Ultrasound Daily Digest Wed, 2 Dec 92 Volume 1 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: EA gripe......again GUS GUS Quality not consistent!!! Mail order details wanted for a source in Canada MODEDIT 3.1 quality of sound in games Ultrasound support 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 People responsible: David DeBry, Adam Iles, Thomas Wong, Chris Yuzik, and many others who should be thanked often. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 15:58:14 PST From: nestlero@khan.usc.edu (Mikeee) Message-Id: <9212012358.AA05055@khan.usc.edu> Subject: EA gripe......again To: Ultrasound Daily Digest O.K. This is the last one... I promise! I had been waiting patiently for my GUS, but no more. Mike from EA(Electronic A**holes for those few misinformed) called me last Tuesday to say that my GUS was in, they were packaging it, and it would be out the door by Wed.(I was supposed to get it by Mon. at the latest). So, of course I got all excited. EA, you see, had upgraded me to overnight delivery for free because I had called and bitched so much. Well, I figured, overnight from Wed., even with Thanksgiving on Thur., I should see my board by Sat. at the latest. Silly me, I forgot I was dealing with Electronic A**holes. Tue. morning, and still no board, so I give Mike a call. He apologizes and all, but it seems they didn't send the boards out until Mon., AND THEY SHIPPED MINE GROUND MAIL!!!!!! Damnit....EA appeased me before by giving me free overnight shipping, only to screw me over by taking it away......(Here Mikeeeeee, bend over and grab your ankles, we're gonna clean out your pipes for ya) Well, maybe I'm losing my patience a little bit, and please excuse the ensuing vulgarities, but FUCK EA. They've screwed me over one time too many times. If anyone out there has direct connections to EA, please relate my feelings. I'm not about to "wait during the silence" anymore, only to find out that they've reamed me yet again. Mikeeeeeeeeee 47z ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 01:24:04 -0800 From: ejohnson@nike.calpoly.edu (I seem to be a verb) Message-Id: <9212010924.AA1390026@nike.calpoly.edu> Subject: GUS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I hope this makes it to the list. I finally got my GUS today from Telemart. I put the 1 meg upgrade on. Everything installed okay, but whenever I play a MIDI file, I get a lot of popping throughout playback. It'll play a file real softly then pop into full volume and then go soft again. My GUS came with v1.21 disks, is there anything newer yet? USS8 is a joke. Is USS10 any better? I have a program called Music Time for Win 3.1 It's a sheet music MIDI program. Because of the GUS patch screwups, I can't get it to work. Has anyone been able to around the problem? I think it's the same thing affecting cakewalk and cadenza. Can anyone recommend sbos settings for the follwing? Dune Might and Magic 4 Wizardry 7 Eye of the Beholder I and II Thanks in advance, Erik ----------------------------------------------------------- And I pick the goddam terror of the gods out of my nose! -------------------------------- ejohnson@hebe.calpoly.edu -------------- ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 92 12:17:48 WET-2 From: IRMIN@rkw-lan.cs.up.ac.za Message-Id: Subject: GUS Quality not consistent!!! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi all, I imported a couple of GUS cards into South Africa for myself and some friends. I've been testing the cards on my machine and have come to a nasty conclusion. [Flame On] "ALL GUS CARDS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL!!!" For instance, my card has a rich full sound. Another card that I tested sounds thin and lacking in quality. For instance in the occasional MID file which produces a bit of static now and again, it will produce alot more static on one card then on another. Not only this but one card will crash my machine when I use the setup program, while another card won't. Why is this? Surely the circuitry on the cards is exactly the same? Or is one card just badly assembled??? [Flame Off] Anyway that is enough of the negative stuff, its just that I feel that quality is very important in a new product if its going to be successful. Otherwise I'm very happy with my GUS. I just bought Starcon II and it is awesome. Can somebody please tell me how to make it work correctly on a 1 Meg card??? And how about a crack. The map is looking old already! Ciao, Irmin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Friends don't let friends buy Sound Blasters! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 10:02:49 GMT From: "James Andrews, User Support" Message-Id: <4742.9212021002@uk.ac.uel.sol1> Subject: Mail order details wanted for a source in Canada To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Seeing as I've been waiting over a month for telemart ( they are polite but dont seem to have any stock :-) ) and there seem to be a lot of them available in Canada because they are made there can someone give me a credit card order number for a reliable source in Canada that does international orders? The price isnt that crucial because the price in the UK is 175 pounds= $264 US Failing that any computer shops in Edmonton that have GUSes in stock would be okay as my flatmates folks live there- although I'd have to muck about a bit sending them cash etc etc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Dec 92 16:00:05 EST From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU Message-Id: <9212012100.AA25602@alfredo> Subject: MODEDIT 3.1 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have downloade MODEDIT 3.1 from wuarchive some time back, but I have never gotten it to work. I run the program, then opened the House of the Rising Sun demo file that came with it. All I got was squeaky noise from the PC speaker and nothing from the GUS audio outlets. I also recalled someone saying in the GUS digest some time back that the GUS does not work with MODEDIT 3.1 but it does with 2.0. Is this true? Hmm...I am already beginning to feel pretty handicapped with the soundcard. Seems like there is so much tweaking and adjusting to do. I still can't get UNREAL to work (setting MIDI IRQ to 2 and trying SBOS -o1 thru -o3 as somone suggested didn't work). ARGH!! Help! -Tim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 09:51:54 GMT From: M.D.Hennessy@cen.exeter.ac.uk Message-Id: <27808.9212020951@olib> Subject: quality of sound in games To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Someone wrote in with a list of games that sounded great, including Monkey Island II. However, they also said that the Inca Demo had excellent music. Hmmm... Can anyone tell me how good the Monkey Island II music sounds, compared with the Roland card. I heard this on a friend's setup a while back and it sounded real good. smaks Mark.H. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 14:34:21 -0700 (MST) From: TSWANSON@BPA.ARIZONA.EDU (QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES.) Message-Id: <921201143421.22203865@BPA.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: Ultrasound support To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Is anyone else getting nervous about support for the GUS. I've received mail from both Sierra and LucasArts that say they will not be supporting the GUS. LucasArts didn't rule out future support, but said not any time soon. Whether you play their games or not, these are two major game developers and I think it's important that they are showing little if any interest in the GUS. Even Gravis doesn't seem to be excited about their card - I've never seen an ad for the GUS and would have never even heard about it if not for c.s.i.p.soundcard newsgroup. I'm waiting for the UPS guy to bring my GUS to the door, but I'm getting concerned that the GUS is not being received by the industry as well as by the people who have bought it. Star Control II was probably the deciding point for me to buy the card because I saw it as a sign that game companies were behind the GUS, but that feeling has dissipated. SCII is still the only game I have seen that has GUS support. Has EA said anything about GUS support? I've never seen this mythical Chuck Yeager special GUS edition. I will continue to make companies aware that I want GUS support in their games, but I'm not convinced that this card will be the new standard. I would suggest that GUS owners drop a note to game developers lobbying for GUS support. Sierra BBS # is 1-209-683-4463 LucasArts can be e-mailed at 75300.454@compuserve.com I also have the following number for Origin BBS, but haven't tried it yet: 1-512-328-8402 (This is an old number and I don't know if it is still valid, I'll try it tonight) Also, if anyone would like to send me addresses (e-mail and snail mail) and BBS #'s of game developers, as well as what they have said about the GUS, I'll compile a list and upload it to the FTP site and send it to the request server. (I feel like such a subversive ;) Later, Ted. ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #36 ******************************