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From: blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius)
Subject: Re: Return to Zork demo is available on ftp.gmd.de
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 19:28:52 GMT
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>It just means that when you run the demo you will have to indicate that
>you don't have a sound card(i.e. pc speaker).

Really? I understood that you can tell it to use the PC speaker as music 
device, but then a box pops up asking you to choose the sound device, and I 
didn't see 'none' or 'PC speaker' among the 10 or so options there. 
When I clicked on anything on my office machine here (no sound card 
installed), the demo ran at first much too fast, but eventually the machine 
froze.

On my PC at home (MT-32, SoundBlaster Pro) the demo worked probably as it 
should. The music was OK, but speech was just one garbled mess (even worse 
than LGOP2) - I think they just couldn't do it better because the docs say, 
"We are working with Creative Labs on how to improve the quality of speech 
output" or some such.

Volker

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Volker Blasius, GMD-I8.iT  <Volker.Blasius@gmd.de>
Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung
(National Research Centre for Informatics and Information Technology)
