Jonathan,

Thanks so much! I'll try those suggestions - sorry if I have repeated myself, but getting back into Fractint sounds again has been like reinventing the wheel for me.

Cheers,
Bill

On 5/5/2011 6:17 AM, Jonathan Osuch wrote: 
Bill,


Earlier I had mentioned what I thought was unique behavior of Fractint
when run under DOSBox, specifically the shifting of pitch in sound
files when changing resolution. It turns out that that is not unique
to DOSBox. It works that way on my 486 W98 using ver. 20.03.1. 

However, on my 386 W95, I have ver. 19.6. That was prior to the <ctrl
+F> sound parameter inclusion. There is no provision in that version
to use your sound card or control pitch...just x,y or z and orbitdelay
via the <x> screen. Also, the orbitsave=sound command was not
included. In that version. The changing of display parameters in 19.6
doesn't change the pitch. I noticed, as well, that the "calibrating
timer" notice no longer appears  when entering the <o> (oh) command
during image generation in or after the ver.20 release,. I suspect
that that may have something to do with the pitch shifting. Just a
hunch.

If you add the parameter debug=4020 the old timer will be used.

Also, try moving the sound= parameter to after all the other sound
related parameters, as suggested earlier.  The sound card does not get
properly initialized with the order Fractint currently writes the sound
parameters to the PAR.  I have this fixed in my version, but probably
won't have time to put together a formal patch until June.

Jonathan



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