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R80 emulator sound problem

RockfordRockford
edited November 2005 in Emulators
I've used the R80 Emulator on my old pc without a problem - but since installing it on my laptop I get a crackling background noise (everything else works fine). I've tried messing about with the ini file with no luck. Can anyone help, or should I just go for another emulator?
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  • piterspiters
    edited November 2005
    Try with some newer one...
    (Otherwise programmers will feel that work for nothing :) )
  • ewgfewgf
    edited November 2005
    I seem to remember that I had that problem when I used v0.3, but earlier versions didn't have that sound bug. Try earlier versions, or use a different emulator (X128 or RealSpectrum for DOS, or Spectaculator, Spin or EmuZwin for Windows, maybe).
  • RockfordRockford
    edited November 2005
    Thanks for the help - think I'll try a new emulator. I only installed R80 as I knew what all the function keys did!
  • biotoxinbiotoxin
    edited November 2005
    Open file - r80.ini (in R80 directory) in Wordpad, and change sound to opl2, sb (Sound Blaster) or GUS.
    (ctrl+f "Sound Card").

    If nothing happens, then reinstall your sound card drivers :), or use other emulator.

  • na_th_anna_th_an
    edited November 2005
    Are you running Windows 2000 or Windows XP in your laptop?

    Then, that's your problem. R80 is a MSDOS application. It won't sound right until you download and install VDMSound (it's free), which provides a better emulation of the soundsystem in MSDOS than the Window's NTVDM does.
  • Arm73Arm73
    edited November 2005
    Also I had some problems once even with Spectaculator and Magic Engine, all I had to do(following a tip from Jon ) was to disable the hardware accelleration for my sound device trough DXdiag.
    Note that it's not necessary to completely disable accelleration, but moving the slide to the left just one position at the time until the problem is solved.
  • RockfordRockford
    edited November 2005
    Again, thanks everyone for their help. I'm new to this forum and I've been very impressed with the speedy responses! I installed VDMSound and it now works like a dream ...
  • Bluce_ReeBluce_Ree
    edited November 2005
    i used R80 for a long time, i really like that emulator.

    I use ZXSpin now as it seems to do just about everything.
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