allan@kaynine.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hi all, I purchased the original Worms and Worms Reinforcements, both of which work fine apart from the video clips, and in Reinforcements, the speech and digital audio (not the music) comes out in a crackle. I am using a RPC600, with a DX4/100 card, with version 1.994 of the PC Card Software. Can anyone help?

I've got a RPC600 with a DX-33 card. The video clips (annoyingly) will run from DOS. Go into the directory called FMV and type:
PLAY -noskip .avi
and they should play alright. Apparently the -noskip option is for slower machines. I don't know about the sound as I haven't got a sound card.

allan@kaynine.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hi all, I purchased the original Worms and Worms Reinforcements, both of which work fine apart from the video clips, and in Reinforcements, the speech and digital audio (not the music) comes out in a crackle. I am using a RPC600, with a DX4/100 card, with version 1.994 of the PC Card Software. Can anyone help?

I don't know the game, but...

Create a Basic program containing SYS "Sound_Configure",1,208,48. After Worms has loaded, drop back to RISC OS and run the program. If the crackling noise persists, quit PC and configure your external cache to write through.

Both are required for clean sound with Doom on the DX4-100 card.

Mr J A Hunt wrote:
What exactly does SYS "Sound_Configure",1,208,48 do?

One piece at a time (remember BASIC sets any omitted values to 0) :

SYS "Sound_Configure",1,208,48

"Sound_Configure"

Reconfigure sound system

1

1 channel

208

buffer length of 208 samples

48

sample period of 48us (20833 Hz)

(0)

Do not alter channel handle

(0)

Do not alter scheduler

Anyway, thought you might be interested to hear about a web site I found on my travels which offers links to demos of loads of PC games. There's links to demos of Duke Nukem 3D, Lemmings 3D, Fade to Black, Earthworm Jim, Command & Conquer, Quake etc.