Ultrasound Daily Digest Tue Aug 24 00:45 Volume 5: Issue 23 Today's Topics: And yet more on the emf_ecl demo... debut final Duff Windows apps on GUS ftp sites GUS files via email How to play .au files? MidiSoft Recording Session Difficulties More about stereo in Windows TSR Space and DPMS 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 93 10:55:45 -0400 From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" Subject: And yet more on the emf_ecl demo... Message-ID: <9308231455.AA08950@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... I tried everything I could think of, making boot disks and booting MS-DOS 5.0, DR DOS 6.0, etc. Either this thing wanted more memory (more than 605K!) or it complained that I was in Virtual 8086 mode and to reboot without QEMM386. So, I'd like to know if ANYONE has gotten this thing to work and if so, how? And was it worth it? To all the demo programmers out there, please try and get your demo to run in the "normal" PC environment...Most people use memory managers, most machines are in V86 mode and most folks don't have 630K free... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 8:15:15 CDT From: Michael J Stumpf Subject: debut final Message-ID: <9308231315.AA07948@tamsun.tamu.edu> Debut final's final screen is that group logo, which you hit space or something to get out of. I'm not the coder that made it, but it worked fine on my machine and that's how I saw it. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 14:07:40 +0000 From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Duff Windows apps on GUS ftp sites Message-ID: <00971747.542F2421.20527@lsl.co.uk> A recent thread of discussion (to which only peter@netcom.com and myself contributed) concerned the non-working of MIDIMON - a Windows mini MIDI app avilable from the ftp site. Peter seems to have the solution to this for those with source code and compilers. I have now investigated MIDBUF (a Windows DLL), and MIDREC and MIDFIL (two mini-apps which use MIDBUF). As supplied, MIDBUF is missing code to do with MIDI output. MIDREC uses this version of MIDBUF, and hence doesn't work. MIDFIL seems to have a newer, updated MIDBUF, and so works better, but still has bugs, particularly if more than 4k data is recorded (easy if your keyboard sends lots of timing clocks). I have now debugged these programs, and can successfully build them using Borland Turbo C++ for Windows. If anyone is interested in the changes required, then let me know. It surprises me that these non-working programs come to be uploaded. Surely someone should have run them first. From the lack of response usually to messages like this, it would seem that very few people are interested. I know that there is a programmer's digest also. Can anyone who subscribes to that also tell us whether any more response would be likely there, or is it all about DOS programming in which I am not interested? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 11:24:47 BST From: James Andrews Subject: GUS files via email Message-ID: <15343.9308231024@euclid.vortex1.exeter.ac.uk> RE Robert Aswani's request for files in the uk via email. If you ask for GUS stuff via email it will arrive uuencoded and in bits. You will have to get the email messages, stick them together with a text editor and then uudecode them with a special program- this will make the zip file of whatever that the software is in. Some email packages do this automatically. Ask you sysop for more details on this process. I suggest you pull the main index- /pub/pc/ultrasound/00Index.ALL Pick some thing smallish from the index and try it out. Alternatively, I run a shareware disk redistribution service on the side- set of ten disks full for 25 quid, amongst other deals. Please email me back if you want more details on this, I can't send the details out unsolicited as I believe this would be a breach of net-manners. -- James Andrews, Computer Development Officer, Exeter University Maths Dept ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 08:03:30 -0400 From: gkmaier@crl.mobil.com (Greg K. Maier) Subject: How to play .au files? Message-ID: <9308231203.AA02338@crlux1.crl.mobil.com> Hello, I have an interesting looking .au file here...underdog.au. That's one of my favorite cartoons! Is there any way to play .au files on the GUS? I checked the FTP archive but don't see any utilities for .au files. Greg M gkmaier@crl.mobil.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 19:05:20 CDT From: Robert Schmanski Subject: MidiSoft Recording Session Difficulties Message-ID: <9308240005.AA28442@mixcom.mixcom.com> Hi, I've been having tons of problems with Recording Session, including the program reporting "Out of Memory" when there is over a meg available, the program corrupting midi files, some kind of Windows Kernel Protection Fault, just plain locking the PC (note Ctrl-Alt-Del let's me terminate the program and get back to Windows), and the error message "STUDIO/S caused a General Protection Fault in module SESSION.EXE at 001A:110D". Now from what I've heard and seen, Recording Session is basically a stripped down version of Recording Studio (Midisoft's full-blow commercial midi sequencer). There are even bits of info in the help file that were left in from when they stripped down Studio (ie. it says you can load/save type 0,1,2 midi files when only type 1 is actually available). My question is, are my problems unique to my system/configuration, or are others having this problem? Does anyone (including Gravis and MidiSoft) have any suggestions as to what I might be able to do to correct this. I've tried reinstalling Session, and the UltraSound Windows Drivers (after removing the first installation), but the problems remain. If you would like any more info (ultrasnd.ini, system.ini, etc) just email me. Come on Gravis, either include software that works and is well coded (not a quickly stripped down version of a commercial product), or don't include any at all. It's really frustrating to have to save my work every five minutes (because I don't know when the program will decide to barf on me) and under different file names (because I don't know when it's really saving the file or corrupting it). I don't want to sound like I'm putting all of the blame on Gravis, because MidiSoft is as responsible (if not more so). It isn't very good policy to distribute sloppily stripped down versions of your products with one of the best sound cards on the market, it just makes both companies look bad. MidiSoft, make sure you take the time to properly remove options and commands from the software AND the help file before selling it to a company to be bundled with their hardware. Gravis make sure that the software that you bundle with your hardware works PROPERLY, especially when it is made by a company other than yourselves. I hope Gravis is reading this and that they relay my disappointment to Midisoft. -- Bob Schmanski Email Adress: Robert.Schmanski@mixcom.com or: bschmans@solaria.mil.wi.us ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:02:59 -0400 From: Roger Frederi Clark Subject: More about stereo in Windows Message-ID: <199308231302.AA00493@bach.udel.edu> In seeing all these postings about people unable to get stereo recordings in Windows, I thought I'd add my observations on the matter. I have both Pocket Recorder(from Simtel I think) and Goldwave 0.9(from epas). Goldwave allows me to record 44.1khz, stereo, 8bit with no problem. When I tried this with Pocket Recorder, it won't allow stereo, only mono. If one program allows it and another doesn't, I doubt it's the driver from Gravis, unless Goldwave doesn't check things right. Throw that into the mess. Roger Clark helios@bach.udel.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 15:18:47 MESZ From: SGREENWO@MHS.novell.de (Scott Greenwood) Subject: TSR Space and DPMS Message-ID: <8024563B019D4FD9@MHS.novell.de> Hi, I have been reading the digest for some time now and one of the big problems that comes up again and again is the the large amount of conventional memory that TSR programs such as SBOS, AUDIO use. My company (Novell) has just released a product called DPMS (Dos Protected Mode Services) this allows you to develop TSRs that use protected mode on 286,386,486 and above computers, it is compatible with DOS 3.x and above and MS Windows. The DPMS API has been designed specifically for drivers and TSRs not for regular programs that would use the DPMI API. TSRs written to take advantage of DPMS can exist with a very small conventional/upper memory footprint. Novell allow you to distribute the DPMS server royalty free provided that you register your DPMS program with them for development tracking and customer referrals. The DPMS SDK is available and includes DPMS.EXE and the API documentation. If anyone is interested E-mail me and I will provide more information or if you are in the US or Canada and wish to join the Novell Professional Developer's Program (which is free) contact Novell inc. on Phone 1-800-NET-WARE (638-9273) Fax (512) 345-7478 I think that this would solve most of the memory related problems with games, I will post the official press release when I can find it. Sorry if this does not interest you but it was the best way of reaching all the people involved in GUS development esp GRAVIS !!!!!! Scott. :-) ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V5 #23 *************************************