The GUS Daily Digest Saturday, 13 May 1995 Volume 22 : Number 011 Today's Topics: Re: Sam & Max Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #8 gus speech program Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #10 Patches >256K playable? Terminal Velocity.. re: DOPE, Flight and other demo questions Theme Park PCI Interrupts re: DOPE, Flight and other demo questions hello Digpak and TV USNF question Which version 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paal Andreassen Date: Fri, 12 May 95 9:58:12 METDST Subject: Re: Sam & Max Just a little note on Sam & Max: The game comes in two variants, one of them uses the dos4gw and runs in protected mode. If you have this version it explains why you don't get any sfx only music when using the "old reliable" megaem 2.x. You might want to try out the new megaem 3.03b which is supposed to work also under protected mode games. - -- Paal Andreassen (mailto:paaland3@knoll.kih.no) Buskerud College - Engineering Programme Department Institute of Computer Science http://knoll.kih.no:8001/stud/paaland3 ------------------------------ From: Quentinus Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 10:11:27 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #8 > Subject: Another Windows sound problem.. > > Well, I can't seem to get any sound from my gus in Windows.. No matter > what version of the drivers I install, the result is always a locking up > of my system when I try to set the UltraWave driver up.. Literally, I Try re-installing windows. We had the exact same problem - when you clicked the driver name, it crashed - and reinstalling windows fixed it. (where nothing else worked, including manually editing system.ini and win.ini.) Maybe you have accidentally deleted a DLL? 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All help would be nice, thanks: - -- Paal Andreassen (mailto:paaland3@knoll.kih.no) Buskerud College - Engineering Programme Department Institute of Computer Science http://knoll.kih.no:8001/stud/paaland3 ------------------------------ From: John Patrick Lestrade Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 09:15:39 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #10 > From: emilr@ksnet.ksedb.no (Emil Rakoczy) > Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 19:16:06 +0100 > Subject: I'm depressed. > > This can't go on. Everytime I get my hands on a brand new game and want to > play it, the sound is either: > Not there, > or funny and wierd. I feel your pain, Emil. :-) You think it is bad now (and you are right), you should have been around in the `early' days!!! It is frustrating. - -- John Patrick Lestrade | Confit de canard, cnesta::lestrade or SSL::lestrade | cabecou de la ferme en bas, lestrade@ra.msstate.edu | et les chocolatines..:-) ------------------------------ From: jkerr@harley.fcmr.forestry.ca (Jeff Kerr) Date: Fri, 12 May 95 11:43:24 ADT Subject: Patches >256K playable? Hi! I was wondering if there's any way to load and use GUS patches that are >256K. My friend has an EPS classic and has lots of nice _large_ patches I'd like to convert if I can use them... I may even share... Jeff jkerr@harley.fcmr.forestry.ca ------------------------------ From: jari.komppa@pcb.compart.fi (Jari Komppa) Date: Fri, 12 May 95 19:54:00 +0200 Subject: Terminal Velocity.. To loads of ppl who are quite angry about terminal velocity not supporting GUS.. Have you noticed that the "Advanced Software Digital Signal Processing" is actually a MOD playing routine? The game has 6 channel standard MODs.. Quite nice idea playing mods through digipak.. Slow and bad-souding but hey, you don't need to make different playing code for every card, although it would sound LOTS better if the mixing would be done on GUS, not to talk about the speed of the game.. ------------------------------ From: jari.komppa@pcb.compart.fi (Jari Komppa) Date: Fri, 12 May 95 19:48:00 +0200 Subject: re: DOPE, Flight and other demo questions > on both of these demos, but especially on Flight, > the sound is a little tinny, as though dynamically clipped. Anyone > else experienced this? At least with DOPE, it seems Jmagic (the coder) uses way too high volumes -> the GUS amplifier overloads. Also, when I tried the tune with FT2 (global vol at about 50%) there is one part that uses some bass instrument on two channels at once and that disorts the sound also.. I don't know if this problem occurs with MAX, which Jmagic has.. ------------------------------ From: "Scott J. Geertgens" Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 15:08:14 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Theme Park I dug through the digests and the glist, but could find no reference to getting the GUS to run with Theme Park. If anyone can pass on a tip to make it work it would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for dredging up such old software ;) Scott Geertgens ------------------------------ From: "Jurassic Mark" Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:30:28 -0300 Subject: PCI Interrupts > Won't happen without legacy headers. PCI cards only use 1 interrupt > per card and its defined by the slot its in. Since the GUS needs 2 My GUS is set on IRQ 7 for both GF1 and MIDI and everything works just fine. Never had a problem so far. So you can have your GUS to use only one IRQ. Jurassic Mark (Marc Y. Paulin) Mail: markus@nbnet.nb.ca - IRC: J-Mark WARPing and GUSsing!!! ------------------------------ From: Cuthalion / Sliced Bread Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:46:39 -0400 Subject: re: DOPE, Flight and other demo questions JA> At least with DOPE, it seems Jmagic (the coder) uses way too JA> high volumes -> the GUS amplifier overloads. Also, when I JA> tried the tune with FT2 (global vol at about 50%) there is JA> one part that uses some bass instrument on two channels JA> at once and that disorts the sound also.. JA> I don't know if this problem occurs with MAX, which Jmagic JA> has.. Yeah, with both Cubic, Inertia, and the actual demo "Dope" this does not happen. I think the difference is that these programs realize that many channels can get loud and automatically lower the volumes accordingly to prevent said clipping. Evidently, FT2 has no such compensation. Let's see. I would guess that you'd want to drop the global volume to considerably less. Maybe 25 or 30 percent? ------------------------------ From: csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (John Wallace) Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:05:47 -0500 (CDT) Subject: hello I am new to the gus-general list, so I'd like to say hello. I do not own a GUS, but I'm thinking about buying one. I remember reading about clicks & pops resulting from GUS's Soundblaster emulation, and I am a bit concerned about it. However that was over a year ago, and I have not been following GUS discussions since then. I did pick up the GUS FAQ v1.56 & update today & have not finished reading it. I plan on using the GUS with DOS, OS/2 Warp, Linux, and maybe 386BSD. It would be mostly used with DOS games. I have an Asus SP3G motherboard and would like to know if that is compatible with a GUS. Also, I have found both GUS and GUS Ultramax listed in the Computer Shopper. Could someone tell me the difference between the two? Thanks. - -- (John Wallace || csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu) && Team OS/2 ------------------------------ From: Greg Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 23:45:11 EDT Subject: Digpak and TV >The DIGIPAK Drivers are old, out dated, and poorly suited for a 32-bit >application. Almost anything else (AIL32,HMI,etc) would have been >better. DIGIPAK supports 2 channels at the most while HMI could have >done GUS-hardware mixing for the multi samples. >- -Scott The drivers have been updated to version 3.4 as my original message stressed. After reading the TV FAQ and documentation, I believe that the music and digital mixing is done in software before it is "sent" to the Digpak drivers. Thus the Digpak drivers are used only to send the result of the digital mixing to the hardware. Therefore, only two chanels are needed for stereo sound. Furthermore, if I am not mistaken, the HMI drivers for the GUS do not mix the samples in hardware; They are mixed via software. ------------------------------ From: dauria@cs.bu.edu (David DAuria) Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 00:37:43 -0400 Subject: USNF question Hi all. I missed all the talk about U.S. Navy Fighters and now that I have it I was wondering if I can patch it for native GUS support. Anybody have any ideas about this? ___________________________________________________________________________ |David D'Auria | Hanks and Hoffman, living proof you can | |dauria@csa.bu.edu | win an Oscar for acting like an idiot. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (John Wallace) Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 00:34:19 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Which version GUS? If I buy a used GUS or GUS Max on the net, what version boards should I be looking for? I would hate to buy an old board that can't use the latest software & drivers. Thanks. - -- (John Wallace || csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu) && Team OS/2 ------------------------------ End of The GUS Daily Digest V22 #11 *********************************** To post to tomorrow's digest: To (un)subscribe or get help: To contact a human (last resort): FTP Sites Archive Directories --------- ------------------- Main N.American Site: ftp.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound Main Asian Site: nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound Main European Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound Main Australian Site: ftp.mpx.com.au /ultrasound/general /ultrasound/submit South African Site: ftp.sun.ac.za /pub/packages/ultrasound Submissions: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound Mirrors: garbo.uwasa.fi mirror/ultrasound ftp.st.nepean.uws.edu.au pc/ultrasound ftp.luth.se pub/msdos/ultrasound Gopher Sites Menu directory ------------ -------------- Main Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound WWW Pages --------- Main Site: http://www.xmission.com/~grue/gus.html Main European Site: http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ultrasound/ Main Australian Site: http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/general/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/submit/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/gravis.html Mirrors: http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/pub/pc/ultrasound/ GUS digest: http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~itam/digest.html MailServer For Archive Access: Email to Email to New Submit Files Mailing List: Email to with content "subscribe epas-list " Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (programmers, musicians, etc.).