Ultrasound Daily Digest Tue, 10 Nov 92 Volume 1 : Issue 15 Today's Topics: File request problems fixed. GUS Beginner Questions Ok, what's the GA date now? Price of GUS in canada Ultrasound & OS/2 2.0 Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #12 uploading to epas.utoronto.ca Digest Address: ultrasound@dsd.es.com To post to tomorrow's digest. Request Server Address: ultrasound-request@dsd.es.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, and request files. Owner Address: ultrasound-owner@dsd.es.com To contact a human if the server has troubles. FTP Site #1: ftp epas.utoronto.ca (/pub/pc/ultrasound) Digest back issues, mirror of request server Many thanks to Adam Iles: adam@epas.utoronto.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 0:37:44 MST From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Message-Id: <9211100737.AA06317@itchy> Subject: File request problems fixed. To: Ultrasound Daily Digest There were a couple people who mentioned that they had problems requesting certain files and not others (they couldn't get three-midi or undigest). It turns out I was stupid (surprise! :) and had permission on those files set wrong. Mo. So, they're fixed now. Feel free to request them if you want them. -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ "She had the kind of body that would make a DeBry dsd. peruvian. | bishop kick in a stained glass window." es. cs.utah. | com edu / - Tommy Sledge ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 06:10:16 PST From: "Burns Fisher, VMS DECwindows 09-Nov-1992 0910" Message-Id: <9211091410.AA17996@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> Subject: GUS Beginner Questions To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I've posted the following to usenet comp.sys.ibm.soundcard, but I'm not sure how much these lists overlap, so sorry if there are duplicates: Gravis Ultrasound Questions: 1. I gather that the GUS is sort of a sample player, but with the samples stored in RAM that is writable from the PC. Ok...how do they deal with: 1a. MIDI patch change commands? (Does the application have to load the GUS RAM itself? Not too nice if it is just a standard MIDI application that knows nothing about such things 1b. Attacks? (Is there a separate RAM area for the attack for a particular sound that does not get looped back on?) 2. What MIDI commands are supported? 3. What sort of sysex commands are there? 4. Does the GUS synth have some sort of semi-standard programming interface? In other words, could I expect Cakewalk or some other DOS program to have a driver to run the synth without having to use the Sound Blaster TSR? 5. Does the GUS synth conform to General Midi? 6. Does someone have some specs they can post? I guess that is enough for now. If someone can answer all these, feel free to them as the basis for a FAQ. Thanks! Burns ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 17:22 EST From: "Jeff Wolfe" Message-Id: <9211092224.AA23574@orca.es.com> Subject: Ok, what's the GA date now? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Does anyone have a straight answer from Gravis/(insert your favorite distrib. here.) on when the card will be availible? I called Gavis' 1-800 number a few times and was assured that the cards were shipping as we spoke. However Chips & Bits (which BTW is selling the ultrasound for $129.) says they won't be in for another TWO WEEKS! Does anyone know what the problem really is? it is a supply problem? Are the cards actually being produced? If so, where are they going? -Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 02:12:32 -0500 From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU Message-Id: <9211100712.AA02252@w20-575-79> Subject: Price of GUS in canada To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have a friend from Boston who is now visiting Canada. How much does a GUS cost there? I mean in a regular store, not from Gravis directly since their prices are higher. Please let me know ASAP so that if it's really cheap, I will ask my friend to buy it for me in Canada. -Tim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:29:26 -0500 From: gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca (George Kirikos) Message-Id: <9211091729.AA03493@epas.utoronto.ca> Subject: Ultrasound & OS/2 2.0 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi, I'm having problems getting my new GUS card to work with OS/2 2.0, and would appreciate any tips from those who have succesfully installed the sound card. In the setup program, AFTER all the files are copied to the c:\ultrasnd directory (and decompressed), the program crashes the entire system. I figure that the software looks at all the IRQs, and does other naughty things, so I proceeded to copy the setup program to a floppy disk, and run the program from a DOS boot (i.e. restart system without OS/2). The setup from DOS (choosing IRQs, etc.) seems to go fine (I can hear the sound FX!), so I made note of the various settings, and altered my autoexec.bat file accordingly (for OS/2). I've set up the card to avoid IRQ conflicts. Following p.22 of the GUS maual, my base address is 220, DMA channels are 07, GF1 IRQ is 15, and MIDI IRQ is 2. Using 9 as my MIDI irq yields the same results as using 2 (all other IRQs below 7 are in use). I've played around with different DMA channels, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. (The following is all from within an OS/2 DOS BOX -- I assume a plain dos session (from a floppy - no OS/2) would work fine.) The midi stuff works. The SBOS driver works. The joystick programs work. The ultrafli demo doesn't work. AUDIO won't install. The playdigi won't work (it needs AUDIO). USS8 doesn't work. Playfile works occasionally, but then usually gives a SYS3176 error (see below). For the programs that don't work, here are the only error messages I've seen: a) SYS2237 - no math coprocessor (this only appears for USS8) b) SYS3176 - illegal 386 instruction attempted, program can't continue (this message appears for all the programs that don't work, about 80% of the time) c) "The system detected an internal processing error at location ##0160:fffa2855 - 000d:00048855. 60000, 7014 (Int. Rev. 6.412) d) same as c) but location 0160:fff6452b - a52b c) and d) happened very sporadically, and may be an actual OS/2 bug (might be fixed under latest CSD -- I haven't installed the latest CSD yet). However, problems a) and b) seem to be more serious. Is Gravis using their own memory manager, or doing something else to cause the above problems?? For anyone who has successfully installed the card under OS/2, please post how you did it. Thanks in advance, George P.S. Here's my setup: 386-33 (no math coprocessor), 8MB RAM, only CSD applied was to fix the "non-shrinking swapper.dat" problem. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | George Kirikos Internet: gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca | | Toronto, Canada Telephone: (416) 537-1756 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 9 Nov 92 12:31:07 +0100 From: BJORNHK@dhhalden.no Message-Id: Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #12 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > > CAKEWALK MY ASS!!! This message appeared under my name in UDD #12. I didn't write this, nor - of course - does it reflect my opinions. Either someone with a retarded imagination is trying to be funny, or there's some error somewhere. Just to set the records right. -=* Bjorn :: bjornhk@sofus.dhhalden.no ACCESS DATA :: TEL: (+47)-9-17 50 48/61-97 791 FAX: 61-97 791 BBS: 61-97 304/97 945 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:15:23 -0500 From: adam@epas.utoronto.ca (Adam Iles) Message-Id: <9211091515.AA20322@epas.utoronto.ca> Subject: uploading to epas.utoronto.ca To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > To whoever talked about the FTP site (epas.utoronto.ca) with the GUS > Digest back issues and requests, I tried uploading my second collection of > midi files (my first is 'three-midi' available from request) but I got a > permission denied. Is it possible to put my second set available to other > GUS enthusiasts? I have created a directory (/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit) for submissions to the anonymous ftp server. You should be able to upload files to this directory and then send e-mail to ftp@epas.utoronto.ca describing the upload. DO NOT use the "/upload" directory, since it's intended for our users private use, and no one monitors the directory. > I'm about to send it on wuarchive under the name MIDIS.ARJ and I already > posted it on Usenet. Please feel free to upload it to epas.utoronto.ca and I'll make it available for others to download. If you have any further problems please send me e-mail directly. > +---------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ > | markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca | "My son, ask for thyself | > | For Talk: 8900795@clement.info.umoncton.ca | another kingdom. For that | > |---------------------------------------------+ which I leave is too small | > | When all else fails, read the instructions | for thee" - King Philippe | > +---------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ -- Adam Iles Fractals: EPAS Computing, University of Toronto The tie-dye of the 90's adam@epas.utoronto.ca ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #15 ******************************