GUS Daily Digest Wed, 1 Jun 94 9:37 PST Volume 14: Issue 1 Today's Topics: 3.53 Disk set Aegis GUS 3.53 and HP Dashboard GUS programming MAX memory upgrade - I have the chips! NMI, mouse, etc. Oh no: The 7th Guest Problem: GUS MAX and PENTIUM Ultima 4 Upgrade disks Where to get GUS Max cheap 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: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:31:18 +0100 (GDT) From: dustin@ed.gse.utah.edu Subject: 3.53 Disk set I downloaded the 3.53 disk set, and used it as a first-time install. I guess this is a bad idea. Setgus doesn't work (it refers me to setup, which dowsn't exist, but even gsetup doesn't work..) The install interface seems to indicate that this could be an _original_ installation, not just a patch fix, but it doesn't work. If I install the 2.06 (?) disks that were sent out 7 Mo. ago, then install 3.53 as a patch, it works okay. (A lot of wasted time, it seems to me!) Actually, If I could get info on how to make setgus (or whatever) work, the rest I could do, I believe. Anybody run winsock with the GUS installed? I'm using a gateway DX2-66, and winsock performance goes to the toilet with the gus windows drivers installed. (No IRQ conflicts, etc.) ps. I would avoid Gateway altogether. I've used their 4DX2-66 models quite a bit, and they lose configuration often (even after replaced batteries) especially on a network. And that cheesy any-key keyboard, yuck! -dustin --------------------------(Short .sig)--------------------------------- Dustin Caldwell dustin@ed.gse.utah.edu Computer Engineering Japanese proverb: saru demo ki kara taoru. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 17:34:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tomas Tomas Subject: Aegis Anyone have any experience with the Gus and the new Aegis cd games? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Jun 94 09:41:10 +0100 From: "|\/|artin" Subject: Re: GUS 3.53 and HP Dashboard Hi , In message <199405301930.AA23435@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> you mentioned that: >Hi all. I just wanted to let you guys know that I've installed the 3.53 disks >and am also having the GPF problems in Windows. I changed my shell back to >Program Manager, and that seems to have solved the problem, but now I need to >run Dashboard from ProgramManager and it SUCKS! AG: Hope you guys solve this >problem REAL SOON NOW. Also, I have had the same .WAV file cut-off problems, >but not consistently (i.e. doesn't happen everytime I start Windows). I will >experiment with the QEMM DMA Buffer settings as someone suggested, but I don't >think that's the problem. Well, I'm running DB as my shell with no problems. I'm using whatever GUS drivers came in the 0039 file + the 0040 upgrade (or is that 0038-0040?) and I've got DB 2.0. The only thing I've heard about sound files cutting off is when the [MCI]Sound is set up with a small seconds count. Maybe that's the problem? Cheers, |\/| -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | |\/|artin |/\|ard | Telnet: 312-8142 | | | Tel: +44 272 228 142 Fax: +44 272 236 169 | +--------martin@wyvern.bri.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com@uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com-------+ | These are my own thoughts, which are mine, and not anyone else's. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 94 19:07:10 -0400 From: davej@ferry.polymer.uakron.edu (Dave Jiang) Subject: GUS programming Under which category on the FTP would I find GUSDK201.ZIP? I looked everywhere and can't find it. Thanks! David Jiang ------------------------------------------------------------------ email : davej@eby.polymer.uakron.edu phone: (513) 435-6227 usmail: 207 Carters Grove Rd. FAX : (513) 435-6227 Centerville, OH 45459 U.S.A. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:17:18 -0400 (EDT) From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor) Subject: MAX memory upgrade - I have the chips! I located a local supplier of NEC parts, and my employer was kind enough to have our order department place a Net-30-days order for 10 of them ($250 was the minimum purchase for a first-time net-30 account). I will, of course, reimburse them when the bill comes in. My cost is $25.38 each. This is the NEC part no. uPD42S4260LE-70, and it is the exact part no. recommended in the MAX manual, but is 70 ns speed, instead of 80 (no 60's were available). I will sell them at my cost, plus $5.00 for UPS ground shipping and my small amount of trouble obtaining them. Make it an even $31.00 US to any place in the USA. Send me e-mail if interested, and I will reply with instructions. I'll accept money orders or cashier's checks only; no cash please, or personal checks, or credit cards. First 9 responses get them. -- Mike Batchelor | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux mikebat@netcom.com | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plug 'N' Play: A specification invented by Microsoft and Intel which enables a computer and its operating system to create hardware conflicts without user intervention. No more jumpers to misplace! The computer will misplace them for you. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:30:48 -0400 (EDT) From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor) Subject: Re: NMI, mouse, etc. Not the GUS Server once wrote... $ $ ------------------------------ $ $ Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 18:04:41 -0400 $ From: KWAN RICHARD SIK YIU $ Subject: New Drivers Problem (Update!) $ $ Somehow the new drivers of GUS does not like any windows' shell except the old $ program manager. The same General Protection Fault occurs in Norton Destop, $ Dashboard, or even Backmenu. I wish there is soon an update of these buggy $ drivers. $ $ In the meantime, let's cross our fingers and use the plain program manager and $ hope no more GPF! Well, hold on there, pahdnah. Going from the specific to the general like that is usually a poor risk. You lose again. No problem at all with the new drivers, a 3.7 GUS, and Quarterdeck's SideBar Windows shell. SideBar worked fine getting the new groups setup, too. $ ------------------------------ $ $ Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 18:17:00 -0400 $ From: Laszlo Megyesi $ Subject: SBOS & NMI problems $ $ > It's neither the GW2K nor the GUS - it's the MS Mouse.EXE v9.0 on the PS/2 $ > port that is the problem. It disables the NMI procedure. Nice of it, $ > huh? MS Mouse.COM v9.0 or any previous version of MS Mouse should work $ > fine. Or another brand of mouse. $ $ Hi GUSers, $ $ Just a question about the NMI problem... $ I recently bought a 486dx-40 (AMD) and installed the MS Mouse.EXE v9.0 $ driver on it. When I'm trying to load SBOS I get the message about $ the NMI procedure being disabled. $ My question is: Does this mouse driver disable the NMI permanently? $ And if it does how do I turn it back on? Remark the mouse driver from your startup files, and turn the machine off, then back on. $ I'd just like to determine if the problem is with the motherboard or $ the mouse driver. $ $ I HAVE tried other mouse drivers, but I'm still getting the same message. $ (And my old mouse driver won't even work. It's a Dexxa 4.x driver) You already have determined that the problem is not the mouse. Your PC has disabled the NMI procedure. Try turning on memory parity checking in your CMOS setup. If that's off, then NMI is disabled. Other than that, you are probably out of luck, and your motherboard is a defective design. -- Mike Batchelor | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux mikebat@netcom.com | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plug 'N' Play: A specification invented by Microsoft and Intel which enables a computer and its operating system to create hardware conflicts without user intervention. No more jumpers to misplace! The computer will misplace them for you. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 03:11:54 EDT From: gchung@eden.rutgers.edu (Greg Chung) Subject: Oh no: The 7th Guest Well, I finally got T7G and yes, I'm having troubles getting it to work with the GUS. First of all, let me tell you I got the two patch files T7G-FIX and T7GFIX3 (I think they are called...) I also went back through old volumes of digests and tried to research this. I changed groovie.ini to use midi=GeneralMidi->gf1midi.adv and pcm=UltraSound ->gf1digi.adv. Then I used ultramid -c and started the game. However, at some point I get a crash. I've tried using my Roland for MIDI and ultramid for digital, and that works -- except the line-in on the GUS keeps getting turned off/on at unexpected points. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 21:52:31 -0400 From: YANG TUN-CHERN Subject: Problem: GUS MAX and PENTIUM Hello fellow Gussers. I just got my GUS MAX on friday and until now, it is still not working properly. During installation (ver 3.53), the SBOS Compatibility test failed, saying -BUSY (READ!). After installation, I cannot get SBOS loaded. Every time I try to load it, the program (GF1 SBOS V.3.82) would return with "Interrupt time out", "Error on load of patch library (C:\ultrasnd\sbos\sboslib.sbs)" Also, there is a huge problem in windows. Every time I startup windows, it would play the "tada" non-stop, until i go into control panel, sound to click cancel. However, the next time something happens that would play a sound, that sound would stay on forever. Even if i disregard these annoying repeated noises, somehow, windows would start screwing up really bad. all programs would stop responding to the system, even progman.exe. most of the time, i'll have to restart the computer as i can't quit windows! In the beginning, i thought that it could have been some sort of conflict with the scanner or the modem. However, I have tried countless times to setup the MAX by removing both the scanner and modem. Nothing helped the situation. It still returned with the same problems. I have tried changing the mouse driver to MS ver 7.00, dexxa 5.01, logitech 4.01. Nothing provided a solution either. I have even downloaded older versions of SBOS for testing. Again, i had no luck. I have listed my system configuration below, hopefully somebody can provide me with some helpful hints or solutions. Thanks a million!! motherboard INTEL BP5D60AT8C PENTIUM 60 pci/isa bus AMI-BIOS ver 1.00.08.AF1 memory 8 megs video ATI ULTRA PRO 2 megs(ISA) hd controller INTEL/NCR PCI-SCSI, with SDMS 3.0 (running 1 seagate st11200N) mouse driver MICROSOFT v9.01 sound GUS MAX rev 1.7 (default setup) scanner GeniScan GS4500 (dma3, address 272-27B) modem internal CARDINAL 14400DSP (softmodem) (com3, irq 2 or 9) all other ports (com 1, com 2, lpt 1) are all built onto the motherboard, standard configuration. thanks again :) TunChern Yang INTERNET:yangt@ugsparc10.eecg.toronto.edu yangt@ecf.utoronto.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 10:57:10 WET DST From: Steve Subject: Ultima 4 Has anyone tried running Ultima4 with the gus. I'm a bit loathed to spend 40 pounds (+20 for the speech upgrade) only to find that the sound's a bit dodgy. If you've tried it and got it to work (or not) could you mail me personally 'cause I don't always get time to read the full digest. Thanks Steve --- --------------------------------------------------- --- / + \ Name: Stephen Cady | Email: gei055@uk.ac.cov.rowan / + \ | RIP | Coventry - God's personal hell on Earth | | |_____| --------------------------------------------------- |_____| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 15:48:46 GMT From: Mike Geileskey Subject: Re: Upgrade disks Hi there! I've heard about ther new upgrade disks, and would like to replace my old v2.1? GUS installation. The trouble is, there's no way I can get hold of them. I have access to Email via my University's computers, but there is no FTP facility, and therefore no way by which I am able the retrieve files from an FTP archive. Is it possible to be sent GUS files via Email as a whole file (Pmail has this facility)? Are there any gophers/newsgroups that support the GUS, and regularly update their files? Are there any sites in the U.K.? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 16:33:03 -0700 (MST) From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" Subject: Where to get GUS Max cheap Alright, I guess I'm going to have to break down and ask this question which was already answered in a previous digest: Where was that that one can get the GUS MAX for $179? I lost a bunch of digests from that period. That mailfile mysteriously got filled with nulls on my PC, AFTER I had downloaded it from the mainframe and verified that it was OK. Go figure... I probably won't be buying one but there's this guy I've been talking to who is reviewing soundcards and thinks that the GUS sucks. He said he never got ANYTHING to work, not even Doom (hard to believe). He also said that the GUS max is $299 and the Rap-10 is $350 so he'd recommend the rap-10 because he has tried it and gotten it to work. I mentioned that the max really can be gotten cheaper, but that won't do much good unless I tell him where. BTW, he's more of a musician than a gamer so he's also looking for fancy stuff like being able to play multiple waves at once, play and record at the same time, do reverb and stuff in real time, etc. Anybody have experience with these things? I know you can't do reverb, at least not in hardware, but what about multiple waves? Which apps let you play and record at the same time? -- _______ KB7PWD (_ | |_) shawn.rutledge@asu.edu __) | | \__________________________________________________________________ * C++ * packet * freedom of information * PIC * Interpedia * robotics * ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V14 #1 ******************************