The GUS Daily Digest Monday, 19 June 1995 Volume 23 : Number 019 Today's Topics: Transport Tycoon Questions Dark Forces music fix! CD and Support some sites So far, so good... some sites GUS Max CD? Re: ROTT and GUS Max Subject: ROTT and GUS Max Re: Toshiba XM5302B CD Rom Drive Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support! Re: GUS Max CD? Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #15 Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #15 GRAVIS CD NMI Re: NMI Gus max + win95 Re: Subject: ROTT and GUS Max PQ4 CD-ROM and 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: Rupert Burbidge Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 10:22:47 +0100 (BST) Subject: Transport Tycoon Questions A friend of mine had the problem of the midi songs in TT speeding up till the end of the song at various intervals in the game. He had a GUSMax with 512k of memory. However when he upgraded to 1mb the problem was solved. So I assume you have 512k of RAM which you should upgrade. Rupert. University Of Bath, UK ------------------------------ From: Marty Danko -Khertz- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 03:25:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Dark Forces music fix! Well I fixed my problem with DF. I kept getting courupted insturments. Try this it might work for you! FTP to epas, the filename is fixdarkf.zip... c-ya Marty Danko (mdanko@dhs.ucdavis.edu) ------------------------------ From: close@zeelandnet.nl (Marc Kloosterman) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 13:20 MET DST Subject: CD and Support Hi all, Here is a little something for all you people having problems with a) the availability of the 'Experience CD' in Holland; b) the pricing of this CD; c) Gravis' support. The fellow sysop of our bbs (Tim) wanted to make some patches, so after a year or so of having his GUS 3.7, he finally decided to make some samples. Guess what? Full of static! Then we put my GUS 3.7 in his computer, and it worked just fine. So we figured the card was busted. Tim logged in on Gravis BBS here in Holland. Here he was instructed to send the card to Gravis' Dutch HQ. As Gravis Holland doesn't sell any cards, they offered him a replacement: Gravis had received a number of fine working GUS cards, mailed by disappointed users (or lamers that can't get their card working, or OS/2 users, or non-NMI motherboard owners :-). In a few weeks time (2?) he got a 'new' card, together with an Experience CD (newer version than I got with some British magazine). Thus: a) you can get it from: Advance [sic -check Dutch phonebook!] Gravis Comp Tech, Antennestraat 70, 1322 AS Almere b) it's free c) their HARDware support is just fine! (we've got more SOFTware on our bbs :) Marc - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Kloosterman (close@zeelandnet.nl) Check out our totally unofficial Gravis UltraSound BBS: +31 1184-67197 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: close@zeelandnet.nl (Marc Kloosterman) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 13:22 MET DST Subject: some sites Have you ever tried Vocaltec's Internet Phone 3.0? This little piece of software lets you talk to others over the Internet. Version 3 supports full-duplex communications. Therefore it requires a full-duplex soundcard (duh!). And now for the burning question: how many cards are there (according to Vocaltec) that support full duplex recording/playback? Find out on www.vocaltec.com/fdxbr.htm .... Marc p.s. you don't need a 'Max', a regular one works too... =) p.p.s. Creative Labs also sells a GUS: www.creaf.com/products/software/gus.html - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Kloosterman (close@zeelandnet.nl) Check out our totally unofficial Gravis UltraSound BBS: +31 1184-67197 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: marc.williams@mooo.mn.org (Marc Williams) Date: 18 Jun 95 05:50:20 -0500 Subject: So far, so good... Good morning. I just sub'ed this ML so I'll be attentively reading all notes that go through here. I recently bought an older GUS (rev 2.4) and have a few questions/observations. First, the observations. With one exception, the ftp sites listed in the various support sites are worthless; either they are so bloody busy as to preclude any meaningful xfers (e.g. uwstl) or they seem to be incomplete (most of the others). The exception was freedom.nmsu.edu. A great site. I'll be there often. The 2.02 faq is quite good and informative. The 3.59 6-disk install was a piece o' cake. Likewise, the 4.11 update. Now for some questions. The manual that came with my GUS is now virtually obsolete. Is there a full manual available electronically? I want to upgrade the memory. Can I use some ancient SRAM chips I have laying around or does it have to be the DRAM mentioned in the faq? Is my lack of memory the likely reason I can't seem to get sound fx working in a couple games (music works fine). I'll be purchasing the Warp full-pack. Does it have GUS support built it or will I have to use the 2nd party drivers I've seen about? I recall that OS/2 v2.1 didn't have GUS support. Any other Warp comments appreciated..... Thanks, Marc. (marcw@mooo.mn.org) ------------------------------ From: marc.williams@mooo.mn.org (Marc Williams) Date: 18 Jun 95 07:34:28 -0500 Subject: some sites At 08:22 on Jun 18, 1995, Marc Kloosterman wrote: MK> Have you ever tried Vocaltec's Internet Phone 3.0? This little piece of Not yet. Is it shareware or commercial? If shareware, do you know where to get it? MK> Marc Nice name. :) Marc (marcw@mooo.mn.org) ------------------------------ From: adu@ix.netcom.com (Andrew Du) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 05:48:07 -0700 Subject: GUS Max CD? What's on this CD that's Gravis is now giving out with the GUS Max? ------------------------------ From: milos@electrotex.com (Miles Lott) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 10:01:42 -0500 Subject: Re: ROTT and GUS Max >> I loaded ROTT from the CD included with the GUS Max. I have a 512k >>card. > >A CD came with your GUS Max? What's on it? > There were two CDs. One has Doom 2. The other has 100Meg of shareware. There are games and demos and Midisoft Recording Session, plus some other neat utilities written third party for the GUS. But how do I get ROTT sounds to work? Miles Lott, A.A.S. E.E.T. in Houston, TX Home of the 2-time World Champion HOUSTON ROCKETS!!! "Milos" on Internet Phone. ------------------------------ From: Malhavok@aol.com Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 11:12:11 -0400 Subject: Subject: ROTT and GUS Max You need 1MB of memory on your GUS to get effects AND music in ROTT. For some strange reason, Apogee decided not to support music at 512k. ------------------------------ From: Chua Jen Chian Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:40:22 +0800 (SST) Subject: Re: Toshiba XM5302B CD Rom Drive On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Jon Cossin wrote: > I just purchased a Toshiba XM5302B CD Rom Drive. > > The drive didn't come with any disk or drivers. > Does anyone know where I can get them? Hi, :) U are real lucky. I just bought one a few days ago and the drivers come with it. If u want, email me privately and I will zip them up for u. :) > Also, can I hook this CD-Rom up to my Gravis Max? No prob man. Almost like Plug-N-Play. :) Just hook up the audio cable to the auio-out at the back of the drive (taking note of the right and left) and connect to the Sony audio interface. According to my friend, any of the 3 audio interfaces can work, depending on what type of audio cable comes with the drive. Just play around with it. :) God Bless, Richard ------------------------------ From: Mike Batchelor Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 11:48:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support! Not The GUS Daily Digest once wrote... > > ------------------------------ > > From: Sam > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 11:20:48 +0100 (BST) > Subject: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support! > > Oh, those other OSes (NT, Linux) don't support soundcards or game > programming very well, so they're pretty irrelevant. The next version of > NT/Win95 will probably combine the best features of both OSes, however. > (my guess... Win95 minus all the 16-bit parts, plus the NT filesystem, > vaguely ;). "Abuse is the first shareware release from Crack dot Com: Dave Taylor (Partner/Producer), Jonathan Clark (Partner/Project Leader), Duong Nguyen (Artist/Level Designer), and Murray McMillan (Artist). Abuse will be mastered August 31 and the Linux shareware version will released at that time. The DOS version will follow shortly thereafter and will be sold through mail order then stores." I forgot where the screens shots I have were obtained, but I put them up on ftp.clark.net:/pub/mikebat/files/abuse2pc.zip. This game looks like it will be the next DOOM, before QUAKE becomes the next DOOM. :) The Linux version will support play in the X Window environment, and also with SVGAlib on the console at 640x480. Naturally, it has multi-player network support, and is completely editable, with a Lisp-like programming language for making custom levels. It will ROCK!!! And it will come out for Linux first, so THERE! > ------------------------------ > > From: Gunther Schulz > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 18:21:59 -0600 (GMT-0600) > Subject: Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support! > > > even more will when Quake comes out. BTW, DOOM runs here faster under > > What? Do you mean Quake will be available as a Linux version? > I guess (hope not) that will always remain a dream... Of course it will. - -- %%%%%%% Mike Batchelor %%%%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%%%% "The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." ------------------------------ From: Chua Jen Chian Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:08:40 +0800 (SST) Subject: Re: GUS Max CD? On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Andrew Du wrote: > What's on this CD that's Gravis is now giving out with the GUS Max? Apparently, it is the GUS 'Experience' CD. I noticed that only after I bought the GUS Max. :) Richard ------------------------------ From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 12:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #15 From: CHRIS M PIPER - -- [ From: Chris Piper * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- > fact that my GUS IRQ's are set high may also help as they have a > higher priority than most of the lower ones. This comes from them > being cascaded off of IRQ2 (i think). Priority: 0,1 ,2/9, 10, 11, > 12, 13, 14, 15, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I dunno, but that might help some > infinetesmal little bit. Well, this is partially true, because of the cascade, the priority looks more like this.... 0 -> 1 -> 2/9 -> 3/10 -> 4/11 -> 5/12 -> 6/13 -> 7/14 -> 8/15 ^ ^ Highest Priority Lowest Priority Fuzzy ------------------------------ From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 12:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #15 From: CHRIS M PIPER - -- [ From: Chris Piper * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- >A couple of quick questions... First, someone was trying to tell me that there >was a GUS card above the MAX that was geared towards the prosumers/studio >market. Is this true, or was this guy blowing smoke up my balmyarse??? Second, >can the GUS MAX (or this fabled studio card) do digital disk audio recording of >four simulateous tracks?? I'm trying to set up small studio (already have mics, >drum machine, and mackie mixer :> for startup equip), and a four track would >REALLY round out the set up... TIA! Unfortunatelly, the GUS can only record from one source at a time. It can playback 14 voices at a time while recording this voice. So it is possible to record 14 different tracks, but they must be recorded at different times. It wont behave like a 4-track, but it can be quite nice if used properly. The problem arises that the original GUS can only record 8-bit. I saw a program that was a 14-track Multi-Track Recorder for the GUS, but this was only an 8-bit version. If you have a GUSMAX, there was just released an 8-track 16-bit version called RSTUDIO. This may help you. Fuzzy ------------------------------ From: mcavity@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 11:29:04 -0500 (CDT) Subject: GRAVIS CD Just to let you know, I found the Ultrasound EXPERIENCE CD at babbages for 4.99 so any one who wants one should check babbages. [that is if oyu have one near you. Mcavity@panam.edu PS I dont know who makes the sharp marketing decisions for gravis but I think the need to hire some one who Realy knows about marketing. That is one thing canadians are know for, "no pressure" sales. [I mean hey in all the years I have had my gus I have only see it advertised maybe 4 times.] The GUS is a wonderful pice of hardwear but if they dont PUSH it it will DIE. [things have been looking up as of late though] PS I have a quad speed cdrom and I wouldd like to make some direct recorins form it but the normal program does not work any ideas what program I sould use? It is an ide cdrom not scsi. [hey for 160 Im happy] Mcavity@panam.edu ------------------------------ From: mark.leung@cyberstore.ca (Mark Leung) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:14:29 GMT Subject: NMI Can anyone give me a list of P5 MotherBoard which GUS can run perfectly with it? like NMI stuff... Thanks mark.leung@challenge.com Direct all replies to challenge.com please! Ignore cyberstore.ca ------------------------------ From: -Vince- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:29:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: NMI On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Mark Leung wrote: Hi Mark and fellow GUSers, > Can anyone give me a list of P5 MotherBoard which GUS can run > perfectly with it? like NMI stuff... All the ASUS P54TP4 and the P55 series will work just fine with it. My Diamond SpeedStar+ ISA Video Card was the problem not the motherboard at all... Cheers, - -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! ------------------------------ From: Ryan Andrew Schutt Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 19:12:26 EDT Subject: Gus max + win95 Let me get this straight: the current win 3.1 drivers work with win95? Not for me. It causes win95 to lock up at the beginning with some message about an error with Msgsrv32. That's if I have all the win drivers loaded. If I comment out the line 'aux=ultrasnd.drv' in my [drivers] section of system.ini, win95 will load ok, but the gus drivers still don't work. I have a Gus max with 1meg, win 95 build 480, and a Zeos Pantera 90. Can anyone help me get the drivers to work? Thanks.. ------------------------------ From: Mark Woon Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 21:57:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Subject: ROTT and GUS Max On Sun, 18 Jun 1995 Malhavok@aol.com wrote: > > You need 1MB of memory on your GUS to get effects AND music in ROTT. For > some strange reason, Apogee decided not to support music at 512k. > I don't know if it won't work at 512k, but I do know ROTT will work at 768k, since that's what I have... *********************************************************************** Mark Woon * I have spoken! markwoon@princeton.edu * ASCII stupid question, get a WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~markwoon * stupid ANSI. *********************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: Francis Li Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 22:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: PQ4 CD-ROM and GUS... I have been unable to get Police Quest 4 CD-ROM to work in DOS with my GUS rev 2.2. I have properly installed the 32-bit SCI drivers for the GUS, and ran LOADPATS etc etc. But, the moment a digital sound is played, I get a big DOS4GW error. I know that clicking past the Sierra logo avoids the lockup there, but I still can't play the rest of the game. I have tried different boot configurations, different IRQ/DMA combinations, and don't know what to try next. 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