GUS Daily Digest Thu, 9 Feb 95 9:37 PST Volume 19: Issue 9 Today's Topics: 2 Joysticks? Can't get into the N.American ftp site dropped MIDI notes in Windows GUS and Descent... GUS Daily Digest V19 #6 GUS Daily Digest V19 #7 Gus drivers and Windows 95 Beta Mortal Kombat 2 demo Mortal Kombat II demo has sound Some questions... Ultima8 Warcraft Again...... Windows and midi 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: Wed, 8 Feb 95 13:56 EST From: M.Irvin@dialogic.com (Michael Irvin) Subject: 2 Joysticks? Simple question (e-mail only?) but how can you get 2 joysticks to work with a GUS (regular 1.2?)? I remember trying (quite a while back) using a basic y-cable with no luck. I've been waiting for someone to mention it, but I guess it will be me. I'm sure that someone can help me. So, Thanks in advance, MCI -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ | <_o~\ |Michael C. Irvin - M.Irvin@Dialogic.com | | | __\ /\__ |Software Engineer - Dialogic Corporation | /\ | | \\ \---/ | |Steel \//\ | | \\ \-/ |Go Penn State! (Big 10 Champions) | /\\/ | | \\ / |Go Steelers! (AFC Champions) | \/ | | \/ |Go Penguins! (Soon to be Champions) | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 08:24:22 GMT-2 From: "JJR v d Merwe" Subject: Can't get into the N.American ftp site Hi I have tried to ftp to the N. American site and it won't let me in , I've log in as "anonymous" and "ftp" but to no avail. Anybody an help? Rabie. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 16:46:54 From: tuomas.salo@mfc.fipnet.fi (Tuomas Salo) Subject: dropped MIDI notes in Windows gu> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 95 07:48:54 -0600 gu> From: "David Grayless" gu> Subject: dropped MIDI notes in Windows gu> gu> Why does the GUS drop MIDI notes in Windows? Is there anything I can gu> tweek to improve this? I have always noticed that about 10% of notes gu> are not played whenever I play a MIDI song. Does everyone just not gu> worry about this or are you getting better results? I am using the gu> latest 3.59 drivers, and I got similar results with all the older gu> drivers too. gu> Recently, I replaced a few of the Gravis patches (3.59) with some gu> ProPat3 ones. Now I notice for the replaced instruments, about 20% of gu> the notes (!) are not played. The original instruments still sound gu> like about 10% notes missing. This is real noticable because I replaced gu> a few of the drum patches and what should be a steady repeating beat gu> becomes a weird sounding beat with 20% of the notes missing. Can gu> anyone explain this behavior? gu> If a solution has already been discussed, please direct me to the gu> appropriate digest number. Thank you. Hi, I had similar problems. My GUS is quite old and when I bought it, it had only 256k, speed 80 ns. I added another 256k which were 120 ns. Then I recognized some dropped notes in Windows. (all memory speed decreased to 120ns, if I'm right.) Now I still have the original 80ns 256k plus 70ns 768k. I think the dropping notes percent decreased when I took off those slow 120ns chips. I'm not sure about this, hope somebody knows more about this than I do. -Tuomas Salo ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 23:57:47 -0500 (EST) From: stu_maappler@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU (Matthew Appler) Subject: Re: GUS and Descent... >Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 21:41:56 -0700 (MST) >From: Michael Finkel >Subject: GUS and Descent... > >Anyone get GUS and Descent shareware to work? I have gotten music >working (no problems there) and it sounds beautiful, but the sounds are a Numerous friends and myself have gotten this to work without any problems at all. Attached below is a copy of my DESCENT.CFG file, but I do not remember any specific configuration issues at all. Good Luck!!! -Matt DESCENT.CFG ---------------- DigiDeviceID=0xe024 DigiPort=0x240 DigiIrq=11 DigiDma=5 DigiVolume=8 MidiDeviceID=0xa00a MidiPort=0x240 MidiVolume=8 StereoReverse=0 GammaLevel=4 DetailLevel=4 JoystickMin=31,31,0,31 JoystickCen=434,662,0,715 JoystickMax=1140,1162,0,1292 LastPlayer=MATTO ------------------------- Matthew Appler STU_MAAPPLER@vax1.jmu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 19:04:11 +0100 From: "Jerry van Waardenberg" Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #6 On Mon Feb 6 09:37:07 PST 1995, "GUS Server" wrote: > Subject: Police Quest 4 Help > > I appreciate hearing from anyone who has had > some success in getting this game to work. Someday I'll learn to stop buying > Sierra games, someday. BTW I have the 5.47 GUS windows drivers. De readme file says that de 32-bit drivers should work with PQ4, but I had the same problems. I've tried a lot of things, but couldn't get my GUS to work with PQ4. Finally I bought a SB2.0 (not only for PQ4, but also for Privateer), which worked well. No MIDI music, though. Just FM and digital sounds through the SB... Greetz, Jerry -- _____________________________________________________________ Jerry van Waardenberg -=- Internet: jerry@waard.iaf.nl Voice: (+31)(0)5476 2041 -=- FidoNet: 2:283/726.9 __________________-= PGP-key available =-____________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 12:38:02 +0100 (MET) From: appel@stack.urc.tue.nl (Stanley Appel) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #7 > From: Mark Ruys > Subject: Re: Impossible to install GUSMAX > > > Recently I bought the GUS-MAX with drivers v3.53. After inserting the card > > in a free slot I tried to install the drivers from the DOS-prompt. After > > answering the question in which directory the files have to be installed, > > and choosing the customize option I get the failure message: > > > > off board parity error > > addr (Hex)=(0000:0002) > > system halted > > Heb je geprobeerd wait states toe te voegen in je CMOS? Of ICLK te > verhogen (grotere deler). Of eventueel zelfs je internal/external > cache uit te schakelen? > > Mark. Keep it english pleas, jongens. For an answer look below. > Subject: parity errors > > I know there was a whole bunch of talk about people having parity errors > (not of the off-board variety), but since i had no troubles of this > nature i didn't pay attention. My friend has a gus 2.4 with software > 3.59 and is getting these messages everytime he tries to use the card, or > when he runs windows (or it'll just lock up completely). He has a UMC > chipset (82c481b, 82c482af, and 82c206f, dated 9224) in a mother board ^^^^ That is the famous OPTI chip set. > with 1 vlb, 6 at, and 1 xt slots, and driving with an intel486DX33, > 256kcache, 1024 Oak VGA (16-bit), and 4 megs RAM. He's tried it with the > playmidi, etc.. it works for a short time with SBOS, but eventually the > system locks up on him anyways, regardless of whether emm386 (dos6.20) is > in there or not. Could somebody or everybody please let me know what the > conclusions were as to the source of this problem. > Thanks. > -tg (sig file intentionally left blank) > > Oke here we go again. There is a bug in a OPTI chip set, it has to do with the high dma channels. This chip set is also used by UMC. The number to look for is ???c206???. If you have a chip set like this, you cant use the high dma channels for your GUS. if you try this you will lock-up or die with a off-board parity error (0000:0002). So if you get a error like this or lock up. try a low dma channel. Hope this helps Stanley PS (Gravis where is that new MegaEm, or is going to look like the OS/2 driver we get/got two years ago). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:52:52 +0000 (GMT) From: cs4dw Subject: Gus drivers and Windows 95 Beta Has anyone tried to run the Windows drivers for the ultrasound under windows 95? I have got a set of fairly old drivers, so i wondered if the current versions may solve the problem. You can install the drivers, but when you reboot '95, it hangs, triggering a reboot in 'safe' mode. It is a real pain! Thanks for any forthcoming help, Brad ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 08:32:21 -0800 (PST) From: George Subject: Mortal Kombat 2 demo It appears that Mortal Kombat 2 demo is one of those P-mode games that work with Mega-Em. I copied all of the *.mid to *.scc and set MK2Demo to SCC-1 and voila, got music. Music is okay but you lose the SFX because I do not see anything about a SCC-1+SB DAC setting in the setup. -George ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 13:54:22 -0500 (EST) From: gt0074b@prism.gatech.edu (P.Chen) Subject: Mortal Kombat II demo has sound GUSsers, to get sound from the Mortal Kombat II playable demo: load SBOS, then when MKII loads press F10 to configure the system. Choose Sound Bastard. It won't recognize the GUS, unfortunately. However, the digital sound is very clear; I was impressed. I suggest turning the FM music volume down to 0 with SBOS. It really bites. There should be full GUS support in the release version (March 8?). It looks like a killer conversion. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 17:59:53 -0800 (PST) From: Loren Kling (that's me) Subject: Some questions... The digest is an unexpected but a great benefit. Now, on to the burning questions... 1. I've got a demo of NASCAR (NASDEMO.EXE) and I can't get any music to play. I can get the sound effect of the car engine and hitting walls but that is it. Everytime I run the program it briefly displays my IRQ/DMA/port settings, then says that it failed to initialize the music (or something like that). 2. I know that there is a "fix" for NHL hockey, whereby you have to enter > SBOS -o4. But the audio is very scratchy. When I tried running hockey with the MT32 setting, I got great music but the game sound effects were GUS patches, i.e. the puck hitting the ice might be the GUS's bird patch or the end of period horn might be the GUS's gun fire patch (I don't remember exactly what GUS sound effect was triggered). Is there something I am missing here? 3. I got my GUS with driver version 3.57. What does 3.58 and 3.59 have and what are the files called? 4. How are sounds converted into .MOD files? Are they .WAV's? Are they sampled then converted somehow? Can I play various patches from a .MOD file like a normal MIDI patch? BTW, I just picked up the CD "Ultrasound Experience" for $5.00 U.S. and it included a demo introducing the GUS and has over 100 MB of software, utils, demos, etc...... and if you have the receipts for the CD and for your GUS , you can get $10.00 back.-- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Loren Kling | * lkling@ucssun1.sdsu.edu * | SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 11:47:14 EST From: hallo276@osiris.elte.hu Subject: Ultima8 Hello Gussers! I know that I already asked this, but have anybody any ideas for how to get sound, not only music for Gus? That`s pretty annoying when i get the specch disk and can`t hear it for some dumb compatibility problem. Thanks for any help. Gergo ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 12:16:04 -0500 (EST) From: Sinclair Shuit Subject: Warcraft Again...... hi there.... I just got Warcraft, and I recall hearing about a manual hack for getting GUS support. I'm sorry I missed the original thread, but stuff never seems important until you get the game yourself... Anyways if anyone could please post the fix I would be very grateful. Sinclair PS... I didn't even repost the entire digest!. That should be worth something :) |\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/| | sshuit@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca Sinclair Shuit | |Geeky .sig joke : Trent Reznor + TCP/IP = NINternet | |\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/| ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 95 10:06:41 +0100 From: vincent@orsay.icdc.fr (Vincent RAYMOND) Subject: Windows and midi Hello, I want to use software like "Quartz" or "CakeWalk" under windows. When I launch them, I heard nothing, I couldn't explain it. I could play midi files on the sound recording session gived by Gravis with the ultrasound. Is the Gravis setup of windows enought to use "Quartz" or "CakeWalk" ? What do I have to do ? Thanks for your help, V. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- /\_\"|"/_/\ ______________________________________________ \ ^ ^ / / Vincent RAYMOND ( Vince ) /\ ___, = @ ,___ | Vrai fou incurable de softs de jeu PC. |_/ _--' o `--_ | Machine Perso : P 100,32Mg,17",4x,GMax 1mg | \_ ~ _/ ______ | Softs Favoris : LBA, WC3, SSHOCK, INDYCAR. | _\| |/ _ /______}| --------------------------------------- | / / \===_< O__} | E-MAIL: vincent@orsay.icdc.fr | __ << @ > \o_} | | (__`-___-'\____/ ___|__________________________________________ | `-----'() () \_____________________________________________\__/ /\ /\ ============ OO OO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Feb 95 15:14:58 CST From: Steve Sesterhenn Hey all, >Anyone get GUS and Descent shareware to work? I have gotten music >working (no problems there) and it sounds beautiful, but the sounds are a >pitiful bunch of clicks. I have tried many IRQ's and DMA's (just setting >the ULTRASND variable) and letting descent autodetect it in the setup >program, but nothing seemed to give a change. I have Descent working perfectly on my GUS rev 2.4. First of all, the game displayed lots of weird DPMI junk when run under normal configuration. So I made a boot disk with only necessary things like ULTRINIT and now it works perfectly. Don't need himem.sys or emm386.exe or really anything else except a path, a prompt, set your ULTRASND environmental var and ULTRINIT.EXE/SYS. Secondly, when you changed the ULTRASND variable, did you rerun ULTRINIT.exe to update the GUS to those changes? Then run the Descent setup program as usual. Hope that helps. I didn't have any sound problems with my setup. Also, that new AMD Interwave chip sounds incredible. Anyone else wondering/have knowledge whether it is the same as the fabled Gravis/Forte GF2 chip? Finally, who's the dumb-*ss who sent the entire last GUS digest? I won't name any names: >Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:59:46 +0100 (MET) >From: v9110138@is2.bfu.vub.ac.be (Rademakers Tanguy) >Subject: unsubscribe me If the person is reading this, please learn how to use your mail program!!! Plus, you don't send requests here; you send them to: gus-general-request@mail.orst.edu Kindly get a clue! Happy GUSing all, Steve ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V19 #9 ******************************