GUS Daily Digest Wed, 23 Nov 94 9:37 PST Volume 16: Issue 23 Today's Topics: "Manley" OS/2 drivers . 16 bit digital recording on GUS? Buying a GUS soundcard DOS extender and Megaem GUS & NMI gus & yamaha noise Gus and voice recognition software GUS demo cd GUS experience CD GUS MAX and SONY CDU-33A Load Runner II Lode Runner Noctropolis Wacky Wheels problem WarCraft and GUS?! WinDoom? 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, 23 Nov 1994 11:22:55 +0100 From: Mark Ruys Subject: "Manley" OS/2 drivers Yesterday I installed Manley's newest (registered) GUS drivers for OS/2. I tried The 7th Guest. It ran perfectly with (CD-)voices and midi music, exactly the same as in plain DOS. That's great! Today I'll try Return to Zork. Besides ultramid, it runs gf166.com from the ultramid directory. Can anyone tell me what this program does? What has it to do with midi? Mark Ruys (I hope I didn't misspell gf199.com) -- Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen Internet: markr@cs.kun.nl Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica UUCP: uunet!cs.kun.nl!markr Toernooiveld 1 finger: markr@omega.cs.kun.nl 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands Telephone: +31.80.652647 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 16:48:33 GMT From: Dave Griffiths PML Plymouth 0752-222772x271 Subject: . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 12:28:22 MET From: (Martijn de Jong) Subject: 16 bit digital recording on GUS? Hi Gussers, I was thinking: If you disconnect the adc from the gus and give it a direct digital input from for example a cd-player (you'll need a chip to convert the signal, but that is not too difficult) it might be possible to record 16 bit with very high quality! So you won't need the daughterboard, you'll just need some other chips (this will be cheaper than the daughterboard!) and the quality is better! The problem in here is: Where are the 16 bit lines in the gus? any comments on this? Martinus. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 94 14:58:01 -0500 From: george@ll.mit.edu (George Valaitis) Subject: Buying a GUS soundcard I am trying to decide if I should buy a GUS soundcard or go with the "wave" Soundblaster. I have been reading about incompatability problems, and frankly they worry be as unfixable. I would like "game" compatability, but I'm willing to sacrifice this for good MIDI performance. I had a microsoft sound system. It was poor. This was replaced with an Ensonique card (from Gateway). This card had many bugs, and was incompatible with everything. The final straw came when Ensonique's help desk (the Gateway people were useless) admitted to known incompatabilities and was giving me instructions over the phone on how to rewire (including soldering) the CD adaptor cable. The Ensonique went back for credit and I bought a Turtle Beach Tropez card. This card still will not record (static emits from both speakers and nothing is recorded), I had to install EMM386 or (so I was told by Turtle) the card would not run correctly. The windows games are slowed to such an extent that they are not playable, and the "help desk" has not been able to fix the problem, despite the promise of a call from an engineer (supposed to call yesterday). I realize that this kind of "help" is standard in the industry, but when the driving software will not set the interrupt on the card, I have to wonder about the quality of some of the boards. But when the only thing that runs correctly is "DOOM", you have to wonder . . . This brings me to my questions: 1. If I get a gravis, will all the adaptors come with the card. I had to buy a joystick port to MIDI adaptor from Turtle, and it still isn't here yet. 2. Exactly how compatible is the GUS? 3. Is their software relatively bug free? 4. How is their help - really? 5. What is a good "street" price of a GUS? With MIDI, sample memory, and the appropriate driving software. 6. Has anybody expeienced similar problems with "other" soundcards and how does problem resolution compare with Gravis? Thanks, George PS: If anybody cares, I have a Gateway 2000 4DX66 with 16 Meg of memory, two hard drives, and smartdrive installed. There is no TSR stuff and I'm running DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1. PPS: I finally did get to set the interrupt on the Tropez card by editing the system.ini file. I don't want to have to do this. . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 05:45:08 -0600 (CST) From: ST4FX@Jetson.UH.EDU Subject: DOS extender and Megaem Has anybody else tried the game Warcraft? Megaem works great with it, but it uses the DOS4GW dos extender. I thought Megaem was NOT supposed to work with protected mode games? Just thought it was very peculiar, and has anybody tried and gotten megaem to work with other 32 bit games? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 17:02:16 -0330 (NST) From: Bruce White Subject: GUS & NMI Message-ID: I recently read in the latest FAQ that there are ways to slove the NMI=20 problem on some motherboards. I tried the suggestion in the FAQ but it=20 did'nt work.=F6I took my computer apart and found what kind of chipset i=20 have i beleive it's a "Uni Chip u4800VLX" i have an AMI BIOS and=20 can switch on the parrity check but i still can't use SBOS because the=20 NMI is disabled. I purchased the computer from Steals Direct, in ontario,= =20 and they assure me that the board is 100% ibm compatable. Can someone=20 help me please. Or let me know of who i can write to get some answers. Also i heard that there will be a new version of Megaem available that=20 will run inprotected mode. is this true? when will it be available? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 15:39:48 GMT From: Dave Griffiths PML Plymouth 0752-222772x271 Subject: gus & yamaha noise dragos@pub.ro (Dragos Manolescu) wrote: Hi all, I have a GUS 3.7 and the original Gravis MIDI box, together with a Yamaha PSR310 electronic keyboard. My problem is that, when the keyboard is ON, I can hear a hiss in the speakers. Use the windose level controller to drop the line in by say 10db ,assuming you connect the lineout from th PSR to the linein of the gus mixer. This was source of noise on by system, not the midi note off signal Dave G dkg@pml.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 21:24:27 +0100 From: SIMEN LOKEN HAAGENRUD Subject: Gus and voice recognition software Hi folks.... I was wondering if anyone knew about a program for voice recognition in Windows for Gravis? I'll be really happy if anyone knew of a shareware or freeware program, but since I am not THAT blueeyed (or stupid) I would be glad if it was a commercial program out too. Simen Viking ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 00:13:31 -0330 (NST) From: Bruce White Subject: GUS demo cd Message-ID: where can i get a copy of the Gravis Ultrasound Experience CD-ROM demo? How much is it? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 17:45:32 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Ngo Subject: GUS experience CD I'm still looking for a way of getting this. I think I missed a couple of issues(maybe that's why I missed the post). Anyways, Is there any way I can get a copy? E-mail address? snail mail? phone? what $$? I live in San Francisco, USA. E-mail would be my perfered method of contact, but anything is good. :) (I really want that CD). tngo@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 16:20:29 +0000 From: "Chris Bolin" Subject: GUS MAX and SONY CDU-33A I have the SLDC.SYS 1.73a, MSCDEX 2.23 and running Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I have the drive hooked up to my GUS MAX card and am experiencing intermittent lockups when in Windows (usually when running MYST). I called SONY, and not surprisingly, they told me all my problems were caused by the GUS MAX interface. What drivers does Gravis reccomend for use with the MAX? Anyone else had this experience? Any guidance or suggestions would be very welcome. Does Gravis have a Faxback document on troubleshooting CDROM connections in general? Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 13:47:58 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher McKillop Subject: Load Runner II Somebody asked about Load Runner II, well, All I can say is that it sounds WAY better on my GUS than on the PAS or SB. It uses Windows GM for music and any Windows Wave device that you have installed. Worth playing!!1 Chris //// If you love your fun, die for it!!!!!, J.Biafra //////////////////////// Christopher McKillop cdmckill@novice.uwaterloo.ca Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 19:59:30 GMT From: Mike@sindev.demon.co.uk (Mike Watson) Subject: Lode Runner In message <199411221903.LAA03776@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> GUS Server writes: > Anybody purchase Lode Runner for either Dos or Windows. The box for Dos sez > only Soundblaster compatible. I am ASSUMING that the Windows, with the > Windows Driver, has native GUS sounds. It sounds superb in Windows, lots of nice MIDI music. And of course puts the Soundblaster stuff to shame! I dunno about the DOS one. -- Mike Watson, Sinister Developments, Edinburgh, Scotland "Sorry, MY thoughts are a buck apiece." - Calvin and Hobbes ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 20:15:32 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Moore Subject: Noctropolis Does anyone else have this? I just purchased it, and it's by Electronic Arts (which means Origin, blech). At any rate, here's my problem: I can only get sound to work with sbos. I believe it's protected mode, and there is no option for GUS, that's for sure. With sbos, the sound cuts and goes, and makes it pretty worthless (crucial clues in dialogue are just junk). Complicating the situation, my sbos is acting weird. Something about the sboslib, I did get it to work, however I cannot remember the version number. The install.cfg is in code, so I cant text edit it. I'm stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated before I lambaste the Origin tech line. Thanks! chris yaga@u.washington.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 10:25:26 +0100 From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Wacky Wheels problem I am trying to run wacky wheels on my new GUS MAX, but I can't get the joystick to work properly. I already had a gameport on my computer and I want to keep using that because I don't know how to disable it and I want to use the port for Midi without buying a spilt box (if anybody has schematics for such a box, please inform me). I disabled the GUS joystick with ultrinit -dj in autoexec.bat, but the joystick just won't work. If I run SETUP or WW, the computer hangs and I must press the RESET button to get it rebooted (CNTR/ALT/DEL doesn't work). What must I do to get it working? The gamepad is a 4 button digital one (not analog). -- Piet van Oostrum ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 11:52:30 MET From: perk@stud.cs.uit.no (Per-Ivar Knutsen) Subject: WarCraft and GUS?! I just tried WarCraft by Blizzard Entertainment, but couldn't get any digitized sound from it. I was able to get SoundBlaster FM music (with SBOS), but no speech... WarCraft runs through the DOS4GW extender, so MEGAEM is not an option. The drivers that come with the game is some sort of AIL drivers, that's all I found out about them (the drivers are not the regular 32-bit DLL). Anyone had better luck than me here? Or know where I could find an upgrade patch for the GUS? Would be pleased if I got any quick replies! -- DELIVERED TO YOU EXCLUSIVELY BY: # Name : Per-Ivar Knutsen # Phone : +47 77 65 52 89 # E-mail : perk@stud.cs.uit.no ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 08:56 EST From: M.Irvin@dialogic.com (Michael Irvin) Subject: WinDoom? Ok, I've seen a lot of information being said about WinG and and games that use it. I for one would *love* to see WinDoom! I know several people have expressed interest in this and no one seems to be providing. My question specifically: WinDoom - Where is it? Is it commercial? Shareware? Vaperware? (as of today?) Any information, of course, will be appreciated! Thanks, MCI -- Michael C. Irvin -=- M.Irvin@dialogic.com Software Engineer Let's go Penn State! (10-0) Dialogic Corporation Let's go Steelers! (8-3) ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V16 #23 *******************************