[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] PC Lyra

[Mike Nelson]

At 04:00 PM 12/1/03 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/30/03 10:00:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>mjnelson12 at comcast.net writes:
>
>> No,no,no. I am talking about Lyra, that was created for the Coco by 
>>  Lester Hands. He also made a version for the Pc. I was able to 
>>  download it from some site about 2 years ago and now I can't find 
>>  that site. I know I was able to play PC Lyra when I downloaded it, 
>>  but now it doesn't work.
>
>Somewhere I have a sample floppy (5") of an early version of PC Lyra, that 
>Lester Hands gave me (as a professional courtesy, since I gave him a Coco 
>UltiMusE-III disk).  It looked better than the Coco version, more than 256 
>pixels 
>wide I think, maybe even 640 pixels?  I have to be careful with my memory, 
>since 
>he also gave me a preliminary OS9 version that looked exactly like the RSDOS 
>original.
>
>ISTR that the PC version was white notes and staff lines on a black 
>background, due to the early PC graphics hardware.
>
>You say your copy doesn't work now -- could it be you have  newer version of 
>Windows, and the PC Lyra would work only under DOS, or an old Windows like 95?
>That's one reason I'm sticking with Win98.  --Mike K.

I'm running the same version of Windows as I was (98). It automatically
runs under DOS.
I just thought someone would know what the proper parmeters would be for my
sound card because when I try to play a song, it tells me it can't find the
sound card.