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This file describes how to use the music player ROLALARM.EXE as the
external alarm in Telemate.
1. Before you can run ROLALARM.EXE, you must have the following files:
SOUND.COM the sound driver for Adlib music card and
SoundBlaster music card
STANDARD.BNK the music instrument bank
*.ROL any ROL music file
If you cannot find the SOUND.COM or SB-SOUND.COM, you should call
your dealer or your music card producer for them. Or you can
download TMALARM.ZIP or .ARJ from our support BBSs:
Telemate Support BBS Phone Number Baud Location
───────────────────── ──────────── ──────────── ─────────
Land of the Gypsy's 503-297-0626 28800 V34 Louisiana
S.R.O. BBS 817-542-7388 28800 DS Texas
Terminator BBS! 414-867-3670 28800 DS Wisconsin
The Blackboard 914-354-1913 14400 V32bis New York
Com-Dat BBS 503-681-0543 14400 V32bis Oregon
Crystal Bear BBS 360-446-1849 14400 V32bis Washington
2. You MUST run SOUND.COM or SB-SOUND.COM BEFORE you run Telemate. The
sound driver is a TSR utility that will stay in your memory. It is
a good idea to add it to your AUTOEXEC.BAT, for example, add the
line
SOUND or
SB-SOUND
in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
3. Choose one of your .ROL music files and copy it to ALARM.ROL in the
Telemate directory.
4. Copy STANDARD.BNK to the Telemate directory.
5. You should have TMALARM.BAT in the Telemate directory. It is the
batch file Telemate run when it activates the external alarm.
In this batch file, you can run anything you like, say a music
player or a picture viewer, anything.
Telemate comes with a music player called ROLALARM.EXE. The default
TMALARM.BAT has the line
ROLALARM ALARM.ROL /S%2 /T%3
It tells ROLALARM to play the ALARM.ROL music file. You can replace
ALARM.ROL with any .ROL music files. Here, we use ALARM.ROL as an
example.
6. You should have ROLALARM.EXE in the Telemate directory. It is a
music player that play a .ROL music file. It requires the SOUND.COM
installed in your memory. And it needs the STANDARD.BNK at run time.
You should be able to play ALARM.ROL using
ROLALARM ALARM.ROL
in the DOS command line.
7. Run Telemate and turn ON the 'External Alarm' option under the
Options/General dialog.
Now you have installed the ROLALARM.EXE as your external alarm. Since
ROLALARM.EXE requires quite a lot of memory, you may need to turn ON
the 'Swap Telemate to XMS/EMS' or 'Swap Telemate to Disk' options
under the Options/General dialog. This suggests that you should only
use the external alarm if you have XMS or EMS or you have a fast hard
disk.
Have fun and don't be afraid to experience in using the other music
players as your external alarm.