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GUS Daily Digest Sun, 9 Apr 95 9:37 PST Volume 21: Issue 9
Today's Topics:
C64 emulator...
Future of GUS software
GUS& Arena:The Elder Scrolls & Misc
In search of a midi box, part 2
MIDI playback in Windows
Ooops! Stupid me
The future of GUS drivers?
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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 00:24:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tommy Lee <darkguy@io.org>
Subject: C64 emulator...
The c64 emulator is called c64s. To get GUS support though, you have to
register the software. You can get it at: watson.mbb.sfu.ca pub/c64.
Tommy.
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 01:17:05 +1000 (EST)
From: Thaddaeus Kong <tk@cs.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Future of GUS software
Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca> writes:
> the latest SBOS requires a GUS MAX, this is because this version of SBOS
> is only a testing version of their next generation of software (like SBOS,
> setup....etc). When the release version comes out, it will support all
> boards. Or so I've read.
Like you said, Gravis is using the codec to test their next
generation of software, i.e you want better software, you NEED the codec
on the MAX. [Look at MegaEM, SBOS].
There are rumours that regular GUS has been dropped in favour of
the ACE, which is based on the MAX's architecture. If true, the original
the GUS will soon be unsupported (like the rev 2.xx ones are already).
> Keep it. If OS/2 is you only hangup then get the Manley driver and away
> you go. You'd especially want to keep it if AMD does come through with
> the GUS chip hence GUS should then become an industry standard hence you
> may want to switch back later on if you get out now.
I don't know about you, but I don't feel like buying a card and
finding out I need to pay extra for something as basic as drivers for
the stupid thing (especially when the company said they were releasing them
"soon"). And *if* AMD's InterWave becomes the industry standard (before or
after Win 9x comes out ];->), then the GUS (GF1) will die. InterWave may
be compatible with the GF1 but I doubt if vice versa holds.
By the looks of things, I'm gonna sell my GUS for a WaveRider 32+
(this is only a few months old but it already has OS/2 and NT drivers).
At least compatibility with games would be no worse than the GUS (I heard
it has problems with GMIDI but flawless with SB).
BTW, for people who are hoping games will support the GUS, think
about this - if the game supports the GUS, then 99.9% of the time it will
support SB/SB Pro + GMIDI. Therefore a card that emulated both in hardware
would be a better option.
I'll miss my GUS because of the demoscene but that's life. One
last thing, does anybody know whether Dune ]I[, oops, Command & Conquer
will have GUS support? *That* may be enough to presuade me to keep my
card ];->
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 16:28:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: John Donahue <jmdon@xnet.com>
Subject: GUS& Arena:The Elder Scrolls & Misc
Hello....
I've been following the GUS Digest for a couple months now, but this
is my first posting.... I hope I got the address correct....:-)
I own an Original GUS Ver 2.4 Card... Stocked to one meg.
I have spoken to Bethesda Softworks, and so far, they have been NO HOLP
whatsoever... and I'm getting increasingly disapointed in there tech
suppor they told me to load the Gravis Drivers in my autoex.bat file,
which I did... The problem is this, the game will boot, start up, and
will play great for about 5 minutes, then I get an Isufficient base
memory error, and the game crashes...
I've gone to a boot disk, but I have been unable to get any more than
619k base memory free useing my Trackball driver, ultrinit, and
Smartdrive (All loaded into hi-memory) and the game STILL Crashes....
Since this is such a popular game with native Gravis support, I hope some
of my fellow GUSers ahve succesfully been able to play this game, and can
provide me with an optimum autoexec.bat, config.sys, and Arena.bat files..
As a side note, I want to say I'm very disapointed in the fact that the
new Mega-em is not fully compatable with my rev. 2.4 card.... I would
Love to upgrade to a GUS Maxsince I already have a CD-Rom with its own
controller card takeing up a slot in the machine, but I have not seen such
upgrades, and cant spen the $200 to get the Max right now...
Thanks in advance...
John Donahue
jmdon@xnet.com
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 21:15:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: In search of a midi box, part 2
Are there any cheap midi connectors other than Gravis's that work with
the GUS? If so, where can I buy one, and is it available in any of the
computer retail stores? I want one bad so I cannot connect it with my 1
month old keyboard. It does have a built-in sequencer, but I prefer using a
'visual' sequencer such as Cakewalk Pro.
Thanks,
-George
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 21:11:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: MIDI playback in Windows
>I just got a GUSMax (512K) and it seems like a lot of the MIDI files I
>play give me a "This file may not play correctly with the default MIDI
>setup" warning in Windows. I e-mailed Gravis and they told me "Everyone
>gets this error. Just disable it." Gee.. What a great way to solve the
>problem - ignore it! And if eveyone gets this error, then why don't they
>increase the amount of RAM the card ships with??
The problem isn't with the RAM. I think it's because the MIDI files
either have : 1) Sysex commands that are specifically for hardware that
can understand it, ie. Roland SCC-1, or other specific synths, 2)
contains some MIDI controllers the GUS cannot make use of, ie.
controllers that set the Chorus and Reverb.
-George
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 23:41:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Loren Kling (that's me) <lkling@rohan.sdsu.edu>
Subject: Ooops! Stupid me
The UltraTracker and other MOD-maker programs are NOT on the GUS disks,
they're on the Ultrasound Experience CD!!!!
My pho-paw.
--
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
| Loren Kling |
* lkling@ucssun1.sdsu.edu *
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY |
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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 12:13:15 +0000
From: Martin Laukkanen <martin@triode.apana.org.au>
Subject: The future of GUS drivers?
> > Will someone in the know tell us whether all future versions of
> >the drivers for GUS will require boards with rev 3.xx and above? Seems
> >to be the case and even worst, probably even requires the codec on the
> Nope. Where did you get that idea? If you were thinking of this because
> the latest SBOS requires a GUS MAX, this is because this version of SBOS
I think he got that idea from the new MegaEm which Says, 'YOU
HAVE A PRE 3.X VER OF THE GUS so this wont work!'. That is where i got
that idea from!
----
Random....
AKA Martin Laukkanen. (martin@triode.apana.org.au)
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