GUS Daily Digest Thu, 10 Nov 94 9:37 PST Volume 16: Issue 10 Today's Topics: Bank Switching questions (2 msgs) Can gusMAX record direct-to-disk? Colonization Extracting samples Extracting samples (fwd) Getting digest's messages individually. I vote yes! GUS and Earthsiege GUS CD-Experience GUS Daily Digest V16 #9 (4 msgs) HMI Drivers -- Common on SOMEone must know.. Latest GUS, Mega-Em, and messages Magic Carpet and GUS Masters of Orion Memory for MAX different? Memory for MAX different? (fwd) Phat Tran Playing Audio under Linux Replying to Digest UAKM and GUS Ultrasound Experience CD Under a killing moon? WC3 Demo WC3 Demo- Can someone try to upload it? Windows native mod player? 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: Wed, 9 Nov 94 08:24:20 EST From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom) Subject: Re: Bank Switching questions >> Dunno if this is the right GUS digest to post such a question but... >> >> How limited is the GUS Windows driver's Bank Switching capabilities. I >> have patches for certain banks and when I play midi's that use those >> banks, the patches I hear (specifically the Drum Patches) are the ones in >> Bank 00, not another Bank. I already used Bank Manager and added the new >> patch configurations... still here Drum Bank 00 patches. >> >> BTw, does Ultramid use bank switching? If so, how do I edit the >> ultramid.ini file (or was it ultramid.cfg?) >> >> -George >> ------------------------------------------- Please see my discussion of this in the GUS music digest. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 10:54:44 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Re: Bank Switching Questions >How limited is the GUS Windows driver's Bank Switching capabilities. I >have patches for certain banks and when I play midi's that use those >banks, the patches I hear (specifically the Drum Patches) are the ones in >Bank 00, not another Bank. I already used Bank Manager and added the new >patch configurations... still here Drum Bank 00 patches. The limitation (perhaps partly due to the Windows programming interface) is that you must load ALL your patches from a single bank (I guess I mean all your melodic patches from one bank, and all your drums from another). The bank is not selected by a MIDI message. The only application I know which supports banks is PowerChords, and even there you just have to type the number of your chosen bank into a dialog. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 17:04:00 -0500 From: "maarten (m.a.) koning" Subject: Can gusMAX record direct-to-disk? Can somebody tell me if there is software available to perform direct-to-disk recording using the gusMAX. I want to do stereo 16-bit recording at 44.1kHz to a hard drive. Of course, this assumes that my hard drive is fast enough to consume the data, which it is. Any info appreciated ... Maarten ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 13:58:05 -0500 From: "Frank Pikelner" Subject: Re: Colonization Solved my own problem. MEGAEM works great, should have tried it first! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___/ / Frank Pikelner /~\ / _/ / Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science __/ ___/ York University (Toronto, Canada) ,\^/; _/ _/ Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca _{!}_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:25:17 -0500 (EST) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Extracting samples I know this is old news but I've only recently gotten into making music with the GUS. How can I extract samples from midi files or mod files? Oh, and one more question. If I was not going to be doing any sampling, is it worth is to take advantage of the 'upgrade to the MAX' offer? All help appreciated. Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:43:18 -0500 (EST) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Extracting samples (fwd) Sorry if this got posted twice.... I know this is old news but I've only recently gotten into making music with the GUS. How can I extract samples from midi files or mod files? Oh, and one more question. If I was not going to be doing any sampling, is it worth is to take advantage of the 'upgrade to the MAX' offer? All help appreciated. Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 12:06:12 -0800 (PST) From: Juan Carlos Leon Subject: Getting digest's messages individually. I vote yes! Hi, some people have talked about the possibility of getting the messages individually instead of the whole at a time. I also agree with this approach, most of the list don't use the digest approach (or give it as a option). Receiving individual messages could offer us the following advantages: - faster response, since you don't have to wait until the end of the day to get the messages. - because of this we get more real-time interactivity between users. - easier to respond, since you don't get the whole digest in your editor when you want to add some quotes. - more responses, because of the point above. - easier to store, we can store the useful messages and erase the others. - less complains from users arguing because of long digest. - those "whole replied digests" could be easily identified and erased. - other points and you can add. So what people think? hey list-administrator! is this possible? Juan -- email: jleon@scf.usc.edu Major in Electrical Engineering, Computers University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA. USA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 21:11:51 -0800 (PST) From: aktang@sdcc15.UCSD.EDU (Anthony Tang) Subject: GUS and Earthsiege Don't ask me why, but this works to get Nativ GUS support w/ both sound effects and music. (Anyother configuration actually locks up computer) Anyway, I was folloing around with it with my friend, and finally gave up and decided to use the GUS just for digital fx and my MT-32 (connected via an MPU-401) for music. (I know, it doesn't support the MT-32, just GM, but I have a patch that reprograms the MT-32 as semi-GM). ANYWAY, to our surprise, when testing music, the music came not out of the MIDI port, but out of the GUS! (Their semi-modlike digital music, that is). Don't ask why. It works for us. So, GUS for digital, MPU-401 for music. You _might_ need to actually have an MPU-401 so the setup program doesn't say otherwise, though. Yet another Strange, but true! story/adventure w/ the GUS. :-) Maybe someone can explain? -- Anthony Tang Call The AANThill BBS! aant@ucsd.edu (619)550-8168 aktang@sdcc15.ucsd.edu FidoNet (1:202/244) Computer Engineering, UCSD Adv. Gravis Dist. Node ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Semi-down. My feed went kaput! Working on fixing it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 94 17:12:00 -0500 From: richard.morey@factory.com (Richard Morey) Subject: GUS CD-Experience Got the CD UltraExperience myself.. cool stuff.. but the damn demos from the assembly shows - I can't get UNREAL or CD2 to work.. they won't work with QEMM, when I disable it, I can't get enough free RAM for UNREAL and CD2 locks up after the first title.. PLEASE HELP.. those other demos were so damn cool!! I just wish Ultrasound could support a quad speed CD-ROM drive.. Later Rich Richard.Morey@factory.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:12 -0500 From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #9 >Date: 9 Nov 94 09:53:46 MET >From: "R." >Subject: OS/2 supporting GUSMax >I am about to get Warp (OS/2 v3). But I am wondering: Does it support >my recently bought advanced GUSMax? 'Cause I read in a faq that OS/2 >2.1 didn't. Do the drivers come with the package or should I download >it from a site? Gravis has yet to release an "offical" GUS or GUSMax driver for OS/2. However Robert Manley HAS and he says they work just fine under WARP. I can say they work (mostly) fine under 2.1(1). The problem has to do with the amount of swapping needed to load MMPM to play a system sound. For reasons I don't understand, the SB drivers don't have this delay. Once MMPM IS swapped in, remaining sounds play nearly instantly... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:13:27 -0800 (PST) From: George!!! Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #9 > in the resource.cfg file, change the driver from E027 to E028. you'll > notice in the soundset.ini file, e028 refers to the 8-bit stereo driver. > Out of all the "drivers" (numbers) listed for the GUS/GUSmax, the > "GUSmax" stereo 8-bit one is the only which works. [Rest deleted] Haven't tried it yet, but thanks. Funny is that in the setup, EarthSiege supports GUS for digital, but not for music, yet when I test the sounds, it plays a drumbeat for the music test. Even stranger, I recognized none of the drums, so it was either a custom patch or a 'mod' type music. > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 17:26:53 MST > From: "Dean C. Johnson" > Subject: UltraSound Experience CD > > I just got the UltraSound Experience CD. I am very impressed! I > think they did a superb job putting it together. It should show the > people at Logitech how to put together a promotional CD. > All of the software on it is great; bunches of mods, mids, games, old > digest issues, demos, install disks, utilities, etc. I really hope that > Gravis succeeds in getting these up in despays in lots of software [rest deleted] Hmm... I were the custom patches, such as the piano patches? Didn't buy the CD yet, but I'm planning to buy it, but only for the audio portion. Being a CD-ROM-less user, I won't be able to use any of the software. Oh well, I guess that's one reason to buy a CD-ROM drive other than for WC3. So, is it okay if any of you can upload any patches from the CD-ROM to EPAS? -= George!!! =- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 16:40:13 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Ngo Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #9 Um... Does anyone know where I can get the gravis CD? I heard there was alot of midi's and mods... (my most favorite things). And I would love to test them out on my gus. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 02:06:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #9 Just a quick question. Is there an FTP site the back issues of the GUS Digest? I'm trying to create a WWW page and I'd like to make this a part of it, but I can't seem to find any site that has anything more recent than Volume 14. Thanks for any info... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu | Major(s): CS && ??ASTR?? University of Maryland at College Park | CS && Space == cool == -270 C Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) FAQ Maintainer | Current GUS FAQ is: v2.01 [94/11/01] To quote IBM: "Think" | This space intentionally left blank. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 09:45:21 -0600 (CST) From: ST4SI@Jetson.UH.EDU Subject: HMI Drivers -- Common on SOMEone must know.. Anyone know when GUS is going to release HMI drivers that will work with Dynamix Games? Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 22:22:23 -0500 (EST) From: Ryan Baker Subject: Re: Latest GUS, Mega-Em, and messages To anyone who hasn't found out yet, the managers of the GUS FTP sites are running behind a little and all of the newest files are still on the submit diectories. This includes the GUS v3.56 installation disks, Propatches 3.0, Windows v5.47 drivers and other such. To get to the sites with the submit dirctory available go to either the EPAS or Oregon State FTP Sites, (archive.epas.utoronto.ca, or archive.orst.edu), unfourtunately neither of these sites carry the rest of the files. Also for those without direct FTP access, search for the Oregon State Gopher, the main one and then select 6, 7, then 8 Also, about the problems with Mega-Em discussed several issues ago they were involving QEMM on some 486's and Pentiums in which the error EMM Incompatability would be displayed. Changing to EMM fixed the problem, but I never found a way to fix the problem, if anyone knows I would appreciate hearing the solution. Last, about submitting responses to the Digest, the easiest way to get portions of old digests in is to compose the mail offline, and then upload it. This way you can use a decent editor instead of a crappy mail program and will be able to do cut and paste. Another solution is to do it in Windows, were every program has that ability anyways. Ryan Baker /\ /\ |~| /\ /\ rynbaker@ / \ / / | | \ \ / \ freenet.columbus.oh.usa / /\ \/ / | | \ \/ /\ \ /_/ \__/ |_| \__/ \_\ ------------------------------ Date: 09 Nov 1994 17:45:00 +0200 From: christian@birdy.ping.de (Christian 'Kiki' Schmitz) Subject: Magic Carpet and GUS ## Nachricht vom 09.11.94 weitergeleitet ## Ursprung : /comp/sys/ibm/pc/soundcard/games ## Ersteller: christian@birdy.ping.de Just a simple question. Does Magic Carpet work together with the GUS ? <--- M o s t l y h a r m l e s s ---> .. Christian ... Internet : christian@birdy.ping.de ## CrossPoint v3.0 ## ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:39:44 -0500 (EST) From: Sinclair Shuit Subject: Masters of Orion Hi there, Anyone have the location of the Masters of Orion Patch and or be willing to upload it to epas?... It seems like everytime I get around to buying a game, all the patches for it have been gone for 3 years.... Thanks for any assistance |\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/| | sshuit@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca Sinclair Shuit | | Geeky .sig joke : Trent Reznor + TCP/IP = NINternet | |\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:32:33 -0500 (EST) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Memory for MAX different? Is the memory for the MAX any different than the memory used on the original GUS? Does it still use the same DRAMs? Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:45:16 -0500 (EST) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Memory for MAX different? (fwd) Sorry if this got posted twice... Is the memory for the MAX any different than the memory used on the original GUS? Does it still use the same DRAMs? Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 94 21:58:18 -0600 From: jfulmer@databank.com (John Fulmer) Subject: Phat Tran >I noticed in the credits that Phat Tran did alot of the work on it >(music, scenery, and script I think). If I am right he used to >answer alot of people's questions on the old digest, but did not work >for Gravis. Did he get a job with them?, when? Phat worked for Gravis during the summer. His school schedule is pretty booked so we won't see him around a whole lot for a while :( jf *--------------------------------------------------------------------* |John Fulmer(jfulmer@databank.com)| "I find it in-ter-es-ting, * |National Electronic Type | A noun's a person, place, * |Lawrence, Ks. | or thing..." * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 94 11:02:32 EST From: kasmi2@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr KAA Smith) Subject: Re: Playing Audio under Linux To the guy who asked why do I cat the sound file to /tmp before playing it rather than just catting straight to the audio device. I do it so after it finishes playing, you still have the sample on disk and can move it to a place where you'd like to keep it. If you don't cat it to a file before playing, you'll only be able to hear it once... Keith ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 11:07:23 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Re: Replying to Digest >How to most of you reply or answer messages on the GUS digest? I >always endup with the whole message in VI and have to delete 99% of >it before sending it back. Is that the only way? Because of the >hassle, I normally don't reply to messages even when I know the >answer. Personally, I use VAX/VMS. I always extract the entire Digest into a file, then go through it with an editor deleting the stuff I'm not interested in. I then send any replies by quoting just the bits from what by now is a much shorter file. I think I'd do much the same if I received the Digest on my PC. Some mailers might only quote the part of the message you have 'selected' rather than all of it. I read about an un-digestifier program (parhaps in the FAQ, or the listserver help?) which would break the thing into individual messages. >Can't we have each message send indivudually? This allows us to >save indivudual messages instead of the whole digest when there are >useful bits of information. Also, making it easy to reply will >encourage more discussion and will better help the people asking >questions. I prefer the Digest. I would probably unsubscribe if I had loads of individual GUS messages coming in throughout the day, and it would take me longer to read. Some listservers allow you to choose between Digest and mailing-list format - I haven't heard that ours does. You best solution seems to be to try to find the undigestifier program. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Nov 94 03:12:22 -0800 From: drkszk@ocf.Berkeley.EDU Subject: UAKM and GUS I read the post that there were performance problems with the GUS drivers for Under A Killing Moon. I assume these are responsible for the occassional sound dropouts I'm getting. It was also mentioned that a fix is in the works. How long can we expect to wait for this? Derek drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: 09 Nov 1994 23:33:06 +1000 From: cesar Subject: Ultrasound Experience CD Could someone tell me how to obtain this CD in Australia. Cesar ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 17:01:17 +0100 From: Joakim Nilsson Subject: Under a killing moon? Has anybody manage to get the old good GUS to work with the masterpiece "Under a killing moon" ? I would be very happy for an answer. Joakim Nilsson v91niljo@vtek.chalmers.se ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 15:42:55 -0700 (MST) From: Ignatius Tam Subject: WC3 Demo Forwarded message: > > From: Iain Huxley > > Where can I get this WC3 demo? it sounds way cool.. > > is it playable SVGA space fighting or what? > > thanx, > > Iain. > > From: Ferdinand Mataragnon > > Hello. Could someone please give me an ftp site address that > has the WC3 demo? Many thanks. Happy GUSing!! :) > Sorry, the wc3 demo is distributed with PC Gamer's CDROM issue, you will NEVER want to download it somewhere... :) don't try this if you have a GUS, speech skips as usual... the opening scene is worth seeing anyways, BUT the gameplay itself, well, sucks. even if i switched to vga mode and get a better frame rate, i can't even successfully shoot a ship (isn't it that i have disability to play a flightsim?!) my conclusion: i don't like the game by judging from the game play, sorry... Apart from wc3, anyone got the sound from Dragon's Lore (right?) demo? it seems it hates my gus, and it seems it can use Megaem, but nah... anyway, great cd. -iGnatius ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 22:58:05 From: chhF90@hamp.hampshire.edu (Chris Hedberg) Subject: WC3 Demo- Can someone try to upload it? I know it's on a CD, but if it's not _too_ huge, could it be popped onto an FTP site? I'll volunteer my machine, if need be. A _lot_ of people would be very happy if that could be accomplished. Anybody interested in trying it, just contact me. -Chris Hedberg ChhF90@hamp.hampshire.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 94 14:15:01 CST From: tom@cornhusker.oppd.gov (Tom Heng) Subject: Re: Windows native mod player? > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 12:19:01 -0800 (PST) > From: Dylan Nicolle > Subject: Windows native mod player? > Gusmod sucks, I think anyone with a scread of intelligence will see that. ^^^^^^ Anyone with a shread of intelligence can spell. > Mod4Win and other modplayers hog too much cpu, anyone with an IQ higher > than 60 and a computer that isn't a dx2 can see that too. > What we really need is teh combination. Iplay for windows! NOW! get to ^^^ > work people! I think that it is pretty rude to insult what is already out there and demand others to produce something you desire. Why don't you get to work to produce this? I agree that Gusmod is not the best mod player available, but it was free. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 13:28:01 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Carter I seem to be having some MAJOR problems with my regular GUS (1 meg) and my motherboard. I have a GVT motherboard, with a VIA chipset. Here's a short list: 1: SBOS refuses to load, howling about NMI being disabled. 2: megaem won't give me decent sound from tie fighter 3: i can't get sound from doom2 that is 1/10th as good as I got with my last motherboard on doom1. 4: Soundset locks up my computer continuously 5: EarthSiege, Tie Fighter, System Shock, Doom2, Armored Fist, and nearly every other game I've tried didnt' work. If memory serves me, I got some sound from Wacky Wheels shareware game. This is getting frustrating, since I've tried many other sound cards, and prefer my gus FAR more than any of the rest. I had heard rumors of a workaround from Gravis/Forte about motherboards with NMI disabled, and hopefully someone has more info as to the validity of this. - Jim Carter carter@ohno.csd.selu.edu - - jcarter@plato.rtl.selu.edu pcsc1942@selu.edu - - jcarter@tyrell.net - ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V16 #10 *******************************