GUS Daily Digest Tue, 15 Nov 94 9:37 PST Volume 16: Issue 15 Today's Topics: 3d sound game A CD-ROM to work with GUS correction to ftp site. GUS Daily Digest V16 #14 GUS for sale Gus Pinout & Max offer Cutoff GUS Upgrade Megaem & Qemm 7.5 N Mitsumi FX001D Probs Nascar + Earthsiege OMNI CD & GUS (2 msgs) OS/2 Warp and GUS... Playing Midi files under Linux Playing MIDI files under Linux [answer] (2 msgs) Proposal of comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.gus Separate digests, my $.02 worth The newest GUS Drivers ver. 5.47 suck at MIDI UltraSound Exp. unsubscribe Upgrade expiry date Vote for a separate games digest wc3demo 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, 14 Nov 1994 20:03:16 -0500 From: arg2@po.cwru.edu (Adam Glick) Subject: 3d sound game > >I was just wondering if anything has come out yet that uses the 3D >capabilities on the gus (besides that one demo with the head anyways) > >Seems like a game company or somebody would find that useful and try >using it, but so far, apparently not. Anybody know of any plans by >anybody to use it? Id planned to use it with doom but they didn't, I >heard epic megagames wanted to make some game with it, but that hasn't >happened yet, anybody know? > I got the shareware ver. of line wars 2 a week or so ago and that has an option for gus and then under gus it has an option for 3d sound. its a net game where you fly around ad shoot things. (up to 8 player) its an b-rate game. (look like it was written in pascal or something but if your looking for something that does 3d sound, there it is. it was up on the gus site in the submit dir. if you can't find it e-mail me and i'll sned you my address for my personal site and you can get it there. you asked, you recieve -Adam arg2@po.cwru.edu 'The only exact science is hindsight.' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 10:03:48 +0200 (EET) From: Timo M J Jantunen Subject: Re: A CD-ROM to work with GUS > I'm going to be getting a 2x speed CD probably around Christmas .. > card coming with the CD drive. Any suggestions are appreciated. Feel I'm using Mitsumi FX001D (with its interface card), and it works fine. It cat use DMA, so processor overhead is very low. Only problem is that you need to do your own audio cable to gus (shouldn't be a problem, if you can find right connector). Elsewhere in the Digest: > Wellington, NZ, and the "gus expert" there tried to hook the audio from > the drive to the gravis cd audio connections.. Did you enable GUS line-in? It can be done in ultrinit, ultramid and emuset. There is also a programs which can control line-in directly. // / -- timo.jantunen@hut.fi........................................ Timo Jantunen . jeti@vinkku.hut.fi . The number of UNIX installations has . JMT 11 J 204 . jeti@niksula.hut.fi . grown to 10, with more expected. . 02150 Espoo . jeti@vipunen.hut.fi . (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, . Puh:90-464429 . .................... 2nd Edition, June, 1972) ................. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 19:21:29 -0600 (CST) From: Antonio Guia Subject: correction to ftp site. Ok, a couple of days ago i posted the site ftp.umanitoba.ca which should have been ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca otherwise it doesn't seem to know where to send the request. Appologies to all those who have tried the other address. Please try it again. For those to whom this is new information, i've set up a directory (pub/gus) at ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca which contains just a few files which are of interest to people who are starting out with a GUS card and want the latest drivers for dos/win. There's a few other goodies there too, but not too many. So far it contains the latest GUS disk set (without the bonus software of powerchords and recording session), gus356?.zip, and the update to the windows drivers usnd547.zip (i may have poor memory here). You'll also find the 19 megs of pro-patches, a windows driver allowing the use of your computer keyboard as a midi input device, and a few other things may pop up in there upon request. There's also a copy of the latest FAQ (as far as i know anyways). -tg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 10:46:04 +0100 From: stoyanov@physique.ens.fr (STOYANOV) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #14 > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 04:43:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Billy M. Williams" Subject: GUS for sale Hi, I have a GUS with 1 meg DRAM and 2.06 software drivers for sale. I'm asking 100.00 or best offer. Also I have a lot of software for sale for IBM. Hope ya'll won't mind me listing it here. Thanks. Ultima Undrworld 1 5.25 disk,Dungeon hack 3.5 disk, Simfarm 3.5 disk, Caesar and cohort add on 3.5 disk, Lands of Lore 3.5 disk,Air bucks 3.5 disk, Aces over Europe 3.5 disk, Fleet Defender 3.5 disk, 1942 Air War 3.5 disk, Beat the House 3.5 disk, Socerers get all the girls 5.25 disk. Best offer or trade for CD-ROM games, etc. Thanks again and send replies to my E-mail address not here. Billy M. Williams Jr. Beldor on ShadowMUD Mud.Achilles.net GUS User and Owner bwilliam3@mail.public.lib.ga.us ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 14:32:00 -0500 From: dave.redfern@mercopus.com (Dave Redfern) Subject: Gus Pinout & Max offer Cutoff Message-ID: <3824.2.uupcb@mercopus.com> >From: tom@cat.ping.de (Thomas Adams) >Subject: CD Input jack pinout? GS>Who can tell me the pinout of the 4 pin CDROM audio input on a GUS V3.4? I >suppose the two inner pins are ground and normally it isn't really >important if I get the channels connected properly but I'd really like to >hear the Left Channel on my left speaker and the Right Channel on my right >speaker. >> From: RonHall@aol.com >> Subject: Gravis Upgrade >> >> Has anyone out there specifically upgraded to the GUS MAX from a normal GU >> via the upgrade offer? I just sent in my order for my MAX and was wonderin GS>I got mine in 17 days. But I have noticed several folks are JUST >inquiring about this upgrade offer which expired October 31st!!! GS>I called Advanced Gravis on October 26th to ask about it and was told >there would be NO extensions on time. Since I knew the Snail Mail would >not get from Florida to Washington in time, I faxed the order that night. GS>Hope your order form was postmarked prior to 10/31/94. The Official Cutoff Date of the Upgrade offer is now Dec 31st, 1994. U.S. Upgrade Prices are $155. for 512k Max and $175 for 1 Meg Max. Dave --- QMPro 1.52 . The UltraSound Connection (813) 787-8644 14400 HST/V32bis ---- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mercury Opus BBS - St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - +1-813-321-0734 | | 2000 Conferences - 100,000 Files - One of America's Top 100 BBS Systems | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 01:45:19 -0500 From: RonHall@aol.com Subject: Re: GUS Upgrade I got a mailing directly from Gravis saying that the max ugprade offer was valid until Dec 1, 1994.. So if they tell anyone else that it expired October 31st then the upgrade offer they gave me was WRONG, which should be THEIR fault. RonHall@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 14:31:00 -0500 From: dave.redfern@mercopus.com (Dave Redfern) Subject: Megaem & Qemm 7.5 N Message-ID: <3823.2.uupcb@mercopus.com> >> >> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 22:22:23 -0500 (EST) >> From: Ryan Baker >> Subject: Re: Latest GUS, Mega-Em, and messages >> 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 This Solution suggested by Marc Tardiff from Prodigy for the Qemm 7.5/Megaem problem. Try the switch Pentium:VME in you Qemm line (Config.sys) This is supposed to work on 486's as well as Pentiums. This info is supposed to be in the Tech notes for Qemm. Dave --- QMPro 1.52 . The UltraSound Connection (813) 787-8644 14400 HST/V32bis ---- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mercury Opus BBS - St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - +1-813-321-0734 | | 2000 Conferences - 100,000 Files - One of America's Top 100 BBS Systems | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 11:18:04 -0600 From: jaj@dal.mcd.mot.com (John Johnson) Subject: Re: Mitsumi FX001D Probs >Im in need of some help here...a few days ago I brought a mitsumi fx001d >2x cdrom drive, and instead of getting the daughter-board for my gravis, >I decided to use the controller card that came with the drive. Vin, I installed this exact same drive in my system over the weekend. I have a 3.4 Gus and everything is working fine. Just as you described, the internal audio cable that came with the kit normally goes between the drive and the controller card. The connectors are too small to fit the 4-pin connector (actually a header) on the Gus, on which the pins are spaced at 0.1". I went to the local electronic parts shop and found a 4-pin connector to match the header on the Gus. You can usually find them near Molex and other connectors at a parts shop. I then just cut off the small connector for the controller card, crimped on the new pins for the larger connector, and inserted them in the right order (Left-Ground-Ground-Right) for the Gus. After fixing the left channel pin that wasn't inserted right, it worked fine. The only problem I had was that after running Winders and exiting, the internal sound was shut off. However, "ultrinit -o" turns the output back on. One other way to hook it up is to use the internal cable normally (drive to card) and use an external cable to run the audio into the external input on the Gus. The benefit of this is that you can then adjust the volume in software on the Gus, unless you have a 3.7 or newer Gus. I hope this helps. John --*** ***-- -** * -* ***** -* **** **** John A. Johnson, N5NHH email: jaj@dal.mcd.mot.com Systems Engineer OR john_a_johnson@dal.mcd.mot.com Motorola Computer Group Phone: (214) 888-3029 Dallas, Texas Fax..: (214) 888-2340 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 13:59:02 +1100 (EST) From: Anthony Thompson Subject: Nascar + Earthsiege I just had a look at Nascar which uses HMI drivers. And to my amazement it was 100% without any modifications. YES!! about time. It has native GUS support Most people now have FX with earthsiege and a drum beat but no melody. I copied the nascar HMI drivers over to earthsiege and i now have melody. Anthony ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 7:58:25 EST From: "Jamie Stafford-Evans" Subject: OMNI CD & GUS Message-ID: <8+g8+l,9mia@Radium-VS1.Hanscom.AF.Mil> >From: David A Denis >Subject: A CD-ROM to work with GUS > >Hey all, > I'm going to be getting a 2x speed CD probably around Chract that it says Sound Blaster on the tray... ) I bought it at Electronics Boutique for $200.00 -- it's pretty snappy too! #################################################### # Jamie Stafford-Evans # INTERNET ID: Stafford-EvansJ@Radium-VS1.Hanscom.AF.Mil #################################################### ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 7:58:25 EST From: "Jamie Stafford-Evans" Subject: OMNI CD & GUS Message-ID: <8+g8+l,9mia@Radium-VS1.Hanscom.AF.Mil> >From: David A Denis >Subject: A CD-ROM to work with GUS > >Hey all, > I'm going to be getting a 2x speed CD probably around Christmas >time, and I'm wondering if anyone can suggest one that will work OK with >the GUS. I keep hearing about people having trouble getting their GUS >and CD to work together. I have a regular GUS, not sure of the version, >I have had it for about 2 years though. So, I'll be using the interface >card coming with the CD drive. Any suggestions are appreciated. Feel >free to simply email them. Well, I bought the Creative Labs OMNI-CD 2X CD-ROM and it works like a charm (outside of the fact that it says Sound Blaster on the tray... ) I bought it at Electronics Boutique for $200.00 -- it's pretty snappy too! #################################################### # Jamie Stafford-Evans # INTERNET ID: Stafford-EvansJ@Radium-VS1.Hanscom.AF.Mil #################################################### ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 15:49:14 -0800 (PST) From: Francis Li Subject: OS/2 Warp and GUS... I have found that protected mode programs (At least, those that use DOS4GW), run fine with native support under OS/2 Warp DOS boxes...This is with Robert J. Manley's OS/2 driver... Well, so far I've only tried it with two programs: Simcity 2000 and Wacky Wheels...But being a new OS/2 user, and hearing problems with sound etc. (not to mention the lack of full functioning drivers), this was a nice suprise! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 15:05:05 GMT+0200 From: Walter Prins Subject: Playing Midi files under Linux >I was wondering how to play midi files under linux. >I looked at some of the midi players on Sunsite but they >where all for FM based cards at least as far as I could tell >I know that somehow that all of the Gus Patches are going to >have to be accessiable by Linux but still there is a need >for some sort of config file, or enviroment variable that will point >to where the patchs are stored. I tried doing a >cat file.mid >/dev/sequencer it didn't work at all said no >such device at address. Everything else works fine mixer, >gmod, cat .au's to /dev/audio, and so forth. Can Linux even >play midi files. Also another question is it possible to Yes, it's quite possible. get yourself the Adagio package. It includes (amongst other things) a command line midi player 'mp' that (IMHO) is better than 'playmidi' is on DOS. It's actually quite neat, as it will use *all* your available hardware to play the midi file. If you have (for example) 2 GUS'es in your system, the player wil split up the work between the cards, making possible up to 64 voice polyphony! It can also use FM (yeuch!) based cards, and external keyboards... It also has an X-based interface which (I believe) gives you a running score as a file plays, and a few other goodies. (I haven't checked this out myself yet.) The ultrasound patches is accesed by mounting your dos filesystem under /dos. The player then get's them from /dos/ultrasnd/midi or /dos/ultrasnd/midi2. I *think* these are hard compiled into the code, but I suppose it would be a quick patch to make it work from an evironment variable. mp also uses the same, but extended .cfg files that playmidi uses. Oh, and of course the playback takes next to 0 CPU time... >Gene Shaw >gshaw@umr.edu ------------ Walter Prins Email: prins@itu.sun.ac.za Student Computer Science <>< University of Stellenbosch, South Africa <>< <>< <>< ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 07:23:41 +0100 (GMT) From: Keith Howell Subject: Playing MIDI files under Linux [answer] >From: Gene Shaw >Subject: Playing Midi in Linux? > >I was wondering how to play midi files under linux. You want the program 'adagio'. >I know that somehow that all of the Gus Patches are going to >have to be accessiable by Linux but still there is a need >for some sort of config file, or enviroment variable that will point >to where the patchs are stored. You need to mount your dos partition containing the ultrasound patches or copy the patches into your linux filesystem. -- ,--------------------------+-----------------------------------------------. | Keith Howell | EdgTech International Ltd, Second Floor, | | kch@edgtech.co.uk | Town Centre House, Southam Road, Banbury, | | kch@edgtech.demon.co.uk | Oxfordshire, OX16 7EN, United Kingdom. | | kch@cix.compulink.co.uk | Tel +44 (0)1295 277088 Fax +44 (0)1295 279179 | `--------------------------+-----------------------------------------------' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 07:23:41 +0100 (GMT) From: Keith Howell Subject: Playing MIDI files under Linux [answer] >From: Gene Shaw >Subject: Playing Midi in Linux? > >I was wondering how to play midi files under linux. You want the program 'adagio'. >I know that somehow that all of the Gus Patches are going to >have to be accessiable by Linux but still there is a need >for some sort of config file, or enviroment variable that will point >to where the patchs are stored. You need to mount your dos partition containing the ultrasound patches or copy the patches into your linux filesystem. -- ,--------------------------+-----------------------------------------------. | Keith Howell | EdgTech International Ltd, Second Floor, | | kch@edgtech.co.uk | Town Centre House, Southam Road, Banbury, | | kch@edgtech.demon.co.uk | Oxfordshire, OX16 7EN, United Kingdom. | | kch@cix.compulink.co.uk | Tel +44 (0)1295 277088 Fax +44 (0)1295 279179 | `--------------------------+-----------------------------------------------' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 22:34:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" Subject: Proposal of comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.gus I have sent in a request for discussion of the creation of "comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.gus" as an official newsgroup. The discussion should take place in "news.groups" once the moderator approves the discussion. If you'd like to see the official creation of this group, please take part in the discussion process (and hopefully later) the voting. Thanks... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 18:37:42 -0500 (EST) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Separate digests, my $.02 worth I have been on this digest since the very beginning. Last year when it split into 2 digests, the idea was to have a MUSIC digest and a GAMES digest. Somewhere along the way it became a MUSIC digest and a GENERAL digest instead of GAMES digest. Traffic on the MUSIC digest is so light that it is a waste of Vince's time as well as anyone that posts to it. I ALWAYS post to both anyway because I know how few people read the MUSIC digest. There's ALWAYS midi and music questions in the GENERAL digest instead of the MUSIC digest so why don't we do this.... Once again TRY to split the digest the way it was originally supposed to be split... 1) Scrap the MUSIC digest and direct everyone to post music questions to the GENERAL digest. 2) Create a GAMES digest and instruct everyone NOT to post hardware, music or general operation questions to it. Only questions directly concerning games, patches for games, fixes for games, etc FOR GAMES! I use my GUS for music and I don't think redirecting MUSIC questions to the GENERAL digest is going to be a big problem for anyone, so long as people keep the GAMES discussions out of it. Any comments? Kevin p.s. Hope this doesn't create too much work for you Vince! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 20:43:25 -0800 (PST) From: Stanley Kwong Subject: The newest GUS Drivers ver. 5.47 suck at MIDI I just got the new drivers so that my GUSMAX could work with PCTW and it does but MIDI now sounds like shit. Should I just get the newest installation disks? I could get the ones from epas but I don't want to download them all. All I need is the newest (good) windows MIDI drivers. Which disk should I get? (i.e a,b,c,d,e, or f) Stan Kwong ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 16:10:10 -0600 From: jfulmer@databank.com (John Fulmer) Subject: UltraSound Exp. >> Has anyone gotten the Ultrasound Experience CD to work? >> I received mine a few days ago, and it still has yet to work. I have >> two hard drives (C: and D:) and the CD drive (E:). I suspect that the >> code is hard-coded to expect the CD drive to be E:, because >> the failure causes a box to pop up saying that the CD is unavailable, >> and the CD drive's light never flickered. > >I have a very similar setup, and the CD works fine in drive E:. >Windows is on D: though - I imagine you have it on C:. I have windows on C: and my CD-Rom is on E: and I had no problems whatever.... *--------------------------------------------------------------------* |John Fulmer(jfulmer@databank.com)| "I find it in-ter-es-ting, * | | A noun's a person, place, * |Lawrence, Ks. | or thing..." * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 10:46:38 +0100 From: stoyanov@physique.ens.fr (STOYANOV) Subject: unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 15:15:00 -0500 (EST) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Upgrade expiry date I've noticed two people with the wrong date, or was it the same guy twice. No where was it mentioned that Oct 31 was the deadline. It was and still is DECEMBER 31, 1994! Don't panic folks! Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 10:18:49 +0100 (MET) From: Krzysztof_Leszczynski@camk.edu.pl Subject: Vote for a separate games digest Yes yes yes! I'd like a separate digest for games. Chris (chris@camk.edu.pl) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 17:11:44 -0700 From: Ignatius Tam Subject: wc3demo hi, since someone asked before, i pulled this one off from c.s.i.p.g.a. (well, not very related to gus actually :) ) --- Due to popular demand the WC3 demo is now available for ftp at: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/msdos/games/demos/wc3demo It's 24 1.4M parts multivolume ARJed. Please do not mail any questions about how to get it work in your system. Pete -- -- Petri Helenius, EUnet Finland Oy, Punavuorenkatu 1, FI-00120 HELSINKI Internet pete@eunet.fi, EUnet matters: helpdesk@eunet.fi Home: Piilopolku 3 G 40, FI-02130 ESPOO, +358-0-455 2582 X.400 /C=fi/ADMD=fumail/O=eunet/S=Helenius/G=Petri/ MIME audio,richtext and graphic mail very welcome! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 16:55:51 CST From: wyman@nautilus.cig.mot.com (Mark S. Wyman) Well, I figured out what was wrong. My bios (AMI) was eating up too much memory (I have 8 megs) and even with a boot disk I didn't have enough memoru. The readme.txt says you need at least 7,000,000 bytes but I think they are wrong. I had 7,314,324 and it didn't work. My solution..... I upgraded to 16 megs! :) Mark ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V16 #15 *******************************