[comp.windows.ms] Sounder

nef@mace.cc.purdue.edu (paulhicks) (01/24/91)

I recently down loaded Sounder.exe from cica.cica.indiana.edu.
I followed all of the instuctions, including running my PS/2 55SX
with 2Meg of memory in standard mode.  However no sound came out
of my speaker!  I didn't get any error messege and the machine
'waited' for a second or two as if was trying to do something.
But nothing happened :-(.  Can anyone help me?

Thanks, Paul
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nef@mace.cc.purdue.edu (paulhicks) (04/06/91)

I am sending this out to see if anyone else is having the same problem I am.
I have a PS2/55SX (yes it is a micro channel machine)
 with 2Meg and just downloded sounder. I am running windows in 386 enhanced
mode.  After playing a sound, if I then start up a dos program (such as cshow) which uses
sounds, and then quit out of it, the speaker lets out a *LOUD* annoying
continuous beep. (it sounds rather like a smoke detector).
The only way to stop it is to either 
1) Quit windows
2) Play a sound
I also noticed that after playing a sound, for the rest of the 
windows session, the speaker will make low blip noices at random
intervals. This sounds like my computer is mumbling to me!

I hope someone can help me.

Paul

PS.  If anyone knows the authors' e-mail address please let me
know, I have had several helpfull correspondances with him and
have lost his address, sorry!

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jc7o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joo C. Chung) (04/06/91)

	I also have a PS/2 55SX. I have no problems wiht Sounder. You're
problem might be that you are trying to play sounds under Windows 3.0 in
386 Enhanced mode. Sounder is not meant to play in 386 Enhanced mode.
Sounder can only be played in Standard and Real mode. 

			Joo Chung

aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) (04/08/91)

In article <kbzEav600awHQA7EZO@andrew.cmu.edu> jc7o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joo C. Chung) writes:
>
>	I also have a PS/2 55SX. I have no problems wiht Sounder. You're
>problem might be that you are trying to play sounds under Windows 3.0 in
>386 Enhanced mode. Sounder is not meant to play in 386 Enhanced mode.
>Sounder can only be played in Standard and Real mode. 
>
>			Joo Chung

	Sounder 2.0, released a few months ago, *does* allow sounds to be
played in 386 Enhanced mode.  And there is a *known* bug where after a sound
is played in a DOS box and you return to Windows, you get a beep until
another sound is played.  I'll post a fixed DSOUND.DLL to cica when I
figure out what's not right in it...

Aaron Wallace

dcrowley@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (David Crowley) (04/08/91)

In article <kbzEav600awHQA7EZO@andrew.cmu.edu> jc7o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joo C. Chung) writes:
>	I also have a PS/2 55SX. I have no problems wiht Sounder. You're
>problem might be that you are trying to play sounds under Windows 3.0 in
>386 Enhanced mode. Sounder is not meant to play in 386 Enhanced mode.
>Sounder can only be played in Standard and Real mode. 

	This is only partially correct. Sounder v1 will not run under
    386enh mode, but Sounder v2 (available at cica) will, and also there
						   ^^^^^^
    are a heap of new sound files (last time i looked they were in uploads)
    which are *GREAT* (many thanx to the author of Sounder).

							David...

P.S. I am simply a happy user.
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