GUS Daily Digest Fri, 3 Feb 95 9:37 PST Volume 19: Issue 3 Today's Topics: AMD interwave AMD Interwave request Bosendorfer *will* play in Windows Can't get digital sound when using MAXSBOS, help! Converting WAV sample rate. GUS & Realtime Effects Programs GUS and NT GUS CD GUS Daily Digest V19 #2 (4 msgs) Joystick calibration and NASCAR Joystick problem Latest Windows driver, PROBLEM Mailing list More joystick problems Mortal Kombat II DEMO NASCAR Joystic problems. New underground industrial release using GUS real-time fx, NASCAR joystick Recording problems Re More on the joystick calibration problem.. ROTT sound f/x for GUS Wasted Bandwidth !! Where to get a GUSMAX in N.Y. and approximate prices? Win95 & GUSMAX Win driver 5.47 OBSCURE problem 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: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 21:16:09 GMT From: linefeed@dircon.co.uk (Alek Hayes) Subject: AMD interwave Hello All, This is my first post to the digest. Any digest actually. Glad it's running; Seen some interesting messages. >I just got teh brochures and data sheet on the > new AMD wave table chip the Am78C201/202. It > claims emulation of everyone including Ultrasound > and wave table memory of up 16MB (megabytes!) each > of DRAM and ROM. > > Ask your AMD rep for the data sheet or call > 1-800-222-9323 for AMD literature. I live in the UK. Could you tell me if this chip is something you can ADD to the Ultrasound MAX? Or is it a new card altogether. I wish Gravis would do some kind of memory board which you could plug more RAM into, that would be great.... ~~ This message was posted by Alek Hayes | Email me about life, the universe | Linefeed@dircon.co.uk | and everything. It's my speciality | The King is dead! Long live the King! The GUS is dead! Long live the GUS MAX!!!!! Oh, and die AWE32...... :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 09:36:39 GMT From: "Mark 'Mark' Billinge" Subject: AMD Interwave request Any chance of someone with an OCR uploading the information about the AMD Interwave chip to epas? Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 09:57:38 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Bosendorfer *will* play in Windows I finally got to the bottom of the non-playing Bosendorfer patch (bosen_l) under Windows. Someone said that the problem was that the Windows driver reserved some space for playing WAVs, which didn't leave enough room for loading this nearly 1 Meg patch. Obviously, specifying "Load patches as 8-bit" solves it at the expense of quality. I now find that if you set the DMA buffer sizes small enough in driver setup (and set the Fixed option in the latest drivers), then the amount of reserved GUS RAM is reduced so that the patch will load. For example, it fits with the Playback buffer at 4096 Fixed, and the Record buffer at 512 Fixed. With these settings, PatchMan reports 1016K free with no patches loaded on a 1024K GUS - presumably two playback buffers of 4096 bytes reserved (two so one can be loaded while the other plays). Setting the Playback buffer too small (512) gives very 'scratchy' WAV playback on my machine. The bosen_l patch has 8 samples, and assuming that no sample can span a 256K boundary, there are limited ways that the samples can fit (2 in each 256K block). Perhaps re-ordering the samples in the patch file might help too, depending on the algorithm for allocating a block of memory on the GUS. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 14:20:35 KST From: yongtae@bubble.yonsei.ac.kr (Kim Yong Tae) Subject: Can't get digital sound when using MAXSBOS, help! I d/l'ed GUS0046.ZIP from EPAS. It has the 0.21 version of MAXSBOS. I can get music from games, but am unable to get the digital sounds to work. Also, it hangs my system every so often. What should I do to get the digital sound to work with this program? BTW, I can get digital sound when using regular sbos. I AM using a GUS MAX with 1024k. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Doom sounds good with Maxsbos--if only I could get digital sound to work with it... yongtae@bubble.yonsei.ac.kr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 15:26:09 -0330 From: Aaron Cameron Subject: Converting WAV sample rate. Is it possible to change the sampling rate on a preexisting WAV file? I have a 800k+ wav file sampled at 44.1 kHz, and I don't need that resolution. Is there a program out there that will cut out about half the samples (leaving 22 kHz or less)? The prog I used to sample the sound (cdinfo 1.4) will ONLY sample 44.1, so I can't resample at a lower rate. Cheers, AC ============================================================================= ! Aaron Cameron | Welcome to my world. I'm not res-! ! Memorial University of Newfoundland | ponsible for it, I just pay rent. ! ==========================acameron@europa.cs.mun.ca========================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 9:36:10 EST From: "Brian K. Dowtin" Subject: GUS & Realtime Effects Programs I have 4 programs that produce realtime effects on my GUS rev.2.4 1) Gusdelay - a digital delay program - havent used it much 2) ???????? - a multitrack recorder, text interface -pretty promising 3) PSR13 - a pitch shifting program - shifts audio input up/down the scale text interface - neat 4) Apollo - Nice digital delay, GUI, meters, bells-whistles, clean output Has about 12 mono/6 stereo chanells of delay to work with. `Brian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 16:23:10 -0500 From: mirsmith@indiana.edu (Mike Smith) Subject: GUS and NT > >Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:39:10 -0600 (CST) >From: cosc19v2 >Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #25 > >> Subject: Gravis UltraSound card and Windows NT > >> Hello, I'm a Advanced Gravis UltraSound card owner >> (model Jan. 1993). Recently I have switched from >> Windows 3.11 operating system to Windows NT 3.5. > >Someone posted that GUS works *mostly* fine on Windows 95 (I guess Beta). >Then I don't see why it should not work with Windows/NT. >The problem here is the "install.exe" program. >When I tried to install the GUS software on NT, it complains that >the program (install.exe) tries to access hardware directly, and >it is not allowd in NT. >Maybe Gravis can change the install program, so that at least the >install program may run on NT :) :) > >------------------------------ FYI GUS will never work on NT until a driver is written specifically for NT. DOS/Windows hardware drivers won't get it. Win 95 and NT have some very fundamental differences. Win 95, for compatibility, is MUCH more forgiving about access to hardware. NT, for security and stability, WILL NOT allow direct access to hardware. Aside: If you want the real scoop on Windows 95, read "Unathorized Windows 95". This book is mostly for developers, but the jist of it is that DOS and Windows have been merged to form a major portion of Windows 95. Win95 is not a "from the ground up" rewrite. Not that this is necessarily bad. Who would normally want rev. 1.0 of an operating system anyway. ALOT of Win95 already exists in WFW 3.11, and even goes back to Win 3.0. (aaahhhggg, I've already digressed to far) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 14:37:22 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Collyer Subject: GUS CD Message-ID: I keep seeing post from people who seem to have a GUS archive on CDROM. Could someone please point me at where I can get such a disk. jeff jeff@cnet-pnw.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 13:36:44 +0500 From: asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #2 > > With the older versions of the windows drivers for GUS, when I played AVI > files with Video for Windows from my CD rom drive, if the file was full motion > fullcolor video, then the sound would be VERY broken up. > > Getting version 5.46 cured this problem, only by setting the DMA buffer size > to 2048 bytes, any more and the broken up audio would still result. > > BUT, of course, 5.46 has that annoying buzz at the end of wav files, so I got > 5.47, BUT what happens now is that the sound from the AVI files is really soft > unless you change volume while the AVI is playing, using mixer. If you make > the buffer bigger than 2048 bytes, it returns to full volume, but the broken > sound also returns!! > > THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING!!! You get one version of a the drivers that works, and > the next that cures one problem but causes another! ANYONE else had this prob? > ANY solution? ANY future windows drivers coming out?? > I had the identical problem with volume in AVI's. Volume would be restored temporarily by pausing and un-pausing the AVI, or by using the ultrasound settings app. Volume would drop off again after a few seconds. I was running with DMA channel 5 and IRQ 11. Switching to DMA 1 and IRQ 7 fixed the problem. I haven't gotten around to determining which of the two changes made the difference. Alan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 15:09:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Harry C Pulley Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #2 > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 23:05:16 -0500 > From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski) > Subject: Gus (Max) and Realtime effects > > I realize this is probably way beyond the scope of the Gus (Max), but I > was wondering if there is ANY way of using a Gus (Max) to produce realtime > effects to audio input (ie. Add echo from microphone input, have realtime > result from speaker). This is, ofcourse, purely curiosity, and doubt its > possible, but wouldn't mind being told I am wrong. Anybody want to comment? gusdelay and apollo come to mind. Apollo can do real time echo effects with a microphone. It is kind of fun. You can choose between a church, stage, etc. or set delays and such yourself. It works pretty well though it once went into an infinite echo loop on me when I had a very large delay. > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 09:55:55 +0100 > From: vincent@orsay.icdc.fr (Vincent RAYMOND) > Subject: the SFX sounds of ROTT and my GUS MAX > > I've installed Rise Of The Triad, from the zip files of the games > directory. The music is very, very good but I could'nt obtained any sounds.... > > I choose the ultrasound choice in the menu. > > This soft doesn't allow the user to tell it his hard configuration. > > My GUS is 220, 5 ,1. > > Do you, GUS DAY PEOPLE, have any ideas ? What is your sound IRQ? It must be 7 or less for ROTT. If your IRQ is 5 then I would try using a 16-bit DMA channel (I assume you are using 1?) like 5, 6 or 7. Do you have a GUS or a Max? How much RAM? > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 21:25:29 +1100 (EST) > From: Adrian Raiola > Subject: Win driver 5.47 OBSCURE problem > > Hi guys. > > With the older versions of the windows drivers for GUS, when I played AVI > files with Video for Windows from my CD rom drive, if the file was full motion > fullcolor video, then the sound would be VERY broken up. > > Getting version 5.46 cured this problem, only by setting the DMA buffer size > to 2048 bytes, any more and the broken up audio would still result. > > BUT, of course, 5.46 has that annoying buzz at the end of wav files, so I got > 5.47, BUT what happens now is that the sound from the AVI files is really soft > unless you change volume while the AVI is playing, using mixer. If you make > the buffer bigger than 2048 bytes, it returns to full volume, but the broken > sound also returns!! > > THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING!!! You get one version of a the drivers that works, and > the next that cures one problem but causes another! ANYONE else had this prob? > ANY solution? ANY future windows drivers coming out?? > > HELP! I found that 5.49 is even worse since I can't load MIDI files with patch manager open (which I like to do to watch the amount of memory left, etc.) or else the patch numbers get screwed up. It only goes away if you reload the drivers. Maybe just the new? patch manager is goofed up. Anyways, I have gone back to 5.46 since it seems to be the best one. I don't use many .wavs anyways. Harry <:-{} hpulley@uoguelph.ca |This message released|It takes all kinds, \ Harry C. Pulley, IV |to the PUBLIC DOMAIN.|and to each his own. ---------------------------------+---------------------|This thought in mind, Ultra-Violence with Ultrasound | Ultraverse |I walk alone. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 22:14:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Sam Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #2 On Thu, 2 Feb -1, GUS Server wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 8:35:38 PST > From: David Burton > Subject: AMD InterWave > > I just got teh brochures and data sheet on the > new AMD wave table chip the Am78C201/202. It > claims emulation of everyone including Ultrasound > and wave table memory of up 16MB (megabytes!) each > of DRAM and ROM. > > Ask your AMD rep for the data sheet or call > 1-800-222-9323 for AMD literature. > > David Burton Ah! Finally we find out why AMD licensed the GUS all those months ago!... > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 23:05:16 -0500 > From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski) > Subject: Gus (Max) and Realtime effects Yes, it is possible. There is various software on the GUS ftp sites to achieve this. I wasn't too impressed by it, but then our GUS has crap recording quality. > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:39:10 -0600 (CST) > From: cosc19v2 > > Subject: Gravis UltraSound card and Windows NT > > > (model Jan. 1993). Recently I have switched from > > Windows 3.11 operating system to Windows NT 3.5. > > Someone posted that GUS works *mostly* fine on Windows 95 (I guess Beta). > Then I don't see why it should not work with Windows/NT. Because Windows NT is full 32-bit and implements protection more stringently. Also, from what I've heard, requires completely different drivers (ie, so no MIDI in NT anyway). > The problem here is the "install.exe" program. > When I tried to install the GUS software on NT, it complains that > the program (install.exe) tries to access hardware directly, and > it is not allowd in NT. > Maybe Gravis can change the install program, so that at least the > install program may run on NT :) :) If install.exe can't access the hardware directly, nor will any games or DOS programs. And the Windows drivers aren't compatible, so I don't think you'll ever get any sound until proper drivers appear... Of course, if you want to try the DOS sound anyway, there's no need to run install. All you need is ultrinit to setup the card, and just run the (native mode) game. The install program is mainly for the windows stuff. I don't think anything will work though. Sam ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:38:11 +0100 (MET) From: Dick Verweij Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #2 > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 23:05:16 -0500 > From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski) > Subject: Gus (Max) and Realtime effects > > I realize this is probably way beyond the scope of the Gus (Max), but I > was wondering if there is ANY way of using a Gus (Max) to produce realtime > effects to audio input (ie. Add echo from microphone input, have realtime > result from speaker). This is, ofcourse, purely curiosity, and doubt its > possible, but wouldn't mind being told I am wrong. Anybody want to comment? > Download apollo.zip at epas (see last validation) it can create ECHO, HALL, etc effects on your GUS... -- DickyDick email: hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl ONLY A DICK MAKES IT POSSIBLE ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 13:36:18 -48000 From: Mathew Murnaghan Subject: Joystick calibration and NASCAR I too have had problems with the joystick and NASCAR. I talked to gravis tech. and I was told that it could be a problem with the HMI drivers interfering with the timing of the joystick port. I only have the problem with NASCAR, every other game works fine, even WC3 which is HMI too, I think? I also talked to PAPYRUS and they said there would not be a fix, because it was a problem with the sound drivers not their game ?. My solution has been to run the game as a full screen dos session in os/2 and the joystick problem is not as pronounced, but it is still there. Hope this makes sense. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 00:09:08 -0500 (EST) From: Buddy Subject: Joystick problem Thanks go out to those that replied to me about having more than one joystick port..... Unfortunately I neglected to mention that I only have one port activated at any one time. Nice try though. Anybody else? Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 16:11:28 -0500 (EST) From: Roger Frederi Clark Subject: Latest Windows driver, PROBLEM Message-ID: Hello all, I'm having this problem from the Gravis Install Disks v3.59... All of the software installs flawlessly, the first time in the past couple releases (driver from v3.53 disks crashed my PCTools desktop, driver from v3.56 disks worked nicely, but left garbage in my win.ini miscellaneous messages when starting Windows), but here's the problem I have now. Just after installing the new drivers, I went to use PCTools backup and the program couldn't find the tape drive. Believe me, this got me to the point of pulling my hair out after messing around for 2 hours! Just after, I went to check the sound settings in AfterDark, and I could not bring up the minimized icon of AfterDark, double-click, nothing! Thinking it might be the sound driver, I removed it with Control Panel-Drivers, and both of these problems disappeared, Reinstalled it again, the problems came back. What's going on here?!?! My system is a 486DX-50, a GUS with 1MB, Windows 3.1 with PCTools for Windows, Dos 6.22. I'm guessing it's something PCTools desktop doesn't like with the new driver, older problems I've had were corrected if I temporarily switched back to ProgMan. Thanks, Roger Clark | /\ "I'd rather be biking, or on SCUBA." helios@strauss.udel.edu |/^^\ o. Philosopher at heart.. University of Delaware | \ _>~<\_ 'philo'-love, 'sophy'-knowledge Chemistry (and others) | \__(*) '(*)____*one who loves knowledge*_______ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 18:59:53 -0500 (EST) From: Juwan Subject: Mailing list Message-ID: Is this the GUS mailing list? If anyone sees this, can they tell me how to subscribe to it. And does anyone know what the proper size and number of DRAMS I am supposed to use? Thanks J. Wan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 14:45:57 MST From: tschmidt@pefs1.micron.com (Tom Schmidt) Subject: More joystick problems I have also had problems with the joystick connected to my GUS. I have a V2.4 GUS with 1Meg in a 486DX33VLB system and a Kraft Thunderstick. I initially noticed that I had problems controlling Rebel Assault. They sent me a patch disk (V1.4) that helped it some, but not completely. Then two weeks ago I got NASCAR Racing and installed it. The joystick was completely unusable. While in menus, I would have a hard time selecting options even using the arrow keys because it appeared that the joystick calibration would start drifting seconds after being calibrated, causing the menu selector to scroll erratically. So then I started looking at my setup. First I noticed that my ultrinit command had a "-dj" on it. Assuming that this meant "disable joystick", I changed it to a "-ej" for "enable joystick". However, it appeared to have no effect. The joystick calibration still drifted just as bad as before. The only way I could play NASCAR was to unplug the joystick. Thinking that my joystick may be bad, I tried another one, an old Kraft KC-03. However, it worked no better, but it works fine on my old 386 computer where it is plugged into a Kraft game card. I also tried various values on the ultrajoy command for speed compensation, but nothing seemed to change (I have it set at 16). So from here, I guess I will try to use the Kraft game card out of my old computer to see if it works while disabling the GUS port. I'll try this tonight and report back if it cures it. Tom Schmidt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 13:50:49 -0500 From: "Frank Pikelner" Subject: Mortal Kombat II DEMO Has anyone got the Mortal Kombat II to work with the GUS? The game apperently supports the gravis, but I can not seem to get any sound to come out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___/ / Frank Pikelner /~\ / _/ / Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science __/ ___/ York University (Toronto, Canada) ,\^/; _/ _/ Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca _{!}_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 15:34:16 +0100 From: Martin Laukkanen Subject: Re: NASCAR Joystic problems. I noticed many people complaining of problems with Nascar and the joystick. I had the problem too, but this was with the demo (i dont have the full ver), I found that the joystick would not work properly when using the GUS for sound! I tried everything but eventually found that it was only the midi sound that efected the joystick. That is midi on the gus, when i set Nascar to play the music through my SB 2.0 (barf!), the joystick worked perfectly and the digital which was still set to GUS was great! But the music was playing through the Sgit Blaster, and sounded just like any FM crap, that is like crap! Unfortunatly that was the only solution i could find to the problem. But i hope it helps you.. ---- Random OF xTatic.... orMartin OF Laukkanen.(martin@triode.apana.org.au) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 00:29:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew M. Nordan @ 137" Subject: New underground industrial release using GUS Hi there all. 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[] V [] | matthew.nordan@yale.edu | angst, portrait of souls, etc [] [] | all praise to Yaweh | K2000: there is no substitute ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:42:31 -0500 (EST) From: gt0074b@prism.gatech.edu Subject: real-time fx, NASCAR joystick >From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski) >Subject: Gus (Max) and Realtime effects > >I realize this is probably way beyond the scope of the Gus (Max), but I >was wondering if there is ANY way of using a Gus (Max) to produce realtime >effects to audio input (ie. Add echo from microphone input, have realtime >result from speaker). This is, ofcourse, purely curiosity, and doubt its .. A lowly 7 Mhz 68000 Amiga can do real-time echo/flange effects with an audio digitizer (straight ADC, no other DSP hardware), so I'm sure a 33 Mhz 486 could do the same without much effort. The GUS would have no advantage over any other sound card in this case because the CPU would be doing all the work. Does such a program exist for the PC? I don't know but I'd love to have it. >From: Buddy >Subject: More on the joystick calibration problem... > >I was the guy that posted the problem with NASCAR joystick calibration. ... > >I am completely baffled. The card works fine. But when I try to use the >sound of the GUS and the joystick of the SBPro, it goes wacky just as if >I had used the port on the GUS. > >I don't know if my GUS is on the fritz (again) or not. Anyone have any ideas? > >The card works fine for midi, just the joystick is screwed up. > >I have a 486DX2-80, 16 meg RAM, VLB I/O and video, Adaptec SCSI card. >Ultrasound set to 210,5,6,11,2 >SBPro set to 220,7,1 I have the same problem. My GUS works fine with other games but the joystick goes crazy in NASCAR. I'm not even using my GUS's game port because I have a cheap MIDI adapter hooked up and don't want to buy a splitter. I suspect that NASCAR's joystick problem is similar to Tie Fighter's, only more extreme. The only thing that stands out is that I'm also using an Adaptec SCSI host adapter (model 2842, VLB). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Feb 95 19:58:16 EST From: Pooya Hemami Subject: Recording problems 220 38218 <31JAN95.07203525.0026@VM.MPG.MCGILL.CA> article Path: news.mcgill.ca!VM.MPG.MCGILL.CA From: Pooya Hemami Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech,comp.lang.c,comp.la Subject: Date: 31 JAN 95 06:40:11 GMT -5 Organization: McGill University Systems Inc (MUSIC/SP) Lines: 11 Sender: usenet@MUSICM.MCGILL.CA Message-ID: <31JAN95.07203525.0026@VM.MPG.MCGILL.CA> NNTP-Posting-Host: vm.mpg.mcgill.ca Xref: news.mcgill.ca alt.sb.programmer:2795 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech:7742 I'm trying to program a Gravis UltraSound for sampling and recording purposes but I don't have much experience programming the card and the SDK really doesn't describe the sampling functions and parameters too clearly. So, if anyone has any experience programming the GUS or know where I can get some source code (prefereably in Turbo Pascal - but C is good too) which would tell me how to do it, please tell me about it. Any replies would be very appreciated. Note: please send all replies via e-mail since my server doesn't seem to like USENET replies. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:17:57 +0100 (MET) From: Daniel Nilsson Subject: Re More on the joystick calibration problem.. >Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 21:14:42 -0500 (EST) >From: Buddy >Subject: More on the joystick calibration problem... > > >After noticing the calibration problem in NASCAR I investigated further >and found that the calibration in NHL Hockey was kind of weird too. On >top of that, I noticed that the calibration problem in NASCAR wasn't >after a few minutes anymore, it was right from the beginning. I ran >gravutil and the values that were being reported for the x and y axes >were not nearly as high as they should have been (1-39). Also the values >reported in the calibration for NASCAR were not as high as they should >be. I was getting 1-64 on the x and y axes instead of the 4-300 or so >that my friend gets. > >[stuff deleted]... I have also tried to get Nascar working with the GUS without any success... This game is just not working with the GUS even if it claims to support it native. I got that calibration problem and tried to put the joystick back on my old card insread of the GUS, same thing. Then I disabled all sound and the joystick works allright. I never got the sound to work either, just some strange SFX. This game can never have been betatested with a GUS or has someone gotten everything to work (doubt that...)? Regards /Daniel Nilsson (e94-dnn@sm.luth.se) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 15:38:37 -0330 From: Aaron Cameron Subject: ROTT sound f/x for GUS > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 09:55:55 +0100 > From: vincent@orsay.icdc.fr (Vincent RAYMOND) > Subject: the SFX sounds of ROTT and my GUS MAX > > I've installed Rise Of The Triad, from the zip files of the games > directory. The music is very, very good but I could'nt obtained any sounds.... > > I choose the ultrasound choice in the menu. > > This soft doesn't allow the user to tell it his hard configuration. > > My GUS is 220, 5 ,1. What is that, address 220, DMA 5, and IRQ 1? Anyway... the only thing I can tell you is that Apogee still hasn't figures out a way to put digital effects through an IRQ higher than 7. For us GUS users, this causes the headache of having to screw around with our config, just 'cause they at Apogee can't figure out (or don't want to) how to use IRQ 11 like most programmers now can (even iD, who say that it MAY not work at 11, works for me all the time). My suggestion... either change the IRQ of your GUS to 7 or less (using install in your GUS directory). Or, make a batch file such as this: @set ULTASND=
,,,%1 ultrinit Subbstituting your regular values for address, and the 2 DMA's (and whatever else there is, i can't recall offhand) and putting the %1 where you usually put the value for IRQ. Call the file irq.bat or whatever you want, put it in your path somewhere, and when you want to change to a different IRQ, just type: irq 7 To use IRQ 7. The %1 in the bat file will change to whatever you type as the 1st argument after irq. So, the format is: irq If that don't work... mail apogee and tell them to fix their products. Cheers, AC ============================================================================= ! Aaron Cameron | Welcome to my world. I'm not res-! ! Memorial University of Newfoundland | ponsible for it, I just pay rent. ! ==========================acameron@europa.cs.mun.ca========================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 09:49:29 TZ From: Daryl James Subject: Wasted Bandwidth !! On yesterdays digest Carlo 'GP' Ferrari wrote .... |Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 09:45:22 +0100 (MET) |From: "Carlo 'GP' Ferrari" |Subject: MIME and quotes within the digest... | |No, no, no ! |This has gone too far ! | |Internet's boom has brought on the net too many people who don't even know |about the existence of the Netiquette. | |I'm talking about those persons who filled up latest digest... | |If you feel the need to inform the others about what you discovered, just |leave a message saying where the patch can be found, but *please* don't |post it on the digest! | |Well.. I mentioned the next significant post... surprise ! A whole |good-old-digest quoted by Jay R. Jaeger , just to |answer a single article. | Well done Carlo. We need old-fashioned-ball-breaker's like you to bring some sanity back to this digest. It is particularly infuriating when you are downloading the digest via a slow modem. While we are on the subject of 'wasted bandwidth' ask yourself the next time you're surfing the net- why is this site so damn SLOW? Remember that the capacity of the net is not infinite. Every ASCII character you send or receive eats into that capacity (including your ridiculous verbose ASCII signature or monika) The very reason your session is slow may be due to that huge mail you posted on this digest as it makes its way back to 1,000 or 10,000 subscribers. The culprits should learn some 'Netiquette' fast or they may find no one responds to their calls for help! Then we can all stop wasting bandwidth on this digest and get back to using it for its intended purpose. Daryl James Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:21:11 GMT-2 From: "JJR v d Merwe" Subject: Where to get a GUSMAX in N.Y. and approximate prices? I live in South Africa and all Gus suppliers have withdrawn from S.A. , due to the fact that there is to few sales. Most people have never even heard of a GUS, then they want to shove SB down your throat. (CHOKE!!!) A friend is going to New York in March'95 and is willing to bring me back a soundcard if I can supply him with a few details. I would appreciate if anybody can supply me with a few shoppes that sell the card and a approximate price whould be helpfull too. I appreciate any help. Thanx. Rabie van der Merwe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 11:20:41 MET From: "Roy Koesters" Subject: Win95 & GUSMAX Hello everyone, I recently installed a beta version of Win95. Everythings works fine except for the gus. I installed the 3.57 disks onto Win95. If I just start a command prompt everything works fine. Sound & Midi. But.... If I start Win95 I get a message that I have insufficiant memory to initialize Win95 and that I should close/remove resident programs. However when I remove/remark the ultrdrv.386 from the system.ini, Win95 just starts up fine. But then I have no sound at all. Is there somebody who succeeded in getting sound within Win95?? Please tell me how... Roy Kosters ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 15:28:24 -0600 From: Terry Lee Subject: Re: Win driver 5.47 OBSCURE problem >From: Adrian Raiola > >BUT, of course, 5.46 has that annoying buzz at the end of wav files, so I got >5.47, BUT what happens now is that the sound from the AVI files is really soft >unless you change volume while the AVI is playing, using mixer. If you make >the buffer bigger than 2048 bytes, it returns to full volume, but the broken >sound also returns!! I also see this problem. I am using the 3.59 disks, Windows 3.11, and Video for Windows 1.1D. Terry Lee terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V19 #3 ******************************