From: John Kim (jokim_at_CHS.CUSD.CLAREMONT.EDU)
Date: Sun Dec 12 1993 - 23:37:35 EST
Well, the SoundBlaster stuff that's available doesn't seem to work. It
explicitly looks for the SBOS2.SYS file.
About playing two MIDI files simultaneously, I think it depends on how many
voices the audio hardware is capable of supporting. One of the things that
really disappointed me with the 750 was that the manuals have no specs in
them. Judging from the MMOS2 setup notebook, it looks like it can support
10 voices. If you play two files with <=5 voices each, maybe it'll work.
Any more voices and it's impossible. The MIDI stuff probably uses FM
synthesis, which is independent from digitized sounds, which is why you can
play WAV and MID files simultaneously.
I'm not sure about the specs on the digitized sounds either. If it's just
one digitized voice, then it'd make sense that I couldn't play two video
clips at once -- they're both trying to use digitized sound.
In other news, I've had a pixel go half-bad on my screen. If the screen is
a light color, the pixel is bright white. If the screen is dark, the pixel
is grey. It's always lighter than the background, and never black. It
doesn't bother me, but I'm gonna call IBM about it (and see what options
they'll give me for getting a color screen in the future: "What if I buy a
used TP700C, can you put that color screen in instead of fixing my mono?"
:)
I've gotta remember to ask them about the hard drive at the same time. I
can't believe they're selling the 340MB drive for $1200. Sheesh. I hear
250MB 2.5" drives are going for about $400. I'll just sit tight (hopefully
Stacker will be good enough) for the just-introduced 500MB drives to come
down in price. It's hard to believe just 3 years ago 40MB 2.5" drives were
awe-inspiring...
Oh, you've got the AT&T modem, right? Can it maintain a 14.4kbps file
transfer w/o dropping characters if you have the FUELDOS TSR loaded? I'm
using a friend's 14.4kbps external modem hooked up through the serial port,
and it drops lots of characters if FUELDOS is installed. I'm curious if the
16550 in your modem is "good enough" to prevent it.
Anxiously awaiting word on SCSI PCMCIA cards. The way I figure, sticking
on a monitor, keyboard, mouse, CD-ROM and maybe another hard drive via SCSI
will be cheaper than if I had bought a separate desktop and lesses notebook.
It'll also mean I can "borrow" my friend's Mac's CD-ROM until I can buy my
own. :)
-- John H. Kim | "If you'd told me within one year of losing the jokim_at_jarthur.cs.hmc.edu | election I'd be sitting in my living room rooting This mail sent by NUPop | for Al Gore..." - Dan Quayle, on NAFTA debate
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