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From: syzmik AT concentric DOT net (Meta)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Sound in Allegro demos/games
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:21:13 GMT
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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References: <865518148 DOT 143119 AT red DOT parallax DOT co DOT uk> <W+8mrUAcDrmzEwU4 AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

>That's very interesting! I'm not sure I've ever seen a card using IRQ
>11, before, so you could well have hit on a problem with my SB setup
>code (btw. what breed is your soundcard?).

My sound card (SB-comp 16bit Telsnd) also defaults to IRQ 11, and that
causes problems when trying to run games compiled by such inferior
things as Watcom (Doom, Descent, etc). I think the extender or
compiler has trouble letting programs access IRQ's higher than 7 or 9.

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