GUS Daily Digest Thu, 16 Mar 95 9:37 PST Volume 20: Issue 16 Today's Topics: GUS & SB (How It works for me) GUS & SB batch files GUS and disappearing mouse in windoze GUS Daily Digest V20 #15 (2 msgs) GUS distributors in germany intro / question Midi-Connector Box Nascar (2 msgs) OS/2 Drivers PGA486 Relentless and GUS (2 msgs) Warcraft and the 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: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 00:50:17 -0600 (CST) From: Reginald Atkins Subject: GUS & SB (How It works for me) Message-ID: I have a multiboot config running with dos 6.22, but my soundcards are initilized at the beginning of the autoexec.bat before the goto config line, therefore, I have access to BOTH soundcards in any configuration. I installed the Gravis software and drivers first and gave it the appropriate setup=210,3,3,11,5 after the gravis is install it creates a line something like: set BLASTER=A2XX IX D1 delete this line, the SB installation will recreate it for the SB with the correct setup. mine at present are all SB defaults=A220 D1 I7 T2 where A is the address, D=dma, I=irq, and T=SB type (an option not in the line created by the Gravis by the way.) You may have to do some playing to get the correct setup for your system, for example on mine my SCSI controller didn't appreciate my attempting to set my GUS up at 240 in hex eventhough it is sitting at 340, go fig. regardless remember to set up the Gravis first, since it's options(except address) are soft configurable it can be changed easily, the SB will not be as easily manipulated so give it defaults. Good Luck... Reg. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 00:53:05 -0500 From: jsomers@id.WING.NET (Jeff Somers) Subject: GUS & SB batch files Here are the batch files I use for switching between my GUS and Soundblaster (the mono original). My SB output feeds into my GUS input (you just need a simple audio cable that any electronics store should carry). ----------- OPENSB.BAT: ----------- @ECHO OFF rem turns on GUS line in/out SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T3 c:\ultrasnd\ultrinit -l -o ----------- CLOSESB.BAT ----------- @ECHO OFF rem turns off GUS line in/out SET ULTRASND=240,3,3,11,5 C:\ULTRASND\ultrinit.exe SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND --- My GUS is at 240 and it works fine. I have one config.sys/autoexec.bat which initializes my GUS, and then I just use the OPENSB batch file if I need to use my SoundBlaster. I then use CLOSESB to go back to using my GUS. This works really well, and it's a lot simpler than fussing with a TSR to get Soundblaster compatibility. I recommend using this approach even if someone doesn't have a Soundblaster: just buy a used one, they're not expensive. That way you get 100% SB compatibility as well as your GUS! I don't have a game card per se; I just use the "built in" port on my PC. This works for me regardless of selected soundcard. Not quite sure how to help you with your joystick question. jeff s. jsomers@id.wing.net > >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: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:13:47 -0500 (EST) From: Timothy B Martin Subject: GUS and disappearing mouse in windoze i HAD the same problem as you other people, but i just got GUS0048.ZIP and those 5.50 windoze drivers fixed my problem. :) hope that helps! [ Xeltar+@CMU.EDU ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. From under its rough woven cowl the Monk gazed unblinkingly down into another vally, with which it was having a problem." -Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 11:13:22 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Angeles Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #15 > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:19:35 -0700 (MST) > From: mental@acca.nmsu.edu (Mental???!$@#) > Subject: Relentless and GUS? > > I may have missed this being discussed, but is it possible > to use Relentless with GUS and still get sound and > music? > > Thanks > Kevin > Although I don't have the full game, the later versions of Relentless should support the GUS natively. At least, that was the case in the original demo release of Relentless, and EA's demo release of Relentless. If you can't get SFX from the GUS, I'll upload the 32bit AIL drivers for the GUS in archive.epas.utoronto.ca. Note: you can't use the regular 32bit AILs because they've altered theirs (I've tried it myself with the original demo version, but I got DOS4GW errors and a lot of garbage on the screen). Hope this helps. Jeff Angeles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 00:07:56 -0600 (CST) From: John Fulmer Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #15 On Wed, 15 Mar -1, GUS Server wrote: > > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:19:35 -0700 (MST) > From: mental@acca.nmsu.edu (Mental???!$@#) > 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? > The demo I had supported the GUS natively, and quite frankly, was the best sounding piece of software I've heard. It even did some psudo-3D sound effects, though not holographic sound. And it worked flawlessly. Not a buzz or anything. Highly recommended for a Gus user... jf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:29:39 +0100 From: Thomas Eberhardt Subject: GUS distributors in germany Message-ID: Does anyone out there has a pointer where to make a good deal for a GUS/MAX in germany? / Thomas Eberhardt \ Moo! (__) | Center for Complex Systems and Visualization (CeVis) |_________/--------(oo) | University of Bremen, FB 3, Bibliothekstr. 1 | * |______||\/ \_o_ D-28359 Bremen, Germany, FAX: +49 421 218-4236 _o_/ ^^ ^^ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:57:30 -0800 From: John.Ross@West.Sun.COM (John Ross [LA Commercial SE]) Subject: intro / question Hi... I'm the proud new owner of a (not so new) gus (bought off a freind who couldn't make the thing work w/all his other "stuff"). I have a couple of simple (or so it would seem) questions: 1. what version of the s/w should I be using, highest rev on th ftp site is 3.59, but it does not appear to be the most recent??? 2. How do I go about hooking a midi keyboard to my gus? is it as simple as buy/making th midi box and using the midi recording session app?? Thats all for now! Thx -JR ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | John Ross email: john.ross@west.sun.com | | Systems Engineer Voice: (310) 307-2421 | | Sun Microsystems Computer Company Fax: (310) 640-9668 | | | | Place disclamer here.... | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 13:47:10 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Conroy Subject: Midi-Connector Box I have owned a SB midi-connector box for over 2 years and never took it out as I read that to use it on the GUS you need to modify some of the circuitry (Taken from document on GUS sites) which I wasn't prepared to do. I cant find a GUS midi-connector in Australia so I jsut did without, using a MPU401 card instead, and I couldn't use the GUS with my keyboard etc.. Someone just told me that the SB Midi box works with the GUS! I tried it and YES! It does work! I had it sitting there all this time! Can someone please explain if there are any incompatibilities that I haven't found, as it seems to work flawlessly, sending and receiving midi data to and from teh GUS under DOS and Windows. I can send data dumps from my MIDI hardare to Cakewalk and save it, plus use the Gravis and my other Samplers/Modules/Synths all together! What's the story? --------------------------------> TETSUO <------------------------------ ****** Sysop at INTERZONE BBS - StKilda beach - Australia ****** EMAIL: tetsuo@daemon.apana.org.au FIDO: 3:634/378 BBS: 035317846 Anonymous ftp Wheel Dir - daemon.apana.org.au /ftp/pub/InterZone -----------------------------------+------------------------------------ Cyberpunk, Manga, Gravis, Midi, Sampliing, Cracks, Hacks, Bizarre! -----------------------------------+------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:14:23 +0000 From: Samuel Audet Subject: Nascar Hi! > 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-) ) Eesh... you mean, you chose GUS in both music and sound effects, you lauched up Nascar, calibrate your joystick and never had a problem going trhu the Menus?! What are your Ultrasnd settings ? Thanks, Bye! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:14:23 +0000 From: Samuel Audet Subject: Nascar Hi! > 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-) ) Eesh... you mean, you chose GUS in both music and sound effects, you lauched up Nascar, calibrate your joystick and never had a problem going trhu the Menus?! What are your Ultrasnd settings ? Thanks, Bye! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:23:47 -0045 (GMT-0:45) From: jwarren@capital.edu (Jeremy Warren) Subject: OS/2 Drivers Greetings all. I have a question that someone out there might be able to answer: I know that Gravis has released their 0.31a drivers for OS/2, but these only support sound in the Presentation manager, and not in DOS boxes. Are there any plans for any serious support of OS/2, in the sense of true drivers for OS/2 DOS Box sessions? As far as I know, there are no currently existing drivers for DOS which will work under OS/2, due to their "creative use" or hardware. Anyone know anything? Jeremy Warren ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Mar 95 00:35:17 EST From: Greg Subject: PGA486 To the person who was having a problem with PGA486: Make sure the file extention is .DIG not .MID. Also, if you are using EMM386, try booting without it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:00:48 -0500 (EST) From: karna@pobox.upenn.edu (Animesh Karna) Subject: Relentless and GUS Somebody was asking about using the GUS with Relentless . . . Relentless has native GUS support for both sound fx and music: I had no problems with it (and a 1meg GUS). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:00:48 -0500 (EST) From: karna@pobox.upenn.edu (Animesh Karna) Subject: Relentless and GUS Somebody was asking about using the GUS with Relentless . . . Relentless has native GUS support for both sound fx and music: I had no problems with it (and a 1meg GUS). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 22:35:54 -0500 From: hmt0018@pop.wimsey.com (Warren Zatwarniski) Subject: Warcraft and the GUS Message-ID: Thanks to all who replied to my previous message about getting warcraft working with the GUS. I picked up the USAIL310.zip archive (the same night I posted the message) which provided GUS support to the game. There was however a better sollution. Grab FLOP115.exe from epas. It's an upgrade to Warcraft for the floppy version. It adds GUS support as well as makes the 7th level easier. Here's a list of fixes for those interested: - 10. WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.14? -------------------------------------------------------------------- * CD-ROM copy protection removed * Human Level 7 made easier * DOS 4/GW extender upgraded to remove some interrupt bugs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- - 11. REVISION HISTORY -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.15: Enhanced direct link and modem connectivity Fixed bug affecting scores over 12,000 Improved copy protection for ease of use Gravis UltraSound support added 1.14: fixed speech bug 1.13: removed CD-ROM copy protection Fixed human level 7 bug Updated DOS 4/GW extender ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V20 #16 *******************************