GUS Daily Digest Thu, 30 Dec 93 0:07 Volume 9: Issue 30 Today's Topics: 32bit Gus Drivers Front Page Sports Pro GUS and SB Coexistance GUS Daily Digest V9 #29 Lamers! Master of Orion with AIL Rebel Assault video "hash" appears when SBOS loaded. How do I fix it? 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: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 10:40:06 -0400 (AST) From: GEN2007@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA Subject: 32bit Gus Drivers When???? When are they goin to be released?? I have PQ4 and I'm dieing to play it. But I can;t runit in Win for several reasons. Do any of you have any idea when they will be released? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 17:53:06 -0600 (CST) From: fishead@corona.unomaha.edu (David L. Britton) Subject: Front Page Sports Pro Greetings one and all! 'Tis the season for new software and new problems getting it to work with the GUS. I got Front Page Sports Football Pro and am having problems with the sound (big shock). The crowd noise works fine most of the time along with the player grunts, voices, etc., but every once in a while, i get this sound that sounds like a machine gun (I think its supposed to be a big cheer). Anyone else have similar problems/ suggestions? Later Daze! Dave Britton fishead@corona.unomaha.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 19:01:28 -0500 From: ap641@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Leukart) Subject: GUS and SB Coexistance Sorry if this has already been mentioned (I hate being a "newbie") but here it goes. I'm trying to get my GUS (256k DRAM) to coexist with my SB (v2.0). I have read the coexistance FAQ on epas, but am still having some trouble. I have my GUS on IRQ 5, DMA 3, and on port 240. My SB is on DMA 1, IRQ 7, and DMA 1. Here is the batch file I use to activate my REAL SB: @echo off set ultrasnd=240,3,1,5,7 call sbos.bat call sbos.bat -f set ultrasnd=240,3,1,5,5 ultrinit -l -o Here is my problem. When I run the above batch file, everything goes smoothly. But then, when I run a game that supports SB, the music works fine, but no digital sounds are played. I'm using SBOS v2.08. The reason I'm trying to do this is because I find that SBOS works with very little of my software. Thanks a lot. If I need to supply more information, please tell me! Hank Leukart -- Soon to be released shareware: | Hank Leukart takes no Apogee: R A P T O R : Call of the Shadows | responsibility for the above Epic: E P I C B A S E B A L L | message. id: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? | "Official" DOOM FAQ Writer ------------------------------ Date: 29 Dec 93 08:55:00 EST From: "VULCAN::WATTERS_C" Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #29 > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 93 14:59:20 EST > From: phaedrus%triples@Triples.Math.McGill.CA (Phong Co) > Subject: Static in Doom > > I apologize if this is a FAQ. I vaguely recall this discussion a while > back, but I didn't have the problem at the time :-) > > In Doom, some sounds are just static. Mostly doors closing, I can't > remember anything else off the top of my head. This doesn't seem to be > related to the number of other noises going on at the time, the volume > setting, or the GF1 IRQ (I've tried 5 and 7). > > I've got the GUS connected through the [unamplified] line-out to a > receiver. I think someone mentioned clipping, but all that's way over my > head. > > Does anyone have this problem and/or know what it is? Thanks for any > input. I pulled the DOOMGUS.TXT file off of EPAS, I was getting some music but no digital sounds (ok, short burps of static.) So, I did the following: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 11:46:30 -0800 From: jakub@eskimo.com (Jake Cholewczynski) Subject: Lamers! I am fed up with this crap from Gravis.. I boght a sound card for sound and not for just it being in my computer.. 1. How come when you people say a game will support the gus it never does.. ** Welcome to relality SBOS and MEGA EM no metter if the version is going to be two billion they will always suck anyways.** 2. How do you expect people to get the drivers? FTP sites that don't even have them months after release or your bbs which is always busy.. people since this is such a new sound card you need more disks to be sent. 3. People like me are fed up with your stupid "They will be out by next month" crap as far as the OS/2 2.1 drivers! I don't care if you have to acctually program for once Gravis I want my drivers and I want them now!, SB 16 already had os/2 drivers as it came out!.. Not only that it didn't have any compatiblity problems. Hey I am just talking about OS/2 2.1 drivers what about WIN NT drivers I know alot of people what those.. Come Gravis Microsoft is not a god and there is other operating systems from IBM support them... and At least let people like me know what in the world is going on ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 15:59:20 -0500 From: jgamache@aix1.si.usherb.ca (Jerry Gamache) Subject: Master of Orion with AIL It's done... Tired of using MEGA-EM with this game, I carefully studied the dreaded SNDDRV.LBX. The structure is so simple that I made a clone containing only GUS AIL drivers. This allows to use the 16 bits patches for a better sound. The result can be found in the submit directory of epas. It is called MOO_GUS.ZIP. Please read the README.1ST before installing. Could someone with a good newsfeed send the news to c.s.i.p.strategic and c.s.i.p.soundcard I still wonder why Microprose didn't include them. Good game, good sound, what else? Jerry jgamache@aix1.si.usherb.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 93 01:48:02 EST From: ak016@freenet.carleton.ca (John Collins) Subject: Rebel Assault I recall seeing a few posts about Rebel Assault a short time ago, but I didn't pay any attention to them, of course, because I didn't have the game. Well, I have it now, so I apologize for wasting bandwidth on a question that may have already been answered. The upshot is, the sound is *terrible*! No matter what I do, I get loud, annoying buzzing sounds, skipping digitized voices, and generally intolerable noise all the time. I have tried everything suggested in the RA manual, including removing all reference to memory managers, slowing down the frame rate, etc. I even downloaded the latest patch from LucasArts in California, all to no avail. I am on the verge of tossing this puppy out the window if I can't get it to work. I can't even get it to work with SBOS (it reboots if I try). So, please, if anyone has some insight into this frustrating problem, I would love to hear from you. John Collins ak016@freenet.carleton.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 01:05:15 PST From: ud907@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Christopher L. Mackay) Subject: video "hash" appears when SBOS loaded. How do I fix it? I just got my GUS a few days ago, and am pleased so far. It sure sounds a heck of alot better than Soundblasters of any kind. Here's my problem: When I load SBOS, some of the characters that appear on the screen look 'funny' as in....they basically look like a normal character with 'static' over them. SBOS is probably messed up with my video adapter, but the GUS is three slots over from the video card. Here's a bit of my system set-up: 286-12(I know, you feel sorry for me to :) 2 meg of extended RAM Quadtel EGA/barely VGA video adapter with very old large-screen monitor that does EGA nicely, and VGA when it feels like it(really!) 40 meg MFM hard drive. I tried the new SBOS, but it really messes up my screen then. I've ordered a new VGA monitor and card, but would still like to know what's going on. I'll also be getting a 386sx16 with 4 mb on it, and maybe that will help. Obviously, SBOS is interferring with my video ram so.... -- Chris Mackay | "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, Victoria Freenet Association | do it. Boldness has genius, power, and ud907@freenet.victoria.bc.ca | magic in it - Goethe ------------------------------ From: (null) *** NOTE: Step 3 is only required for DOOM v1.0 / Operating System 0.99 *** (3) You will also need to copy ULTRAMID.INI into your DOOM directory and rename it to DMXGUS.INI (or find and use the DMXGUS.INI file). This fixed all the sounds for me, now I get awesome music and I love the 3d sounds! I'm not having too much trouble with front/back with this game, and wandering around looking/listening for targets is great. Off the subject (email me directly please) - How do I get to the chainsaw! -Coyt ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V9 #30 ******************************