GUS Daily Digest Wed, 21 Dec 94 9:37 PST Volume 17: Issue 20 Today's Topics: .Warcraft & GUS news. FPS:Football Pro and GUS Problems with Retribution Quicky pointer for WC III Wallobee Jack WC3 and GUS settings Where to get the Ultrasound Experience 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: 20 Dec 94 16:12:03 EDT From: "Joakim Erdfelt" Subject: .Warcraft & GUS news. OK here's an update on the WARCRAFT and GUS compatibility issue. This is the reply i got after i asked why the DEMO worked but the RETAIL version doesn't. I left that msg on Blizzard's IceNet (713)556-4602. >FROM : Tymothi Loving (74537.2505@compuserve.com) > Blizzard Entertainment Tech Support. Quality Control. >SUBJECT : Gravis Ultrasound and WC. >DATE : 12/16/94 TIME : 10:38am NUMBER : 31 of 32 >CONF : 2 - WC Technical Questions > >The reason why that works for the demo and not the release version is we >are using updated SB drivers in the release version...We use davis' >drivers, and the new ones were supposed to fix a different bug, >however, they ethen became incompatible with the GUS...Gravis is >supposedly developing a GUS driver for us, however, it is a few weeks >overdue... > >tymothi Well folks looks like WE'LL have to bug Gravis for YET ANOTHER program. actually i hope the Protected Mode version of MEGAEM will fix all of these problems. :-) meanwhile i'll have to plug in my spare SB16. :-( -Joakim Erdfelt-joakim.erdfelt@office.wang.com-sven@sventech.com-IRC:just_joe- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 02:54:06 -0800 From: drkszk@ocf.Berkeley.EDU Subject: FPS:Football Pro and GUS How do these two get along? I'm looking to get a football sim and this one seems to be highly recommended. Derek drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 07:17:42 -0330 (NST) From: Edward Reddy Subject: Problems with Retribution SBOS will not work properly with my newly bought game Retribution. It runs in Protected mode, so I can't use megaem. I can select a individual music card, and a sound effects card. So, I selected Soundblaster, and preload SBOS prior to running the game. When I don't use a soundcard, Retribution works fine. However, with SBOS loaded, it doesn't even fully load past 10 secs after I enter ret.exe. Any suggestions? _____ - 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: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 20:48:40 -0500 (EST) From: Will race for food Subject: Quicky pointer for WC III While this is not exactly GUS related, a pointer concerning WCIII and WCIII & GUS support.... 1) DO NOT USE EMM386.EXE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot emphasize this enough. 'Load Mission' times will go from ~30 sec to 2-3 MINUTES!! Now for the question....why is the GUS MAX supported differently than the GUS for digital audio?? -----------------------------QUOTE OF THE WEEK--------------------------------- If they're not __ glowing, you're not /()\ slowing............. |============================| |#28 #28| |=============[]=============| __________ |=============[]=============| __________ / \ | ____/_______[]_______\____ | / \ | | /_____/~~~~~~[]~~~~~~\_____\ | | | |~~~~~~~~| |~~~~~~~~| | | |~~~~~~~~|_____ _____|~~~~~~~~| | | | _|_____/OO OO\__/OO OO\_____|_ | | \__________/ \__________/ ~~ '~~~`'~~`~~~~'~~~'~~`~~'~`~~~`~~`'~~'~~`~~`'~'`~`~'~~`~~~`~~`~~`~~~`~~~~~~' Jeff Salzmann, JKS4675@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 10:21:44 -0700 From: Kevin Wilkins Subject: Wallobee Jack OK you GUS gurus, who can tell me why the sound doesn't work for my game of Wallobee Jack (from WordPerfect Main Street)? WJ is a Windows-based game, and I have all of the correct drivers loaded. My GUS works fine with all other Windows apps, so I must assume that WJ bypasses the normal Windows sound drivers. Anyone have any ideas? kwilkins@novell.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 16:50:37 -0800 From: drkszk@ocf.Berkeley.EDU Subject: WC3 and GUS settings Been playing. Haven't had time to mess with memory stuff much, but I seem to be having sound problems. During setup, I am not asked for an IRQ for the GUS. The test sample cuts off immediately. I get occasional static during movies (could be some other problem), and during combat the voices are garbled and make the game very jumpy. Is there a default IRQ I'm supposed to use? I might try a 16 bit DMA channel, as well. Any other performance suggestions? I've got a 486-33, 16M, and a Mitsumi FX001D. Derek drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 03:17:46 -0330 From: Aaron Cameron Subject: Where to get the Ultrasound Experience CD I'm writing in response to anybody looking for the GUS-Experience CD-ROM demo. The only place I've seen it (and got it) was in the November issue of PC-Zone. PC-Zone is a UK mag that has a CD coverdisk on it each month. It goes for 3.95 UK pounds, and retails in NF (Canada) for $11.95. It was worth it for last months issue (and this month's too... 500 doom wads on a CD, with demos of System Shock, and more). It had the experience demo, a bunch of assembly demos, a bunch of mods and midis (not as many as I'd have liked, though) and a great many utilities, fixes, help files, and MANY BACK ISSUES OF THE GUS DIGEST (for those who keep asking about back issues!) So, now you know where you could have gotten all that... check with you're local mag dealer (computer store, most likely) and try to talk them into getting a backorder for ya. They might charge ya a couple of bucks for it, but TRUST ME, it's a bitchin CD collection. All the GUS stuff you've always wanted on a CD (too bad no good patches, though. The accoustic grand piano is cool, though). Cheers, AC /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | *** ***** 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 <--- | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V17 #20 *******************************