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Distorted sound with DOS 3.3 Launcher
- Subject: Distorted sound with DOS 3.3 Launcher
- From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
- Date: 1995/10/11
- Distribution: world
- News-software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.50
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Concordia University
A few weeks ago I installed John MacLean's DOS 3.3 Launcher
(version 2.1) on to my hardrive and proceeded to convert various 5.25
diskettes to use with it. While I've noticed a few glitches with
certain modified versions of DOS (it dislikes Diversi-DOS) and other
kinds of unusual disks in my collection, there's one thing that baffles
me. It's distorting sound-effects and music in various games! Speaker
toggling sounds like it's a few octaves lower and somewhat rough,
certainly different from the way it _should_ sound (yes, it's at 1 MHz).
I'm using it on an IIgs, launching the images by double-clicking
the DOS3.3 image-icons from the System 6.0.1 Finder. Is this a side effect
of GS/OS, where sound should be distorted? I have noticed whenever I launch
ProTERM 3.1 from GS/OS, the sound on that too is distorted in almost the
same way (beeps to signal a transfer is done, or siren when rotary dialing).
ProTERM of course runs under ProDOS 8, and so has nothing to do with DOS 3.3
Launcher, however it is an 8-bit program being launched from GS/OS. Has anyone
else experienced this? I'm curious whether or not this sound distortion is
normal, and if not, what is causing it.
Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca