GUS Daily Digest Tue, 29 Nov 94 9:37 PST Volume 16: Issue 29 Today's Topics: .MID to .AU 16 bit CD-AUDIO recording ail... FPS Football '95 and GUS GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller GUS and Music GUS and SBPRO running in tandem GUS and Sounblaster ? GUS and Soundblaster ? GUS Daily Digest V16 #28 GUSII?? GUS MAX and Gateway 2000 GUS MAX memory in UK. Gus Version? GUS with Warp! Linux audio drivers Midi Instruments New Megaem features? New Motherboard + GUS + New SCSI Harddrive=???? Reading data froma CD ROM SAW and MAX Video CD/MPEG II Warcraft and NASCAR What format is an .AU sound file? Windows NT Drivers (should be in FAQ) Windows problem continues... 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, 28 Nov 94 18:34:00 PST From: Ingles D Subject: .MID to .AU > > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 01:52:53 EST > > From: timkwan@MIT.EDU > > Subject: .MID to .AU > > > > Hi, does anyone know if there is a shareware program out there that will > > allow me to convert my .MID file to a .AU file? There is such a beast but I cannot recall it's name. It is basically a software synth. It will take a MIDI file and instrument patches (sound samples) and compile it into a .AU file (or similar). It was discussed in a Usenet MIDI conference some time ago. > > I tried connecting the > > speaker outlet of the GUS to the microphone input of of the GUS. I ran > > the Windows Media Player to play the .MID file, and at the same time > > pressed Record on a Windows-based .WAV recorder. I did get a .WAV file > > but it was very noisy but was still listenable. Connecting line out to line in would have given better results or as pointed out else where on some GUS's this can be done internally. Davei ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 12:18:02 +0100 (MET) From: Dick Verweij Subject: 16 bit CD-AUDIO recording >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! >If you have a CD that allows audio tracks to be read digitally >via the PC bus, then you wouldn't need the GUS - just record the >data direct to disk. >I believe that some CD drives allow this with special software - >I don't know which. Are you talking perhaps of CD players which >have a Digital output, but via some sort of cable rather than >via the PC bus? Check out cdinfo14.zip, it is on archive.epas.utoronto.ca It reads the raw 16 bit format of your audio cd and converts to wav. With extra features. Drives which are reported to work: (more feedback wanted!) CDINFO 1.4 SUCCES LIST Main purpose is to download CD digital audio data straight from your CDROM to your HARDDISK. Without any SAMPLING ERRORS/HISS/DESTORTION. In FULL 16BIT, 44100 HZ STEREO SOUND. NO NEED FOR A SOUNDCARD!! DRIVES WITH SUCCES: cdrom drive [SONY CDU33A] driver name [SLCD.SYS version 1.71a] MSCDEX version [2.22] cdrom drive [ MATSUSHITA / CREATIVE] driver name [SBCD.SYS] MSCDEX version [2.23] cdrom drive [Panasonic CR-562-B] driver name [ CDMKE.SYS] MSCDEX version [2.23] cdrom drive [Philips CM-206] driver name (*.sys) [DD260.SYS Version 1.41] MSCDEX version [2.23] NO SUCCES: cdrom drive [SOME MITSUMI FX Series] Error: Sector not found errors, also with other cdda-readers! -- DickyDick email: hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl ONLY A DICK MAKES IT POSSIBLE ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 19:46:09 -0700 (MST) From: Ignatius Tam Subject: ail... Forwarded message: > > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 22:31:28 -0600 > From: lala@interaccess.com (Imre Olajos) > Subject: IndyCar Racing 2 AIL support??? > > Hi, > > I replaced the sbdig.adv with gf1dig.adv and I replaced sbfm.adv with > gf1mid.adv, I load UltraMID v1.12 in the memory - and there is > absolute silence. Indy 2 runs fine, everything works perfectly, but > there is no sound at all! Any tips anybody? > indy 2? did you mean Nascar or the add-on of IndyCar? However, what you've done is completely wrong, you're using the 16bit ail driveres while the indy series used 32bit ail drivers. get ail321X.zip (x is a number) from the gus ftp sites and follow the instructions. Nascar has native support so you don't need to patch anything. (indy will not have engine sound as this is a limitation of the program) -iGnatius ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 15:33:31 UCT+06:00DST From: "Michael Murphy" Subject: FPS Football '95 and GUS Hi, Has anyone gotten the GUS to work in native mode with Front Page Sports Football '95? How did you do it? Thanks, -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 13:11:28 "CST From: szurek@anubis.network.com Subject: GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller Operating System: HP-UX A.09.01 A Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] I have an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and a Ultrasound. The 1542B is my boot device, and, while the card has strappable I/O addresses, the BIOS ROM is hard coded to use address 330. This conflicts with one of the address on the Ultrasound, and causes problems (Sound Blaster emulation doesn't work.) I know I can't be the only one who has this problem. Has anyone found a way around it? I've tried Mega-EM, but that doesn't work (software still doesn't see a SoundBlaster.) Thanks. -- Don M. Szurek don.szurek@network.com Network Systems Corporation Phone: (612) 424-1701 7600 Boone Avenue North Fax: (612) 391-1191 Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 United States of America *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* An optimist says, "The glass is half full." A pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." A reengineering expert says, "Looks like you have about twice as much glass as you need there." *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 13:43:48 -0500 (EST) From: efinkler@sun1.iusb.indiana.edu (Big Daddy Ed) Subject: Re: GUS and Music > Most of my recordings are acoustic instruments so I don't use midi yet. > But now I need a drum machine. Are there any natural sounding drum kit > patches for the GUS Max? I'm also looking at the Boss DR-660 and Alesis > SR-16 drum machines. Can the GUS Max compare to them in sound quality? > Can someone recommend drum patches that sound good and a good > quality/reasonably-priced sequencer software package? Two drawbacks with using the GUS for percussion: 1) Percussion takes up a lotta memory... especially cymbals. If you want a big kit, you may not be able to use any other instruments. 2) The inherent noise level from the GUS... Even with 16-bit samples, you're gonna get hiss. I have a Dr-660 and am very happy with it. Considering the price, it's the one to get... worth the extra cash over the Alesis model. It's got lots of good, workhorse sounds, and some great effects. -Ed A R T S I N D U S T R I A _The Art Of Brutality_ CD comp featuring Xorcist, :wumpscut:, Thine Eyes, Sphere Lazza, Remyl, Pounce Intl., din-fiv, Diode, Music For Isolation Tanks, Morning Gold Fix, Terminal, Bubblegum Crisis, Manhole Vortex, Erzulie ze Rouge, Tekachi, and Altruistic Suicide. Availible 2nd week of December '94. Write or email: Arts Industria, P.O. Box 4142, South Bend, IN 46634-4142 I N D U S T R Y W I T H O U T A R T I S B R U T A L I T Y ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 10:41:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Whittier Subject: GUS and SBPRO running in tandem -is there a way to run a Soundblaster and a GUS in one computer at -one time ? -so i can use the Soundblaster if the Game does not support GUS (Magic -Carpet) and SBOS ? -Is there a way to "switch off" the GUS ? I have a GUS MAX and an SBPRO in the same machine. All is well. At first they would not play together, but after minor adjustments it worked fine. I have the SBPRO on port 220, irq 5 and DMA 1. The GUS is on port 260, irq 7, dma 7. I was told to put the gus on a port other than 220/240 so there would be no confusion on the part of the software as to where the soundblaster was. The higher dma was reommended for quality. Not that I'd know the difference... (higher DMA's are #7 and up) So far it's choked on Strike commander (the digitized sounds cut out) and Privateer - can't seem to see _either of the cards_. No biggie tho'. I've merged the cards successfully with Tie Fighter, and Armada. They sound just wunnerful. I think I did it with sc2k as well... As to switching off the GUS, if the driver's aren't loaded, it ain't there. I have a multi-config program, so if I want to cut out the GUS, I just reboot with a setting where the gus drivers are left out. Seems to work fine. L8R Doug Whittier ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 13:06:39 +0100 (CET) From: I.Buijs@hi.ft.HSE.NL Subject: Re: GUS and Sounblaster ? >Hi, > >is there a way to run a Soundblaster and a GUS in one computer at >one time ? >so i can use the Soundblaster if the Game does not support GUS (Magic >Carpet) and SBOS ? Just make sure both cards have different io-adresses and irq's. then there should be no problem. >Is there a way to "switch off" the GUS ? You don't need to, just don't load sbos or mega-em and it should work just fine. Ivor Buijs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 20:22:18 +0100 From: erlingp@stud.cs.uit.no (Erling Paulsen) Subject: Re: GUS and Soundblaster ? >Hi, > >is there a way to run a Soundblaster and a GUS in one computer at >one time ? >so i can use the Soundblaster if the Game does not support GUS (Magic >Carpet) and SBOS ? >Is there a way to "switch off" the GUS ? > > Michel Mohrmann Well, I have SoundBlaster Pro running with my GUS and it works perfectly. I never had any problems. I have SBPro at the default settings and switched my GUS to address 240. It works great to play MIDI through the GUS and DIGI through the SBPro (ex. Ultima8) - though I hardly use my SBpro nemore as most games work and sound better with GUS in native or emulation mode. I have the SB hooked up to the INLINE of my GUS. ------------ In the same go I want to mention for those who haven't got Warcraft to work with GUS that I got it to,work with SBOS using the "-x2" option. It worked nomatter what memory configuration I had running, but the speech was less cracky with a clean startup (no memory manager). I heard a rumour that there is a GUS patch floating around somewhere! - Erling \|||/ (o o) - "Happy GUSing" -------------ooO-(_)-Ooo------------------------------------------------------- _/_/_/_/ E-Mail : erlingp@stud.cs.uit.no _/_/_/_/ University of Tromso _/_/_/ RealLife : Erling Paulsen _/_/_/ Dep. of Comp. Sci. _/_/ Phone : +47 77 67 17 81 _/_/ "70 degrees north" _/ WWW : http://www.cs.uit.no/~erlingp _/ Worlds northernmost ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 15:19:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Jesse Ozog (GE)" Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #28 On Mon, 28 Nov -1, GUS Server wrote: > As for the CD Audio connector, surely all GUS have these? It's not > an external connector - it's just 4 pins in a line on the board > to which you can connect a cable from the CD-Audio-out pins on > the CD drive. (Getting the right cable is most peoples problem - > R and L are the outside pins, with two grounds in the middle.) > How do you connect the CD audio cable to the GUS if it (connector) has only three plugs (after cover is removed from connector) which correspond to right, ground, and left. (i think) It's a cable that was included in a media-vision kit and connected to a PAS 3d card (has since been removed) from a NEC drive. > > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 14:22:12 MET > From: (Martijn de Jong) > Subject: The 7th Guest > > Hi Gussers, > > I just got a Philips CM206 Dual speed CD-Rom drive and the > 7th Guest v1.4 I believe. I installed the install part of > The 7th guest on my stacked (4.0) drive, put the gravis > adv's in the dir and edited the groovie.ini file to use the > adv's. I run ultramid 1.03 with options -l -c1000 -m80 from > my autoexec.bat to be able to have enough free base mem. > (576K). I use Himem and emm386. > My problem is this: > When I start the 7th guest everything goes fine. I then > start a new game -> demo starts. Great music, but then the > speech starts. it is clear but it sounds like some static is > influencing my card. It has big scratches from time to time. > It's only in the speech and I haven't had this with other > games so far. It makes the speech annoying to listen too and > so blews the game. > Has anyone else had the same problem and how did he/she > solve it? Any help is greatly appreciated! > > Martinus. > I didn't use any switches when running ultramid (ver?) and the music / speech quality is very good, except for the fact that the volume is the same for both midi and digital sounds, but i believe there is a way to lower the volume on the midi. BTW: does T7G freeze for you when you press a key on your keyboard? Even after exiting the game. Jesse Ozog _________________________ |ozog@suntan.eng.usf.edu| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 16:39:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Carson R. Stuart" Subject: GUSII?? I read the following in the November 21 issue of EETimes and thought this group would be interested (I accept the blame for all typos): "At Comdex/Fall last week, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Austin, Texas) provided a glimpse of its InterWave architecture, which tries to define a single-chip wavetable-synthesis processor.... AMD licensed some of its wavetable-synthesis technology from Advanced Gravis, Inc., a small sound board developer. Dean Grumlose(a marketing manger for multimedia products at AMD's I/O and network products division) said that AMD wanted a partner so the company could bypass any FM-synthesis chip development. `The march is clearly on to wavetable', he noted. The first two instantiations of Interwave are the 160-pin Am78C01, with full plug-and-play self configuration features, and the 144-pin Am78C02, which dispenses with plug-and-play to cut costs. AMD has seen early prototypes but doesn't expect general sampling before mid-1995. The aim is to enable board makers to price wavetable boards at $200 to $300." The article also included a diagram of the chip architecture. I have attempted to draw the figure below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Sound Board | | Optional DSP Engine | | ========================|=============================== | | || Interwave IC ----------- -------------- || | | || |Expansion| |MIDI and | || | | || | Port | ---|game ports | || | | || ----------- | -------------- || |--Microphone | | || | | || | | | || ----------- | | --------------- || | | | || | | | | |Stereo Codec | <>------Speaker | | || | |---------------------|and mixer | || | | | || | | | --------------- || | | | || | | ----------- | ^ || |--Auxiliary | | || |ISA | |FM | --------------- | || | | || |Interface|--|Emulation|-- | Synthesizer | | || | | || ----------- ----------- --------------- | || | | || | | | | || | | ============|====================|=======|=======|====== | | SCSI, Atapi, or Proprietary RAM ROM | | | | | | ----------------|------------------------------------|------------------------ | | CD-ROM drive-------------------------------- I would assume this will be the chip for GUSII. I was sorry to see no discussion of the RAM address space that the device can drive. Maybe Gravis could comment? I would also be interested in when the board will be available. carson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 17:24:26 -0800 (PST) From: Stephen Thomas Brindle Subject: GUS MAX and Gateway 2000 I am almost sure that I am going to get a Gateway 2000 P4D-66, the regular desktop (that is, non-tower) system. But before I do, I have two questions: 1) Will my GUS MAX fit? 2) Is the double speed CD-ROM it comes with compatible with the GUS MAX? If someone who has this system, or knows a lot about it, can answer these questions, I would be most grateful! Thanks in advance! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stephen Thomas Brindle |"I have made this letter longer than usual, because ------------------------|I lack the time to make it short." Ethereal Dragon | -Blaise Pascal -==(UDIC)==- | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 16:56:11 +0000 (GMT) From: "John Dudley" Subject: GUS MAX memory in UK. Try Heathow Computer Systems. Their phone number is 081 844 1885. They have got some for 22 UKP plus VAT & Delivery. >Hello all, > >Title says it all - anyone know of a *reasonable* price in the UK, where I >can upgrade my GUS MAX to the full 1 Meg? Anything under 30 quid sounds >reasonable to me for 512k... > >Oh, also can anyone confirm the release date of the new MegaEm with Protected >Mode compatibility? I'd like to get rid of my SB16ASP, but I'm still playing >the CD version of Sam n Max :-( > >Mark > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"Ford, you're turning into a penquin. Stop it." - Arthur Dent > >------------------------------ Thanks. -- John Dudley jd@mfltd.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 17:20:52 -0800 (PST) From: Stephen Thomas Brindle Subject: Re: Gus Version? > what "woes" do you have? if you have an empty slot, buy a cheap multi-cd > card under $20 would do the trick since the cd interface only allows > panasonic, sony and mitumi anyway.... good luck Where can I find out more about this card? I've never heard of such a thing. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stephen Thomas Brindle |"I have made this letter longer than usual, because ------------------------|I lack the time to make it short." Ethereal Dragon | -Blaise Pascal -==(UDIC)==- | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 12:31:02 -0500 From: Farhan Thawar Subject: GUS with Warp! Well I'd like to be the first to congradulate Mr. Manley on another fine release of OS/2 drivers for the GUS. I do have a couple of questions concerning their complete installation though... 1) After installing Warp (ie. reformatting my HD to use HPFS), do I then shell to a Dos box and install the GUS drivers then? 2) A really good idea would be to post a GUS with OS/2 faq, which would entail all the necessary settings and installation tips for setting up a GUS with OS/2. It would also be nice to have a complete listing of all the Dos box settings for games with the GUS, considering there are quite a few of them. 3) I'm having problems configuring my internal modem with my GUS. Back in the olden days when I was using Dos and Windows I had trouble getting the right configuration so that my IRQ's wouldn't conflict. Now the same problems seem to follow me in to OS/2. Has anyone have any suggestions regarding the right settings for an Internal modem, GUS and Sony CD-Rom IRQ's and jumpers? Thanks..... ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires you to // // change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers wear their // // climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in // // the middle of the machine room. // \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Farhan Thawar fnthawar@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca 2A Comp Sci/Elec Eng E University of Waterloo, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 12:04:25 +0200 (IST) From: Guy Tal Subject: Linux audio drivers Greetings to all you Linux freaks :) I home someone can help me woth this. I recently installed Linux 1.0.4 from the MCC distribution. It came with version 2.40 of the sound drivers (uninstalled). Here's what I did to install them: cd /usr/src/linux make config (disabled all sound cards except the gus, used 220,11,1 configuration) make dep make (so far so good, now I booted with the new kernel) (now I took the script at the bottom of the README.linux file and saved it as soundinstall) /bin/sh soundinstall cat /dev/sndstat All I got was: No such device. and I can't play anything on either /dev/dsp or /dev/audio I tried using version 2.90 of the drivers... same thing. What am I doing wrong??? Thanks, Guy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 14:31:23 -0500 From: ngb@po.cwru.edu (Nathan G. Babb) Subject: Midi Instruments I've connected a midi keyboard to my GUS-Max and I works fine from DOS. However, when I try to use the windows midi software I can't enter notes from the midi keyboard. I'm sure it's not the interface, because I can have the GUS play the keyboard from windows, just not the other way around. If anyone has any ideas or has had similar problems please tell me. Thank You. Nathan Babb Have a nice DAZE! (ngb@po.cwru.edu) I know I am. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 11:45:00 -0600 From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach IBM) Subject: New Megaem features? Someone wrote: >Well, it's compatible with Roland (any), Sound Blaster, Ad Lib, general >MIDI, and, of course, native GUS support. It does Roland or MIDI through a >program called Megaem, which works perfectly, but doesn't work with >protected mode games. The new version of Megaem will, though. Megaem ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >can also be used in a MIDI/Roland and SB DAC combination. >Then there's SBOS, which emulates a SB through SOFTWARE, not hardware. I >personally haven't used it very much. It works, but from what I've heard >it doesn't sound incredibly good. I *think* the new Megaem will emulate ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >SB, also, which should make things perfect. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is this true? When will this Megaem be out, and what will the ZIP be called? That'd solve a lot of problems, let me tell you! Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 18:48:19 -0600 (CST) From: Reginald Atkins Subject: New Motherboard + GUS + New SCSI Harddrive=???? ok, I need a little help if possible...I bought a new vlb motherboard to replace my isa board the chipset is biotecq if that helps and since then the following happens: Tie fighter w/ megaem - perfectly fine DOOM 2 - if it decides to run it will only run without digital soundfx and often it simply does not run at all remapping my dos font size to cga or it causes the system to crash...when it does run it either runs w/o fx's or runs and gives me 12 little doom2 windows all running in sync taking up a total of the top 2/3's of the screen. raptor (shareware) - ran fine on the old ide harddrive, on the SCSI it gives digital glitches and running with sound may cause the system to crash or exit the game remapping my dos font to cga. also the joystick stopped moving in the down direction when it does run. it's version 1.0 I'm going to go find 1.1 tonight. Hocus Pocus - perfectly fine SBOS - runs and says "sbos installed" as it should but when I go into a game that ran fine before getting the new motherboard I either get no sound at all or garbled noise.... those are the only games i've tried..been afraid to try anything else windows runs fine, playmidi is fine,and iplay is fine. I hope there's a solution otherwise I may have to get a second soundboard for digital sound (this is an absolute last resort) if it helps: I have an GUS not a max not sure which rev. board but it's about 3 yrs old, v. 3.56 drivers, Dos 6.22, 486 dx50 (yes a straight 50 not a dx2) with 5 Meg ram. the SCSI is Adaptec configured for hex address of 340 and an irq of 12. Thanx for reading this... Reg. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 15:42:14 -0500 (EST) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Reading data froma CD ROM I was very impressed and excited when a few people wrote about the software that allows you to extract raw digital info from a CD ROM. No one has talked about it since though..... This is a HUGE piece of news! There are hundreds of CD's available out there right now that contain nothing but samples of instruments. These are for musicians that have samplers and want to get a sample of something so they hook their CD player up to their keyboard and sample away. If we can extract data from these same disks and use the sample information with the GUS, it opens up a HUGE world of samples to GUS users! This would be FANTASTIC! Maybe I'm way off but from what I read a couple of days ago right here, all you have to do is use the software from ftp.netcom.com (/pub/hughem) to extract data from a sample CD and then convert it to .pat format. If I'm way off please tell me but otherwise, think of the possibilities! Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 20:24:28 -0500 (EST) From: Phat Hong Tran Subject: SAW and MAX On Mon, 28 Nov -1, GUS Server wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 09:28:34 -0500 (EST) > From: Len Moskowitz > Subject: SAW and GUSmax? > > Has anyone tried using the GUS Max with Innovative Quality Software's > SAW? SAW is a pro-quality audio workstation with four stereo tracks, > mixing, effects and more. It is not cheap. SAW is supposed to work > with any MPC card but seems to lock up after a short time using the GUS. > > All comments appreciated! All the audio on the UltraSound Experience CD was mixed using SAW and a GUS MAX (rev 1.7, I think) on a 486DLC(?). Several passages of the audio utilize all 4 tracks in SAW. So, yes, SAW does work with the MAX, at least on some computers. Try playing with your DMA channel configurations. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 21:57:10 -0500 From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du) Subject: Video CD/MPEG II I found a heck of a lot of MPEG II stuff on berlioz.crs4.it, but nothing that will actually let you plop in a disc, and play with full GUS sound and motion video.. Does anyone know of such a program?? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 15:22:48 EST From: JTHAI@wedge.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (James Thai) Subject: Warcraft and NASCAR Has anyone gotten Warcraft to work with anything other than SBOS? The only thing I've been able to do is to get FM emulation, no digital with SBOS. It's a DOS4GW game so no go with Megaem.. Also, does anyone know what soundcards NASCAR will support (IE: GUS??) James. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Real life: James Thai, Computer Engineer Preferred life: jthai@wedge.watstar.uwaterloo.ca, Raving Geek GE d-- H+ s-:- g+ p2 au-- a-- w+++ v* C+++ U P? L+ 3 E---- N+++ K W++++ M-- !V po--- Y+ t+ 5-- j++ R+ G' tv-- b+++ D++ B--- e+ u* h f* r-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 16:20:51 From: "N.J.Cook" Subject: What format is an .AU sound file? I have recently been browsing the World-Wide-Web using Mosaic at my university. My GUS (not MAX) is not attached to this network. I can download sample files, but Mosaic refuses to cope with them. Is there a GUS player/converter to convert them from .AU to, say, .WAV when I put them on my own P.C? Thanks for any help you can give. Nick Cook ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 15:28:10 +0200 (EET) From: Jari Kivela Subject: Re: Windows NT Drivers (should be in FAQ) > From: tmcgoug@metronet.com (Timothy J. McGough) > Subject: Windows NT Drivers > > I hope I'm not reposting a previous question, but I've looked in all the GUS > listings and can't find any info on a GUS driver for NT 3.5. > Anyone able to point me in the right direction or tell me if there is even > such an animal? This really should be in the FAQ, since this is about the fourth time I answer this question. Once more: there is no Win NT drivers for GUS, and there probably never will be, unless someone is going to make them him/herself. This was confirmed from both Gravis and Microsoft. Windows 95 drivers are on their way, but that doesn't help current NT users with GUS. If someone has time to program drivers for NT, I would be one to register them for sure. -------------------------------------------------------- Jari Kivela jkivela@polaris.cc.utu.fi University of Turku Finland -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 15:53:22 -0600 (CST) From: Left Tackle Subject: Windows problem continues... Fisrt off, thanks to everybody who replied to my first post. And, I found the CD Line in. Yeah, I'm a dork. :) But, I'm still having a problem with the version mismatch error in Windows. Lemme make a list of all the stuff I've tried. 1) I download patch GUS0042.ZIP, which is updated Windows drivers. Put 'em in the windows/system directory. Ran Windows, still had the problem. 2) Deleted those files in windows/system, ran setup again. Ran Windows, same error. 3) Deleted those files (ULTRASND.DRV and GRVSULTR.386) in windows/system, deleted my whole ultrasnd directory, reinstalled the whole software over again. Ran windows, no dice. 4) Re-tried the GUS0042 patch, still didn't work in Windows. I don't know what's going wrong here. Am I the only person who's had this error? It's really annoying, because I'd really like to use GoldWave, but it's kinda tough when you can't use your soundcard. If anybody has any more advice, please let me know. This is really starting to get annoying... Thanks for your help. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 13:18:49 -0600 From: Jon Holt >From holt Mon Nov 21 09:17:12 1994 remote from holt Subject: HMI Drivers - Where is they at? To: gus-general@gaia.ucs.orst.edu Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 9:17:12 CST In-Reply-To: <199411201750.JAA16018@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>; from "GUS Server" at Nov 20, 94 9:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Sender: holt I've determined that War Wizard ver 2.2 is using the HMI drivers for digital sound, but they're the older, non Gravis supporting ones. Where can I find patches/patched versions of the HMI drivers for the GUS? If these aren't available via ftp, is there a commercial package I could buy that has the updated HMI drivers (did someone mention EarthSiege?) BTW, WW22 uses DOS4GW, so no SBOS or MEGAEM - QED. -- :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: Jon Holt (holt@camax.com) - CAMAX Manufacturing Technologies ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V16 #29 *******************************