NEW SOUND BLASTER BOARD USERS
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     As I was there just a few weeks ago, I would like to pass the
following along to all NEW users of SOUNDBLASTER boards.I am not in any
sense of the word an expert with the board but have seen enough HELP
..HOW DO YOU ? .. to realize there is little help for the "Brand new
user" of these boards.There is little advanced stuff here, just "show
me how to" type things.

   ROL2CMF  and a few other spellings, is a way for SOUNDBLASTER boards
play songs that were written for the ADLIB card and have files that
ending in ROL . You will need the following besides your soundblaster
card.
      1. A file that ends in ROL ( *.ROL)
      2. ROL2CMP.EXE (In this library)
      3. Some instruments files for the soundblaster ( *.SBI) or
          "Banks" of instruments for the Adlib (*.BNK ) or instruments
          for the Adlib ( *.INS) Keep in mind that the song has the
          names of the instruments it will need is in the ROL file.I choose
          the SBI instruments that are available in this library.
      4. Now lets say for the example that your files are all in the
          C:\SB directory......
      5. HERE WE GO.....

              ROL2CMF EXAMPLE.ROL EXAMPLE.CMF /S\SB  <enter>

      6. Had we used a bank of instruments we would of typed

              ROL2CMF EXAMPLE.ROL EXAMPLE.CMF /B\SB\BFILE.BNK

           where BFILE.BNK is the name of your bank file.Also try typing
         ROL2CMF <enter> to see a brief help screen.

     Some other files that I have found of interest are:

               SV150.ZIP  Demo of .VOC file viewer
               MMXXX.ZIP  Player for ROL and CMF files like a jukebox
               MUSICIAN.ZIP Music writing program
               SB-SOUND.ZIP this is the mystery "SOUND.COM" you will
                               hear about and is needed to fully emulate
                               an adlib board.
               TRAKBLAS.ZIP Amiga files played on SB board
                -------- and many others ---------

     And Finally as the TECH support person at Creative Labs says,..
     "It's HARDWARE COMPATIBLE not SOFTWARE COMPATIBLE" so don't think
     you can just plug in adlib stuff and have it work.You have to
     translate programs first.Download everything that says
     SOUNDBLASTER, try it,learn,reboot often and amaze yourself.

     Please also check in the GAMERS library under utilities ( GO
     GAMERS ) for other items, MIDI ( GO MIDI ) and the Ultimate BBS
     (803) 895-3536 and of course the Creative Labs BBS (408) 986-1488