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Re: I love my Rap 10, but can I play games with Win95?

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From: ca... Ken
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
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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
>--
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>    Imagine how much happier a place the world 
could be!
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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
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