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- Ultrasound Daily Digest Sun, 4 Apr 1993 Volume 3 : Issue 4
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- Today's Topics:
- DOS 6 & GUS opinions
- guitar midi
- Sound File Support
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- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 17:36:20 PST
- Subject: DOS 6 & GUS opinions
- Message-ID: <9304040136.AA08023@khan.usc.edu>
-
- First off, didn't get a Sat. Digest.... any problems?
-
- OK, I bought DOS 6 on the 1st, and installed it last night... I was on the tail
- end of an all-nighter, so I wasn't thinking too well, but I finally got things
- working. Actually, when I went to bed Fri. pm I could've sworn I was still
- having problems, but this morning everything was fine?!?!?!
-
- Installation of DOS is great, it does all the work...except changing floppies :)
-
- DOS itself is kinda neat... freed up quite a bit of extra memory for me.... and
- I haven't even run that mem manager thing yet!
- I had just installed STUNTS, so I gave that a try.. works fine..
- Tried wolfenstein (fine), and Comanche (fine)....so now the REAL test...
- I wanted to see how much extra space I could get on my hard drive using that
- doublespace compression, but I didn't want to risk my entire 210 Mb just yet,
- so I sacrificed the games partition (50 Mb total, with 20 Mb free at the time...
- It also houses my ~8 Mb permanent swap file, which can't be compressed... as
- noted in the new DOS manual) So I did a custom compression, telling DOS to
- leave 15 Mb uncompressed (for the swap file and ultrasound stuff, in case
- the compressed ultrasound stuff didn't work) Well, I figure that leaves 35 Mb
- for Doublespace to play with, of which ~13 Mb is totally empty.... I'm
- confusing this aren't I?
- (Total = 50 Mb) = (8 Mb swap file) + (20 Mb Free ) + (22 Mb games and ultrasnd)
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- dblspace will create a new uncompressed drive = 15 Mb which will have
- the 8 Mb swapfile + 7Mb free (to be used later... maybe) and it will compress
- whatever's left on the original...
-
- Here's what I got...
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- New partitioned drive... = 15 Mb (8 Mb swap + 7 Mb free)
- Original drive : 30 Mb (free, compressed ) + 22 Mb (games/ultrasnd, compressed)
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- So, I was pretty happy with that... looking forward to doing the rest of the
- drive (and playing with an extra 100 Mb :) )
-
- Now the stuff that pertains to this group: for the next 3 hours, I couldn't
- get one damn thing to work! No games, no music, no demos (flidemo coughed,
- choked, and hung my computer), windows killed my computer 3 times, eventually
- let me in, but choked on a midi and kicked me out. My mood at the time? ready
- to kill anyone near, too bad my roommate's fiance didn't bring her dog over })
-
- So I spent a LOT of time changing things in autoexec and config, with few
- victories... (Note: I'm still using SBOS 1.4B3, et al..... don't have the
- free disks to d/load the new stuff... waiting for Gravis to send me mine...
- think Christmas time is expecting too much? :) )
- Eventually, I got windows up again, but nothing was recognizing the sound board.
- Even had problems with setgus... It always had DMA(read) conflicts, and never
- passed the tests... it passed the blaster tests, but no others.. and told
- me I had dram problems... which I have NEVER had.. ( I have 1 Mb of 70 ns from
- ElkCo (sp ?) ) Anyway, I don't think setgus EVER worked for me.. so I started
- playing with the setups by hand...
- When I finally got some sounds out of the board, they were WAY out of tune,
- overlapping each other, and would break into LOUD static every now and then...
- Flidemo, and mididemo were the same.
-
- Eventually, and don't ask me what I did (remember, I was on an all nighter, and
- I honestly can't remember too much about the specifics) things started to work
- decently. I thought I still had problems when I went to bed (there's that
- memory thing again!) but when I got up this morning, windows works great,
- flidemo amd mididemo are fine, I played wavs and mids in windows, Wolfenstein
- worked great, I even had one of the jukebox things running while I went to
- afterdark (WITH the crickets and wolf howls) and I played mahjong in a DOS
- window with the mids going! Granted, whenever two things access the drive at
- the same time there's a slowdown (isn't there always?) but everything worked
- pretty much flawlessly.
-
- Have I tried Comanche, Zone66, Falcon, etc... ? Not yet. Actually, since this
- thing is working, I've been afraid to reboot :) I tried Comanche early on, when
- I was having all those problems... but I need a boot disk for that, which you
- have to redo with the new DOS (it includes the dblspace stuff), and I never
- got that to work... I know you can have multiple configs with the new DOS,
- but I wasn't ready to start fooling with that yet... maybe next weekend, schools
- starting up again....
-
- So that's all for now, I'm sure many others have had different experiences, so
- lets hear 'em! I'd be happy to test anything I have, if there are specific
- concerns out there. Any suggestions? I'll do what I can, when I can...
-
- My system is:
- Comtrade 486/33 Local Bus
- Non-Vesa LB Video (S3)
- 1Mb 70 ns GUS
- 4 Mb RAM
- 210Mb HD
- Don't remember my GUS settings, I'm sure I changed them 20 times last night!
- I'll post those when I can.
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- Mikeeeee
- nestlero@spock.usc.edu
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- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 22:32:08 -0500 (EST)
- From: Philip Andrew Nemec <blackdiamond+@cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: guitar midi
- Message-ID: <sfjZOsS00iV1857Ipa@andrew.cmu.edu>
-
- About converting incoming sound to MIDI - please post what kind of
- responses from comp.dsp etc. about the amount of number crunching
- needed... It sounds like if the math is fast enough the program
- wouldn't be too tough - you got me interested!
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- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 22:00:50 PST
- From: Vincent Poy <kingdom@CERF.NET>
- Subject: Sound File Support
- Message-ID: <9304040600.AA13415@nic.cerf.net>
-
- I was wondering if someone can point me out to some utilities for
- the GUS to play things (sound files) besides, MIDI, MOD, SND, WAV
- files since I know there are more than that which I've seen on BBS's
- that have stuff like the CMF and ROL stuff but how would I be able to
- play those? atleast what the SB/Adlib boards can play for Music files...
- I would appreciate any help! Thanks!
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