GUS Daily Digest Sat, 29 Apr 95 9:37 PST Volume 21: Issue 28 Today's Topics: anyone got the 19th digest? FT2/MIDI and GUS with R keyb contr Gravis driver for Win '95. GUS Daily Digest V21 #27 GUS Microphone input volume The mailserver, SBOS, and ThemePark USS16 and all that.. Windows s3m player XCom 2 Hangs... Standard Info: - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest. - Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:01:06 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ignatius Tam (Mr. Tam)" Subject: anyone got the 19th digest? hi, although it's already a week ago, but anyone can send me a copy of digest on 19th? i didn't receive it. thanks -iGnatius -- @------------------------------------------------------------------------@ | /\ /\ MarToPigGus!!(tm) YoUr DreaMing piGG meaT iS heRe! | | / -- \ conTaCT yOur lOCal deALeR!! __iGnatius tAm___ | | | . . u| e-mail: tam@cs.ualberta.ca / itam@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca | | | __ | personal homepage: http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~tam | | | < .. > | GUS digest: http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~itam/digest.html | | \______/ phone: 403-433-3187 | @------------------------------------------------------------------------@ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 19:44:11 PDT From: Celtic Matrix Subject: FT2/MIDI and GUS with R keyb contr I plan to buy one of the Roland keyboard MIDI controllers, one with 4x midi out, 2x midi in and 1x thru. I'll be using it with my GUS MAX, SoundBlaster MIDI connector Box and FastTracker 2. Does anyone know if this combination can work out good ? I also want to make something professional... CM. ------------------------------------ Name : Celtic Matrix E-mail: celtic@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net Date : 04/28/95 Time : 19:44:11 ------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 19:39:14 +0100 (BST) From: gould@cs.bris.ac.uk Subject: Gravis driver for Win '95. > > Gravis said a native driver would be ready by the official Win95 release. > That should give them a couple of years then! Haha.. (Sorry, couldn't resist it..) CUL8R, Dave (Warped). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:33:15 +0100 (BST) From: Sam Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V21 #27 > From: George > Subject: AMD Interwave announcement on AMD WWW > > Thanks to the person who posted the announcement from the WWW site. > But here's where I'm worried - I found nothing in the announcement that > deals with Advanced Gravis other than it being compatible with it. Even > from the quotes above, it seems AMD will be releasing the chip to other > manufacturers. I just hope Advanced Gravis gets a piece of the pie, > perhaps some royalties since I do suppose they helped AMD develop the chip. AMD licensed the technology from Gravis/Forte. They'll have to pay for this. As far as I know they will still be using all Gravis' software (drivers, MegaEm, patchmaker, etc) which they will have to pay for too. Sam ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 01:01:59 -1000 (HST) From: David Komatsu Subject: GUS Microphone input volume Message-ID: I have a Gravis Ultrasound card and just bought a rather basic Labtech Microphone to play with the Internet Phone program. The problem I have is the volume is extremely low. I tried to test it out using the Windows Sound Recorder and my voice is barely audible. Is there a way to up the Microphone input volume? or maybe some sort of mixer program to increase the Microphone volume? Or do I have to get one of those more expensive microphones that have a built in amp? -------------------------------------------------------------------- davek@pixi.com | Internet: The end of the Industrial revolution -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 00:55:21 -0400 From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski) Subject: The mailserver, SBOS, and ThemePark This message is futile... but I thought I might as well join the crowd... 1) mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de is down. They say its "Kaputt". I want to know, is this final. 2) Could the reason why the DOS based drivers SBOS and MegaEM aren't progressing (no insult intended to the programmer, they are fine! But development never ends...) is because with the end of MS-DOS, the emulators are no longer needed (with WIN95)? Sure, PC-DOS and all could use them (i think) but Gravis may think that what's out is all that they need, and can concentrate on WIN95? Just a thought... I'm probably wrong... 3) ThemePark (remember that?). Its a little annoying. I can get full SB sound (SFX and mUSiC) in the Intro, but when the game itself starts, I loose the sfx, an error momentarily flashes "Cannot load SFX...". But If I view the intro again, its fine. Normal, or Unique. either way, can u help? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 14:10:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Gelinas Subject: USS16 and all that.. Message-ID: Well here's what I got. yesterday I finally broke down and called Gravis. They told me, much as the rest of you did, that it was in the "bonus" pack. My Gus Max didn't come with the bonus pack. (yes I bought it new). It came with the 3.59a disks and the CD. However gravis has told me that they will mail me a bonus pack, so I should be receiving that shortly. The man on the phone speculated that perhaps the Bonus pack is no longer included with the MAX. Personally I think someone made a packaging mistaken and just didn't put the bonus pack in my box. Daniel Gelinas gelinas@cam.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 17:43:24 BST From: Mr DG Jones Subject: Re: Windows s3m player There is an s3m player for windows which installs itself as an MCI extension. This means that you use Media Player to play yer s3ms. It supports the GUS as well, in native mode rather than using the Windows WAV driver like most others currently available (WinModPro, UltiMod, etc.) do. The important stuff: Called: WMIDAS.ZIP or WMIDAS13.ZIP available at ultrasound archives in the util/windows directory. I have a question as well. I have just installed the 'Final Beta' of Win95. Brilliant. But I'm not here to sing the praise of Microsoft, although I could do so for quite a while. Since Win95 took over, WinMidas no longer recognises the GUS, and always uses the WAV device. Has anyone else got WinMidas to recognise their GUS and use it natively under Win95? I have a regular GUS, revision 3.4 or something. Thanks, Darren. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 12:02:58 -0700 From: chartang@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Char Tang) Subject: XCom 2 Hangs... I have the same problem with a GUS MAX! I'm using QEMM 7.5 and NDOS 8.0. However, if I don't load NDOS, the game exits flawlessly without any problems. With NDOS loaded, QEMM gives me the (T)erminate, (R)eboot? screen when I quit. Hope this helps. If you're running a command line shell, turn it off! 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