GUS Daily Digest Wed, 22 Jun 94 9:37 PST Volume 14: Issue 10 Today's Topics: .avi files GUS & Pacific Strike GUS & Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 GUS Daily Digest New Disks - Patch Maker New MIDI adaptor (kit) for sound card (FWD) Returned mail: warning: cannot send message for 4 hours (2 msgs) Sam n' Max CDROM Settlers works with AIL? Sid & Al's Incredible Toons Solution to 3.53 disk problem Some good and bad news... The Elder Scrolls ARENA Traffic Department WHERE R gus353*.zip disk at 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, 21 Jun 1994 21:15:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Antonio Guia Subject: .avi files Ok, i've finally broken down and decided to try these things out. Two problems: where do i find .avi files on the internet? why are there big gaps in the sound at regular intervals? 1MB gus2.2, drivers 3.53 plus gus0042, vfw1.1a, pcshell/win 1.0 (yes, the old version, i don't have the new version yet), 486DX40, 350MB Connors, IDE local bus, ATI UltraProPlus ISA, 2 VoiceFaxModems, Scanner, 16MB... d=128 in emm386.exe line, gus=220,7,6,11,5, in windows hifi on, linear volume, buffsize=4096, 22voices, and 9 second audio buffer. All the DMA channels work fine and i don't have problems with midi/wav playback (except for the occasional midi note that gets missed, i can deal with it). I know this has been brought up before and probably answered adequately many a time so please respond in direct e-mail to guia@cc.umanitoba.ca i couldn't find any immediate references to this problem in the faq. thanks. -tg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 14:09:41 +0200 (MES) From: kleing@uni-muenster.de Subject: GUS & Pacific Strike Since the Digest seems to be up again, I4d like to repeat my question: Has someone come up with a solution for both Sound *and* Music in Pacific Strike yet ? My machine hangs when the first word is about to be spoken and the GUS plays random sounds till reset. Additionally, PS is the first game which refuses to work properly with my Gravis-joystick. I am not able to calibrate it right. Please help me, because the game is real fun (when it works...) -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Georg F. Klein + It is necessary to have purpose. + + Erphostr. 12 + -- Alice #1, stardate 4513.3 + + 48145 Muenster + + + Germany + + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 15:53:04 -0400 From: aj667@freenet.carleton.ca (Kevin Tan) Subject: GUS & Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 Greetings. I purchased the Gravis UltraSound 256k about 3 months ago and had initially thought of discarding my Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 (which is a *good* sound board) until I learnt that both could work co-existantly. Delighted, I installed both the boards with different settings for each card: SGPro16: BASE:220, IRQ:7, DMA:1 GUS: BASE:240, MIDI/SB-IRQ:5, GUS-IRQ:11, PLAY/REC-DMA:3 However, games are not working properly; not to mention Windoze too! Apparantly, some games cant' find the SGPro16 card. Playmidi, however, is working fine. Even the SGPro16 demo doesn't work properly: FM music is fine, but not the Sound FX. Can Windows handle two sound boards at the same time? (ie: can both cards output Windows' sounds?) Also, MidiSoft session does not play midi files as well as Playmidi in DOS. Eg: With HIDNSEEK.MID loaded in Windows, some instruments do not play. BrightFX that plays the intro of the song, for some reason doesn't sound at all in Windows. Works perfectly fine in DOS, though! Can anyone with 2 cards installed please help me out? Thanks in advance.. --KevT-- P/S: SGPro16 is SBPro2, ADLIB, DISNEY, WINDOWS & COVOX compatible. P/P/S: How do I upgrade my 256k GUS RAM to 1MB? Any shops selling GUS RAM chips in the Ottawa area? Thanks again! -- | /__ _ _ ___ * aj667@FreeNet.Carleton.CA * kevt@FreeNet.FSU.EDU * | / |_ \ / | | | * ui067@FreeNet.Victoria.BC.CA * kevt@DDS.Hacktic.NL * | \ |__ \/ . | . * ap440@FreeNet.HSC.Colorado.EDU * aw069@YFN.YSU.EDU * | \____________| <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<-== IN STEREO EVERYWHERE ==->>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:20:08 -700 (PDT) From: Tyrone Horton Subject: GUS Daily Digest Is it me or is the server sending out old digest? Also, does anyone have problems getting sound in a dos box under OS2? I'm using the latest beta. Tyrone Horton 714-693-0808 voice thorton@zyxel.com ZyXEL 714-693-8811 fax 71333,2734 Compuserve 4920 E. La Palma Ave 714-693-0762 bbs 1:103/725 Fidonet Anaheim, CA 92807 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 20:26:29 -0300 From: Don Whiting Subject: New Disks - Patch Maker I just installed the new disks, v3.53, and neither INSTGRPS.EXE or PMAKER.EXE will run properly (in Windows). I know the INSTGRPS is just supposed to set up the groups for the different applications, but all both of the programs do is make the hard drive go for a few seconds and then return to the Program Manager... I've seen this happen before, but I have no idea what is wrong. Is it my Windows, or something I forgot to set somewhere. I know from trying tolp others that sometime obvious info is overlooked so I mention that I moved Mega-Em and the rest of the emulation stuff to another directory, and I updated the v2.06a disk install without deleting it.... probably doesn't matter, but any ideas? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 10:53:57 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave DeBry Subject: New MIDI adaptor (kit) for sound card (FWD) [ Thanks to MIDI Girl for this notice. -Ed. (or -Dave) ] From: pme@orac.holonet.net (PME company (317)743-1734 Info > ------- New Product Announcement (MIDI adaptor)-------- > 100% compatible, SB, GUS, ARIA, PAS16, RAP-10,.......and more > Works with any sound card that has 15 pin D-SUB Game/midi port. > > Dear sound card owners: > We now have MIDI adaptor for most sound card ready to ship! > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Featuring: <<<<<<< -------------------------------------------- > * Fiberglass printed circuit board, drilled, solder masked > * 2 MIDI female jacks, IN/ OUT > * 2 bright LEDs for visualizing IN(red)/OUT(green) MIDI activities > * 6N138 high-gain, low power consumption split darlington opto-isolator > * 1 D-SUB 15 pin plug with 3' cable connecting to MIDI/joystick > port of sound card > * 2" x 3"x 1" high-impact plastic enclosure. > * Just plug in and use. > * Comes with warranty card > * Fully compatible with all your original MIDI softwares > > Price: <<<<<<<< --------------------------------------------- > * All part with PCB, instructions, $12 plus $4 (shipping & handling) > * Fully assembled, warranty, $19 plus $4 (shipping & handling) > * Professional MIDI cables( 6'), $5/ea. or $8/pair (no s&h with any order) > We do international order, please add $4 more for shipping, and use > international money order or check drawn on US bank. > > Our new email address on the internet ------------------------------- > Email or finger >>> PME@holonet.net <<< for ordering information > Tel/Fax (317) 743-1734 > , thank you. > PME, your Electronic Music Pal. -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ DeBry dsd. peruvian. | "Maybe I'm old fashioned, but when the guy who es. cs.utah. | holds up the earth dies, we are *screwed*." com edu / ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 10:54:51 +0300 From: Yossi Oren Subject: Re: Sam n' Max CDROM Sorry to disappoint you, but LucasArts have been using their own music system, called "IMuse". It supports like SB, PAS, MT-32, and that's all. The IMuse system has .IMS drivers of its own which are quite small and totally unrelated to anything else I've seen. What we should hope for is that IMuse is real-mode only, and LucasArts has to resort to AIL for S-n-M CD. Yossi. +---+-----------------------------------------------------------+---+---+ | = | Yossi Oren, Al-Daf Technological Mercenaries. | v | ^ | +---+------------------------------------------------++---------+---+--+| |LIOREN1@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (or just @weizmann) || GUS - hearing || |Doom's JUST A GAME, OK? Now give me back that gun. || is believing. || [The People are with the Golan Heights!]=============++================++ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 21:44:20 +0300 (EET DST) From: Otto T Hyvarinen Subject: Settlers works with AIL? On the cover of PCF 33 there was a demo version of Settlers. It is something like "Lemmings go SimCity". It ran in protected mode and I was able to get sound effects with AIL. Does anyone have the full version and be nice enough to tell if it works with AIL too? It should, but You Never Know! -- " Miehen mitta miehen varsi ei ole miehen mielt{ p{{ss{ << Otto Hyv{rinen, miel on viety, p{{ j{tetty ohyvarin@kruuna.helsinki.fi >> aivot otsasta otettu. " ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 23:29:47 -0400 From: ap641@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Leukart) Subject: Sid & Al's Incredible Toons I know this must have been asked before, but I have no way to find out what the answer was. Is there a way to get the GUS to work with Sid and Al's Incredible Toons (Dynamix) without having to use SBOS? (i.e., using the GUS-32 drivers, Roland Emulation, ULTRAMID...) -Hank -- ----------- Hank Leukart ------------ | "Official" DOOM FAQ v5.6 Writer --- (ap641@cleveland.freenet.edu) --- | FAQ by E-mail or "ftp.uwp.edu" ------------------------------------ | "Official" DOOM FTP Site: ------------------------------------ | infant2.sphs.indiana.edu: /pub/doom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 14:34:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Solution to 3.53 disk problem Okay, well, everyone seems about as confused about the digest as I am. Maybe those guys at Creative stormed the people at Gravis, and took them all hostage for making a better product? Anyway, Someone was asking about a problem with the 3.53 disks. When installing from floppies, I had an error that started at disk 4. This caused the symbols.pat to be corrupted. Unzipping the disks to my hard drive and installing them from there however, was FLAWLESS. So, you might want to try that. Good Luck. Pat ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 20:18:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Christopher Allen Kalin Subject: Some good and bad news... Well, just as I was going to go to Summer CES on Thursday to congratulate Origin on FINALLY supporting the GUS in Wing Commander: Armada (as alleged in Game Bytes) and ask them about "back patching" their previous non-GUS friendly games (like the Ultima series) I find out that Electronic Arts is not going to be there, and hence, neither is Origin! (or SSI, or Three-Sixty, etc...) Hopefully, this is just a rumor, I'm going to contact the Origin tech support guys on Compuserve right now and find out if this is true. Do any of you want me to ask ANY GUS related questions to ANY game developers at CES? If so, E-MAIL them to me. You guys won't be reading this digest until Wednesday, and so any responses to it wouldn't be until Thursday's digest, when I'll already be there. I'll be back on Friday with a full report. Chris Kalin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 12:53:33 MDT From: Jeff S Shelman Subject: The Elder Scrolls ARENA To my fellow Gusers, Just bought The Elder Scrolls ARENA. It says it has GUS support on the box, but I haven't installed it yet because disk #1 is bad. Does anyone have this game? And if so could you upload disk #1 to epas or another archive? I'd rather get it from one of my fellow gusers than wait 10-14 days for a new disk to arrive. Thanks in Advance. Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 23:28:34 -0400 From: ap641@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Leukart) Subject: Re: Traffic Department >>Date: Sun, 19 Jun 94 12:58:00 -0800 >>From: chris.campbell@mag-net.com (Chris Campbell) >>Subject: Traffic Department >>Message-ID: >> >>I just got this new game, and I have a few problems. First off, what >>the heck happened to Epic including GUS support in all their recent >>games? Hank? And the digital effects don't even work right with SBOS, >>whenever one is played, the action pauses. Thanx! Yep, I heard the same thing as Yossi. There were some problems with getting GUS support in, but the next version will have it. John seems to be planning a few other things in the next TD release, although I am not quite sure what. He may be adding configurable controls. (don't quote me on that) -Hank -- ----------- Hank Leukart ------------ | "Official" DOOM FAQ v5.6 Writer --- (ap641@cleveland.freenet.edu) --- | FAQ by E-mail or "ftp.uwp.edu" ------------------------------------ | "Official" DOOM FTP Site: ------------------------------------ | infant2.sphs.indiana.edu: /pub/doom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 1:01:57 CDT From: jhighto@squhs.uh.ilstu.edu (Josh Hightower) Subject: WHERE R gus353*.zip disk at hi, Could someone inform where a complete set of the gus353*.zip on the net are at. Cause I downloaded the one at wuarchive and gus353d.zip and gus353e.zip are mess up. If someone could mail me these I would be grateful. If you are planning to mail it to me could you please mail me telling you sending it to me and wait for me to reply. THANKS. jhighto@squhs.uh.ilstu.edu J.A. 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