GUS Daily Digest Sun, 19 Feb 95 9:37 PST Volume 19: Issue 19 Today's Topics: Alone in the dark 3 Descent and GUS (yeah, I know...) GUS Daily Digest V19 #18 GUSMAX-MegaEM with Games Idea for GUS card with AMD's chip More mem for Gus!? Win95/QEMM and else Wing Commander 3 demo 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, 19 Feb 1995 15:07:26 --800 From: kwlau@gandalf.HK.Linkage.Net (Lau Kwok Wai) Subject: Alone in the dark 3 Do any one know how to make Alone in the Darks 3 works with GUS. I got no sound effect, excpet those 'sound track' background music. Alone3 support SB only. But I have already try SBOS but nothing work. Even I use SB2.0 + GUS-MAX together, the SB part still does not work. Best Regards, Johnny -- Lau Kwok Wai kwlau@hk.linkage.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 13:13 PST From: hmt0018@wimsey.com (Warren Zatwarniski) Subject: Re: Descent and GUS (yeah, I know...) > From: j5oa@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Craig Galbraith) > Subject: Descent and GUS (yeah, I know...) > I know this has been asked many times already but I haven't been able to > get this game to work with my GUS. > I have made a boot disk with the BARE minimum on it. Whenever I select GUS > for BOTH sound and music, the screen locks up on "loading...". Whenever I > select GUS for sound and NONE for music, I get a bunch of weird DOS4GW > errors flowing on the screen followed by a complete lockup! I have no idea > what the heck is going on there. I just see a spew of numbers with "error" > stuck in here and there. I use the same setting that I use for DOOM with Descent. It works perfectly fine. My computer is a 486 DX/2-66 with 4 megs of RAM. > I CAN, however, play the game without sound or music. But, what's the point? > I have tried sbos and it gives some library error which messes up my screen > and locks on my machine. I tried megaem, lockup. If you're using Megaem, then you're also likely using a memory manager. I boot clean, with nothing loaded. Then I run a batch file that before I run DOOM and Descent that has the following in it: SET ULTRADIR=D:\ULTRASND SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T1 SET GUSMOD=e:\ULTRASND\MOD SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,7,7 I've been running Descent for quite some time, and the sound and music is quite good. I just started getting this digest so I was unaware of any problems with Descent. The game works and sounds great here. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 23:20:39 -0500 From: nils0002@gold.tc.umn.edu (Trifixion) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #18 >MK2 works fine with the Gus.. >Firstly it only accepts IRQ's up to 10! As mine was 11 I had to make a >GUS batchfile that changed it to 2, loaded Ultramid, ran the game, then >changed the IRQ back to 11 for normal use.. No memory problems here. The >game used to crash now and again, even under a SB16 (sounds awful tho').. >Now with IRQ-2 and GUS it seems to work well.. > >My batch file: > >@SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,2,5 >@E:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT.EXE -dj >cd \games\mk2 >lh ultramid -c -m80 >lh E:\GAMES\MK2\MK2.EXE >@SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,11,5 > Hmmmm, I don't have to do any of that, If you just set it for Gus, then save the config, don't change any of that stuff and save, You don't have to re-install tho so don't worry about that, Just select like No-Sound, then save it, then select Gus, save it, then exit... The program actually can autodetect all of your settings... You have to load Ultramid still tho, you can just run Mk2gus, but I don't think it loads Ultramid High... Kinda lame on the part of Probe... Trifixion[RAiN.CODER.MUSICO.ANSI] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 04:17:27 +0800 From: Andrew Koh Subject: GUSMAX-MegaEM with Games Hi ya! Just aquired a GUS MAX and am proud to say that it is pretty nice. (But nothing beats my old SB16+MPU-401 interface to my Korg X3 ) Anyway, I find that when I load MegaEM up, on some games(i.e. Origin/Lucas Arts: e.g. Sam'N'Max) it either reboots the computer or does'nt give any sound. Any ideas? Also on a similar thread...I can't seem to connect my Korg X3 to the MPU-401 interface!!!!! Do I have to disable something on the GUS MAX? I'm using a old SBPRO Midi cable. Thanks, SHock! ' Reality is a state caused by the absence of drugs ' ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 14:00:08 -0800 (PST) From: George Subject: Idea for GUS card with AMD's chip -- Hope Advanced Gravis is reading this. Would be, nice since the AMD Interwave supports 16MB of ROM, that the next generation GUS (I hope) card will contain a 'Ziff-Socket' for easy ROM upgradabiliy? That way, those who can afford a 1MB ROM patch set (yuck) can buy that and upgrade later when they can afford a 2MB, 4MB, 8MB, or a 16MB ROM patch. -George ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 21:57:39 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Conroy Subject: More mem for Gus!? Has anyone out there know if it's possible (or maybe possible in the future) to upgrade the GUS's memory above one-meg? I mean by either : * Using XMS memory for Midi Patches * Adding more chips to the GUS by piggy-backing or soldering a DRAM bank onto it. * Using an add-on memory board to the Gus * substituting the current chips for larger memory chips * Anything! There has to be a way to load larger patches! Has Gravis thought about this, or have any enhancment products in the pipeline? I was disapointed that the MAX couldn't hold any more memory than the plain vanilla GUS i bought so many years ago! It's not just musicians like myself who are interested in this. IT's also game-makers, game-players and plain old users.. I have converted many of the music tracks from many popular games (over 300 midi's) to MIDI format (available at epas as "ripdmids.zip) but some of these tracks go silent when loading PAT's unless I have he vanilla-standard Patches in the MIDI directory.. I prefer the "Pro-Pats 3" set of midi sounds, and unfortunately, they are larger than the tiny Gravis ones (Nothing against Gravis's sounds.. They're great for their size) Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 13:04:54 -0600 From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin) Subject: Win95/QEMM and else Hey Y'all, To Mr. Manley: I am assuming that for Win95, QEMM is being used to improve the DOS sessions. (Does it try to adapt the current setup for Win95? Including other memory managers?) If it being used on an OS level though... that's insane. Also, how is the SB digital support coming in your OS/2 drivers? Any word from Gravis on integrating the 2 sets of OS/2 drivers? To all else: Again, to try and get things work, try ditching QEMM. It is always an option... Later. Baskin -) The University of Texas at Austin Team OS/2 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 12:00:02 -0400 From: nstn1306@fox.nstn.ca (Robert White) Subject: Wing Commander 3 demo Hi, Does anyone know where I can get a patch to make the wing commander 3 demo work with my gus?? Thanks. Rob White, nstn1306@fox.nstn.ca ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V19 #19 *******************************