GUS Daily Digest Mon, 24 Oct 94 9:37 PST Volume 15: Issue 18 Today's Topics: 2 questions Armada and native GUS Can we beta test the OS/2 drivers? FTP Newest GUS Software GUS & MIDI PROBLEM under windows: problem and solution GUS - Mitsumi CD-ROM - Video for Windows GUS Daily Digest V15 #16 GUS Daily Digest V15 #17 Gus Daily Digest V15 #3 GUS Windows Drivers and Mitsumi CD-ROM Mitsumi & GUS my Power Chords rhythm editor is gone Panasonic 563 CD-ROM drive SBOS versions & NHL Hockey? SCSI CDROMS sound fault 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: Mon, 24 Oct 94 09:08:47 GMT From: csfb1!csfp.co.uk!pcunnell@uunet.uu.net (Paul Cunnell) Subject: Re: 2 questions rock@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Jan-Oliver Rock) wrote > Subject: 2 questions > > 'Hi' to all GUS fans out there ! > I've got 2 questions: > 1) Where are the ProPats V3 archives ? Try: archive.orst.edu:/pub/mirrors/archive.epas.utoronto.ca/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit Files are pp3-01.zip through to pp3-19.zip. I guess if someone's done some tidying up of the archive, they might have been moved to sound/patches, or similar. Anyway, the submit area is where I got them from. Paul. -- Paul Cunnell CSFB FOS (csfb1!csfp.co.uk!pcunnell@uunet.uu.net) +44 71 516 2946 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 22:47:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Ryan Baker Subject: Armada and native GUS Does anyone know how to get WING Armada to run with native GUS support, I think that it uses Miles-Davis Drivers but they are embedded in a component file. (.TRE), The game will run with SBOS but not if SB IRQ is 7, and in addition it reboots the computer on exit. Besides this MEGA-EM refuses to run on my computer because of EMM incompatibility. I use QEMM 7.04, STAC 4.0, and DOS 6.0. Any ideas? Rya | /| |\ | | | /| | / | , | \ | | | / | ROCKS! |/ | | \| | |/ | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 09:38:26 +1000 (EST) From: "M. Wong" Subject: Can we beta test the OS/2 drivers? Since the OS/2 drivers are coming RSN (tm), can we beta test the drivers? Gravis *SHOULD* have the drivers right, with the release just one month away. Or should we wait "in two weeks max" like the Kalix fiasco? If not, why not? Oh yeah, what can we expect from the drivers? Inquiring minds want to know. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:19:51 -0400 From: STEVENMA@LANMAIL.SHU.EDU Subject: FTP Newest GUS Software Hey, where can I FTP the FULL Base software for the Ultrasound, v3.56 or whatever the newest version is! I tried the U of Toronto site, but they didn't have it. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 16:31:33 +0100 From: wrbu@CHBS.CIBA.COM (Rene Burkhardt) Subject: GUS & MIDI PROBLEM under windows: problem and solution A friend of mine recently asked me to help him install his new GUS MAX. He has a noname PC 386-20 (C&T chipset) with 8 MB memory and a german windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2 with doublespace. Problem: Under DOS everything worked fine. Under windows, he couldn't play midi files with mediaplayer, power-chords didnt work, an so on. When starting canion.mid with mediaplayer, it started playing, but about 10 times to slow, ie. every tone sounded much longer than it should. After some time i recognized, that also the windows clock run 10 times too slow, as soon we started playing the midi file. When we stopped playing it, the clock ran with the normal speed. So i concluded it has to do something with the timer interrupt. After a many tests with different settings of interrupts, dma-channels, cmos-settings and so on , i finally found the solution: In the file system.ini in the windows directory you can set the parameter TrapTimerPorts=False (default is True) and everything works fine. You can find a description of this parameter in the file system.wri in the same directory. This file also recommends to set SyncTime=True which i have also done. Iwonder, why nobody else has this same problem, and what could be the consequences of my settings concerning the behaviour of other programs. Perhaps this information is also of some value for someone else. Rene Burkhardt, CIBA-GEIGY AG, R-1045.P.06, P.O.Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: wrbu@chbs.ciba.com - Phone: +41 61 697 2644 - Fax: +41 61 697 8772 X.400: S=Burkhardt;G=Rene;O=chbs;P=ciba;O=ciba;A=arcom;C=CH ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 05:47:07 +0100 From: A.PAUW@ELSEVIER.nl Subject: GUS - Mitsumi CD-ROM - Video for Windows I already wrote something on this in a previous digest, but there where two questions again related to this. To get Video for Windows set up. Run it (if it is a self-extracting file it will pull out the files plus a setup.exe file. From the Program Manager use RUN to run this setup program. Presto... If you look in the setup drivers of the control panel you'll find some more. You can use it with the mediaplayer (for .AVI movies I mean). I also have a Mitsumi CD-ROM and no problems. Make a list of the DMA, IRQ, IO-address settings and check for different settings. For the I/O address the following note: address 388 is always used (ADLIB soundcard compatability). Also, the GUS uses some I/O addresses at baseaddress+100H I believe. So, baseaddress GUS 220H has extra I/O on 320H (note!). So don't put the Mitsumi CD-ROM on 320H. Now about choppy AVI files. Yes, as I noticed too, it has something to do with the Windows drivers of the GUS. Make the playback buffer size not bigger than 1K (1024 bytes). I used 512 bytes but discovered that for higher quality wave files this is just a little bit to small, you get plops and clicks sometimes. I guess 768 bytes is just a good choice. Try it. Also make sure that in the media player the `skip frames if behind' option is checked. I haven't tried it but it could make the sound choppy (just a guess). The record buffer size can be bigger, because it is not used for playing .AVI files. Good luck, Albert Pauw a.pauw@elsevier.nl ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 13:09:55 -0400 From: AdvGravis@aol.com Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #16 The following games listed are games that use the HMI drivers without GUS support (they cut the game before HMI updated their drivers): Theme Park Dark Legions FPS Baseball Aces of the Deep A Dark Legions patch has been released by SSI. I would suggest you email Dynamix and ask them if a patch will be released that includes updated sound drivers. All other HMI games there should be no problems including Wing 3, Under a Killing Moon and Quarantine to name a few. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 94 12:48 PDT From: Dhakkar Subject: GUS Daily Digest V15 #17 Message-ID: <720b8@shoreline.ca> help ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:13:00 GMT From: sue.lane@gusngolf.com (Sue Lane) Subject: Gus Daily Digest V15 #3 Vince, > You're very welcome! Wowm so you run a BBS in Chicago or is that > Skokie? Sorry for the delay in responding...as usual, I'm way behind on my Digest reading! Actually the BBS is in the western Chicago suburb of Naperville. The BBS is free and specializes in GUS and related files (MODs, MIDIs, Music Demos, Players, GUS compatible games, etc.). The other half of the BBS focuses on computer golf. Weird combination, huh? I also carry the GUS Digest and InterNet Newsgroups, including all the soundcard ones of course. The BBS is just about a year old. I started it because, at the time, I didn't have a very efficient means of accessing FTP sites (do now) and didn't see a board in this geographic area with comprehensive coverage of the GUS (or computer golf). I figured if I was frustrated about this others might be too...thus the birth of a BBS! I'm currently running Wildcat 4.0 on a 486DX/33 with about 98 MEGS of GUS related files and am expecting another 22 MEGS in the near future. I also have older GUS files offline and they are available upon request...gotta watch that hard drive space! BTW, Thank you for automatically sending the FAQ to new subscribers (I changed addresses for the BBS copy so was a "new" subscriber). I've got one of the very first pre-release ordered GUSs and have been reading the Digest from day one. Read the FAQ ages ago and missed a paragraph in it that would have saved me a lot of grief. It refers to some games that will sense the GUS's Adlib capabilities even if SBOS isn't loaded. I have such a game, Jack Nicklaus Signature Edition Golf. This game really started acting up on me...looked like some kind of conflict. I wasn't running it with SBOS or MEGAEM because it had always acted weird with them. Well, a couple of versions of SBOS ago I decided to try it again with the game. Locked up on the SB setting...but low and behold the darn thing worked on the Adlib setting...and game ran smoothly again! What happens if I turn the music off? It acts up again. Conclusion..it knows the GUS is there! Sure glad I reread the FAQ..solved a mystery! Sue ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 08:39:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Harry C Pulley Subject: Re: 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 First, try setting the DMA playback buffer size (in Control Panel for Ultrasound Wave and Midi Synth) to 512 or 1024. I never had any trouble in Myst or GK (on a 486DX-33 with 8MB of RAM) but several other animations (MS Encarta, et al) had bad problems. Lowering the buffer size solved it. Remember that every time you run the Ultrasound setup and redo the windows software it sets the buffer back to 4096 again. I run Myst and Gabriel Knight without trouble. I have a Mitsumi FX001 (doublespeed) on its own controller and a GUS MAX. I use the Mitsumi's own controller just because I bought separate patch cords to hook it into my stereo so I can play games on headphones while my girlfriend listens to a CD; and because I can use the DMA&IRQ driver for the CDROM. I can give you my exact IRQ, port and DMA settings if you like. Harry :-{} hpulley@uoguelph.ca |This message released|It takes all kinds, \ Harry C. Pulley, IV |to the PUBLIC DOMAIN.|and to each his own. ---------------------------------+---------------------|This thought in mind, Ultra-Violence with Ultrasound | Ultraverse |I walk alone. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 00:25:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" Subject: Re: Mitsumi & GUS > 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 I have the same configuration. You didn't specify what speed your drive was, but I'll assume it's a double speed one for now (if it's only a single, your problem might lay right there). The CD-Rom games (not including Gariel Knight or Myst) I have work just fine as do demos with magazines and stand-alones. What you might want to try is increasing the amount of buffers on your CD-ROM drivers in the config.sys and autoexec.bat if you can afford the extra memory (it's exteneded so you should be able to). I have them both set to 30 buffers which seems to work fine. If you still have a problem, you might want to investigate cache programs that cache CD-ROM's as well as HD's and FD's. Also, you didn't happene to mention it, but what version CD-ROM and GUS drivers do you use (have you used?). Hope this helps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu University of Maryland at College Park To quote IBM: "Think" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 94 23:44:29 -0700 From: Fred Handloser Subject: my Power Chords rhythm editor is gone I tried to use Power Chords tonight and the rhythm editor was gone. I then brought up the Power Chords demo and saw the rhythm editor but when I clicked on the icon the icon disappeared and the rhythm editor disappeared from the demo as well. Has anybody had this happen and if so what can be done to regain the rhythm editor? Do I have to reinstall power chords ? Thanks for any help, Fred Handloser Corvallis, Oregon --- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 22:07:52 -1000 (GMT-10:00) From: Paul Murgatroyd Subject: Panasonic 563 CD-ROM drive Hey all, I have a minior problem...I just bought an Ultrasound Max and a Panasonic 563 CD-ROM (The Creative Labs drive). The drivers that come with the drive, surprise surprise, only support the SoundBlaster card as the interface (Is Creative labs trying to tell me something?). Now, I know the GUS Max supports the Panasonic 563 drive (which is what I have), all I need to know is where the heck to get the drivers for it that actually work with the GUS max. Is there anyone out there who can tell me where to get these drivers from? Preferably an ftp site or something...perhaps someone could upload them to epas?? Any help is much appreciated. =============================================================================== Paul Murgatroyd E-Mail : s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au Student Residence : dreamer@rip.it.Bond.edu.au Bond University IRC : MouseTrap Gold Coast, 4229, AUSTRALIA Phone : +61-75-954-649 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 00:29:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" Subject: SBOS versions & NHL Hockey? Speaking of SBOS versions (someone mentioned problems with it before), I had an old version of SBOS that came with GUS software 3.11 or something like that. I then updated to GUS software v3.53 which included a new SBOS. However, when I tried playing NHL Hockey, the voices and sound effects can only be described by saying they sounded like someone slowed down "the tape" to about 1/3 speed. None were missing, just all were WAY too slow. I consequently went back to the old version of SBOS and all works fine. Am I the only one with this problem and if not, does it affect other games? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu University of Maryland at College Park To quote IBM: "Think" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:42:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Truong Long Nguyen Subject: SCSI CDROMS Maybe its already been asked but can I hook up a scsi cdrom to my gus? There is a 50pin connection there. Oh, it might be helpful since I saw the same question in soundcard.tech newsgroup to create a list of all the cdroms that are compatible and work well with GUS. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Truong Nguyen | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | csa-mu@po.eecs.berkeley.edu | University of California, Berkeley | vtruong@uclink2.berkeley.edu |---------------------------------------------| vince1@freenet.fsu.edu | It is by will alone I set my mind in motion | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 08:28:43 GMT From: dekepper@crpp.u-bordeaux.fr Subject: sound fault I have rencently installed an ADVANCED GRAVIS ULTRASOUND card in my IBM 486 DX 66 (PS/ValuePoint) home computer. The system software is the IBM DOS 6.1 and the version number of the ULTRASOUND's software is 3.53. I have several problems when using the sound board. I would like to have advices in order to be able to determine if problems are linked to the card or to the sofwares used. In the GUSMOD program some notes of the melodies seem to be lost when using the sound card if compared with the same melodies heard directly through the internal speaker of the PC or through an DAC on LPT1. The problem occurs with all MOD files we could get (about 20). In DOOM 1.2 the sound of the gun (and other weapons) is not always heard. The same problem happens when the index pointer (the skull) of the menu is moved. This type of problem is not noticed with the 1.1 version of DOOM. Analog sound problems (no sound) are found in the menu selection of PINBALL ANDROID that comes with the BONUS disks. In addition, I would like to know if there is a technical support address in France or Europe, and where I could find the instruction guide to program the sound card through ASSEMBLER. Patrick. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 17:02:56 +0100 From: Piotr Klosowski ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 24.10.94 Gliwice P O L A N D Piotr Klosowski student : IX semester Institute of Electronics Silesian Technical University Gliwice , Poland E-mail address : general@zeus.gliwice.edu.pl I have bought Gravis UltraSound sound card (MAX version) for multimedia and profesional use. I have some technical questions and problems : 1. I wonder whether you supply some information about ways of programming GUS sound card. I must to write some programs in C++ or Pascal with GUS support. 2. How can I use D/A output and A/D input? 3. I vave connected to "archive.epas.utoronto.ca" by Internet. I have got from him some ZIP-Archives. I have a problem with decompress a Zip-Files. I need probably a PKUNZIP v.3.0 or latter. How can I decompress a Zip-Files, and where I can find a new PKUNZIP versions. I am very sorry for all the trouble this has caused you. I sincerely hope you will be able to help me in this matter. I would appreciate an early reply. Yours faithfully. Piotr Klosowski My home address : Piotr Klosowski ul.Kawika 24a/9 41-800 Zabrze Poland E-mail address : general@zeus.gliwice.edu.pl -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V15 #18 *******************************