Ultrasound Daily Digest Wed, 8 Sep 93 :07 MDT Volume 6: Issue 7 Today's Topics: Anyone heard of Technology Inc ? Bio Menace Farandole General Midi question Help, how do I use program PatchCaching? how do I order a GUS IRQs available on PCs line-in MIDI + samples MPC compatibility origin's net address OS2/2.1 Drivers Redskins awesome in victory over Cowboys The Software Toolworks Multimedial Encyclopedia Ultrasound Daily Digest V6 #6 Wolf3d, it's not doublespace Wolfenstein 3-D 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: Tue, 07 Sep 93 12:27:00 -0400 From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" Subject: Re: Message-ID: <9309071627.AA11276@magick.tay2.dec.com> > there was a comment about enabling the line-in under os0.5, if nothing > else works try using the windows compattibility to run the ultrasound > mixer, and enable the line-in only as well as volume, etc, then just swap > out of that leaving it in memory I use 'ultrinit -o' to enable the output port of the GUS in DOS (and basically the same thing under OS/2). I think 'ultrinit -l' will enable the line-in... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 09:45:27 BST From: Andy Hewett Subject: Anyone heard of Technology Inc ? Message-ID: <6098.9309070845@essex.mround.bt.co.uk> Can anyone help me with this ? I'm trying to find out some more about an old audio board by a company called Technology Inc. All I have to go on is the name "DV1 Audio Board 01" and it has a daughter board labelled "DV1 Audio Digitiser 01". There's another board which looks like it's related, called the "DV1 Utility Board 02". If this is what I think it is (a multi-input audio A/D converter) I'm hoping to write some software that will use it as a digital mixer, outputting through the GUS. TIA, Andy ahewett@mround.bt.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 18:53:00 +0000 From: FINK_MARTIN/HP2000_13@idacom.hp.com Subject: Bio Menace Message-ID: Does anyone have info on getting Bio Menace (Apogee) working with GUS. Currently it blows up as soon as you shoot something. I've tried all switch combinations to no avail. Martin mfink@canada.hp.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 19:45:12 PDT From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor) Subject: Farandole Message-ID: <9309080245.AA09842@netcom2.netcom.com> Phat, who is not the Ultrasound Server once wrote... $ $ ------------------------------ $ $ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 15:21:57 -0400 (EDT) $ From: Phat H Tran $ Subject: Line-in, FAR file $ Message-ID: $ $ My hunch is that a .far is the file format used by Farandole, a new 16 $ channel tracker for the GUS. A beta of Farandole is on Epas, but it just $ locks up my machine. $ $ Phat. I got it to run. I had to use F5 to ditch everything. Even then, it took several tries before it played the sample .far file all the way through. I wonder what environment (if any) the author is writing it in. Oops - and here is the probable cause: 0018D0 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 10 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 .01234567 0018E0 38 39 61 62 63 64 65 66 00 43 61 6E 6E 6F 74 20 89abcdef Cannot 0018F0 65 78 65 63 20 67 6F 33 32 2E 65 78 65 0D 0A 00 exec go32.exe.. 001900 67 6F 33 32 00 21 70 72 6F 78 79 00 00 00 00 13 go32 !proxy . 001910 02 02 04 05 06 08 08 08 14 15 05 13 FF 16 05 11 ................ I'll have to check and see if a different go32.exe will help. I hear the newest one has some problems with new DPMI support. -- Mike Batchelor | mikebat@netcom.com | This space for rent mikebat@qdeck.com | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 09:12:40 -0700 From: peter@netcom.com (Peter Davies) Subject: General Midi question Message-ID: <9309071612.AA13733@netcom5.netcom.com> In checking out the recently posted GUS compliant midi Jukebox surfer tool (Mycroft's) I was reminded of a seeming anomaly that I had noted before and forgotten. There is a midi file in many of the popular midi file respositories named "ad.mid". If play this file using WindJammer 2.24 I notice a distinct percussive sound (a cowbell) during the introductory portion of the piece. If I play this using Microsoft mediaplayer the cow-bell is missing (also if I play it with Mycroft's Surfin' jukebox). I'm led to understand that the Microsoft mediaplayer is some sort of de facto standard so my question is, what is WindJammer reading from the file that Mediaplayer (and Mycroft's jukebox) is missing? I believe the answer to this question has been previously posted but I have lost all recollection of the answer. thankyou peter@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 10:21:46 +0930 (CST) From: Gavin Subject: Re: Help, how do I use program PatchCaching? Message-ID: <930908102146.1b397@hfrd.dsto.gov.au> >So, exactly how (and when) do I use the two patch caching functions? Get a copy of KBMIDIIN.zip from epas archive site in the /util/windows dir. It has C source code that shows how to do patch caching, it is _very_ easy to do, from memory it's only one line of code since windows actually does all the work. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 18:22:01 CDT From: chris@cs.tamu.edu (Chris Cunningham) Subject: how do I order a GUS Message-ID: <9309072322.AA09526@clavin> Would someone please send me the mailing address or phone number for Gravis so I can order a GUS? Thanks for your help, Have a nice day, ============================================================================= Chris M. Cunningham Internet: chris@cs.tamu.edu AS/400 Systems Manager Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science Room 301, H.R. Bright Bldg. Office: (409) 845-8752 College Station, TX FAX: (409) 847-8578 77843-3112 ---Not an official document of Texas A&M--- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 11:56:47 -0400 From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" Subject: Re: IRQs available on PCs Message-ID: <9309071556.AA11185@magick.tay2.dec.com> > IRQ 11 is unused, unless you have a GUS! Or an Adaptec SCSI host adapter, which I dare say are alot more common than UltraSounds. It's way unfortunate that Gravis chose this as the default GF1 IRQ as there are lots of folks whose machines hung or otherwise got nasty when SETGUS tried to play with this IRQ. It appears to be a problem with GUSMod and GUS Tracker, too. FWIW, if you're gonna write code for an Ultrasound, use the ULTRASND environment variable to determine where the damn thing is... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 22:42:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Jody L. Baze Subject: Re: line-in Message-ID: <9309080442.AA22707@carina.unm.edu> Thanks to everyone who responeded with help on how to enable line-in. John -- jbaze@carina.unm.edu John Poet using a friends account ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 11:17:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Philip Andrew Nemec Subject: MIDI + samples Message-ID: > - HOW SHOULD I MANAGE TO FIT SYNCHRONOUS MIDI + AUDIO PLAYBACK? > (i.e. .mid+.snd or .wav) I know GUS can do it! I don' ask even 'bout > synchro recording (it may be done with external [analog] audio > monitoring)... Answers may be: > a) "Share a good programmer lendin' him the SDK " > b) "Wait for brave new software comin' soon..." > c) "This program already exists..." > d) "The daughterboard shall do it easily..." > e) ? > > Any suggestions, please... Well - programming for Ultramid this is pretty simple. I have a skeleton program that plays a midi file and lets you pound out .wavs to your heart's content... Cakewalk, I believe allows .wav playback stuck into a song, but only one at a time (yeah Windows). I think it would be pretty easy to record MIDI events at the same time as sampling. Philip Nemec ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 08:50:53 -0400 From: hal wayne black Subject: MPC compatibility Message-ID: <9309071250.AA21748@mik.uky.edu> Hello. Can anyone tell me definitively whether the GUS is MPC compatible? Or if there is a TSR or something that I can run to make it MPC compaitble (in stereo), and where I can find it. Thanks a lot! -- | sylk@mik.uky.edu | hwblac00@ukpr.uky.edu | hwblac01@d.ecc.engr.uky.edu | "Anyone that does not have a basic understanding of mathematics is merely a sub-human creature that has been taught not to make a mess in the house." --Robert Heinlein ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 04:31:41 +0700 (MST) From: Adam Cowen Subject: origin's net address Message-ID: Hey all, I was looking through a magazine and saw a new game from Origin. It looks to be in the same category of the Ultima Underworld series. The reason I ask for someone's address at Origin is that I want to find out if Origin will be directly supporting the GUS or will they at least use standardized AIL drivers so that we GUS owners can simply insert our own drivers. Please respond by email directly to me... thanks in advance BTW the game is called Shadow Stalker (or something really close) Adam Cowen cowen@ee.ualberta.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 04:10:15 +1000 From: els413c@fawlty1.eng.monash.edu.au (KWT Wong) Subject: OS2/2.1 Drivers Message-ID: <9309071810.AA07289@fawltyds.eng.monash.edu.au> Hi folks, I am wondering what is the latest happenings with the OS/2 drivers. Haven't heard this subject being mentioned for quite a while now. I am currently thinking of switching to OS/2 and hoping to take my GUS with me without going back to DOS/Win. So, could anyone let me know?? Oh, yeah if anyone is about to convince me otherwise about OS/2 e-mail me. Thanks, Kevin els413c@fawltyds.eng.monash.edu.au ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 06:21:17 PDT From: deraud@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com (Robert Lee DeRaud) Subject: Redskins awesome in victory over Cowboys Message-ID: <9309071321.AA20238@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com> >From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor) >Subject: IRQs available on PCs >These are the IRqs that are normally unused on a 486, ...or a 386, or a 286: anything but an XT, in fact. [stuff for IRQ0-7 deleted] >IRQ 8 is the int10 video interrupt. Already taken. Well, no, it's the 'real time clock' (according to Hogan's Programmer's PC Sourcebook)...and yes, it's already taken. >IRQ 9 is the same as IRQ 2. Probably unused; note that originally IRQ2 was 'vertical retrace interrupt' for EGA, but nobody did anything with it. This is the redirected int10, which is the old IRQ2, before it was taken over by the 8259 cascade. If that sounds confusing, don't worry about it. >IRQ 10 is unused. My Mitsumi CD defaults to this IRQ. >IRQ 11 is unused, unless you have a GUS! A lot of 16-bit boards are configurable for IRQ9-12, so watch out if you have anything 'exotic' (e.g. Ethernet, SCSI, GUS :-)). >IRQ 12 is the MS Mouse interrupt. This is only used if you have a PS/2 or >Bus mouse. Serial mice take IRQ 3 or 4. Uh...I don't think so. PS/2 MIGHT use it for the mouse but all Microsoft bus mice have an *8-bit* interface: IRQ jumpers are available only for 2-7. [stuff for IRQ13-15 deleted] > I put my COM >ports on IRQ 12 and 15 for better communications performance in DESQview. How? I've never seen a 16-bit comm adapter (except maybe some of those multichannel beasts for BBS hookups), and most comm S/W assumes the 'standard' COM1=IRQ4, COM2=IRQ3 setup. (Jeez, he MUST know what he's talking about, he works for Quarterdeck! :-) ) *********************************************************************** Lee DeRaud Will program Windows for food. Rockwell Int. AESD (Hey, I'm easy but I'm not cheap!) DoD #985 - Fast and ugly beats slow and cute any day of the week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- My own opinions only, not those of Rockwell International. (Yeah, right: like anyone around here cares what *I* say...NOT!) *********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 9:19:12 GMT From: Subject: The Software Toolworks Multimedial Encyclopedia Message-ID: <9309071319.AA21101@doh1f.hcom.gov> I received Tookworks Multimedia Encyclopedia with my Mitsumi CD Rom drive and cannot get it to work properly with the Ultrasound card. I can get sound out of sound files, full motion vidio but cannot get it to play sound/video at the same time. The software wants to see the sound card driver before loading it's driver in the config.sys. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get this application to work correctly with the Ultrasound card? Thanks, Jim O'Brien ****************************************************************** * * * Jim O'Brien * * NYS Dept. of Health * * Empire State Plaza Concourse Rm 141 * * Albany, NY 12237 * * Phone #: 1-800-638-3808 or FAX #: (518)473-0101 * * Bitnet ID: jeo01@albnydh2.bitnet * * * ****************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 11:46:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Phat H Tran Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V6 #6 Message-ID: > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 19:35:54 +0501 (EDT) > From: Gunnar Swanson > Subject: Reply to question on Gravis Support > Message-ID: > > Dear Phat, > > As I wrote a few days ago Impressions has come out with a a set of > drivers for Rules of Engagement 2. Be aware however that they are only > for AIL support and does not support GUS in native mode. Needless to say that > I was very disappointed. The game is not that great anyway save your > money and wait for Microprose's Moon Over Orion or the crossover of Pax > Imperia. > Any GUS support in those two games? BTW, anybody know what SilverBall is? It's supposed to have GUS support. > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 10:23:57 -0600 (MDT) > From: bfreeman@NMSU.Edu > Subject: Wolfenstein 3-D > Message-ID: <9309061623.AA19217@NMSU.Edu> > > I have been having lots of trouble getting Wolfenstein 3-D to work > with my Gravis. I saw that the FAQ mentions it and that there should > be no problems with it working. I have SBOS 2.08 and have even tried > it with SBOS 2.10B. But on either one, a large amount of sounds being > produced at the same time (the gattling gun, machine gun, or pistol > and immediately opening a door, shooting someone, etc.) will cause my > computer to lock up. > This is a common problem on even the real SB with early versions of Wolf3D. Id have supposedly fixed it in the latest version of the game (1.4?). If the lockups still occur with 1.4, try playing without EMM386. To DDA: I tried running the Parity demo with my GUS on 240h, as you've asked, and no, it did not run with music (although the demo does run). DMP262 works fine with my GUS on 240h. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 09:21:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Ouch! Quit pokin' me! Subject: Re: Wolf3d, it's not doublespace Message-ID: Nope, it's not doublespace. I have happily wasted many hours playing the game, and I have a doublespaced drive. I'm using sbos2.08, have a GUS with 512K (although I used to have 256K and it worked just as well), 486/25, joystick, mouse. I have never had any problems with the game using XMS or not using XMS. Actually, I have never had a problem at all with the game, even with all of the edits and changes I've toyed around with. Hmm... what are your settings? Mine are at the default for both the gus and sb settings. Well, hope this narrows down the options of what's wrong. chris yaga@u.washington.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 10:27:49 +0930 (CST) From: Gavin Subject: Re: Wolfenstein 3-D Message-ID: <930908102749.17c44@hfrd.dsto.gov.au> >I have been having lots of trouble getting Wolfenstein 3-D to work >with my Gravis....I am afraid it may be the doublespace messing another program >up. Could be because an Engineer here had trouble with doublespace corrupting data, I think it's a known bug. I have no trouble with wolf3d and SBOS2b10. Can you run it without D/S to check? ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V6 #7 ************************************