GUS Daily Digest Sun, 20 Nov 94 9:37 PST Volume 16: Issue 20 Today's Topics: dos4gw woes Gabriel Knight CD w/GUS = Problems GUS Daily Digest V16 #14 Help with "binary".... os/2 warp TieFighter Under a Killing Moon wc3demo (again :( ) Why Manley drivers don't produce sound with original OS/2 2.1 Windows MIDI? Wing Commander III demo CD 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: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 13:15:49 -0700 (MST) From: Ignatius Tam Subject: dos4gw woes Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 02:35:47 -0330 > From: Aaron Cameron > Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #18 > > I have the latest drivers (v3.56), and a recently purchased GUS MAX, and > I also have trouble getting SBOS and MEGAEM to run with any package that > uses the DOS/4GW extender. I guess this is the fault of the drivers, as > they must not like running under the extender or something. Usually, my > CPU does a hard crash, or it reboots my computer altogether. Pity, as > many good games use the extender (note, there are some games that work, > but most don't). this is not the fault of the drivers, megaem works only in virtual mode, protected mode is not supported (yet, maybe coming soon), sbos does not have good results in protected mode games. Luckily, more recent games supports gus natively so don't worry a lot, for NHL94, i remember there is a patch of something (anyone?), but for me, i'd just leave those games in cold... > > > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 16:45:51 -0500 > From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du) > Subject: WC III CD > > How do I obtain the Wing Commander II demo CD? > Buy the new PC Gamer. -iGnatius ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 13:05:57 -0400 From: terry barratt (09/14/94) Subject: Re: Gabriel Knight CD w/GUS = Problems >Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 11:35:05 -0500 (EST) >From: Maillet Martin >Subject: Gabriel Knight CD and GUS ! > >To answer ken question about compatibility between Sierra's >Gabriel Knight CD and the GUS, the response is: NO PROBLEMS!!!! > >You just have to use the Sierra 32 bit driver (gus32.exe) and >all the information are enclosed. > >Good luck > >Martin >mailletm@ERE.UMontreal.ca > >------------------------------ > > >------------------------------ > >Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 22:06:28 -0400 >From: markus@nbnet.nb.ca (Marc Y. Paulin) >Subject: GUS and Gabriel Knight > >Some wrote this: >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? > >And I reply this: >You'll need the GUS/Sierra 32bit drivers. You can find them on the GUS site >under a filename that I forgot. I just got on Internet after a 4 months >absence. >But don't worry, the game will work and what a game! > > Marc Y. Paulin - Jurassic Mark - markus@nbnet.nb.ca > "You never knew what life was until it ran like a red GUS > inside your computer" - Musical Lestat > >------------------------------ This is not true. This is VERY VERY VERY misleading. The drivers work! But not entirely.. In both Windows and DOS this game will not do speech correctly. Syllables are missing from spoken words, it is VERY distracting and annoying. I've called Sierra several times and they keep saying they have a solution but they want my address or a fax number to give me the response. Why the ^#$^ can't they tell me on the phone. This is aggrivating. I love this game (I played the floppy) but I find it impossible to enjoy it with the speech cutting out like it does. I've tried changing settings and all. If anyone has a REAL solution to why this dosn't work, please let me know. BTW - I also called Gravis, they never tested the CD version so they said they couldn't help me. I believe I left my number and all with them but they havn't called me with a solution, this was 2 months ago! I almost went and bought a SB Pro just to play this game!!! That's how dissapointed and anxious I was to play it....correctly. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 19:18:07 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Dedman Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #14 On Mon, 14 Nov -1, GUS Server wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 22:45:12 -0500 (EST) > 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. > Dave > denis@acsu.buffalo.edu > > ---------------------------------------------------------- By using the CD interface card and doing a GENERIC installation, you will most likely have no trouble at all. (^_^) Chuck -------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 10:27:26 GMT > From: Clarke Brunt > Subject: Re: CD Input jack pinout? > > >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...") > > ------------------------------ Man, so many experts around here, but we always seem to have that 10% that want to use logic!! Thank GOD 10% still exist.:) Chuck ------ > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 23:27:56 +1300 (NZDT) > From: Michael Vincent > Subject: Mitsumi FX001D Probs > > HI all.. > > 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. The > controller card is a WDH-7001C BTW:) > > Anyway, I would like to have the audio line from the cdrom drive to > connect to my gus...the audio line that came with the drive though was > not the right type...so off I went to the local gus dist. here in > Wellington, NZ, and the "gus expert" there tried to hook the audio from > the drive to the gravis cd audio connections.. > > he couldnt get any sound through the Gus at all...it was coming through > the drive though as we chucked some speakers into the headphones jack of > the drive.. > > After all that, I would like to know if anyway has achieved getting this > going, and if so, a description of what I need to do would be very > helpful:)...even a diagram if your any good at ascii drawings;).. > > Anyway, im not very knowledgable about cdrom drives or soundcards, so any > help would be most appreciated:) > > Thanx > > Vin. Just use a pair of needle-nose pliers to "GENTLY" pull the pins from the plug. Put a white wire on each outside pin of the GUS CD IN plug, and the 2 black wires on the center pins. Make sure the ULTRINIT.EXE command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file has the commands to force Line Audio In and Line Audio Out always on. (I'm not at my GUS computer and can't remember it exactly, but it's in the manual under the ULTRINIT.EXE section) Put an Audio CD in the CD drive and run the PLAYCD program that your installation of the CD put on your H.D. You will hear the CD output coming out of the GUS. If you find the channels are reversed, (see above reply) just switch the two white wires. Chuck ------ ----------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 00:32:13 UTC From: an142683@anon.penet.fi (__George__) Subject: Help with "binary".... Hello. Just a quick question. Recently i noticed some weird type of uploading some files to Epas. In example, files like: ASMOD09S.* DARKLGHT.* ZAGGLE.* have been put in some strange mode (binary as it seems), starting like: ===== This file is in BINARY format, created by JERMINE at 14-NOV-1994 18:55:48.33546 bytes. Checksum = E26F XCRC = B9C8 CRC16 = 408C. [*BINARY*128]MThd```^F, etc......... ===== How smart..... ;( Help appreciated, thanx. G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 22:26:21 +0200 (EET) From: Saari Anssi Subject: Re: os/2 warp > > 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 ? > > get ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/2_1/drivers/ultra05e.zip No, get hobbes.nmsu.edu:/os2/incoming/ultra06a.zip, register it and enjoy GM music in dos games. Anssi ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 11:46:38 -0800 (PST) From: Marty Danko -Khertz- Subject: TieFighter Is there a way to get NATIVE support for the gus(gusmax) in tie fighter? -Marty ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 21:11:04 -0500 From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du) Subject: Under a Killing Moon Are there any GUS midi drivers for Under a Killing Moon? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 15:57:29 -0700 (MST) From: Ignatius Tam Subject: wc3demo (again :( ) Hi guys, i don't want to waste bandwidth on this one, but it seems i made a confusion regarding my post... the wc3demo is NOT uploaded by me, it's uploaded by others and the article posted was pulled off from c.s.i.p.games.action, if those files are fake, i'm sorry but i can't help. sorry for any confusions. happy gussing! -iGnatius ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 14:38:40 -0500 (EST) From: rjm@dciem.dnd.ca (Robert Manley) Subject: Why Manley drivers don't produce sound with original OS/2 2.1 mitchec@cix.compulink.co.uk (Colin Mitchell) wrote: > Subject: Gus, OS/2, and Manley Drivers > > I've got Robert Manley's drivers ver 0.5e, OS/2 2.1, MMPM 1.1 and a Gus. > When I install the drivers it says the installation has been succesful, > but no lines are added to config.sys. If I add them manually, using the > switches to set IRQs DMAs etc, they still don't work. The driver loads, > but no sound comes out. DOS sessions have to have optional adapter > sharing otherwise they refuse to work, and printing slows to a crawl. > I've tried several different setups for my gus, changing the switches > approriately, but nothing works (it works fine under DOS and windoze). > What am I doing wrong? If the install program didn't add any lines to your CONFIG.SYS, then you are running an old version which was shipped in OS/2 2.1 and fixed in the November '93 MMPM CSD referred to in the docs (under exactly this problem). Either get that file, the OS/2 2.1 SP (which brings the OS up to 2.11) or Warp. The location of the MMPM CSD is also given in the docs. 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: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 22:18:37 -0800 (PST) From: Hank Leukart Subject: Windows MIDI? Message-ID: Hey all, glad to see the digest back! :) Anyway, I know that I SHOULD know how to do this, but I simply cannot get it to work. I can't get Windows games to use MIDI correctly. I have the MCI MIDI Sequencer installed, and the two GUS drivers that came with v3.53 of the software. (I haven't upgraded yet) When I use Windows's Media Player, it works perfectly, as well as MIDI Session. However, I can neither get Entombed (shareware game, just won't play any music) nor Sierra's Lode Runner (the demo, crashes when I try to start the first level when I set music on) to play any music. Sound effects work great in both games, I've tried both the Ultra and Ultra1024 MIDI mappings. Any ideas? -Hank ----------- Hank Leukart ------------ | "Official" DOOM FAQ v5.8 Writer --- (ap641@cleveland.freenet.edu) --- | FAQ available by E-mail or infant2 -----(hleukart@shell.portal.com)----- | E-mail with Subject: "DOOM FAQ Request" ------------------------------------ | "Official" DOOM FTP Site: -------------------------------------| ftp.orst.edu: /pub/doom ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 22:20:48 -0500 From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du) Subject: Wing Commander III demo CD Where's the Wing Commander III demo CD?? Is it one that is bundled with other demos??? ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V16 #20 *******************************