Ultrasound Daily Digest Sat May 1 00:07 Volume 3: Issue 30 Today's Topics: [GUS] Buzz Aldrin & Native GUS sound GUS Bonus DIsk (fwd) New MIDI files for GUS - Epas problems! new newsgroup? Prince of Percia 2 and more Prince OF Persia ][ and GUS Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #30 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, 29 Apr 1993 23:45:49 GMT From: med40003@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN WEE MENG) Subject: [GUS] Buzz Aldrin & Native GUS sound Message-ID: <1993Apr29.234549.24943@nuscc.nus.sg> ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard Have heard from a friend Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space - only supports digitised voices on the GUS - ie NO MUSIC. Disappointment. Someone post this to the digest. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 23:22:23 +0100 (BST) From: Simon Watson Subject: GUS Bonus DIsk (fwd) Message-ID: >Please can you upload the bonus disk to an ftp site (preferably epas) >for us unfortunate souls who have not (and may not due to our >geographical location) receive them. > >This would be greatly appreciated by myself and thousands of GUS >owners. And hey, we may even be able to sort out your patch catching >problems in Midisoft for u! > >Ciao, mille grazie. >Michael Patricios Sorry, as much as I'd like to I don't think this would be a wise thing to do. After all, Power Chords & Midisoft Recording Session are both full pieces of commercial software, that would be much appreciated by owners of other sound cards. If anyone uploads it, it must be John Smith. Obviously, uploading GUS Installation disks is a different matter as they're specific to a piece of hardware and are not much use to anybody else. I should also apologise to other UK GUS owners who haven't yet received the bundle, but from James Andrews' message yesterday, hopefully Optech will be sending out the rest in a couple of days. I was led to believe that they were sending them out as they came off the duplicators. Anyhow, I have had more of an opportunity to use Midisoft RS and find it to be really rather quirky, compared with, say, Cakewalk. It definitely supports patch cacheing though. It still has a lot going for it and I find it preferable to WinJammer (as will anyone who reads musical notation). Once again, I hope you other Gussers get your freebie progs soon. -Simon ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 1993 03:32:30 PST From: chrisw Subject: New MIDI files for GUS - Epas problems! Message-ID: <9304301034.AA20016@leland.Stanford.EDU> ------------ Two problems with my earlier posting promising some new midi files especially tuned up for GUS on Epas. The bad news is I can't get on to Epas so I can't upload the files. I'll try again in the morning (actually, it is almost morning ...). Good news is, there's a third! It's not a bad one either. Percussion lost a bit in the translation though. BTW anyone know how to adjust volume and pan for the different percussion noises on channel 10 (using midi messages- not by doing anything to config files)? Chris. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 10:03:21 CDT From: Michael J Stumpf Subject: new newsgroup? Message-ID: <9304301503.AA22075@tamsun.tamu.edu> By the tone of messages lately, I think we should start up a new newsgroup for our quickly emerging religion. alt.religion.soundcard.gus wReam can be the leader, as he as emerged as one. --- Mike discordian, barney hater, gus worshiper ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 11:17:16 +0300 From: Shmuel Gazit Subject: Prince of Percia 2 and more Message-ID: <9304300817.AA29388@ccsg.tau.ac.il> HI GUSsers, As an answer to the one who JOKED about PP2's native GUS use.. Needless to say, it hasn't. Now for the 'compatibility' issue with SBOS 2.04: The SB gets detected ok. I tried it with most options I could think of, all gave me the nice opening music (which I already hate cause I had to listen to the same tune for too many times), and when it started talking - it spoke few words, locked the screeen and kept with the music till it died too. This game's subtitle is 'The shadow and the flame', but I think that for us GUS owners 'The choke and the silence' is a more suitable one.. :) Another game that I tried was FlashBack (ANotherWorld II) - It didn't detect the SB on IRQ5 so I changed it to 7 in my blaster setting, and it helped. I didn't hear it on a real SB, but I *think* I should hear digitized sounds of footsteps, gunshots, etc, instead of 'pick pick' sounds, which of course sound on SBOS's free time and not necessarily with conjuction to whats going on , on the screen. So, unless something in the settings/options was faulty (tried it on a 386sx/25, 120MB HD, Trident SVGA 1Mb, nothing fancy..), don't bother rushing to the stores.. Pathetic ? still. /Shmulik. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 11:43:32 -0300 (ADT) From: Shadow Of Fear Subject: Prince OF Persia ][ and GUS Message-ID: This message is for the person who asked if POP2 supported the GUS in native mode. The answer is no. I received the game monday and I was disppointed too, but I was expecting it. About Lemmings 2, Brad Craig said that Psygnosis (Is that right name?) was working on a GUS patch. Don't know when it'll come out, but at the end, we'll have GUS support. :) ____ _ _ _ / \ \ /' )' )' ) | | | / / / | (_|__/ \ / / __. .__ ___ | | __. . . \ . ___ / (__(_/|__) )__/(__ \_/__(_/|__)\_)__/\__)__) <_ Markus on QuartzPARADISE and AfterFive (506)855-4974 - Canada +---------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | markus@info.umoncton.ca | "My son, ask for thyself | | For Talk: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca | another kingdom. For that | |---------------------------------------------+ which I leave is too small | | When all else fails, read the instructions | for thee" - King Philippe | +---------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 93 16:08:07 GMT+0100 From: "Alexander Majarek, Sascha, SAM" Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #30 Message-ID: [RESPONSE TO LAST QUESTIONS] IMHO 3d will definitely not work on speakers (at least not on one pair) because they aren't able to 'place' the sound to a certain point. If they were we would have had 3d systems for many decades. If you search for a program which let's you enter notes from your PC-Keyboard and save/print them, try CAPELLA (there should at least be a DEMO- version out there). 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