Ultrasound Daily Digest Wed, 16 Dec 92 Volume 1 : Issue 49 Today's Topics: Digest Digest Admin: New FTP site(s)! Please read! Digest Admin: So you say you haven't seen any digests? EISA + GUS works fine EMPTY! Good news for MIDI sufferers GUS on an EISA computer help! List maintainer finally gets a GUS MIDI sequencers for GUS SBOS and Windows sbos for darkseed? SLOWDOWN OF GALACTIX ver. 1.0B SuperStor Pro Tech Line help?? Really?? Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #45 Where are you Chris Yusik? Information about the UltraSound Daily Digest (such as mail addresses, request servers, ftp sites, etc., etc.) can be found at the end of the Digest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:28:27 EST From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU Message-Id: <9212152328.AA17222@w20-575-80> Subject: Digest To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have not been receiving the digest in two days? Why is that? -Tim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:52:09 PST From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Message-Id: <9212160352.AA02600@itchy> Subject: Digest Admin: New FTP site(s)! Please read! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest There have been a few changes in the way FTP works for all the GUS stuff: 1] The area on epas.utoronto.ca has been moved to archive.epas.utoronto.ca. You may have trouble finding that site, as the name is still propagating out through the internet. 2] We have a new FTP site: wuarchive.wustl.edu. As many of you know, this site is mirrored to many other sites, and well as just mounting its disks all over the internet, so hopefully it will be easier for you to get to this stuff. 3] The two sites (epas & wuarchive) will be identical to each other, except for the fact that ONLY archive.epas.utoronto.ca will accept uploads into its submit directory. (Please submit!) 4] Major thanks to Thomas Wong and Adam Iles for getting these sites set up and maintained. It's a nasty, thankless job (except they get all the programs first!), but they do it anyway. A BIGHAND.SND for both of them. (Sorry, bad joke.) Here is the README file that is currently on both sites. > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Gravis Ultrasound Archive Sites - README File > --------------------------------------------- > =================================================================== > Ftp site: epas.utoronto.ca Directory: pub/pc/ultrasound > wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/msdos/ultrasound > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This area is devoted to information and utilities supporting the Gravis > Ultrasound card for ISA based computers. Subdirectories are as follows: > > digest - an archive of the ultrasound@dsd.es.com mailing list > > gravis-disks - upgrade and patch files from Gravis > > info - all sorts of info files not in request mailserver > > midi-files - sample midi files to show off what our Ultrasound can do > > patches - new patches (.pat files) for the Ultrasound > > request - a mirror of the files available from > ultrasound-request@dsd.es.com > > soundutil - sound utilities for the Ultrasound > > submit - an area to upload submissions to be included for this area. > Note: Submission is available in epas.utoronto.ca only > > You may upload files to the submit directory and send e-mail to > ftp@epas.utoronto.ca describing the upload. Any files uploaded > without an description received via e-mail will not be accepted. > > Note: Thus far, submissions are accepted in epas.utoronto.ca only. > > Like most anonymous ftp sites we have finite resources that can be > allocated to anonymous ftp. In order to maximize the functionality of > this site it is not considered appropriate to act as a general archive > site for digitized recordings. > > No warranty is made as to the correctness of the information made > available or the programs being offered. EPAS Computing, the > University of Toronto and anyone associated with Wuarchive will not be > held accountable for any ordings.damage caused by using either the > information or programs retrieved from the anonymous ftp server. > > Questions and comments may be directed to ftp@epas.utoronto.ca for the > archive at epas.utoronto.ca, or twong@civil.ubc.ca for the archive at > wuarchive.wustl.edu. As of now, submissions should go only to epas. Not to wuarchive, not to the list server. Adam, Thomas, and I are working out a method for testing the software and making it available on both FTP servers as well as the mail server. Also, PLEASE include some kind of file explaining what it is that you are uploading! Thanks, and enjoy! -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ "She had the kind of body that would evacuate DeBry dsd. peruvian. | a monastery." es. cs.utah. | com edu / - Tommy Sledge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:41:43 PST From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Message-Id: <9212160341.AA02573@itchy> Subject: Digest Admin: So you say you haven't seen any digests? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Yes, we have been having some problems down here. As a result, the digests have been acting weird for the past few days. First, our link to the internet went away for the weekend, resulting in two digests (1200 mail messages :) getting queued up behind the dead box. Then the digest machine bit the big one (you "old timers" remember the %itchy thing?)... And all during finals, a big crunch at work, and at the same time I finally got my GUS (covered in a different message). In any case, it should be up and working now. BTW: For those of you who are saving up digests, I've decided that I'm going to increment the volume number and reset the # counter every quarter (better subdivision in the ftp sites, we can tar together volumes that are older than 2 quarters). So, expect V2 #1 around the beginning of January, and V3 #1 around the beginning of April, etc, etc. -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ "She had the kind of body that would evacuate DeBry dsd. peruvian. | a monastery." es. cs.utah. | com edu / - Tommy Sledge ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:11:46 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Henning Message-Id: <9212141511.AA14060@dtek.chalmers.se> Subject: EISA + GUS works fine To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I read a question about whether the GUS will work on an EISA machine. I have the GUS installed on a Mitac EISA 4270G, and it runs perfectly. I've had no hardware problems at all. -- Andreas "Mr Spock" Henning |Hydrogen is a gas, which,| Chalmers e-mail : d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se |given enough time, turns | University BBS : +46-(0)31-132310 |into people. | Of Snail : Traelasv. 23 42168 V.F Sweden| | Technology ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 05:17:56 EST From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU Message-Id: <9212141018.AA29298@marinara> Subject: EMPTY! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I just ftp'd to epas.utoronto.ca and went into the pub/pc/ultrasound directory. It's EMPTY except for a file called README which is empty too!!!! What's happening?? -Tim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:20:03 CST From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) Message-Id: <9212142020.AA07050@batman.austin.ibm.com> Subject: Good news for MIDI sufferers To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi all, I talked to the fine folks at Advanced Gravis today. They are beta testing a new set of Windows drivers that supposedly *include working MIDI IN*! The will be going out to beta test folks around the country (or world I guess) soon - like within a week. Time to get chummy with your local beta tester! ;-) Also, they are compiling a new set of General MIDI patches that will replace the existing patches we have. These have a new kind of header, and I suppose they will be different (maybe better where needed?) than the existing patch set. Unfortunately, Gravis' MIDI connector box won't be out until January. . Of course, there are other connector boxes out there. The guy I talked with (I'm so bad with names) said that it might be better to get the Media Lab (is that what he called it? I left my notes at home. Media something) box instead of the Creative Labs box. Hmmmm. Gravis is trying to get their MIDI box together in time to show it off at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchandisers?) show in mid-January. This is a good sign - they have enough faith in the Ultrasound to take it to a trade show where Joe Blow can hobnob with the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, etc. Could get some nice exposure! If anybody can clarify any of my babblings, feel free to do so. Also, if a Channing Corn reads this digest (or someone who knows him), drop me a line - ken@austin.ibm.com. Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 9:56:36 EST From: Mike Me Message-Id: <9212141456.AA04272@sparko.gwu.edu> Subject: GUS on an EISA computer To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Well, I hope this is the way to reply to the mail-server. I guess I'll hear it soon enough. I have a Gateway 486 33 EISA and have no MAJOR problems running the GUS. Starcon II kicks butt like usual, and even SBOS seems to work descently. I have some problems with WING-COMM_2, but have yet to really give it a try. The GUS and EISA seem to be very happy together, so I'd suggest trading in the OLD OPTI ISA board and going for the EISA. Just my 2 cents, MikeE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:35:40 -0500 From: PATEL RAJIV NARENDRA Message-Id: <92Dec15.113550est.40857@credit.erin.utoronto.ca> Subject: help! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I hope one of you can help me... I don't have FTP access, so I have to use the ftpmail service. I tried to get a directory of epas, but got a reply stating that the site I had requested does not exist. Could somebody please post the full address for the ftp site on epas (and if possible the commands I need to send ftpmail to get directories and files from epas) Thanks a lot... Rajiv Patel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:36:22 PST From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Message-Id: <9212160336.AA02545@itchy> Subject: List maintainer finally gets a GUS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Well, I finally went out and bought a GUS. (I didn't even know they were in stock in this town, but a friend of mine on the list got one and told me about it. Thanks, Brian!) Yeah, I know, bad example for the person running the list to not have a card until now, but that's life. (Of course, I got it just as finals started at school, which means my grades for this quarter have been completely shot to hell. But that's ok, 'cause I've got a GUS! :) Now that I've played with it a little (most of the time was spent installing it, only about 2 hours of play time on it so far, sorry! :), I have a couple of comments for various people out there: To the guy who is maintaing the list of games and their SBOS switches: Will you please consider adding other things to your list besides games? For instance, I'd rather avoid reading all the back issues of the digest to find the correct SBOS switch for WOWII or GTS or MODPLAY or MODEDIT or... you get the idea. :) To people who have various demos, utilities, applications, etc., running on their GUS: Will you all please repost how you got the programs working (SBOS, driver massaging, what animals to sacrifice) so the info can be added to the above-mentioned list? To whoever has a good working knowledge of USS8: I know this program has problems, but is there a way to AT LEAST sample to the GUS' memory, instead of going down the bus to the hard drive? Blech! You'd think that Gravis would use their own on-board resources when possible! -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ "She had the kind of body that would evacuate DeBry dsd. peruvian. | a monastery." es. cs.utah. | com edu / - Tommy Sledge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:49:42 EST From: oehler@smpvax.dnet.ge.com Message-Id: <9212152149.AA05754@crdgw1.ge.com> Subject: MIDI sequencers for GUS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Good Morning All, I could wait no longer. I went and bought a GUS. It is a great improvement over my previous PAS. It is lacking in software, however, and hence, this posting. I am in search of a MIDI sequencer that will work with GUS. I hear WinJammer will do the trick (after a bit of fondling to get the patches loaded correctly). Are there any other shareware alternatives? Also, I have no FTP access (i can only send and receive mail, I can't remotely logon all over the world like some of you), so how can I get a hold of these programs? Finally, are there good commercial sequencers available? I've heard Cakewalk Pro for Windows is supposed to be spiffy. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help, Pete Oehler ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:13:30 -0800 From: haslock@fungus.zso.dec.com Message-Id: <9212150113.AA18412@fungus.zso.dec.com> Subject: SBOS and Windows To: Ultrasound Daily Digest What is the reason that SBOS and Windows do not mix? My system is frequently used by my offspring to play games and I haven't reached the point where I can trust my 4 year old to exit windows and invoke a specific batch file to start a game. Even my 10 year old is somewhat disgusted with the mechanics of starting up the particular game he wants. On the other hand, the crowd around the machine was highly entertained when After Dark triggered Creepy Night on top of one of the midi demo files. Finally, I have yet to find a setting that will let Super Solvers Ancient Adventures produce its music track. Nigel haslock@rust.zso.dec.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:34:34 -0700 From: Rick Cole Message-Id: <199212152234.AA17804@redwood.cs.Colorado.EDU> Subject: sbos for darkseed? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Has anyone had any luck using sbos with the game darkseed? The introductory music sounds good using -o1 or -o2, but at the point where the actual game begins, just before the key disk is read, my system hangs requiring a reboot. My other games work fine. Any ideas? Thanks! Rick rickcole@cs.colorado.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 04:26:54 -0800 From: thomasp@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Thomas Pearson) Message-Id: <9212141226.AA27281@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU> Subject: SLOWDOWN OF GALACTIX ver. 1.0B To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I might have a problem with a program called "Galactix". I have version 1.0B by the way. When I play it with sbos 1.22( no parameters) it is DAM slow. I am using DMA #6 and even with no memory managers in the computer it stops every time an explosion occurs or extra noise. The background sounds don't seem to stop the graphics, but when the ship is hit--stop goes the display. It is somewhat jerky on my 25Mhz 486DX without any sound, but still annoying. But with the SBOS install-- Noise-noise-stop-noise-stop. It is a pain to play. Did I do something wrong?? Do I have a slow version of Galactix. The games list says that no parameters are used, but it also says ver. 1.3. I got it from ulowell at the end of last month. Is there a new version?? That is all. Either post here or send me E-mail. Happy GUSSING!!!! Don't let the SBProian's bite!!! /****************************************************************************\ * Thomas Pearson |Internet: * * California State University, Fresno|thomasp@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU * \****************************************************************************/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:55 EST From: MCI102@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Message-Id: <9212142055.AA20922@orca.es.com> Subject: SuperStor Pro To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Ok...Here's a quick question for all of you. I have had my ultrasound now for over a month and I have been collecting software left and right. I came to the point where I was almost running out of space on my HD. I decided to then install SuperStor Pro on my 486/50Mhz. At first everything seemed ok. I ran a couple of my usual games using SBOS 1.22 and everything seemed ok. I then tried WC2 and I got not enough memory. (I'm going to try loading SBOS high and see if that is enough) My question stems to the fact that when I try to run Starcon II, my comuter *TOTALLY* crashes! I end up cold booting it. Before I had SuperStor Pro on my HD, everything worked ok. Do I need to reinstall the ultrasound software? Has anyone gotten the ultrasound to work in native mode with Superstor Pro? (BTW windows apps still work fine) Oh...I just remembered...when I try flidemo or mididemo, I get an error saying error -6- or something like that?!? (and it does nothing) Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Mike Irvin MCI102@psuvm.psu.edu Happy GUSing!!! ------------------------------ Date: 14 Dec 92 9:37 -0800 From: Thomas Wong Message-Id: <2609*twong@civil.ubc.ca> Subject: Tech Line help?? Really?? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Well Chad. I think you just happened to have caught a Gravis techie napping. :) He didn't sound like he was all together at the time. My calls to Gravis tech line has been quite good. Tell you what though. Since you are not in Vancouver, hence you'll be making long distance calls. Why don't you email to Alan, another tech guy at 71333.350@compuserve.com. Free to all who has email access. Thomas. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:11:45 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Harrison Message-Id: Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #45 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > From: Frank van Ierland > Subject: CD-INTERFACE conector > > As i've recently installed a NEC-CDR84 internal CD-ROM drive in my > computer i would lik to know the pinout of the 4 pin CD-AUDIO connector > on the gravis board. My gues is L--R but i'am not sure. > > Has anny one out there used this connector ? And... > From: Lyn Holman > Subject: GUS and linking audio form CDROM drive > > There are 4 connector pins on the GUS denoted by 'CDROM' (top - about > centre of card) which I have been told by my supplier over here are for > audio input from a CDROM drive, the 2 centre pins being ground and the > other L and R inputs. > Has anyone tried to link in using this - and if so with what results. > > Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks. I've used the CDROM audio in on the GUS and am happy to report that it works flawlessly on my system. The pins are Left signal, left ground, right ground, and right signal. I don't know which side is left and which is right, but you can just try playing something on one side or the other to see if you have it backwards. I ordered a cable for the CDROM from their company, but I had to build the GUS side from scratch. I couldn't find an adapter for the GUS, but with a little creativity I got one hacked together. And I've been seeing a lot of stuff about OPTi chipsets recently. I had my motherboard replaced a few weeks ago and my new chipset is OPTi 82c391/392. Since I've gotten the new motherboard, I've had no problems. Also, I've seen people saying that some things work and some don't. I narrowed down the problems I was having to one. SBOS wouldn't play digitized sound. Everything else worked fine. So for those of you who have said that playmidi, flidemo, etc. worked fine, you might have problems but don't notice them because of this. Don't assume that since most things work it isn't a big deal. That is unless you can do without digitized sounds from SBOS. Mark Harrison harrison@sun.lclark.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 12:50:57 -0500 From: "It's your hand, Buckaroo" Message-Id: <9212141750.AA22372@magick.tay2.dec.com> Subject: Where are you Chris Yusik? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > What is Chris Yusik's internet address? Gravis (on compuserve) > gave me an address but I get a 'unknown user' error each time. They say > it's the right address but it doesn't work. They gave me > chris_yusik@sfu.ca . Is it the right address? No, it's NOT the correct address. The last time I "spoke" with Chris, he was at yuzik@sfu.ca (The From: field was 'yuzik@sfu.ca')... This doesn't bode well for Tech Support if they can't even get the Email address of their own sales folks correct! DDA ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #49 ******************************