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- Navigating Help without a mouse:
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- A button can be activated by either a mouse, keyboard
- [ENTER] or ALT+button's hotkey.
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- [F3] Exit to DOS, all changes are discarded.
- [TAB] Move to Option.
- [ENTER] Accept Button.
- Open Combo Box for selecting options,
- Accept options from combo Box.
- [] Select Options within Combo box
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- While in help mode...
- Alt-P Go to the next page in help
- Alt-D Go to the previous page in help
- Alt-Q Exit help.
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- How to change I/O Address, DMA,IRQ for Windows Sound System:
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- First, use the TAB key or mouse to change the current mode
- to Windows Sound System. Then TAB or mouse to the desired
- setting and press ENTER to open the selection box.
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- Note: If you have a plug and play system, these options will
- be automatic and therefore disabled. If you need to change
- them however, you must use your plug and play configuration
- utility that came with your system. Thats the whole idea
- behind plug and play!
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- How to change I/O Address, DMA, IRQ for Sound Blaster Mode
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- First, use the TAB key or mouse to change the current mode
- to Sound Blaster Pro. Then TAB or mouse to the desired
- setting and press ENTER to open the selection box.
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- Note: If you have a plug and play system, these options will
- be automatic and therefore disabled. If you need to change
- them however, you must use your plug and play configuration
- utility that came with your system.
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- What mode is best? Sound Blaster or Windows Sound System?
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- Sound Blaster Pro.
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- The SE14SRS/SE34SRS operates both in Windows Sound System
- mode and Sound Blaster mode. Regardless of this setting, the
- SE14SRS / SE34SRS *always* switches to Windows Sound System
- mode when running Microsoft Windows.
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- If you set the mode to Windows Sound System, then Windows
- Sound System is the mode wether you are in DOS or Windows.
- The only reason to set Windows Sound System mode is if you
- have a DOS application that reuquires Windows Sound System
- (highly unlikely).
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- So keep the mode set to Sound Blaster and all your favorite
- games and such will run fine.
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- Which brings us to the next topic...
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- How to setup your DOS games and programs for sound.
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- 1. Make sure your current mode is set to 'Sound Blaster
- Pro'.
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- 2. Setup DOOM, Descent, Heretic, or whatever to use a 'Sound
- Blaster Pro or compatible' device.
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- How to test your settings and SE14SRS / SE34SRS:
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- There is a button in SNDINIT titled 'Sound Test'. Use all 3
- tests. Don't worry if the FM Synthesis is a bit softer than
- the other tests. For 8 Bit you should hear a 'tada' sound.
- The 16 Bit test plays a little tune, and the FM Synthesis
- test plays 3 notes.
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- How to change volume levels:
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- There is a button in SNDINIT called Volume. While you can
- use this to adjust volumes, *most* applications and games
- have built-in volume settings.
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- You can access this screen directly by typing VOLUME from
- the C:\SOUNDEXP directory.
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- What is MIDI and MPU401?
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- MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MPU401
- is a standard interface for musical devices such as
- keyboards.
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- Hint: To improve the music produced by the SE14SRS/SE34SRS,
- look into attaching a device known as a WaveTable adapter to
- the SE14SRS/SE34SRS. This small device plugs into the pins
- on top of the SE14SRS/SE34SRS, near the middle. A WaveTable
- adapter contains actual samples of musical sounds.
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- How to setup a CD-ROM:
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- The SE14SRS/SE34SRS supports IDE type CD-ROM Drives.
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- If you have a CD-ROM and its already installed, then all you
- have to do is attach the audio cable to the SE14SRS/SE34SRS.
- The audio cable is a small thin wire coming from your CD-ROM
- (not the wide-flat ribbon cable).
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- If you wish to use the SE14SRS/SE34SRS as the adapter card,
- attach the flat ribbon cable from the CD-ROM drive to the
- CD-ROM interface connector on the SE1440. The stripe on one
- side of the cable (usually red) signifies pin 1 which needs
- to match up with pin 1 on the SE14SRS/SE34SRS, which is
- designated by a white stripe or band approximately one-eight
- of an inch.
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- Now use SNDINIT to tell the adapter to 'turn on' the CD-ROM
- interface. SNDINIT will guide you through all the details
- and install drivers into your config.sys and autoexec.bat
- (startup) files.
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- If you wish to use drivers that came with your CD-ROM, make
- sure you leave the following line intact in your config.sys:
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- Device=C:\soundexp\cdsetup.sys /T:I /P:170 /I:X /D:X
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- How to select an input device?
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- The 'input' for recording sound, etc. is software selectable
- between the 'mic' and the 'line in' jack.
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- Whats the *quickest* way to check the current settings?
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- Type SNDINIT /b
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- What is happening to COM Port Settings for modems?
- or
- Why can't I just select a COM port for the modem?
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- For the most part, Plug and Play no longer really cares about
- your COM ports. In the future you may find that this is beneficial
- because now you can use 'non standard' COM Ports at bizarre an I/O Address
- for example, 0x100. If all this is too technical, then use the chart
- below to convert COM port to I/O Address:
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- COM PORT I/O Address
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- COM 1 = 0x3F8
- COM 2 = 0x2F8
- COM 3 = 0x3E8
- COM 4 = 0x2E8
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