Re: Cinematronics sound board info

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:16:28 +0100, "Andy Welburn" <warlords@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>Hi all..
>
>I've built the sound board excorsisor as listed on Zonn's page, however, i
>can't get it to work... Also, call me a dumbass, i can't even manually
>inject signals to play around with the board either. I want to silence the
>board 'initialise' it and then individually trigger the sounds.. just i
>can't work out how..
>
>Ideally, i'd like to have the parallel port program working :) Currently
>when its running, i can't see that the changes i'm administering in the
>program are making any difference on the logic level (observed with logic
>probe)..
>
>has anyone else built this adapter with success other than the author ?? :D

I never got it to work, I was hoping someone else would! ;^)

>i have several star castle sound boards i've tried with it, but all seem to
>give the same results.
>
>thanks for any help given..

It probably has to do with the address of the parallel port. DOS (with help
from the BIOS) is always moving it around.

Check with the BIOS at boot time (hold the delete key down or something,
whatever your BIOS needs) and get the address of the port.

Type that value as a command line to the software. Example:

  CSXOR 278

If the BIOS reports the port you're using to resides at 278 hex.

This will run under a DOS box in Win98, and most likely Win ME. I haven't tried
it in Windows 2k, or NT. I do know that those operating systems make it hard to
access the parallel port and hardware timers, directly. The software may not
work in a DOS box under those operating systems. If that's the case, you'll
have to boot into DOS to run the program. Sorry. (I have an old 486 system I
use for testing soundboards.)

But I will work with anyone that knows how to write the required driver (or use
some freely available .DLLs) to make this software Windows compatible.

(I don't do Windows.)

The software does do just what you want though, and it's pretty cool once you
get it working. (Makes sampling the sounds, cake.)

-Zonn
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Received on Thu Apr 26 01:20:39 2001