Ultrasound Daily Digest Tue, 12 Jan 93 Volume 2 : Issue 9 Today's Topics: Gravis Signs Licencing Agreement For Software -- Related to GUS 3D?? Gravis UltraSound 3D! WinJammer for GUS uploaded to epas Information about the UltraSound Daily Digest (such as mail addresses, request servers, ftp sites, etc., etc.) can be found at the end of the Digest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:55:32 GMT From: gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca (George Kirikos) Message-Id: <1993Jan9.165532.25362@epas.toronto.edu> Subject: Gravis Signs Licencing Agreement For Software -- Related to GUS 3D?? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest The following brief paragraph appeared in the Report on Business section of the Globe & Mail (Canada's version of the Wall Street Journal), on Saturday, January 9, 1993 (page B7): "ADVANCED GRAVIS signed a licencing agreement to make and distribute a software product -- Focal Point SD Audio -- for IBM personal computers. It added 25 cents to [close at] $2.70 [per share]." [text in square brackets added for clarity by me] This would seem to confirm the view that the 3D technology is via software. However, what's left up in the air is whether or not this software requires any of the special features of the Gravis hardware, or can be adapted to other sound cards. Also, it is unclear whether the deal is an exclusive licence (in which case the previous point is moot). Given the uptick in the stock price of Gravis, the market seems to have found the news favourable. Also, the company which licenced the software to Gravis isn't named in the newspaper story. It has been speculated that Archer Communications provided the software, and its stock price performance (up $0.50 for all of last week, but down a nickel on Friday, to close at $3.25/share) would seem to confirm this. BTW, those who follow the stocks of sound card companies might want to compare Advanced Gravis (AED on Toronto & Vancouver, GRVSF on Nasdaq) with Mediavision (makers of PAS) (symbol MVIS on Nasdaq). Both have about 10 million shares outstanding. MVIS is at approximately $21/share, while Gravis sell for one-tenth that amount. Can this last for long?? Gravis' sales are taking off with the introduction of the Ultrasound, while not too many people have been talking about the Pro Audio Spectrum lately (except to remark that they decided to buy the GUS instead of the PAS 16!). Time will tell whether my guess that Advanced Gravis will rise, and Mediavision will fall is realized (or perhaps both will rise, but Gravis at a faster rate), but I've already put my money where my mouth is. So, can anyone confirm that Archer's Q-sound is being used by Gravis? Is Ultrasound hardware required to yield the desired 3D effect (i.e. or other "smart cards")? Is the deal with (Archer?) an exclusive deal, thereby leaving PAS, SB, and ARIA owners to watch the GUS world with envy? +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | George Kirikos Internet: gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca | | Toronto, Canada Telephone: (416) 537-1756 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jan 93 23:50:21 GMT From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) Message-Id: <1993Jan09.234529.12405@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> Subject: Gravis UltraSound 3D! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest primus@netcom.com (Robert keng) writes: > But back to the Gravis 3D again. There's just not enough >concrete information on this product right now, hell, most of us still don't >know whether the difference between it and the Ultrasound is hardware or >software (I still don't see how they'll be able to do it by a driver alone... I talked to a friend of mine who talks to a Gravis sales rep. He thought the 3D would come on a daughter-board, along with a scsi interface for cd-roms. == Bob Seattle, Washington ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jan 93 14:17:37 GMT From: mdavcr!bs (Bruce Sharpe) Message-Id: <3938@mdavcr.mda.ca> Subject: WinJammer for GUS uploaded to epas To: Ultrasound Daily Digest WinJammer v2.3 is a shareware Windows 3.1 MIDI sequencer that now supports the Gravis UltraSound. I have uploaded it to klingon.epas.utoronto.ca (128.100.160.36). It can be found in /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/wjmr22.zip (I don't know why it isn't called wjmr23.zip, "22" is the author's designation.) Bruce Sharpe ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #9 ******************************