Ultrasound Daily Digest Mon, 1 Feb 93 Volume 2 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: A few things... Cheapest prices for memory in the States? Korean pops uploaded to epas NEED IRQ SETTINGS RECOMMENDATIONS Ram prices (2 msgs) Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #28 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: 31 Jan 1993 23:56:13 -0500 (EST) From: STU_JABIRCHE@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU Message-Id: <01GU6QPG5YLE8YAROY@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU> Subject: A few things... To: Ultrasound Daily Digest About wav2pat: I have made a few patterns with this program and it seems to work ok, but the usable range seems to be from C0 to C4 on many of the things I've made. No amount of fiddling with the base note seems to change anything. Am I doing something wrong? About Ren & Stimpy wavs: They will be available at cc.umanitoba.ca in the /pub/ren-stimpy directory sometime later this week. About Composers: Is there a decent composer out there? Right now I'm using Cakewalk's staff edit and it kinda sucks. Everything seesm to work fine on my computer except for winmod now and then. If I let it play for extended periods, it will start skipping. That seems odd. That's it. -=Marc=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 02:41:47 -0800 From: santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu Message-Id: <9301311041.AA26050@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu> Subject: Cheapest prices for memory in the States? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi all, I just got my new GUS and I want to bring it up to 1 Meg (well, 768k so I can run SC2, but why not get the whole enchalada). Before I go off and scour the pages of Computer Shopper for the best memory prices (knowing damn well that every add is going to say 'Call' for best memory prices), I'd like to know where GUS owners in the states bought their memory and how much they paid... Thanks, +------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | Wes Santee | "Donuts! What AREN'T they good for!" | | santeew@cs.uoregon.edu | -Homer Simpson | +------------------------+---------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 23:08:04 CST From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles) Message-Id: <9302010508.AA27931@hydra.convex.com> Subject: Korean pops uploaded to epas To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Sunday, Jan. 31, 1993 I have uploaded kopops.zip, a collection of 35 Korean pops songs in midi format, to archive.epas.utoronto.ca:/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit. I obtained these songs as ROL files from the proprietor of a Soundblaster clone company in Seoul, who said that these had all been done by a Yonsei University student. He gave me permission to do what I wished with them. I used Winjammer to do the original conversion from ROL to midi, and I used Cakewalk for Windows to do the rest. I want to give special thanks to Mr. Yuri Lee of Waterloo, Ont. for his help with titles, singers, and English translations of the titles. I have transcribed his notes into the file 'filelist.txt' which is part of the kopops archive. Any mistakes in that file are a result of my transcription, and not those of Mr. Lee. Several of the songs I was unable to identify, or only to tentatively identify. If you have more information, please let me know. Please give me feedback, as I am working on archives of pop music from France, Russia, China, and Japan. For GUS owners, although I have used the GM instruments, there are several patches (especially synth sounds) that are not yet available from Gravis, but should be shipping soon, and there are several others (such as sound effects) that are inadequate, and hopefully will soon be upgraded - so if you play a song that uses the missing patches and get a great deal of silence, just wait until you get the complete GM patch set and try again! Enjoy! John Cowles cowles@hydra.convex.com Convex Computer Corp. 214 497 4375 3000 Waterview Pkwy Richardson, Tx. 75080 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:08:55 -0500 From: Message-Id: <9301311908.AA05204@juno.Ariel.YorkU.CA> Subject: NEED IRQ SETTINGS RECOMMENDATIONS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hello, I was hoping someone with some knowledge of IRQ's in a PC could maybe take a few minutes and recommend the best settings for my GUS. I've tried everything (Memory Parity check enable, Base port address jumpers, etc.) to no avail. My biggest problem is to get GUS working properly in Windows. The volume control on the GUS Mixer applet won't work, and another very frustrating thing is that when I play something in the media player (canyon.mid), I have to pause it, and then un-pause it to get it to play at the proper volume (that is, before I pause and un-pause, the volume is always lower). Here are my hardware interrupts as per PCTools' analysis: PC Tools V7 System Information Utility ______________________________________________________________________ List of Hardware Interrupts ______________________________________________________________________ Number Address Label Owner 00 07DA:163A Timer Output 0 SMARTDRV 01 07DA:16E8 Keyboard SMARTDRV 02 0332:0057 Cascade Stacks 03 0332:006F COM 2 Stacks 04 0332:0087 COM 1 Stacks 05 04A4:1849 LPT 2 MOUSE 06 0332:00B7 Floppy Disk Stacks 07 0070:06F4 LPT 1 SYSTEM 08 0332:0052 Real Time Clock Stacks 09 F000:EECF Reserved BIOS 0A 0332:00CF Reserved Stacks 0B 0332:00E7 Reserved Stacks 0C 0332:00FF Reserved Stacks 0D F000:EED8 CoProcessor BIOS 0E 0332:0117 Fixed Disk Stacks 0F F000:8FFF Reserved BIOS I believe that the important IRQs for SB compatiblity are taken (com2 is my modem, and my printer in connected to LPT1). I've noticed that for the GUS setup program, the IRQ options are only 2,3,5,7,11,12,15. Does that mean that I cannot manually assign 4,6,8 etc. to the autoexec.bat? Similarly, in Windoze, in the Drivers Setup screen, the only IRQs that are displayed as options are 3,5,7,9,11,12,15. Does that mean that I can only use these values and not manually change the GUS settings in the system.ini file with other values? I've tried a few manual changes, in vain. Is there anyway to assign my mouse to another IRQ (or other devices for that matter)? Or am I just stuck with a lousy setup for a motherboard? Sorry for the long message, and I would be forever indebted to anyone who could give me a hand with this crap. Thanks for any suggestions. Nemo De Furia. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 08:35:08 -0500 (EST) From: lingy@rpi.edu (Dan Ling) Message-Id: <9301311335.AA01919@client.its.rpi.edu> Subject: Ram prices To: Ultrasound Daily Digest This is with regards to your mail about ram prices. The trade tariff is about 15% actually from what I had heard. And the main thing that the prices are so high right now is due to pricefixing. Yes. Price-fixing.. Though all the major chip distributors have stocks of the chips and there's no shortage at all. And the only SIMMS that are taxed 15% aare about 35% of the SIMMs sold. So no matter what, the increase cannot be attributed to anything but a big part of price-fixing. Dan ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 93 12:10 -0800 From: Thomas Wong Message-Id: <2956*twong@civil.ubc.ca> Subject: Ram prices To: Ultrasound Daily Digest writes: >This is with regards to your mail about ram prices. The trade tariff >is about 15% actually from what I had heard. And the main thing that >the prices are so high right now is due to pricefixing. Yes. >Price-fixing.. Though all the major chip distributors have stocks of >the chips and there's no shortage at all. And the only SIMMS that are >taxed 15% aare about 35% of the SIMMs sold. So no matter what, the >increase cannot be attributed to anything but a big part of >price-fixing. This maybe true at Eastern Canada though I don't know why it's not nationwide, but the 85% is not a rumor. This was in our main local papers (Vancouver Sun and Province). And articles in some lesser papers. And I have a friend that is in the computer biz (I buy my computer parts from him and he's also how I keep up with the best prices in town, along with a local Computer Paper that is about 90% ads). I didn't say anything about a shortage of chips in my posting. I only said there was this huge tariff. And yes.... which in turn caused pricefixing, not shortage. Because of the tariff, all distributos used this as an excuse and rose their prices all at once. And it doesn't look like it's coming down with any speed. But any which way, the end result for the endusers is an increase of almost a factor of 2 (doubled). So the Gravis prices doesn't look to bad from here. But yyou should be able to get it for a better price where you are so grab buy local. Thomas. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 23:06 EST From: "Matthew E. Bernold" Message-Id: <9302010406.AA26301@orca.es.com> Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #28 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest >Hi, >Pardon me if this has been beaten to death, I'm new here. Just wanted to >know if anyone could get the announcer (Al Micheals) to work with this game. >It's a kind of strange game. It asks you to specify what kind of sound card >you want to use for music, AND what kind of sound card you want to use for >sound effects. I selected SoundBlaster for both. Now I get the music, but >as for the sound effects, the game says it can't find the device I selected >which is strange because I'm using the same device successfully for the music! >The only thing that I can think of, is that maybe it's that SoundBlaster *PRO* >emulation problem. I have Hardball III, and I got music, sound effects, and digital speech working just fine for my GUS with no SBOS settings. If it helps, I have a 386-25 with a 1Meg GUS and am using SBOS 1.22 Matthew E. Bernold MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU <> meb@haydn.psu.edu ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #29 ******************************