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Article #66483Re: I love my Rap 10, but can I play games with Win95?
From: ca... Ken
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
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Great In article <4lhlg0$n...@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>, cirg...@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au says... > >l.m...@ix.netcom.com(L. Meyer ) writes: >>In <317983...@accessone.com> Aaron Collins <ac...@accessone.com> >>writes: >>>timing headache I was having with Cakewalk. Now, any game I download >>>and try to run in DOS, works just fine as long as I choose no sound! >> If you are talking about digitized audio in DOS games, then you can >>forget about it. The RAP-10 is NOT a game (read SB-compatible) card, >>and I have never heard of a DOS game that would have native support for >>the RAP-10. But you should be able to use it for General MIDI sounds, >>since it's fully MPU compatible in UART mode. > >With some games you may have to exit to DOS for the sound to work - >since the RAP10 is being used by Windows, an MSDOS prompt within windows >may not be able to talk to it. I think I *have* got G-MIDI to work >either way. > >The only game I've found which supports the RAP10 for digitised sound is >Wing Commander III - and then only in 8 bit mono. Wierd for a 16 bit >stereo card. Anything which runs in Windows itself (e.g. Peter Gabriel's >Xplorer-1 or Myst) *will* support digital audio since they use the >windows digital audio interface. > >Rob >-- > Give someone the gift of a smile each day. > Imagine how much happier a place the world could be! >har...@wordweb.com 8^) http://www.wordweb.com
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From: ca...@aol.com (Ken) Subject: Re: I love my Rap 10, but can I play games with Win95? Date: 1996/04/23 Message-ID: <4lji41$prl@Grouper.Exis.Net> X-Deja-AN: 151054414 references: <317983EC.679F@accessone.com> <4le0km$c4b@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <4lhlg0$nag@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> organization: Exchange Information Systems Networks mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.music.makers.electronic,alt.music.midi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.sound,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,rec.audio.pro,rec.music.makers.piano,comp.music.midi,rec.music.makers.synt,rec.audio.marketplace,alt.binaries.sounds.midi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit