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Impulse Tracker and Windows '95
Not much here, because I haven't been playing around with it much.. but...
First of all you need EMS to run Impulse Tracker. This can be achieved by
creating a shortcut to IT.EXE, and setting the EMS-Auto or some other
specific value AS LONG as you don't have "noems" in your config.sys (if you
don't know what this means, you can probably assume that it's not there)
Also note that sometimes, the presence of the mouse cursor/changing graphics
can prevent IT from operating in the background. Use Alt-M to disable this.
1) GUS Users.
I haven't been able to get hold of the UltraSound Windows '95 drivers to
test with the program, but *WITHOUT* them installed, the routines seem
to work fine, as long as the tracker's window is highlighted. If you move
to another window, then it takes ages for each update to occur UNLESS you
read Drivers.DOC which will tell you how to avoid this.
2) SB 16 Users.
Impulse Tracker's Sound Blaster 16 driver should be completely compatible
with Windows '95 now. In some cases, the command line parameters
IT /s3 /ixx /dxx
have been requried, although this seems to be a rarity.
If Window's starts swapping EMS memory to disk, then you're gonna be in
*big* trouble when playback starts, due to the fact that the mixing
routines need to access the memory quickly, and disk-swapping simply takes
too long! You will know that the memory is being swapped to disk if, when
you move onto a sample on the sample list, disk access occurs. This is
because the memory is accessed to draw the waveform.
The SB16 drivers work quite happily in the background of Win95 also.
3) SB Pro users.
Impulse Tracker's Sound Blaster Pro driver should be completely compatible
with Windows '95 now. In some cases, the command line parameters
IT /s3 /ixx /dxx
have been requried, although this seems to be a rarity.
If Window's starts swapping EMS memory to disk, then you're gonna be in
*big* trouble when playback starts, due to the fact that the mixing
routines need to access the memory quickly, and disk-swapping simply takes
too long! You will know that the memory is being swapped to disk if, when
you move onto a sample on the sample list, disk access occurs. This is
because the memory is accessed to draw the waveform.
The SB Pro drivers work quite happily in the background of Win95 also.
4) ALL users
Finally, if you STILL can't get Impulse Tracker to work under Windows '95,
then you'll have to try to use it under a Vanilla DOS bootup. You have to
press F8 when the computer first starts up, and select Command Prompt.
If you are not experienced with DOS, have someone show you how to do this,
and setup any requirements (eg. EMM386)
You need the following lines in your CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=<path>\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=<path>\EMM386.EXE RAM H=255
eg. if the files are in your C:\DOS directory, you need this:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM H=255
- Jeffrey Lim