The GUS Daily Digest Wednesday, 17 May 1995 Volume 22 : Number 015 Today's Topics: Roland PC200MKII Midi Keyboard V4.11 drivers Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 Got TV to work without lockup/reboot! The disappearing mouse cursor (how to solve the problem) Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 MK2 and 3.59 no more sounds... USS Ticondergoa ProPats 3.0 New Email address GUS ACE channels Re: Rebel Assault SB16 and GUs card- suggestions? 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: Martin ANCHER Holm Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 10:18:06 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Roland PC200MKII Midi Keyboard Hi Gussers :) ! I've just bought a Roland PC200MKII Midi-Keyboard for my GUS-MAX, but I'm not sure how to get this working :( I bought it along with a Midi kable for SB, and yesterday after trying with several programs: Cakewalk demo ) From ShareWare disc PatchManager \ MidiSoft Recording Session | From Bonus Disks Power Cords / Yesterday it worked after some time, but today there is no response. Help Please Email : ia94208@dec51b.tietgen.dk Is any special drivers setup needed (exept to have loaded Midi-In drivers for Windows) ? This is the '.signature' file: This letter came from: Martin Ancher Holm _/ _/ _/ _/ ia94208@dec51b.tietgen.dk _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ------------------------------ From: Tom Soerensen <34tbs@but.auc.dk> Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 10:26:38 -0900 (PDT) Subject: V4.11 drivers Hi... Could anyone tell me where I can find the new v4.11 drivers. Just e-mail me directly at 34tbs@but.auc.dk or post it at the digest, as you see fit :) Tom ------------------------------ From: "Viktor" Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:43:10 GMT+1 Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 Can somebody tell me in which dir is the 4.11 instal software?? It isn't in submit, neither in the Gravis/disk dir. Viktor Viktor F. --------- viktor@kge.bme.hu Technical University of Budapest +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | REALITY.SYS is either corrupt or missing! | | Reboot Universe (Y/n)? | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: Daniel Gelinas Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 06:53:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Got TV to work without lockup/reboot! I finally got this bloody thing to run (a learning experience). To summarize, I have a GUSMAX. I tried sbos... didn't work. Tried maxsbos.... didn't work Tried Megaem.. ahha, works, but after 3 minutes my computer freezes or reboots. So I said to myself "This 'soundblaster clone' doesn't work very well, let's try the others..". Sure enough, set it to Soundblaster Pro and it works perfectly!!! No lockups, no nothing. Sound works fine. My config is as follows. Just put in emm386 with the noems option, load up megaem 3.03 :-), don't need the GF1 support, so I nuked it, and VOILA! Still would like native support tho. Damn music taking up cpu cycles... - -- Daniel Gelinas gelinas@cam.org ------------------------------ From: "F. Viktor" Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:53:44 GMT+0100 Subject: The disappearing mouse cursor (how to solve the problem) - ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: VIKTOR@otthon (F. Viktor) To: gus-general@mail.orst.edu Date sent: Mon, 15 May 1995 23:58:37 Subject: The disappearing mouse cursor (how to solve the problem) Send reply to: viktor@evt.bme.hu Priority: normal I had it too as I installed v3.59. But I solved it: You have to change the GUS IRQ under windows. And ONLY under windows. Yes, I mean it! You have to change it only in your system.ini in [ultrasnd.ini] section: gf1_int=7 midi_int=7 It has to be 7 or so. (7 works for me) My GUS is: 220,x,x,11,7 In Windows I set it to: 220,x,x,7,7. EVERYTHING works fine. (I haven't tried Visual C++, but Borland C 4.5 works fine) Give it a try. Viktor / \ / / "Life is short - drive fast !!" \\\' , / // \\\//, _/ //, + + \_-//' / //<, + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + \ /// > \\\`__/_ Viktor F. + + /,)-^>> _\` \\\ --------- + + (/ \\ //\\ viktor@evt.bme.hu + + // _//\\\\ Technical University of Budapest + +========((`=((====================================================+ for my PGP PUBLIC KEY finger viktor@sun10.vsz.bme.hu ------------------------------ From: Sam Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:03:49 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 > > The GUSmax comes with the full 1MB and also includes up to 48kHz, 16-bit > > sampling and three CD-ROM interfaces. I think there's more software > > included as well... Are you sure? Last I heard MAX came with only 512k, same as an ACE... > Hmmm, the Daughtercard is called the GUS ACE, the GUS MAX is the one > you want... Hmmm, I think if you call Gravis, they will tell you the > correct name of the card. GUS ACE works fine on its own, if you don't need joystick, external MIDI interface, CD-ROM interfaces, or any kind of recording. (I don't have one, but I have heard from one guy who was using it stand-alone). It's definitely not a daughterboard. It has 512K ram same as I think the max does, so if you don't need those features I just mentioned, it's the best deal. (a *lot* cheaper). The cards are called Gravis Ultrasound, ("Gravis Ultrasound 3d" from some places), Gravis Ultrasound MAX, and Gravis Ultrasound ACE. If you get a standard GUS (preferably don't bother), look out for the revision numbers, as a 2.x card (like the oollldd one we've got) won't run protected mode mega-em. You need 3.x. (all MAX and ACE are 3.x). You should be able to check what you're buying by the price, anyway. I think ACE is $99 retail, GUS about $120, MAX about $160 ish. (but I'm in UK so can't confirm this). By the way, original GUS does have one advantage as it's the only card that uses the standard DRAM chips, which you can pinch from old video cards, and they're also easy to buy otherwise. The other cards use some weird type of chip. Hope this helps. Sam [] http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d405ua <[ Web pagE ]> *NEW* Sysex Manager ! [] [] For Software Forge program information and downloads [] Including [] [] NETRIS 1.1 best Tetris game <[ For Win 3.1 ]> Sysex Manager 1.0S [] ------------------------------ From: Chuck Robey Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 09:41:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 Thanks, that's what I was searching for exactly. I'm calling vendors, and I'll get one as soon as I can find a vendor that will upgrade the memory for me. (512k->1m). You did say it (the GUS max) used strange memory chips, right? So, I couldn't just buy them myself somehow, from an IC source? - ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! - ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Sam Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 16:19:08 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 On Tue, 16 May 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > Thanks, that's what I was searching for exactly. I'm calling vendors, > and I'll get one as soon as I can find a vendor that will upgrade the > memory for me. (512k->1m). You did say it (the GUS max) used strange > memory chips, right? So, I couldn't just buy them myself somehow, from > an IC source? You can buy them yourself. They're only "strange" in that they're not "normal" SIMMs or DRAM chips that are commonly found in computer equipment. Unfortunately, I don't know the part number, but I saw it on comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.something recently, or else here, so someone knows! :) Sam [] http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d405ua <[ Web pagE ]> *NEW* Sysex Manager ! [] [] For Software Forge program information and downloads [] Including [] [] NETRIS 1.1 best Tetris game <[ For Win 3.1 ]> Sysex Manager 1.0S [] ------------------------------ From: DAVE@AMADUS.PE-Nelson.COM (Dave Ciabattoni (Dave.Ciabattoni@PE-Nelson.com)) Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 09:05:18 -0700 Subject: MK2 and 3.59 no more sounds... Help! Basically I upgraded the ultrasound 3.1 disks to 3.59 and now I cant get mortal Combat II to have any sound effects, the music is still there but thats it. My guess is the ultrainit is missing a option or something.. But I have no clue. Anyone else go thru this??? Thanks. - -Dave ------------------------------ From: Matt Stevenson Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:38:42 -0400 Subject: USS Ticondergoa Has anyone got digital sound and/or music to work properly with the CDRom game USS Ticonderoga.The speech sounds VERY choppy, so much so it's almost impossible to understand and it's basically the same quality for the music portion. The only things it supports are Soundblaster/Pro/16 kinda limited for such a new game. The only way it works at all for me is by using Megaem 3.03b, or SBOS -o4, nothing else works.. I'm using a regular Gravis Ultrasound with 1meg... can anyone help? ------------------------------ From: chartang@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Char Tang) Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 10:28:11 -0700 Subject: ProPats 3.0 I tried installing ProPats 3.0 and having it replace all the recommended patch files. The only problem is, after I get them replaced, I can't play the ENTERTNR.MID file that comes with the GUS software. Most of it is okay but it sounds like one of the instruments just disappeared and there is no sound in place of it. It played perfectly fine with the original GUS patches that came with the software. Anyone have any idea as to what's wrong and how to fix it? Thanks. ------------------------------ From: Peter Kilcullen Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:12:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: New Email address Hi all! I changed my Internet provider and have a new e-mail address: "petek@cpcug.org". Please note. CUL8R!!! Pete ------------------------------ From: martind@Newbridge.COM (Martin Dubois) Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:38:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: GUS ACE channels Hi, I am having problems with my ACE card: the channel output is reversed. Is this common? Thanks, - -martin - -- Martin Dubois, martind@Newbridge.COM +1 613 591 3600 (phone) Newbridge Networks Corporation, Kanata, ON, CANADA 591 3680 (G3 fax) "I'll do my best to do the best I can", The Proclaimers. ------------------------------ From: Greg Chung Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 16:11:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Rebel Assault Regarding Rebel Assault: There is no need to "go get a real sound blaster". Just use SBOS! I noticed the same slowness using GUS, but using SBOS there is no problem. And note, there is no loss of sound quality by going to SBOS, as the audio over the entire CD is all together low quality. ------------------------------ From: h0mi Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 20:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: SB16 and GUs card- suggestions? Just bought a SB16 to add to my system. I'm running os/2 in addition to windows 3.1 and need some suggestions on how to set the dma/irq settings for both cards. I'm adding a printer to my setup soon as well, so I'm apparantly not going to be able to utilize IRQ7 in os/2 and probably windows. Currently, I have the Gus using IRQs 5 for Midi and 11 in dos, windows and os/2. (I'm using the Manley drivers, if that makes a difference, in os/2, v7a and its a 1 meg GUS. Not a Gus Max, a regular 1 meg gus.) I wanted to use the SB16 for winos2 sessions for obvious reasons and as the "primary" (if that makes sense) sound card under os/2. I want to also be able to use the sb16 for various games that support it, but use emulations for the gus to emulate the roland mt32 card. Is all of this possible with the 2 cards? Which port/DMA/IRQ settings should I set the Gus/SB16 to in order to accomplish all of this? Thanks for the assistance. "I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the NRA, a militia, or similar groups?" 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