Dave, many thanks. I am copying this back on to the NA Reflector because
three other guys also said they had problems and would like further info.
Reference your ideas :
1 - SET Blaster on the Autoexec.bat is ok, though I have not checked IRQ
settings. I have seen CMCM.EXE and will run that.
2 - CT-VOICE.DRV appears to be there but as a hidden file. Is this correct?
3 - WIN98 is setup with traditional FAT disk format.
Thanks again. 73 Chris G3SJJ
-----Original Message-----
From: k8cc [mailto:k8cc@mediaone.net]
Sent: 31 October 2001 00:38
To: G3SJJ; NA-User@contesting.com
Cc: wb8vmn@mediaone.net
Subject: Re: [NA-User] Contest Voice Blaster
Chris,
I'm copying your note to CVB author WB8VMN (the "Tom" half of DATOM) for
his opinion.
Here's some of my ideas:
The #1 consideration to keep in mind you have to create a DOS-like
environment for CVB to run. Having Win98 drivers doesn't help because CVB
is not a Windows program. To make a DOS program run, you generally have to
set an environment variable: SET BLASTER = ... in order to set the IRQ,
DMA, etc. Also, in order to make a PCI card run under DOS you have to run
Creative Labs Configuration Manager, I think its called CMCM.EXE. I went
thru this setting up a PCI SB16 to run K6STI's RITTY, but this was under
DOS 6.22.
#2, you MUST have CT-VOICE.DRV available, and it must be the version which
matches your Sound Blaster model.
#3, is Win98 set up with the traditional FAT disk format or is it set up
with the new NTFS format which allows bigger hard disks? CVB was not
designed to work with NTFS - we've not tested it so we don't know that it
DOESN'T work, but...
We'll see what other comments Tom might have.
73,
Dave
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