GUS Daily Digest Tue, 7 Mar 95 9:37 PST Volume 20: Issue 7 Today's Topics: "Upgrading" vs. Installing the latest version Cubic Player 0.95 GUS Daily Digest V20 #3 How to decompress ADPCM ? Memory Poll Harumphles ... SOME MORE!!! On DOS4GW and MaxSBOS... Pinouts/Y-Cable PLAYFILE won`t record! The 3.74 rev. card BED ?????????? sam&max and GUS Subscribe To Dave Woldrich using serial port 2 with a gus max. 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: Mon, 6 Mar 95 14:21:58 CST From: Ben "Trolly Driver" Assaf Subject: "Upgrading" vs. Installing the latest version Dear Fellow GUSers: This question comes from someone who has just today re-subscribed to the list and is therefore out of touch with GUS news since last fall. With the original GUS disks which came with the original GUS (yes, the one with 256K--Ha!), as well as the version 2.06 disks (from the GUS people themselves), what is the general recommended procedure for getting my board as upgraded as it can get, as far as software is concerned? I've not loaded any upgrades (gus0043.zip, for example) since the loading of my version 2.06. Should I ftp the latest disk version? If I do this, I'll need the label of the disks, obviously, or it will not install (tried it with 3.56). BTW, is this BAD? If so, it didn't work so there's my punishment. Or, do I get the latest series of .zip files (like gus0043) and install them in succession? [Condensed question:] How do I go from version 2.06 to the latest on an original GUS board with 256K? Condensed or lengthy replies acceptable with explanations, if possible. I GUS that's all. Tanks! BTW, my vote is for 1M of GUS RAM. This should have been shipped with 1M, as there were some original .mid files shipped with the original disks which required 1M of RAM to play. Kind of self-defeating for a demo, I think. -- Hi! You have reached the .signature file of... Maestro Assaf the Younger After the quote, if you'll leave a message at.. bassaf@bsc.edu I'll get back to you after I play some more.... Star Wars: TIE Fighter Have a groovy day, and remember this: "Oh yeah, sure, oh yeah!" B.J. Shalaque -- (|) ------------------------------- condensed .sig file v 4.0 ------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 07:56:08 MET From: "Roy Koesters" Subject: Cubic Player 0.95 Hi there, Maby somebody can help me out here. A few days ago a picked up CubicPlayer 0.95. But I don't seem to get any sound with it. Every time a load a module it says 'LOADING blablabla' and I get a lockup (or something like that!). If I start in quiet mode everything seems to work; without sound of course. I own a GUSMAX with 1Mb of memory. I tried to include the parameters with my settings of the GUS but this gives the same result. If somebody knows how to solve this please help 'cause CubicPlayer looks like a great player with many features. Thanks, Roy Kosters ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 14:25:00 -1320 From: david.wei@uniserve.com (David Wei) Subject: GUS Daily Digest V20 #3 Message-ID: <2ad.1100.47@uniserve.com> > I know that this question was asked before, But how do you get > XCOM: Defense to work with the GUS card? Sort of, on my system, it have a LOT crank snap pop sound, and NEVER seen to be REALLY working. L8r ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- david.wei@uniserve.com (David Wei) ------------------------------ Date: 7 Mar 95 09:10:00 MET From: "VISX80::GRECNER" Subject: How to decompress ADPCM ? Hi folks, does someone know of a program that is able to decompress ADPCM rcording made by GUS-MAX ? Thanks Martin Grecner ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:47:32 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Woldrich Subject: Memory Poll Harumphles ... SOME MORE!!! AGGGH!! Is it vandalism?! Is it mischief? Is it STUPIDITY?! Whatever it is in some of you people, everyone would appreciate it if you ... !!! NEVER QUOTE THE ENTIRE DIGEST IN YOUR REPLYS !!! You who do that are EVIL! There is NO point to doing it, and I think its really getting out of hand. Anyhow, because of this silliness, you all must suffer my sensible wit and logic for one more day (my post was trapped in the quagmire of yesterdays whygest.. er digest.) [Copy of yesterday's post...] Sorry to agitate all the Australians!! Geez.. I mean, I'm SORRY that you guys have expensive RAM!! Them's the breaks.. Anyhow, why don't you look at the technology this way, the days of the 8meg 486 may be drastically and speedily coming to an end! My intel buddy says that the 486 may be discontinued NEXT year! Amazing, but true. Great new RAM specs for intel's new motherboards coming too... What I'm getting at is, if you're uncomfortable with the cost of things now, possibly the cost for the same items will be pushed lower by new technologies when AMD Interwave arrives on the scene -- possibly to a level even acceptable to all you frugal Australians!! :) You P'SHAW and HARUMPH at me now, but you only look to the future as far as the tip of your nose allows. I happen to see a much brighter, cheaper vision of future comings.. SO THERE!! THLPT!!! Heheheh.. David Woldrich (davew@wally.uofport.edu) | Majoring in Computer Science --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Uh ... d'they do that with LASERS?!?!" -Dave Letterman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 22:00:49 -0600 (CST) From: BackTrak Subject: On DOS4GW and MaxSBOS... Hi all! Well, thanks to the guy who pointed me to the pmw116.zip files at cdrom.com... What they are: The protected mode utilties for Watcomm's C++ and the Protected mode stub/program. What they do: Replaces DOS4GW, and its stub, allowing you to use MaxSBOS eabling play back at regular speed. How to do it: Take your subject game (Mine was the lionking demo. With MaxSBOS and DOS4GW, the sound and F/X would play WAY to fast.) Use the PMWBIND program to remove the stub from the executable. PMWBIND /U lionking.exe next, use PMWBIND to rebind the PMODEW extender to your output file. PMWBIND /B lionking.le Thats it! DOS4GW has now been removed, and replaced with the much smaller PMW stub. MaxSBOS now workes quite well with the new program. SBOS should work as well. Happy gaming folx! ftp://wcarchive.cdrom.com/demos/code/pmode/pmw116.zip later! [ Fluteous wisps of effervescense... [ BPS ]-------> Nick Pirocanac <------] [ Myasmic whorls of incandescense... [25.8%]------> BackTrak@ais.net <-----] [ Trash Can Dreams of a goat named bill... ]EWnewNeWnEwNEWnewNeWnEwNEWnewNe] [ Through all these things, I can yet see...]The Home Page is Now On-Line!!!] [ The colour of your third eye. -- ]HTTP://www.cl.ais.net/~backtrak] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 20:07:05 -0500 (EST) From: All Hail Brak! Subject: Pinouts/Y-Cable What is the deal with the difference between the 'standard' Y-Cable and the Y-Cable that you need for the GUS? Does the FAQ have wiring diagrams? Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 09:37:56 GMT+2 From: "Zsolt Parak" Subject: Re: PLAYFILE won`t record! The 3.74 rev. card BED ?????????? >From: Pooya Hemami >Subject: PLAYFILE won't record! >I am having problems recording with PLAYFILE on my Gravis UltraSound >rev. 3.74. Whenever I record something, even after I enable the >Mic. input, I don't hear anything once I play it back. However, >recording in Windows is perfectly fine. >I think that this has something to do with PLAYFILE automatically >disabling the Mic. Input. If I run ULTRAMIX to enable the Mic. >Input,I can speak into the mike and hear my voice come out of the >GUS. But once I run PLAYFILE, I can no longer hear myself (i.e. it >disables the Mic. Input). And if I click on the region desired to >enable it, nothing happens. Coincidentally, a friend of mine (also >with a rev. 3.74 GUS) ha the EXACT same problem; he can record in >Windows but not with PLAYFILE. My ULTRASND variable is set to >220,7,5,11,5. >Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have this problem too with 3.74 rev. CARD. THE 3.74 card is BED ??? I tried many config (dos, qemm, emm, many setting, card slot etc.) but nothing. I have another problems. I can`t record clearly sound with Windoze. I hear many ???static noise??? in my record. MY config: iDX2-66, UNI motherboard 4M RAM, VLB ide, OAK VGA (?OTI 67?), 420 Conner, Award 4.50G bios. GUS 3.74 with 1M and 3.56 disk (with 3.11 disks I have same problem). I can play anything right (doom, iplay, midi files). What is the problem ??? What can we do ??? Replace the card, or what ??? My e-mail: Parak@cogpsyphy.hu Monster Lajos ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 08:46:43 PST From: Calvin Dytham Subject: sam&max and GUS I can't get Sam & Max Hit the Road, CD version to work with my GUS using any combination of emulations, memory managers, IRQs and DMAs. Whatever the sound configuration the game crashes my whole system and reboots the computer. Has anyone had any success with this game? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 09:34:19 +0100 (MET) From: gbrink@NKI.NL Subject: Subscribe Dear Sir, I'm already subscribed to your list, but for one reason or an other I'm not receiving any mail from you. Please Re-subscribe if I was Unsubscribed. Guido Brink ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 95 16:58:39 EST From: Bryan Maher Subject: To Dave Woldrich Dave, As I posted yesterday in regards to DRAM prices, there is currently no brighter cheaper future. You can't build an ENTRY LEVEL DEVICE by over populating it. YES, upgradability, NO minimums imposed. How would you like it if Pentiums only came with 64MB of RAM because the manufacturers decided that no application worthy of a Pentium should run on less? Lets see... at a really bargain price of $25/MB the cost of memory would be $1600 and you don't even have a machine yet. Toss in a 1 Gig SCSI-AV drive for $850, a 4MB Diamond Viper Pro PCI for $450, 1 MB of Level II cache $120, $1000 for Pentium and Mother Board... Hmm, Our entry level Pentium system now costs $4020 and we still don't have our 21" Mitsubishi Diamond Scan, Our Colani Custom Bio Mouse, Ergonomic Keyboard, Designer Case, Plextor 6x CDROM, GUS MAX card ... You see ( actually, YOU probably still don't) a company can not sell a product aimed at the general public by forcing them to buy more than they currently need (or can afford) simply because they think it would really show off their product. They certainly cannot justify over costing their product because some weenie thinks it is too much effort to go out and get his own memory. Also, I like the way you cut out the other gentleman's comments that the onboard RAM should be 256k but there should be 2-4 MB of ROM. If anything, this is what is giving the competition the edge and is certainly not a bad idea. Dave, go back to living in your academic dream world where everything in the future is rosey and nice. When you hit the market you'll have an eye opener waiting for you. Also note that while the average cost of computing horsepower drops anywhere from 25%-50%/year the average cost of memory has not dropped significantly in the last year and a half. Since it is a seller's market for memory currently, don't expect the price to drop soon. I just bought my DRAM chip for my GUS MAX a week ago and everyone was already giving me the "We're sorry, there is a shortage due to the destruction of a major manufacturer following the last earthquake in Japan..." Yeah, yeah, yeah... I have heard it all before. It's just like the price of oil... A barrel goes up $0.50 and gas goes up $0.05 a gallon the next day. It doesn't really matter that there is a three year supply already pumped and sitting in storage. So Dave, please accept that your dream is just a dream and it isn't going to come to fruition. See, we in America are kinda spoiled. We have some of the lowest consumer electronic prices in the world. The cost concerns mentioned by our foreign neighbors are very valid. Gravis is an international company and there are easily as many PC's sold outside the US as in it. Their product therefore has to be built for a world market. And Dave, where does a college student get such deep pockets? Mommy got you on good allowance? Bryan Maher P.S. I promise not to bother anyone any more as long as Dave does too. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 23:29:32 GMT From: nguyen@eerie.fr (NGUYEN Francois ) Subject: using serial port 2 with a gus max. I spent the last two hours trying to figure out why did my serial port was not working. or only partially (works with interlink but not with doom, nor with a modem ) after removing the gus it was working. in fact it's not the gus, but it's cd rom interface, that is using irq 3 even if there is no cd drive attached. Fortunately, it is possible to move it up to irq 10 for example, but here is my question : why did gravis set the default irq as #3 as it's usually that one used by com2: ? Francois Nguyen: nguyen@eerie.fr ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V20 #7 ******************************