GUS Daily Digest Tue, 3 May 94 9:37 PST Volume 13: Issue 3 Today's Topics: A request Beethoven static Cannon Fodder and Gus DRAM chips, how fast? Great news for GUS motion video freaks! GUS Daily Digest V13 #2 Gusmod and "chant" in Starcon Mod, and Logitech SMW GUS sound recording Help! Sam & Max Logitech SoundWave 32 Mixer Music breaks up The 7th guest The attack of the killer static! UFO Ufo: Enemy Unknown:: The scoop and a question 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, 3 May 94 20:56:58 CST From: u8013042@cc.nctu.edu.tw Subject: A request Hi: I have posted a request about purchasing GUS on the digest in May 2. If you want to help me, please e-mail me first. Or I will start an endless waiting( I really don't like that !) Best wishes, Ni Jindi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 22:48:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Emory Menefee Subject: Beethoven static > From: Daniel A Nielsen > Well I was getting static when B's 5th played after I installed gus0041 > so I did a complete reinstall of the GUS software and nothing changed. > It happens right on startup when the bass section is tunning up. What is > this? Are you listening to the applause at the beginning? Emory Menefee :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 11:22:04 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Jones Subject: Cannon Fodder and Gus Hs anyone got Cannon Fodder working with MEGAEM. Whenever I try setting the game up to use SB for FX and Roland for Music the game locks up (sort of, it plays the music but nothing appears on the screen). Also if I just use Megaem for SB effects the game crashes out with an error (A6 I think it was). It's not that important as the game works with SBOS fine, it's just that I would rather have midi then fm music. Richard ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 14:39:38 -0700 From: Harlan Hilman Subject: DRAM chips, how fast? What is the minimum speed required for the DRAM chips? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 May 94 13:19:20 +0300 From: Yossi Oren Subject: Great news for GUS motion video freaks! Hi Y'all, I've just installed Microsoft Video for Windows 1.1a (note the a) on my system, and lo - video is as smooth as can be. I guess MS used some unorthodox playback method for digital audio, since the update contains a new sound codec which works fine now. The damn thing still can't sync for its life, but hey, at least it works. The filename is ftp.microsoft.com:softlib/mslfiles/wfw11a.exe (PKSFX), sized about 1,280K. f.m.c. is a good site for hanging out on anyway. Enjoy, Yossi. +---+---+---+---------------------------------------------------+---+---+ | = | E |_|/| Signature 1.31 | V | ^ | +---+---+---+---------------------------------------------------+---+---+ |Yossi Oren, Al-Daf Techno-Mercenaries, Rishon Le-Zion, Israel. Help | |TInternet EMail:LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL TT The people are T| ||Bitnet EMail:LIOREN1@WEIZMANN || with the Golan || ||Drag yer damn objects around. I've got work to do.|| Heights! || +====================================================++================++ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 18:14:20 +0100 (GDT) From: dustin@ed.gse.utah.edu Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V13 #2 >> Well I was getting static when B's 5th played after I installed gus0041 so >> I did a complete reinstall of the GUS software and nothing changed. It >> happens right on startup when the base section is tunning up. What is this, >> What can I do? Get a different PAT? Its my kids' favorite GUS music. >> I have 1 Meg of RAM on my 3.4 GUS. > I was getting something similar, but it was the cheap ghetto blaster that I was running my GUS into. I also noticed it badly on the entertainer. I bought some speakers without amps, and it all went away. Try playing it with DOS playmidi with the volume low (/v or something?) and see if it persists. It seems to me that the GUS line out is at a very high level(at least higher than other stereo components that I have). -Dustin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 09:59:46 -0600 From: masten@beta.lanl.gov Subject: Gusmod and "chant" in Starcon Mod, and Logitech SMW Recently got a GUS, fired up Gusmod in Windows with some of my favorite Mods from Starcon2. In the "Druuge" it gives a gregorian chant kind of sound, but misses some other music I've grown accustomed to hearing. No other player I've tried (a bunch) does this. Anyone else note this, or care to comment on what is happening? As to the 2 posts referring to the Logitech Soundman Wave, I'll comment just a bit as an ex-owner (I'm playing soundcard of the month lately). Hope this stuff doesn't fall too far outside the charter nor lead to some flame fest. I wasn't too impressed with its wavetable g-midi sound. A bit too synthy on most everything and I clearly prefered an Ensoniq-based Reveal I compared side-by-side. I did find it more than acceptable for games and, of course, far far better than FM. It did prove to be hassle free for games and worked near-perfectly in the SB+gmidi role. I didn't compare the SMW side-by-side to the GUS, but did do the GUS vs the same Reveal Wav's I saved. I thought the Reveal won that one too, but not by as much. So I conclude that the GUS sounds better than the Logitech to me. A bit round about, but I'm pretty secure in that one. With some of the user created GUS patches, who knows, maybe the GUS now moves to the top of this pack. I love the "acguit" pat. As to the Q about the Logitech and RAM/ROM, it uses a 2MB ROM set, no RAM. And as far as I know, no RAM option planned. The Mediatrix Audiotrix Pro uses the OPL4, the same 2MB ROM sample set, and will have an optional RAM board. I don't know that RAM capacity. Again, sorry if this is considered a digest faux pas. If so, drop me email, and I'll cease and desist! Dave masten@beta.lanl.gov ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 20:52:08 +0300 (EET DST) From: Mikko Rauhala Subject: GUS sound recording Hi I was trying today to record sounds with my gus (just 8 bit, standard model 3.4) but couldn't get anything to the comp. In USS8 when I use the "Mon"-option, the sound going in also comes out of the speakers, but when I try to sample it to the gus, I get zippo. All the bytes are of the value 255. So tell me, could this be a symtom of a broken ADC or something? The mic I tried is not necesseraly of the correct type either, maybe I should try a different one? - Mjr ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 94 09:43:02 BST From: Mcgarry D P Subject: Help! Sam & Max I've just bought Sam & Max (CD), and I'm having a lot of trouble getting any sound or music out of it. Has anyone been able to get it working with the GUS? It uses DOS4GW, and doesn't seem to like SBOS. After finally getting Rebel Assault working in SB mode, I thought Sam & Max would be no problem :(. Dave. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 May 94 08:39:41 +0300 From: Yossi Oren Subject: Logitech SoundWave 32 That's SOOOO silly. First of all, the SW32 is made by Orchid. Logi's card is called SoundMan Wave. In addition, both cards are ROM-based, which means there's no way to change samples or accelerate effects or MOD files. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 10:47:07 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Re: Mixer >I have an early GUS and have great difficulties to get the MIXER >function going. Here's the particulars: >Installed gusmixer.drv in \WINDOWS\SYSTEM >MIXER.EXE is present in \ULTRASND >The 3.1 Windows drivers are installed in the right place >I have been able to setup the Mixer applet in a window >If I now double click on the applet, it does something and everything >goes quiet again. In short, it does not start up. >If I open the drivers window of the Windows configuration function, >it immediately tells me that it cannot find the driver, although the >text about the mixer is in the installed drivers window. I suppose >that is due to Windows system.ini setup with the entry: >mixer=ultramixer.drv I don't remember ever seeing a file called gusmixer.drv (nor ultramixer.drv, which has too many characters to be a DOS filename). Have you downloaded recent versions of drivers and mixer etc. from ftp site - if not, then I would do so. As far as I know, mixer.exe is the only mixer program required - you don't need any drivers with 'mix' as part of their name. ------------------------------ Date: Mon May 02 12:17:42 CDT 1994 From: rbullis@uwspmail.uwsp.edu Subject: Music breaks up Content-Type: Text Content-Length: 609 I've noticed a problem with CD-Roms such as Microsoft Cinemania and others where WAVE files play fine through windows, but longer sequences of music break up, play intermittently. I've got an old Mitsumi single speed drive and was wondering if this is a problem with the new Multimedia standard or if I'm just doing something dumb. I tried disabling the Smartdrive cache on the CD-Rom and that didn't help. Also, I recently installed the GUS and downloaded new install software. The few games I've tried seem OK and I get MIDI files in Windows to play OK. Thanks for the help in advance. Content-Type: Text Content-Name: c:\roger Content-Abstract: [NO DESCRIPTION] Content-Length: 408 Never stand under a tall dog \ Prof. Roger Bullis <<<<< Division of Communication o(O-O)o University of Wisconsin ------ooO-----(_)----Ooo-----------Stevens Point, WI 54481 USA RBULLIS@UWSPMAIL.UWSP.EDU 715-346-2879 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 19:41:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." Subject: The 7th guest Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 23:11:32 -0600 (MDT) From: rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff) Subject: 7th Guest Hello to everyone in GUS Land. I'm posting this message in hopes I can solve a little problem I seem to be having with 7th Guest. It seems as though the GUS (emulating the Sound Canvas) is playing the wrong instruments from time to time. Someone on a local BBS told me there is a fix for it. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? -- Ryan Korniloff -- rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu There are two patches to this game, called t7g-fix.zip and t7gfix3.zip on wuarchive.wustl.edu or archive.orst,edu in the game directory of the ultrasound directory. Unzip them to your id/t7g directory. Then replace parts of your groovie.ini file with the following (install.exe might crash, so do it manually). ;ini File for The Seventh Guest ;(C) Copyright 1993 Trilobyte, Inc. and Virgin Games [main] DMABufferSize=16384 TicksPerSecond=300 VideoCard=VESA midi=GeneralMidi pcm=UltraSound svga=on ProgDir=F:\id\t7g\ DataDir=G:\t7g\ Recommended=SVGA CPU=486sx FreeMem=616 CDbench=330 [GeneralMidi] irq=7 port=220 xmi=gf1midi.adv [UltraSound] irq=11 port=220 pcm=gf1digi.adv dma=1 Don't actually copy the entire file over your old groovie.ini, since your system may differ from mine (as in CD bench speed, CPU, FreeMem, irq, and dmas, etc.) Just follow the basic format where the file refers to General midi and Ultrasound. This took me forever to figure out to rewrite parts of the file. Be sure to load Ultramid beforehand, or the game won't recognize your card. (Adjust the volume too with the -m switch, or the midi music will drown out the sound effects and speech.) The game works with SBOS too, but the sound quality isn't as clear. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 00:17:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Juan Carlos Leon Subject: The attack of the killer static! Hi GUSers! I've read occasionally some post about static in GUS's recordings. I was glad my GUS didn't have that problem, but today I wanted to record something and blam! there it is! I got a little bit of buzz/rattle/clicks in one of my channels. So is this an epidemic or what? I don't remember changing anything in my setup. Any help? Juan -- email: jleon@scf.usc.edu *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* Major in Electrical Engineering, Computers | empty until I have time to | University of Southern California | think on a new signature | Los Angeles, CA. USA *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 23:38:57 -0400 From: ah109@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Scott Staples) Subject: UFO does anyone know if (and if yes where) there is a patch for UFO that will enable the music for a Gravis Ultrasound? i'm told it's on WUSTL, but i can't find it and thats not very specific. thanx later SS -- ----------------------------------------- "Being lazy is its own reward." -ME ----------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 01:32:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Damian Frank Subject: Ufo: Enemy Unknown:: The scoop and a question Someone asked about Microprose's UFO. Well, I just got the game, and haven't had time to experiment, but here's the deal. The demo sounds good with GUS music, as the original poster knew. However, the demo didn't seem to actually play GUS sounds. Well, the real game's setup program won't even give you the OPTION of GUS music. It DOES have GUS sound, though, and sounds good. Keep in mind that it's a DOS4GW app and, for the time being, emulation is not an option. Sorta sucks. I mean, the GUS's strong point isnt' its digital sound, although that's STILL better than the sound bastard..:> A question: Does anyone know of a patch or something for GUS music? Damin (damianf@wpi.edu) ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V13 #3 ******************************