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- From: Gavin Adams <gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: Dune II soundcard support
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.145617.4764@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:56:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.045520.13460@nuscc.nus.sg> TAN YEW KEONG,
- law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg writes:
- >Actually, there's more. I have 8 megs in my 486, and everything in this
- >game is about speech - the guys report to you, when your harvester's
- >idle it tells you, the mentat speaks to you, there are vocal wormsign
- >warnings, lots and lots of screams, squelching sounds when guys get run
- >over by the harvester, many different voices depending on which house
- >you're playing (Ordos Mentat sounds like a bloody faggot, but the
- >Atreides woman is really sexy!)
- >
- >I only have a SB 1.0 (not Pro!). I suspect that the manual's 2M
- >requirement is wrong, and the manual's description of the types of
- >memory is totally wrong, confusing expanded with extended memory.
- >
- >Why don't the guys with 4M machines get rid of all the TSRs and
- >(especially) the disk caches, and try again? You really would love the
- >voices!
- >--
-
- This is a no go also (bad rhym). I have 20MB, and tried it with 8MB set up
- for EMS, the rest extended. All EMS, no extended. All extended, no EMS.
- With the PAS-16, there are _no_ digitized sounds at all. Real pain when
- you scroll to you base and find a Harvester that has been sitting there
- waiting to be deployed. :(
-
- Overall, great game, terrible menu support (little queues on saving a
- game), and non-existant PAS-16 support.
-
- --- Gavin
- Visualize Whirled Peas!
-