Ultrasound Daily Digest Tue, 22 Dec 92 Volume 1 : Issue 54 Today's Topics: Anyone using Winjammer? Digest Admin: I hate to think it's fixed, but... Digital audio problems with GUS/sbos Epas?? Anyone?? Front Page Sports Football GUS available at BIZMART (Austin, TX) GUS Memory map - help anyone? Newbie needs advise for software/hardware needed for composing music Playing individual patches 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: Mon, 21 Dec 92 11:38:29 CST From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) Message-Id: <9212211738.AA10305@batman.austin.ibm.com> Subject: Anyone using Winjammer? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest If anyone is using Winjammer, please drop me a note! Thanks, ken@austin.ibm.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 15:37:06 MST From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Message-Id: <9212212237.AA17263@itchy> Subject: Digest Admin: I hate to think it's fixed, but... To: Ultrasound Daily Digest It looks like the digest is fixed. I'm hesitant to say that because every time I do, it break in a new, exciting, and totally illogical way. Ah well. Thanks to those of you who mailed me "Good luck on fixing the digest, and thanks for the service notes". The mail gods smiled favorably on those notes and allowed the digest to work once again (for now). =^] Ta da. -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ "Is this a monster I see before me, with DeBry dsd. peruvian. | tentacles instead of hands? Don't let es. cs.utah. | it clutch me!" com edu / - Captain Tempest ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 23:34:18 -0800 From: rcrane@eecs.wsu.edu (Robert Crane - OTHER) Message-Id: <9212220734.AA21669@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu> Subject: Digital audio problems with GUS/sbos To: Ultrasound Daily Digest There is a list that is floating around showing what the different settings of sbos to use with different games. The list gives the impression that sbos supports most or all of these games perfectly well. However, I have been having trouble with the sbos and digital audio. First, the digital audio portion does not work correctly in Front Page Sports Football while playing on the field. During the introduction, the digital audio sounds great but during play it repeats itself (e.g., "f-f-f-first down"). I talked to Dynamix about the problem and they said that they had been receiving a lot of calls concerning the GUS and because of this they planned to make an upgrade so that sbos would work or write a driver for native GUS support. You can get the sound to work in the adlib mode but it sounds horrible and the graphics stop every time they are emitted. Second, the digital audio does not work in Siege even with the -x3 option. I get the message on load up that the digital audio failed to load. (This wouldn't be a memory problem with the GUS would it?). Once again, you can get the adlib mode to work fine. I hope this isn't a problem with my computer only. The digital audio worked fine in the introductions of Ulitma Underworld and FPS Football. Anyone got any of these games to work okay? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:17:53 -0400 (AST) From: Shadow Of Fear Message-Id: Subject: Epas?? Anyone?? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Directly from his dark office on the top of a dark Tower..... \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Hello, Glad to see the digest back. I was kind of worried about loosing the most valuable source of information about the GUS. I tried to connect to archive.epas.utoronto.ca all weekend but I always receive a "unknown host" message. It worked before. What happened? Another site crashed? :-) ____ _ _ _ / \ \ /' )' )' ) | | | / / / | (_|__/ \ / / __. .__ ___ | | __. . . \ . ___ / (__(_/|__) )__/(__ \_/__(_/|__)\_)__/\__)__) <_ Markus on QuartzPARADISE and AfterFive (506)855-4974 - Canada +---------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | markus@info.umoncton.ca | "My son, ask for thyself | | For Talk: markus@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 | +---------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 13:37:02 MST From: bfa!poet@uunet.UU.NET (John Poet) Message-Id: <9212212037.AA10812@noname> Subject: Front Page Sports Football To: Ultrasound Daily Digest According to the list someone posted, sbos is suppose to work fine for Front Page Sports Football. It doesn't for me. I have an AMI Enterprise II EISA motherboard running a 486DX50. sbos actually works acceptably for most games including Falcon 3.0 and Links386, however I have a problem with it and Front Page Sports Football. All of the digities sounds are echoed. For example, when the ref says "First Down" it comes out "FfffiiiirrrrssstttDdddddoooowwwwwnnnnnn". I tried using sbos with various parms with no luck. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. John P. Poet uunet!bfa!poet Systems Software Engineer (505) 828-9120 Aeon Systems 8401 Washington Pl, N.E. Albuquerque, N.M. 87113 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 8:18:48 CST From: ibmpa!hartmann.austin.ibm.com!lance@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann) Message-Id: <9212211418.AA10925@hartmann.austin.ibm.com> Subject: GUS available at BIZMART (Austin, TX) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest While doing some Christmas shopping this weekend, I stumbled upon three (3) GUS's sitting on the shelf at BIZMART in Austin, TX ($139.99). Although the GUS WAS on my Christmas list, I couldn't pass it up :-) :-) :-) Happy Holidays! Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com) Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All statements, comments, opinions, etc. herein reflect those of the author and shall NOT be miscontrued as those of IBM or anyone else for that matter. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 8:45:20 CST From: ibmpa!hartmann.austin.ibm.com!lance@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann) Message-Id: <9212211445.AA12215@hartmann.austin.ibm.com> Subject: GUS Memory map - help anyone? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I purchased and installed a GUS in my 486/50 (NOT DX2) ISA-based machine (AMI BIOS, ETEQ chipset) this weekend. I accepted all the defaults and everything seemed okay. I have a question, though, regarding the memory map. Yes, I AM calling Gravis today to discuss with them, but since I haven't seen this topic explored on the list I thought I'd go ahead and introduce/share it with all. Like I said, I accepted all the defaults so my card installed at location 220. In the manual the memory map is described as: UltraSound's Port locations are spread out through the PC's I/O map.... Here is a brief map....so you can find a base port location that will not interfere.... Joystick -- 200/201 <----- yes, I AM using it The rest of the ports are based off the base port...The "X" represents 0-F hexadecimal. 2X8-2XC -- Ad Lib/Sound Blaster 388, 389 -- Ad Lib 3X0-3X1 -- MIDI interface 2X2-3X2 -- GF1 2X0, 2XD, 2XE -- GF1 Now just WHAT does this all mean? How do you use these numbers with the base port? They're not described as offsets. When the doc says the "X" represents 0-F hexadecimal, is one supposed to SUBSTITUTE ALL hex values, OR just one depending on the base port? For example, is the documentation stating that for: 2X8-2XC (Ad Lib/Sound Blaster) the following address ranges: 208-20C (note substitution of hex value 0 for middle nibble) 218-21C (note substitution of hex value 1 for middle nibble) 228-22C (note substitution of hex value 2 for middle nibble) 238-23C (note substitution of hex value 3 for middle nibble) 248-24C (note substitution of hex value 4 for middle nibble) 258-25C (note substitution of hex value 5 for middle nibble) 268-26C (note substitution of hex value 6 for middle nibble) 278-27C (note substitution of hex value 7 for middle nibble) 288-28C (note substitution of hex value 8 for middle nibble) 298-29C (note substitution of hex value 9 for middle nibble) 2A8-2AC (note substitution of hex value A for middle nibble) 2B8-2BC (note substitution of hex value B for middle nibble) 2C8-2CC (note substitution of hex value C for middle nibble) 2D8-2DC (note substitution of hex value D for middle nibble) 2E8-2EC (note substitution of hex value E for middle nibble) 2F8-2FC (note substitution of hex value F for middle nibble) ARE all used by the card? Or, are you supposed to substitute the missing nibble with a value from the base port? For example, since I installed at base 220, should I ONLY replace the "X" with a "2" so that: 2X8-2XC (Ad Lib/Sound Blaster) ONLY uses the address range: 228-22C (Ad Lib/Sound Blaster) for my particular setup? Thanks to all in advance (forgive the pun), Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com) Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All statements, comments, opinions, etc. herein reflect those of the author and shall NOT be miscontrued as those of IBM or anyone else for that matter. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:15:57 -0800 From: rcrane@eecs.wsu.edu (Robert Crane - OTHER) Message-Id: <9212220815.AA21921@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu> Subject: Newbie needs advise for software/hardware needed for composing music To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have a Gravis Ultrasound and I would like to start composing and playing music with it. I am a completely ignorant as to what equipment or software that I will need. I suppose that I would need a MIDI keyboard but I have no idea about what type I should get. What do you need the keyboard to do that the GUS cannot do? I would be extremely grateful for any advise or directions to FAQs existing out there that could help me. Thanks for your patience. ---------- -bob crane (rcrane@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu) "Ah Limbo!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 2:58:20 AST From: F. Wallace Peers Message-Id: <9212220658.AA04724@orca.es.com> Subject: Playing individual patches To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Someone asked about playing individual patches a few digests back. I can't remember the exact letter. Anyway, I was playing with some of the stuff I downloaded from Epas (now that I have some time) and I came across a program called KbMidi. It's for windows and lets you play all the notes for each individual instrument. It does all the instuments seperately (hence it plays indidual .pat files I assume) so that you can get a good feel for the instrument. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PEERSFW@NEWTON.CCS.TUNS.CA F. Wallace Peers "There is no law that vulgarity and literary excellence cannot coexist." - A. Trevor Hodge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #54 ******************************