GUS Daily Digest Tue, 31 May 94 9:37 PST Volume 13: Issue 28 Today's Topics: 353 woes Found MAX mem upgrade (256k X 16 SOJ DRAM) FTP sites & 3.53 disks GUS Daily Digest V13 #27 (2 msgs) GUS MAX$$$$$$$ help Missing New GUS install files from EPAS New 3.53 patches Odd windows stuff v.3.53 disks? xcomdemo (?) 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, 31 May 1994 09:37:55 +0300 From: Erik Bunn Subject: 353 woes Actually, my experiences with the 353 disk set aren't too bad, but there is still a problem. The install seems to go fine, but after exiting, I noticed that no changes were made in my autoexec.bat or config.sys. I copied the old GUS initializations, which seems to be fine: third party programs work, windoze programs work (apart from the wav cutoff upon starting). However: I can't get setgus.exe or gsetup.??? to work. Setgus just tells me to run 'setup', gsetup returns to the prompt immediately. The other programs seem to work (well, ok, except for the windows applet that does voc->wav->* conversion - it causes a lovely error message that I don't remember.) I installed the 353 disk set in a new directory, I'm running 4DOS on MS-DOS 5.0 (switching to the regular command.com made no difference). The computer has had no problems with the GUS. Could someone please mail me his autoexec.bat and config.sys for reference? Any guesses as to what I'm doing wrong here are welcome. -- Erik Bunn // DiscworldRingworldCerebusSandmanC&HBrazilWandaXpilotRaceDrivin' - "There's a door" - "Where does it go ?" - "It stays where it is, I think," -- (Terry Pratchett, Eric) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 94 14:04:35 MDT From: dcj451@wyoming.et.byu.edu (Dean C. Johnson) Subject: Found MAX mem upgrade (256k X 16 SOJ DRAM) I found a mail order place that sells the memory chips that the GUS MAX uses. (Gravis does not have them in stock yet.) You only need one: 40-pin 256k X 16 SOJ Surface Mountable DRAM 80ns or faster. They matched there part against the NEC part # provoded by Gravis to be sure that they are the same. The company is: MicroProcessors Unlimited, Inc. call (918) 267-4961 It cost US$29.90 + 7 for over night shipping. (mabey they would send it by reg. mail?) If you need there address it is: 24000 South Peoria Ave. Beggs, OK 74421 USA -Dean ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 11:02:04 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: FTP sites & 3.53 disks There has been much discussion of FTP sites and 3.53 disks recently. For those of us (like me) without proper ftp who have to use ftp by email, some mention of which site and what filename for the 3.53 disks would be appreciated. Someone said that the uni-konstanz site had gone. I don't know about proper ftp, but I can still use its mail-server to retrieve files. The site at src.doc.ic.ac.uk would be great (I can actually transfer files from there), but as someone said today, at present it seems to be mirroring an incomplete site, so that most of the useful directories just contain an 00Index, but no actual files. Someone asked about disks by snail-mail in the UK. I just received an ad from Optech. They have the GUS, plus the MAX, plus daughterboards, DRAMs, and offer the latest disk set. Their MAX claims to already have 1MB, which should avoid the problem of getting the memory upgrade (someone said it used a strange chip). I always thought that Optech seemed a little expensive, but if anyone wants there address, then let me know. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 94 12:11:38 +0300 From: Yossi Oren Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V13 #27 Well, couldn't be. I did binary compares as well. Are you sure you have the new patches installed? Check the date stamp. Yossi. +---+-----------------------------------------------------------+---+---+ | = | Yossi Oren, Al-Daf Technological Mercenaries. | v | ^ | +---+-----------------------------------------------++----------+---+--+| |LIOREN1@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (or just @weizmann)||GUS-sound that's || |The people are with the Golan Heights! ||worth hearing! || +===================================================++=================++ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 11:34:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "NON-D.E.U." Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V13 #27 > From: Remek Andrew Lipinski > > Hi, > > I have been trying to install a network card into my machine > which also has a GUS (hardware version 2.2), and have been having a > lot of problems. My GUS was set a default settings that is base address > 220, DMA 1, irqs 11 and 5. The network card I am trying is a Western > Digital Elite 16. The moment I plugget the card into the machine I > strted getting problems, originally I set the network card at base > address 340, irq 10, memory address 0xEC000. My GUS would no loger > be found by the initialisation software and the network card would > not operate properly. I figure this would be an obvious conflict, but > the addresses do not suggest so. > Try a different brand of network card. I have seen unexplainable problems like this one with hardware sometimes and usually just replacing a component with a different one will solve problems. I don't care for SMC's Elite network cards anyway.... You have to set aside a precious upper memory block for them.... and they cost too much, too. > I have tried a number of addresses and irq setting of the > network card, but I had the same probelms. And with just about every > address I tried the card would start working properly once I took > the GUS out. Next I thought, that maybe the gus is ussing up more > IO address space then I thought (although I don't think that this is > the case since I have a CD rom interface card at 300, and that works > fine). So I tried moving the GUS up and the network card below it. > I set the network card at 240 while the the GUS got moved up to 260. > An presto everything seem to work now. I have absolutely no explenation > for this, and it rather worries me. The only problem that I have noticed > since is that I can no logher get Start-trek the 25 anniversary CD edition > game to work with Mega-em, it just crashes, when it worked fine before. Keep the GUS at 220. Everything expects it to be there and it seems as if you would be opening up a can of worms by using the GUS at some other address. If not saying that it won't work, just that it would make your system "different" from most others and it could cause complications. There really should not be a problem with the network card at 340. I think that is what I am using. > The network card that I am using now is a loaner, the one which > I want to use is an old NE2000 which has only 4 base addresses available > all above 300. Has anybody out there had similar probels? Any suggestions > will be grately appreciated. This card will probably work just fine. I had an NE2000 compat. that would make Jungly Kitchen lock at 300h and Norton SysInfo v.7 lock at 360h. ?!?. I settled for 340h and everything is cool now. Good luck!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 94 17:56:32 EDT From: Greg Subject: GUS MAX$$$$$$$ I was in a store today, saw that the MAX had arrived and was thinking about buying it. However, the 325 Canadian dollar price is a little steep and convinced me otherwise. Is this $325 price the norm for the MAX or was the store overcharging. I realise that the product just arrived, but it was only a few dollars cheaper than the AWE32. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 15:27:51 --200 From: knevalai@argos.ncp.fi (Kari Nevalainen) Subject: help Hello ! I have very interesting problem My friend and I bought two Gravis Ultrasounds V.3.73 with 1Meg I installed my card and installation went okay, but when I use playmidi, graphicbars in lower right corner go crazy they blink and it looks like they are trying to get out of the box. Music sounded at first fine but after an hour some songs started to sound weird (e.g. bohem.mid). Then we tried moddemo and it did't work there were continuous high beep sound at the front and mod was back somewhere. bad card we tought, so we tried my friends card and it worked just fine. Even bohem.mid + playmidi sounded and looked great. Then began the fun stuff We went to my friends and we installed my card to his computer and it worked fine, no trouble at all???? We tried moddemo, it grooved nicely, we played mids two hours... NO TROUBLE !! SO IF SOMEONE KNOWS WHATS GOING ON, PLEASE INFORME ME THANKS ------------------------------------------------- | **** | | **** | | **** | | **** | |***********************************************| | Kari Nevalainen knevalai@argos.ncp.fi | |***********************************************| | **** | | **** | | **** | | **** | | **** Joensuu Business College | |_______________________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 94 23:08 -0700 From: Thomas Wong Subject: Missing New GUS install files from EPAS GRAVIS ULTRASOUND INTERNET ARCHIVES NEWS ============================================================================== FTP Sites Archive Directories --------- ------------------- Main N.American Site: archive.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound Main Asian Site: nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound European Callers ONLY: theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de pub/sound/gus Submissions: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound Mirrors: garbo.uwasa.fi mirror/ultrasound MailServer For Archive Access: Email to ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK guys.... some _butthead_ deleted the new Gravis installation files from EPAS's submit directory. And by the time I realize this, there has been uploads so we can't put them back if we want to (without deleting someone else's files....hhmmm....). Have no fear, the gus353*.zip files can be located in our other sites (except wuarchive) which mirros EPAS's submit directory. So you can grab them there. (eg. for North American callers, ftp to archive.orst.edu and cd into pub/packages/gravis/submit). And these files are not eraseable. Thomas. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 00:43:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerilyn Daniello Subject: New 3.53 patches I don't believe there are too many new patches in the 3.53 disk set unless you're comparing them to the original patch set that shipped with the oldest cards, but did anyone else notice how horrible the new barisax.pat sounds? There's this bit of noise and popping at the end of the sample, really awful. It was a real pain getting the old barisax patch out of my 2.06 disks (does anyone know what compression Gravis uses on those files? I had to reinstall a whole lot of files into a temporary directory just to get that one patch). It would be nice if patches were archived somewhere individually as well as lumped together a la Pro Pats and the like. It was a real pain downloading all those files just to find the ob8.pat also. At least the Index files on the archive sites could list which patches are in which zip. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 15:08:28 +0100 (BST) From: Toby Subject: Odd windows stuff Right then explain this you GUS experts. I don't use the Windows midi stuff much, I have used it and it has worked fine. Just today I decided to use the patch manager to audition a patch. Well when I click on the >> button to get it to load it does nothing. Not a sossage. So I tried loading a file into Session but it would not load the patches. So as a last resort I tried Patchmaker. It worked fine. Now why would this be ? I have not changed any of the windows stuff concerning patch maps etc. Could it be due to the patch I changed or some .ini file that has been arsed up ? # | \ / ~~|~~ /~~~\ ! ! {} ............................ | # * < \ /\ / /~\ | | |---| /\ {} Pessimism? It'll never work. > * # | \/ \/ \_/ | \___/ ! ! /~~\ {} ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | # ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 13:15:12 -0400 From: hsiah@cs.UMD.EDU Subject: v.3.53 disks? HI, Call me silly but I can't seem to find them?? Can someone point me to the right directory? Thanks. hanron ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 17:29:23 -0600 From: Tam Ignatius Ying S Subject: xcomdemo (?) Hi, does anyone know what the heck is the 'xcomdemo' comes with the latest CGW? it is supposed to support gus but it hangs when I run the game ... i know the dos4gw thing so it's not config problem for me ... or am i missed the discussion? c'ya - Ignatius ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 94 10:09:25 IDT From: eran@mercury.co.il (Eran Dukas) SUBJECT: problems in DOS. Hello fellow Gusser, Two days ago, my friend recieved his UltraSound card version 3.7 with software version 3.11 .After installing it (and testing it successfully with the install program) he found out that not all the dos utilities work well. For example, in PlayMidi all the volumes (as seen on the right side of the screen) show max volume, and the music is not playing right. In windows, the same music file is playing as it should. Also, GusMod is making strange noises instead of playing the MOD files, while MODUS is playing the MOD file properly. My question is why does everything work well in windows, and not in dos ?! The settings we used was port 220 irq 11 (7 for sb emulation) and dma 5. We tried to change these settings, but nothing solved the problem. I tried my own GUS 2.4 on his computer and everything worked well, and also his GUS 3.7 worked well on my computer (we both have software version 3.11). Please help us !!! Gonen Dukas.From eran Tue May 31 10:02:30 1994 Date: Tue, 31 May 94 10:02:29 IDT From: eran (Eran Dukas) To: eran Content-Length: 1 X-Lines: 1 ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V13 #28 *******************************