GUS Daily Digest Fri, 31 Mar 95 9:37 PST Volume 20: Issue 31 Today's Topics: AVI Playback Friggin' Bioforge GUS Daily Digest V20 #30 GUS in Windows and the new Megaem. GUS under Win95 ... OS/2 drivers Pentium/GUS/OS/2 Questions... Ultrasound ACE WarCraft - How #!%&(! do I get 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: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:02 -0500 From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations) Subject: Re: AVI Playback > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 09:49:10 -0500 (EST) > From: hcpiv@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca > Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #29 > A big improvement is made by upgrading to Video for Windows version 1.1a. > You can grab vfw11a.zip from various sites. Email me if you have trouble > finding it. I used archie to find it at freebsd.cdrom.com in > /.5/cica/desktop. Using this I can use larger playback buffers and the > sound is fine. There is also a SoundMapper which has an ADPCM CODEC > driver. Ah, but what should we do if we're already running VFW 1.1d?? Since that's what I've got installed. Perhaps DOWNgrading would help... I'm gonna give 5.50 a shot soon...Perhaps it'll fix things up. DDA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 00:25:38 -0500 From: Malhavok@aol.com Subject: Friggin' Bioforge Anyone get the GUS to work with this new game from Origin? I got a rather interesting response from the Origin rep on AOL saying that "the GUS's Soundblaster emulation does not work properly with Bioforge, so you'll get no sound with that card". Gee, thanks Einstein. Anybody figure out how to get this puppy running? (As a whine/flame afterthought, why the hell can't supposedly "BIG" companies like Microprose and Origin deal with the GUS, when smaller companies like Impressions and Epic have little trouble at all?) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 15:44:00 -1320 From: david.wei@bbs.uniserve.com (David Wei) Subject: GUS Daily Digest V20 #30 Message-ID: <2ad.3457.47@bbs.uniserve.com> GD> > guess you're from Australia because your e-mail address ends with "edu") GD> but GD> > Chrysan Chan GD> Dear Mr. Chan, GD> Just a small correction: "edu" at the end of an address stands for the GD> country of Educasia. It is a small country in South America that lives GD> under a (sometimes) benevolent dictator. Dr. Dean. GD> Hope this helps clear up the confusion. Excuse me, but EDU are used ALL over the world for school's internet address (EDUcation). Not sure about the country thou.... :) David Wei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- david.wei@bbs.uniserve.com (David Wei) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:51:39 +0100 From: ct91@cityscape.co.uk (Damian Scully) Subject: GUS in Windows and the new Megaem. Hi GUSser's I recently installed a GUS in my friends 486, before which he had a Gamewave 32 (Pathetic when compared to the GUS, does the AWE sound similar to this?). Anyway, I cannot get the GUS to work properly under windows, I can get sound from things like Encarta, but when I try to get Midisoft recording session to work it cannot find a Midi device. I thought I had deleted all the Gamewave drivers, and edited the system.ini file properly, but when I look at the midi mapper I find the drivers for the Gamewave are still there, and I cannot seem to change them. Can anyone help? On the subject of the new Pmode (oops, sorry, I mean Extended mode) Megaem, I think it is useless. It is not as reliable as the normal Megaem, and does not improve on it much. The old Megaem works without using EMS memory as well. I do not blame Gravis for the new Megaem not being brilliant, as it is only a Beta release, but I hope they listen to some of the comments made in the digest to help improve the final program. Also does anyone know how to get PGA486 to work the GUS. I copied down the sblaster.mid file, and renamed it sblaster.dig, but it just crashes my computer. Damian. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 09:19:43 -0800 From: cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu Subject: Re: GUS under Win95 ... Thanks for the reply. >To Cliff, >It sounds like you should install over a working Win31+DOS setup for the >easiest GUS install. So i would reccommend that you setup that spare drive >winth Win31+DOS and then install the GUS. Get that pile working and THEN >install the M8 BETA. It sounds like that would be simpler than installing >the GUS after a Win95 install. I wrote originally that I had installed the Win95 beta to a disk partition other than the one where I had Dos/Win3.11 installed. This requires me to install all of the windows software/drivers under Win95 instead of simply inheriting my current Win3.11 environment. Well, I decided to try and go ahead with installing the GUS 3.59 disks under Win95. When I tried to do the full install option, it would lock up during the hardware setting test phase. I decided to try the installation again this time specifying certain files only. After basically, installing all the files in the Ultrasnd directory, I went to the Win95 control panel and started the Add/Remove Hardware applet. I told it I wanted to add a Sound Card and choose the option of using a manufacturers' disk. I selected the \ultrasnd\windows\ subdirectory and it found the oemsetup.inf file. It allowed me to install the Ultrasnd Wave & Midi driver and opened up the hardware settings dialog for the GUSMAX. I put in the correct settings and restarted Win95. I now have my GUS-Max working with Win95 just great. cliff ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 20:52:37 -0500 From: Menoche@info.polymtl.ca Subject: OS/2 drivers Hi gussers! Does anyone know if there is some more development made by gravis on os/2 drivers??? Was the alpha release something to shut our mouth??? I would really appreciate some new drivers to be able to use sound with dos box and windoze box. I would also like a good mod player ?? I know i'm asking a lot, but i didn't hear from them about that for a long time and i really like that product! \|/_\|/ (o o) ( ) ____________________oo0_____0oo_________________________________________ Philip Veilleux 514-340-9792 Menoche@info.polymtl.ca http://www.info.polymtl.ca/turing/veilleux/www/menoche.html SAE Robotic (Ecole Polytechnique MTL) 514-340-3998 Robot Brain Programmer ______________________oo0_______________________________________________ ( ) Ooo ( ) ( ) ( ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 12:24:11 EST From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin) Subject: Pentium/GUS/OS/2 Questions... Hello, Ferdinand, I don't have either of the boards you mentioned, but i DO use another ASUS board, the PVI486SP3 w/ Award BIOS, etc. My board has NMI enabled so SBOS works fine. There have been no probs with the BIOS or with OS/2. ASUS makes good boards and i've heard very good things about them. If you get a Triton chipset, make sure you get the high-dollar synch. cache. From what i hear much of the speed boost is from this stuff. The onboard EIDE should be very good. Mine gets 2.85MB/s from an Maxtor 540 under OS/2. The P5 board also supports mode 4 so yours should be higher. Oh, yeah. I reccommend using Manley's drivers if you expect to run any DOS sound software, mod-players, games, etc. Its VDD is very good. With gravis' drivers you have to set the DOS GUS to different settings than the setting used by OS/2. And it also kinda goofs sometimes when switching from DOS sound to OS/2 sound. For me the DOS support is more than worth the loss of native midi synth in OS/2. Baskin UT Austin Team OS/2 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 10:56:04 BST From: S94 Subject: Ultrasound ACE Quick questions concerning Grav-ACE I have seen a picture of the ACE and its seems to only have two line-type outputs(or is it one output and one input).Are they a line-in and line-out or are they amplified out and amplified in ;as i have heard that the output from the amplified out is a bit distorted. Is the memory chip upgrade (512k -> 1mb) use a different chip from the normal ultrasound ; if so ,how much is it and where can i obtain it from (U.K.). Thanks Shoaib Ahmed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 14:00:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Martin ANCHER Holm Subject: WarCraft - How #!%&(! do I get sound ? Hi Gus Users :) Well I've just got WarCraft... It's an exelent game. I've seen somebody speek about this game here before, but were there any answers ?? Isn't there an extra file to get sound on this game... And where do I get the file ?? (A direct e-mail to me is fastest) If you have the file you can attatch it, but if it's more than 1MB please send me a letter first :) I'm looking farward to your early reply This is the '.signature' file: This letter came from: Martin Ancher Holm _/ _/ _/ _/ ia94208@dec51b.tietgen.dk _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V20 #31 *******************************