How do I get my new Soundscape working in DOS 6.22?

[Mike 01Hawk]

Someone wanna help this dummy out?

I got it working in WIN98se btw

[mace]

Someone wanna help this dummy out?

I got it working in WIN98se btw

Well, what is the problem?
If you are using a soundblaster you have to use the set midi synth:2 in stead of the standard synth:1 command.
This is one thing that springs to mind.

However, we need more information about your setup.

You need a few basic things:
A midi out, this can be a real MPU interface, or a Soundblaster one.
This interface has a base address, usually 330h

In the setup program for the game you have to choose either soundscape or GM option, and fill in your base address, like 330.
Then the data will be sent to the synth. However if the soundblaster is set to use its own synth, it will not relay the midi data,
and try to play it internally, this is where synth:2 comes in.

I'm gonna go on holiday in an hour or so, so I wont be able to help ya out, but this should get you started.

[Rhizome]

Which Soundscape is it? My Elite works fine under DOS that's with Win95B (when going into DOS mode the driver starts an "initialisation" process, can usually hear a pop and the DSP kicking in).

[Mike 01Hawk]

It's an Elite ISA Long board w/o the daughter card (the ESP card I suppose).

I've set the jumper on the Elite for Midi to 320.

I also have a MPU-401AT w/ SCB-55 in my system that is set to 330 so it will handle the music side.

I went into Win98se and got all my IRQ/DMA/Adress settings and then booted to DOS 6.22 using a boot disk and went into DOOM and tried to set up all that.  No music or digital sound.

Since my MPU-401AT's out goes into th Elite's line in, if the Elite isn't working at all, neither is the music.

I guess I need to know what to put in the Autoexec/Config files so it'll recognize the Elite.

[Rhizome]

Well doesn't booting DOS from a bootable disk mean it's not going to read the autoexec made by Windows?

Have you tried shutting down into DOS from Windows?

[Mike 01Hawk]

That's the whole point, to run it in DOS 6.22 w/o windows support/drivers.

Yes, I did try to "Restart in MS-DOS mode" but it locked up on me.

[Mike 01Hawk]

I'm making some headway,

I've been running SSINIT.exe and freed up all the settings, but when it goes to test it is says "error: cannot read Soundscape Code file"

So it looks like I'm missing some files.

-edit, turns out its the "SCOPE.COD" file... brb lol

[Mike 01Hawk]

Woot 

Got it to work.

Added the following to my Autoexec.bat:

SET BLASTER=A220 IXX DX T1
SET SNDSCAPE=C:\DRIVERS\SNDSCAPE
C:\DRIVERS\SNDSCAPE\SSINIT.exe /I

And found the SNDSCAPE.* files