Anyone with Email and Smail addresses for gaming companies
pleeze email them all to me. Once I recieve a fair number of addresses and
such I will cross-post a message containing all of the addresses and you,
the GUS user will email and write a letter to each of these comapnies. I
don't know about you, but if at least 500 people do it then at least it
will wake the companies up to the presence of the almighty GUS.
And if you want to whine about "I have better things to do than waste my
precious $4.00 cab-fare" Well you might as well staple your GUS to your
wall for decorational purposes 'cause if GUS dies then you lost a $150
investment. So search for those addresses and wait for me to post again.
ciao my fellow GUSers,
May the force of GUS be with you!
Adam
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1993 10:44:22 +0000
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Dropped notes, 2.06L disks
Message-ID: <00973B50.8CCBD4A0.28665@lsl.co.uk>
> I've been noticing that under Windows 3.1 there are notes which are
> "dropped" while playing a song. This happens with the two sequencers
> I'm using (Power Chords Pro v2.0 and Cakewalk Pro for Windows v2.0)
> and the Windows Media Player utility.
I don't know about notes being missed completely, but notes being
truncated too soon can be due to your 'Number of active voices'
setting. If all the voices are in use when the time comes to play
a note, then all the Windows driver can do is cut one of the old
notes off - presumably it chooses the 'oldest' note. So more active
voices means that you can play more notes at once, but at the
expense of lesser quality (quite noticeable on some patches,
insignificant on others) because the GUS cannot sample the patches
at 44kHz with more than 14 active voices.
> Well after poking around epas for a while, I found GUS install disks
> with the version labelled: v2.06L ...
If I remember, 2.06L (Lite?) was a version of 2.06 made available for
ftp. It differed from 2.06 by not having Recording Session and Power
Chords, since these could not be made available in this way. I don't
know what 2.06a had (maybe the missing marcato/tremstr or whatever patch
was included, and maybe the Power Chords icons were got the right way
round). I think you should stick with 2.06a.
> This is my third day with the GUS, and geez is it ever a lot of
> work to get games to work.
3 days! Give it some time! <-- probably unfair remark since I haven't
really tried to play games with mine.
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 13:00:51 -0400
From: jericho!gord (Gord Wait S-MOS Systems Vancouver Design Center)
Subject: Re: Dropped notes under Windows
Message-ID: <9310081700.AA15634@smos.bc.ca>
How many voices have you got your windows driver set to? It defaults
to 22, so if your .mid uses up more, the driver is probably
cutting off the oldest notes so it can start new ones.
What does playmidi do, anyone? Does it make a guess as to
how many voices to set the gus to?
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1993 17:52:50 +0200
From: PWRJAM01@Uctvax.UCT.AC.ZA
Subject: FTP site for MIDI files
Message-ID: <01H3VN100U2Q8WW6RR@Uctvax.UCT.AC.ZA>
For those of you who want midi files,
check out FTP.CS.RUU.NL they have quite a collection
of midi files in the directory pub/MIDI
James
pwrjam01@uctvax.uct.ac.za
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1993 12:51:01 +0200
From: PWRJAM01@Uctvax.UCT.AC.ZA
Subject: Gravis making it with support
Message-ID: <01H3VC84J1N68WW57N@Uctvax.UCT.AC.ZA>
In the past few digests they have been some complaints about
the gus not being supported quickly enough. Well I bought
an original SB when they first came out and had to
wait at least 2-2.5 years before games supported the SB even
then it was still not trully supported ( full digitized output
with sound ). What I am trying to say is that unfortunately
it take time for the word "GUS" to spread around and I think
gravis are doing a great job to decrease this time. Until
most people know what the Gravis Ultrasound is I don't think
there is going much effort to support it. Everone knows
what a sound blaster is - but a GUS? When you read a magazine
looking for a sound card you normally look for the best and
see what it has to offer ( then only the price ). I have
not seen one good GUS review !
********************************************
* James Power *
University of Cape Town *
* South Africa *
* Internet: pwrjam01@Uctvax.uct.ac.za *
********************************************
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 03:42:38 +0200 (EET)
From: tnikkane@clinet.fi (Toni Nikkanen)
Subject: Line-in enabler uploaded
Message-ID: <9310090142.AA26108@clinet.fi>
I wrote two small utils which enable and disable
the Ultrasound's line in, and made a quick hack of
the ultrinit.sys file which also enables the line in
feature. Then I thought that somebody else might need
these and uploaded them to epas, into directory
/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit, as line.zip.
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 11:40:24 EDT
From: Bryon Daly <ltx!bkd@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: Master Of Orion (MOO) GUS patch
Message-ID: <199310081548.AA03555@q>
Hello,
I downloaded a patch that supposedly lets Master Of Orion use the GUS
through the AIL driver. I ran the patch, loaded ultramid -c, ran the
install program and selected one of the Roland cards. But when I run
the game, the screen just goes black, the disk stops spinning, and
that's it.
I also had previously put in Microprose's MOO bugfix patch. Could
that have afftected it?
Has anyone else got the GUS patch to work? Did I miss something?
Thanks,
-Bryon
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 11:31 BST
From: MFZPITT@VAX.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Subject: More From Origin
Message-ID: <9310081027.AA23905@orca.es.com>
Just recieved a bit more from Origin.
Q. Will you answer our question, will we see GUS support from you?
A. I just realised that I didn't answer this letter. Nothing is definate at
this time. The GUS market is not as huge as people think and the drivers
provided are very hard to operate with our code. This certainly isn't as
easy as you may think. Thank you for the letters of encouragement and I
hope to read more from you soon.
Best wishes,
Wayne
Can someone out there at Gravis provide Origin with hard data as to how
many GUS owners there actually are? It would help if everyone who gets
this digest mailed Origin and said Hi! I've got a GUS - SUPPORT IT!
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 12:07:34 -0600 (MDT)
From: kdorff@NMSU.Edu
Subject: MS Arcade + GUS
Message-ID: <9310081807.AA10961@NMSU.Edu>
Wow! I wasn't sure if it was something else on my system, and I DIDNT
EVEN THINK to wonder of it was my GUS, but Yes
MICROSOFT ARCADE (all of the games) lock my up my machine
Nothing else seems to lock it up, but just in case. I have:
386/40, 256k cache
8 megs of memory
ATI VGA Wonder 512+
or Diamond Speedstar Pro
or Vortex by Boca
250 meg hard disk
PC Tools for Windows desktop
I tried everything, but turning off sound. Maybe I will try starting
windows in standard mode, not 386...
Kevin
--
Kevin C. Dorff kdorff@nmsu.edu
3232 Missouri Apt. C mental@acca.nmsu.edu
Las Cruces, NM 88001 (505) 522-1739
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 93 17:30:06 EDT
From: mtassone@aol.com
Subject: new Mega-Em
Message-ID: <9310081730.tn78105@aol.com>
Does anyone know when the new Mega-Em will be released to Ultrasound users
(no 20 minitue limit)?? Thanks,
Mike Tassone
miker@ace.com
mtassone@aol.comd
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 9:16 BST
From: MFZPITT@VAX.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Subject: Origin And GUS Support 1.
Message-ID: <9310080812.AA19677@orca.es.com>
I spent some time yesterday mailing Origin calling for GUS support and got a few responses. I've got mailing problems at present so I've got to send this as a few short messages. Here are a couple of my questions and the answeres I got.
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 9:19 BST
From: MFZPITT@VAX.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Subject: Origin And GUS Support 2.
Message-ID: <9310080815.AA19740@orca.es.com>
Q. Can't you use the GUS AIL drivers
A. The GUS drivers never worked...Forte seemed unwilling or unable to help us.
(can anybody respond to this - Gravis? Forte?)
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 9:22 BST
From: MFZPITT@VAX.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Subject: Origin And GUS Support 2.
Message-ID: <9310080818.AA19792@orca.es.com>
Q. Will you support the GUS?
A. There just doesn't seem to be alot of incentive besides a few very vocal GUS owners.
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 9:34 BST
From: MFZPITT@VAX.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Subject: Origin And GUS Support 4.
Message-ID: <9310080830.AA20171@orca.es.com>
I informed them that the GUS had recently been rated very highly by three
mags here in the UK, they just threw back at me the review in CGW. They seem
to think the GUS is lacking compared to other cards. Can anyone give them
a good working over on this?
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 9:37 BST
From: MFZPITT@VAX.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Subject: Origin And GUS Support 5.
Message-ID: <9310080833.AA20373@orca.es.com>
Well I tried, but it doesn't look too good does it? What do the rst of you
think? Don't forget to mail Origin as well to tell them - osi@aol.com.
Anthony Pitt
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1993 09:36:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bonjour, Le Prof" <JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
