Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca> writes....
> Subject: Bad review of the GUS
>A GUS with the 16-bit DB would not score poorly on SNR, THD, etc.
>either. They must have been recording with the GF1's 8-bit ADC.
There seems to be some real problems with the testing of 16bit soundcards,
espcially the GUS. One magazine got a S/N of around 60dB which is hard to
believe. Can anyone shed some light on these 'tests' that they're doing, ie. how
are they doing them.
And Gravis, why are you putting up with this poor journalism? The least you
should do is publish your own tests to refute the garbage these magazines are
putting out. You know what they say about the sticking of mud....
Emory Menefee <em@crl.com> writes ....
>Subject: Re: Playfile frequencies
>wolf.wav...I had to crank down to 5k to get an approximately correct sound.
Because Wolf3D was written for the SB then sounds above 11kHz are not possible,
and since it's only speech you don't need the higher sampling rates anyway. The
sounds in Wolf are either 6.8kHz or 4kHz.
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 06:41:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Seth Delackner <dax@crl.com>
Subject: Change of E-mail address
Change my e-mail address to dax@netcom.com please
thanks!
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 10:57:15 MET-1
From: Paal Andreassen <PAALAND3@kihdata.kih.no>
Subject: Re: Cyrix 486DLC-40 & GUS
> ok, folks I need mucho help. I've just recently upgraded to a Cyrix
> dlc-40 with an opti 495 vl-bus. I have a gus 2.4 purchased around
> this time >last year which has worked pretty well until now. I've
> bought a new keyboard (the typing kind) and a CL/Panasonic 2x CDROM.
> About half the stuff I use w/my >GUS chokes. I have the GUS set
> on 220,1,1,11,7. I can't find Optifix and dunno if it would solve
> my problems anyway. Raptor doesn't work. Even with no sound I get a
> stack overflow. Pickle wars doesn't work. If I select the GUS
> drivers, the game never never finishes loading. No GUS and the
> game loads. Megapede burps & farts a few sounds and locks solid.
> Comanche still works ok. Locks occassionally.
> Any ideas?
> I've tried just about every combination of GUS settings (upped dma,
> dropped GF1 int to 5, changed SB em. to 5), increased stacks, done
> stacks=0,0.....
Well I cannot say that I know what your problems is, but I want to
say this before a lot of people begin to step on Cyrix and blaiming
it all on the DLC mobo. I too own the Cyrix 486DLC-40 VLB mobo. But I
have had no problems what so ever with the GUS. Both 8 & 16 bit DMA
works just fine.
I know however about a friend of mine that had a problems not
unlike your. He also experienced it after buying the 486 DLC-40 MZH
mobo, and it the 40 MZH part that was the problem. Some cards,
especially older once will not work correctly at hi internal transfer
speeds. Some cards have an upper limit of 33 MHZ causing the databus
transfer to "fuck up". In his case it was his "old" boca svga screen
card that was the problem. It caused no sound on several games, so
lock up, and on some the screen flickered. The funny thing was that
all the games worked fine when he removed his soundcard (a SB PRO),
but it was not this that caused the problem.
Perhaps this helps: Try removing some of your add-on cards and see
what happens. And since you are using DMA 1 (8 bit) the opti fault
(if you have a faulty chip) should be no problem.
Le us know how it goes !
Paal Andreassen <paaland3@kihdata.kih.no>
Kongsberg College of Engineering
Department of Computer Science
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 08:50:04 -0500
From: Matt Carswell <mcarswll@oyster.smcm.edu>
Subject: DRAM failure?
Ok, i just bought 6 256*4 60ns DRAM chips from CompUSA ($44) and upgraded my
256K GUS to 1 meg. But under the advanced diagnostics section of setup ver 3.1
i get a DRAM failure when I run the DRAM check, even though it recognises and
seems to check all 1025K. This would be a problem but everything else runs fine. FCs second reality and Tran's Hell demos work great. and those huge KLF mtm files play wonderfully under Inertia Player, which also recognises the upgrade.
what's going on? should I return the DRAM even though it works? should I care
about this error message? any helpful replies will be greatly appreciated.
matt.
mcarswll@oyster.smcm.edu
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 16:20:08 -0230
From: Daniel William Greenland <danielg@cs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V12 #24
Just a quick question:
My UltraSound card is initialized in both my config.sys and autoexec.bat
files. Is this really necessary? If not, which should I leave it in?
Danny Greenland
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 17:56:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V12 #25
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 12:38:19 -0400 (EDT)
> From: gt0074b@prism.gatech.edu
> Subject: Betrayal at Krondor sound
>
> I just got the CD-ROM version of Betrayal at Krondor, not,
> knowing that Dynamix was a part of Sierra. Ack. Does anyone
> know if the 16-bit Sierra GUS drivers will work on with this
> game? If not, when are those 32-bit drivers coming out, and
> what site will they be on?
The floppy version of Krondor worked very well with Mega-Em. Has
the CD-ROM version gone the way of protected mode?
> What do Sierra, Origin, and Microsoft have in common?
They get bashed a lot (fairly or unfairly is a personal opinion). :)
