lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) (10/17/90)
Why is it that with the 27 gazillion versions of soundtracker, noisetracker, powertracker, startracker, etc. that exist there _still_ is not ONE (except for MED) which works right with the 2000?!?!? All of the versions I've seen refuse to accept keyboard input when run on a 2000. The input just goes to whichever window was active before soundtracker started. I've never seen this happen on a 500, but it happens on every 2000 I know of. So anyway, I would like to suggest that the next person who rewrites SoundTracker would fix it so 2000 users could use it too. Ah, now I feel better. Sorry to gripe. But there's more to this life than living and dying,\ Logan Shaw More than just trying to make it through the day, \lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu More to this life, more than these eyes alone can see,\ Amiga 2000, C= 1084 And there's more than this life alone can be. \ GVP 40Q, 8-up!
DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu (10/17/90)
I had that problem (non-functional keyboard) with SoundTracker2.0 (I thought later versions fixed it, but I could well be wrong). The problem is that your harddrive controller driver has a level 2 int server, which also happens to be used by one of the CIAs (which just happens to be used for keyboard IO). Ok, what's the problem? Well, due to some stupid programming, ST fails if the usual OS keyboard-handling routine is not the first on the chain. I solved it on my system (2090 controller) by modifying the driver to use a priority of zero (les s than zero is OK too) when installing its level 2 server. Of course, you may b e experiencing a different problem. :-) Hope this makes sense to someone... -- Dan Babcock
joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) (10/18/90)
Just every one remember that MED doesn't share any code with SoundTracker and therefore is legal. Check out the code. You have to work in assembler to hack ST/NT, but you can use C for MED. That should prove it. (In my opinion, if MED had the sampler, and it worked, as well as work on the A3000 (possibly with an auto-patch for accererated machines), it'd blow all the other ST type programs, SoundFX certainly included, competely away.) I've used quite a few of them, so experience is no problem. I, can cofirm by the way they look alike, that: EAS SoundTracker 1.0 = DOC SoundTracker 2.5 = NoiseTracker 2.01 SoundFX's only real improvement is that it's more stable (itn's only guru'ed on me once), its actually useable, and it multitasks. -Joseph Hillenburg UUCP: ...iuvax!valnet!joseph ARPA: valnet!joseph@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu INET: joseph@valnet.UUCP