Subject: Re: General User Satisfaction (Digest #22-23)
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I'm using a SB 16 Mutil CD and a new ACE card. Both seem to be working fine
with the exception of YES...the joystick problem. It seems to be detected,
however in some games such as NASCAR CD I can't get the joystick to stop
jumping around. After endless attempts to re-calibrate...I gave up. Has
anybodt else had this problem.
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From: TAGRAY@ualr.edu
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:25:08 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NEC 3XI bundle for interested Gussers. . .
Good day fellow Gussers. . .
I'm looking for serious buyers for my NEC 3XI bundle which includes 15 caddies
(around $7-$8 a piece mail order), OS/2 WARP on cd (around $65-$70 mail order),
and as a bonus X-WING, Imperial Pursuit, and B-WING on 3.5" disks (around
$30, $15, and $15 mail order, repsectively), since I now have the cd.
The asking price for the NEC 3XI bundle is:
$350 -- I'll pay for 2nd day UPS with ground tracking, insurance, and packaging. OR
$325 -- The prospective buyer pays shipping, ground tracking; I'll pay packaging
All hardware and software are in excellent condition and contain all original
packaging and documentation (minus the caddies' packaging).
The NEC 3XI has served me well for 10 months and also works well with my AdaptecSCSI controller, GUS MAX rev. 1.7 with 1Mb ram, DOS 6.22, WIN for WGPS 3.11,
WIN '95 Final Beta Release and OS/2 WARP (both of which auto-detect the NEC 3XI
just fine when connected to a supported SCSI controller i. e. Adaptec).
Again, I'm looking for serious buyers please. I would like to help out a fellowGusser, as I'm now in the market for a NEC 6XI for cd graphics and DOS 4/GW
protected mode cd games.
I'll be happy to set up a 30 day trial period and refund provided that the
hardware and software are packaged and received in the same condition as I wouldship them, along with ground tracking.
Overseas interested buyers, I can work out an arrangement since the above $350
quote was good for the continental 48 states.
Thanks in advance for your interest ;)
Andy Gray
E-MAIL address: TAGRAY@athena.ualr.edu
Proud Gusser with rev. 1.7 GUS MAX with 1Mb ram running 4.11 and PMODE MegaEm
Eagle Scout Class of '87
3rd year Graphic Design student with medical illustration emphasis
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From: Marko Ovaska <Marko.Ovaska@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 22:35:18 +0300 (EET DST)
Subject: MicroProses coming F1GP II
MicroProse will release new version of F1GP next autumn. I'm quite a fan
of F1GP, thou it is a bit oldish with adlib and roland support.
I have read there has not been good (if any) drivers for gus in X-Com (or
UFO, Enemy unknown in Europe), and that the second X-Com didn't manage
any better.
Should it be time to continue battle for GUS and remind MicroProse of
existence of Gravis Ultrasound? Anyhow, MicroProse can be contacted by
email at address 76004.2223@compuserve.com.
I have already asked, worried of cource, that will the shortly coming
game support one of the best wavetable based cards on market. Their
answer was not very promising, support caimed that it is not know
whether F1GP will support the gravis. A few more polite woes for gus
would gain good quality sound for final product...
Marko
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From: schumgl@anubis.network.com (Gary L. Schumacher)
Date: Wed, 31 May 95 16:09:37 CDT
Subject: Sierra's Incredible Machine 2
Does anybody have any tried to get Sierra's Incredible Machine 2 working with
the GUS? I have tried sbos and will now start with gusdrv.exe, gus32.exe and
MegaEM. Any help would be GREAT!!!
Thanks
Gary
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From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Date: Wed, 31 May 95 23:46:25 METDST
Subject: line in
Noticed a program I've never used; ultramix.exe.
Use this at the end of your autoexec.bat to set line, mic and output
to enable. Just toy around with it using the -h switch.
> Has anybody yet got a sound with the GUS max and linuxdoom......
> I have of course compiled GUS max support in the kernel but....
> no sound at all.....
I can't answer this one, don't play it much anymore, but know that sound
comes out (I was playing it remotly on my machine and it gave some
friends a fright 'cos ths sound came out of the main box :)), I have an
SB16 and standard GUS though
> And btw, we have with linux a great mod/mtm/s3m player for the gus
> called gmod... but I never heard anything about a midi player for the
> gus onder linux????
>
Try adagio (latest version is 0.5 I think). It is a reasonable midi
player, the good thing being it will hand over any extra instruments to
my sound bastard. It doesn't, however, sound as good as most other midi
players, for no apparent reason. I don't know of anyother midi players,
but there is also s3mod which plays mods.
Hope this helps,
Alan
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From: Olof Sundin <adb3_6@und.ida.liu.se>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 95 15:00:28 +0200
Subject: Re: Sierra's Incredible Machine 2
>Does anybody have any tried to get Sierra's Incredible Machine 2 working with
>the GUS? I have tried sbos and will now start with gusdrv.exe, gus32.exe and
>MegaEM. Any help would be GREAT!!!
>
>Thanks
>Gary
I haven't tried the real game, but the demo worked like a dream with MegaEM (the older one, not the new PMode beta) emulating SB+GM and I don't see any reason why the real thing shouldn't.
I hope this helps...
/Olof Sundin
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From: "Scott J. Geertgens" <geertges@colorado.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 07:29:24 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Adding a CD-ROM
I am planning to purchase a Toshiba 3601 4X SCSI CD-ROM drive in the
next few weeks, and I was wondering if this will cause any problem with
my GUS? I know most soundcard (including the MAX, which mine isn't) have
adapters for CD-ROM drives, but since I'm getting a SCSI this shouldn't
matter, correct? I assume it'll just be chained off of my SCSI HD and not
be affected by the GUS... if anyone could add any insights, it would be
appreciated. Thanks. Replying here or by e-mail is fine.
Scott Geertgens
geertges@colorado.edu
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From: Sam <Samuel.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 15:29:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ACE; and me arguing the case for digital resonant filters. (Or at least filters of some kind!)
> 'Scuse my ignorance but exactly what are the ACE's capabilities. Particularly,
> what is different to the standard GUS. ie. can I still use it for things like
> demos (eg. Second Reality), MOD/S3M/669/etc @ 44KHz/16bits interpololated ?
Yes you can. The only differences from standard GUS are no recording, no
daughetboard socket, no joystick, and GUSMAX-type RAM chips.
> If you just want to have sounds of natural sampled instruments, the filter
> is of almost no use to you. The EMU8000 on AWE32 has resonant filters built
Well, a low-pass filter is VERY useful, piano sounds a lot better when it
gets sharper the harder you hit it. (The resonance is just for analogue
imitation really, but you can always use it for creative effects).
> in, and it's probably the only sound card for the PC with resonant filters
> and sample RAM. GUS has no filters at all, and TurtleBeach cards like RIO
> or MAUI have only nonresonant filters. I'm not sure about the cards with
Someone (a TB owner) told me TB cards have no filters at all.
> Well, I don't think the InterWave chip has one, but that type of
> feature would probably be built into the sound card outside the chip.
> A filter is much easier (and sounds much cleaner) to create with analog
> devices than digital. Everyone has all these notions that digital is
> best, but sound is analog, therefore, processing (such as filters) it
> is done best with analog.
Even on cheap computer equipment? Surely the best solution is to restrict
the analogue to just the output, so as to limit noise to a miniumum.
Digital is also more flexible, and cheaper.
If off-chip, it would be completely useless, as the chip presumably has
only one sound output stream, and you wouldn't want JUST an analogue synth
imitation, you'd be bound to want drum track and sampled instruments
too... which wouldn't want the same levels of filter at all..
