GUS Daily Digest Sun, 20 Feb 94 0:07 Volume 11: Issue 18 Today's Topics: GUS Daily Digest V11 #17 (2 msgs) New software version questions Sam&Max and GUS Star Trek 25th Anniversary CD-ROM version 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: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 11:21:36 -0500 (EST) From: Phat H Tran Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #17 > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 13:05:33 -0400 (EDT) > From: LFG3397@ritvax.isc.rit.edu > Subject: CD-ROM interface with GUS > > I have had a GUS card for over a year now. I recently purchased a CD-ROM > drive, but my problem is after pluging the audio cable from the ROM drive into > the GUS card I only receive a mono signal from one speaker. But if I plug the > audio into the CD-ROM card I get stereo, but this doesn't help my CD games. > Can anyone give me assistance? The connectors are probably not matching. The pins on the GUS are right-ground-ground-left, while some CD connectors are r-g-l-g. > Date: 18 Feb 94 08:49:00 PST > From: "Midnight Cowboy" > Subject: GUS & Pentiums > > Also, can two GUS's exist in the same machine? Yes, if you have enough free I/O addresses, DMA channels, and IRQs. > And lastly, is a 1 meg GUS sufficient for excellent MIDI and digital > playback? Or should I resort to a Roland SC/GUS combo? Speed and ease of > programmability are also to be taken into consideration also. IMO, a 1 MB GUS is sufficient for midi and cached digital sounds, if your game is intelligent enough to cache only the instruments and sound effects it needs for a particular segment, stage, cut sequence, whatever. A typical MIDI piece uses about 15 instruments, which will usually fit into 512kB of GUS RAM (if not at 16-bit, then at 8-bit), leaving the remaining 512kB available to cache sound effects. > Date: Fri, 18 FEB 94 15:06:16 BST > From: ERH6HALLS@CLUSTER.NORTH-LONDON.AC.UK > Subject: Megaem & drivers .ini files > > Simon says: It's a real mess but it's Fun!.. > > Having been playing around with Megaem and the syndicate AIL drivers for a > while I'm getting more and more frustrated at trying create custom > configurations.. whatever I do I can't get the replacement patches to work in > X-Wing, and my attempts to change patches.ini for syndicate were a disaster. > > What I would like to know is, which .ini files are used by which driver in > which order? Does Megaem use ultrasnd.ini or ultramid.ini? How can I get my own [...] Mega-Em uses ultrasnd.ini. The AIL32's use patches.ini and, I believe, ultrasnd.ini. Forget about customizing patches for games. Too much hassle since so many drivers share configuration files. > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 14:47:49 GMT > From: cgd@ecmwf.co.uk (Dick Dixon) > Subject: Megaem + Ballade and/or Lemmings 2 > > Also Lemmings 2: with both SBOS and Megaem, the > music is fine, but in the loading phase, it displays > (something like) 'FX initialisation failed'. You probably do not have enough EMS/XMS (whatever the game uses) for the digital sounds. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Feb 94 18:42:46 +0200 From: Yossi Oren Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #17 From: calvid@rpi.edu (David J. Calvin) >The GUS is awesome, but I still have a few questions/problems... > >1) Where do I get the drivers to make Simcity 2000 work? What's the filename? gail3214.zip from EPAS. Yossi. +---+---+---+---------------------------------------------------+---+---+ | = | E |_|/| Signature 1.2 | V | ^ | +---+---+---+---------------------------------------------------+---+---+ |Yossi Oren, Al-Daf Engineering Ltd., Rishon Le-Zion, Israel. Help | ++-----------------------------------------------++--------------------++ ||Internet EMail:LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL || The people are with|| ||Bitnet EMail:LIOREN1@WEIZMANN ++ the Golan Heights! || || "Even if you do live in this country, it doesn't mean ++ DOOM!! || || you have to behave like an animal." --Nati || GUS!! || +=========================================================++============+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 14:52:00 -0500 From: calvid@rpi.edu (David J. Calvin) Subject: New software version questions I know this has been discussed before, but I just got my GUS and I have a few questions about all the upgrades out there. Should I get the latest version? What are the filenames? What will it do for me? Also, I know what a .mod is, but what are .669's and .gts's? Thanks for the help. -- Dave Calvin | May the Force be with you! - Obi Wan calvid@rpi.edu | Live Long and Prosper! - Spock Computer Engineering - `97 | You've got no arms left! - King Arthur PGP key available by finger ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 00:52:42 +0200 From: Erik Bunn Subject: Sam&Max and GUS I finally got around to buying the game and just finished installing it, but.. nope, no native GUS support (boo) and megaem 2.02 won't work, and even SBOS (2.08 I believe) won't do a thing. What do I need to do to get sound out of this thing? DOTT worked fine with SBOS.. Thanks already; //Erik ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Feb 94 03:45:52 PST From: 1447P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL Subject: Star Trek 25th Anniversary CD-ROM version Just upgraded from the disk version of Star Trek the 25th Anniversary to the Enhanced CD-ROM version. The old version worked fine, but I can't get the sound-FX and digitized speech in the CD-ROM version to work (only the background music works). I called the tech support at Interplay and they said they would look into it (and suggested contacting Gravis for help). I'm running a 386-40DX, 20 MB RAM, 1 MB GUS, QEMM 7.03 memory manager. If anyone has an idea or has gotten the CD-ROM version to work, please let me know (via BBS or Directly). Thanks... -Dave ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V11 #18 *******************************