Ultrasound Daily Digest Wed, 10 Mar 93 Volume 2 : Issue 65 Today's Topics: BETA TEST FORMS GEN MIDI patches and GUS software MOD players don't work with SBOS 1.4B2 Opti Chipset Question OS/2 and the GUS w/ SBOS Problem with -o3 and 1.42B SBOS LINE IN Using above 127/8 patches??? 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. *** HEY!!! *** Before you ask a question, *** READ THE FAQ ***. It's available on the request server and the ftp sites, or check the newsgroup archives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 16:14:50 From: john.smith@gravis.com Message-Id: <9303081614.A6140wk@gravis.com> Subject: BETA TEST FORMS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Responding to Michael A Finkle You can send your beta test forms to john.smith@gravis.com. I've been receiving your reports, thanx. I tried to send you a reply to let you know but I got a bounce back on your address. Seems I was missing a few characters, oops. All is ok now. I'm trying to get SBOS 2.02 off of Forte as we speak. I'll try and at least put it on our BBS tonight and put it on utoronto tomorrow. Look for GUS0015.ZIP. It fixes some of the problems such as UWII. There is also a new form that'll go out with the new SBOS. John --- ~ QMPro 1.01 05-8925 ~ Your E-Mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 16:37:34 -0800 From: Eric N. Liao Message-Id: <199303100037.AA13957@aerospace.aero.org> Subject: GEN MIDI patches and GUS software To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Are those general MIDI patches complete? I keep hearing that they've been done since "before Christmas," but if that's the case, why didn't Gravis put them up on their BBS. They could have at least let us more enthusiastic GUSers download the new MIDI patches. THen, when the software was finished, they could ship the GM patches + software to all the registered GUS owners. Maybe Gravis secretly put off the midi patches until last week, and finished them this week. heh I noticed in X-WING / SBOS 1.42B, the tie-fighter scream really taxes the CPU (on a 486-33!) Is there a way to resolve this, without shutting off the sound ffect? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 93 09:52:32 EST From: warrenl@graphics.rent.com (Warren Lieuallen) Message-Id: <0Hg6ZB1w165w@graphics.rent.com> Subject: MOD players don't work with SBOS 1.4B2 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I've switched to the newest SBOS (1.4B2), and am in general quite pleased. A number of games I've tried have sounds I'd not heard before! However, I have yet to find a .MOD player that works at all! I've tried SS (Sound System), Trak (TrakBlaster), VP (Visual Player) and Wowii (1.30, I think), and they all lock up! Going back to SBOS 1.2 solves the problem, so I assume it's nothing I'm doing wrong, but something with SBOS 1.4B2. The only other thing I've noticed is in Major Stryker (from Apogee). With SBOS 1.2, I get nice music, but the sound effects are so quiet they're almost inaudible. With SBOS 1.4B2, the music is mostly just percussion, but now the sound effects are nice and loud. Are the .SBS "patches" that different? ======================The Graphics BBS @ (908)469-0049===================== Dr. Warren G. Lieuallen R.W.Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute BitNet: LIEUALLEN@AM@ALLOY Raritan, NJ (908)704-4368 InterNet: warrenl@graphics.rent.com ===="Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein ==== ------------------------------ Date: 09 Mar 1993 20:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: DEATH BEFORE DISCO Message-Id: <01GVM9DTFZZM9ANPMS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Subject: Opti Chipset Question To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have two Opti chips on my motherboard. They are marked as follows: 1) 82C392 4L4OF1206 JAPAN 9152EAI 2) 82C493 4LO5F2291 JAPAN 9148EAI I can't get SB support on a LOT of games. Should I consider another motherboard? Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 19:49:53 PST From: Scott.Jordahl@Eng.Sun.COM (Scott A. Jordahl) Message-Id: <9303100349.AA04823@klinger.Eng.Sun.COM> Subject: OS/2 and the GUS w/ SBOS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I was wondering if anyone has the GUS working with SBOS under OS/2 2.1b running MSDOS games in DOS full screen. I have successfully run Sherlock Holmes I from a CD drive using the new 1.4B2 SBOS, but all other games I have tried cause a TRAP 2 error and the system crashes. What DOS session settings have others used? -- Scott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 18:26:49 -0800 From: thomasp@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Thomas Pearson) Message-Id: <9303100226.AA18522@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU> Subject: Problem with -o3 and 1.42B To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Ok, I downloaded the new SBOS file GUS0014.ZIP from epas with SBOS version 1.42B. I noticed that when I try to use the -o3 parameter the SBOS doesn't load but gives a message like this "The NMI procedure on this PC is disabled." What's the story???? I never had any problems with version 1.22. Also does version 1.42B of SBOS use the -x parameter??? When I use the /h (help) parameter it explains -f, -o, and -v but not -x. Why??? Any answers to the NMI problem should be posted to the mailing list or E-mailed to me. Another Happy GUSian that is just getting more FED UP without having any NATIVE MODE GUS software!!!!! /****************************************************************************\ * Thomas Pearson |Internet: * * California State University, Fresno|thomasp@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU * \****************************************************************************/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 13:26:51 From: john.smith@gravis.com Message-Id: <9303081326.A4257wk@gravis.com> Subject: SBOS LINE IN To: Ultrasound Daily Digest If you want to turn on line in with SBOS 1.4B2 or greater run it with a -L switch. John --- ~ QMPro 1.01 05-8925 ~ PCDOS&MSDOS&CP/M&WINDOWSI'LLFIDDLEWITHOS/2WOULDN'TYOU ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 16:27:05 -0600 From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach IBM) Message-Id: <9303092227.AA22674@daedalus.austin.ibm.com> Subject: Using above 127/8 patches??? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I saw this post in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard: >Hi, I got a Roland SCC-1 sound card to use with Band-in-a-Box on my PC, >and there seem to be all kinds of interesting/weird sounds listed in the >SCC-1 manual that are above the 128-sound MIDI "limit". There's obviously >some (easy?) way to switch to another patch bank, but I'm not even a MIDI >novice yet and couldn't begin to figure out what it is. I've been wondering about this with the GUS as well. I'm using Winjammer, and depending on where you base your patch set, you have 127 or 128 patches to work with (with the MIDIMAP). Now, if it's possible to add patches to the list of patches (some CFG file, I can't remember which) to add patches, surely you can specify them above 127/8. Heck, the percussion multipatch does this already. I'm thinking that you could have a virtually unlimited number of patches to work with - add the .PAT file, add an entry in the CFG, and you have a new sound. I've done this in where there are blanks (41, was it?). So is it the sequencer programs that are limiting things or what? Ken ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #65 ******************************