The GUS Daily Digest Sunday, 11 June 1995 Volume 23 : Number 011 Today's Topics: flames+ WCIII Xcom 1.4 Cyberia and MegaEm 3.04B Card revision GUS Patches GF1/IW compatibility GUS Beta-Testers need for a Application Problems with Simon the Sorcerer GUSPRO fix 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: emilr@ksnet.ksedb.no (Emil Rakoczy) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 22:49:13 +0100 Subject: flames+ WCIII First: I'll flame anyone who attack my opinions with non-argumental bullshit on the public digest. Want to tell me to fuck off? Send a private mail and keep it out of the dig, or get flamed on the dig. To the point: I wrote some days ago about CD-read-error on WC3. I found the solution to it: The gus was set at DMA 7, and had to be directed to a lower DMA. I tried 3 and then it worked like hell. WC3 is the best game ever. Thanks anyway:). EmilR "Words are turds!" <**THE_FANCY_SIGNATURE_V2.0**> | Realtime:Emil Rakoczy | | Nickname:Lurking Puppet | | IRC:Trying not to | | E-Mail:emilr@ksnet.ksedb.no| <********I don't care********> ------------------------------ From: "Victor J. Hodges" Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 09:24:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Xcom 1.4 I have a GUS MAX w/512 the 3.04 beta of megaem, usail 3.11 and I can't get Xcom CD to work. I am just a novice and I need some help with this great game. Can you fellow GUSSERS help me out here because Microprose ain't sayin' sh_t!! GUS FOREVER! VIC cisvjhx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu ------------------------------ From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Cyberia and MegaEm 3.04B Bret from gravistech@aol.com says he got Cyberia working perfectly with the MAX and megaem 3.04b. With my v3.4 regular 1MB GUS, megaem sometimes works, but the game randomly crashes, and sounds go randomly silent. Looks like yet another fine gradation in hardware between GUS MAX and Gus regular, even with v3.xx boards. I believe the difference is the "enhancement" that Megaem takes advantage of in GUS MAXes, probably the CODEC. Anyway, Jayeson, please fix this so MegaEm works more with regular GUS as well. I wouldn't want to say, "Gee, InterWave is coming out, but since it will be so obsolete so fast, I better wait five years so I can get InterWave, board revision v9.6." -Peter ------------------------------ From: Ryan Andrew Schutt Date: Sat, 10 Jun 95 16:04:55 EDT Subject: Card revision To those who wondered what revision their GUS was: I have a pre-beta release of gusrev.exe, which detects what revision your gus is. It detects my gus max rev 1.8 ok, not sure about other cards. You can probably find it on archive.epas.utoronto.ca, or ftp.cdrom.com. Zeus ------------------------------ From: adu@ix.netcom.com (Andrew Du) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 11:56:02 -0700 Subject: GUS Patches Good day! Where can I find more GUS patches? ------------------------------ From: Thaddaeus Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 04:48:20 +1000 (EST) Subject: GF1/IW compatibility In reply to yesterday's digest, I didn't say I expect the GF1 to be upward compatible with the IW (in fact, in a previous digest I stated that if GF1 is upward compatible with the IW I hope the IW dies). There are some people who thinks that IW compatibility equals GF1 compatibility and hence is a good reason to keep my rev 2.2 GUS when the IW rewrites the standards books (where did I hear that before ....). I'm just stating that the IW is a superset and GF1 won't run any IW specific software. - -- Thaddaeus Kong tk@cs.monash.edu.au I hate people who don't finish their ------------------------------ From: "John D. Zitterkopf" Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 22:17:50 -0500 Subject: GUS Beta-Testers need for a Application I need a few beta-testers for a new version of Souncard State Selector V2.2. I need a few people with a SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16, SoundBlaster AWE32, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, Pro Audio Studio 16, or Advanced Gravis Ultrasound Max to aid me in debugging my program. If you would like to participate in this festive event, please E-mail me. To qualify, I need you to write a short discription about yourself, your computing system, and why you think you would make a good beta-tester. nothing fancy, just give me an idea of who you are so I can take the better applicants. I like to deal with small groups to prevent E-mail overload and confusion. I have found that small beta groups are better than large beta groups. For more information, please reference the attached discription of SNDSTATE! Thanks, John ____________ _------_ | EE majors Do it 'til it Hz 8-) --------\\ ] ~-______-~ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~John D. Zitterkopf~~~~~~~~~ (~~~~~\\|_(__ ~~ | jdz1@ra.MsState.edu Zitt@aol.com \______| ( | http://www2.msstate.edu/~jdz1 [Note: This version replaces SimTel/msdos/sound/sndst21.zip, which is an outdate version.] SimTel/msdos/sound/ sndst211.zip Gets/Puts/Edits states of some soundcards Sound Card State Selector v2.11 - SNDSTATE is designed to complement the software present in many sound card packages. It is a program that will either save or restore mixer settings of the following cards: PAS: Pro Audio Spectrum-16 Pro Audio Studio Media Vision Fusion 16 Logitech SoundMan SBPro: Sound Blaster Pro Media Vision Deluxe SB16: Sound Blaster 16 Sound Blaster 16 ASP Sound Blaster AWE32 to or from storage for later retrieval. SNDSTATE provides a means of restoring and saving the settings of these sound cards to or from disk. The registered version can restore or save these settings using batch files without any interaction by the user. It also provides a Graphical User Interface, GUI, for modifying most of mixer and volume settings of these cards. The system requirements for SNDSTATE are shown below: MS-DOS 3.0 or Higher. IBM AT, 286, 386, 486, or other 100% compatibles. A Proaudio Spectrum 16, Proaudio Studio, Fusion 16 CD-ROM kit, Logitech SoundMan, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16, or Sound Blaster AWE32. (*) Some free disk space. In addition to these requirements, the SNDSTATE GUI requires a VGA card capable of 640x480x16. A mouse is highly recommended when using the SNDSTATE GUI. (*) It is presently unknown if SNDSTATE will work consistently with other sound boards from other manufacturers. Uploaded by the author. ------------------------------ From: Yog@mephisto.nbg.de (Magnus Schmidt) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 01:13:01 Subject: Problems with Simon the Sorcerer Hi all out there, I hope I don4t annoy anyone out there with my question ... and I hope this question hasn4t been asked a hundred of times ... ;) I4ve got Simon the Sorcerer (CD-Rom), and I don4t manage to get the sound right. The ultramid and digipack drivers are loaded correctly, but I only get digital sound, no music at all ! Perhaps it is ultramid, which does something wrong ? Why doesn4t it load the samples to the mem during start-up ? How can it play music later on ? I hope somebody has a few suggestions, Magnus +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Address Contact Occasionally ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Magnus Schmidt EMAIL : yog@mephisto.nbg.de IRC : #Chatline (YOG) ! ! Komotauer Str.18 TEL : +49-9123-84258 WWW : http://mephisto.nbg.de/! ! 91207 Lauf FAX : +49-9123-soon FTP : ftp://mephisto.nbg.de/ ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: Gunther Schulz Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 07:49:28 -0600 (GMT-0600) Subject: GUSPRO fix I released GusPro00 at epas not too long ago and it contained a MajoR bug! One of the acoustic pianos is a synthetic piano (Rhoedes) and thus many midi files which use acoustic pinaos sound accordingly...bad... A patch will be soon available on epas. The file will be called GUSPRO01.arj. Later, Gunther Schulz / Black bytE ------------------------------ End of The GUS Daily Digest V23 #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 Archives: http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~itam/digest.html http://www.student.adelaide.edu.au/~godfathr/gus/gus.html MailServer For Archive Access: Email to 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.).