Our president, George Tomko, requested that
- the prototype device be capable of recognizing voice input, as a way of
- adding some pizzazz to demonstrations (he envisioned the user stating his or
- her name, but that would require separate vocabulary training for each user,
- so we have settled on the user simply saying his or her PIN number, for
- example "one two three"). As the software engineer, I was given the job of
- getting this working, as well as a deadline of about three weeks to find an
- appropriate product, order it, and implement the desired functionality.
-
- I began by looking through several newsgroups, eventually discovering
- comp.speech. I posted a short description of my situation, and Daniel R.
- Tauritz replied with a message about Aria. After an exchange of mail, I was
- convinced that Aria could handle my problem. I ordered the Aria 16SE from
- Prometheus Products as well as the Aria LSDK from Sierra Semiconductor Corp.,
- which arrived shortly. I now had about a week to finish the implementation.
-
- I ran into a bit of a problem, in that the provided library was only in
- medium memory model, and I needed large. Dave Corley at Voice Control
- Systems was very helpful, and I managed to get all the requisite tools,
- with one day to go. The API was so easy to use that I finished in time.
- (I feel like a commercial for laundry detergent!) A vocabulary trained
- by less than 20 utterances each of about twenty words (including four
- different people) was capable of recognizing any of the words spoken by
- anyone with a very high accuracy (it had problems with "eight", but more
- training solved that).
-
- We are unsure as to whether customers will want this functionality in the
- product, but it is a possibility. If they do, it is very easy to add a
- couple of functions that allow speech recognition.
-
- Greg Schmidt (gschmidt@hookup.net)
-
- =============================================================================
- === 6 - CONTACT INFORMATION ===
- =============================================================================
-
- If you know more about one of the problems mentioned in the various
- paragraphs or can add insights not yet included in this document, then please
- E-mail the information to:
-
- dtauritz@wi.leidenuniv.nl
-
- and hopefully it will be included in the next update of this document!
-
- Note: If you have a question not directly related to this document then please
- post it to the appropriate newsgroup or mailing list and do not send it
- to me.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Appendix A: Aria FTP Departments
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The original Aria FTP Department is at: ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/audio/aria
- it is also being mirrored at: ftp.digiface.nl:/pub/audio/aria
- In the subdirectory 'docs' you'll always find the newest editions of the
- Aria FAQ (presently aria1_12.faq), the Aria Support List (presently
- aria2_09.lst) and the Mailing List Archives.
-
- The Aria FAQ and the Aria Support List are also being archived in the Usenet
- Newsgroup Archives at: rtfm.mit.edu:pub/usenet/comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
- presently as 'Aria_Soundcard_Faq_v1.11' and 'Aria_Support_List_v2.09'.
-
- Another FTP site of interest might be the FTP Soundcard Starting Point at:
- ftp.netcom.com:pub/jo/jonin/soundcards
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Appendix B: Aria Mailing List
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- You can subscribe to the Aria Mailing List by sending E-mail as follows:
- To : aria-request@wi.leidenuniv.nl
- Subject: subscribe
- Leave the rest of the message (the body) empty!
- To unsubscribe follow the same procedure but then with:
- Subject: unsubscribe
- To change your address simply unsubscribe from your old address and then
- subscribe from your new address.
-
- To post to the Aria Mailing List send E-mail to: aria@wi.leidenuniv.nl
- When you reply to a message from the list you reply as default to the list.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Appendix C: Aria World Wide Web Page
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- To access the Aria World Wide Web (WWW) page you'll need a WWW client such as
- Lynx, Mosaic or Netscape. Alternatively you can remote login to a WWW client
- via telnet. For example by telnetting to 'archie.funet.fi'. The Aria WWW page
- can be found at:
- http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/aria/
-
- This will give you access to all the messages ever sent to the Aria Mailing
- List. An automatic script adds new messages sent to the list within minutes
- to this page. You can also view and retrieve files from the Aria Internet
- Department such as the Aria FAQ & support list.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Appendix D: How to contact Aria soundcard manufacturers
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Alpha Systems Lab Inc.
-
- 2361 McGaw Av.
- Irvine, CA 92714, U.S.A.
- (800) 998-3883
- (714) 252-0117
- (714) 252-0887
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- AVM Technologies Inc.
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- 655 East 9800 South
- Sandy, UT 84070, U.S.A.
- (800) 880-0041
- (801) 571-0967
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- Cardinal Technologies Inc.
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- 1827 Freedom Rd.
- Lancaster, PA 17601, U.S.A.
- General: (717)293-3000
- Customer service: (717)293-3049
- FAX: (717)293-3055
- BBS: (717)293-3043
- Tech Support: (717)293-3124, 9-5 EST Mon.-Fri.
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- Computer Peripherals Inc.
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- 67 Rancho Conejo
- Newbury Park, CA 91320, U.S.A.
- (800) 854-7600 (Sales Department)
- (805) 499-5751
- (805) 499-6021 (Technical Support)
- Computer Peripherals BBS (+1 805 499 9646, FYI)
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- Devitronic Engineering Pte Ltd
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- 605-B Macpherson Road
- #04-12
- Citimac Industrial Complex
- Singapore 1336
- Tel : (065)281-3533
- Fax : (065)281-1827
- Telex : DEVICE RS 33250
- Cable : DEVITRONIC
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- Diamond Computer Systems, Inc.
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- 1130 East Arques Avenue
- Sunnyvale, CA 94086, U.S.A.
- Phone: +1-408-325-7000
- Fax : +1-408-730-5750
- WWW : http://www.diamondmm.com/
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- Technical Support
- Phone : +1-408-325-7100
- CompuServe : 75300,3673
- America OnLine: GO DIAMOND
- Internet : 75300.3673@compuserve.com
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- Software Updates
- CompuServe : GO GRAPHBVEN
- Diamond BBS: +1-408-730-1100 (2400 Baud)
- +1-408-524-9301 (9600+ Baud)
- Diamond FTP: ftp.diamondmm.com
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- Genoa Systems Corp.
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- 75 East Trimble Rd.
- San Jose, CA 95131, U.S.A.
- (800) 934-3662
- (408) 432-9090
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- Prometheus
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- Technical Support: (503) 692-9601
- BBS : (503) 691-5199
- E-mail : CompuServe 76004,527
- America Online Promethean
- Internet 76004.527@compuserve.com
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