How did you turn orbitsave=sound on? Put it in sstools.ini?
I always initiate it with the <G> command line. I wouldn't put it in the ini file since it is a rarely used function.
Otherwise, shutting down DOSBox and restarting should have worked.
Yes, and this morning when I sat down to work on this restarting DOSBox did disable the ORBITSAVE=sound function, so that is a big relief. Very cumbersome, but doable.
...the original orbitsave function was to cause IFS and LORENZ types to output an acrospin file. The orbitsave=sound feature commandeered the variable and provided no way to turn it off. I will fix it in the SDL version.
While adding the PC speaker in your SDL version is a huge step forward for those few of us who enjoy this feature (and in many ways, I prefer the sound card emulation of the old PC speaker) , it is still quite limited without the ability to use the sound card as in the DOS version, I will need to continue using the DOS version in DOSBox for the foreseeable future. Is there no practical way to add an ORBITSAVE=no to the DOS version? I don't recall this being a problem when using the DOS version on a DOS machine. I am attempting to fire up my 25yr old PII W98 to double check that (and sooo thankful not to have to deal with all the bugs and configuration issues in those days!). Surprise...the CMOS battery is dead... while waiting I had a thought. At some point, a decision was made to make the sound parameters "sticky" since there are so many of them. I have a feeling that decision may have been made after the last time I used the ORBITSAVE=sound feature and the problem may have been lurking there all this time, used by no one since! But now that the sound parameters are sticky, even disabling all of them by hand via <ctr><F> doesn't disable since there is nowhere to do so for the orbitsave. If this is the case, and it can't be easily fixed, I would MUCH rather deal with the very rare need to restart DOSBox than have the sound parameters not be sticky. On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 9:28 AM Jonathan Osuch <osuchj@mediacombb.net> wrote:
Bill,
Although I was sort of responsible for the ORBITSAVE=sound feature, I haven't used it for years - since I was using it to be transformed into midi files in the late 90's or early 2000's. Anyway, I was checking today to see if it (fractint v 20.04.14) operated as expected, using DOSBox. It seems to work fine - once I was able to locate where the txt file was saved. However, I can't remember how to turn off the ORBITSAVE=sound from the command line - even restarting via <ins> doesn't clear it from writing the txt file. I shut down DOSBox and restarted it and fractint, then generated the default mandelbrot. No sound parameters were invoked at all, but still the SOUNDxxx.txt file was produced...empty, but still being made.
How did you turn orbitsave=sound on? Put it in sstools.ini? Otherwise, shutting down DOSBox and restarting should have worked.
Can you refresh my memory as to how to turn this off? Do we need a command line such as ORBITSAVE=off? I'm really not keen on generating a new .txt file every time I use fractint<g>.
Well, that's ugly. Ideally, you should be able to press <G> to bring up the prompt screen and then enter orbitsave=no to turn it off. However, the original orbitsave function was to cause IFS and LORENZ types to output an acrospin file. The orbitsave=sound feature commandeered the variable and provided no way to turn it off. I will fix it in the SDL version.
Jonathan
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