Hello John and other Csounders--

I'm relatively new to the list and have recently been brushing up my
Csound materials, skills, etc. I've also been trying to get Csound up
and running on several Electronic Music Studio 286 clones (real oldies).
I have the following questions:

1) John, you told me recently that the .wav filelength error ("off by
4") had been fixed (in the .wav header info). Earlier I had found the
problem only in the 286 with coprocessor version (not higher). In
working with this same version (only *updated* from your site) a few
days ago, I find the problem still exists. (I know it is the same
problem because I wrote a short C routine to correct the error, and the
same routine still fixes the problem!) Can you shed some light on this
situation? (The computer involved is a Zenith 286 with math coprocessor;
also see further below.)

2) The same machine and software combo, when Csound starts up, gives a
host of "sread: requests more memory" messages (20 or more). This is
prior to f-table generation. I think there is about 4Meg of extended
memory in the machine, though I am not sure of the configuration--it may
not be all useable as it's on an expansion card. In any case the program
continues executing normally, though seemingly at a snail's pace (of
course I've become accustomed to *much* faster machines).

3) Our studio also has a couple of Tandy 1000(ex?)'s with coprocessors,
on which I'm attempting to run the same latest 286 (with coprocessor)
version of Csound. The first problem is that Csound doesn't even really
get started. Even before the startup *version* display I get the message
(something like) "can't find output device AUX." And stop. What does
this mean and what is the solution?

4) Believe it or not the 286 Tandy 1000's (they were a "gift," believe
me) have only 8-bit slots, so we are using 8-bit original Sound Blaster
cards. So we need 8-bit WAV output from Csound. The 8-bit needs to be
*unsigned* too. I noticed that a recent upgrade to Csound added 8-bit
unsigned output, but the necessary command line flag is not indicated in
the documentation. What is the new flag, and is it incorporated into the
286 with coprocessor version?

Thanks in advance to whoever can help with these questions. And John, I
appreciate very much being able to talk with you at SEAMUS and all the
help and support *you* have given me and many other composer Csound
enthusiasts. Your work is invaluable. Your extensive involvement in the
major Csound download package from "KeyBoard" (www.keyboardmag.com) was
also noticed and highly appreciated. Best regards.

Art Hunkins
UNCG Electronic Music Studios