Ultrasound Daily Digest Mon Aug 23 00:07 Volume 5: Issue 22 Today's Topics: Demos Working Strangely DMP261B and planb.lzh No Stereo-In in Windows Power Chords Pro Upgrade $ 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: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 00:29:49 +0200 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Demos Working Strangely Message-ID: <199308222229.AAA13229@ruben.lysator.liu.se> In GUS Digest #5.18, 19 Aug 93, wrote: [snip snip] > On the same theme, debute_f!.exe runs pretty well until it gets to the > "flying through the tunnel of dots" part. The "tunnel" is missing and I > just get brief flashes of dots and then an error message, "Can't free up > program memory (9" or something like that. Sure enough, tools like Manifest > report alot of free memory gone and it takes a reboot to fix it... > > Am I the only one with these problems? No, you're not alone out there. I had the same problem with debute_f! first. I didn't know there was supposed to be a "tunnel", but I figured something was wrong with it. I didn't get the "Can't free up.." message though. The demo just continued after the (as I saw it) blinking tunnel-dots part 'til the end. But, a couple of days later, I showed it to a friend, and then the tunnel-part worked okay, but this time, the demo froze directly afterwards, with the demo-group's logo in the middle of the screen. Cold-boot was the only remedy. I guess they're still in beta. Anyway, demos mostly knock on the hardware pretty hard, and I'm not surprised when they work differently when I run 'em the second time. //Erik ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 15:46:20 -0400 From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" Subject: Re: DMP261B and planb.lzh Message-ID: <9308221946.AA07315@magick.tay2.dec.com> > Has anyone gotten the planb.lzh demo to run? All I got out of it was a > "Packed File is Corrupt" from DOS Geez, I hate when I have to followup to myself. Plan B actually ran fine for a while (no sound, I think) until it rebooted my machine. As has been pointed out elsewhere it's emf_ecl.exe that produced the Packed File is Corrupt error. I tried running loadfix, but it didn't work quite right. But then, I'm using DRDOS 6.0, not MS-DOS Anything... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 21:51:03 EDT From: Mark Pfeifer Subject: No Stereo-In in Windows Message-ID: <9308230151.AA27766@eden.lf.hp.com> [Symptom - DOS stereo recording works fine, Windows does not.] I think it's a bug in the device driver. I wrote a small program that queries the capabilities of the wave input device, and it only reports one channel input (mono), but then in the input format enumeration, enumerates stereo formats. (These should match.) I haven't tried writing my own recording program that ignores the info. returned from the driver, but my guess is that it can record stereo with the Windows driver, but that programs that check the capabilities (like they should) will only use mono on the GUS. I reported this as a bug to this list 2 or three volumes ago, but it's still present in the newest driver. If anyone wants to see the code that (I think) demonstrates this bug, let me know. I'd be more than happy to write this up more formally for Gravis. Hope this helps. Mark -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mark Pfeifer (302) 633-8260 Internet: pfeifer@lf.hp.com Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site #include Wilmington, DE 19808 #define OPINIONS mine ------------------------------ Date: 22 Aug 93 09:08:41 EDT From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Power Chords Pro Upgrade $ Message-ID: <930822130841_71333.2166_DHQ55-2@CompuServe.COM> > TIMKWAN > It costs $75.00 US to upgrade from the Gravis version of Power Chords to the > Pro version. There should have been an order form in with your disks. If > not you can send your order to: > Howling Dog Systems > Kanata North Postal Outlet > Box 72071 > Kanata, Ontario, Canada > K2K 2P4 > Phone: (613) 599-7927 > Fax: (613) 599-7926 ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V5 #22 *************************************