Ultrasound Daily Digest Fri Jul 9 00:07 Volume 4: Issue 38 Today's Topics: AIL drivers and Ultima7 AND Xwing probs. as usual, a few things Customizing ultramid damtrak and p669v105 Dune2 and AIL works! Edit Patch Button Grayed - Answer General MIDI GoldWave and PatchEditor don't mix too well...(GUS) Gravis 1st Quarter Report Released Gravis Users Database GUS and Strike Commander native support GUS Bad DMA problem....help! GUS drivers for OS/2 Haven't seen your post yet? Not a problem. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW 1/2 JUST TO LET YOU KNOW 2/2 problem with Windows drivers & Winprinter Space Hulk trouble with gus Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #35 Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #36 Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #37 Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #37 Xwing now works X-Wing 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: Thu, 08 Jul 93 09:58:44 -0700 From: cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu Subject: AIL drivers and Ultima7 AND Xwing probs. Message-ID: <9307081658.AA01827@trifid.astro.ucla.edu> 1. Has anyone been able to configure UltraMid to work with Ultima7? I tried setting it up by copying over the .adv files, but I keep getting sound card initialization errors whenever I start the game. 2. I have been trying for some time to get Xwing to work with SBOS. I have tried version 1.20, 2.08, and 2.09B without any success. 2.08 and 2.09B simply lock up when I try to start Xwing with SoundBlaster (DIG and music). With 1.20 the game starts up with music and the opening scenes but then locks up when speech should be played. I've tried disabling smartdrv and loading SBOS low but the results are always the same. I have two SCSI hard disks in my system connected to an UltraStor 14F controller if that makes a difference. I'm also using MS Dos 6.0 with himem and emm386. Thanks in advanced. cliff cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jul 93 13:41:52 EDT From: pccmoddan@aol.com Subject: as usual, a few things Message-ID: <9307081341.tn10332@aol.com> 1) Whoever was talking about Origin & EA *not* supporting the GUS is misinformed. Richard Garriott himself stated (at CES) that Origin's new sound system will support the GUS. This is highly likely information considering #1, Rich is God at Origin, and #2, the Origin guys have *obviously* spent some time these last few months working with the GUS, because that ain't SBOS that Strike Commander runs under when Gravis shows it at their show booth. I've heard that some upcoming EA games will indeed support the GUS too. The only companies at this point in the industry who have an "excuse" to not support the GUS are companies like LucasArts and Sierra, who use their own proprietary music systems, and not the AIL drivers. However, if everyone else starts shipping games with AIL support for GUS, and Origin has added GUS support to their sound system, I'd say it's only a matter of time until the good people at LucasArts decide to support it. Sierra, on the other hand, will diddle and daddle and make excuses for a little while, and then go out and hire a programmer or two to do the work for them. :) - Dan ________________________________________________ | Dan Nicholson | email: pccmoddan@aol.com | | aka | uuencoded: moddan@bowker.com | | Maelcum [KLF] | America Online: PCC ModDan | | and | VirtualNet: 2 @ 9082 | | [PCC] ModDan | Voice Phone: currently down | |_______________|______________________________| | | | Levisionet Technologies | | 553 Thoreau Terrace | | Union, NJ 07083 U.S.A. | | (Formerly PCkS Associates) | |______________________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1993 18:38:17 -0300 From: DODSON@ac.dal.ca Subject: Customizing ultramid Message-ID: <01H0B5BAKFJM003NV1@AC.DAL.CA> I noticed a few people are having probs with sound effects in Dune, etc. I don't have this game, so I don't know if the sound FX are midi patches or stuff sent to GF1DIGI. If it is midi, I have a fix: I have been playing around with ultramid.ini, and have figured out how to do a few things. I think there are some very good possibilities here. If you have a game which uses, say, drums (or that silly slide whistle patch) for gunshots, and you want "real bullets" all you have to do is built/get a new patch, change ultramid.ini, and away you go. I built a batch file which handles multiple .ini's (defaulting to the original one), and if there is interest I'll write a program to automate the customization, e.g. keeping track of free mem on the card. (Actually I'll write it anyway, but if there's interest I'll make it better, easier to use) I think that having RAM -not ROM patches should be used as an advantage, rather than I liability. Being able to "fine-tune" patch choices will show that advantage. By the way, if this idea catches on, we could eventually have a library of custom .ini's/patches for games, on the FTP sites. Or maybe I'm taking this too far? Anyway... I think I'll go play with these ideas now :) The happy GUS'er. dodson@ac.dal.ca Bruce Dodson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jul 93 13:01:57 -0400 From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" Subject: damtrak and p669v105 Message-ID: <9307071701.AA02578@magick.tay2.dec.com> Has anyone been able to get these to work properly? damtrak makes no sound and none of the scopes move. The position counter DOES increment (rather quickly, too!). Is this normal (since it's a beta release to test SVGA stuff)? What I suspect is that the program is assuming that my GUS is at the standard hex address and IRQs...Which it's not. p669v105 correctly finds the GUS and plays the sound (nice display, BTW), but when I tried to exit, it locked up my system... Any help would be appreciated... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 12:20:02 -0400 From: Ryan Kim Subject: Dune2 and AIL works! Message-ID: <93Jul8.122008edt.19087@picton.eecg.toronto.edu> Here's a few hours' worth of my effort I'd like to share... First of all, Dune2 & AIL does not work with QEMM. This leaves me with himem.sys which resulted in 'insufficient memory' message from Dune2. I didn't realize that I needed to load emm386.exe to use loadhigh. (That DOS manual became handy at a time like this...) So, now, in my config.sys, I have, among other stuff: deivce=himem.sys dos=high,umb device=emm386.exe noems And I call ultramid as: lh ultramid -m100 -c This should give you about 620K of free DOS memory after loading mouse driver and ultramid to high and Dune2 is happy again. I got Dune2 and AIL working with either MT32 or Sound Canvas as MIDI device and Sound Blaster Pro (I think) as digital sound device, using the patch program from EPAS and some hex-editing. I guess, with the new patch program available now from EPAS, you wouldn't need any hex-editing. Besides, selecting Sound Canvas generates much better sound and has no annoying 'MT32 initializing...' or disk drive seek. Enjoy! Ryan ------------------------------ Date: 07 Jul 93 09:27:21 EDT From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Edit Patch Button Grayed - Answer Message-ID: <930707132721_71333.2166_DHQ97-1@CompuServe.COM> Afzal Ballim wrote: > Next, has anyone else had a problem that the "edit patch" button > in PowerChords seems tpo often be inactive when it should be active? The 'Edit Patch' button is inactive when you are editing parameters for a Chord Rhythm. This is because the patch for chord parts is set from the Tuning Options dialog, for the on-screen instrument. (From main menu 'Options', then 'Tuning...'. You can compare by double clicking on a chord rhythm in a song or in the palette, and then closing it up and double clicking on a melody in a song or in the palette. The melody will allow access to 'Edit Patch', and the chord rhythm will not. Power Chords Pro will in future allow you to set a patch for each chord rhythm (ie change instrument sounds in the chord part on the fly during a song). Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 12:09:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Siu-fung Lee Subject: General MIDI Message-ID: Speaking of GMIDI, why doesn't Gravis write a tsr of some sort to correctly emulate it for games? Since I don't know the code involved, I can't say how hard it would be. But seeing that GUS _is_ GMIDI, it couldn't be that hard. Guess Gravis is already swapped with requests for this and that.... It's okay actually, since GMIDI cannot do speech for games. Hmmm... would a sound coprocessor be useful on a GUS? Sort've been wondering that myself. I'd guess only slightly.... Ack! GUS GUS GUS -> MIDI MIDI MIDI!!!!!!! Keyboard! I need a keyboard! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 21:29:29 GMT From: KJOHNSSON@FINABO.ABO.FI (Kim-Erik Johnsson INF) Subject: GoldWave and PatchEditor don't mix too well...(GUS) Message-ID: <1993Jul5.212929.12242@abo.fi> ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard Frustration! Today I downloaded Goldwave, and I immediately started to like it. Previously I used USS8 (which I don't particularly like) for sampling, so GW was a big step forward for me (I bought GUS a week ago). But, lo & behold, when trying to insert .wavs (recorded with GW) with the patch editor, I get the message Ouch, not a mono sample when, in fact, that's just what they are. After I encountered this problem I naturally assumed every program on my hard-disk was lethally virus-infected and that there was absolutely no way I could ever enjoy sampling&playing again. So I regressed back to USS8, and this time I had no problems with inserting with PE. After that I tried the WaveToPat program, and it worked ok for sounds sampled with USS8. Then I triedWavToPat with .wavs made with GW, and this time I actually managed to create a patch, but it sounded just plain awful: the original sound was there, but immediately afterwards came some noise which I after a while recognized to be a sound I had sampled previously...so now my patches have developed a short-term memory! GW sure works in mysterious waves... And, I might add, I find all of this *extremely* annoying! Have any of you had this same problem?!? If not, lucky you. Is somewhere out there another program like GW, but without this neat automatic mono->stereo-conversion feature?!? Just asking for help... ...HELP! -- nhn Kim Johnsson, CS @ ]bo Akademi That s(. .)s Luostarinkatu 6 B 11 thing down K o J 20700 Turku there is the O Finland movie quote of the day "Rambo is a pussy!" - Sylvester Stallone, Tango & Cash ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 01:03:39 GMT From: dedmunds@beaufort.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson) Subject: Re: Gravis 1st Quarter Report Released Message-ID: ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca (George Kirikos) writes: >Advanced Gravis' 1st Quarter Report was released on Friday, and here >is what was printed in today's Globe and Mail (Saturday, July 3, 1993, >Report on Business, page B2). Here it is: >"Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd., Vancouver >3 months to Apr. 30, 1993 Year Ago >Revenue $4,398,807 $2,648,139 >Net profit 8,319 170,548 >Net profit/share nil 0.02 >Well, it was as bad as I thought it might be. The stock hit a 52-week >high on Friday of $3.75, but closed down a nickel on the day to $3.55. >I don't know whether the earnings were released during the trading >day or after the close. Surprisingly, Gravis gained $0.05 on the TSE to close Monday at $3.60. I had put in a "stop loss" for $3.50 on Sunday night - luckily, it wasn't necessary. What are your thoughts George on why the stock didn't take a dive? -- Darran Edmundson dedmunds@sfu.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jul 93 13:24:10 +0100 From: zccaj19@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stefan Magdalinski) Subject: Gravis Users Database Message-ID: <9307081224.AA21419@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> John Smith writes: >But I have >exported the May '93 dbase of GUS Reg. users as an ASCII Text file and >chopped out a bunch of the fields so all you get now is FIRST, LAST, >STATE, last few digits of phone. You can get the file from our BBS as >GRAVDBAS.ZIP and I'm sure you'll find it on the FTP sites by the time >you read this. This is a copy of the dbase that actually went down to >the fulfillment house in the states. Does this list include non-U.S. registrations? (not on EPAS yet) How can I find out if my registration card got to Switzerland? Also, I've been trying to get the software from the store where I bought the card. They told me to contact Zye technology, who are the British distributors apparently. Zye told me that they had not received the updated disks yet either !!! shurely shome mishtake? Stefan Magdalinski zccaj19@ucl.ac.uk These views are mine, but you can borrow them if you like. ------------------------------ Date: Tue Jul 06 09:06:46 1993 From: monty@butler.cps.com (Montgomery Kosma) Subject: GUS and Strike Commander native support Message-ID: <2c3986f8.butler@butler.cps.com> > pccmoddan@aol.com wrote: >true; it *hurts!*), two machines running games (one running Strike Commander >with *native GUS support*, and the other running a large variety of games Anybody know anything about how to get a hold of this? Will it be a SC update? In fact, it looked like SC uses the Miles drivers, but I couldn't get it to work... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Montgomery Kosma monty@butler.cps.com Phone: 816-968-3542 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 20:13:09 GMT From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) Subject: Re: GUS Bad DMA problem....help! Message-ID: ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard In article darrenj@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Darren Jacobs) writes: > I have problems with my gus locking up my computer. After using >the Diagnostic utility with SETGUS I get an this error message about 30% >of the time: > > UltraSound DMA Channel 3 test - Bad dma data compare (read) > > This error message pops up only occasionally; most of the time >the diagnostic says that everything is fine...but my computer still >locks up. I have a similar problem using 386Max and my GUS. If I have my multi-I/O and my internal modem installed, then the computer would lock up when there's a DMA transfer to/from the GUS. In fact, trying to access my floppy drives (which are on DMA 2) would lock up my computer just as tight. If I take out my multi-I/O, and leave my modem in, then 386Max will work with my GUS and floppy drives once I let the components warm up. If my modem is cool, then I get sporadic DMA errors, such as the one you got in SETGUS. Such errors caused random lockups of SBOS, playmidi, and ultramid -c. I also purchased a single COM port, and if I take out my modem and stick in that serial card, then I can get 386Max and GUS working after a warm-up period. I get sporadic DMA errors if the serial card is cool. If I slap a second UART on the serial card to get COM2, or install my internal modem (which has a UART of its own) in addition to the serial card, then 386Max and GUS would fail to work no matter how long I allow for the components to heat up. I even wrapped the cards in styrofoam. The DMA problems persisted regardless of whether I use an 8-bit or 16-bit DMA channel for the GUS, or whether I use OPTIFIX or not (I don't have an OPTi chipset, BTW). However, I can get my GUS, 386Max, my multi-I/O card and my modem to all work together if I use them under Windows. The GUS' Windows drivers work fine with 386Max, and even the GUS' DOS utilities will work in a Windows DOS box if I comment out all the GUS drivers from system.ini. (I had to hack playmidi so that it wouldn't abort saying "Can't run this program under Windows", but after that, it played .mids just fine, even in the background. SETGUS reported no problems except for the SBOS diagnostic, and SBOS, obviously, didn't work under Windows.) I have no DMA problems if EMM386 is my memory manager, or if I don't use any memory manager at all. However, I do have problems with the new SBOSes which are related to my I/O card and modem. SBOS' DAC emulation will not work properly unless I only have my modem or my single UART serial card installed, and give the cards some time to warm up. >Would purchasing a new motherboard be a solution? (I put the >GUS card in another computer and it seemed to work fine. BTW the >computer locks up almost all the time when SBOS is run, even ULTRAMIDI >-C (the Miles Drivers) will lock up my computer. > SBOS and Ultramid -c both do a lot of DMA transfers to the GUS, so it's not surprising they'll lock up. Try commenting out all your GUS drivers from system.ini (grvsultr.386 in [386enh] and ultrasnd.drv and ultmport.drv in [drivers]) and then run setgus and ultramid -c under Windows. Also, see if pulling out your multi-I/O or modem card will solve the problem. It's not a viable solution, but I would like to know if anyone else is experiencing the same multi-I/O-DMA-386Max problems that I am. I called Qualitas up to see why I couldn't use my floppies with 386Max (this was long before I got my GUS), and they said that it was a BIOS problem, and that I should upgrade my BIOS. They might be right. Do you have an old BIOS yourself? Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 20:40:52 EDT From: Jon Spewak Subject: GUS drivers for OS/2 Message-ID: <9307090040.AA11851@lambada.oit.unc.edu> > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 22:16:38 -0400 (EDT) > From: Brian Go > Subject: Good work Gravis... > Message-ID: > > I want OS/2 2.1 drivers. I have spent many unsuccessful hours trying to > make my GUS work in native OS/2. How much longer does a guy have to wait? > Gravis has sent staff to IBM and has copies of 2.1 GA..... > I sit and wait, but my patience is draining.... > Flame off.... I myself am about to install OS/2 2.1, and have a GUS. While I was at PC/Expo, I asked Gravis about the OS/2 drivers. They said what I already know was that there are no GUS drivers for OS/2 yet. But, he did say that they are working on something which won't be available for another month or two or so. He had no details about it, but at least that's something. Another thing... I just got off the phone with IBM and asked a question about the GUS working under DOS under OS/2. I asked that if I opened up a DOS session under OS/2, could I run DOS applications that access the GUS such as games, and Ultrasound sound editors, etc. They said NO the sound card would NOT work as long as the computer boots up with OS/2, and I could only use the card if I run off of a bootdisk or don't boot OS/2. But, they did say if the card emulates the Soundblaster, then the SB drivers might work. I don't know if this would work. I just got OS/2 and am reluctant to install it. Those of you running OS/2 and GUS, I'd appreciate your input about how you guys manage. Gravis.. The GUS OS/2 drivers would be greatly appreciated by us loyal GUS owners. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 14:01:30 -0600 (CDT) From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Subject: Haven't seen your post yet? Not a problem. Message-ID: <9307082001.AA13785@itchy> You may have mailed to one of the GUS addresses in the past few days and had no response. Here is the reason (as quoted from one of the sysadmins here): > Apparently several days ago our domain, ES.COM, dropped out of the > domain name services at uunet or some other domain nameserver. This > appears to be the cause of our News stoppage and may be affecting some > mail coming into the Company from outside E&S. I am working with > UUNET Technologies to resolve this problem. Please be patient. Thank > you! This problem has now been solved. If your mailed bounced, please resend it. If it *didn't* bounce, that means it was put in a queue somewhere and is waiting for ES.COM to be put back into the domain list, which should have happened by now. So your mail will get here the next time the mail queue is run. -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ DeBry dsd. peruvian. | "A jar of eyes can be a tasty treat." es. cs.utah. | com edu / ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jul 93 15:22:11 From: john.smith@gravis.com Subject: JUST TO LET YOU KNOW 1/2 Message-ID: <9307081522.A9697wk@gravis.com> JUST TO LET YOU KNOW #5 ======================= Hello fellow Gravoids Canadian Upgrades ----------------- The case of the missing Canadian upgrades seems to have been solved. Alan Alvarez has been doing a lot of calling this week and has traced them down. It seems that the fulfillment house used the courier DHL to get the packages into Canada. All 2000 Canadian upgrades were sent to DHL Chicago to clear customs. Now for the real kicker. They sat in the DHL warehouse for 1 1/2 weeks before anyone decided to do anything with it. It then took them another week and 1/2 to get the packages cleared through customs. As of July 2nd, 1993 ALL Canadian packages are actually in this country. Canada post assures us that all packages will be delivered in 6-9 days. This means everyone in Canada SHOULD start receiving their packages the week of July 12th. We have been getting a lot of run arounds here as to where our packages actually were. DBase Online ------------ We have converted the dBase of the UltraSound reg. cards to an ASCII format and have posted it as GUSDBAS.ZIP. This dBase contains a list of all names of users who were mailed the upgrades. It only contains FIRST/LAST NAME, STAGE/PROV, and the last few digits of phone numbers. This should give you enough information to figure out if your package was shipped. GUS0034 ------- As many of you have been so kind to point out, , there were a few minor problems with the V2.06 software. Namely: - The Power Chords tutor and demo icons were reversed in Windows - DEFAULT.CFG was calling a patch called TREMSTR.PAT which didn't exist - WConvert V1.01 was causing General Proctection Faults in Windows I have patched these problems and there is now a V2.06a. I know I am going to get people saying "well, I want the new version", so instead of having you download another 8Mb's I have created a file called GUS0034.ZIP which contains the above mentioned changed files. You can download it off of our BBS or any of the FTP sites. Me and the Mail --------------- I will be (attempting) to devote more of my time into other Gravis related projects. I have asked two other people in tech support to help me out with the mail, Paul Malcolm (paul.malcolm@gravis.com or tech1@gravis.com) and Matthew Arbeid (matthew.arbeid@gravis.com or tech2@gravis.com). Both people are within 15 feet of me all day long. So if they don't know how to answer your questions they can yell it at me ;-) I'll be posting these addresses in future BBS nodelists. Vacation -------- Yes I do get time off. ;-) I will be away from July 17th until July 24th, for a fun filled week of white water rafting, camping, and visiting friends in Calgary. During this time PAUL MALCOLM will be reading/responding to my mail. He has been doing mail for me every Wed. for the last 3 weeks. But I'm sure he'll be a pro by the time I come back. Any messages he can not answer he will print out and give them to me to respond once I get back. Finland ------- There is a very good chance that I will be going to Assembly '93. If I do go I'll be away July 28th until Aug 5th. You can bet I'll bring our luggable and load it up with great UltraSound software while I'm over there. There should be some great 3D demos comming out of this show. AIL/DIGPAK ---------- Here is some news about our AIL/DIGPAK drivers. I have been informed that Trilobyte is cutting some new 7th Guest CDROM disks, which are suppose to have UltraSound drivers on them. There is an update to RULES OF ENGAGEMENT II which fix some bugs and ADD UltraSound support (ROE2UP.ZIP). Return to Zork by Activision is going to have GUS support (AIL) and there should be a demo of it floating around the nets someplace..... I know I'm forgetting some others but I can't think of them now. Latest Gravis Node List ----------------------- . Authorized Gravis BBS Nodes List . as of . July 7, 1993 . Name Location BBS Phone No. Speed ================================================================ Advanced Gravis Burnaby, Canada (604) 431-5927 V32bis . . . Deep Cove BBS White Rock, Canada(604) 536-5859 DS MIDI 1040 Vancouver, Canada (604) 732-4446 V32bis Infinite Dreams Vancouver, Canada (604) 733-6432 DS . (604) 733-8193 V32bis WolfPack Richmond, Canada (604) 275-3047 DS T-8000 Info. System Calgary, Canada (403) 246-4487 V32bis Download Dungeon Ontario, Canada (705) 749-3233 V32bis Super Sonic Ontario, Canada (416) 225-2872 2400 . (416) 225-8942 DS QWERTY Quebec, Canada (514) 473-9357 V32bis Data Bank BBS Pennsylvania, USA (215) 429-9455 V32bis The Sound Barrier New York, USA (718) 979-6629 DS . (718) 979-9406 V32bis Music Connection Texas, USA (Plano)(214) 596-2827 DS . (214) 964-3743 V32 CyberSpace - The Matrix Texas, USA(Carrol)(214) 394-9339 V32bis . JoyFull Noise Oregon, USA (503) 335-9600 &DS . (503) 335-3053 ZV32bis I can 'C' Clearly Now! Iowa, USA (515) 472-3651 V32bis Open Access BBS Norway, Europe +47-61-97945 V32bis The 1st Dutch MIDI BBS Netherland, Europe+31-15138754 DS . +31-85510944 2400 Geniaal BBS 2 Netherland, Europe+31-2290-43038 V32bis . +31-2290-45816 V32bis New Age System Estonia, Europe +372-2-606319 V32bis StarPort Finland, Europe +358-0-804-4626 DS . +358-0-804-1133 2400 StarFire Germany, Europe +49-9131-538303 V32bis AWAX-CBL Moscow, Europe +7-095201-5115 ZV32bis MultiMedia Singapore, Asia +65-2521220 ZV32bis Paranoimia-Art of Noise Victoria,Australia+61-3-379-7041 V32 . Files Only ================================================================ UltraSound Connection Florida, USA (813) 787-8644 DS Logical Solutions Calgary, Canada (403) 299-9923 V32bis TechTalk Calgary, Canada (403) 280-4938 V32bis P.O.P. Finland, Europe +358-18-550136 DS . +358-18-550982 DS ================================================================ NOTE(S): - All systems are No Parity, 8 Data Bits, 1 Stop bit (N81) . - All systems are online 24 hours/day . - Speeds: V32bis - 14,400 bits per second (CCITT standard) . HST - 14,400/16,800 bits per second (US Robotics Prop.) . DS - 14,400/16,800 bits per second (HST/V32bis) . - * - Files are File Requestable . - % - EMail Only. No FTP or Telnet. . - & - Does not accept >= 2400 baud calls . - Z - Zyxel (16.8K and 19.2K bps) About the Gravis Nodes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All nodes are independent BBSs', and are not run or sponsored by Gravis. As such the logon procedures for each BBS may vary. For instance, some give you immediate access, while others have a probation period which may last several days. All nodes are encouraged to offer all the Gravis files and messages to first time callers but this may not always be the case. If you are interested in becoming an Authorized Gravis Node you may file request or download GRAV-APP.ZIP from the Gravis BBS. Other Sources for UltraSound Files: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- .CompuServe: GO PCVENB area #14 71333,350 . GO MACDVEN area #10 75300,733 .FTP Sites: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound . wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/msdos/ultrasound .Internet EMail: Tech Support 1 (Paul Malcolm) tech1@gravis.com . Tech Support 2 (Matthew Arbeid) tech2@gravis.com . Sales sales@gravis.com . .Internet: UltraSound Digest: ultrasound%itchy@dsd.es.com . GUS SDK Digest: gus-sdk%itchy@dsd.es.com . To post to tomorrow's digest .Request: Daily Digest Server: ultrasound-request%itchy@dsd.es.com . GUS SDK Digest: gus-sdk-request%itchy@dsd.es.com . To subscribe, unsubscribe, and request files .Owner Address: ultrasound-owner%itchy@dsd.es.com . To contact a human if the server has troubles The %itchy and dsd domains will be removed sometime during the beginning .of June. So ultrasound%itchy@dsd.es.com will become ultrasound@es.com. ======================================================================== That is all for now. I have to hurry and get down to the passport office (Continued to next message) --- ~ QMPro 1.50 05-8925 ~ He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Jul 93 15:22:14 From: john.smith@gravis.com Subject: JUST TO LET YOU KNOW 2/2 Message-ID: <9307081522.A9698wk@gravis.com> (Continued from previous message) before they close (government office). C'ya John Warning: this document wasn't run through a spell checker so wear protective glasses And no comments from Godfrey this time ;-) cc: support@fortech.com --- ~ QMPro 1.50 05-8925 ~ He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly ------------------------------ Date: Thu Jul 08 12:24:52 1993 From: monty@butler.cps.com (Montgomery Kosma) Subject: problem with Windows drivers & Winprinter Message-ID: <2c3c5866.butler@butler.cps.com> Anybody else out there using a GUS in the same system as a LaserMaster Winprinter product? I find that if I have the GUS windows drivers loaded, the Winprinter's 800dpi postscript mode will not run. There are no IRQ, DMA, or I/O address conflicts--looks like a software-level incompatibility to me... help! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Montgomery Kosma monty@butler.cps.com Phone: 816-968-3542 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 10:32:01 -0700 From: jon p tsai Subject: Space Hulk Message-ID: <9307081732.AA03965@watserv.ucr.edu> I am just wondering if anyone has gotten Space Hulk to work with GUS. It seems like the music works, but the speech is cut off after the first few syllables. Also, the game tend to jam up at the complettion of a mission. The latter doesnt happen if no sound is selected. Just wondering if anyone can help. Thanx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jul 93 01:44:56 +0300 From: tjakobs@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl (THEO_JAKOBS TEL.62667) Subject: trouble with gus Message-ID: <9307082244.AA14774@muxgw1.ms.philips.nl> Hi... I recently have purchased me a GUS, but since the time i put the thing in the computer till the time i'm writing this i have not really enjoyed the card. I've got some problems: 1. When i wan't to try FLIDEMO.BAT the only thing that happens is, the screen goes black and the fisrt tones are heared, but then it really fucks up, the messages of 'select dma' etc... are heard and a terrible noise is heard. This is not only on my 486sx/25 but also on my 386dx/40... But i can look at the fli with my own fli-player, and listen to the sound with the sample program, but not at the same time.... The MIDIDEMO.BAT works fine, after i had to change the patchdir in ULTRA.INI 2. SBOS......... well i don't know what everybody's talking about, but this SBOS......... well i really can't say this is a SB emulator, because i can't get it to work with almost every game.. like prince of persia 2, it is really a terrible noise that it provides, and after the first spoken line(of the story) it stops saying anything, but i still hear that awfull music(the SB is much much much better), or Alone in the dark... i start SBOS 2.10, and i select the SB(with DMA), but when the first graphix should appear, the com- puter just freezes up... 3. Because of the trouble i have with SBOS, i would like to know why i can't use my SOUNDBLASTER (compatible) in my computer.. when i select another DMA,IRQ and baseadress this should work(or not?).. 4. Why isn't gravis giving us the source of SBOS, so we can modify and alter it as we like.... because maybe the GUS can really emulate the SB without using preset samples(on disk).... well i did have some fun with it, with the game zone66, but not that much fun because the game is to difficult for me (even in easy mode).. And ofcourse with GUSMOD 2.11 (one of the best modplayers i've ever seen) Andre Jakobs MicroBrain Technologies Inc. Son en Breugel The Netherlands ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jul 93 12:45:05 -0400 From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #35 Message-ID: <9307071645.AA02521@magick.tay2.dec.com> > Bah, give it time. The GUS is still pretty new, and most stores don't > even carry it. If programmers were to start supporting every piece of > hardware that came out, they'd spend all their time writing device > drivers. Even if a program is 100 times better, it still has to find > its place in the market. The last thing anything has in the PC world is time. I've seen support for Aria-based cards and the Microsoft Sound System, yet these same programs don't support the GUS. Now that the AIL drivers are done, I think support will blossom, but "give it time" is a quick route to death in the PC biz... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 16:32:13 +0001 From: "Z. Horvat" Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #36 Message-ID: <93Jul7.153219dft.1100@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de> > > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 22:44:07 -0400 > From: Carl Pettypiece > Subject: I Got Rhythm .MID uploaded to epas > Message-ID: <9307070244.AA08765@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> > > > 2. I'm experiencing problems with MIDI input via a Korg M1 and the MIDI > box described in the FAQ. It works perfectly except that short delays > are sometimes experienced from when I press a key to hearing the sound. > The music is not necessarily fast (sometimes it's the first note in a > sequence). Is this a common problem? Is it something I have to live > with? Is it Windows? Is it my machine (386DX/25)? Is it my opti- > osilator (NTE3093 -- says it's compatible with the 6N138)? Note that > MIDI output to the Korg does not have this problem. Got the same problem here, and i'm using a 6N135 Optocoupler. I'm not a wizard in electronics and the guy in the e-parts-shop told me it would functionally not matter which one to build in the circuit :-( Output is o.k., but the input side sometimes misses an note on or note off.... I guess we should both get a real 6N138. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jul 93 11:55:30 SAT From: "Michael Patricios" Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #37 Message-ID: In digest 4 #37, Christopher Kellmeyer writes: > ARGHHH!!!! I just spent 3-4 hours last night trying to get the AIL drivers > to work with Dune2. And every time, I get the same results as the other > person (sorry I forget who) that posted here a few days ago. > > That result is that it tries to initialize the mt32 and for some reason > tries to access the a: drive in my case (single floppy system a: and b:). > After approx. seven ......., Dune2 bails giving me an insufficient memory > error. The reason for the bailout has nothing to do with the GUS (except that Ultramid is taken up some base memory). You do not have enough base memory to run the game! Try load Ultramid high, this will give your more base memory which the game needs to run. As for the attempted access to your a: and b: drives, don't worry about it, it always does it for me and the drivers work great! PS: DO NOT run the setup program after the duneail program, this atomatically changes the game config for you to use the GUS for music and digitized sounds. > ps. I have tried with several different configs, including loading everything > high, and some without the mouse. It is unlikely (well, I couldn't anyway) that you managed to load EVERYTHING high. Try loading Ultramid before your mouse driver, it needs 64K free hi memory to install and then takes up 56K when resident. An irritating thing about DOS's loadhi (well DOS 5 anyway, I don't have DOS 6) is that if there is not enough space in himem, it loads the program low, but doesn't warn you that it did. > A disgruntled GUSer, No need to be disgruntled, I think Gravis is doing an excellent job in terms of after sales support, esp. with the Miles drivers. Thanks Gravis, keep up the good work (a version of the Miles drivers which uses less BASE memory would be nice - yes I know you have promised it, I am not hucking). Also, to those people in Canada complaining about not receiving their disks, STOP BEING SO CHILDISH! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Patricios Electrical Engineering Wits University Sunny South Africa Internet: patricio@odie.ee.wits.ac.za --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 10:42:04 -0700 From: winston@Cadence.COM (Winston S Worrell) Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #37 Xwing now works Message-ID: <9307081742.AA01110@cds653> Hi, To the people who reponded to me thanks (CS_RMOYE.CS0.LAMAR.EDU - mail daemon returned it for some unknown reason) Anyway, it looks like they are SERIOUS about int 11 being set on the GUS. I changed my SCSI controller (which was on 11) to 10, made sure I had nothing on 7 and lo and behold. X-Wing and SYNDICATE now work. I now have the problem whre the screen freezes/jumps/locks when I fire., any way around that one? Just to add my $1.50 worth to the late disks. Considering its been almost 1 year since I got mine (OK September will be a year), I don't have my reciept or my box. I think its being pretty petty, since If they didn't get my reg card I'd be in the same boat. I think they should just request the serial number (if you can't supply the above) and they can check for bogus people that way. -Winston "Happy, Happy, Joy of Joys!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue Jul 06 09:02:23 1993 From: monty@butler.cps.com (Montgomery Kosma) Subject: X-Wing and GUS Message-ID: <2c3985f2.butler@butler.cps.com> Hi folks... I'm a new ultrasound owner and have been having trouble getting X-Wing to run with my GUS, at least without any jerkiness. Right now, when playing X-Wing, each time a digitized sound is played (e.g. the TIE fighter scream, or a laser blast), the display will sort of "hang" until the sound has finished playing. When not in flight mode, everything works fine; of course, jerkiness during flight makes things a bit tough. I'm using SBOS ver 1.10 I think (I just downloaded the newest driver last Friday). I've got a 486/33 with 16MB ram, and I've also got a MusicQuest MPU-401 midi card driving an external General Midi module. I've noticed the X-Wing problem with and without using the midi stuff. thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Montgomery Kosma monty@butler.cps.com Phone: 816-968-3542 ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #38 *************************************