GUS Daily Digest Sat, 15 Oct 94 9:37 PST Volume 15: Issue 8 Today's Topics: Announcing 2PAT v1.4 Dark Legions 1.1 Patch Released GUS CD adapter GUS Daily Digest V15 #7 (4 msgs) GUS Daily Digest V15 #7 microphone recording GUS installation disks GUS problems with DOOM In favor of the mailing list (3 msgs) Mail Delivery Status New GF2 PASCAL program to read the digest from the server Putting the PC-Beeper thru the GUS stuff Thanks for the support ULT v1.61 Windows '95 Drivers and app's 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: Sat, 15 Oct 94 13:03:25 +0100 From: f93-maj@nada.kth.se Subject: Announcing 2PAT v1.4 Anouncing 2PAT v1.4; the premier windows based instrument converter! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find it on: archive.epas.utoronto.ca/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/2pat14.zip and it will probably trickle out to the other Ultrsound sites as well. If you haven't installed the Win32s extensions yet, you may as well get ftp.microsoft.com/developr/DEVTOOLS/WIN32SDK/win32s115a.zip and install it as well, since it is required to run 2PAT nowadays. News since version 1.1 (v1.2 and v1.3 never was released) is: version 1.4, <94-10-14> Improved support for Turtle Beach WaveFront based cards! (Maui/Rio/Monterey); Reads .WavePatchs.WFB, WFP and WFP files (v1.2 or later only). Exports .WFP files. Supports downloading instruments to the Maui card, using the WF GateKeeper (WFGATE.DLL). Reads ScreamTracker 3 instruments (S3I). version 1.3, <94-08-02> Now a Win32s (v1.1 or later) program. CTL3D32.DLL replaces CTL3DV2.DLL. FMJMTHRU.DLL no longer needed. Saves config in the Win32 registry instead of in an .INI file. Now reads the GKH disk image files in addition to INS/EFE for Ensoniq EPS. Barebone .SBK import support (EMU SoundFonts Banks / SB AWE32); at wavesample level. version 1.2, <94-07-28> Licensing policy has changed to Shareware, so now you MUST pay a small fee to get the legal right to use it. See REGISTER.TXT. Restructured for multiple export formats, currently: Ultrasound patches (.PAT) Turtle Beach Maui (.WAV+.WFS+.DES) Ms Windows wave files (.WAV+-DES) Midi Sample Dump Standard files (.SDS+.DES) Config dialog window where you can choose export type and midi in device. Saves config in 2PAT.INI. You can start 2PAT with a filename on the command line and that file will be loaded at once; so now you can associate various file extensions with 2PAT in the File Manager and launch 2PAT by double clicking on a file. Reads and writes .WAV files with the (new Ms standard) smpl (root key, finetune, loop points) and ICMT (name) chunks. thats all for now, regards, F.M.J. f93-maj@nada.kth.se ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 16:11:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "MR George M." Subject: Dark Legions 1.1 Patch Released Just to inform the world of GUS: Taken from the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce: Dark Legions Patch(s) 1.1 has finally been released! You can get the patches by anonymous ftp at the following sites: wuarchive.wustle.edu : pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/patches -- File Names: dl3511c.exe & dlcd11c.exe ftp.uwp.edu: pub/incoming/games -- File Names: dl3511.exe & dlcd11.exe & dl3511.zip & dlcd11.zip vaxxine.com : pub/silicon_knights -- File Names: dl3511.exe & dlcd11.exe & dl3511.zip & dlcd11.zip These have just gone up tonight. I assume that they will be moved to the appropriate places after they have been checked. Below is part of the readme file that describes the patch: ******************************************************** DARK LEGIONS PATCH VERSION 1.1 ******************************************************** New Sound Board Support: 1) Gravis Ultra Sound and Ultra Sound Max - Native Mode ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [STUFF DELETED TO MAKE MY POINT SHORTER] Hooray! -George -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 13:17:11 -0500 (CDT) From: drwestco@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (Derek Richard Westcott) Subject: GUS CD adapter I've got a GUS 3.4 and Gravis' 3-on-one CD-ROM interface card hooked up to a Sony CDU33a. TThe Sony doesn't use any IRQs or DMA channels, even though the card supports them for other drives. When only the Sony is hooked up, are these IRQs and DMAs disabled, or do I (and can I) remove the jumpers for them? I am most concerned because since installing the CD, my modem program seems to be hanging on a semi-regular basis. I don't know if this is the fault of the Ultrasound, the CD adapter, the CD drive, the SLCD device driver, or what. Anyone have any suggestions? Also, I've seen that Gravis added CD Line-In control to the 3.7 card. On the 3.4, is the line-in just always enabled? -- Brought to you from the desk of -- The Eradicator -- drwestco@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 18:24 -0400 From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #7 #flame on >Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 18:46:50 -0400 (EDT) >From: Phat Hong Tran >Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #6 > >FWIW, Gravis had not been working on OS/2 until the past summer. (They >were planning to for a long time, but other projects overrode OS/2 in >priority.) But over the summer, Forte had a preliminary version of the >OS/2 driver already working, and Gravis also put one of their own >programmers on the OS/2 project. (The programmer Gravis placed on OS/2 >is an unabashed OS/2 fanatic, and very competent.) We know they've never been working on them. We don't believe they are working on them now. Or at least I don't. What I WANT is AG to finally admit that they've lied to all us OS/2 folks for nigh on 3 years! Then I want them to fix the damn Windows drivers such that they will work under OS/2. Or at least admit that they have no interest in supporting OS/2 so I can take my soundcard business elsewhere. >This is not to say that the public will see an OS/2 driver any time soon. We have OS/2 drivers from Robert Manley. They work. Well. Apparently, AG has refused to license them (after leading him on a bit) whilst NOT working on any themselves. So they've missed the boat for OS/2 3.0 as far as getting the drivers included in the box. Now they tell us we'll see 'em by the end of November. Of course, they don't say WHICH November. :-) So, Gravis, are ya gonna fess up? Wicked pissed, DDA #flame off ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 18:38:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Phat Hong Tran Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #7 On Fri, 14 Oct -1, GUS Server wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 11:54:49 -0600 (MDT) > From: rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff) > Subject: Bad MIDI mapping > > Maybe it's just me (I don't THINK it is) but it seems to me that Gravis > STILL has not been able to get the MIDI map correct on either General > MIDI OR Sound Canvas. Another example I just ran into is with Day Of The > Tentacle. If you select Gen. MIDI instead of Sound Canvas some > instruments are different than with the Sound Canvas setting. The Sound > Canvas setting sounds really weird to the point of being annoying. Can > anyone give me any insite into this??? Well, the Sound Canvas (i.e. SCC-1) isn't strictly General MIDI. It's also GS (anybody care to expand this acronym?), meaning that it has instruments and effects not part of the GM standard. (GS is a superset of GM.) Thus, it shouldn't surprise you that the music for the Sound Canvas configuration sounds different than that for the GM configuration. Now, Mega-Em isn't truly GM, GS, or MT-32 compliant. It tries its best to approximate all three. (Well, it has two different MIDI maps, but since GS and GM are pretty close, one of the maps is used to approximate two standards.) Work was done over the summer to optimize the GM approximation for the next release of Mega-Em, though. > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 14:29:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: "C.Moore" > Subject: In favor of the mailing list > > I don't know about y'all, but it is really hard to scroll through the > huge digest and pick out what I want... I would prefer to have the > messages come individually and have the option to go to digest if I so > desire... > > Count this one vote for the mailing list. I'd like to receive individual messages instead of a digest as well. The gus-general digest, in particular, has grown large and cumbersome to wade through. > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 16:45:37 -0400 > From: Xes Laro > Subject: MONO Recording on MAX... > > Okay... > > Maybe my opinions are wierd on recoding in stereo, but for most > INSTRUMENTS, there is very little diference in sound unless you use two > mics in different places, which is do able to with adaptors, is a pain. > > Now, as for the standard GUS being mono input...They are now > using pretty much the same mixing chip on the GUS and the MAX, therefore, > since the SDK has yet to be updated (correct me if I am wrong) for the > MAX and the new revision of the GUS, it could be possible that the new > mixing chip is being used in the GUS too???? The mixers are quite different on the GUS and the MAX. The MAX uses the mixing facilities of its CS codec, while the (post-3.7) GUS uses an ICS component as its mixer. > Why did they remove Stereo recording from the MAX??? Wouldn't that be > considered a DOWNGRADE???? Gravis people help me out on this one could ya?? The reasons were technical. Originally, the designers thought that there was only a mono input left on the CS codec's mixer (after the GF1, CD audio, and line input were fed to it), so they implemented a mono mic. There is, however, a stereo input remaining that could be used, but it can't be monitored like the mono input. Also, op-amps come in packages of 4, and going stereo with the mic would mean putting on another op-amp package and using only a quarter of it. A stereo mic could be implemented with the existing op-amps if the mic jack didn't have to supply power to condensor mics, meaning that users must buy dynamic mics. (The MS Sound System came with a condensor mic, so Gravis felt that the MAX should support those mics since its CS codec is supposed to be Sound System-compatible.) Anyway, I can't quite remember what the final decision was regarding the mic on the MAX. If you really want to record in stereo, use an external amp for the mic and feed its line out into the line-in on the MAX. The line-in is also not as noisy as the mic in. > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 94 23:02:47 CDT > From: epyle@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle) > Subject: Sampling, Samples and UT 1.61? > > Ok I got three things for you GUyS, > > First of all, can anyone give me some tips on > making noisless samples? When I record a sample > of my voice through the mic. I get a lot of noise > over my voice...When I don't talk, there isn't much > noise...until I start talking. This is on the GUS? What you're hearing is the quantization noise of 8-bit sampling. You can minimize the noise relative to the signal by recording as close to clipping as possible (i.e. turn up the input level until the recorded waveform just touches the top and bottom of the amplitude vs time plot). > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 13:20:03 -0500 > From: DMCATEER@LoyalistC.ON.CA > Subject: Subject: > > Hello Gusers. > > It is now my firm belief that the good old days were using install > disks ver. 3.11!! > Since upgrading to 3.56, GUS and Windows hate each other's guts. > Avi's that used to work now lock up. Program Manager sometimes comes > up blank with error messages like "xxx.grp is invalid or damaged etc. > etc ." and sometimes locks up when trying to exit Windows and clicks > and chirps playing waves are now heard. Mods, mids, and s3ms etc all > sound excellent though but this is only half the fun. It sounds like the upgrade didn't go smoothly. Try re-installing the 3.56 disks fresh instead of over an existing installation. Delete the GUS files, and remove the GUS drivers from Windows, etc. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 19:41:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher J Unsicker Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #7 Apologies to the GUS community for a double-dip into the bonehead mistake pool - I've been trying out PC Eudora and did not realize it was automatically including the original message in replies - a reply I was sending to the wrong address anyway. (head hung in shame) Chris P.S. I still love my GUS, but don't have time to read every digest - just could someone please yell REAL LOUD when AG releases official OS/2 drivers, eh? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 20:15:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #7 This is a message forwarded by the GUS Daily Digest Owner to the GUS Daily Digest due to the author sending the article to the wrong address. ---------- Text of forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 21:47:48 +0200 From: "THEO_JAKOBS TEL.62667" To: "mailserv@gaia.ucs.orst.edu"@MUXGW1.ms.philips.nl Subject: RE: GUS Daily Digest V15 #7 Hi... About SYNDICATE CD-ROM I have this game, but i have not found a path so you can use the cd-rom with the gus... BUT..... hahahahaha....|-> If you have enough DiskSpace Like i have rthen you could copy the Game Onto your harddisk and copy the GUS32MID.DLL over the gameFM.dll and the GUS32DIG.Dll over the gamedg.dll (the gamexx.dll could also be gamexx.dat) Be sure to use the Normal Soundblaster game and not the SB16 game (save you about 11 or even more megs on your harddrive) because the sound will continue if played, So use the Soundblaster version to copy the drivers over... BTW this 'patch' works also for the Disk Version... Andre Jakobs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 14:29:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Reginald Atkins Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #7 microphone recording I bought two popular mechanics microphones from wal-mart for 9$ each...aside from the usual background noise to be expected recording by mike causes no real problems.....it's probably the microphone you bought... reg. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 11:04:46 +0300 From: TFR@breakpoint.fido.ee (TFR@BREAKPOINT.FIDO.EE) Subject: GUS installation disks Message-ID: <5E79.1D4C5897@breakpoint.fido.ee> Hi and greets from Estonia! Glad the GUS digest is back. Got one question - is there any utility for extracting files from GUS installation disks? The version of them that came with my GUS is 3.11. Now I got ver 3.53. I'm only interested in new SBOS. Do I really have to install all the software again just to get new SBOS? TFR ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 10:58:46 +0100 (BST) From: A.M.Zanker@newcastle.ac.uk Subject: GUS problems with DOOM Hi folks, I've just bought a GUS (version 3.73 it says on the card) and upgraded it to 1MB straight away. In general the card is working very well and I'm extremely impressed with the sound quality, especially the MIDI patches. However (and there always seems to be a "however" :), both DOOM and DOOM II (both 1.666) are giving me no end of grief. I initially had my card set to GF1 IRQ 5, SB/MIDI IRQ 7, rec. and playback DMA 1,1 and both DOOM and DOOM II locked up within seconds. Changing the DMAs to 16-bit ones (6 and 6) has improved things quite a bit. DOOM II now runs for anything up to a couple of hours before locking up - but it *does* eventually lock up. DOOM I also runs a lot longer but it also invariably crashes the entire system with the message "parity error- system halted". Interestingly enough, running without a memory manager (ie pressing F5 to bypass config.sys and autoexec.bat, but initialising the GUS and its environment variables) causes DOOM 1 & 2 to lock up very quickly, but running with EMM386 or QEMM 7.04 improves things. My other games that support the GUS natively run fine with no lock-ups. Megaem is causing trouble with TIE, but I gather that I'm not alone on that one :) Anyway, I'd really like to know whether it's my machine, my new GUS, or DOOM that's at fault. I've seen plenty of messages about the scratchy sound in DOOM 1.666 but I can live with that - what I can't live with is not knowing when DOOM is going to crash. Thanks in advance, Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 13:52:09 -0500 (CDT) From: lrg@ironwood.cray.com (Lee Gordon) Subject: Re: In favor of the mailing list C.Moore wrote: > I don't know about y'all, but it is really hard to scroll through the > huge digest and pick out what I want... I would prefer to have the > messages come individually and have the option to go to digest if I so > desire... > > Count this one vote for the mailing list. I was going to reply to the author directly, but other might be interested in this too. Sorry about the non-GUS'ness of this. I subscribe to several digests, and I too prefer to read only selected messages. My solution was to write a very simple filter which splits the messages up into something which 'elm' can cope with. I send all of the digested mail I receive through the following script before it gets stored in my mailbox. #! /bin/sh /bin/cat $* | /bin/awk '{ if ($1 == "From") { hdr = $0 } else if ($1 == "From:") { print hdr; print $0; } else if ( $1 == "Received:" || \ $1 == "id" || \ $1 == "Errors-To:" || \ $1 == "Message-Id:" || \ $1 == "Message-ID:" || \ $1 == "Precedence:" || \ $1 == "Date:" || \ $1 == "Return-Path:" || \ $1 == "Apparently-To:" || \ $1 == "Content-Type:" || \ $1 == "Content-Length:" || \ $1 == "Reply-To:" ) { } else { print $0; } }' | /usr/ucb/fold -160 It is pretty simple, works for the most part, and strips out quite a few headers which only serve to fill my mailbox. Hope it helps you out. -Lee Lee R. Gordon ATT: 1-612-683-5484 Cray Research, Inc. Fax: 1-612-683-5599 655F Lone Oak Drive Email: lrg@cray.com or Eagan, MN 55121 uunet!cray!lrg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 19:43:42 -0500 (CDT) From: seligman@netcom.com (Scott Seligman) Subject: Re: In favor of the mailing list > p.s. if it's too much for the current listowner to do, it's really easy > for me to set up a mailing list. I don't know how many people would want > to subscribe to both, though (the digest would have to subscribe too, so > that all the messages would go to it as well... rambling...) > Ahh, but if any one really wants it I can send them the undigestfied version of this list as I get it (whenever I get a digest procmail splits it up into the sperate message and spits it to mailbox like that. Suffice to say, if you're reading this on an unix system I suggest you look at procmail, and formail) -- | `seligman@netcom.com` | Required Viewing: Deep Space Nine, | | `seligmn@metronet.com` | Voyager, Red Dwarf, Dr. Who. | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 21:55:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Christopher Allen Kalin Subject: Re: In favor of the mailing list C.Moore wrote: > I don't know about y'all, but it is really hard to scroll through the > huge digest and pick out what I want... I would prefer to have the > messages come individually and have the option to go to digest if I so > desire... I actually prefer the digest form...I have a nice little script called "digest" that I pipe to from ELM and it automagically splits up the digest into its component parts. Any takers? Chris Kalin Chris Kalin-----> ckalin@cae.uwm.edu Head PR guy for and co-founder of Your friendly neighborhood Eon Designs, Ltd. Babbage's employee. "The Universe is Our Playground" 3D Studio maniac in training. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Oct 1994 14:47:14 GMT From: "Central Postmaster" Subject: Mail Delivery Status ***** Error in Mail Delivery ***** CANCELLED Recipients: STERN6@SMTP.LOC.GOV ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 16:27:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Dylan Nicolle Subject: New GF2 On Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 17:51:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "MR George M." wrote about: Subject: Re: GF2 > * Be available as an upgrade? In other words, can we trade in our > old GUS cards along with some extra fees for the new GF2 model? Funny, about 1 year ago, I posted a message asking this on the Usenet. Sure enough, no one was able to tell me something I didn't know already. > * Will it feature a special effects chip for Reverb and Chorus effects? It better, after all, that is the whole idea of having a new chip > * How much memory can the GF2 handle? If it were available as a chip upgrade, it may not be possible to add more mem because of teh Gus card itself. there are 8 chips, with 20 pins each. it is highly likely that it has been hardwired to only support the pinouts of the 256*4 chip. (regular Gus, not Max). Perhaps some sort of internal compression routine could help. even with just an extra 50% gain, to bring the total memory to 1.5 meg would help. > * Will it kick AWE-32 butt? (I think so 8-)) Right now, in terms of price/performance, The gus already kicks the AWEful32's ass higher than its head. > * Will it have a wierd fancy name attached to the old name? > (like UltraSound FX, UltraSound Studio, UltraSound Blaster (yuck!), > UltraSound Millenium, etc... etc...) Sure hope as hell they wont change it too much. How bout just Ultrasound Upgrade. Nothing fancy. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 08:45:28 GMT From: boaz.chow@eclair.com (Boaz Chow) Subject: PASCAL program to read the digest from the server Hey man! I am tired to read the stupid messages from the server! You know. It puts everything into one single message. I just wrote this program to handle the messages. First, you use your offline mail reader to save the message(s) into a file, and then run my program. My program will stop at every screen (24 lines) AND it will STOP AT EVERY MESSAGE. You don't have to search for/look for/guess for/etc/etc where the @#$% is the next message no more! -------- uses crt; const max = 80; crlf = #13; YourFile = 'c:\bwave\gusd5.txt'; MaxLen = 24; type stringrangetype = 0 .. max; stringtype = record len : stringrangetype; chars : array[1..max] of char end; procedure GetFile(var MyFile : text); var filename : string[20]; begin clrscr; writeln('Press "ENTER" to read ', YourFile); write('or input [path\filename]: '); readln(filename); if filename = '' then filename := YourFile; assign(MyFile, filename); reset(MyFile); end; procedure Readline(var f:text; var s:stringtype); begin s.len := 0; while not eoln (f) do begin s.len := s.len+1; read (f, s.chars[s.len]); end; if s.len = 0 then s.chars[1] := crlf; readln(f) end; var f : text; s:stringtype; i,k,k1,l:integer; begin Getfile(f); k:=0; k1:=0; l:=1; while not eof (f) do begin readline(f, s); if (s.chars[1] = crlf) and (k=2) then k:=3; if (s.chars[1] = 'D') and (k=3) then k:=4; if (s.chars[1] = crlf) and (k<>3) then k := 1; if (s.chars[1] = '-') and (k=1) then k:=2; if k = 4 then begin k := 0; k1:=0; l:=1; write('*****PRESS ENTER TO READ NEXT MESSAGE'); readln; end; for i:=1 to s.len do write(s.chars[i]); writeln; l:=l+1; if l>Maxlen then begin l:=1; write('******PRESS ENTER FOR MORE'); readln; end; end; end. ----------- hope this help! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 19:52:20 +1000 (+1000) From: Dylan Walkden Subject: Putting the PC-Beeper thru the GUS Hi ya all, I was just wondering if its safe to connect the PC beeper output to the GUS's line in. I've heard horror stories about unfortunates who tried it and fried their beloved card so I thought I'd better check it out before I try it. Thanxs a lot, Dylan. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 94 0:00:13 MET From: Broderdue Subject: stuff Regarding cd-rom audio hook up on the gus: Many have posted notes as to how the cables should be connected, but I think that the real solution in playing through is merely done by altering your ultrinit. Do a ultrinit /? to see what settings you should use to enable audo through from cd during your dos session. For windows, there are some shareware "cd players" that do it for you. Regarding origin: Enough already! Origin has kept their word, and are supporting every title after Wing Commanda armada as promised. No need to mail them asking for support, mail them your thanks... :) This may partly be due to the new HMI drivers that are present in System Shock and will be in Wing Commander III. Furthermore, and more interestingly so, it might be a result of the major e-mail campaign we did some 6 months ago. Way to go Origin; the way forward. (I read in an interview with Origin that Bioforge will not support 3d sound, but they were very keen on the idea. Still it will have native (if HMI is that) support.) Great to see that Gravis take an activ part in replying to the digest, I truly have faith in the OS/2 drivers and enhanced megaem arriving this year. Lastly, PLEASE DON'T USE REPLY WHEN MAILING TO THE DIGEST! Too many people use the copy message (y/n) option and send the WHOLE DAMN digest again. Ie, we have to read through so much more to get the essence. Thanks, \//// |. .| ( - ) Broderdue Ivar Froelich ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 16:18:57 -0400 (EDT) From: rjm@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca Subject: Thanks for the support Phil Longstaff wrote: > Subject: OS/2 drivers and other stuff > > I agree completely (I am the guy). However, given the rabbit-like speed > with which AG has written these drivers (I agree with the previous message > in this digest in which they promised drivers RSN back in June of 1993), > I am looking for anything which will give me some sound in my DOS sessions. > I noticed in a later message that Robert Manley would contact them about > putting the MegaEm functionality in a VDD. If they are not planning to do > this and they let you do this, my eternal gratitude. I'm working on native MT-32 emulation now. Eternal gratitude is a bit much though, isn't it? :) > I think Robert Manley should be sent our collective thanks (and lots of > registration cheques/checks) for filling the void left by Gravis. He may have > been put into a lowsy position if, after spending a lot of his own time on > helping people who were royally pissed off (and rightly so) at AG, they come > out with some free drivers. Of course, he may have done a much better job than > AG did. Who knows? Yes, who knows? As for the time put into this project, I would estimate around 400 hours already. I'm sure many of you know though that it wasn't undertaken for the massive financial payoff, but as my contribution to the TeamOS2 grass root support campaign. The money does allow me to buy nice things for myself though like disks to back it up :(. Enough about me. Thanks for the kind words Phil. Finally, does anybody know who's maintaining the GUS FAQ these days - I still haven't been able to change the extremely outdated information in the OS/2 drivers section. If anyone knows, could they please add this: Site: hobbes.nmsu.edu Dir: os2/2_1/drivers Files: ultraxxx.zip (Manley drivers) most recent is ver 0.5d == ultra05d.zip gusos2xx.zip (Ernst drivers) most recent is ver 0.2 == gusos202.zip Site: ftp-os2.cdrom.com Dir: pub/os2/2_1/drivers Files: ultraxxx.zip (Manley drivers) most recent is ver 0.4d == ultra04d.zip gusos2xx.zip (Ernst drivers) most recent is ver 0.2 == gusos202.zip Thanks. Robert. -- # Robert J. Manley, rjm@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca # # NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA # # OS/2:OSs :: 92,93 Blue Jays:MLB :: Canada:World # ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 00:18:31 -0500 From: lala@interaccess.com (Imre Olajos) Subject: ULT v1.61 To the guy who asked about it: UltraTracker v1.61 is available on the GUS FTP site in sound/ult/util I think. I downloaded it from there around 2 months (!) ago, and it loads the PAT samples perfectly. Just make sure that file scanning is on and it will load them as signed smaples, not unsigned ones. Do it this way, and You will have some 192 extra 16-bit CD-quality samples! :) At least, I do! :) Imre OLAJOS (LaLa of TranSByte) lala@interaccess.com ___ __o 130 E George St, Apt 205 ___ _-\<,_ Bensenville, Illinois 60106 ___ (_)/ (_) U.S.A. (Chicago suburbs) Phone/fax/modem: 1 (708) 595-7038 _-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~ This month's best: JeAN-MicHEl JaRRe quote: "I have nothing against singers, as long as they keep their mouths shut!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 13:01:09 CDT From: Jim English Subject: Windows '95 Drivers and app's Hey all, I have a question. Is Gravis going to write Windows '95 drivers and app's to take advantage of the new system? It would be stupid to be using the nasty windows drivers with Win'95. Granted the OS/2 drivers have been a long time in the coming, but you would think that Microsoft would have some pull too. Then again Win '95 may be just as big a flop as windows3.1 -jim -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Jim English - jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu / EJP51823@vax1.utulsa.edu ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V15 #8 ******************************