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- From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
- Subject: Re: Should I buy a GUS?
- Message-ID: <Bz6tEA.H68@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Dec13.034019.12545@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:42:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.034019.12545@wam.umd.edu> mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:
- >
- >Is there any reason that I should wait a few months before going out and
- >buying one of these? Or, reworded, should I go out and buy a GUS now, or
- >will there be better revisions in the near future?
- >
-
- I don't think that there will be better revisions in the near future. We're
- already at rev 2.4. Gravis do not plan on adding or taking away any
- features from the basic card, and any future hardware modifications will
- only be to reduce chip count, board size, and production costs.
-
- >I'm just curious to know, because I'm in the market for a soundcard.
- >
- >Also, what does the GUS package come with, and what's the best price
- >you've seen?
- >
-
- Besides the card w/ 256k, there are six disks with supporting software
- and demoes:
-
- - Setup (the babbling installation and configuration program.)
- - Windows drivers and a mixer applet
- - PlayMIDI (DOS .mid player. Great for showing off your GUS.)
- - SBOS (SB emulator)
- - Playfile, Audio, and Playdigi (sample playback)
- - USS8 (8-bit recording software.)
- - a set of patches (i.e. instruments for the card)
- - Ultrafli (animated demo)
- - sample MIDI files
-
- Phat.
-