GUS Daily Digest Sun, 23 Oct 94 9:37 PST Volume 15: Issue 17 Today's Topics: 2 questions Gravis Max soundcard GUS Windows Drivers and Mitsumi CD-ROM Mortal Kombat Software 3.53 You want ULTRINIT.SYS back? try this. 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, 23 Oct 94 16:42:45 +0100 From: rock@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Jan-Oliver Rock) Subject: 2 questions 'Hi' to all GUS fans out there ! I've got 2 questions: 1) Where are the ProPats V3 archives ? 2) What must i do to install 'Video for Windows'(vfw11d.exe) properly ? I get choppy frames and the sound just stopps after some time. Any ideas ? Thankx...Olli ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 94 12:10:56 -0400 From: "Barrie Rody" Subject: Re: Gravis Max soundcard Newsgroups: bit.listserv.os2-l On 21 Oct 1994 15:46:27 -0400, James P. Huggins wrote: >I am planning to put a sound card in my system and some of my friends >like the Gravis Max (I forget the full name, but just saw it at CompUSA) > >They are not using OS/2, andd I was wondering if there are any problems >with it in the Warp Beta or 2.1. > >Anyone using it with no problems? > Currently, Gravis has no OS/2 drivers. However, there are two different shareware drivers available. One is ULTRA05E.ZIP and I don't recall the name of the other. Both are available at the usual OS/2 sites. Neither offer full functionality, ie no soundblaster or other soundcard emulation yet, So if you are a gamer you will have to run your games under DOS. Ultra05e was released sometime in the last couple of weeks so improvements continue to be made. Prior to purchasing my card, I called Gravis to see if they supported OS/2. I was assured that Gravis OS/2 drivers would be available during the first quarter of 94. Being gullible, I took them at their word and purchased an Ultrasound card which has proved to be very frustrating due to the limitations imposed by the lack of full function drivers. If not for the availability of shareware drivers the card would be a complete bust as far as OS/2 is concerned. AS far as making sound and music goes the the quality of sound from the card is excellent. BTW, Gravis continues to promise OS/2 drivers RSN. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Barrie Rody RR 6 brody@fox.nstn.ca Kingston N.S. Voice: (902) 765-8362 B0P 1R0 OS/2 - Arriving in Chicago earlier than expected. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 94 02:21:51 -0700 From: Derek Suzuki Subject: GUS Windows Drivers and Mitsumi CD-ROM With this hardware combination, I'm having a terrible time running a couple of Windows hosted games, namely Gabriel Knight and Myst. Also, playback of .AVI files suffers from painfully choppy video. I've been through four revisions of the Mitsumi drivers with no improvement, and I've heard it mentioned that the Gravis Windows drivers might be to blame. Is anyone else running this combination? It definitely seems to be a driver problem, since I can run higher bandwidth .AVIs under OS/2 without the skipping. Derek drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 22:54:55 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Carson Dron Subject: Mortal Kombat OK - I'm sure this has been covered a hundred times before, but how do you get the GUS to work with MK? When I use SBOS the digital sounds are nonexistent and the music sounds really annoying. I heard that there was a patch that fixes everything, but have been unable to find it anywhere. Any help would be muchly apreciated. Carson Dron mu045133@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 94 10:01:08 EDT From: eths1306@ele.etsmtl.ca Subject: Software 3.53 Hi, I would like to know if someone tried to install the GUS software version 3.53 on a new system. I think there is something strange about it. After the installation V. 3.53 didn't update the config.sys nor the autoexec.bat even worst sbos reported that there was a problem with sboslib.sbs. So I took the file gus0043 (update for GUS software V 3.56) and after it was insta led sbos (3.8?) reported the same error! Finally I got gus0039 (the complete sbos V 3.8?) and after I copied all the file, sbos finally run perfectly. I noted a difference in the amout of byte between the gus0039 sboslib.sbs and the softwa e V. 3.5?. Am I the only one who experienced this? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 94 1:06:40 MDT From: dchow@stu.athabascau.ca (Donald Chow) Subject: Re: You want ULTRINIT.SYS back? try this. > > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 01:16:17 -0400 > From: Led Mirage > > To those concerned about Ultrinit.sys, YOU DON'T NEED IT!!! If you want to > reset your GUS, just run ultrinit.exe, from the DOS prompt.It really makes one > wonder how you people get yout computer up and running. You can also run it from the autoexec.bat file. The only problem with this is if you computer gets locked up, and you have midi patches loaded and the go wild(never happened to me personally, of course... ;) You will have to wait until the autoexec.bat is processed, ie: after config.sys. Unless you hit the reset button of course... Don -- Donald Chow | X-Phile & GATB dchow@a.stu.athabascau.ca | Call (202) 555-6431 for a 'Spooky' time bf298@freenet.carleton.ca | Don on IGS ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V15 #17 *******************************