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- Sound Blaster 16 Readme File
- ============================
-
- This file contains additional information to supplement the manual.
- Please read all the sections before you proceed with the installation.
-
- This file contains the following sections:
-
- 1. Installation.
- 2. Uninstallation.
- 3. DOS Environment settings.
- 4. DOS Audio Driver Support Under Windows 95 DOS Box.
- 5. Online Documentation.
- 6. BLASTER settings under MSDOS Mode.
- 7. Full-Duplex Constraints.
- 8. Audio Tracks.
- 9. Acknowledgements.
-
-
- 1. INSTALLATION
-
- The full installation option requires about 6 MBytes of hard disk
- space and addition of 2MB for working space. You might need more if
- your drive is in compressed form.
-
-
- 2. UNINSTALLATION
-
- Before uninstalling the software package, ensure that all the Sound
- Blaster 16 applications are closed. Any Sound Blaster 16 application
- that is running when the uninstallation is in progress will not be
- deleted. Also, files that are added to the Sound Blaster 16 directory
- after the initial software installation will not be deleted by the
- uninstallation process. You will have to manually delete these files
- after the uninstallation process has completed.
-
- 3. DOS ENVIRONMENT SETTINGS
-
- Some of the existing DOS programs require the presence of MIDI and
- SOUND environments in order for them to work. The Setup program will
- add the SET MIDI and SET SOUND environment lines at the beginning of
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
-
- 4. DOS AUDIO DRIVER SUPPORT UNDER WINDOWS 95 DOS BOX
-
- Some of the DOS applications are developed with Creative's Sound
- Blaster Developer Kit. These applications require the low-level
- DOS audio device drivers to be loaded. To load the DOS audio
- drivers, you need to add the following lines to the CONFIG.SYS file:
-
- DEVICE=<C:\dir>\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5 /WIN95
- DEVICE=<C:\dir>\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS
-
- Remarks:
-
- a. <C:\dir> is the sound directory where the audio software is located.
-
- b. The /BLASTER parameter specifies the Sound Blaster base I/O port
- address (A), interrupt request line (I), low 8-bit DMA channel (D)
- and high 16-bit DMA channel (H).
-
- c. The settings in the /BLASTER parameter must tally with the actual
- settings allocated by Windows 95. To find out the actual settings,
- go into Windows 95 DOS box, and type SET and press <Enter> at the
- DOS prompt. You will see one of the lines displayed is:
-
- BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
-
- The values after the A, I, D and H are the actual settings to be
- used for the /BLASTER parameter.
-
- To help you set up the DOS audio drivers, we have prepared a text
- file CONFIG.TXT in the sound directory. This text file contains
- the above lines to specify the DOS audio drivers. The sound
- directory in the text file had been updated by the installation
- program. You just need to update the /BLASTER parameter and copy
- the lines into the CONFIG.SYS file.
-
- 5. ONLINE DOCUMENTATION
-
- To help you get information on the applications in this package easily,
- we have compiled a set of online documentation which can be accessed from
- your audio card's program group. Just click the START button on your
- Windows 95 taskbar. Select "Programs", followed by "Sound Blaster 16" and
- then "User's Guide".
-
-
- 6. BLASTER settings under MS-DOS Mode
-
- Whenever you change your Audio hardware configuration manually, the
- BLASTER environment under MS-DOS Mode will only be valid after you reboot
- the system once.
-
- However, if you proceed to MS-DOS Mode without rebooting, you need to run
- CTCM.EXE which is in your Windows directory. This program makes the
- BLASTER environment tally with the actual hardware settings.
-
-
- 7. FULL-DUPLEX CONSTRAINTS
-
- Your audio card supports full-duplex recording and playback. However, to
- make full use of this feature, please make sure you observe the following
- constraints:
-
- a. Start only one session of simultaneous playback and recording.
- b. Use the same sampling rate for both operations.
- c. Preferably play back and record audio files which are in uncompressed
- (that is, Pulse Code Modulation or PCM) wave format.
- d. Reduce the sampling rate for both operations if your audio playback
- and recording session is too slow.
-
- NOTE: The Full-Duplex and DirectSound capabilities are mutually exclusive.
- If you activate the full-duplex feature, the DirectSound capability
- cannot be enabled. And vice versa.
-
-
- 8. AUDIO TRACKS
-
- The following is a list of audio tracks available in this CD-ROM
- package:
-
- Track 2 Aria
- Track 3 Beethoven: 5th Symphony
- Track 4 Mozart: Magic Flute Opera
- Track 5 Sound Blaster
- Track 6 Bukitimah
- Track 7 Streetwise
- Track 8 Gemalan
- Track 9 Piano Jam
- Track 10 Sketch3
-
-
- 9. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
-
- MS-DOS, Windows 3.x and Windows 95 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
- All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
- respective owners.
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