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- From: lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Covox driver for windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.180906.15438@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- References: <1992Aug31.133212.5124@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:09:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.133212.5124@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, hieronym@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Andreas Hieronymus) writes:
- >I need a driver for ms-windows 3.1, which supports a covox plug in the
- >parallel port. The plug is actually a simple D/A-converter. Many
- >sound programms support this type of playing sounds via a parallel
- >port, e.g. modedit, stream tracker, playbwc, scoptrax. I hope there
- >is a driver for ms-windows 3.1 which supports covox to use the
- >multimedia extensions for playing e.g. midi-files.
- >
- >Can anybody give me a hint where to get this driver?
-
- I wonder if it's compatible with the Lifesize (TM) sound enhancer that came
- with _Leather Goddesses of Phobos part 2_. It's the same sort of thing; it
- plugs into the printer port and outputs to an amplifier or whatever.
-
- Check the device for the name of the manufacturer. If you get a hold of
- them or their distributor, I'm sure they will be more than happy to hook you
- up with a driver for it. Be sure to mention you are writing shareware and
- that your documentation will include them as a source.
-
- The only problem I see is the "multimedia" part. These parallel-port D/A
- converters are real CPU hogs. If you make any windows calls to update the
- screen or anything, you may get a pause in your sound. LGOP2 stops the
- sound on me whenever I do anything more than move the mouse.
-
- Keith Lewis klewis@mitre.org "Mr. Cheap"
- I don't dance to music; music dances to me. Email me for my PGP key.
- The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.
-