GUS Daily Digest Thu, 17 Nov 94 9:37 PST Volume 16: Issue 17 Today's Topics: CD-ROM Testing program CD connector problems Fix for Earthsiege from Sierra GUS Daily Digest V16 #15 MEGAEM Mistake about the FAQ New FAQ v2.02 [94/11/16] Released! O.K. I'm pissed. Nasty surprise with new doom2 patch:part II os/2 warp Quest for Glory IV SBOS not working.... WC III Demo and HMI 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, 16 Nov 1994 20:21:59 -0500 (EST) From: Ryan Baker Subject: CD-ROM Testing program I have a TEAC C55-A cdrom drive, and I'm unsure whether it is running full speed. It should run at 600KB/sec, 190ms, but the only CD test program (CDINDEX) registered it as 450KB/sec, 300ms without any cache. Actually before I was running Novell DOS's NWCDEX program and that slowed it down to 300KB/sec. The CD-ROM is hooked up to a GUS MAX and I heard from someone that they couldn't use 4X drives on GUS. Any ideas, or names of better testing programs. Also, to everyone saying Ultrasound Experience doesn't work, I haven't had any problems, the v5.47 drivers haven't given my MIDI files problems, and DOOM2 works on my system. And thanks to the guy who uploaded the WC3DEMO Ryan Baker /\ /\ |~| /\ /\ rynbaker@ / \ / / | | \ \ / \ freenet.columbus.oh.us / /\ \/ / | | \ \/ /\ \ /_/ \__/ |_| \__/ \_\ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 94 23:44:33 MEZ From: Jochen_Quante Subject: CD connector problems Message-ID: <"nz11.rz.un.950:16.11.94.22.44.36"@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Clarke Brunt wrote: > >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. > > Yes, the middle ones are grounds. Just sort out the others by experiment. > For example, use Recording Session to play a MID, and pan it completely > one way. Adjust your cable so that it pans to the correct speaker. > (Otherwise we'll get a discussion like "While standing on your head, > looking up at the GUS, the R pin is the one...") Except that it's very unlikely that the MIDI music will ever pass the CD ROM audio pins... :) So probably better use some test CD which got signals on the right and left channels only or something like that. Timo M J Jantunen wrote: > > 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. You don't need to enable line-in, you just have to enable output, which can be done by the ultrinit -o switch. Jochen -- ================================================================ | Jochen Quante Computer Science Student | | University of Karlsruhe, Germany | | E-Mail: ukr8@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de S_Quante@ira.uka.de | | Jeckel@IRC http://rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ukr8/ | ================================================================ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 94 13:24:42 EST From: catmgmec@ibmmail.com Subject: Fix for Earthsiege from Sierra -------------------- Mail Item Text Follows ------------------ CC: IBMMAIL /INTERNET SUBJECT: Fix for Earthsiege from Sierra Found this on compuserve - I don't own Earthsiege (yet, maybe) so I'm just passing it along. *** I got this directly from inside Sierra, select GUS in the soundset program, after it exits, edit the resource.cfg file, set dir music driver to A002 from 0, and the port address from 228 from blank. The game should then play fine. Note, DON'T run with a memory manager, himem.sys only. I tried this, the game did crash once on startup, but I rebooted with the mem manager, and it then ran fine, with full sound. *** END OF MESSAGE *** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 14:44 -0500 From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #15 For what it's worth, my CD-ROM drive is I: and the demos fine. I haven't tried the mondo .AVI file yet...:-) DDA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 11:24:49 -0400 (EDT) From: SSARTOR@TrentU.ca Subject: MEGAEM Just recently I purchased a GUS for my 486dx-33 with 8 megs ram. I have memmaker installed and am using both extended and expanded memory capabilities. I am also running stacker 4.0. I am very pleased with the sound but have one problem. I have the older version of NHL HOCKEY and it only supports ROLAND or SOUNDBLASTER. When I load SBOS it loads fine in soundblaster mode but teh speech is very "SSSSLLLLLOOOOWWW". When I try to run MEGAEM it comes up with the little saying that it was installed fine, but then reboots my whole system. Why is it rebooting my system? Thanks in advance! -- Sergio Sartor \ Internet: SSARTOR@TRENTU.CA HBSc Computer Studies/GIS \ Telnet: 192.75.12.103 Trent University \ Peterborough, Ontario, Canada \ "Programmers Give Better Output!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *This advertising space for rent* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:57:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" Subject: Mistake about the FAQ Sorry, I meant ftp.netcom.com/pub/jonin not ~debry as I previously stated. Once again I'm sorry for the confusion... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: v2.02 [94/11/16] To quote IBM: "Think" | This space intentionally left blank. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:47:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" Subject: New FAQ v2.02 [94/11/16] Released! A new version of the FAQ has been released. It is version 2.02 [94/11/16], and contains some minor changes. It is called gusfaq.txt.v2.02 on sites where it is available. Thus far it has been ftp'd to epas, and ftp.netcom.com/~debry/ and sent to the mail server and the GUS FAQ Distribution List. Also available is a new file called gusfaq.change.v2.02 which contains only the questions that were changed from the last version of the FAQ. This file should be avaiable wherever the FAQ is available. If you cannot get to any of these places, feel free to email me and I will send you either file or put you on the FAQ Distribution list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: v2.02 [94/11/16] To quote IBM: "Think" | This space intentionally left blank. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 23:14:15 -0800 (PST) From: Stanley Kwong Subject: O.K. I'm pissed. Nasty surprise with new doom2 patch:part II Well, the second patch didn't work. And guess what, the sound doesn't even work. I don't have time to fuck around with it now. I guess my Doom2 playing days are over. (It's not that bad, it was taking too much time away from studying anyway.) Stan Kwong ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 14:17:27 -0500 (EST) From: e302735@cafe.uqam.ca (TAT HAN DIEU) Subject: os/2 warp HI! I want to know where can I download the drivers for gus support in os2/warp ? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:21:19 -0800 (PST) From: Peter C Chien Jr Subject: Quest for Glory IV After patching Sierra's Quest for Glory IV game to work with the 32-bit drivers (the ones everyone was complaining about that was delayed), the game works. But problems arise. Around day 8 in the game, it crashes with an "internal error" numbered 121 or something, and a bunch of hexadecimal numbers. This happens when I try to enter the gypsy camp, and especially within the castle. I change the midi and sound effects to PC speaker (wonderful renditions) and I can enter the places that lead to the crashes. Is this problematic with the UltraSound? My friend has a ProAudio, and it crashes, but far less often, so it might not be a sole UltraSound Experience (ouch! I'm in a bad mood). Is there anything I can modify in the resource.cfg file that fixes these problems while keeping the UltraSound as the music and sound effects setup? I'm really tired of resorting to PC speaker effects just to walk across a certain room in the game. Also, does anyone notice that as the game progresses, it takes longer and longer to restore a game (about 5 minutes)? I'd really like to address these problems to Sierra, but they've disconnected their 800 number. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 15:14:02 GMT From: Hay Y J Subject: SBOS not working.... Hi. I have been using my GUS for sometime now. Recently I upgraded my motherboard to a 486 VESA SIS chipset m/b. I didn't change a single config on the GUS and now my SBOS is not working. Everytime I run SBOS, I got the error "The Ultra Sound Port Address is in conflict" Tried changing the port address but it doesn't work. Everything else works fine, ie Megaem, Ultramid, native ... Can anyone help me? Thanks. Rgds Anthony ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 13:36:36 -0500 (EST) From: Will race for food Subject: WC III Demo and HMI Hello: Got the WCIII demo on CDROM, but no GUS support. I just read in today's digest (11/18) that it uses HMI drivers and the NASDEMO.ZIP file has them....all well and good. Now how do you get the GUS drivers to be selectable with the demo? Can I just copy the GUS stuff over the SB stuff, run LOADPATS, and cross the fingers? The NASDEMO didn't run music on my system....will this still be a problem with WCIII demo? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'November Spawned __ a Monster' /()\ --SM |============================| |#28 #28| |=============[]=============| __________ |=============[]=============| __________ / \ | ____/_______[]_______\____ | / \ | | /_____/~~~~~~[]~~~~~~\_____\ | | | |~~~~~~~~| |~~~~~~~~| | | |~~~~~~~~|_____ _____|~~~~~~~~| | | | _|_____/OO OO\__/OO OO\_____|_ | | \__________/ \__________/ ~~ '~~~`'~~`~~~~'~~~'~~`~~'~`~~~`~~`'~~'~~`~~`'~'`~`~'~~`~~~`~~`~~`~~~`~~~~~~' Jeff Salzmann, JKS4675@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V16 #17 *******************************