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Ezycom Sound Blaster Player V1.02
Copyright Peter Davies 1992. All Rights Reserved.
In using the Ezycom Sound Blaster program, you are agreeing
to all the coniditions and/or licencising agreements stated in
license.doc. If, you do not know these, then read them NOW,
before continuing further.
*** WARNING ***
The Sound Blaster does NOT work well under Multitaskers
or Networks!
*** TESTING ***
This program has been tested on Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 2
and the Sound Blaster Pro. If, you have any problems, just
ask, and I'll see what I can do.
*** REQUIREMENTS ***
This version of EZYSB requires Ezycom V1.02. It must also be
able to locate CONFIG.EZY. This version will NOT work on
earlier versions of Ezycom.
*** WHAT IS IT? ***
Ezycom allows external programs to be used to page the sysop.
The normal Sound Blaster players are inadequate to the state
where it doesn't return an errorlevel on whether the sysop
answered the chat, aborted it, timed out or stopped it with
no more pages. This remedies that problem.
EZYSBVOC only plays a certain types of VOC files, that is one
that was saved either in under 32k in size, or was saved by saving
the VOC file to Disk, rather than to memory, then to Disk. I've
had a file 3 meg long VOC files being played by it, so it works
quite well.
EZYSBCMF requires SBFMDRV to be loaded for it to function correctly.
*** SETUP EZYSBVOC (VOC file player) ***
The CT-VOICE.DRV file must be in your PATH statement or in
your current directory for EZYSBVOC to operate correctly. You can
replace it with your own if you wish.
Go to the paths statement in Ezycom CONFIG and where it says
"Outside Page", replace that with EZYSB <filename> [irq] [hex].
For instance
C:\EZY\EZYSBVOC.EXE FROGS.VOC.
Also, the two optionial parameters can be placed on the end of the
command line. EZYSBVOC <voc file> [irq] [hex address]
It seems that the voice driver does find the irq and hex addresses
by itself quite well. But, just in case, you can add these parameters.
eg. C:\EZY\EZYSBVOC.EXE FROGS.VOC 7 220
You can achieve multiple random sound samples by using a *SB
in the filename in Ezycom CONFIG.
eg. C:\EZY\EZYSBVOC.EXE PAGE*SB.VOC
Depending on the number of page files setup in misc->paging,
you could be playing PAGE01.VOC, PAGE02.VOC, etc.
The Sound Player also only plays the file to the paging time
limit, instead of playing it to it's full entirety. That means
the longest tune it will play is slightly over 4 minutes long.
*** SETUP EZYSBCMF (CMF file player) ***
This player is setup much the same as EZYSBVOC, except that SBFMDRV
must be loaded before playing the CMF file, and no hex/irq address
is required on EZYSBCMF. The command line syntax is
EZYSBCMF.EXE <filename>
eg EZYSBCMF.EXE TUNE.CMF
The <filename> should include the .CMF extension. As with the VOC file
player, random tunes can be played in exactly the same way.
eg EZYSBCMF.EXE PAGE*SB.CMF
Since, the SBFMDRV.COM has a slight overhead, the best way to run the CMF
player in my opinion is to load a batch file. The batch file should load
SBFMDRV.COM, then run EZYSBCMF, then unload SBFMDRV.COM.
In Ezycom CONFIG, it would be setup something like
*C /C CMFTUNE.BAT *SB
The batch file CMFTUNE.BAT might look like
SBFMDRV.COM
EZYSBCMF.EXE PAGE%1.CMF
SBFMDRV.COM /u
That way, the overhead is removed after the tune is played, instead of
Ezycom running underneath the SBFMDRV.COM (waisting memory!).
As with the VOC file player, the CMF player conforms to the page time
limits of ezycom.
*** CREDITS ***
Creative Labs: For developing an excellant Sound Card.
Brad Vonarx: For testing it on the Sound Blaster Pro.
Geoff Edes: For incentive and Sound Blaster Testing.
*** SUPPORT ***
Peter Davies BBS +61-3-578-0968 (V22bis, V32)
Internet daviesex@brt.deakin.edu.au
Fido 3:636/213
EC_DEV (Ezycom development echo)