Re: Ultima V doesn't like my Phasor

[corey@drift.winternet.com (Al)]

In article <3g49bd$be1@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
Sean McAfee <mcafee@umich.edu> wrote:
>A short time ago, I picked up a used AE Phasor sound card.  After a bit of
>hassle finding the right adaptors to connect the card's RCA outputs to a
>standard stereo input, I had it up and running on my ][+.  Worked fine.
>
>Then, I tried using it for the REAL reason I bought it: to finally listen
>to the music on Ultima V.  The closest thing I have to a 128K ][e is my
>GS, so I installed it there.  Two problems arose.  1) With the stereo
>wires attached, the card doesn't fit inside a GS case.  2) There's no
>opening in the GS case large enough to accomodate any of the connectors
>from the card to the speaker.
>
>So, I had to run Ultima with the case sitting about an inch forward, off
>its mounts.  It all turned out to be futile, though, since Ultima hung
>when I told it there was a Phasor card in slot 2.  I was puzzled, and
>ran the AE Phasor software on the GS; it worked perfectly.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?  I remembered to set
>slot 2 to "Your Card" in the Control Panel; so that isn't the problem.
>If worst comes to worst, and I just plain can't listen to the Ultima music
>on my GS, might there be a way to extract the music information from the
>Ultima disk, to play using the Phasor system software?

You need a patch to run Ultima V with Phasor support on the GS. I used
to have it but not anymore though sorry.

>
>By-the-by, something I did when trying to get the computer to work with
>the sound card sticking out caused the system settings to revert to their
>default values.  Anyone have any idea what could cause this?
>

Well, I have not had problems with a Phasor in my GS. I did however have to
bend the cable around so it'd fit just right though, but no problems. The
only reason I have as to why yourBRAM got resetted is (happened to me before)
prolly cuz you were trying to adjust it while the power is still on. *shrug*

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-Al
corey@drift.winternet.com