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- From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
- Subject: Re: Gravis UltraSound: Two Questions
- Message-ID: <gting.724799477@sfu.ca>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 21:11:17 GMT
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- daa7365@tamuts.tamu.edu (Diego A. Aranda) writes:
-
-
- >I purchased a Gravis Ultrasound yesterday afternoon, and I think I'm being
- >quite honest when I say that I'll never go back to Creative Labs or my
- >SoundBlaster (which is currently sitting in a box - anyone out there want
- >to buy it?). The quality of the .MID files is amazing, and in my experience
- >even .MODs sound much better. I can't wait until the GUS gets the native
- >support it deserves.
-
- You might want to just keep the SB just for compatibility's sake with
- some of the SB games that doesn't sound too good with the current version
- of sbos. It is possible for both cards to coexist, you know.
-
- >I have two quick questions though:
-
- >1) What is the Gravis BBS phone number? My manuals say to call the
- >tech. support line to get the number, but since it's Saturday, I can't
- >do that right now, and am unwilling to wait until Monday. Does anyone
- >have the number?
-
- (604)431-5927 for the Gravis BBS line. (v32.bis)
-
- >2) I heard that there was a Gravis FTP site (or at least, a public site
- >with Gravis files on it). What's the address? I tried using archie and
- >searching for files with the root "sbos" but only found a few public sites
- >with OS/2 files.
-
- Looking for the wrong thing in archie. :) Maybe you should have tried
- "ultrasound" instead. :) Anyways, the address is archive.epas.utoronto.ca
- or 128.100.160.36 in the pub/pc/ultrasound directory.
-
-
- >Thanks,
- You're welcome. And we welcome you to the world of GUS... ;-)
-
- >Diego
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