GUS Daily Digest Wed, 1 Mar 95 9:42 PST Volume 20: Issue 1 Today's Topics: ADPCM driver and GUS Alone in the Dark 3 sound? Computer Music bibliography GUS and System Shock GUS Daily Digest V19 #27 GUS Daily Digest V19 #28 GusMax + Qemm7.5 + SmartDrv + MKII GUS problems with Doom/Doom2/Heretic Internet Phone Internet Phone with GUS Iphone fix: Here it is... iphone works Media Player in Windoze... Midi files/software archives on the Internet MIDI in Sound Station quit on me script to split a GUS-digest UltraSound ACE ... any good??? What is probably happening w/ iphone. where is maxsbos Windoze AVIs... close to NO sound! =( 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: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 01:16:00 -0500 From: dennis-'t.Hart@lcnnl.sprint.com Subject: ADPCM driver and GUS Message-ID: <"Wed Mar 1 01:16:18 199501*/G=dennis-'t/S=Hart/OU=2496WVLC/O=TMNL.LCN/PRMD=LANGATE/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=GB/"@MHS> Yoh all, I've got a GUS (not the MAX yet) and have Microsoft's ADPCM drivers installed for Compression of AUDIO. I don't have any software however which uses these drivers when recording WAV file's, so I can't compress. At work I have a SB 16ASP (don't kill me, it's my boss's fault) and an SB program which does use the ADPCM driver. Is there something like it for the GUS? Thanks all and happy GUSSING!!! |--\ /--| _______ _______ | \ / | | ___| |--\ |-| /-----\ |----| | ___| | \ \ / / | | |___ | \ | | | _ | | |-- | |___ | |\ \/ /| | | ___| | \ \| | | |_| | | | | ___| | | \__/ | | | |___ | |\ | | _ | | |__ | |___ |__| |__| |______| |__| \__| |_| |_| |____| |______| Scott me up, Beamy..... e-Mail : dennis-'t.hart@lcnnl.sprint.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 07:57:06 EST From: banshee@rbdc.rbdc.com Subject: Alone in the Dark 3 sound? Has anyone figured out how to get sound in Alone in the Dark 3? I haven't been able to get it to work...thanks! ------------------------------------ Scott A. Jones E-mail: banshee@rbdc.rbdc.com Date: 03/01/95 Time: 07:57:06 ------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 01:11:16 +0100 From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Computer Music bibliography There is a bibliography on synthesizers, midi, computer and electronic music that I have collected from various sources. I have tried to bring some structure into it, but not all books will fit into a single subject. NOTE: I haven't read these books, and the comments are from other people. The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/bibliography or by mail from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used. The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers archives around the world, in music/midi/bibliography. Version: $Id: bibliography,v 1.25 1994/09/08 12:24:00 piet Exp $ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 14:00:42 -0500 (EST) From: karna@pobox.upenn.edu (Animesh Karna) Subject: GUS and System Shock For the most part, the GUS seems to work native-mode with System Shock, but I've been noticing some oddities. Every now and then, I start hearing random instruments in the background! It seems to occur sometimes, when sound fx are supposed to be played. The only other time I've seen this happen with the GUS is when I load MegaEm, and only then with two games I've tried (Dragon's Lair, which uses SB, and works fine with SBOS, and World of Xeen, which uses MT-32 music and SB sound fx). Has anyone else encountered this? BTW, I've encountered no problems like this if I tell System Shock to use my Reveal SC500 for sound fx, and just use the GUS for the music. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 21:24:44 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Batchelor Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #27 Not the GUS Server once wrote... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 19:05:16 -0800 (PST) > From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." > Subject: .VxDs like GUS drives in OS/2 > > Can't someone write some memory resident program that can "trick" the > VxDs into thinking they can call for ring 0 functions and let them run, > but won't actually let them take over the system? I'm sure there's some > way. Some kind of VxD emulator for OS/2? If a completely alien computer > like the PowerPC can emulate Windows with SoftWindows, certainly an x86 > OS like OS/2 can do better? I suspect that whoever can get this to work > will make *big* bucks! Are you implying that the GUS drivers run on a PowerPC inside SoftWindows? I didn't think so. SoftWindows is way more limited than OS/2 at running Windows programs, let alone VxD's. -- \\\ Mike Batchelor /// mikebat@clark.net \\\ M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net /// "The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:27:18 GMT-400 From: "ARNOLD S" Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #28 Please, do not send me any more mail! Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Mar 95 12:01:47 -800 From: Samuel Audet Subject: Re: GusMax + Qemm7.5 + SmartDrv + MKII Hi! >It seems that the combinations in the titles don't works together... >I can't use smartdrv with the ultramid for mkii because i get somes >excption 6 or 13 error from qemm.... Can anybody help me...or tell >me if there is an other disk cache available which can works with >all the above?? Yup... another guy. BTW, it's not just MKII. ALL extensive DOS4GW games cannot run with GUS (or even any sound card?) Qemm 7 (maybe 6?) and a disk cache loaded. I wrote to Quaterdeck... nothing there, they say it's the program who is not well written. Well, if OMF, DOOM, MKII, Heretic, Descent or not well written, what is?!? With EMM386 of course, there is not problem, everybody make there programs to run with MS crap, of course. Smartdrv and Mouse are about the only good thing they made up to date. Nway, my solution? Run HIMEM.SYS (with smartdrv if desired)... make 2 or 3 boot config. See ya! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:56:16 -0500 (EST) From: karna@pobox.upenn.edu (Animesh Karna) Subject: GUS problems with Doom/Doom2/Heretic First, here's my setup . . . Regular GUS, set up for 240,3,3,15,5 (although I've already tried this as 240,3,3,7,5, and a few other combos) Reveal SC500, SBPro set up for 220,7,1, WSS set up for 530,11,0 (but that's usually not active), GMidi set up for 330,2(9), and Sony CD-ROM set up for 360 (PHEW!) Quantum Hardcard II/EZ 240 Some (I forget which) local bus IDE/floppy/ser-par/game card S3 805 (I think) local bus VGA CPU is AMD486dx2/80 My problem is tht I'm having trouble getting the GUS to work properly with Doom/Doom2/Heretic. The version of Doom is 1.2, and sound is pretty bad: music is draggy and slow, sound fx don't sound seem to vibrate (instead of kaboom, I hear kaboooooooooooomooomoom). Doom2 is worse (both version 1.666 and 1.9). I hear sound fx, and there might be music. The problem is TONS and TONS and TONS of static drowning out everything! This happens, BTW, even if I remove the Reveal sound card. I'm wondering if the problem might be a conflict with the Hardcard: anyone tried that combo? Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 19:14:12 GMT From: alek@linefeed.com (Alek Hayes) Subject: Internet Phone Hi All, Just thought I'd give a tip for people who are having problems with this wonderfully innovative piece of software: In your system.ini, change DMABUFFERS to equal 20-30. I think GUS setup software defaults that to 150. This seems to help the problem quite nicely. Give it a go, and tell me if it helps! Alek. -- ___________________________________ This message was posted by Alek Hayes | Email me about life, the universe | Alek@linefeed.com | and everything. | | * | | But please, nothing about AWE32's | ----------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 17:41:52 -0500 (EST) From: swsmith@VNET.IBM.COM Subject: Internet Phone with GUS Has anyone besides me had a problem with GUS locking up after the first 3 or so seconds of using the iphone by vocaltec. I went out and purchased a true sblaster pro and the problem went away. My friend has a Gravis MAX and he has no problems. Im running the 3.59 drivers and wfw with 8 meg ram. Any suggestions would be great! I have a regular GUS with 1 Meg Memory and 3.59 Software and WFW 3.11 on MS Dos 6.20 and am using internet phone 1.5 on a 386-33 with 8Megs memory. Basically I have the same problem as outlined by two earlier appends. Initially I get audio but its distorted and shaky. Then inet phone stops responding and I have to reboot. So I guess we all have the same problems. Does anyone out there have internet phone working OK? Give us some details..... regards, Sean W. Smith swsmith@vnet.ibm.com (919)-543-7364 finger swsmith@server0.cybernetics.net for PGP key and info ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:06:15 -0500 (EST) From: David Ross Subject: Iphone fix: Here it is... Ok, I mailed vocaltec, and here is their answer to the Iphone/GUS problem... 1. Choose the Help/About option and check for the UltraSound driver version under ** WaveOut Devices section. 2. If the UltraSound driver version is earlier then 5.48 than a new driver must be installed. The latest patch of Gravis UltraSound (you can find it at: archive.orst.edu at pub\gravis\patch) contains a new driver version - 5.48, and some utilities to control buffers size. 3. After the UltraSound driver version 5.48 is installed run the driver setup from Control Panel\Drivers\UltraSound Audio Driver\Setup and set the "Playback DMA" buffer size and the "Record DMA" buffer size to a value lower then 3000. (for example: 2944). 4. Run Internet Phone after reloading Windows and enjoy chatting without hanging your system! That's straight from them. I'm not home, so I dunno if it works yet. David Ross ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 17:23:38 -0500 From: arg2@po.cwru.edu (Adam Glick) Subject: iphone works i ahev a ver of i phone (build 5) and wfw 3.11 with 3.2 upgrade 8megs and other stuff that isn't important. :) i ahev a max with 1 meg and i phone works fine with it. you can e-mail me if you want my setup but personally i don';t know why it wouldn't work. on the other hand has anyone goten ivc to work? -Adam arg2@po.cwru.edu 'A person who believes one thing will solve all their problems is a fool : they're twice the fool if they believe the thing that will fix their problems is money' ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 10:43 -0500 From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations) Subject: Media Player in Windoze... I'm having a bit of a problem with the media player playing AVI files in Windoze... I've set it to loop the video, but every time the video starts (or restarts), the sound is muted (I can barely hear music/voices/whatever). Pausing/unpausing the player casues the sound to play normally... I'm using a 1MB GUS with the 3.59 software and VFW runtime 1.1D...I'm still using 4096 buffers, not fixed...Any ideas? DDA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 01:11:15 +0100 From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Midi files/software archives on the Internet There is a list of ftp and mail server archives with MIDI documentation, programs and music on the Internet. Also enclosed is a list of MIDI and electronic music related mailing lists. The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/archives or by mail from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used. The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers archives around the world, in music/midi/archives. Version: $Id: archives,v 1.121 1995/02/24 14:44:20 piet Exp $ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 17:58:00 -0330 From: Aaron Cameron Subject: MIDI in Sound Station quit on me I don't get it. MIDI was working fine in Sound Station for Windows before. Ever since I put in a second HDD, though, I get an error that reads something to the effect of: Sound Station has caused a general fault error in ???.dll Where ??? is some main windows dll file, whose name eludes me at the moment. I have a 486dx40 system, and everything worked fine (as fine as computers work anyway) untill I put in that second HDD. I have a Seagate 260 Meg as my master (C:) and I recently added a Conner Periperals 80 Meg jobbie as the slave (D:). I also have a Panasonic 2x cdrom hooked to the GUS MAX, if that matters. I didn't move any of my boot software (DOS 6.22) or any of my gus utilities to the Conner drive. Come to think of it, I didn't move anything vital to that drive... just my comm package, a few utils, a few games, and some miscelaneous archived garbage. Another wierd thing that happened since I put in the drive is that my computer will not tolerate my pressing the reset button. I can do the CTRL-ALT-DEL boot, or I can physically interupt the power supply to reboot, but if I press the reset key, I get HDD failure messages, although both drives have passed rigorous testing. I'm at a loss. Really, the only thing I want to know is why the MIDI player in Sound Station won't work anymore. The WAV and CD parts still work fine, and Midisoft still works. Strange, no? Also, if anyone knows how to propperly set up News Express news reader for WIndows, could you let me know? I get that CTRL3DV2.DLL not set up properly error when it starts, and it will let me do everything but post articles. Strange things. Cheers, AC /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | *** ***** WELCOME TO MY WORLD! | | ***** *********** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | ** ** ***** *** It's really not that bad... | | *** *** **** once you get used to it! | | *********** **** | | ************* ***** *** ---------> Aaron Cameron <--------- | | **** **** *********** Memorial University of Newfoundland | | ***** ***** ***** ---> acameron@europa.cs.mun.ca <--- | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 10:13:05 +0100 From: Mark Ruys Subject: script to split a GUS-digest Did you ever feel the need to split a GUS-digest into seperate mail messages? So that you can remove or file messages by topic? Remove those stupid quotes of an entire digest? I did, and I wrote a perl script to do the job. I tested it with the digest of the past few weeks, and it workes without a hitch on them. It takes as input an (unformatted) digest, and generates to stdout the splitted digest in maildrop format. If you save this script as 'refgus.prl' and if you use mh for reading mail, then you can use the sh script below to incorporate the generated messages automatically into your inbox folder. Hopefully my effort is usable for more than one person :-) Mark Ruys. PS. You may wish to adept the path where perl is located. Type 'which perl' to find out where your perl is hiding. ==refgus.prl========================================================== #!/usr/local/gnu/bin/perl -n if ($n = 1 ... /^[ -]-{69}$/) { if (/^Reply-To:/) { $ReplyTo = $_ } elsif (/^Subject: (.*)$/) { $Subject = $1 } elsif ($n > 100) { print STDERR "Header error: ", $_ } } elsif ($n = /^End of $Subject/ .. eof()) { if ($n > 100) { print STDERR "Footer error: ", $_ } } elsif ($n = /^(Date)|(From):/ ... /^[ -]-{29}$/) { print "\ca\ca\ca\ca\n", $ReplyTo if ($n == 1); print unless ($n =~ /E0$/) } elsif (! /^$/) { print STDERR "Body error: ", $_ } ==refgus============================================================== #!/bin/sh tmpfile=${TMPDIR:-.}/refgus if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo No messages specified; exit 1; fi for msg in `pick $*` do file=`mhpath $msg` if perl -n `dirname $0`/refgus.prl $file >> $tmpfile then rmm $msg else echo Error in $file fi done || exit inc +`folder -fast` -file $tmpfile -truncate if test -s $tmpfile then echo Error in $tmpfile else rm $tmpfile fi ====================================================================== -- Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen Internet: markr@cs.kun.nl Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica UUCP: uunet!cs.kun.nl!markr Toernooiveld 1 finger: markr@omega.cs.kun.nl 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands Telephone: +31.80.652647 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:45:00 -0500 From: "eddie (e.) kwong" Subject: UltraSound ACE ... any good??? Please share your experience with the UltraSound ACE wavetable card. I am thinking of buying this card to work with my old PAS16 until something better comes along. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 19:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: "Mr. Tizic" Subject: What is probably happening w/ iphone. I remember reading in a Rise of the Triad manual that, while they had implemented a real time voice input and output in modem games, that Apogee would probably never get it to work with a GUS. I'm not exactly sure why, I think that it had something to do with the fact that the GUS takes sounds into its memory before outputting them. Please correct me if I am wrong, but a think it will probably take at least a special patch to make iphone work. Ben Osheroff mrtizic@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 10:38:00 +0100 From: TOMAS ANDERSEN Subject: where is maxsbos Maxsbos can be found at any of the ftp-sites listed in the end of this digest. I downloaded it yesterday from ftp.luth.se directory: pub/msdos/ultrasound/.... something... ************************************************** Tomas Andersen Student at HIO Sollih|yda 8 Electronics/Computers 1783 Halden Tlf: (+47) 69180082 NORWAY Email: toma@oleg.hiof.no >>> Also known as Yoghurt/Spaceballs <<< ************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:27:59 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Ngo Subject: Windoze AVIs... close to NO sound! =( I'm having trouble with the sound on my AVIs. The sound portion is so faint that I can hardly hear it. My midis and waves sound perfectly fine(other than the computer noise) and loud, but the AVI's audio is amlost not there! This never happened before... Should I re-install the GUS drivers/Indeo Drivers/Windoze drivers?? BTW... I want to know a better way of reducing the computer noise I get... I tried moving my other cards around, but nothing changes... And the noise comes loud and clear in Windoze(especially when the HD is reading and when I swing my mouse around). Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 12:14:04 PST From: "Brian Hayes, Sierra Systems" Neil mentions.... >Ever since I installed Quantum Gate on my drive, my GUS mixer settings won't >stay fixed in Windows. When Windows comes up, the settings are correct .... >....then the volume drops from 80% to 30-40%. >I can bring up the mixer and change the settings, but it >seems that the volume gets muted again any time a program tries to play a digital sound. I had this problem too, and figured it out to be a problem with my CD-ROM drivers. When I installed my CD-ROM (a NEC 2vi--great drive BTW), it found my gus and said "Hey, we would recommend you use a different mixer. Can I install it for you?". I answered yes, and away it went. Everything worked 100% right off, but then wav files stopped playing in Windows 3.11. Huh? After an hour or so, I found that they WERE playing, just muted by the mixer being down to 41%. I reset them, and everything worked fine--until the next time I ran Windows, when they went right back to 41%. Manual editing or mixer changes made no difference. AS that driver was the only NEW thing in my system.ini, I removed it to see what happened--and lo and behold, that solved it! Mixer settings stay where they are supposed to. The only difference I have found with removing that driver, is that the .wav file played when MS Cinemania starts up plays-stops-plays-stops. All other CD's (MS Encarta, MS baseball, SI year in review, KQ7) all work fine--no problems with audio. Neil, check to see if you have a cd-rom driver/mixer being loaded in your system.ini file. I can't remember the name of it, but if you can't find it, let me know and I can re-install and get the name of mine.... Good luck! BTW, the NEC 2vi is about the best 2x drive I have seen. It came with it's own interface card, and an audio card that hooked straight to the gus audio pins. The whole install took me about 10 minutes, complete with a very easy driver install. I'd highly recommend this drive to all the gussers here! (It's way faster that a buddies Panasonic, and a sony, due to it's 256k cache on the drive itself. Very cool! Brian Hayes Health: (604) 952-1834 o Ministry of health, /> Client Registry Internet: BAHAYES@BCSC02.GOV.BC.CA ../< ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V20 #1 ******************************