plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) (03/11/91)
Any body ever used a SoundBlaster/Adlib sound driver for MS Windows 3.0 ?
I got one shareware product over the weekend. Can't remember the name
of the package off hand. It has 3 pieces, a sound driver called "fm.drv"
which replaces Windows' "sound.drv"; a instrument editor called "instedit.exe"
and a background music player called "player.exe". It came in a ZIP
package called "fmsound.zip".
Well, I got it to work on a 286 machine running Windows 3.0 in standard
mode. However, on my 386 running QEMM386 with Windows 3.0, the system
crashes after two consecutive UAE's when I try to run the "player.exe"
application. Windows fired up with the "fm.drv" okay.
Any clue to what is going on ?
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#include <standard_disclaimer.hpp>strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) (03/12/91)
plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) writes: >Any body ever used a SoundBlaster/Adlib sound driver for MS Windows 3.0 ? >I got one shareware product over the weekend. Can't remember the name >of the package off hand. It has 3 pieces, a sound driver called "fm.drv" >which replaces Windows' "sound.drv"; a instrument editor called "instedit.exe" >and a background music player called "player.exe". It came in a ZIP >package called "fmsound.zip". >Well, I got it to work on a 286 machine running Windows 3.0 in standard >mode. However, on my 386 running QEMM386 with Windows 3.0, the system >crashes after two consecutive UAE's when I try to run the "player.exe" >application. Windows fired up with the "fm.drv" okay. >Any clue to what is going on ? No. The combination SoundBlaster driver (it says: FM Driver Version 00.90 by Monty Schmidt), Windows in Enhanced Mode and QEMM (version 5.11) does work on my machine. I never had UAE crashes when using the player.exe program (version 0.5). Wolfgang Strobl #include <std.disclaimer.hpp>
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In article <600001@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com>, plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) writes: > Well, I got it to work on a 286 machine running Windows 3.0 in standard > mode. However, on my 386 running QEMM386 with Windows 3.0, the system > crashes after two consecutive UAE's when I try to run the "player.exe" > application. Windows fired up with the "fm.drv" okay. > > Any clue to what is going on ? > > > Regards, . .. ... .- -> -->## Life is fast enough as it is ........ > Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, > ########################################### : > E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : > Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | > Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ > Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! > > #include <standard_disclaimer.hpp> What is your system? I never had that problem with fm.drv. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet | | University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
martin@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Martin Wink) (03/14/91)
Someone here was getting fatal exits when using the FM sound driver and associated applications. After some time investigating the problem it was tracked down to having a large number of strings in DOS environment variables. Looking inside of the Player's data segment with HeapWalk, you can see a copy of the DOS environment variables in its local heap. If you don't make use of it, it's long been suggested that you should explicitly free 'environ' when your application starts up. None of the standard MS applications I looked at have the variables in their heap. Unfortunately I can't find a reference or example of it being done to say exactly how to do it, but I would guess that LocalFree(environ) would do it. Maybe someone else can refresh me on that. cheers......... martin wink. HP Pinewood Information Systems Division, UK.