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Unofficial Gravis Ultrasound OS/2 Driver
1. Introduction.
This is a first pass at GUS physical driver for OS/2 MMPM. It has
just basic WAV playing capability. It works in conjunction with
the Digital Audio player and system sounds.
2. Installation.
Simply unzip the file into a directory and run MINSTALL. It does
the rest. You are given the choice of letting MINSTALL change
your CONFIG.SYS. I wouldn't let it do that. Let it create a
test file in \MMOS2 and compare that with your config.sys file
to make sure nothing went wrong. Besides you may want to change
the base and/or interrupt assignments first.
The base and irq defaults are what work for me. You may want
to change them (the DMA in particular).
The install file creates a wave player object in the multimedia
folder. If the GUS is installed as a second (or third..) MMPM
wave device, the the parameter field in its settings has to
be modfied to include "Waveaudio0n", where n is the number of
GUS device. Generally this would be Waveaudio02.
3. Known bugs.
a. It doesn't record. Later!
b. Clicks. They can get annoying, but, from what I heard, fixing
them could be a lifelong job. Trial and error seems to be the
primary method here.
c. MIDI is not supported. This will take a while!
g. It does not play stereo WAVs properly.
4. Feedback.
This is a first pass and I wanted to get something out to
give everyone hope. I know about enough problems to keep me
busy for a while. So please, think before sending me a message
telling me about something in the known bugs list. In fact, until
I get out a 0.1 release, could we limit negative feedback to
show-stoppers. Also, I have a 486DLC system. I have had no other
opportunities to try this on other systems. There is a chance that
it will not run on your system because of some incompatibility I
didn't anticipate. Please be patient with this sort of problem, as I
have limited resources to deal with different machine configurations.
The following e-mail address is my work address. I might have
some problems if a huge amount of mail starting appearing, so
think first.
On the other hand, as an aid to deciding if a problem is
configuration related, a note describing your successful
use of the driver would be appreciated, if accompanied with
a description of your configuration.
The address to reach me is ernst@tymnet.com (yes, in real life,
I work on software for the Tymnet Public Data Network. I do X.25
stuff and 680x0 based firmware.)