Ultrasound Daily Digest Thu, 31 Dec 92 Volume 1 : Issue 63 Today's Topics: Digest Admin: Is a split needed? DRAM.EXE New Windows Drivers New windows drivers fix static probs! Programming the GUS SBOS 1.23 SBOS options base SWOTL SBOS Settings anyone? (& Q on re-launch windows) Voice Recognition 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: Wed, 30 Dec 92 16:21:46 MST From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Message-Id: <9212302321.AA04803@itchy> Subject: Digest Admin: Is a split needed? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest There was a comment made a few days ago that the digest had deteriorated into a "how do you get this game to work" forum. I've been watching, and there does seem to be a large amount of this going on. I'm wondering if it calls for a split into two or more digests or mailing lists. Perhaps a "gus-user" and a "gus-programmer"? Maybe "gus-gamer" and "gus-applied"? Or, "gus-gamer", "gus-user", "gus-programmer"? You would only have to be on the lists you were interested in, but you could be on as many as you wanted to be on. Any input on this? -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ "Wait!" "Can you explain?" "I can explain!" DeBry dsd. peruvian. | "This better be good. They shot you last es. cs.utah. | week." com edu / - Dr. Frank N. Furter and Audience ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 02:58:45 -0500 From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU Message-Id: <9212310758.AA29936@marinara> Subject: DRAM.EXE To: Ultrasound Daily Digest When SBOS is installed, running DRAM.EXE produces the following: Gravis Ultrasound detected at Hex Base: 220 1024k Dram installed on your Ultrasound. Testing onboard DRAM...... Gravis Ultrasound FAILED DRAM Test! ...and all the DRAMs show XX's. But when SBOS is uninstalled with -f, it reports all OK's. Is this supposed to be the way DRAM works? Why should the test fail when SBOS is installed? -Tim ------------------------------ Date: 30 Dec 92 23:17:26 EST (Wed) From: orbit@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us (Adam Traidman) Message-Id: <9212302317.AA20802@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us> Subject: New Windows Drivers To: Ultrasound Daily Digest After having downloaded the new windows drivers, I was glad to see that WinMod can now play in 16bit, stereo. Good job guys... Anyhow, I have a question... With the new windows drivers, the MediaPlayer is actually loading the patches into GUS RAM, so I should get quality equal to PLAYMIDI outside of windows, correct? Also, do I need to edit the patch maps, and choose "Ultra" for each of the channels, as opposed to none? By the way, exactly what do the patch maps do? Thanks, any help would be great..... -->Adam Traidman<-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 15:13:48 PST From: "Burns Fisher, VMS DECwindows 30-Dec-1992 1809" Message-Id: <9212302313.AA23907@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> Subject: New windows drivers fix static probs! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I just downloaded the new windows drivers (gus0012.zip) and tried it out. If nothing else, they seem to fix the "GUS ralphs its entire memory out the earphones" problem. I loaded the new SBOS (the driver one) high, ran KQ5 to prove it was there, and then started windows. Everything was fine! Then I exited windows and ran KQ5 again. No sound. Apparently the drivers tell the driver to disconnect. Neat. The patch manager is great, too! Worth a 1/2 hour call to Gravis BBS if you don't want for it to appear on epas. Burns ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 0:09:05 PST From: Kludge Message-Id: <9212310809.AA02350@stein.u.washington.edu> Subject: Programming the GUS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest From what I've managed to pick up, info on the workings of this beast is scarce. What does it take to get the SDK, and how much do they give away in it? I've got the ULTRADOX and they suggest (STRONGLY :) that Gravis isn't telling much. Anybody out there done any programming for it? ++Kludge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 03:04:07 -0500 From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU Message-Id: <9212310804.AA29970@marinara> Subject: SBOS 1.23 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hmm....I don't know if I like 1.23. Wolfenstein-3D's sounds now sound muffled. In particular, the opening and closing of the doors are MUCH softer and so they lose the eerie effect. The gun shots sound distant. What -is- SBOS 1.23 supposed to improve? What are we looking for? I certainly don't notice any improvements! -Tim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 10:13:18 MST From: knepley@cs.colostate.edu (Ranseus (Jim Knepley)) Message-Id: <9212301713.AA26069@mozart.CS.ColoState.EDU> Subject: SBOS options base To: Ultrasound Daily Digest As a new user of the GUS, I'm still toiling with the differences between various games and their respective SBOS settings (-o2, for instance). Is there a database of game titles and their respective SBOS switches? If not, who's for helping me make one? Also, there was talk a while back about a programmer's kit for the GUS. It didn't seem to be on epas, where is it? Jim -- ----- knepley@cs.colostate.edu --------------- Boycott Colorado ------------- Jim "Ranseus" Knepley | Avoid rectal-cranial inversion. Programmer, magician, | "Gun's don't kill, it's those bullet things" computer geek. | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 15:51:55 -0800 From: Bob Beck Message-Id: <9212302351.AA28402@eng2.sequent.com> Subject: SWOTL SBOS Settings anyone? (& Q on re-launch windows) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I've had my GUS for about a week, and things are running quite well (lots better than the PAS-16 I had first). I'm having some trouble finding SBOS invocation switches that give reasonable sound with Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe ... the guns sound silly, for example. Can anyone post what settings you've used? (I haven't seen this one mentioned in the list that' s periodically posted to the digest). BTW: I'm using SBOS V1.22. Also, some questions on running SBOS games in DOS and then re-launching windows: I also seem to get some of the static an wierd noise, resulting in needing to hit "reset" and reboot... But this isn't always the case. I've tried running sbos -f and re-running ultrinit before re-invoking windows, and this doesn't always clear things up. Any ideas? Thanks! -- Bob Beck rbk@sequent.com Sequent Computer Systems (503)578-9809 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:38:56 -0800 From: He who shall be king Message-Id: <199212302238.AA00560@halcyon.com> Subject: Voice Recognition To: Ultrasound Daily Digest The the person inquiring as to the GUS voice recognition capability... voice recognition is a function of software, NOT hardware.. the maximum sampling rate for the covox voice master II is 35KHz I believe.. I cannot speak for the microsoft card, but it is very bad practice for these bozos to advertise 'voice recognition' as a feature of the card, because it is not.. period... For 'voice recognition' a TSR or continiously running program either always checks the digitized input from a mike or only when a hotkey is pressed, either way it takes the sampled material and 'checks' it against a list of samples in it's memory, and if it comes close to one of them, it will activate that macro... if you want voice recognition NOW, buy the covox... IMHO even at 16 bit stereo 44KHz voice recognition is annoying, slow , untrustworthy, and cumbersome for anyone who needs it badly.. great for the hobbiest tho... but isn't it all?? but yes, the GUS is capable of voice recognition, however to my knowledge no such software has been written.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- torn between either marrying this damn card or feeding it to my dog... Brad Faith doktor@halcyon.com ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #63 ******************************