GUS Daily Digest Wed, 2 Mar 94 0:07 PST Volume 11: Issue 27 Today's Topics: [Q] CD-ROM: forgot to mention... [Q] Which CD-ROM drive to buy? Bug with SC2000 Different GUS (hardware) revisions epas submit?|? GUS Daily Digest V11 #25 HELP ! Help for a newbie new playmidi Problems with USS8 Xwing and Hell 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, 28 Feb 94 10:23:43 +0000 From: "|\/|artin" Subject: [Q] CD-ROM: forgot to mention... oops! I should also have mentioned: I've got a 486/DX33, with a Future Domain SCSI interface, so a SCSI CD-ROM is also a possibility. |\/| -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | |\/|artin |/\|ard | email: martin@spira.bri.hp.com Tel: +44 272 228 142 | | | HPDesk: Martin WARD/HPC655 Fax: +44 272 236 169 | +--------martin%wyvern.bri.hp.com%hplb.hpl.hp.com%uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com-------+ |Support Systems Europe, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, AVON, BS12 6QZ.| +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 10:05:21 +0000 From: "|\/|artin" Subject: [Q] Which CD-ROM drive to buy? Hi all, Any recommendations for a CD-ROM drive to buy? It MUST be double speed. It MUST be able to send audio through my GUS. It would be nice to be able to plug it into my GUS directly (Are the CD-ROM daughter boards available in the UK?) Price as cheap as possible (I know, you get what you pay for). Any ideas? Suggestions? Places to look? Cheers, |\/| -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | |\/|artin |/\|ard | email: martin@spira.bri.hp.com Tel: +44 272 228 142 | | | HPDesk: Martin WARD/HPC655 Fax: +44 272 236 169 | +--------martin%wyvern.bri.hp.com%hplb.hpl.hp.com%uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com-------+ |Support Systems Europe, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, AVON, BS12 6QZ.| +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 13:34:20 EST From: Philippe Chayer Subject: Bug with SC2000 Hello Gussers... For the past few days i've been plying SC2000 with the drivers for the sound in native gus. But since yesterday, when i use loadpats to load the GUS with the midi patches, it freezes almost at the end.. and i have to reboot my computer... can you help me ? P.S. Is there anything for mortal kombat with gus support ?? -- Philippe Chayer chayer@info.polymtl.ca _________________________________________________________cut here______ If it's there and you can see it, then it's real. If you cannot see it and it's there, then it' transparent. If you cannot see it and it's not there, then you deleted it... ;) See ya !!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 18:39:38 -0500 From: liaor@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu Subject: Different GUS (hardware) revisions Could someone tell me the different revisions of the GUS? like a revision history or something? Like start with v2.2 (the one I bought for $99 from EA Direct back in Oct 92) all the way up to the latest (v3.7?!?) one. I'm at college (away from any PC that can use the GUS meaningfully) so I might sell it now and buy a newer hardware version if Gravis ever bothers to add a decent hardware mixer. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 15:48:08 FWT From: tblanchot@vnet.IBM.COM Subject: epas submit?|? Grrr| Who has erased half of the submit directory?? Where have the files gone?? (psycho.zip, modrp121.zip, etc, etc...). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 11:46:55 -0500 From: "Michael Grant Wilson" Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #25 on Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:19:59 -0600 (CST) The Iceman wrote, > Anyone out there get Links Pro to work with....anything? I've tried > the switches with SBOS and it still randomly crashes on the digitized > sounds. I have a recent version, like 1.20 or something. Any ideas on > IRQ's or anything appreciated. > I've had Links Pro running from day one using SBOS with no switches. I can't say I've played a lot (maybe 5 hours or so), but I've never had any crashes. Maybe it's a free memory problem? I'm running QEMM7 on DOS5 and have 636K free even with SBOS. McQ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 01:03:04 +0200 From: gazit itay Subject: HELP ! Hi GUSsers, I recently (tried to) install GUS0041. I understood that it is a bugfix over GUS0038 or similar, so I installed it alone without the previous version. I opened the zips and ran the install. When the install ran SETGUS I just picked whatever was already running smoothly on my comp 220,6,6,7,7 (or 220,1,1,7,7 or 220,1,1,5,5) and many more - I tried to save it and all it gave me was Parity Error -System halted and sometimes it yelled something about "Disk (80)..something" - and it all happend while it checked my settings. I used to have troubles with SETGUS only when it checked the SBOS parameters and it always found my DMA read to be faulty, although I never had probs with SBOS ! And ofcourse, as I believe was reported - Ultrainit doesn't reset the board probably, and Gusmod has to be ran before Windows or alike. anybody with a solution ? Gravis ? Thanks, /Shmulik. ;. . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 17:22:50 -0500 From: allenlee@panix.com (Allen Lee) Subject: Help for a newbie I got my GUS yesterday. It's absolutely incredible. I spent the whole night playing MIDI files that came with the card and ones I collected along the way. :) But I have few questions for GUS experts out there... I used to own a MediaVision ThunderBoard. I would like to have them in my system simultaneously, and use ThunderBoard for game compatibility. What do I need to do to make them coexist peacefully? My ThunderBoard settings: Add 220 IRQ 5 DMA 1 My GUS Settings: GUS Add 220 GUS DMA 1 (Playback) GUS DMA 1 (Record) GUS IRQ 11 SB/MIDI DMA 1 SB/MIDI IRQ 5 Another question: What files do I need to download from FTP sites so I will have the latest version of all programs? And what's the filename of the Miles driver? Here'are my programs' versions: ultrinit 2.16 convert 1.01 playfile 3.2b playmidi 5.03 ultramid 1.06a sbos 3.7 emuset 2.03 megaem 2.03 And my GUS is revision 3.7 with 256K (1MB in the future). Last question... What games ultilize GUS' special features? I already got DOOM. Again, it's incredible. I also have Epic Pinball, which came with GUS. GUS whips my friend's SB16 Basic in music reproduction. SB16 Basic hisses all the time; GUS' music is absolutely marvelous. BTW, he has a pair of $140 Sony speakers and I have a pair of $20 Labtec speakers. :) Email replies appreciated. Final words: GUS RULES. :) -- Allen Lee | "What kills a skunk is the publicity it gets itself." allenlee@panix.com | -- Abraham Lincoln ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 19:27:03 +0100 From: rock@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: new playmidi Hi! I have just installed the new software (gus0041) . Playmidi gives me the following error : Error loading patch : dma channel busy (conflict?) What can i do ? ;-) Thankx for your help...Olli ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:20:31 -562308 (GMT-5623:08) From: "J.Waghorn" Subject: Problems with USS8 Hi Folks I got a problem with Ultrasound Studio 8, and as tech@gravis.com seems to be a bottomless pit I'll try you guys out with this one .... Gravis Software: Install 2.06a upgraded via disks GUS0038a/b to Install 3.1 further by application of GUS0040 SBOS 3.81 Ultrasound Studio 8 v1.01 (from Install 2.06a) Software affected: Ultrasound Studio 8 v1.01 Symptoms: On pressing the "Sample" or "Record" buttons in USS8, the screen fills with garbage and the machine hangs up within about 5 seconds, if I quit from USS8 before it hangs, the keyboard is dead when I return to DOS..... On playing a sample (pre-recorded .SNDs from Install 2.06a) the play button/mouse cursor is replaced by an ugly "splat" on the screen which is the prelude to a system crash...... Any Ideas willingly tried, I just wanna try all the bundled software out . but I can't because USS8 craps out, but apart from this problem I've had no others at all (yet :)) Regards Jason -- ************************************************************************* * Jason Waghorn * Tel: (+44) 091 515 2877 * * Research Assistant * Fax: (+44) 091 515 2703 * * School of Engineering and ***************************************** * Advanced Technology *Internet: j.waghorn@sunderland.ac.uk * * University of Sunderland * JANET: j.waghorn@uk.ac.sunderland * * Sunderland * BITNET: ts0jwa%uk.ac.sund@UKACRL * * SR1 3SD * * ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:56:20 -0500 From: calvid@rpi.edu (David J. Calvin) Subject: Xwing and Hell Well, I hope that subject line got someone's attention. Two questions, could someone please help me out? 1) The music for Xwing sounds great with Megaem, but some of the sound effects sound terrible. I got two programs that were supposed to fix this, one with a new ultrasnd.ini and some extra patches, and one with new .ims files. Neither seemed to do anything. Is it possible to get it to sound like it did with the SB? If not, could someone please explain why? Using DOTT with Megaem sounded excellent, all the sound effects sounded the same. 2) I got the Hell demo off an FTP site, but as soon as I load it, it puts strange characters on the screen and freezes. I tried several different memory configs but nothing worked. Any ideas? Thanks! -- 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 Read alt.spleen! 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