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- Ultrasound Daily Digest Tue, 12 Jan 93 Volume 2 : Issue 9
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- Today's Topics:
- Gravis Signs Licencing Agreement For Software -- Related to GUS 3D??
- Gravis UltraSound 3D!
- WinJammer for GUS uploaded to epas
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:55:32 GMT
- From: gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca (George Kirikos)
- Message-Id: <1993Jan9.165532.25362@epas.toronto.edu>
- Subject: Gravis Signs Licencing Agreement For Software -- Related to GUS 3D??
- To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
-
- The following brief paragraph appeared in the Report on Business
- section of the Globe & Mail (Canada's version of the Wall Street Journal),
- on Saturday, January 9, 1993 (page B7):
-
- "ADVANCED GRAVIS signed a licencing agreement to make and distribute a
- software product -- Focal Point SD Audio -- for IBM personal
- computers. It added 25 cents to [close at] $2.70 [per share]."
-
- [text in square brackets added for clarity by me]
-
- This would seem to confirm the view that the 3D technology is via
- software. However, what's left up in the air is whether or not this
- software requires any of the special features of the Gravis hardware,
- or can be adapted to other sound cards. Also, it is unclear whether
- the deal is an exclusive licence (in which case the previous point is
- moot). Given the uptick in the stock price of Gravis, the market seems
- to have found the news favourable. Also, the company which licenced
- the software to Gravis isn't named in the newspaper story. It has been
- speculated that Archer Communications provided the software, and its
- stock price performance (up $0.50 for all of last week, but down a
- nickel on Friday, to close at $3.25/share) would seem to confirm this.
-
- BTW, those who follow the stocks of sound card companies might want to
- compare Advanced Gravis (AED on Toronto & Vancouver, GRVSF on Nasdaq)
- with Mediavision (makers of PAS) (symbol MVIS on Nasdaq). Both have
- about 10 million shares outstanding. MVIS is at approximately
- $21/share, while Gravis sell for one-tenth that amount. Can this last
- for long?? Gravis' sales are taking off with the introduction of the
- Ultrasound, while not too many people have been talking about the Pro
- Audio Spectrum lately (except to remark that they decided to buy the
- GUS instead of the PAS 16!). Time will tell whether my guess that
- Advanced Gravis will rise, and Mediavision will fall is realized (or
- perhaps both will rise, but Gravis at a faster rate), but I've already
- put my money where my mouth is.
-
- So, can anyone confirm that Archer's Q-sound is being used by Gravis?
- Is Ultrasound hardware required to yield the desired 3D effect (i.e.
- or other "smart cards")? Is the deal with <insert name> (Archer?) an
- exclusive deal, thereby leaving PAS, SB, and ARIA owners to watch the
- GUS world with envy?
-
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- Date: 9 Jan 93 23:50:21 GMT
- From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
- Message-Id: <1993Jan09.234529.12405@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
- Subject: Gravis UltraSound 3D!
- To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
-
- primus@netcom.com (Robert keng) writes:
- > But back to the Gravis 3D again. There's just not enough
- >concrete information on this product right now, hell, most of us still don't
- >know whether the difference between it and the Ultrasound is hardware or
- >software (I still don't see how they'll be able to do it by a driver alone...
-
- I talked to a friend of mine who talks to a Gravis sales rep. He thought
- the 3D would come on a daughter-board, along with a scsi interface for
- cd-roms.
- ==
-
- Bob Seattle, Washington
-
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-
- Date: 9 Jan 93 14:17:37 GMT
- From: mdavcr!bs (Bruce Sharpe)
- Message-Id: <3938@mdavcr.mda.ca>
- Subject: WinJammer for GUS uploaded to epas
- To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
-
- WinJammer v2.3 is a shareware Windows 3.1 MIDI sequencer that now supports the
- Gravis UltraSound.
-
- I have uploaded it to klingon.epas.utoronto.ca (128.100.160.36). It can be
- found in
- /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/wjmr22.zip
-
- (I don't know why it isn't called wjmr23.zip, "22" is the author's
- designation.)
-
- Bruce Sharpe
-
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