[RTTY] RE: RITTY BLASTER Environment variable

[Tom McDermott]

This is the general form of the BLASTER environment variable:

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3 
 |    |     |    |  |  |  
 |    |     |    |  |  | 
 |    |     |    |  |  |  
 |    |     |    |  |  |  
 |    |     |    |  |  |__________________ Type of Card
 |    |     |    |  |_____________________ DMA Channel
 |    |     |    |________________________ Interrupt
 |    |     |_____________________________ Port Address
 |    |___________________________________ Environment Variable
 |________________________________________ DOS Command

NOTE: There can be no spaces between the word BLASTER and the equal sign
(=).


If you type  SET BLASTER  with no arguments or equal sign, the DOS command
window
will display the value of the environment variable rather than setting it.
If it
tells you that there is no such environment vairable, then you need to
either set
up one in autoexec.bat or config.sys, or you can do it with a batch file.
You may
have to mess around with the values of the arguments until it works in your
system.

Since all my DOS/Win3.1 computers with SB cards have gone to computer
heaven,
I can no longer run RITTY, so am not able to provide you with a known
working
value of the environment string.

The good advice below, to look at your device manager to determine the
values will
help.  I vaguely seem to recall that the interrupt value (I5) could not be
changed
and still work with RITTY.

	-- Tom, N5EG




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Tony,
I am running RITTY 4.55 with Win98se on an AMD 233 MHz computer. I run it
stand alone and with WriteLog. It is running in a DOS window and not native
DOS on this machine.

No entries in Autoexec.bat or config.sys files although they are present as
empty files.

A Sound Blaster card (ISA) is installed in the slot and is driven by
SB16.VXD and SB16SND.DRV in the C:\Windows\System directory.
I am set up to run on IRQ 5.

This is an "old" Creative Labs card which I scrounge from time to time from
flea markets etc. I have run RITTY from DOS but you need the autoexec.bat
file for that as others have noted. You also should have the memory
management files called out in the Config.sys if you run from DOS.

But I am successfully running in the DOS Window using Brian's pif file and
also hooked up with WriteLog. I can send you the PIF files etc and the
WriteLog.ini file if that would help.
George .. W1ZT


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At 07:26 PM 10/22/2004, A.J. Cioffi wrote: 
Can someone check a couple of things in their system for me?


- Look at the device manager under resources for your sound card and tell me
what configuration you have for your sound card.
- Look in your autexec.bat file and tell me what the SET BLASTER statement
reads.

I can not get the software to recognize the soundcard in DOS.

Thanks


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