GUS Daily Digest Fri, 18 Nov 94 9:37 PST Volume 16: Issue 18 Today's Topics: Gabriel Knight CD/GUS support? GUS and OS/2 3.0 (WARP) GUS and Windows 95? GUS Upgrade... What upgrade? new midi drivers Ultrasound Experience Works!! War Wizard & Gus -- No joy... WCIII demo? Where? Where to find OS/2 drivers win nt 3.5 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: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 11:44:14 -0600 From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach IBM) Subject: Gabriel Knight CD/GUS support? I got a good deal on the Gabriel Knight CD, but before I buy it, I wanted to know if it supports the GUS. Or what kind of hacking you have to do to get it to work. What drivers does it use? Is this in a FAQ or ftp archive somewhere? Thanks, Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 9:49:56 -0600 (CST) From: ENNSS@NHRISV.NHRC.SK.DOE.CA Subject: GUS and OS/2 3.0 (WARP) Well, after playing around with the beta of OS/2 v 3.0 (WARP), and hearing that it would allow enhanced mode windows drivers, I eagerly awaited my full copy of warp. Yesterday I installed it, and was eager to try the GUS through a Windows session. Unfortunately, the familiar message appeared - "ULTRASND.DRV requires enhanced mode to run. Please run Windows in enhanced mode...." Windows was set for "enhanced compatibility mode" in the OS/2 windows settings. Anyone have any suggestions? Do any the DOS/Windows AUDIO_ADAPTER_SHARED etc settings have any effect on this? This of course harkens back to the familiar complaint to Gravis about NOT SUPPORTING OS/2 AS PROIMISED. The ULTRA05E.ZIP OS/2 GUS drivers seem to work fine (after very brief testing) with Warp. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 13:17:41 +0100 From: ADB3 elevkonto Subject: GUS and Windows 95? Has anyone heard any rumours about Windows 95 being shipped with GUS drivers? Or, alternatively, if Gravis are working on such drivers? Or are the good old 3.x drivers sufficient? Olof Sundin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 11:12:29 -0330 (NST) From: Edward Reddy Subject: GUS Upgrade... What upgrade? This is the first time I even heard of an upgrade from my regular 1M GUS to a GUSMAX. What's the benefits of having a MAX vs my GUS? Ed _____ - If every man stopped thinking about war and hatred, / ### \ and started to think about Space, just imagine how ()\_____/() close a reality Star Trek would be right now.. ereddy@morgan.ucs.mun.ca & edward@dragger.ifmt.nf.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 09:37:05 GMT From: J Screaton Subject: new midi drivers Hi, I'm fairly new to the GUS, having just got a GUS MAX. What I wanted to know is, in what way are people getting a shit sound with the latest windows drivers. They say their midi sound is awful, but surely the sound cannot be affected by the drivers, as they can only control the midi information. The sound is produced on the card and is controlled by the windows driver. Please can somebody clear this up for me. Thanks James Screaton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 13:56:17 -0330 From: Aaron Cameron Subject: Ultrasound Experience Works!! To all those claiming the UltraExp won't work... Are you talking about the version that came in the cover-CD of this months issue of PC-ZONE mag? (shouldn't matter where you got it, as long as it is the version that runs under windows 3.x, as that's the one I'm talking about). To run, the UltraExp requires that a windows driver called CD-audio driver to be installed. This driver !SHOULD! have been installed as default with windows with the rest of the CDROM drivers, but probably was not (as mine was not, can't explain why!). Anyway, to get the Ultrasound Experience to work, go into Control Panel, click on the DRIVERS icon, select ADD DRIVERS, and add the CD-Audio driver. It will prompt you for a Windows disk (disk 4, i think), so if your running a pirated copy, better get the disks back from your friend or whoever :-) Restart windows after adding the driver, and voila! No reason why it shouldn't work. If you're running a version other than the one I mentioned, and my suggestions don't work... then sorry, but you're on you own. Mine works fine now (hell of a demo-- and to somebody who posted a couple days ago that Gravis probably enhanced the sounds on the CD to attract customers... Do you have a GUS? didn't think so.. If you did, you'd know that the MIDI files that are recorded on the CD actually sound BETTER when played on the GUS (yes, they came with the package)! /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | *** ***** WELCOME TO MY WORLD! | | ***** *********** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | ** ** ***** *** It's really not that bad... | | *** *** **** once you get used to it! | | *********** **** | | ************* ***** *** ---------> Aaron Cameron <--------- | | **** **** *********** Memorial University of Newfoundland | | ***** ***** ***** ---> acameron@europa.cs.mun.ca <--- | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 13:52:35 CST From: Jon Holt Subject: War Wizard & Gus -- No joy... Has anyone managed to get War Wizard working with the GUS? It uses the DOS4GW 32-bit extender, but only supports SB, SB16, ProAudio, and Adlib. I have an older SBOS and Megaem, neither of which work for this game (not terribly surprising). There are some HMI*.386 files in the directory, but I'm not sure if these are part of the HMI drivers everyones ranting about or not. Any help appreciated. -Jon -- :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: Jon Holt (holt@camax.com) - CAMAX Manufacturing Technologies ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 18:46:23 -0500 From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du) Subject: WCIII demo? Where? I can't find the Wing Commander III demo anywhere! What site is it on? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 17:14:10 -0500 (EST) From: rjm@dciem.dnd.ca (Robert Manley) Subject: Where to find OS/2 drivers e302735@cafe.uqam.ca (TAT HAN DIEU) wrote: > Subject: os/2 warp > > I want to know where can I download the drivers for gus support in os2/warp ? hobbes.nmsu.edu, os2/2_1/drivers/ultra05e.zip. Now, a NEWS BULLETIN: If you read comp.os.os2.multimedia, you already know what follows. I just finished getting GUS native DOS box GM emulation working for both real and protect mode apps (including WinOS2). The files required to enable this feature in the soon to be released version 0.6a (ultra06a.zip) are COMMERCIAL and will only be sent to registered users. The base package will still be freely distributable under the shareware concept. Get those registrations in - you'll love what you hear. Robert. -- # Robert J. Manley, rjm@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca # # NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA # # OS/2:OSs :: 92,93 Blue Jays:MLB :: Canada:World # ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 12:03:07 +0100 From: Paal Andreassen Subject: win nt 3.5 Anyone know if the gus windows drivers work with NT 3.5 ? Or if there is any gus NT drivers around ? Thanks ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V16 #18 *******************************