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Ultrasound Daily Digest     Fri, 18 Dec 92       Volume 1 : Issue  51

Today's Topics:
                         --->DEMO UPDATE<---
                 16 bit Daughter Board for recording
                          Gravis connectors
                    GUS, SBPro, and GS2000 antics
                     GUS and OPTi partially fixed
                               SBOS.CFG

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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 17:56:57 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Dan Wright)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: --->DEMO UPDATE<---
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

Is there anyone out there who knows the "getting a newsgroup" process and can help get us a comp.sys.ibm.pc.demo newsgroup?

There is now a FASTER demo site (mirror but not really) for those who were getting a slow transfer rate on FTP.UWP.EDU.

THE new site is:  wasp.eng.ufl.edu   /pub/msdos/demos
there is an INCOMING directory within the demos directory for UPLOADING demos.

63 demos in all!!!

BE SURE to read the NEW ABOUT.DEMOS to admire the new rating system.  Check out the DEMO.NEWS as well....all to be UPDATED by the 18th.


crash & burn

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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 12:06:31 EST
From: [e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: 16 bit Daughter Board for recording
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

Does anyone know when the daughterboard will be available
that will allow me to record in 16 bit, 44khz from my CD
player?  And how much will it be?  How about the MIDI connector?
I know it will be avail around January, but what will it
tote for a price tag?
 On to another question.  I recorded, using USS8 <bleah>,
from a CD.  Then I recorded another track from another CD and
tried to use the MIX command to combine the two recordings.
Well, it recorded and mixed great, but when I play the combination
of the two songs, it plays about 5 seconds, then the hourglass icon
appears and waits for a sec, then plays 5 more seconds.  It does
this all the way through the song.  I have the 1 meg upgrade.  What
else could it be?  oh well.. thanks for all your help GUyS!

cHaD

[e-mail]
Compuserve: 73517,1045
Prodigy: pkps27a
Genie: cyates

BTW:  Thanks Thomas for the compuserve address of another tech
person! :)

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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:47:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dave Ingles <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gravis connectors
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

> Does anyone know when the daughterboard will be available
> that will allow me to record in 16 bit, 44khz from my CD
> player?  And how much will it be?  How about the MIDI connector?
> I know it will be avail around January, but what will it
> tote for a price tag?

Has anyone found out the midi / joystick connector pinout and audio connector
signal specs from gravis yet ?

I have sent two e-mail messages on the subject to gravis but no replies
have been received.

Davei

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Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:57:46 GMT
From: [e-mail] (R. Cliff Young)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: GUS, SBPro, and GS2000 antics
Summary: Fun with Conflicting Hardware/Confused Software in the PC World
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

Primarily because of all the GUS-related postings I've been flipping
through in this newsgroup, I up and impulse-bought myself a Gravis
Ultrasound from Babbage's last Friday for $149.99 (or thereabouts).
(DISCLAIMER: I'm a former Babbage's employee.  I know what goes on in
those stores.  ;)

I already had a Sound Blaster Pro installed in my 486/33, and wanted
to keep it there to avoid having to dicker with SBOS... the SBPro is
configed at 220h, IRQ 7, DMA 1, and has worked consistently well.  I
installed the GUS at 240h, DMA 3, GF1-IRQ 11, and MIDI-IRQ 5.  Tried
the MIDI files--awesome!  Tried Star Control II--uh oh, I'm having
that misplayed patch problem... I changed the GUS to DMA 7 and then
SCII sounded as excellent as the raves elsewhere had promised.  I then
installed my other impulse-purchase, SimLife for DOS, and it worked
well, utilizing the SBPro with no problem.

My roomie decides to play GS2000, the only YADFS (Yet Another Damn
Flight Simulator--term used by my friends to describe a bulk of my
software library ;) currently residing on my system.  (It's the latest
patched release, including the Islands & Ice supplement and later
patch).  BOMB!  Total lockup--it didn't even clear the text screen!
Well, from past experiences when I had a PAS+ (ick) briefly residing
on my system and an older version of GS2000, I knew that GS could be a
bit finicky with the audio portion of its configuration.  I re-ran the
GS2000 SETUP program, double-checked that a SB was still configured,
double-checked that the digital parameters (address, IRQ, DMA) were
still correct for the SBPro, kept the new (albeit unchanged) config,
and attempted once more to run GS2000.  BOMB!

Well, for kicks, I ran SBOS, then ran GS2000.  Surprise!  It ran,
without bombing!  Of course, both the GUS *and* SBPro were cheerily
sharing the pleasure of playing the Adlib music.  Neither wanted to
play the digital copilot voice, though.  Understandable for SBOS,
since I guess it wanted to use IRQ 5 and DMA 7, though I later tried
using SETUP to specify IRQ 5 and a DMA of 3 (after temporarily
resetting the GUS back to that, since GS2000's SETUP only allows DMAs
1-3) but still got no digital through either card.  I proceeded to go
through a wide range of possibilities, including running SBOS and then
removing it (which had the effect of turning the SoundBlaster into an
Adlib-only card... ;), running SBOS with all the various options,
running GS2000 SETUP with more various options, etc.  At one point I
had the SBPro (only!) working properly, with both Adlib FM *and* SB
DAC sound working, but this was not duplicable after cold reset.  The
quickest fix that will work consistently is to enable SBOS and either
retain it or remove it, and configure GS2000 to use Adlib sound.  Not
as crisp as SB, though you do get the copilot voice... (sounded fine
even when going through SBOS and the GUS).

My options are to: (1) remove the SBPro and just use GUS w/ SBOS
(which I assume will work fine, since I haven't seen any others having
problems with GS2000), (2) remove the GUS (Noooooo!!!!!!), (3) buy a
new system and dedicate it to the GUS ;) , (4) live with Adlib sound,
or (5) live without GS2000.

I'll probably contact Microprose; in an ideal universe, they will put
out new sound drivers for GS2000 that will include native GUS
support--or at least recognize that some of us out here are ignoring
the warnings in their Gravis manuals and Star Control II manuals that
a GUS and SB cannot co-exist ;) , and include a little fix in their
next patchset...

In the meantime, anyone have a similar problem or any ideas?

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Date: 18 Dec 1992 00:58:37 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alex D.)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: GUS and OPTi partially fixed
Summary: GUS & OPTi & 486s
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

Okay, now I know that my GUS is not broken.  I recently installed in a 386/33
OPTi write/back cache machine.  It almost has the exact chips that are on my
486/33 OPTi motherboard (bought them from the same place), namely the F82C206
chip.  I booted up the 386/33 and setup (original on v1.21 disks) ran fine,
my machine did not freeze like the 486.  I set the GUS up for defaults except
DMA 7.  I ran SBOS, and it worked flawlessly, I can hear digitized sounds.
Everything else worked too.

I know that someone else previously post the same type of experience, I just
want to confirm it.  The 486/33 OPTi motherboard doesn't work correctly
with the GUS, whereas the 386/33 does.  Is the chip too fast or what?  Oh
well, I'll get the darn thing replaced soon.

Alex

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:39 EST
From: "Matthew E. Bernold" <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: SBOS.CFG
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

I was reading the GUS manual earlier on this week (Yup, actually reading the
manual...what would my hacker's club think of me now...) and noticed that
SBOS has a config file.  Supposedly, it allows you to set the keys used to
control the volume, and even to CHANGE THE SOUND THAT SBOS PLAYS ON STARTUP!!

I tried to do this, but it wouldn't work.  You are supposed to be able to put
in a filename, and a frequency to play back at, on the third line of the .CFG
file, and SBOS will use that file instead of it's built in voice.  I tried this
by using one of the sounds that comes with the GUS, arrow.snd.  I put in the
following lines, one at a time:

arrow.snd 8000
d:\ultrasnd\arrow.snd 8000
D:\ULTRASND\ARROW.SND 8000

Using all of the above lines, I STILL got the "SBOS installed" message... :-(
Has anyone been able to get this SBOS option working?

Thanx in advance,

       Matthew E. Bernold             [e-mail]
         <<APOCALYPSE>>                  [e-mail]

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