GUS Daily Digest Wed, 2 Nov 94 9:37 PST Volume 16: Issue 2 Today's Topics: Differences between the old GUS and the MAX GUS & Philips 2x GUS 3.56 disk set GUS ProPatches Gus Review KLFs NMI Disabled propats3 is now available by anonymous ftp Ultrasound Experience ultrasound experience cd-rom under a killing moon demo WC III windows and midi drum machines Windows NT GUS Drivers? 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, 1 Nov 1994 20:04:21 -0500 (EST) From: Nuts Subject: Differences between the old GUS and the MAX Message-ID: I hope this hasn't been asked before but I'v just started reading the digest. I have a GUS now with one meg on it but I am thinking of getting the MAX. Now what are the differences between the two?? They seem pretty alike on the spec sheet (except for the 16-bit recording). It says the MAX has 3-D sound but so does the GUS if you have 1 meg. ALso this 3d sound on the MAX..wouldn't it be only for games that support 3d sound (none that I know of). Thanks for any info you have. Pete. Long live GUS (expecially since I'v got some of their stocks hehehe.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 23:24 PST From: raistlin@crash.cts.com (Matt Bachand) Subject: GUS & Philips 2x Has anyone successfully installed an internal 2X CDROM drive with thier GUS? I am also going to get a controller card with it, so I don't have to worry about using my GUS as one, but will I have many problems installing it to play the digital sound through my gus? Could someone list me the things I need to successfully complete my task? Thank you! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 14:34:52 +0000 From: ndanylcz@Socrates.health.gov.sk.ca (Neil Danylczuk) Subject: GUS 3.56 disk set 1) Does anyone know exactly what is contained in the Bonus disk set referred to at the end of installing the GUS 3.56 disks? 2) Also, any idea why this set doesn't include the Recording Session or Howling Dog programs? Did adding the Dust 3D demo and Patch Maker really use enough disk space to bump these off the disk set? OR... are these programs contained on the 'bonus disks'? 3) I didn't bother to compare the patches either... are they the same, improved, are there more or less of them? 4) What is the consensus on how much buffer space to allocate. Is the default of 4096 OK? 5) How to get rid of the chirping that follows about 15% of digital playback files? ------------------\ /------------------ :::::::::::::::::::: Neil D :::::::::::::::::::: ------------------/ \------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 07:00:59 -0500 From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du) Subject: GUS ProPatches What are the Propatches? Do they replace my current GUS patches? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 20:40:25 -0800 From: dross@ultrix5.cs.csubak.edu (dean ross-smith) Subject: Gus Review Speaking of the Ziff-Davis Media Machine (Jim Seymour's review), Computer Life (another Ziff Davis product) gave the Gus Max/Midi keyboard/piano tutoring software a thumbs up in this Month's issue. Also, can anyone kindly mail me (private) and let me know how to use IRC to use the #GUS topic? Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 20:49:59 -0800 From: dross@ultrix5.cs.csubak.edu (dean ross-smith) Subject: KLFs On Drive space on EPAS- It seems as if a lot of the submit directory is taken up by music such as KLF. Uploading music is fine but when you are advertising that it's your 90th release of the year, maybe you'd better look at the quality/quantity ratio of your releases folks. I've seen a lot of people clamouring for the propats release 3 and utilities but not many have been moaning about having to wait for the next bit of techno-Muzak. I'm not saying to get rid of all of the new tunes that come in, just asking that the uploaders use a little bit of the gelatinous mass in their heads and Think! before uploading. Thanks. Comments? dross@ultrix5.csubak.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Nov 94 23:10:23 HKT From: fma@VNET.IBM.COM Subject: NMI Disabled Ref: Append made by Hello all, I have just bought a LEO VESA/ISA/PCI motherboard and migrate my harddisks and GUS card to it. I get a message saying 'NMI Procedure on this PC is disabled' too. What exactly is wrong?? When setup using the GUS setup program, the test fails for SBOS Vector function (??). Can any body help pls?? Cheers! Fermat Ma FMA@VNET.IBM.COM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 17:05:57 -0600 (CST) From: Antonio Guia Subject: propats3 is now available by anonymous ftp Ok, i'm convinced that enough people want to get propats 3, and i've convinced the computer services here that this is the case. My computer has over-run with ftp requests yesterday and today (poor little pc). I've placed propats3 disks 1-19 and will be putting the recent gus disks and maybe a few other goodies that i've found helpful (sorry, i'm a windows user) into a gus directory on ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca reachable by anonymous ftp. Site: ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca directory: pub/gus/ files: pp3-1.zip thru pp3.19.zip, and gus356a.zip thru gus356f.zip (to come later) login anonymous, and send e-mail address as password. This is not a permanent location and may disappear in a few weeks, but you should all have access to it for at least a month or so... enjoy! also, could someone pls e-mail me an attatchment of piano2???.zip (windows keyboard driver to use the 101 keyboard as a midi input device). Thanks. -tg (tone!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:11:07 -0500 (EST) From: Timothy B Martin Subject: Ultrasound Experience Excerpts from GUS: 31-Oct-94 GUS Daily Digest V15 #25 by GUS Server@gaia.ucs.orst > If you would like to purchase the UltraSound Experience CD ROM, which > contains 40 minutes of digital audio and over 100 megabytes of additional > bonus software, you can call (604) 431-5020, ext. 1095. I think the price is > $6.95 but don't quote me. well..that's long distance, so why don't we try and find an address to mail a check to, or maybe an email address? -tim [ Xeltar+@CMU.EDU ] "Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character." -Mr. Wolf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 10:40:31 -0800 From: iim1bah%maxvax.dnet@iim.ups.com (NIGHT RYDER) Subject: Re: ultrasound experience cd-rom > If you would like to purchase the UltraSound Experience CD ROM, which > contains 40 minutes of digital audio and over 100 megabytes of additional > bonus software, you can call (604) 431-5020, ext. 1095. I think the price is > $6.95 but don't quote me. Here's a deal! Called Gravis (above number) and they will send you the cd-rom free of charge! Don't know how long this will last so better act fast. Bruce Harris ________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 12:30:06 CST From: Jim English Subject: under a killing moon demo hey, I got the under a killing moon demo cd, and have had no lookups. If you read the readme file on the cd-rom it says (somewhere) that they were not able to get the GUD MIDI driver in time for the demo, but it would be in for the final product. Just get digital and no midi on the demo. -jim ______________________________________________________________________________ Jim English - jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu / EJP51823@vax1.utulsa.edu ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 21:38:22 +0800 From: "Gerald Tan" Subject: WC III > It uses HMI drivers - so really all you should need to do is run 'loadpats' > before running the game. Do you know if/think that it will come with it will come with a PATCHES.INI optimized for the game? I remember the U8 patch and the Sierra 32-bit patches came with PATCHES.INI optimized for those games. I hope to see that the game companies bear that in mind when supporting the GUS through HMI drivers. -- ---NOTE--- If you're not from within csah, please make sure you are replying to me in the address below (gtan%adv3%linuxpub@csah.com), or I may not receive your reply. BTW, gtan%adv3%linuxpub@csar.csah.com is okay. ---------- Best Regards, Internet gtan%adv3%linuxpub@csah.com Gerald/Gerry Tan(gent) FidoNet 6:600/408.6 DataNETLink 12:200/17.2 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 18:04:37 -0500 From: arg2@po.cwru.edu (Adam Glick) Subject: windows and midi drum machines first of all this is my first post to the "post" so please be patient with me and please repy via e-mail. ok now that thats out of the way. when i boot up win for workgroups it crashes unless i boot something with sound first. usually i just load sbos and then unload it. i tried putting that in my autoexec but it didn't work i have to do it b hand then win works fine. but it locks up at startup if i don't anyone know why? also i have the midi hookup for the gus max and a midi drum machiene and i was wondering if anyone knew how i could play through my machine and have it use sounds in the gus to play through my gus outputs. if you have any ideas please let me know thanks in advance. -Adam arg2@po.cwru.edu 'The only exact science is hindsight.' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 23:09:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" Subject: Windows NT GUS Drivers? I don't use NT or pretend to know much about it, but a friend here tells me that NT can't use any DOS or Windows 3.1 drivers and thus the GUS (along with some other devices) can't be used with NT. I would like to know if this is actually the case, and if so, does Gravis have plans to release an NT driver? Thanks in advance... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu University of Maryland at College Park To quote IBM: "Think" ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V16 #2 ******************************