GUS Daily Digest Sat, 11 Feb 95 9:37 PST Volume 19: Issue 11 Today's Topics: Advanced Gravis Charged. File name GUS + RAP-10 gus0045.zip GUS Daily Digest V19 #10 (3 msgs) GUS game questions GUS System Software v3.59 (2 msgs) MK2 2 4button Joysticks? Mortal Kombat II Video Card to buy?/MKII Wings of Glory and GUSMAX X-Com 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: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 12:07:37 -0500 From: Farhan Thawar Subject: Advanced Gravis Charged. After leaving it for a month in the digest it seems no one has said anything about Advanced Gravis being charges with copyright infringement, breach of contract and other offenses. It seems that Gravis has being selling the Gravis and Gravis Max illegally with 3D sound technology. They are being sued by Focal Point 3D Audio who are also suing Forte Technologies Inc. It appears that Gravis had a license to sell 3D audio sound cards, but that license ran out in January. Gravis says that future versions will not have this feature. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires you to // // change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers wear their // // climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in // // the middle of the machine room. // \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Farhan Thawar fnthawar@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca 2A Comp Sci/Elec Eng E University of Waterloo, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:41:40 -0800 (PST) From: Emory Menefee Subject: File name I mistakenly erased the first disk of my 3.58 GUS disks, with no backup (now corrected), but on unerasing I found a file I couldn't identify. There are two readme files, software, bbsnode, install, gus001, and the mystery one, which has 48128K. It's not on the 3.59 set, which I am now afraid to install after all the bad reports, and 3.58 seems to be omitted from the archive. Much appreciated if someone could let me know what its name is, since I need to reinstall. Thanks, Emory Menefee ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Scott D Hansma Subject: GUS + RAP-10 I have a GUS and a RAP-10, and I would like to use them together (GUS for digital and RAP-10 for music) in games, but, in a lot of them, the GUS's line in (which the RAP-10 is plugged into) gets turned off, so I don't hear any music. A couple examples are Wing Commander 3 and Descent. Does anyone know how to permanently turn the line in on? * the * | "Live by the foma (harmless untruths) that make R (__) Y | you brave and kind and healthy and happy." A ( OO ) A | - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle M ( ) K +------------------------------------------------- O______WW______* The OMAR the YAK Seal of Approval Seal of Approval Beware of imitations -- Accept no substitutes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:11:19 -0500 (EST) From: rmccask@online.comm-data.com (Randy McCaskill) Subject: gus0045.zip I grabbed a copy of gus0045.zip before the copy on epas was corrupted. I am in the process of uploading my working version back into the submit directory on epas for those of you who need it. -Randy -- Randy McCaskill rmccask@comm-data.com -- http://www.comm-data.com/rmccask/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 20:40:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Sam Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #10 > 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 (?)." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Playfile will only allow you to choose the speed of SND files. this is because WAV files have the speed built-in to the format, where as SND files are raw. Simply (?) convert the file to a SND, and it will work. [If you don't mind some rubbish at the start, just rename it .SND, that'll do the trick if the convert software requires to load the whole thing as well.] > 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? GUS hardware revisions 2.x do not have this feature (volume controls). So it will be disabled in the mixer, if the mixer does in fact support this. (Otherwise I don't know). Sam --> Home Page <-- ** Go on, try it! ** --> http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d405ua <-- --> Latest Feature: short story, Living in Darkness <-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:30:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Harry C Pulley Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #10 RE: Mitsumi to GUS Max What type of Mitsumi do you have? 1x, 2x or 4x? The 4x cannot be directly connected since it is an IDE drive and the GUS Max's CDROM interface cannot handle this (but you can connect the interface to the IDE card in your system and the audio cable to the GUS Max). With a 2x drive, you cannot use DMA transfer since the GUS Max does not support 16-bit DMA channels for CDROMs. You can, however, use IRQ transfers, which are almost as fast. If you have other troubles then please reiterate them. I don't remember seeing your original message. RE: XCOM I have upgraded my XCOM to 1.2 via the ufo1-2.zip file. But I still use maxsbos since the native GUS support does not include music and I think the ground assaults still lock up. However, maxsbos sounds excellent (FX are as good as native and music is better than FM) and more importantly it doesn't lock up. Even the regular sbos works for me, although it sounds pretty bad in comparison to maxsbos or real FM. 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: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 17:34:22 -0500 From: jblair@ug.cs.dal.ca (Jeff Blair) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #10 > >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 > I've tried this patch on two different GUS equiped machines and they have both completly halted, and DOS4GW spews out a bunch of error messages, as soon as the game attempts to play its first digital sound. If anyone has found a way arround this I would be glad to hear from you. BTW the drivers worked fine with Gabriel Knight, go figure. ------ Jeff Blair| blairj@is.dal.ca|"God bless the Pagans" jblair@ug.cs.dal.ca| Dalhousie University| Homer Simpson Halifax, NS, Canada| ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 16:23 EST From: "Neil L. Sharp" <0006796954@mcimail.com> Subject: GUS game questions Has anyone tried the new demo for Star Trek: A Final Unity (CD-ROM)? Trying to figure out how to get GUS to work with it. I have tried MegaEM, SBOS, no drivers, and nothing works for sound. If I load no drivers, and select no sound the game demo will play, but with no sound. Otherwise, my computer reboots every time I start the program. Anyone heard of this or experienced it? Also, does anyone know if the final version will have GUS native support. Would be a shame, the game looks to be very good (graphics, etc.). Also, the demo for Under A Killing Moon (CD-ROM) "clicks" constantly while playing the digital music, sounds. Anyone know why? My config: GUS 3.x (I think), 486DX2-66, 8meg RAM, Dbl-Spd Sony CD-ROM drive. Using GUS drivers 3.59. Thanks! Neil Sharp 679.6954@MCIMail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 13:02:31 -0600 (CST) From: clarkb@netstar.com (Clark Bremer) Subject: Re: GUS System Software v3.59 > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 95 11:06 EST > From: "Neil L. Sharp" <0006796954@mcimail.com> > Subject: GUS System Software v3.59 (Problem description with WFW3.1 deleted). > 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 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? The file GUS0045.ZIP conatians BOTH ULTRINIT.EXE and MIXER.EXE. I downloaded it from: ftp://archive.orst.edu/pub/mirrors/archive.epas.utoronto.ca/ pub/pc/ultrasound/gravis/disk/gus0045.zip It unzipped just fine for me. > 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. Decrease the size of the dma buffers in the ultrasound driver setup (control panel). Keep chopping it in half until you get satisfactory results. CB -- =========================================================================== _ _ Clark Bremer clarkb@netstar.com / /_) Software Engineer, NetStar Inc. \_/__) 10250 Valley View Road MPLS, MN 55344 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 02:58:29 GMT From: Smashed Surfer Subject: Re: GUS System Software v3.59 Hi Gussers, "Neil L. Sharp" <0006796954@mcimail.com> once wrote: > 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. I'm using QTW 2.0 as well under VFW 1.1d and am encountering the same problem. There is a file qtw.ini in the \windows\ directory but I've tried all manner of combinations of parameters to try and produce smooth sound output and to no avail. Some sets of settings even make it worse. I've even tried twiddling with the driver settings in the Control Panel as well but no luck. The best solution I can find is to turn off ALL disk caches (I have a 2MB accelerated hardware cache, 8MB of system RAM and 256K secondary cache on a 486DX2/66) including forcefully setting VCache to 0 by editing system.ini and maximum buffer size (8192) in the drivers. This gives near-perfectly smooth sound for me but this is NOT a feasible solution as disk access for everything else basically slows to turtle speed with all disk caches off. I've not been able to find AVI files sufficiently large for the skipping to start (it doesn't start immediately on playing the file). Btw, I'm also running Linux 1.1.89 and using Xanim (latest version, don't recall the number) under XFree86 3.1 and the sound is as smooth as anything. With caches off however, it craps out to rubbish. The frame updates still leave a lot to be desired, however, and MS-WFW 3.11 still does a much better and smoother job of it. This is with several 20+MB flattened .MOV files that I have. I have a GUS v3.4 and running software set v3.59 too. Oh, while we're at it, has anyone managed to get music out of Doom/Linux? I can only get digital effects. Is there a GM patch-set loader for Linux somewhere? I've not been able to find one and up-to-date Linux sites are usually so mighty slow that I've spent ages poking around already. Thanks in advance. So, comments anyone? ___\ / / --- \ oooO ( O / O ) Oooo --------------------------------------------------------------------- A thing of beauty is a joy forever. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Damien Lim email: lkhd@fs2.ee.umist.ac.uk alternative email: dli@sn2.ee.umist.ac.uk finger: dli@greta.sn2.ee.umist.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:11:06 +0500 From: mlanders@vt.edu (mike) Subject: MK2 2 4button Joysticks? Is it possible to get 2 4 button joysticks to work with MK2? I have a dual port game card but that just allows the buttons to work no dir control though.. The gravis midi box only gave me 1 4button joystick and a joystick with keys in the option menu.. Any help is appreciated. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 11:37:09 +0100 From: frodebe@stud.cs.uit.no (Frode Sandmo Berglund) Subject: Mortal Kombat II Hi, people!!! I'm having trouble making my Gravis GamePad work with mk2. I choose 4 button joystic in the setup, but only the buttons work. i.e. I can not move around, only kick and punch. (Which makes the game a bit boring). Though it is only the demo I have, I have heard someone else having the same problem with the release. If anyone know how to solve this problem, please mail me or the digest. Thank you. Frode Sandmo Berglund frodebe@stud.cs.uit.no ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:51:32 CST From: Jim English Subject: Video Card to buy?/MKII Hi all...First so this is more topically based, Has anyone found a way to get General MIDI and digital sounds out of the MKII demo? Now here's my bigge...I just bought a Matrox MGA Impression Lite VLB graphics card, and it's DOS performance was big time crap (43 as rated by Wing Commander 3 in SVGA), the sad thing is my old Orchid Prodesigner II from 1989 got an 18 in SVGA (does this tell you anything? haha). Well I asked Matrox tech support and they said that the card was optimized for Windows and not DOS...ok, so who the hell can program a game like WC3 which is windows based? ahahah! So, I'm returning the card (after it seems to have killed my monitor), and I was wondering what's a good VLB card which stacks up with games like WC3 and has 2MB VRAM (or more) and works well with a GUS in the system? all replies/opinions are appreciated a lot! too bad it might be a while since now I'm going to buy a new monitor. :( thanks for any help. -jim -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Jim English - jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu / EJP51823@vax1.utulsa.edu ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:39:26 EST From: Greg Subject: Wings of Glory and GUSMAX I can not get Wings of Glory to play digital fx with my MAX. The music works with MAXSBOS and Megaem but no digital sound. Although the game runs in protected mode using origin's JEMM memory manager, Megaem will play good music but no digital sound. Any one have a solution? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 16:49:22 -0700 (MST) From: Randy Nonay Subject: X-Com Message-ID: FOr those struggling with X-Com and the GUS - there is a solution, but you may not like it. The way to get sound working is to use the origional version of tactical.exe (the one that shipped with UFO). It has several known bugs, but GUS sound works perfectly! Randy rnonay@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V19 #11 *******************************