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From: chris@gp.com (Christopher Gill)
Subject: A fist full of problems
Organization: Gill & Piette, McLean VA
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 22:03:00 GMT
Message-ID: <Covzx1.475@gp.com>
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I'm haveing several problems with my system. 

System Specs:
486/SX 25
170mb HD
Pro Audio Spectrum 16 card
Toshiba TXM3401E1 External CD-ROM
DOS 5
Windows 3.1 (don't use it much)
16mb of memory







Problem 1.
When I use play.exe or playfile.exe to play a WAV/VOC sound file, the file plays and right before the end of the file, it loops back and startes the file again. The Problem just appears from time to time, and I'm not sure what makes it   
show up or go away. Any ideas?

Problem 2.
I have a copy of Rebel Assault 1.4. It seems to run fine, but sometimes it won't play the audio (music or SFX). If I change the driver from Pro Audio Spectrum
to sound blaster compatable, it usually works, bu sometimes I have to switch
drivers repeatedly, sometimes working iwtht he soundblaster driver, sometimes
with the PAS driver. Just this morning, I tried to run it but none of these 
"patches" worked. What's going on here? Could this be tied to question 1?

Problem 3.
Not really a problem, I just need to know what the quickest route out of the ice tunnels on Chapter 7 of RA is.

Oh, I forgot, here is my AUTOEXEC.BAT

set blaster=A220 D1 I5 T3
PROMPT $P$G
@ECHO OFF
PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\DOSFAX;C:\zip;C:\arj;c:\proaudio;C:\wp51;C:\windows;C:\tp
pas set volume to 55
play C:\sound\r2d2-2.voc
LOADHIGH C:\windows\smartdrv.exe
LOADHIGH c:\bin\mscdex.exe /d:mscd000 /v
loadhigh C:\mouse\smouse

and here's my CONFIG.SYS

LASTDRIVE=D
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\dos\emm386.exe /NOEMS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\dos\ansi.sys
DOS=HIGH, UMB
FILES=30
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DEV\MDSCD_FS.SYS /D:MSCD000 /N:1
stacks=0,0
DEVICEHIGH=c:\proaudio\mvsound.sys d:3 q:7 s:1,220,1,7 m:0 j:1

One last thing I forgot to add, and I'm still nto too good at useing VI, TBPRO locks up every once and a while. If I try to play a song, it just stops and plays nothing (I can still ESC out of it). If I come back later (after machine is off
and back on) it will work. Anyone got a fix for this?

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Chris Gill
chris@gp.com
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