[RTTY] "sound on board"

[Bill Turner]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:33:34 -0000, DJ3IW Goetz wrote:

>Hello friends of the digital modes!
>It's about time to retire my workhorse Pentium 200MMX and get
>something (much) faster. I noted that all of those new machines
>have "sound on board", with only three sockets for external
>connections. My present Soundblaster AWE64 has four, line-in,
>mic-in, line-out, speaker.
>How do you use those three on the new boards and what are your
>experiences with these on board sound systems? Is there an equivalent
>for line-in?

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Which socket are you missing?  All of the three-socket systems I've seen have
mic-in, line-in and line-out.  If that's what you have, you'll need a pair of
amplified speakers to plug into the line-out socket because line-out won't drive
speakers directly.  

On my motherboard I have only an 8-bit sound system.  The WriteLog checker gives
it a 7f rating and says it should run WriteLog ok, which it does, and MMTTY runs
ok too.  But not RiTTY by K6STI.  When I try to run RiTTY, it says "8-bit A/D,
Primitive Mixer" and won't even start.  I guess I feel embarrassed.  :-)

This is a little off the subject, but I'm in the process of getting more
soundcards to see if I can find one which works with RiTTY.  I am told this is
difficult if not impossible, so we'll see.

73, Bill W7TI