[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] PC Lyra

[Robert Gault]

Depends on your sound card. For example, the Audigy2 has minimal or no 
DOS support. Any program that expects SB16 DOS drivers probably won't 
work even in Win95 or Win98 with that card.

Mike Nelson wrote:

> 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.
> 
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