GUS Daily Digest Mon, 10 Jan 94 0:07 Volume 10: Issue 10 Today's Topics: EPAS limitation FTP GUS conflicting motherboard GUS Daily Digest V10 #9 (2 msgs) Indycar Racing Mic Input Mortal Kombat + New SBOS MPU 401 + GUS new win drvr: waves but no midi Patch Manager not listing patches qg4 Roland & GUS together 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: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 17:34:55 +1030 (CST) From: Gavin Subject: Re: EPAS limitation Thomas Wong writes .... >What do you all think is the least important directory in EPAS I think it's not so much directories but certain files. For example DOOM is on about 30 other sites but it still got uploaded to EPAS. Also, though the demos are great, there are many specific sites already for them eg. ftp.uwp.edu, wasp.eng.ufl.edu, etc. I think that files that are not GUS specific need not be kept on EPAS, eg. GUS specific - dune2ail,gusdelay,patches,hell demo (GUS only). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 12:51:25 GMT From: Duggan Chris F BSc 2 Info Sci 93-94 Subject: FTP Does anyone have any idea why the theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de FTP site will not alow me to log in as FTP ? Chris Duggan E-Mail : C.Duggan@tees.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 23:35:31 GMT From: smarij@rhi.hi.is (Hordur Smari Johannesson) Subject: GUS conflicting motherboard Hi.. What can be wrong if some GUS programs lock up the computer.. and when I press Num-Lock the computer "un-locks" and it keeps on running. I've been having problems with my GUS ever since i got it about 6-7 months ago, sometimes only sometimes programs like playmidi and playfile and some .669 players crash on my machine. MOD players and WIN stuff ALWAYS work 100% so I dont think its the card itself. It's strange that GUS works sometimes, and sometimes crashes and for one time it worked 100% for about 3 weeks, and then it started crashing again. Some of the programs sometimes return Internal Stack overflow, System halted. But Windows programs both wave and midi work 100%, why? Is there any /much difference between Dos programs and Windows Programs in the way they handle GUS. This is very annoying, not knowing if the programs will work or not. I dont have an OPTI chipset.. I think.. but I get the feeling its DMA thing. If anybody knows anything about something similar to this please let me know Thanks Smari ps. check out #gus on irc -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 14:36:34 -0500 (EST) From: Phat H Tran Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #9 > Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 03:39:29 -0500 > From: Dale Luther Bewley > Subject: DOOM RTZ almost > > I can get the soumd effects to work fine, but choosing MIDI I get no > music. I read that I need to copy ULTRAMID.INI to my DOOM dir and rename it > but I don't have that file. I searched the whole disk , will I have to re-instal > my GUS warez? Ultramid is not on the 2.06a or earlier disks. If you have ftp access, then you can grab dmxgus.ini from archive.epas.utoronto.ca in the /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit directory. BTW, for the sound effects to truly work fine, you need to set both GUS IRQs to lines less than 8. If you use the high IRQs, the sound effects will come out as "phhtt, phhtt" instead of what they are supposed to sound like. > I got digitized speech from Return to Zork, but now it is giving me > DIVIDE ERRORS. I'm playing with 607k free. See if there's a reference to voiceooh (or something like that) in your ultramid.ini file. (Hey, here's the file you've been looking for -- it should be in your RTZ directory.) One of the patches in certain ultramid's does not exist, so you'll need to replace it with something else. If you find voiceooh, I think you need to replace it with doo. And if you also find tremstr, and tremstr.pat isn't in your /ultrasnd/midi directory, replace it with marcato. (By "replace", I mean edit the line in ultramid.ini.) Also, try using the latest ultramid (version 1.06a) or an early version (1.00). These two versions are more robust than the versions in between. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 00:30:05 -0500 From: Greg Chung Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #9 Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 12:22:05 -0500 (EST) From: bpage@infi.net (Bob Page) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #8 > A buddy of mine has a Roland Sound Canvas and he just possibly might buy a GUS > but what he wants to know is whether he can get the two to work simultaneously. > Specifically, can you have a GUS playing any digital sounds (like SB in Megaem) > and having the Sound Canvas MIDI passed on to the actual Sound Canvas through > the MIDI port on the GUS. Also, is the external MIDI part of the GUS MPU-401 > compatible? What we want to do is run games with Sound Effects going on the GUS > and the MIDI music on the REAL Sound Canvas. > > ------------------------------ I have a Sound Canvas as well as a GUS & there is no way at the moment to do what your friend wants. I would LOVE to be wrong on this so someone PLEASE tell me how to do it. I know that a future version of MegaEM is supposed to allow this & I will be crazed happy when/if it does. --- Bob Page (bpage@infi.net) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 14:33:07 -0500 (EST) From: Phat H Tran Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #8 Yes, they'll co-exist. Most games that output digital sound through a DAC ask for an SB DAC, which the GUS must emulate. Only a few games will output digital sounds through the GUS using its native mode (eg. DOOM). The external MIDI port on the GUS isn't MPU-401 compatible. ----------------------------------------------------------- Leave the Sound Canvas hooked up as usual, using it's MPU-401. SBOS will run fine, independent of a MPU. However, to run SB emulation with MegaEm, you have to use "megaem /roff" to turn of emulation of the MPU-401. > Anybody know if the new SBOS is on epas? I haven't been able to find it > anywhere. (Of course, it would have to be in the submit dir, since nothing > seems to have been moved out of there since november...) Speaking of the new SBOS, I wish *someone* would take the five seconds to correct the SBOS.CFG file... ever since it was released, "SIERRA.EXE" has been mispelled. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 09:22:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Whittier Subject: Indycar Racing Okay, I'm using SBOS with the -o3 switch, but I sure am not enjoying myself with Indycar Racing. The sounds are pathetic. I just put another four megs in my machine to run all the tracks, so how do I fix it? Am I stuck with tinny engine sounds and a high-pitched buzzing for tire squeals? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 21:36:48 +1030 (DST) From: Michael Scholten Subject: Mic Input G'day all, I have just finished reading today's digest. I have already posted a thankyou to Dan for his suggestion on copying the ultrasnd.ini file to the appropriate place. I would also like to thank Phat for his suggestions (hey Phat, you've had your gus for longer than me! > 15 months). It turns out that I had to do both. The .ini file was in the wrong place, but it also pointed to my TEMP directory for .PAT files. Don't know why and I don't care. Everything midi is now working well. Unfortunately my Mic input is suffering now. Even though I am still limited to 8-bit, I had intended using Patch Maker Lite to play with recording .WAV files and turning them into patches. I had used the Windows Sound Recorder with the old drivers fairly successfully. Now I get almost nothing. Any Ideas? Also, I would dearly like to have a clear understanding of the GUS MAX. Does it exist yet? If not, is it a _definate_ and when? Some people write as if they've got one already. Lastly, I'm interested in the 16-bit and SCSI daughter boards. When I subscribed to this digest the other day I received a copy of a very out of date FAQ reminding me that these products were sceduled for shipment in April 93. I unsubscribed from this digest way back in about Feb '93 due to a change in my email address, and only just re-subscribed. It is _very_ pleasing to see more and more support for the gus (I am not a game player) but it would be even nicer to see some realistic shipment dates for new products from Gravis. (What ever happened to 3D sound?). Ah, I lied. The last point should have read _second_to_lastly_. It must be due to the fact that its 9:50 on Sunday night. This week I hope to be making a 'multimedia' presentation using midi files (as I feel midi is where the gus really excels). Due to patch caching, when I 'call' for a midi file in my presentation, I have to wait for several seconds before the tune starts to play. Does anybody else see this as a limitation? Ciao, Michael. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 12:43:37 -0500 (EST) From: gt7039a@prism.gatech.edu Subject: Mortal Kombat + New SBOS Well... I just installed the new SBOS (3.6 I believe) on my system... one program, however, I am having a problem with is Mortal Kombat... before, the DAC emulation of SBOS worked fine with this program. With the new version of SBOS, however, while the Adlib portion of the program is substantially improved, the DAC voices are now incredibly distorted, as if they are overplayed. Does anyone know why this problem exists? Is it a fault of SBOS or a fault of my configuration? ------------------------------ Date: 09 Jan 94 01:34:04 PST From: pil!zapo@PacBell.COM (Zapo Zapper) Subject: MPU 401 + GUS Regarding: GUS Daily Digest V10 #9 > I have a Sound Canvas as well as a GUS & there is no way at the moment to do > what your friend wants. I would LOVE to be wrong on this so someone PLEASE > tell me how to do it. I know that a future version of MegaEM is supposed to > allow this & I will be crazed happy when/if it does. I do not see why this would not work. I have a Roland MPU-IPC-T in my system (hooked into a Yamaha PSR-510, makes my GUS sound god-like in comparison) and except for DOOM, everything seems to work peachy. SimCity 2000 works with MPU-401 General MIDI and the GUS in SBOS mode. I was wonder, as a question to all you techies. I know OS/2 can handle using 16-bit drivers in a 32-bit operating model, why can't this be done for DOS4GW? Also, there is a book, $40 called 'Writing OS/2 Device Drivers in 'C'' I will BUY this book for anyone who thinks they can combine it and the SDK to come up w/OS/2 2.1 drivers... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public Image Limited VBBS (510) 831-3634 [ASV] Guest Account open Home of VUUCP/2 USENet Interface! [VSP] VBBS 6.10 [Primary Dist. Site] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 12:23:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Todd C. Gleason" Subject: Re: new win drvr: waves but no midi Excerpts from mail: 8-Jan-94 GUS Daily Digest V10 #8 by GUS Server@dsd.es.com > I had the same problem but now I'm embarassed having found out what I was > doing wrong: In haste I copied _everything_ from the .zip into > \ultrasnd\windows - the problem was that the new ultrasnd.ini needed to > be in \ultrasnd. I did that, and copied the ultrasnd.ini into that dir, giving me two copies of it...and I still have no midi whatsoever. What is the newest driver, now? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 04:21:15 -0700 (MST) From: jhender@nyx.cs.du.edu (djkc) Subject: Patch Manager not listing patches For some reason, my Patch Manager (in Windows) doesn't list the patch files anymore. I've setup Patch Maker Lite, GUSDK, and other programs; could something have affected the manager? -djkc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 18:11:49 EST From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu Subject: qg4 Anyone ever get Quest for Glory working with SBOS in DOS? I finally got the patch which keeps it from just crapping out entirely, but I can't get it to work with SBOS at all. Some error about a device malfunction or something which goes away when I tell it I have no sound. I have an ancient SB 1.0 which no one is using anymore since my father also has a GUS. I guess I'll just have to either put them in together or just lose the GUS for the duration. I think I'll get rid of the GUS. It's causing me nothing but trouble at the moment and any support for it from Sierra under their new interpreter is months away. I'll probably just scrap the GUS for now and put in the SB until I finish the game. I can't even afford a double 1/8" cable to hook the two together at the moment. If anyone has gotten SBOS to work with QG4 I'd just as soon not screw with my configuration at all. BTW, world, I'm going to have a baby. Or rather my WIFE is... --Michael-- << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <> ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jan 94 14:59:00 PST From: EBULALACAO@CSUPomona.Edu Subject: Roland & GUS together Hmmm...I have a Roland MT32 and a generic MPU401 MIDI interface and a GUS. I've been able to use the MT32 music while using MEGAEM for Sound Blaster DAC for the GUS. All I did was turn off Roland emulation on the MEGAMEM, and leave Sound Blaster emulation on. A Sound Canvas shouldn't make a difference... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 21:55:33 -0200 From: JOSE ROBERTO FEHSE Dear GUSers, I've installed some new drivers for windows I found in epas. Then the Patch Manager stopped working. So, I switched back to the old ones. Then I got patch maker and its drivers and Patch manager started to work again. Well, the problem is that now the patchloader stopped to work. It just doesn't downloads the patches. Any ideas? Jose Roberto Fehse fehse@vortex.ufrgs.br ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V10 #10 *******************************