GUS Daily Digest Mon, 30 Jan 95 9:37 PST Volume 18: Issue 29 Today's Topics: bosendorf, and cdrom cutting. Bosendorfer GUS and Death Gate gus clone GUS Daily Digest V18 #26 GUs max with linux Joystick problem... Last word on Myst: midi files... NMI Problems Sam & Max CDROM Thanks to Thomas Wong 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: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 11:49:34 -0600 (CST) From: Antonio Guia Subject: bosendorf, and cdrom cutting. Just a note to all those trying to use the bosendorf patch and can't load it onto gus with 1M. The windows drivers reserve some gus memory in order to play wav files. That reduces the 1M somewhat. Try doing this under DOS, maybe using the midifier program. Somebody asked about MAXSBOS and whether it's really 900k. This program is designed to put 512k of samples onto a GUSMAX, or 1024k of samples onto a GUSMAX-1M. That means that aside from the drivers there's probably around 1536k of samples in that file. It does compress to about 900k. I think it's slightly over that amount actually. Now the the cdrom thing. If anyone has a CDROM burner, would they consider making the entire gus archives available on cdrom once per year? Maybe we could convince Gravis to make this available to everyone for around $10 or $12 per year for the latest of the gus archives. That would save quite a bit of archive space on my own hard disk. I know that myself i would rather plug in a cd and search for what i want and have it available to me anytime than to have to go searching through the ftp sites where it'll take a whole lot longer. -tg ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 16:37:24 -0800 (PST) From: George Subject: Bosendorfer >> My GUS playing this piano patch makes my $5k upright-piano cringe. >> -George >You're not serious! With no filters and no velocity split, how can it >sound anywhere near as good as a real piano? I haven't heard it, but... Well, my piano is out of tune and I personally hate that $!@#$%%^, but from my ears, the patch has a much more better tone than my upright. Of course, it can't beat a real grand since it doesn't support filters or velocity split. I do believe the GUS has to do multi-layering which it can't do anyway to do velocity split. I had to tweak the patch a little to make it sound better. I had to edit the envelopes a bit so the sound echos a bit longer as if it was played on stage and I had to edit the use two tracks for every track that uses the patch. In other words, I make a copy of the tracks that use the piano patch and re-pan them so the original tracks are panned all the way to the left (0) and the copied tracks are panned all the way to the right (127). This makes the patch sound louder and better. -George ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 01:31:34 -30000 From: "Bradly Y. Andalman" Subject: GUS and Death Gate Has anyone gotten their GUS to work with the CD-ROM game Death Gate? I The Death Gate setup allows me to choose the Gravis Ultrasound Max for both MIDI and speech, but not the original GUS (which I own -- with 256K RAM). Anyhow, at the beginning of the game, both the speech and the music sound fantastic! Unfortunately, after a few minutes, the game crashes. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks! --brad andalman@husc.harvard.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 14:00:19 WET From: MAMMET Jean-Francois Subject: Re: gus clone In yesterday's digest Saari Anssi wrote : >What I'd like to know, are they legit or did they just copy the >card and the software and get rich in the process or did they do it >legal. If it's the former, I hope Gravis can get them nuked... After >all, there should be some use for all those nukes in the world and I can't >think of a better use :) I think this card is made with the gravis license because this card uses the gf1 chip, with the gravis logo on it ! So that must be the real one. I hope this is it, because even if gravis is a very good enterprise, we don't want to see it falling down because of gus clone !!! -- Mamos Of Lego System, Aka Jean Francois Mammet ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 13:58:36 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Colbert Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #26 On Fri, 27 Jan -1, GUS Server wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:52:32 CET-1 > From: Mark Giesbers > Subject: HELP! Total Sound Loss on GUS Max! > > Hello everyone, > > > For some months now, I've been using a 1024K GUS Max in my > multimedia PC. I've been able to use it successfully in Windows (3.11 > for Workgroups), DOS (6.22) and most of the games and other programs > I run. At least, I USED to be able to do this... > Now, it seems to have stopped working altogether...! > [ Text Deleted ] > > Apart from re-tuning my AUTOEXEC and CONFIG with MEMMAKER, > I haven't changed *anything* at all (as far as I recall). > > WHAT HAPPENS NOW WHEN I BOOT UP: > My drives work fine, but... my GUS Max doesn't do *zip* anymore! > Under Windows, my system hung every time I tried to play a > WAV-file... MIDI-files sound great, by the way! There seems to > be no problem with that. > It sounds like, somehow, you've managed to wipe the call to ULTRINIT. If you don't call this little program (which should be in your ULTRASND directory), the card won't switch on its digital output. At least, this sounds like what could have happened. If you have a backup copy of your config.sys and/or autoexec.bat (both preferably), try restoring them (while saving your new ones to disk or something). If the card works, chances are you're just missng the ULTRINIT call. Hope this helps! Rob Colbert linc@cognition.firstnet.com COGnition Development Team ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 12:15:49 GMT From: nguyen@eerie.fr (NGUYEN Francois ) Subject: Re: GUs max with linux ok must have been said already, but it was asked on yesterday's digest. to use slackware linux with a gus , or any other sound card but the basic sb, the kernel must be recompiled You need some ram and a large swap disk ( swapon /dev/hdax, whith that disk being a swap partition (mkswap -c /dev/hdax ...(read the man pages) I did it with 8 megs and a 25 Megs swap disk. it worked smoothly in less that 2 hours so to compile the kernel, type make config in /usr/src/linux then answer the questions . linux does not allow anymore a gus and a sb at a time (i may be wrong about this) then make dep (checks the dependencies) then finally make zdisk to create a boot disk with the new kernel. Apparently this works out but the /dev/audio is a bit weird, while /dev/dsp is working ok. more info can be found in the sound-HOWTO file If it helped great. if anyone can tell me about how to configure /dev/audio, please do so PS: cat /dev/sndstat will tell you the actual sound driver Francois ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 20:01:52 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Ngo Subject: Joystick problem... This is for the person with the joystick problem... Does the joystick go 'up' by itself? If it does... it's the same thing that happened to me. I have a gravis joypad att. to my GUS and a AMD 486-40. What is your machine(just to compare). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 10:47:41 -0800 (PST) From: Francis Li Subject: Last word on Myst: I was able to completely solve Myst buzzing and popping noises by: Using the 5.47 drivers, setting the card to: 220,1,1,7,5 And setting the playback buffer to: 8192 This brought back all of the sounds for me. The only downside is if you don't have a fast CD-ROM drive, the QuickTime video will not play as well. Otherwise (I have a Quad-speed), everything will run fine.. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 23:34:38 -0500 From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du) Subject: midi files... Anyone know of a good ftp site for midi's? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 16:43:37 CST From: "Jay R. Jaeger" Subject: Re: NMI Problems > > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 12:13:23 -0800 (PST) > From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." > Subject: Off board parity error > > > off board parity error > > addr (Hex)=(0000:0002) > > system halted > > -Peter The Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) used by SBOS was also used, historically, by plug in memory cards on the ISA bus to report parity errors. So, it looks like your GUS is, as expected, raising NMI, but SBOS is either not there to catch the NMI, or is being prevented from catching it for some reason. Just a guess, but this would seem to mean that the machine does not believe any software has been set up to catch the NMI interrupt. Two things come to mind that I can think of, and maybe others can think of more: - SBOS was not really loaded and ready (did is speak "SBOS Installed")? - Something wrote over the interrupt vector after SBOS was loaded. If you are currently loading SBOS in your autoexec.bat, you might try moving it towards the end of the list of things you do in autoexec.bat. -- Jay R. Jaeger dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 11:54:00 +0200 From: jani.forssell@pcb.mpoli.fi (JANI FORSSELL) Subject: Sam & Max CDROM Does someone know how to get digital sound working with Sam & Max CDROM-version? Megaem doesn't work because it's a dos4gw game and I sbos gave only fm music.. Do I have to wait the new megaem or what? PS. I have a normal gus so maxsbos doesn't work either. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 12:33:44 EST From: ballen@ejv.com (Bill Allen) Subject: Thanks to Thomas Wong Great job in validating, compiling submissions. I'm sure that all agree. Thanks Bill Allen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 00:22:28 -0500 From: jhladun@io.org (John Hladun) Well... I've gotten some helpful comments to help me with setting up the gusmax with Win95. It seems hopeless.... I've tried (many) many combinations of the settings and nothing will make the windows drivers install properly. In fail safe mode I get an error message and in regular mode I get a QEMM warning or if QEMM is not loaded (I tried that too) it just stops. Anybody know of anything that Win95 has loaded that might conflict with the Ultrasound drivers? In DOS the card works fine except that the SBOS vector is not functional, perhaps that is part of the problem? Thanks for any answers! --->John. John Hladun jhladun@io.org Toronto, Ontario, Canada ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V18 #29 *******************************