Give a hand, please?

[Todd Darmody, MD]

Hi there, fellow Tycoon'ers. I remember playing the game and loving it, and
still have the old 3.5" floppies. After encountering this newsgroup, I dug
through the closet and found 'em. Tried to play again, but now that I'm
using Windows 98 I can't play! I'm afraid I don't know what base address my
Sound Blaster Live uses (I know the IRQ is 10). Any clues out there? I'd
appreciate any and all suggestions (provided the suggestion isn't to "stick
it where the sun don't shine).

Yours,
Dr. Todd Darmody, MD

[Rijk]

Todd Darmody, MD <DDarm...@nyc.rr.com> schreef in berichtnieuws

Hi there, fellow Tycoon'ers. I remember playing the game and loving it,
and
still have the old 3.5" floppies. After encountering this newsgroup, I
dug
through the closet and found 'em. Tried to play again, but now that I'm
using Windows 98 I can't play! I'm afraid I don't know what base address
my
Sound Blaster Live uses (I know the IRQ is 10). Any clues out there? I'd
appreciate any and all suggestions (provided the suggestion isn't to
"stick
it where the sun don't shine).

Yours,
Dr. Todd Darmody, MD

To my thought, most soundcards use port 220 as base address....But can't you
play TTDLX with sound turned off? You can arrange this in the setup, and on
my PC it works normally. It's less exciting without sound, but at least
better than no Transport Tycoon (deLuxe) at all. Anyway, success with your
sound problems.

Yours sincerely,

Student Alex Rijk, The Netherlands

[Chris Becke]

"Todd Darmody, MD" wrote:

Hi there, fellow Tycoon'ers. I remember playing the game and loving it,
and
still have the old 3.5" floppies. After encountering this newsgroup, I
dug
through the closet and found 'em. Tried to play again, but now that I'm
using Windows 98 I can't play! I'm afraid I don't know what base address
my
Sound Blaster Live uses (I know the IRQ is 10). Any clues out there? I'd
appreciate any and all suggestions (provided the suggestion isn't to
"stick
it where the sun don't shine).

Right click on "My Computer" and choose properties. A properties page will
pop up with a tab titled "Hardware Manager" or "Device Manager" - I forget
which. Go to the tab.

Here will be a treeview where each node is a class of device. With a Live
there sould be a item called "Creative Somthing or Other" (well, not exactly
that, under which you should find an entry for a driver with a name
involving "SB16 compatiblity". Double click it.

Another properties dialog. One of the tabs will / should be called settings,
and will have a number of settings, which will list the port addresses, DMA
channels, and prehaps IRQ of the emulated SB16 device.

The port address will be 0x0220.
If given a choice of DMA's always use the highest one available.
It might not give an IRQ on this page, and I think the Live!'s emulation can
use any IRQ the software tries to use. Nonetheless I use the old standby
'7'.

The sound on my 98 box, if slightly lower quality than I fondly recall
works perfectly.

Chris [MVP]
--
VisualC++ & Win32 FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/vcfaq
My Win32 Page: http://users.lia.net/chris/win32

[Todd Darmody, MD]

Great advice, Chris, thank you. Followed your instructions and saw a lot of
data regarding my soundcard I never knew existed. Only *1* little problem,
tho....My SB16 emulation is set to IRQ 9, and I can't seem to change it. I
tried with IRQ 10 (which is my SBLive's IRQ), and 7 (which is yours) to no
avail. I have TWO DMA's listed...1 and 7. Trying each of these settings
through the setup program does nothing. Yes, my base address is 240. Guess
I'll play this game with a character name of "Ol' Beethoven" (deaf). Thanks
again for the advice, though. Gave me one more route to try.

Dr. Todd Darmody, MD

[Bill Hayles]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 08:57:40 GMT, "Todd Darmody, MD"
<DDarm...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

Hi there, fellow Tycoon'ers. I remember playing the game and loving it, and
still have the old 3.5" floppies. After encountering this newsgroup, I dug
through the closet and found 'em. Tried to play again, but now that I'm
using Windows 98 I can't play! I'm afraid I don't know what base address my
Sound Blaster Live uses (I know the IRQ is 10). Any clues out there? I'd
appreciate any and all suggestions (provided the suggestion isn't to "stick
it where the sun don't shine).

Why don't you go into your control panel, system, device manager and see
just what settings your sound card is using. Once you have those, start
a DOS box under Windows 98, run the TT INSTALL program and set it to the
same values as Windows is already using.

This doesn't work with every combination, but it's a good start. My
SB64 works just fine (using IRQ 10) this way.

From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es

[Koen Van Hecke]

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 08:57:40 GMT, "Todd Darmody, MD"
DDarm...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

Hi there, fellow Tycoon'ers. I remember playing the game and loving it,
and
still have the old 3.5" floppies. After encountering this newsgroup, I
dug
through the closet and found 'em. Tried to play again, but now that I'm
using Windows 98 I can't play! I'm afraid I don't know what base address
my
Sound Blaster Live uses (I know the IRQ is 10). Any clues out there?
I'd
appreciate any and all suggestions (provided the suggestion isn't to
"stick
it where the sun don't shine).

Why don't you go into your control panel, system, device manager and see
just what settings your sound card is using. Once you have those, start
a DOS box under Windows 98, run the TT INSTALL program and set it to the
same values as Windows is already using.

This doesn't work with every combination, but it's a good start. My
SB64 works just fine (using IRQ 10) this way.

From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es
Hi,

I tried everything you mentioned above but nothing works. I even changed my
autoexec.bat file but it didn't help. Do you have other ideas because I
don't

[Bill Hayles]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:42:05 +0100, "Koen Van Hecke"
<kvanhe...@skynet.be> wrote:

Hi,
I tried everything you mentioned above but nothing works. I even changed my
autoexec.bat file but it didn't help. Do you have other ideas because I
don't

Could you post your soundcard settings as reported by Windows, i.e. the
figures from Control Panel -system - devices - sound, so that we can all
take a look and see if there's anything funny about them.

Also, check the SET BLASTER line in your AUTOEXEC.DOS file to check
that's in agreement with what Windows has set.

From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es

[Koen Van Hecke]

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:42:05 +0100, "Koen Van Hecke"
kvanhe...@skynet.be> wrote:

Hi,
I tried everything you mentioned above but nothing works. I even changed
my
autoexec.bat file but it didn't help. Do you have other ideas because I
don't

Could you post your soundcard settings as reported by Windows, i.e. the
figures from Control Panel -system - devices - sound, so that we can all
take a look and see if there's anything funny about them.

Also, check the SET BLASTER line in your AUTOEXEC.DOS file to check
that's in agreement with what Windows has set.



From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es
windows settings

-SB Live
irq : 10
-SB-16 Emulation
port 260
mpu port 330
adlib port 388
irq 5
8bit dma1
16bit dma 7


-autoexec
set blaster A:260 I:5 D:1 H:7 P:330 T:6

thats all you need I hope
if you want somthing else aks it ok?

[Bill Hayles]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:15:40 +0100, "Koen Van Hecke"
<kvanhe...@skynet.be> wrote:

windows settings
-SB Live
irq : 10
-SB-16 Emulation
port 260
mpu port 330
adlib port 388
irq 5
8bit dma1
16bit dma 7


-autoexec
set blaster A:260 I:5 D:1 H:7 P:330 T:6

thats all you need I hope
if you want somthing else aks it ok?

Is there anyway you can force the port to 220 under Windows and then
alter your DOS environment to match? It's the 260 that's the oddball
here.

Not quite the same, I know, but Windows wanted to give my SB IRQ9, as 5
is occupied by my SCSI card. No way can I get TTDLX to run on IRQ9.
But when I unchecked the "allocate automatically" box and set it to 10,
where there are no conflicts, it worked just fine.

If 220 is used by another device, see if that can be moved somewhere
else to let the SB have 220.


From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es

[Koen Van Hecke]

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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:15:40 +0100, "Koen Van Hecke"
kvanhe...@skynet.be> wrote:


windows settings
-SB Live
irq : 10
-SB-16 Emulation
port 260
mpu port 330
adlib port 388
irq 5
8bit dma1
16bit dma 7


-autoexec
set blaster A:260 I:5 D:1 H:7 P:330 T:6

thats all you need I hope
if you want somthing else aks it ok?

Is there anyway you can force the port to 220 under Windows and then
alter your DOS environment to match? It's the 260 that's the oddball
here.

Not quite the same, I know, but Windows wanted to give my SB IRQ9, as 5
is occupied by my SCSI card. No way can I get TTDLX to run on IRQ9.
But when I unchecked the "allocate automatically" box and set it to 10,
where there are no conflicts, it worked just fine.

If 220 is used by another device, see if that can be moved somewhere
else to let the SB have 220.


From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es
I changed the memory allocation tables manually and now it works just fine

under windows
Thanks for the helk

[Bill Hayles]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 21:14:36 +0100, "Koen Van Hecke"
<kvanhe...@skynet.be> wrote:

I changed the memory allocation tables manually and now it works just fine
under windows
Thanks for the helk

Pleased to hear it, and glad to be of help.

Now just get on and enjoy playing the game!!!


From Benitachell, Alicante, Spain
Bill Hayles
bill...@ctv.es