GUS Daily Digest Tue, 27 Dec 94 9:37 PST Volume 17: Issue 26 Today's Topics: (game) Magic Carpet KQ VII, MAXSBOS Megaem & Qemm UltraSound Clicks WC3 crashing Windoze NT and GUS.. 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: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 16:27:05 GMT From: Arthur@cattell.demon.co.uk (Arthur Cattell) Subject: (game) Magic Carpet Does anybody know how to get FX sound on Magic Carpet by Bullfrog, distributed by Electronic Arts Thank you -- Adam Cattell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 21:55:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." Subject: KQ VII, MAXSBOS I am deciding on getting King's Quest VII, but the label doesn't say it explicitly supports the UltraSound. But then it is a Windows game, so it should work. But does anyone know if it supports patch caching, or must I preload a GM set? Also, for the MAXSBOS program, does it work *only* for the MAX, or does it work for a regular UltraSound with 1 MB of memory? I thought there's no significant hardware difference but the recording capability and CD interface, which I don't think the MAXSBOS program needs. Perhaps, Gravis just assumed that all regular UltraSound owners still had only 256k RAM, and so said it was for the MAX, with a base 512k RAM, the amount with which MAXSBOS works. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Dec 1994 00:00:00 +0000 From: lars@istda.north.de (Lars Ehrichs) Subject: Megaem & Qemm You wrote about this digest & megaem ggr> Secondly, I have got this stupid MegaEm EMM incompatibility error. I use ggr> my Ultrasound Max with QEMM and have tried almost every combinations With Qemm 7.5 it's simple: Use the option "Pentium:VME" which is also good for 486's Lars ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 05:38:50 EST From: Pooya Hemami Subject: UltraSound Clicks I just bought my 2nd Gravis UltraSound and installed it yesterday. The sound quality is amazing - except for one thing, the clicking. Sometimes, there is a popping or clicking sound when playing certain MIDI files (such as MINUETG.MID). It's inconsistent (it happens sometimes but not always) but it's still annoying. In fact, the clicking problem is one of the things that prompted me to return my GUS 2 years ago. Anyway, does anyone know of any possible remedies to the problem? I have a DX2/66 and I'm hooking the GUS to an external amp via its Line-Out connector and I've also shielded the GUS from my other adapter cards with paper wrapped around aluminum foil. I have a 1 MB GUS - consisting of 2 70ns NEC chips, 4 80ns Goldstar chips, and 2 70ns Hyundai chips. But SETGUS' diagnosting program doesn't detect any problems with the RAM or other conflicts. Also, my ULTRASND variable is set to ULTRASND=220,5,5,11,5. My motherboard is an SIS471B with 256k writeback cache and among other things, my CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT combo includes Drive Rocket, GMOUSE, NNANSI, UMC VLB IDE Driver, HIMEM.SYS, NCACHE2, SHARE, and DOSKEY. Any suggestions? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 22:11:39 -0600 (CST) From: garner@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Mike Garner) Subject: WC3 crashing I'm having a problem running WC3 at all with my GUS......I keep getting an 'exception error 0' and the game tells me it is probably a result of a bad CD read....I cant even get it to start up. I have a SBpro in also and it works fine when I use it for sound and music. I can't take the SB out because it controls my CDROM drive.....Anyone else seen this? Thanks -- ---------------------------------------------\ Mike Garner | Do I contradict myself? |-----------\ | Very well then, I contradict myself. |--------------\ TIP #186 | (I am large, I contain multitudes..) - Walt Whitman | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 06:09:13 -0500 (EST) From: Vincent Cojot Subject: Windoze NT and GUS.. Hello everyone out there, It's my first time posting on this list and I just subscribed to it so please tell me if my etiquette is not what it would be supposed to. I just got a GUS Max and I am perfectly happy about it in both Windows 3.11 and Linux but I have searched the various FTP sites in vain for a GUS driver for Windows NT. So, here is my question: Is there _any_ way to make a GUS work under Windows NT? (I am using 3.5 but I guess that 3.1 drivers would work too.. ) Is it possible to make it emulate a SoundBlaster Card and install SB Drivers if there are no GUS drivers (I guess not, since it needs a software emulator but I thought I'd ask.. ). Any technical tip that would help me get rid of the beeps of my PC speaker for something more melodious would be apreciated. :) Thanks, ________________________________________________________________________ Vincent S. Cojot, Computer Engineering. Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. coyote@info.polymtl.ca, coyote@step.polymtl.ca ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V17 #26 *******************************