GUS Daily Digest Fri, 10 Feb 95 9:37 PST Volume 19: Issue 10 Today's Topics: 2 joysticks ADPCM conversion for H U G E files AMD Interwave Info please Armored Fist w. GUS Asus SP3G problems Descent Gus & Armored Fist GUS System Software v3.59 help for PQ4 How to play WAV file at diff. speeds off hard disk? MetalTech+GUS MIXER not working? MOrtal Kombat 2 works with gus NASCAR NO RESPONSE PGA486 PQ4 and GUS / XCOM Soundstation on 3.59 Which formats can I play ? 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, 9 Feb 1995 16:33:29 -0500 (EST) From: Buddy Subject: 2 joysticks > > 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 had the same problem. I went out and bought a y-cable that was supposed to work with a Sound Bastard and tried it in the GUS. It didn't work but I wasn't surprised. What DID surprise me is that when i tried in a Sound Bastard, it didn't work there either! I ended up taking it apart and re-wiring according to a diagram I got from either epas or from some kind sole who sent it to me. It turns out that after I wired it, it worked for SB's too! The only difference between a GUS y cable and a SB cable is the midi implementation. If someone would like me to post the pin-out diagram for a y-cable (that works with both GUS and SB) let me know and I'll put it here. Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 95 22:59:50 GMT From: nguyen@eerie.fr (NGUYEN Francois ) Subject: ADPCM conversion for H U G E files hi there. I have tryied and copyied music tracks from a cd down into a hard disk file with cdda (da2wav) It works great. however, with 4 songs, the hard disk gets filledin minutes . I 'd like to encode those 40 to 55 Megs files with DPCM compression, however, all the programs i've found so forth need to have the whole file in memory b4 to do anything. and before means never in that case. If anyone knows a way to encode pcm wav files into adpcm waav files, PLEASE let me know ! If it does not exist, i 've planned to do one myself, but i only have the regular pcm wav RIFF file format. Thanks for mailing me the adpcm RIFF format, or at least where to get it if you know. (I tryied ftp.microsoft.com without success) My hard disk will feel much better if i can achieve this !! thanx for your input \|/ (o o) _____________oOO__(_)__OOo_______________ Francois Nguyen: nguyen@eerie.fr er424@cleveland.Freenet.Edu nguyen@axposf.pa.dec.com -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.2 mQA9Ai7Hj9AAAAEBgM+1c9RFaEJXAYr19VVucS7rsWwzK7xl5khExD5Ulm0C8IWr LJ9OlQY/oJhblWW+ywAFEbQhRnJhbmNvaXMgTmd1eWVuIDxuZ3V5ZW5AZWVyaWUu ZnI+ =Jtwd -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 95 16:07:19 CST From: epyle@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle) Subject: AMD Interwave Info please I know that we can obtain this information from AMD directly... but I was hoping (as well as the rest of us Gus'ers) someone could transcribe all the details and post it here and EPAS. It was because of internet that I even got a GUS, and it's just exciting for me to look at all the detailed spex. thanks, generic gus user. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:05:02 +0001 (EST) From: KEVIN BULL Subject: Armored Fist w. GUS I'm not sure whether my last post got through or not, so here goes... Has anyone been able to get Armored Fist to work with a GUS? In the G-List, it says it has Native Support but with a question mark. BTW, I have the floppy version, not the CD. Thanx! --------------------------------- E-Mail: kb94aa@badger.ac.brocku.ca --------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 14:56:47 -0700 From: Marek Telgarsky Subject: Asus SP3G problems Hiya. Wow. Im glad this list is still around. I subscribed to it about 6 months ago, then changed locations (and email addresses) so got dropped. It's good to be back. :) I've got a bit of a problem with my GUS and my ASUS SP3G motherboard. I don't know what the problem is, but when a lot of things get sent to the GUS simultaneously (like in Doom, with lots of sound effects) the whole system halts. Not only that, but more often then not, if I am using gmod to play sounds under xwindows (under Linux) the system will also freeze. I mail tech@gravis.com but have not heard anything back from them, and it has been half a week. I would be grateful for any information anyone may have about this... Thanks a lot! ;) Marek -- Alazar #linux on IRC -- SCF Admin marek@scf.nmsu.edu -- CS Computer Operations Group mtelgars@cs.nmsu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:58:41 -0600 (CST) From: fjsteele@icaen.uiowa.edu Subject: Descent Hello... Could someone tell me where to get Descent? Descent2.zip at epas is corrupted. Could someone either upload it, or point me in the right direction? Thanks.. Also, I saw some people talking about the Beta for Win95. Is there somewhere I can get a copy of that? Probably microsoft.com, huh? Thanks again... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-----------------------!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jerry Steele Electrical engineering student, sax player, amateur magician, fjsteele@icaen.uiowa.edu Vikings fan, 1994 HMB 10-Man team, fsteele@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu All around good guy... The HAWKEYE ENGINEER is coming to the WWW!!! Watch here for more details ============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 09:47:39 +0001 (EST) From: KEVIN BULL Subject: Gus & Armored Fist Hello Gussers, Hopefully this will finally get through... I have been sending to gus-general@mail.orst.edu as listed at the end of the digest, and have been wondering why it wasn't getting through... :-) Has anyone been able to get the floppy version of Armored Fist to work with GUS (native or emulation)? I have checked the G-List and it says: Native ? What is that supposed to mean? Native or not?? Maybe native with the CD version and not the floppy? Thanx, --------------------------------- E-Mail: kb94aa@badger.ac.brocku.ca --------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 95 11:06 EST From: "Neil L. Sharp" <0006796954@mcimail.com> Subject: GUS System Software v3.59 I keep having trouble running v3.59 of the GUS software and WFW 3.11. It will start Windows for Workgroups, and start playing a startup sound. Then, it quits Windows and repeats the first 1 second of the startup WAV file that is in the memory. I can stop it by retyping "ultrinit" and restarting Windows. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have heard there are a lot of problems with v3.59 of the software, and that GUS0045.ZIP is supposed to contain a new version of ULTRINIT.EXE to solve these problems. It doesn't though; it contains MIXER.EXE. (And the file is corrupt at orst.edu and epas.utoronto.ca) Is there a fix? Is anyone having the same problem? Also, is there some problem with Video in Windows and the GUS? On both Quicktime VR (v2.0, specifically with The Star Trek Interactive Technical Manual) and MS-Video for Windows (v1.1, I think, just playing AVI files), the sound is either stuttered or stops in the middle of the file. Neil Sharp 679.6954@MCIMail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 13:10:23 EST From: hallo276@osiris.elte.hu Subject: help for PQ4 Hi GUSsers, For anybody who has PQ4 and problems with it: You don`t have buy any dumb sounblaster horribility for enjoying this good game. There`s a patch gus32.exe wich is a patch for all p-mode Sierra games. The only problem with PQ4 that is ******* up for some reason when the Sierra signal starts. BUT if you don`t wait for it, but you just click fast before it`s finished the rest of the game is GUSsome. So click fast and it should work. Gergo ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 14:32:57 EST From: "Carl" Subject: How to play WAV file at diff. speeds off hard disk? Hello, I am looking for a program that works with the Gravis Ultrasound and will allow you to adjust the speed of a WAV file being spooled off the hard disk. It must be able to play off the HD instead of loading into memory, as the file I'm working with is about 60 MB in size. I've tried the Gravis program PLAYFILE and tried to adjust frequency, but noticed no difference. Maybe I don't understand it's operation. I just figure if the file is sampled at 44 kHZ, and then played back at 22 kHZ, it would be played half as fast (?). I would need to do fine adjustment of the speed. GoldWave will allow you to adjust the speed, but to my knowledge will not allow you to do this without loading the file into memory. Also, is there a program available that will automatically load patches in Windows off of a *.MID file, that you could put in your Start-Up folder? The best I could do was load Media Player and automatically load up LOAD1024.MID, but then you have to manually play it before it actually loads the patches. Thanks for any help. Carl -- Carl Mueller cRaNeScUrEpJhArVeY WSU Detroit, Michigan :P Bart: Akira, my good man, when do we break blocks of ice with our heads? Akira: First, you must fill your head with wisdom, then you can hit ice with it. -- Karate school, "When Flanders Failed" [7f23] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:06:47 +0000 (GMT) From: D.Kho@bi.HES-RDAM.NL Subject: MetalTech+GUS Dear all, I've received a few mails from kind GUS-readers, thanks for that, but now I'm facing the next problem: WHERE TO FIND the patch for MT to work with the GUS, i looked on the net for it, butNO WAY JOSE! couldn't find it anyware. Tried BBS in holland ( SBBBS, The wild places ) but n'thing. Please to y'all....help me out here. I'm getting annoyed by this game. BTW does MT have problems with QEMM v7.5 I'm getting probs. saying my XMS memory is corrupted or s'thing. Thanks IA (again), DUCKS (dax ). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:18:00 -0500 From: jason.wong@canrem.com (Jason Wong) Subject: MIXER not working? I just downloaded GUS0045.ZIP which contains MIXER.EXE, the new graphical DOS mixer. Isn't this program supposed to have sliders where you can change the output level like the mixer in Windows? Well, when I run Mixer, I can only change Line In On/Off, Mic In On/Off, or Mute Output. No sliders to change the volume. What am I doing wrong? .. If idiots could fly, this would be an airport. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 19:56:18 -0500 From: arg2@po.cwru.edu (Adam Glick) Subject: MOrtal Kombat 2 works with gus for all of you out there trying to get mk2 to work with the gus... the full release (available from probe software) has a file called ultramid which has to be loaded to use the gus stuff. unfortunately this takes 59 k i believe so you have to create seperate configurations and run a memory manager to load it in uppermemory. there is also a file mk2gus which will load this for you and run mk2. so take heart the full reease works with the gus -Adam arg2@po.cwru.edu 'A person who believes one thing will solve all their problems is a fool : they're twice the fool if they believe the thing that will fix their problems is money' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 10:50:20 GMT From: Alan Wood Subject: Re: NASCAR alan@abfl.demon.co.uk >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). Can't remember about the Demo, but the full version does work correctly with a GUS MAX. A warning to anyone playing this on a GUS, don't wear headphones when it starts up the first time, they have really cranked up the volume on this one !!!! OUCH.... [%P Alan Wood. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 12:41:21 -0500 (EST) From: "j.b. an" Subject: NO RESPONSE Hello, people, I recently post problems of how to connect my Mitsumi CDRom to UltraMax sound card, and some people ask me if I get any answer yet, unfortunately, no, nothing, zero, I also send an e-mail about this problem to TECH@GRAVIS.COM as instruction said, but I haven't got any response, I don't know what is wrong on the other end. Hope they fix themselves soon. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:46:46 -0800 From: moki@netcom.com Subject: PGA486 To whom it may concern: I own a great golf game called PGA486 but I am having trouble getting my GUs to work with it. I was wondering if anyone has this game currently running on GUS. Entertainment Arts tech support line is always busy and I basically have no time to keep trying. Thanks in advance for your help Andy moki@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:48:56 -0500 (EST) From: Maciej Kalisiak Subject: PQ4 and GUS / XCOM Hi ya all! To those that were talking about the Police Quest 4 problem: I got the sierra 32 drivers that were recommended and there was a slight hitch to them. I fI just ran the program, it would crash with these drivers right after the Sierra logo screen. It would dump back to DOS in the 40 character wide mode and list a screenful of variables and register/addresses at the time of the problem. Or it would just hang. But to my amazement, all I had to do, was press a button so you get a little pop up, which asks you if you wanna see demo, or not or something like that (this was quite some time back, hard to remember). You can the choose run intro, or the game, and everything is fine from then on. Got full sound and full music, without any further problems. If you guys want me to be more specific, just ask and I'll check how I have it set up on my computer (I am posting from a different computer of course). Hope this helps Now for a question: ***** ====== XCOM ====== I remember a couple of posts either here or on Usenet about the bug/prob that if you have GUS sound, the game hangs as soon as you go for a ground mission, i.e. if you take out your Skyranger for an investigation of a landing. Has anybody figured this out, how to get by this with the gus on? Any thoughts, patches, fixes?!?!@?!?!?! It's driving me nuts!!! I want my GUS sound!!!! Don't want to use SBOS if I can avoid it. ---------------------------------------- Maciej Kalisiak ag840@torfree.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:22:47 -0600 (CST) From: hurley@spdc.ti.com (Brian Hurley) Subject: Soundstation on 3.59 I'm having a problem with the Soundstation while I'm playing a midi file or a CD. The volumes change and the mute on the cd turn on when a new file in loaded in. I noticed the problem when I updated to 3.59 drivers. Does anyone know of a fix for this or do I need to go back to 3.58. I tried new ultrinit that in gus0045, but that didn't help. Regards, Brian -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Brian Hurley | Internet : hurley@spdc.ti.com | | | AOL : BrHurley@aol.com | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:08:44 -0600 (CST) From: Dragon Knight/Gatekeeper Subject: Which formats can I play ? Look! I have a GusMax, Isaw on some sites archives with extensions like au and *.mp2 said that it is a mpeg mono sound file,there are many good songs of Qeen,etc.With what soft do i have to convert them or listen to them? Also help for beneath the Steel sky ,Utima 8,mystical towers,mortal kombat,Dragonsphere,ROTT needed.I have I/o 220 irq 3*main*,Mdi irq 5,DMA 1. Any help would be apprreciated!! ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V19 #10 *******************************