Just wondering. I am on a Win2000 box and downloaded some source code (serveral infact) for playing sound bits through the sound blaster. Now, unfortionaly I might sound abit stupid, but I have one of those intergrated sound boards that came with the motherboard, but claims to be sound blaster doable<sorry>. I fire up the source code and get a error code with each source code bark'd back at me about tring to access the sound board. I am setting up the dma(1)/int(10)/freq(220-?forget right now). Right just like it has
under the sign'd driver in windows hardware profiles of the sound card and it still barfs the error code at me. I looked at the source and they don't seem to have any old Regs. That might mess up a in 32 bit envirment. Plus, if I play old dos games and setup the sblaster in them they play just fine. Now these source codes are from different people. I was just wondering if anyone could offer some insight in why this might be going on. I tried to explain what is going on in my end, but if you need to know more just ask. Oh, yeah it also complains if I try to do the sound( ); stuff over the pc speaker and
in other programs it sounds wierd, but the pc speaker works also. Last thing is the source did work in Win98 (no se didn't test it out), but upgraded my software and this happens. Any comments?


Chris

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Just wondering. I am on a Win2000 box and downloaded some
source code (serveral infact) for playing sound bits through
the sound blaster.

if its the source stuff that we used to play with back in the DOS days, then you problem would appear to be that win2000 doesn't allow direct access to the hardware like win9x and earlier did...

to play sound files in your current environment, you may have to switch to a compiler and such so that you can access the windows internal APIs directly... you won't be setting any DMA or IRQ settings at all because you can't gain direct access to the hardware...

what error message/code (exactly) do you get when you try your current methods?

not all lowlevel coding is/was done with the REGS structures... some are done with inline or ASM... if you are trying to link in a precompiled OBJ file, you can't tell what's being done in there...

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Just wondering. I am on a Win2000 box and downloaded some source
code (serveral infact) for playing sound bits through the sound
blaster. Now, unfortionaly I might sound abit stupid, but I have one
of those intergrated sound boards that came with the motherboard, but claims to be sound blaster doable<sorry>. I fire up the source code
and get a error code with each source code bark'd back at me about
tring to access the sound board. I am setting up the dma(1)/int(10)/freq(220-?forget right now). Right just like it has under the sign'd driver in windows hardware profiles of the sound card
and it still barfs the error code at me. I looked at the source and
they don't seem to have any old Regs. That might mess up a in 32 bit envirment. Plus, if I play old dos games and setup the sblaster in
them they play just fine. Now these source codes are from different people. I was just wondering if anyone could offer some insight in why this might be going on. I tried to explain what is going on in my end, but if you need to know more just ask. Oh, yeah it also complains if I
try to do the sound( ); stuff over the pc speaker and in other
programs it sounds wierd, but the pc speaker works also. Last thing is the source did work in Win98 (no se didn't test it out), but upgraded
my software and this happens. Any comments?

Have you checked out SWAG? It had a bunch of code
for sounds and SB stuff. Might help you. Granted
some of its a decade old but might give you that
extra bit of help. My website should still have
a link to it...via programmer's page..

http://users.cybermax.net/~longshot

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Have you checked out SWAG? It had a bunch of code
for sounds and SB stuff. Might help you. Granted
some of its a decade old but might give you that
extra bit of help. My website should still have
a link to it...via programmer's page..

http://users.cybermax.net/~longshot

;)

That is where I got some of the source for it off of.
Download'd the swag packs and got the Win reader for it.


I am thinking my problem is cause of the Win<->Dos stuff.

It is going to be awhile before I can really get to figure it out, but thought I would ask.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Chris

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Quoting Chris Hoppman to Scott Adams <=-

Have you checked out SWAG? It had a bunch of code
for sounds and SB stuff. Might help you. Granted
some of its a decade old but might give you that
extra bit of help. My website should still have
a link to it...via programmer's page..

http://users.cybermax.net/~longshot

;)

That is where I got some of the source for it off of.
Download'd the swag packs and got the Win reader for it.

Great. I love the dos reader myself quick and easy :)

I am thinking my problem is cause of the Win<->Dos stuff.

That's possible unless is a strict API type interface
then your just hoping things will work sometimes with
code. We saw a TON of that befpre bp7 did its windows
like with turbovision and the OWL stuff and the win
ides first came out. It was sorta hit and hope it
works or miss.

It is going to be awhile before I can really get to figure it out, but thought I would ask.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Well good luck. Swag covers probably 15 maybe 20 years
in this ..oh wait this is the lessons echo the pascal
programming echo :) So its some of the greatest heads
in fido over the years. So should be a good source of
input.

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