GUS Daily Digest Wed, 5 Jan 94 007 Volume 10: Issue 5 Today's Topics: CD-ROM answers Epas is soooooo slow GUS Daily Digest V10 #4 (2 msgs) How to make Power Chords work with GUS Possible Solution for FS5 Problems Powerchords Someone posted a GUS for sale? Subwar 2050 and GUS windows question again Standard Info: - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest. - Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 10:20:23 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Harrison Subject: CD-ROM answers Since these CD-ROM questions seem to be poping up more and more, I think I'll write a short FAQ on using the GUS with a CD-ROM. But before I start, is there anything like this already out there or in the works? > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 16:03:07 -0600 (CST) > From: mjs7529@tamuts.tamu.edu (Michael J Stumpf) > Subject: cd-out to gus in question. > > This has been asked/debated before I'm sure, but I just got a cd rom drive. > > Can anyone diagram a cable / tell me where to buy / sell me a cable to > attach direct audio out to some input on the gravis? I don't know of places to buy cables, but I made one myself for a Mitsumi (easy) and a Chinon (harder, but not to hard). Send me e-mail with specific information and I'll see if I can help. > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 11:03:44 -0800 (PST) > From: Art Lowery > Subject: cd2 pinouts on the gus? > > 2. I was able to play an audio cd though the gus, but only while in > windows, is there a dos driver or program that does this? I am running a > playcd.exe program that came with the cd. If the drive is connected to the CD audio-in pins, just make sure the output is enabled (ultrinit -o). If your CD-ROM is going into the line-in, enable line-in and output (ultrinit -o -l). If you are exiting from Windows, you'll need to reset these even if they were set before going into Windows (unless the new drivers fixed that.) Mark Harrison harrison@sun.lclark.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 14:09:36 +0100 (MET) From: ralam@cs.vu.nl Subject: Epas is soooooo slow Has anyone else noticed that archive.epas.utoronto.ca is very slow? Or could this be a local problem for me? If it is epas, who do I contact to complain (well, I should be glad epas is there at all, but still, it used to be so much faster). Remco Lam ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 1:16:00 PST From: Ron Dippold Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #4 > 1. Does anyone know what the CD2 pinouts are on the new gus cards? I have > the cd1 pinouts (l-gr-gr-r), but was wondering what that cd2 was for. > > it is a 3 conductor dip male socket. I haven't seen anything about the GUS CD2 pinouts, but the standard 3-pin connector for CD audio cables these days is left - ground - right. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 15:46:17 +0800 (PST) From: Francis Li Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #4 > Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 00:31:23 +1100 (EST) > From: Iain Huxley > Subject: Day of the tentacle gmidi.ims > [stuff deleted] > So... Does anyone know where I can get hold of the update? > The files req are Gmidi.ims or roland.ims... > I tried copying over the ones from the demo, and this crashed the > machine. > Perhaps someone could send me them? > > thanks, > > Iain They are available on the LucasArts BBS at:(415)257-3070... ------------------------------ Date: 04 Jan 94 09:10:02 EST From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM> Subject: How to make Power Chords work with GUS David Gardiner says > I recently got a GUS. In general, it works great. The one program that I > cannot get any sound out of is Power Chords. Everything else seems to work > fine: MIDIDEMO.BAT, MODDEMO.BAT, Windows Patch Man, Kid Works 2 (a > Windows-based children's game that uses the sound board). Power Chords. > Tried demo, tutorial, main program. Opened instrument window and clicked > with right button. No sound. First off, make sure you are using the correct driver in Power Chords. Select 'Options' then 'MIDI'. Select the "UltraSound MIDI Synth" driver for the Output Device. Click OK. *** For anyone whose had TROUBLE with POWER CHORDS ie. Sounds Missing: *** --> Switch to 8 bit patches from 16 bit. <-- Here is some background info on this, and instructions on how to make the change. The Gravis UltraSound card stores instrument patches in its on-board RAM. Boards are now being shipped with 256K RAM. Power Chords communicates with the Windows UltraSound driver to tell it which patch sounds to load. When in interactive mode (ie. a song is not playing), Power Chords loads the drum sounds first, then the melodic patches for the current bass and melody parts in the Rhythm Editor, as well as the patch for the on-screen instrument. When a song is to be played, these patches are removed, and the patches needed to play the song are loaded. If you find that the drum parts are sounding and not the instrument then you are running out of patch memory on the UltraSound board. Similarly, you may find that some parts in a song play and the drums play, but other parts do not. You can check to see how much patch memory is left selecting 'Patch Memory Left' from the 'Help' menu item on the main Power Chords menu. If it says you are down to less than 30,000 or 40,000 bytes, then you have probably run out of patch memory on the UltraSound board. There are two things that you can do to remedy this situation. You can increase the RAM on the UltraSound board, or you can change modes from 16 bit to 8 bit instrument patch usage to halve the size of the instrument patches as loaded into RAM. Increasing the RAM on the UltraSound board: You can purchase a memory upgrade option from Advanced Gravis, or you can buy the chips yourself from various sources. According to the GUS digest on Internet, you need 256x4 DRAM chips, with speeds of 80ns or better. Please contact Advanced Gravis for more information on this. Changing from 16 bit to 8 bit patches: Double click on the 'Control Panel' in the 'Main' Windows Program Manager group. Then double click on the 'Drivers' icon. Find the UltraSound driver in the list of installed drivers and click once on it to highlight it. Now click on the button marked 'Setup' to the right of the driver list. In the UltraSound driver setup dialog, select the 'Conserve Memory' option in the lower left corner. Click 'OK' to save your changes. This should help substantially. There is some sound degradation with this option, but it is not as great as one might think. David, if you still can't get things working, feel free to e-mail me directly. Also, there is a Gus Music digest you can subscribe to which would probably be a better place for Power Chords queries. Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 14:15:16 -0700 From: ttrusk@post.its.mcw.edu (Thomas C Trusk) Subject: Re: Possible Solution for FS5 Problems For those with Microsoft's new Flight Simulator 5.0 ... The BAO (Bruce Artwick Organization) has posted a sound/joystick patch file called FS5PATCH.ZIP to the flight simulator directory at ftp.iup.edu I installed this when I first found it in December. My impression was that it improved things quite a bit (but it's been weeks since I've had time to play...). Note that I have NOT yet tried the patch with the latest version of SBOS. That site appeared to be unreachable just before I wrote this. I will fetch the file from home and have it available to anyone who wants a copy...let me know. If there's enough [read that as _too much_ :)] interest, I may upload it to EPAS. On a related note, the descriptive message from BAO on this patch emphasizes the NEED of FS5 for EMS! It is important to consult the inside back cover of the manual on this. Finally, there is another interesting file at the IUP site that converts the digital display of the nondirectional beacon radio into a frame-rate counter! Hoping to see you in the clouds (at a safe distance)... 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Everything > else seems to work fine: MIDIDEMO.BAT, MODDEMO.BAT, Windows Patch Man, > Kid Works 2 (a Windows-based children's game that uses the sound board). > Power Chords. Tried demo, tutorial, main program. > Opened instrument window and clicked with right button. No sound. If you have only 256k on your GUS, then you need to turn on the conserve memory option for Powerchords to work properly. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 08:41 EDT From: EVIL GM Subject: Someone posted a GUS for sale? Somebody posted a GUS for sale ($100, with 1 meg DRAM), and I lost his address. If you're still out there, guy, I _want_ that card! That goes for anyone else with a similar offer. I'm lookin' for a GUS. Not like this isn't absolutely the _wrong_ place to look for GUSes for sale! Thanks, guys. -Chris Hedberg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 14:09:46 GMT From: Richard Jones Subject: Subwar 2050 and GUS If someone has got Subwar working, could they let me know what they used as all I get when I use SBOS or Megaem is an internal stack overflow, wherupon the PC locks up, and it's driving me nuts trying to get the thing working. TIA Richard INTERNET - R.Jones@dcs.hull.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 13:36:20 EST From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu Subject: windows question again As usual no one paid any attention to my question. I will ask it once more. Is there any way to change the default MIDI and .WAV volumes with the new Windows drivers? In previous versions there was an area in the Setup dialog where you could adjust these. This is gone now, and it always defaults to about 3/4 from the top, requiring me to load up the stupid mixer every time and manually change this to be able to even hear the .WAV sounds. Certainly by now someone else has noticed this problem with the new Windows drivers (the ones included in the .zip with Patch Maker Lite) and can offer some insight. At the least I would appreciate some sort of reply. --Michael-- << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <> ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V10 #5 ******************************