GUS Daily Digest Sat, 23 Oct 93 0:07 MDT Volume 7: Issue 22 Today's Topics: Cable for Toshiba 3401B --> GUS Composers..... Correction Does the GUS support dual joysticks? GUS Daily Digest V7 #21 Halloween Harry and SBOS 1.20 Help needed with that darn GUS. Is GUS picking up steam or losing steam? Jitter/Dropout Free Recording with GUS KQ6 DOS disk 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: Fri, 22 Oct 93 17:35:06 EST From: heitbaum@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Rudolph Jan HEITBAUM) Subject: Cable for Toshiba 3401B --> GUS Are these cables pre made up, and if so where can I get one, or can I use another card's cable to bridge the gap. Thanks in advance. Rudi -- Rudi Heitbaum Ah Ph: +61-3-3375440 | e-mail: heitbaum@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au RMIT Comp. Centre Bh Ph: +61-3-6605042 | at Melbourne Uni (School). P. O. Box 2476V Fax: +61-3-6635652 | or heitbaum@rmit.edu.au Melbourne 3001 Australia | at RMIT (Work). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 00:03:46 EST From: John Fulmer Subject: Composers..... Does anyone know of some good MOD and 669 composition programs that wil will work with GUS? I suppose MODed will, but I really want a good 669 program. Farandole doen't like my VGA card and Composer669 doesn't recognize my GUS as a sound blaster (even with SBOS 2.0b10) anyone have any ideas? Thanks J. Fulmer ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 17:56:37 -0400 From: davidm@marcam.com (David MacMahon) Subject: Correction Hi (again), In another message I incorrectly stated the name of the FTP site. It is archive.epas.utoronto.ca. It is NOT .edu as given in my other message. Sorry for any confusion this caused, Dave David MacMahon Systems Administrator davidm@marcam.com <---New address, use this one davidm@opl.com <---Old address, don't use this one ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 11:05:40 MST From: "Dean C. Johnson" Subject: Does the GUS support dual joysticks? I plan to buy a GUS one of these days, probably for Christmas. I read that the GUS has a speed compensating Game Port, but I have not been able to find out if the port supports dual joysticks(I know most sound cards do not). Can anyone tell me if you can hook up the Gravis GamePad to the GUS and use all four buttons, or hook up a Y-connector cable and use two joysticks at once? I have a dual joystick speed compensating Game Card but it would be great if I could use the GUS instead. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: 22 Oct 93 16:22:00 PST From: EBULALACAO@CSUPomona.Edu Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V7 #21 What?! MEGAEM now a GRAVIS product? Hmm...I thought the writer of the program wanted to keep it his own. Anyway, has anyone else tried Silverball with a surround sound setup? Awesome on the GUS! Music on the front and sound effects on the rear speakers! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 15:44:03 +0800 (PST) From: Francis Li Subject: Halloween Harry and SBOS 1.20 Yes, I HAVE been able to get HH1 from Apogee to work with SBOS 1.20. The problem is that the music is VERY garbled as is the sound effects. Are there any options (-o1, -x2, etc) that will make it work properly? Or maybe a different version of SBOS (1.21, 1.4, etc)? I would love to know... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 18:46:40 +0200 From: tjakobs@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl (THEO_JAKOBS TEL.62667) Subject: Help needed with that darn GUS. Hi.. I have my GUS now for some time, and mods and demos sound terrific, but last night when i installed RETURN TO ZORK, ultramid (wich is included with the ga- me didn't recognize my GUS.. it said that the ultrasound card wasn't located. I have the old disks (with SBOS 1.2)... Do i need the new disks? Andre Jakobs MicroBrain Technologies Inc. The Netherlands ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 14:56:56 -0500 From: "David Grayless" Subject: Is GUS picking up steam or losing steam? Reading this Digest makes the UltraSound seem like the best thing since sliced bread. However, when I try to find one, I get a very different picture. I can't find a single local store that carries it. Some used to, but say that they no longer carry it. Checking mail-order ads, I can only find two places that even list the UltraSound at all. I tried calling Advanced Gravis, and was told that "we don't sell direct to customers". So what's the story here? Is this product too new? (its been out over a year) Will it ever become a mainstream sound option for PC's, or is it destined to only be a niche oddity? Is it on the verge of being discontinued? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 17:51:36 -0400 From: davidm@marcam.com (David MacMahon) Subject: Jitter/Dropout Free Recording with GUS Hi, I have uploaded TESTRECS.ZIP to archive.epas.utoronto.edu in the /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit directory. TESTRECS.ZIP contains three test recordings from the Gravis UltraSound soundcard. I made these recordings to compare the quality of three different recording programs: USS8, PLAYFILE, and GUSDELAY (a new, unreleased version). This new, soon-to-be released version of GUSDELAY uses a revolutionary new recording technique that I developed (so I may be a little biased when I say "revolutionary") which allows jitter-free and dropout-free recording with the GUS. Dave David MacMahon Systems Administrator davidm@marcam.com <---New address, use this one davidm@opl.com <---Old address, don't use this one ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 21:24:41 EDT From: ddr@math.ufl.edu Subject: KQ6 DOS disk I just loaded KQ6 on my hard drive and installed the GUS drivers. The music/digitals are fine during the game, but if I attempt to ewatch the opening scene I get a lock up on the video and then the audio dies too! Can anyone help? I have a 1meg GUS, 1meg Trident 8900 video, 486DLC with 4 megs RAM. Thanks! ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V7 #22 ******************************