GUS Daily Digest Mon, 23 May 94 9:37 PST Volume 13: Issue 20 Today's Topics: 32-bit Sierra drivers another mirror Can GUS and GNB2 coexist? comp.sys.ibm.pc. vote Flashback (fwd) GUS Daily Digest V13 #19 Inexpensive RAM sources? MegaRace and GUS OS/2 amd 16-bit DC PARITY error solved! Protected mode games (fwd) Sb16 and Gus, also Upgrades Setting up the GUS with Linux 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: Sun, 22 May 1994 17:01:10 EDT From: lpkruger@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Louis P. Kruger) Subject: 32-bit Sierra drivers First of all, for those who haven't heard yet, they're OUT!!! Look on epas for the file gus32.exe Second, I'm having a bit of trouble with the DAC driver in Gabriel Knight. (the midi driver works fine) When I try to leave the map scene, I get a "Internal Game Error #135, except.cpp:36:64989:ed" Not fun. I tried moving my IRQ's around, but it didn't seem to help. Any suggestions, anyone? It works fine if I just use the midi driver, however. - Louis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 17:28:53 +0100 From: Lee McLoughlin Subject: another mirror Message-ID: <"swan.doc.i.470:23.04.94.16.29.06"@doc.ic.ac.uk> Sorry to send this to the entire list but I couldn't find a contact address for just the archive. There is now a UK mirror of file://archive.epas.utoronto.ca/pub/pc/ultrasound/ in: file://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/audio/ultrasound/ http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/audio/ultrasound/ gopher://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/1/computing/audio/ultrasound/ We also operates and ftpmail service: ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk So an email to ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk of: open cd computing/audio/ultrasound dir quit will send you back a directory listing. A mesage of just help will send you full help. -- -- Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 71 589 5111 X 5085 Dept of Computing, Imperial College, Fax: +44 71 581 8024 180 Queens Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK. Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 08:22:15 +0300 From: Jussi S{{ski Subject: Can GUS and GNB2 coexist? Hello I have sometimes experienced a huge slowdown when playing this otherwise go= od game. Sometimes a minute in the game takes 7 seconds in reality and that's too much for my 50MHz/8Meg computer. Are there anyone else in the net with similar problems? Are there any ways to fix or avoid this bug? One other thing. SSI has included Gravis Ultrasound native mode support in the game as a courtesy. What a shame it doesn't work properly. Midi voices crash the game almost immediately and FX sounds in cases when I choose go to torpedo control. Are there any GUS user satisfied with the sound support and if any how did you make it work in your system? IRQ, DMA settings are badly needed. The readme.bat says something about using the Sound Blaster emulation=20 option in the sound install menu if Gravis native support fails. What SB= =20 emulator is needed here? SBOS, Megaem or some other? I can't see any SB=20 emulation options in the sinstall program. How is this thing done? Anyone= =20 who uses non native GUS support in this game? Cheers, Jussi Phew, this game really needs a better sound support. Thanks to all listeners. ___________________________________ Jussi S=E4=E4ski YO-talo 4 B 504=20 SF 20500 Turku Tel.358-21-2505621 InterNet Address: LSAASKI@UTU.FI F18LAND, Land of 1000 Lakes Rally ---------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 12:58:25 +1000 (EST) From: Tom Minchin Subject: comp.sys.ibm.pc. vote > -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard reorganization Ballot (Don't remove this marker) > > Give your real name here: Tom Minchin > > [Your Vote] Group > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [Yes ] comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech > [Yes ] comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.music > [Yes ] comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.games > [Yes ] comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.advocacy > [Yes ] comp.sys.icm.pc.soundcard.misc (replaces comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard) > -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 10:08:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." Subject: Flashback (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 10:00:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter C. Chien Jr. To: mbel92@control.auc.dk Subject: Flashback Set flashback to use General Midi and SoundBlaster, then use megaem (that came with the gus0041.zip upgrade) to run the game, either in Roland Sound Canvas or MT mode, whichever suits your taste. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 08:07:42 -0600 From: masten@beta.lanl.gov Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V13 #19 From: Yossi Oren >The AWE has 11MB of patches compressed using some lossy format into 1MB. I think this may just be an urban legend. Some have posted that the Waveblaster has 11MB of samples compressed to *4MB*. Others who have it say this is nonsense. The AWE32 uses 1MB, maybe the same 4MB of the WB compressed. I'm not sure of that. But 11MB compressed to 1MB?? Sounds improbable, doesn't it? The BIGGEST caveat of the AWE32 IMHO is that it can only be downloaded patches via MIDI sample dumps (or whatever they're called). This means you'd have to wait about 15 minutes per meg to get the data going. Again, I question this. I haven't seen anyone else post this. Are you getting it confused with the Turtle Beach Rio and Monterey? I'm not saying this isn't the case, but just wanted to know if you were sure. As the AWE32 can take 28MB, this seems silly. Imagine waiting 6hrs to load all that! :-) [g.gene@ic.ac.uk wrote:] >Regarding Pacific Strike, its surprising to see that Origin is using >EMS again, which means the game works with MEGA-EM...the music's really good with GM emulation but the digital sounds and Speech crashes quite often or just disappears during the game. Anyone else has this problem? If someone manages to make it work properly..please post how. Seems like most Origin games I've tried have allowed you the option of EMS or just using their own memory manager (Priv, PS, SC I think). I tried Pac Strike with megaEM /sboff, and it worked great for music with my SBPro doing the digitized. But when I pulled the SBPro out and tried to run MegaEM with both music and digital, it bombed after about 10 seconds. It just started playing random musical instruments and lost the digitized voices. Last, someone mentioned CMOS clearing problems. I too had that. Very intermitent, so I never pinned it down. I think it only occured when I had the GUS in the system with my LAPC-1. Also, I got the "PARITY ERROR, SYSTEM HALTED" with this combo when using PLAYMIDI (and other cases). I gave up. Since I couldn't return the LAPC-1, I returned the GUS :-( I may very well get one (again!) used, cheap. Then maybe I'll put up with the hassles. But not at the $150 I paid. Wish you better luck! Dave ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 94 08:23:00 EST From: "VULCAN::WATTERS_C" Subject: Inexpensive RAM sources? Where is a good place to get the DRAMs needed by the beloved GUS? I went to the "Nation's Electronics Superstore (HA!)" and found that they don't carry ANY memory at the stores now, it all has to be ordered, at "pay through the nose" prices. Before I dig through _Electronics Now_ and find it myself, where have people been getting DRAMs at a decent price? -Coyt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 01:30:15 -0400 From: KWAN RICHARD SIK YIU Subject: MegaRace and GUS I wish the patch of the MegaRace for GUS will come out soon, cause I am now using the SB16 to play the sound and music. The sound effect that comes from SB16 isn't good at all. I don't know what is the main problem that I hear clicks very 2 seconds when the man introduces the track. It is very annoying, I hope the patch for GUS will come soon, but in the meantime, I hope someone could help me to clear that clicks sounds. These annoying clicks sounds also happens with UFO, but not with U8. I heard the same clicks sounds come out from my friend's SB. Is it the bug of the game? Also does anyone know where I can find the sound patch for UFO, somehow I could not get the GUS to work properly! Thanks in advance!@ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 08:54:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Out of it..." Subject: OS/2 amd 16-bit DC OK, here's one for the weird department. I can't get the GUS to produce ANY sound in OS/2, since the 16-bit DC was installed. This is using Manley's driver. Before this, everything worked fine. Even the CRDOM didn't work. I accidentally discovered how to get it to work- if I run PLAYMIDI.EXE and do a warm reboot, I get sound. ONLY if I run PLAYMIDI. Comments?? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 08:47:17 SAT From: "MMike" Subject: PARITY error solved! > MMike writes: > > Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 12:41:44 SAT > > From: "MMike" > > Subject: PARITY errors revisited > > > > My GUS works fine in my system except for midi-in under windows. When > > I have something connected to the midi-in, I get an "OFF BOARD PARITY > > ERROR" and have to reboot. This problem is erratic, it may not happen [etc.] If I load the device driver SCSILDR.SYS which came with my SCSI card (it loads the SCSI BIOS from the ROM on the card into PC RAM), the PARITY error problem goes away. I lose 25K or so of high memory, but I can live with it. > Again, this kind of strange behavior sounds like device driver conflicts > or hardware conflicts. If you make it a habit to load SBOS at every boot, > I'd stop doing that. I only load SBOS when needed (not very often). Nope, I don't do that. I hardly ever use SBOS. Thanks for the suggestions. Mike. patricio@odie.ee.wits.ac.za ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 10:09:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." Subject: Protected mode games (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 10:07:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter C. Chien Jr. To: rock@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: Protected mode games I assume 486-40 is the Cyrix DLC chip. In general, I have arrived at the conclusion that non-Intel CPUs may have problems running protected mode games, since I have problems with my IBM 486-SLC2/50. My own experience is that I couldn't get the CD game Microcosm to work properly. It would crash, and it uses protected mode. Then Microcosm came with a patch for that, it runs longer, but still crashes. I know it's not the UltraSound, because I would play the game without any sound, and it still crashes. Rebel Assault is another problematic game. In general, if a game uses a DOS4GW.exe extender, use v1.8 of it and copy over the problematic version. Game may then work. (Older DOS extenders are found with the Rebel Assault patch, or older games like Syndicate.) Also, don't bother loading HIMEM.SYS and EMM386, because these may conflict, plus DOS4gW doesn't need them. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 17:11:27 CDT From: N J Dowell Subject: Sb16 and Gus, also Upgrades I have a GUS and an SB16 SCSI card in my computer. I use the two for composing with Finale 2.1 and Powerchords Pro. They are both Windows 3.1 programs. My problem is that I cannot seem to get my GUS to work with the Finale program (Finale is SB compatable). The problem isn't so much getting a sound as it is getting multiple channels to work also. If there is a better solution with a different card than SB16, let me know as my SB16 card would love to find a new home (as I am dissatisfied with the quality I get from it). Also: I have upgrade GUS software to 2.01. How do I get the next upgrade, or will it be sent like the others have been? Thanks! --- Norma J. Dowell--njdowell@iastate.edu--"Aunt in the Attic" "Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common sense and love will do." --M. Auville Blessed are those who laugh at themselves, for they never cease to be amused. /\ / ** \ ........................................ | | ........... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 01:46:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Jagatic Jason Subject: Setting up the GUS with Linux Greetings all! I have been having alot of difficulty setting up my GUS with Linux. I was wondering if their is someone oujt their that ay be able to help me out. For some reason, it does not want to register files such as /dev/sequencer or others. Are their any suggestions? I have installed the 2.5 version of the drivers, but i am still not getting any sound. 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