GUS Daily Digest Fri, 31 Dec 93 0:07 Volume 9: Issue 31 Today's Topics: Anyone playing Iron Helix?? Compatibility problems with MegaEM 2.0 drum.zip GUS and SB16 GUS Daily Digest V9 #19 (2 msgs) GUSDK210.ZIP GUS initialisation Help with Links386 PMAK110.ZIP New Drivers Question about KYRANDIA 2 SimCity 2000 Done! SimCity 2000 Done! (fwd) Tracker for GUS 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: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 15:36:59 +0500 From: d.m.koppen@LaRC.NASA.GOV (Daniel Koppen) Subject: Anyone playing Iron Helix?? Hi all, I am just about to run my little body out to the software store and spend some of that money I got for Christmas. I have heard rave reviews on the game Iron Helix, but before I buy it I would like to hear from anyone who has had some experience with this game. The burning question is ---> Does it suport patch caching? (did I spell that right) <--- Every Windows game I have purchased up to now does not. Anybody know? Thanks, Daniel Koppen dmk@air16.larc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 19:08:14 -0400 (AST) From: Jurassic Mark Subject: Compatibility problems with MegaEM 2.0 Is it me or the new MegaEM has lost its compatibility with some games? I can't play Warlords ][ anymore. I created a batch file that was loading MegaEM 2.01 automatically. I updated 2.01 for 2.02, but I didn't touch the batch file. Now, Warlords ][ tells me that it can't init the sound device. I tried with the -X2 or -FAST switches, but it didn't work. Anyone tried the game or has encountered the same problem with another game? I think I'll go back to 2.01. Marc Y. Paulin - Jurassic Mark (Usenet) - J-Mark (IRC) - markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (Talk 'n Mail) - (506)856-9518 - APICS Programming Contest Winner of 1993 -=* GUS won over SB by a score of 32 to 11 *=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 17:49:49 -0700 (MST) From: jhender@nyx.cs.du.edu (djkc) Subject: drum.zip I downloaded drum.zip from EPAS (MIDI drum player), but I can't get it to play the local patches for GUS. There seems to be no option to set it up for what you want it to play. Is this for external MIDI devices only? Any help is greatly appreciated, -djkc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 16:13:26 +1100 (EST) From: Iain Huxley Subject: GUS and SB16 Can the GUS coexist with the SB16 just as it can with the SB? I am borrowing someone's CDROM drive with the SB16 to interface it.. do I need to ditch the GUS to get this combo to work? :-( thanks, Iain ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 00:40:10 EST From: dth2@Lehigh.EDU (Dave Horoschak) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #19 I forgot to add in my last message that the new ULTRASND.INI file is is both my ULTRASND directory and my ULTRASND\WINDOWS directory. Thanks again. Later... - Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dave Horoschak -aka- dth2@lehigh.edu Chief engineer of WLVR 91.3 FM. Treasurer & Project Engineer - Lehigh Formula SAE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 00:38:08 EST From: dth2@Lehigh.EDU (Dave Horoschak) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #19 I just installed the new Windows drivers from Patch Maker Lite v1.10 and I am having some problems. For some reason, when I go into Patch Manager, it doesn't list any patches as either available or loaded into RAM. When I use MidiSoft, everything plays fine. I tried loading the patch names from a MIDI file, and that didn't make any difference. I also tried using General MIDI names and patch header names, and that doesn't do anything either. Does anyone have and ideas? Thanks a lot. later... - Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dave Horoschak -aka- dth2@lehigh.edu Chief engineer of WLVR 91.3 FM. Treasurer & Project Engineer - Lehigh Formula SAE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 16:02:27 -0500 (EST) From: elminstr@hudlink.hoboken.nj.us (Jj pierson) Subject: GUSDK210.ZIP Could somebody upload this to EPAS. It's not there. I would love to finally program the GUS in pascal. ----------- elminstr@hudlink.hoboken.nj.us (Jj pierson) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 93 11:06:08 +0100 From: Robert Virding Subject: GUS initialisation As recommended in the GUS manual and by SETGUS I have both a DEVICE=ULTRINIT.SYS in my config.sys and a ULTRINIT.EXE call in my autoexec.bat. (I hope I remembered the name correctly) My question is do I really need both? If so why? Is it perfectly acceptable to change the GUS parameters termporarily using ULTRINIT.EXE? A suggestion I saw for running DOOM with suitable IRQ's. Thanks for any help here, Robert Virding @ Ellemtel Utvecklings AB, Stockholm EMAIL: rv@erix.ericsson.se ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 93 08:43:33 EST From: ciabatto@esc.syr.ge.com (David Ciabattoni) Subject: Help with Links386 Ok . I give up. I just got pebble beach, so now I have Links386 1.20. I type SBOS -x2 and use the 'golf /s' option and still NO sound.. (actually I get NOTHING, the game locks up!!!!!) What the HELL Am I doing wrong.??? Do I need emm386 set to something??? HELP??? As for yesterdays daily digest posting... -----------------------(cut here)--------------------------- 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... bla.bla...bla,bla.bla, bla. --------------------------------------------------------------- This is very nice and all, but all its going to do is cause more bitching on this 'daily digest'. Try doing it on the usenet comp.ibm.pc.soundcard they like this kind of stuff there....We all have our share of problems, even people who buy the real soundblaster have problems.!!!! I believe its called LIFE! I got a little peace of advice once when I was younger, as I was bitching about a modem I once owned.... "Sell it!" ciao. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 15:59:55 -0500 (EST) From: elminstr@hudlink.hoboken.nj.us (Jj pierson) Subject: PMAK110.ZIP New Drivers I installed the new drivers that came with Patch Maker lite and now I don't get any MIDI sound what so ever. Attempting to use patch manager shows that it can't load in the patches to GUS memory. When you click on the ">>" icon, nothing happens. The patch name doesn't move over to the right side. Anybody have any idea of what could be causing this. ----------- elminstr@hudlink.hoboken.nj.us (Jj pierson) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 22:01:00 -0700 (MST) From: kdorff@NMSU.Edu Subject: Question about KYRANDIA 2 I played and enjoyed Kyrandia I, but will Kyrandia II support the gus using ULTRAMID or MEGAEM? Thanks -- Xeven++ C. Dorff mental@acca.nmsu.edu 3232 Missouri Apt. C (505) 522-1739 Las Cruces, NM 88001 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 14:28:36 -0800 (PST) From: cweiss@netcom.com (Chris Weiss) Subject: Re: SimCity 2000 Done! Message-ID: <199312292228.OAA23636@mail.netcom.com> > > G'day Chris, just wondering are you supporting the GUS soundcard > in this product, or if you are using the new 32 bit DLL version > of the Miles drivers, will I be able to add Ultrasound support > when the DLL's for the GUS are available? > PS GUS= Gravis ULtrasound. > Cheers We are using the new 32-bit DLL version. However, Gravis is racing to get a version, so there hopefully will be direct GUS support before too long. Currently, SC2k seems to work fine with SBOS though. -- Electronic: cweiss@netcom.com Physical: Chris Weiss@Maxis Mental: MIA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 17:08:51 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew See Subject: Re: SimCity 2000 Done! (fwd) Forwarded message: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 12:54:46 +0100 From: jons@stud.cs.uit.no (Jon Vidar Schneider) Subject: Tracker for GUS What's the best tracker to use with the GUS? I used a tracker called FastTracker, but it don't support the Ultrasound. Bye, ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Vidar Schneider - Don't ask what you can do for your country - jons@stud.cs.uit.no - but what the country has DONE for you. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V9 #31 ******************************