GUS Daily Digest Wed, 15 Mar 95 9:37 PST Volume 20: Issue 15 Today's Topics: 1 MBb midi bank for patch manager GUS and disappearing mouse pointer in Windows.... GUS and SB together GUS Daily Digest V20 #14 (2 msgs) Nascar PGA486 Relentless and GUS? 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, 15 Mar 1995 09:14:21 +0100 (MET) From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl Subject: Re: 1 MBb midi bank for patch manager > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 10:21:46 +0100 (MET) > From: ralam@cs.vu.nl (Lam RA) > Subject: 1 MBb midi bank for patch manager > > Hello out there, > >I was wondering if anyone out there has a good midi bank for >patchmanager (preferebly a drum & a melodic bank that will load >together in all my GUS mem (of one Mb) when the patchloading is >put on 8 bit, to conserve memory). The reason I'm asking is because >I just got King's Quest VII and I didn't get any music, (I asked >about that here, but noone replied) And just now I found out that >when I preload the patches my self I can get music, but I have no >way of knowing which patches to map to which instrument. So, any help >would be apreciated. Or, is it possible to use the ini-file from >loadpats.exe or something likewise? > Err, I reedited your post. Maybe you can keep your lines shorter than 72 characters, for enhanced readability :) What you should do is go to the midi mapper in windows, and select ultra1024, or something like that. This is a mapping of general midi to a limited patch set that fits into 1 MB. You need to set the GUS driver to 8 bit patch loading before loading the patches. The patches needed are in a midi file provided with the GUS software it has 1024 in its name, maybe its just 1024.mid. Play this file with the media player, or load its patches via the `get from midi file' option in the patchmanager. Then run the game. Eric Meijer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:37:55 -0500 (EST) From: Sinclair Shuit Subject: GUS and disappearing mouse pointer in Windows.... Intriguing. I have had my mouse pointer disappearing the first time I enter windows each bootup. It all started when I added LAN workplace for Dos into my system with a GUS.... I thought it was LWP4DOS related but maybe it is something to do with the GUS... I installed the 5.xx software at about the same time.... Anyone have a similar problem / solution? Sinclair |\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/| | sshuit@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca Sinclair Shuit | | Geeky .sig joke : Trent Reznor + TCP/IP = NINternet | |\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/|_|\|||/| ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 19:09:34 GMT From: ct91@cityscape.co.uk (Damian Scully) Subject: GUS and SB together >Someone wrote about getting a SB or SB Pro and a Gravis together..... > >1st Give the SB(Pro) 220 hex, Dma 1, and irq 7....all standard >soundblaster defaults...I bought a SB because of the motherboard and it >is picky. >2nd Get the Gravis off any SB compatible base addreses (thats anything >except 220 and 240) I use 210, give the Gravis Dma of 3 and it keeps its >irq of 11. I have a GUS and an old mono SB compatible. I tried to get them to work together a while ago, but many of my GUS compatible games would not run with the GUS, so I took it out. Please could you tell me if you use multiple config and autoexec files when you have both cards together, or wether you just have the one. Also when I used both cards together my dual game card did'nt work, will I be able to use the joystick ports from both soundcards together so I still have two? Damian Scully ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:24:01 -0500 From: acyr@you.wincom.net (Aric Cyr) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #14 Regarding the Warcraft sound problem... download the AIL version 3 drivers from most any of the FTP sites listed at the bottom of this digest. Or you can check out the warcraft upgrade which includes new executables and the Ultrasound drivers (native) located also in the FTP sites listed, under the 'submit' directory. Warcraft sounds EXCELLENT with GUS support... especially after listening to a friends SB!!! :) Aric Cyr acyr@you.wincom.net Windsor, Ontario Canada ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:07:03 +0200 (EET) From: Mikko Rauhala Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #14 > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 08:35:09 EST > From: snie@dsg343.nad.ford.com (Steve Nie) > Subject: GUS/MAX players for .WAV .MID and .MOD under Linux? > > Could someone recommend me the good players for .WAV, .MID and .MOD files > under LINUX for GUS/MAX soundcard? > > Thanks in advance. > > Steven WAV's: cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp (only uncompressed though I think, try sox to convert if doesn't work...) MID's: (x)mp, in the adagio package MOD's: gmod, in the gmod package ;) Everything should be available on at least sunsite.unc.edu... - Mjr ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 11:03:10 GMT From: Alan Wood Subject: Nascar Message-ID: <3230@abfl.demon.co.uk> > From: Samuel Audet > Subject: DARK FORCES disaster!! > > Wow, I can't believe it... this is really... a Disaster, just from what I > saw from yesterday's digest, I just don't catch why they made the GUS > codes so bad. Maybe CL intentionaly paid them to make REALLY poor GUS codes > or what? This really sucks, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! > > And what about Nascar? Is there a way to make the joystick work with > it? Anybody knows if we plug the joystick on a seperate controller if it > would work? > > Thanks, Bye! > I have had no problems using a joystick with Nascar (apart from the usual ones of learning to drive with a stick not a wheel 8-) ) Alan Wood I have mastered the programming, ~~~~~~~~~~~ now to get the programs working. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 14:13:29 -0800 From: moki@netcom.com (Andrew Wasa) Subject: PGA486 Thanks for telling me about the "sblaster.mid". I downloaded it and replaced it with the existing sblaster.mid file and it still doesn't seem to work properly. I would run the file (pga486.exe) and it would attempt to load and then automatically resets and reboots the computer. I was wondering if anyone has encountered this problem. Can someone help me get the right file or the proper routine to run this program. Thanks in advance for your help. Andy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:19:35 -0700 (MST) From: mental@acca.nmsu.edu (Mental???!$@#) Subject: Relentless and GUS? I may have missed this being discussed, but is it possible to use Relentless with GUS and still get sound and music? Thanks Kevin ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V20 #15 *******************************