GUS Daily Digest Mon, 5 Dec 94 9:37 PST Volume 17: Issue 5 Today's Topics: a AIL 3.0? Drivers,USNF,Flooding Drum Loops Front Page Sports Football 95' GUS AIL3 and PGA486 GUS CD-Rom GUS Daily Digest V17 #3 GUS Daily Digest V17 #4 (3 msgs) Kinder, gentler patches KQ7 and GUS... MegaEm working om P90 MidiSoft recording studio News Group Creation... Patch for Doom 2 yet? Soundless GUS UnderKillingMoon & KQ7 USNF+GUS THIS is the way 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, 5 Dec 1994 08:59:22 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Balliett Subject: a Hi, I just bought a gus yesterday.. and well, I think it was probly the best 120 bucks of I have spent in a LONG time. It came with 256k.. and well, everyone here knows what kind of dead end that got me in. Anyhow, my uncle gave me 9 goldstar DRAM chips. I searched around, and eventually found them. Just to make sure they were the right ones, I checked the gus faq, and matched the chips EXACT model number with the one in the faq. Ok.. so I open up my computer and I plug one in, BUT the little metal thingers (Oh yes.. I'm technical) were to wide for the slot. Now this didn't make sense.. the faq said I had the write model, but they didn't fit. Determined to pay my internet bill rather than spend 30 bucks on DRAM, me and my friend BENT the leads inward.. and they fit. Seeing this could really screw something up.. i only popped in half a meg. Well.. it detected it, and EVERYTHING worked right. So now I have a whole meg.. anything I should be careful of? Everything works out all right.. but the chips wern't inserted quite right. Oh, anyone know what the 16-bit DMA's will do for me as opposed to the 8-bit ones? Thanks alot.. The Countdown Begins Three, Two, One.. -Zer0 [Epinicion] Trakkah, and PROUD GUS owner.. it's the card of the future. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 17:22:16 -0800 (PST) From: Stephen Thomas Brindle Subject: AIL 3.0? I sent this question to the digest a couple of days ago, but since things were screwy, my message never got posted. My question is, what is are these new AIL 3.0 drivers? I know that there is already a beta copy somebody uploaded to epas, but I'd rather wait for Gravis's. Are these new patches just for new games (like Warcraft that I keep hearing about in conjunction with these new drivers), are they a complete update for all patches, or what? Also, someone at Gravis told me that these new drivers would not require Ultramid anymore. That would be a very welcome change. Thanks in advance for anybody who can tell me about these new drivers. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 18:55:51 -0500 From: GravisTech@aol.com Subject: Re: Drivers,USNF,Flooding Seth Delackner wrote: >>First, I'd like to hear something from Gravis about the new >>Megaem,os/2 drivers,etc that were ALL due out last month, and >>whether or not they WILL be out this month. If they are coming, >>could you please show us some f**king proof that you guys have >>something? Say, a public beta? If not, could you guys stop lying >>and tell us the truth? The truth is we are working on both and although I do not know where you got the information that they where going to be ready last month, the fact is that the OS2 beta are on schedule and due to be released end of this month and Megaem well that one I don't know when. It is being worked on and many features being added, but quality software (drivers) does take time and we will not release any drivers before their time.. Thnx for the inquiry gravistech@aol.com Advanced Gravis Technology ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 94 19:33:33 CST From: Jim English Subject: Drum Loops > > > > > > Hey all, I just got a cd from a magazine called Future Music, and it has some > > Drum Loops that I'm sampling. Well, after an initial try with patch maker > > lite, i find out it doesn't support stereo (it prob also doesn't support 16bit, > > but i haven't tried it yet cause i have a regular GUS and I'd need to use my > > dos cdrom data reader to get a 16bit sample). So what's a good way to do > > 16-bit stereo patches for the GUS? I'd like to hear from others who have > > experience making drum loop patches for the GUS. Thanks. > > -jim > -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Jim English - jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu / EJP51823@vax1.utulsa.edu (Geek Code 2.0): GCS/MU d--(----) h+ s:- g+ p? au+ a- w++@ v? C++ UH+++ P? L- 3- N+++ K- W+ M-- V- -po+ Y t 5-- j- r G+++>++++ v b+ D+ b--- e+ u++** h! f r++ !n y+** The University of Tulsa can bite me. (And usually does) "Bob, ain't that a bitch?" ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Dec 1994 21:47:17 -0500 From: STEVENMA@LANMAIL.SHU.EDU Subject: Front Page Sports Football 95' Ok has ANYONE got this game to work with the Gravis Ultrasound, as usual the Ultrasound is in the Sierra/Dynamix SoundSet program as a choice, but when you run the game, it either crashes or has no sound.. SBOS works, but there's no digital sound, just crackels and pop's... I'm using the CD-ROM version of the game.. I've tried MegaEm but that doesn't work either.. please, if anyone knows what to do, let me in on it!! Thanks.. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Dec 94 17:27:15 EST From: Greg Subject: GUS AIL3 and PGA486 The Ail3 drivers that someone loaded to EPAS work fine with PGA486 golf. Just load ultramid and copy the digital Umid.dig over the soundblaster driver and the program works great. I am sure they will work with Warcraft. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 12:16:42 +0500 From: iclnl!pvh@relay.NL.net (Pieter van Horssen) Subject: GUS CD-Rom Hi, I have heared rumours of the availability of a GUS CD-Rom. Anybody has a contents list and how was this disc announced? TIA, Pieter ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 18:18:29 -0600 (CST) From: cosc19v2 Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #3 > Subject: GUS / OS2 warp.... > Greetings all, > I wanted to ask people out there using OS/2 WARP, how well does the gus/games/ > mod players work with it? I've got a dos machine, but am thinking of getting > warp (I have a 386-40 with 4mb ram) I don't want to start OS wars here, but forget Warp, if have less than 8M bytes. I have 386/25 with 8 M bytes, but its interactive response was so slow ( I mean when you move mouse to other windows and click buttons, ..etc.) - and I was not even running any applications. The response was always one step behined which was very annoying and gave me a feeling that I was running Windows/NT on PC/XT with 512K :). I also expected a lot from warp, but I was so disappointed and returned it to MicroCenter. I suggest Advanced Gravis to concentrate on making reliable driver on Win32 platforms rather than wasting their energe and time. -- ihm ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 94 13:24:00 PST From: KAHN_DL@mcchord-lognet.af.mil Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #4 I have tried several times to unsubscribe to the list server. Please delete me from the list or send the unsubscrib info. Thanx ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 17:18:12 -0800 (PST) From: Stephen Thomas Brindle Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #4 > Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 18:56:23 -0800 (PST) > From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct > Subject: Digest Problems Fixed! > > Hi everyone, > > Hopefully the Digest problem is fixed once and for all as some > idiot subscribed the gus digest address to the list so that when the > digest gets sent to the digest address, it is in the buffer of the > outgoing digest and then will be in the next days digest. Oh well, must > be one of those SB or AWE owners on the loose! Anyways, if this happens > again, please let me know. Thanks. Well good you got that fixed. In the future you should consider adding some sort of way to prevent that from happening. Or, if that's not possible to do with this kind of mailing list, maybe you should make de-automate it, so that you personally have to approve all subscribe requests. Also, why didn't the digest just fill up completely? If the digest was subscribed to itself, then all messages going to it would have bounced back and forth in an infinte loop. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 10:17 -0500 From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #4 >Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 02:42:27 -0600 (CST) >From: Jeff Crawford >Subject: Megaem working on a P90? > I have an Intel motherboard P90 system with a GUS and an SCC-1. I have >been trying to get Mega-em to work with SB digital and SCC-1 midi. Has >anyone had any luck?? When I try to run mega-em it gives an error with >extended memory management. I then tried the -fgdt switch and it tells >me another program is using the Ultrasound when it isn't.. In all cases >I have turned off roland emulation with the -roff switch. I am using >version 2.03 of megaem. >Any help will be appreciated... I've got the same problem with my P90 with Intel Motherboard (Neptune II chipset). Someone mentioned that the Pentium:VME switch to QEMM would solve this, but version 7.04 doesn't recognise it. Perhaps upgrading to 7.5 will solve this; has anyone done so? DDA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 13:43:42 -0600 From: bbaskin@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin) Subject: Kinder, gentler patches Hey Jerry, At the Epas submit directory, there exists a few archives by some guys named Elysium (?) Entertainment, that all start with "e". One of them is i think E_guitr2.zip. This has some nice GM patches that sonder better than the stock patches, at least i think they do... It also include some non-standard GM patches like a 12-string, a nice lead guitar, and Jimi's wah-guitar. Imagine Jimi playing lead on Doom. These guys have also released a drum set which i haven't tried yet. There is also another set of Drums somewhere that i also haven't tried. They also released an alpha version of their reed instruments, like sax, etc. Haven't tried it. Waiting for final. I'd also appreciate a source for some reasonable GM patches for the strings and the drums, although i've always thought the drum patches weren't too bad; they were usually better than on the AWE32... Also, any good brass substitutes? Baskin -) The University of Texas at Austin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Dec 94 10:45:57 -0800 (PST) From: Francis Li Subject: KQ7 and GUS... The TEST runs fine in the install, but to get music in the game, you still have to setup the GUS for 8-bit patches, and the MIDI Mapper to one of the non-patch-caching setups (Ultra 256, Ultra 512, Ultra 1024). Then, use Media Player or something to load the appropriate .MID file (LOAD256.MID, LOAD512.MID, LOAD1024.MID). For those of you who are using the latest drivers, and sound does NOT play during .AVI playback, you can try fiddling around with buffer settings and the like, but the easiest fix for me was to just copy the 5.21 drivers into the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, and voila, everything works fine... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 94 10:45:19 CET From: UvA-Jobservice@bdu.uva.nl Subject: Re: MegaEm working om P90 > I have an Intel motherboard P90 system with a GUS and an SCC-1. I have > been trying to get Mega-em to work with SB digital and SCC-1 midi. Has > anyone had any luck?? When I try to run mega-em it gives an error with > extended memory management. I then tried the -fgdt switch and it tells > me another program is using the Ultrasound when it isn't.. In all cases > I have turned off roland emulation with the -roff switch. I am using > version 2.03 of megaem. > Any help will be appreciated... > -Jeff Apperently you are using Qemm, you should consider using this option: " PENTIUM:VME:xx (P:VME:xx) tells QEMM to intercept software interrupt xx (where xx is a hexadecimal number between 0 and FF) in protected mode before passing it to a real-mode handler. By default, QEMM takes advantage of the Virtual Mode Extensions features, available on Pentiums and some 80486 systems, to pass most software interrupts directly to real-mode programs, thus saving the overhead that would be required to pass these interrupts from protected-mode handlers to real-mode handlers. The PENTIUM:VME:N parameter (described in Chapter 7 of the Reference manual) tells QEMM to intercept all software interrupts in protected mode; PENTIUM:VME:xx tells QEMM to intercept only the single interrupt xx. See the description of the PENTIUM:VME:N parameter for more information. " The parameter PENTIUM:VME:N worked for me with the same problem and the same config (Except for the SCC-1). Hoppefully this works for you. Arjan van Rooijen. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 15:33:10 +0000 From: Colin MacDonald Subject: MidiSoft recording studio Back when I got my GUS, sometime around the beginning of the year or so, Midisoft Recording Studio was bundled with the card. This was on disks 2.06 I think. Now, as updates came out I got them installed them, made sure they worked, and wrote over the original disks with the new installation stuff. All is well. After a reorganisation, however, I no longer have the Midisoft stuff, and it is also not on the disks. In fact, it doesn't appear to be on any of the disk sets I've downloaded from the GUS mirror site. My current set is 3.53 I think... So, to get to the point, is this software still supposed to be bundled with the card? If so, how do I get a copy? In fact, even if it isn't, how do I get a copy? Is it on the internet somewhere? Thanks for any help. Colin MacDonald ==========================================|=#===|=#===|=#=========== Colin MacDonald, Department of Clinical | # . | # . | # Neurosciences, Edinburgh University | # . | # http://www.dcn.ed.ac.uk/~cmac | # =========================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 14:36:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" Subject: Re: News Group Creation... I submitted an official proposal for the group, but the news hierarchy didn't like the idea of setting up a group for one product or for one company. Instead they suggested that a "comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.wavetable" group be setup. I have yet to respond to them about this, but it looks like a "gus only" group will never happen... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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" | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~cdipierr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 13:30:57 +1100 (EST) From: adrianr@ecr.mu.oz.au Subject: Patch for Doom 2 yet? Is the patch for DOOM 2 to fix the sound out yet??? I still havent played it because of the crappy echoy effects -- Adrian Raiola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . adrianr@ecr.mu.oz.au . . . . . . http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~adrianr . . . . What side you on? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 21:06:07 -0500 From: GravisTech@aol.com Subject: Re: Soundless GUS >>From: Emory Menefee >>Subject: Soundless GUS >>After installing a Microtek scanner card in what was supposed to >>be available memory (starting high at $E000), my GUS went dead. >> That is, it still responds to applications, seems to load patches, >>etc., but produces no sound. Try running simple things like SBOS etc..if it looks normal on the screen and it seems like it is working with no sound, plug a set of headphones into the amp out and then into the line out to see if there is sound produced.. don't rely on your speakers. Also make sure that the scanner card and the Ultrasound card do not conflict in addressing, dma or irq.. and also remember that the Gus card has a hidden address which works like this. 100+your base address is your midi address. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 20:53:32 -0500 (EST) From: Maillet Martin Subject: UnderKillingMoon & KQ7 Hi, I just want to know what is the GUS support for Under the Killong Moon (I know that gus is support, but how good is the support?, those it need fine tune, patch, etc....) And those King Quest VII had GUS Support? Those it work in DOS or just in Windows? (with ou without patch caching????) Thanks Martin mailletm@ERE.UMontreal.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 19:48:29 -0800 (PST) From: Seth Delackner Subject: USNF+GUS THIS is the way OK, copy gf166.com onto soundrv.com then run ultramid before starting USNF. Select Advanced Gravis Ultrasound for sound. I haven't managed to get music, but who really cares about music in a flight sim? ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V17 #5 ******************************