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- Sound Problems ?
-
- If, when you run the game you have no sound, or the game crashes, then
- it is most likely that the game is having trouble detecting your sound card.
-
- The game supports Soundblaster compatible cards and the Gravis
- Ultrasound/Max.
-
- First of all, it should be pointed out that the game can only utilise
- sound cards which have an IRQ (Interrupt) value of 7 or less. This is
- a restriction of the protected mode environment. I'm afraid that the
- only way around this paticular problem, is to setup your card at a valid
- IRQ, usually 5 or 7, but 2 or 3 could be used too.
-
- The way that the game finds your sound card is primarily by what is
- called an environment setting. Try typing :-
-
- SET (ENTER) at the command prompt.
-
- You should see a list of text appear. If your Soundblaster card has been
- set up properly, then you should see the line :-
-
- BLASTER= A??? I? D? ...... ( with your appropiate values )
-
- And for Ultrasound users, you should see :-
-
- ULTRASND=.........
-
- If these lines do exist, then you should not have any problems. The only
- other reason for the game crashing, or producing no sound, could be that
- your card has not been set to the correct values, or it is conflicting
- with another card you may have. If so, the best thing to do is re-install
- your card, following the instructions very carefully.
-
- If however, these lines do not appear, then this is the most likely cause
- of your problem. If the game cannot find these lines, then it searches
- your card slots for what appears to be a Soundblaster or Ultrasound card
- which usually works OK, but if you have a number of cards, or an odd
- configuration, then this test can fail, causing the PC to crash.
-
- So, the best thing to do, if the above lines do not exist, is this :-
-
- 1/ Find out your card's settings.
-
- Soundblaster Users need to find out the PORT ADDRESS, IRQ INTERRUPT and DMA
- CHANNEL.
-
- Ultrasound Users need to find out more information :-
- PORT ADDRESS, PLAY DMA, RECORD DMA, ULTRASOUND IRQ, MIDI/SB IRQ.
-
- 2/ Once you have this information, you will need to EDIT the MM2.BAT
- file with a text editor. MS-DOS 5 and above users could type :-
-
- EDIT MM2.BAT
-
- 3/ Soundblaster users :- Delete the REM before the SET BLASTER text,
- and then enter your PORT ADDRESS after the A, your IRQ INTERRUPT after the
- I and your DMA CHANNEL after the D. So, you may end up with something like
-
- SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1
-
- Once this is done, save the file, and type MM2 (ENTER) to play
-
- 4/ Ultrasound users :- Delete the REM before the SET ULTRASND text,
- and then enter your PORT ADDRESS after the = sign, the next number should
- be your PLAY DMA, the next RECORD DMA, the next your Ultrasound IRQ
- INTERRUPT and finally the MIDI/SB IRQ INTERRUPT. So you may end up with
-
- SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,7,11
-
- Once this is done, save the file, and type MM2 (ENTER) to play
-