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GUS Daily Digest Sun, 21 Nov 93 0:07 Volume 8: Issue 20 Today's Topics: [MEGAEM] A Few Short Reviews Answers... Avoid LASER Motherboards and/or UNICHIP chipset Fixed Mega-Em! GUS Daily Digest V8 #18 GUS Daily Digest V8 #19 (2 msgs) GUS for sale...? Hooking up a joystick IndyCar Jurassic park JUST TO LET YOU KNOW #9 - Mega-em and X-Wing/POP2 MEGA-EM PROBLEMS Mega-Em with Dune2 Megaem 2.00b023 & X-Wing Screen lock-up Multi Boot for DOS 5.0 (or lower) NEW WINDOWS DRIVER PROBLEM New Win Drivers, Mega-Em PAS16 & GUS Pin out of Joystick Ports SB and GUS live together! She's So Funky: A new GUS song! Sierra Drivers and MegaEM Solution to target slowdown (xwing) UltraWolf Ultrawolf - Must get!!! Wolf 3D & UltraWolf 1.3... 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, 19 Nov 93 23:02:49 EST From: amrad@mugga.stats.mu.OZ.AU (Amrad account) Subject: [MEGAEM] A Few Short Reviews Dear Fellow GUS'ers, The following are a few games I've tried with the new Mega-Em v2.00B023. My general conclusion is it is an EXCELLENT piece of program incorporating SoundBlaster DAC. I had hardly any problems using it with the following games. My PC configuration is as follows. 386DX-33, AMI BIOS, 8MB RAM, 64KB cache, 207MB Conner IDE HDD, Tseng ET4000 1MB SVGA card, NEC MultiSync 3D, DOS 5.0 with 4DOS, Stacker v3.0, 386MAX v6.0, Panasonic CR-562-B CD-ROM drive and GUS v2.4 with 1MB. The only brief problem I encountered was the music in Flashback having slight clicks and pops (FB was the first game I tried). I dropped my bus speed from 11MHz to 8.??MHz and, true to its word in the DOC file, they disappeared. X-Wing ====== Works *great* with Mega-Em after configuring it for "General MIDI with SoundBlaster". No more slowdowns when an imperial fighter hummed pass in close range. I replayed Dev's Side Step without any problem. HINT: Those of you who haven't replace the Gunshot patch (ringwhsl.pat) with pistol2.pat, do it! The patch is used when your laser cannon finds its mark on an imperial fighter. A gunshot-sounding hit is much more realistic than the whistling whine. Flashback ========= Works without any problems. However, I find some digitized sounds (eg., gunshots) sound a bit blaring (not the same as loud). This is also the only game I've come across so far with continuous sustained notes which are very annoying, so you use the -SS switch for EMUSET! But otherwise, great! Fate of Atlantis ================ FOA does not have a setup program. It correctly autodetects a Roland MT32 or SCC1 and the music is fine. But, alas, FOA does not, I think, provide General MIDI with SoundBlaster; therefore no digitized sounds. Betrayal at Krondor =================== Mega-Em works very well with BAK; however, like FOA, it does not provide Roland with SB. I didn't play too much into the game though. I will post more short reviews of other games/programs (including T7G, Dune II, POP2 and Star Control II) as I try them. Way to go Jayeson and Gravis! BTW, some of you may be wondering if I encountered RAM shortages after loading TSR's for my above config. The answer *was* yes, but not any longer. Nowadays, I normally have 622KB (+35KB UMB) free; with Ultramid v1.05 loaded, I still have 602KB available. I'll post more details if people are interested. Cheers! Albert P Choo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 22:22:54 +0800 (PST) From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu> Subject: Answers... OK...before you start blaming Gravis: If you are playing X-Wing with the new Mega-em and the game jerks when you press "t" or "r" then I THINK its your computer speed. I know and I myself have no problems with a 486-33DX... If you are playing X-Wing with the new Mega-em and the music stops ONLY when you are in a mission, it is a conflict between X-Wing and your memory manager. I use QEMM 7.02 normally, but use a DOS 6.2 config with minimum TSR's for X-Wing... Now...My own questions: UltraMid 1.05 still locks up with QEMM installed...I don't know. Maybe its a TSR... I wish that the Linear/Exponential switch in the new Windows drivers was accessible from the Mixer. I HATE having to go through Control Panel to change back and forth, for a game that uses linear, to a MIDI that I VMAPed and uses Exponential... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 11:31:29 -0600 (CST) From: "NAME \"Roll a Big ONE....For ME!\"" <ST1QB@Jetson.UH.EDU> Subject: Avoid LASER Motherboards and/or UNICHIP chipset Hello All... Just a warning to anybody anticapating upgrading their old machines. Dont buy anything with a LASER motherboard and/or the UNICHIP set. I dont know if its the motherboard or the chipset but this board produces the "NMI procedure is disabled on this P.C." when trying to load SBOS. I no longer have the motherboard, they exchanged it but I had to do some major bitching. Oh yea, the motherboard was a 486/dx2 66 board, with 3 local bus slots, and a ZIF socket upgradable to a P24T. Hope this info saves somebody the hassles I went through. Dave- st1qb@jetson.uh.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 15:22:25 -0500 From: gt7985c@prism.gatech.edu (Gary Robert Veduccio) Subject: Fixed Mega-Em! Thanks!! After working on configurations for about 3 hours, the only thing I didn't try was switching the SB IRQ! I changed it from 7 to 5. XWING and Stunt Island work great! A few things don't work. Most Sierra games stillsay "sound device not initiated" when SB is selected. At least the MIDI is kickin'. It always happens...after I go nuts, I notice it is always something obvious. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 16:31:23 -0500 From: TOMMYLEE@uhura.trinity.toronto.edu Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V8 #18 >Date: 17 Nov 93 17:58:00 PST >From: EBULALACAO@CSUPomona.Edu >Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V8 #17 > >I tried the new MEGEM with Hardball III, and the Sound Blaster DAC >doesn't work with it...only Roland MT32 mode...when I configured the >game to MT32/SB, it says that I don't have an SB...even though the >new MEGEM is installed. I got the new Mega-Em to work fine with Hardball III. Have you remembered to "SET BLASTER= xxxx" in your autoexec.bat? I think of what else you could try.. >Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 9:41:08 CST >From: umcoyne0@CC.UManitoba.CA >Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V8 #17[3~ > >I am having problems with the New Megaem and NHL Hockey. I am using >Megaem for SB/DAC support and it sounds great. The problem is, if I >don't turn the sound off RIGHT before the end of a period, then >period end == EMM386 exception error #13 and reboot. > >Anyone have any suggestions? (Other than switching to QEMM. I That's exactly what I was going to suggest. I had the exact same problem, then I switched over to QEMM v6.0 (the only version I have). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 12:41:28 -0500 (EST) From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: GUS Daily Digest V8 #19 > Date: 18 Nov 93 08:43:00 PST > From: EBULALACAO@CSUPomona.Edu > Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V8 #18 > > For those people wondering about patch #44, in the DEFAULT.CFG file, it > says TREMTSR or TRESTR...something like that...if you look at your GUS > manual, it'll say something else there...the instrument starts with the > letter M...forgot which one exactly...anyway, follow the manual...and > sure enough, the instrument is right there in your \ULTRASND\MID directory. > Just edit your DEFAULT.CFG file for patch #44 with a text editor and > type the instrument noted in the GUS manual. > Or they can download the tremstr.pat itself. It's contained in the 2.06a upgrade file (the one that contains the differences between the 2.06 and 2.06a disks). I think the file is ../gravis/patch/gus0034.zip on Epas. > Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 15:29:37 -0800 > From: jakub@eskimo.com (Jake Cholewczynski) > Subject: Mega-em and memory > > I have a question.. I am wondering why does Mega-Em need full EMS, I have > a regular setup with 4 megs and I do run windows so I need XMS not EMS Mega-Em doesn't need full EMS. All it needs is an active memory manager like EMM386 or Qemm. If you don't have EMS enabled, just type megaen /noems to load Mega-Em. > Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 14:03:02 PST > From: "alan chiu" <alan_chiu@SpectrumSignal.BC.CA> > Subject: MegaEm & X-Wing > > I downloaded the new MegaEm and tried it with X-Wing. However I > couldn't get any sound if I chose GMIDI with SoundBlaster or Roland > with SoundBlaster. I could listen to the music if I chose GMIDI only > or Roland only. What's the problem? I know a lot of people has > gotten it to work so it's really frustrating for me. Thanks for any > help in advance. Make sure that you GUS is at port 220h or force Mega-Em to emulate the SB at that port (with the /sbbxxx switch, I think). X-Wing is hardcoded to look for the SB only at 220h. > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 12:04:09 +1030 (CST) > From: Gavin <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au> > Subject: Megaem/weird sounds in Xwing -explanation > > Some people have noticed that some of the sound effects are wrong when playing > Xwing with eg. cannon fire sounds like a piano. The reason is that the MT32 is a > programmable synth, and that's what Lucas Arts do - reprogram new sounds. Now > [...] > How do you solve this? Not easy. Mega-em needs to read the sysex and set a flag Just run X-Wing with GM for the music instead of MT-32. No custom-programmed sounds are usedn in GM. > Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 15:01:17 -0500 (EST) > From: Doug Nashold <nashold@WPI.EDU> > Subject: New drivers > > I know that this has probably been asked about 87 million times, but > what are the new GUS drivers, where can I find them, and how do I use them? > The new drivers are on archive.epas.utoronto.ca in /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit. They are gus0035.zip (new Windows drivers), umid105.zip (new Ultramid), and megem23b.zip (new Roland/GM & SB DAC emulator). Just unzip and read the text file. Before sure to copy the new ultrasnd.ini from gus0035.zip into your /ultrasnd directory and edit its directory fields if you install the new Windows drivers. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Nov 93 21:39:00 PST From: EBULALACAO@CSUPomona.Edu Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V8 #19 Actually...MEGEM does not require EMS...if you issue the -NOEMS switch, that'll do the trick. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 16:03:20 +0100 From: bakketom@nki.no (Bakke Tommy) Subject: GUS for sale...? Hi there I got my GUS two weeks ago, but it STILL hasn't made any sounds on my "system". (plain Copam 368SXB-16, MSDOS 6.0, no additional cards installed) I believe I have tried every trick in the book, but neither ultrinit nor setgus are willing to negotiate, both tell me no card is present. Ultrinit: No card found. Setgus: No Ultrasound has been detected, the default settings are the onlyone available, install your board and run setgus to setup your hardware appropriately. Is it possible that any IRQ-conflicts could lead to such messages? Can I change the IRQ settings on my GUS by changing the ULSTRASND environment-variable in autoexec or DEVICE=C:\ULTRASND\ultrinit.sys ultrasnd=220,1,1,11,7 in config.sys? I have looked trough my IRQ's in NU, and it seems like LPT1 occupies IRQ7. Could this be a problem since IRQ7 is the default SB/MIDI IRQ? If any of you GUS'ers out there have ideas about my problem, please let me know. Tommy PS, Just to let you know, these "solutions" have already failed: - changed jumper settings on GUS. Base address 210-260 - boot with clean autoexec & config, and I mean CLEAN - tried another slot for the GUS (actually 4 others) - mainboard plugged into one of the 4 slots, works fine - installed my GUS on another PC, works really fine - GUS inserted PROPER in slot - disabled shadow bios & shadow video ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 02:57:31 EST From: Steph <CT80@MUSIC.MUS.POLYMTL.CA> Subject: Hooking up a joystick I just made room on my HD and as such will be able to hook up my GUS back, as well as maybe try a game or two. I really couldn't afford the 5+ megs-for-driver-only. I know I must be the exception on this, so I won't complain too much. Anyway -- I'm thinking of getting a joystick (a gamepad, actually). But I was thinking... can I hook up two joysticks? Would be great for a few NHL hockey games.. :) Maybe one on the GUS, and one on my multi I/O port? Steph. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 15:39:47 -0800 From: jakub@eskimo.com (Jake Cholewczynski) Subject: IndyCar How in this world do you get IndyCar to work.. I know it uses AIL drivers but guess what they are 32 bit.....! and gus ail's are not.. Secound SBOS doesn't work.. you start it it gives you bunch of stuff on your screen (error messages), tried it with the old Mega-em this time the game plays but no sound or music, and that is the same for the new beta Mega-em whit SB support.. A gus user that needs help! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 12:02:45 From: john.smith@gravis.com Subject: Jurassic park This message was originally addressed to JOHN SMITH and a carbon copy was sent to you. --------------------------------------- Here is the proof you have all been asking for regarding Jurassic. In issue 461 of CTW (1.11.93 Europe's Electronic Games Trade Paper) you will find a catalog in there from Ocean called OCEAN POWER Issue 1, Winter 1993. On page 16 I quote: "... but for out on a fast 486. And while we're talking technology, the program supports all of the major sound cards, but if you really want to hear effects that will make hairs on your neck stand on end, then you'll need a Sound Blaster or an Advanced Gravis As far as we know this game is NOT shipping in the USA or Europe. We have tried contacting Ocean many times via fax and voice and have yet to get a reply. (If someone from Ocean reads this give us a call 604-431-5020. All we want to know is what the stor need help with anything ). I don't have an Internet or CIS address for Ocean but their fax number in the UK is 011-44-618-340-650. C'ya John cc: ALL ALL ALL ALL gus-general@dsd.es.com SYSOP ALL gus-music@dsd.es.com --- ■ QM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 21:23:31 From: john.smith@gravis.com Subject: JUST TO LET YOU KNOW #9 - This is an update to the bulletin I posted last Monday which talked about a bunch of files we released (Just to Let You Know #9). 1) I was mistaken when I said the new mixer (GUS0035.ZIP) was to add extra volume controls for a V3.4 UltraSound card. I didn't realize I had a 16 bit recording card installed at the time, which does have these extra controls, oops ;-). I have updated the README in GUS0035 and have re-released it. 2) Some people missed the part of the README which said that ULTRASND.INI must be in your UltraSound directory (Yes, it was in the README <grin>) "ULTRASND.INI has changed. You will need to manually edit the PatchDir= line in this file to point to your UltraSound\MIDI directory. Also make sure this file is in your UltraSound directory." I have reworded this in the updated README to specify your UltraSound directory and NOT your Ultrasound\Windows or MIDI directory. Which is where most people where trying to put this file. 3) There seems to be two common problems people are having with Mega-Em V2.00B23. The first is with the new EMM386 (V4.48/DOS 6.2 upgrade). If you are having this problem simply use the your Windows EMM386 or your DOS 6.0 one. The other problems seems to be with SB Irq's failing, resulting in either the SB not being detected or playing through UltraSound memory (it is normal for the entire UltraSound memory being played if you reboot your computer during digital playback). There are 3 ways to try and fix this. 1) Change your SB/MIDI IRQ. If you were using 7 try 5. 2) If you are trying to get Mega-Em to co-exist with a real SB, then pull your SB. 3) Try setting your GF1 and SB/MIDI IRQ to the same and then re-run ULTRINIT. This will re-prime the IRQs and may work. For example: SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,7,7 then run ULTRINIT. Jayeson is working on fixing the problems we are hearing about over the nets. Something I would like to ask those of you having problems is to please email Jayeson at jayeson@gravis.com or fidonet mail to Jayeson at 1:153/978 with a detailed description of the circumstances that lead to the problem and any information about your configuration. Thats it for now. Time to go home and get some food. Chow (pun intended) John --- ■ QMPro 1.51 ■ I am a Homer of Borg: Prepare to be assim... OOH, DONUTS! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 5:59:58 PST From: dries@sfu.ca Subject: Mega-em and X-Wing/POP2 To all those having problems with the new Mega-Em and X-wing, I may have a solution for you. But first a word on the new Mega-Em: ***Thank-You Thank-you Happy Happy Joy Joy GUS GUS GUS!!!!*** Ok, Now back to X-wing. When I first tried X-wing with Mega-em (using general midi) It worked perfectly for a while but music during the combat sequences (when you were actualy PLAYING the game) stopped after an unpredictible amount of time, and the game would crash occasionally. The music would continue to play for the menus and the scenes between missions but once the music was gone in the actual game part, there was no way to get it back. It turns out that by simply replacing QEMM (which was in my config to start) with EMM-386 (which I hate but I now use it for x-wing only) My problem was solved! No more lock-ups and the music doesn't stop! I don't know if this was a problem with X-wing or Mega-em but if any of you are still having x-wing problems you might want to diasble QEMM and see if it helps. As for the sound effects, you should get PISTOL2.PAT from guns.zip at epas. Use this to replace ringwhistl.pat in the ultrasnd.ini file (#127). This will make for a better explosion sound, but it is still kind of quiet. Does anybody know of a better more earth shattering explosion sound that I could use? I am also going to try and find out what intrument is being used for the x-wing engine sounds (the high pitched squeel that everyone is anoyed about) and then find a .pat to replace it. As long as I am posting, I could not get SB DAC out of Prince of Persia 2. My computer would freeze when loading up pop2. I havn't tried the game without qemm so that may be the problem there as well. Any comments? David Ries dries@sfu.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 15:35:28 From: jayeson@gravis.com Subject: MEGA-EM PROBLEMS To: gus-general@dsd.es.com Subject: Mega-Em Problems To: gus-general@dsd.es.com Much to my distress many people are having fatal problems with Mega-Em 23b. They appear to be of 2 kinds: EMM386 incompatibility problems, especially with DOS 6.2. I'm in the process of getting the upgrade now. or Irq/DMA failures. The problem of Mega-Em playing all of the GUS RAM is caused by an Irq failure. If it plays the wrong sample (such as in X-Wing) it is probably a DMA failure. To overcome this: * Try using another Irq. 5 seem to work the best, however the readme recommends 7 since a number of sound drivers are hard coded to this Irq. * Ignore the section of the manual describing how to use Mega-Em's Sound Blaster emulation while a real Sound Blaster is installed in the system. Remove any hardware compatible Sound Blaster devices from the system or turn off Mega-Em's Sound Blaster emulation with the /SBOFF switch. * Mega-Em may not be setting the Irq/DMA latches properly. To test this theory, set both GUS DMA channels to 1 and both Irq's to whatever you want to use for the Sound Blaster Irq. The run ULTRINIT before running Mega-Em. e.g. SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,5,5 ULTRINIT MEGAEM EMUSET If you find anything that cures any problems you may be having, please email me with appropriate information. With all email regarding problems you may be having, please include as much information about your system including CPU, clock speed, ISA bus speed, UltraSound board revision (2.2,2.4 or 3.4), AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS etc. Jayeson Lee-Steere jayeson@gravis.com --- ■ QMPro 1.51 ■ This Tagline has been removed by U.S. Cu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 15:22:32 EST From: jwarren@mcs.capital.edu (Jeremy Warren) Subject: Mega-Em with Dune2 Has anyone figured out how to change the settings for sound in Dune2 so that you can select seperate sound cards for Dune2? The setup only allows you to select one card, so if you try to use Megaem, you're stuck with MT-32 music only (Which by the way, is VERY nice). I'm just trying to get the settings for musci out of the MT-32, and sound blaster for digitized sound. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 01:08:16 -0500 From: Martin H Rogers <mrogers@stealth> Subject: Megaem 2.00b023 & X-Wing Screen lock-up Since my previous msgs of a few days ago, where I described short-term screen-locks while changing targets in X-Wing with Megaem 2.00b023, I've found I don't get screen lock-ups with Roland emulation with SB digital sounds (only with General MIDI and SB digital). Any ideas why this flies smoothly and the other doesn't? -Martin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 11:20:40 GMT From: "Bjarni R. Einarsson" <bre@os.is> Subject: Multi Boot for DOS 5.0 (or lower) Hello GUSsers! I've seen quite a few posts from people needing different configureations for different programs/games. I'm was in the same boat myself, but I have solved the problem. My solution does NOT involve upgrading from DOS 5.0 to DOS 6.x .. All it involves is a teensy bit of programming (3 whole lines!) and a bunch of batch files. What you do is you make a dummy config.sys and autoexec.bat, and have them very short, mine are like this: config.sys: BREAK=ON BUFFERS=20 FILES=20 LASTDRIVE=H SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /P /E:512 autoexec.bat: @call configs\stripbat.bat Not very much at all :) As you can see, I don't load any device drivers, TSRs or anything that could cause trouble in the next step. Stripbat.bat is a program that sets my prompt to "Config [1-8]" and prints a list of selections. (It also changes the current directory) Then I just have a bunch of really dumb batch files called 1.bat, 2.bat, 3.bat ... and so on. One for each different configuration. This is what 1.bat looks like: @echo off copy config.def ..\*.sys copy autoexec.def ..\*.bat qwikboot This, as you can see, replaces my autoexec and config with files that are a bit more substantial. Just make sure you keep a backup of the stripped down version somewhere. Qwikboot is the only bit of programming I had to do. It is just a program that calls int 19h, the bootstrap interrupt, no memory test or anything, just jumps to the boot sector and starts over again. My Qwikboot is written in (Turbo) Pascal, and looks like this: begin asm int 19h end end ; Just make sure that your autoexecs replace themselves and the config.sys with the stripped down versions, like the ones I showed above. A nice addition is a program that counts down, 5 seconds or so and then auto- magically selects your default config/autoexec.. but it isn't necessary. The bootstrap loader won't work with some (all?) device drivers, such as Emm386.sys. If you try to qwikboot with one installed you will freeze your computer, so keep your "stripped" config.sys to the bare minimum. -- Bjarni R. Einarsson P.S. Anybody out there write .MOD files? I'm writing a game with GUS support (what else?) and need music! Send me mail if you are interested. ______________________________________________ ___________________ / \ / \ ( "Shee, you guys are so unhip its a wonder your O Bjarni R. Einarsson ) ( bums don't fall off!" -- Zaphod Beeblebrox O - - bre@os.is - - ) \______________________________________________/ \___________________/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 01:28:24 From: jason.lin@support.com Subject: NEW WINDOWS DRIVER PROBLEM After I installed the new Windows drivers from GUS0035.ZIP, I found that the patch manager will load patches. In fact, patch caching is no longer working. I tried media player, MCS Stereo, and Cakewalk Profession 2.0 but none of them would do patch caching. I've triple checked the drivers I setted up but I don't see problem in installing the new drivers. So my guess is that there is glitch in the new Windows driver? If anyone knows how to solve the problem, please tell me.. Thanks.. -Jason Lin- P.S. Don't tell me to reinstall the whole Windows and GUS software. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 14:47:41 MST From: Stuart Yoshida <yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com> Subject: New Win Drivers, Mega-Em First off KUDOS go out to Gravis once again. Thanks for listening to us and releasing the new Windows Drivers and the SB DAC compatible Mega-Em! Here's my feedback: WINDOWS DRIVERS --------------- The Windows drivers don't seem very different, but I'm excited to see future support for Patch Banking. Volume mapping was never a big deal for me, so I haven't noticed that much of a change. HOWEVER: the drivers STILL drop notes. This problem hasn't gone away! I highly recommend getting this fixed before releasing the final bits. If you want a sample song that drops notes, get "sofunky.zip" from EPAS and play it on Mediaplayer. MEGA-EM ------- It was a stroke of genius to get Jayeson Lee-Steere to work for Gravis and add SB DAC support to Mega-Em. It certainly sounds way cool with the X-Wing and Star Trek 25th Anniversary games. It's been said many times before, but GOOD JOB JAYESON AND GRAVIS! The MIDI music is awesome, and the digital effects are crystal clear. My only complaint is that the MIDI music cuts out after a few seconds into an X-Wing mission. Other people have mentioned this problem. Any hints on how to correct this? REQUESTS FOR FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS -------------------------------- Here's my Christmas wish list: a 16-bit daughter card and a Windows four-track digital recorder to go along with it. I mean, heck, let's be honest: If you're going to say that this card can compete with the Turtle Beach 56K card, then you should also have the software to back it up. Otherwise making such a claim is an empty threat: it doesn't matter if you have the same or better specs than the TB 56K if you don't have the apps to do the same things that the TB can. Overall, I'm (again) impressed with Gravis. Keep up the good work! -- Stuart Yoshida Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com Voice: (303) 229-2324 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 01:19:00 -1000 (GMT-10:00) From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au> Subject: PAS16 & GUS Well, I tried, and was partially successful. I got the boards to co-exist ok, and everything seemed fine until it came time to run windows. Windows refused to let my PAS16 play any sort of sound. Additionally, when loading, it complained that the OPL3 hardware could not be found on the PAS16 (The FM chip). I suspect that this is due to the GUS having some form of hardwired adlib address??? I couldn't very well allow that to happen, since the PAS16 is what I prefer to use while in windows. If I installed the GUS windows drivers, I would lose the ability to record in 16-bit. The MIDI side of the card doesn't matter to me, since I rarely use MIDI in windows, if at all. The DOS utilities seemed to work ok, and so did Second Reality and DMP (although the volume level the GUS puts out is uncessarily high, even on the Line Out!). I didn't think it necessary to try any games, since it had been established that the cards were co-existing. The settings I used were: PAS16: DMA-5, IRQ-7 SB: 220, DMA-1, IRQ-5 GUS: 260, DMA-6, IRQ-11, SB_IRQ-12 I removed the GUS again, since my system is getting pretty messy inside, and it seems that every time I add a new board, I have to re-configure the whole system again just to make one thing work. It is actually quite a dilemma. I want to use the GUS, but I can't unless I dump the PAS16, which means dumping the SCSi interface and the 16-bit recording. If anyone has more success than me on this matter, let me know what your settings were, and what you have in your system. My system (as it stannds without the GUS) is: 486DX-50 (UMC Chipset) 16 Mb RAM Windows S3 Accelerator SVGA (2Mb) PAS16 rev. D, w/external SCSI kit NEC CDR-74-1 External SCSI CD-ROM Plus lots of other things..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____ ___ ____ / \ / / \ / \ Paul Murgatroyd (s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au) / / / / Student of Computing Science \----\ / / \----\ School of Information & Computing Science / / / / B O N D U N I V E R S I T Y \____/ / \___/ \____/ Gold Coast, Queensland, AUSTRALIA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 13:36:43 GMT From: C.S.Wood@newcastle.ac.uk Subject: Pin out of Joystick Ports Hey Can anyone tell me the pin out of the joystick ports on the D-15 that the GUS uses? I want to make the MIDI interface from the wiring diagram in the faq, but thought that I may as well include both joystick interfaces as well. The GUS manual says that the pinout is different from the normal joystick pinout (I think!), but seeing as I don't know what either pin out is, that isn't much help. I also need to know how you split the wiring to give two joystick outs as opposed to one. Oh, and while I'm at it, where is the new beta test of mega-em that everyone is raving about. The ftp sites only seem to have either 1.0 or 1.5, neither of which seem to match with the 3.something number that people keep quoting. Help! Chris -- +---------------------------------------+---------------------------+ | Smoke me a kipper, Skipper, | Chris Wood | | I'll be back for breakfast... | C.S.Wood@Newcastle.ac.uk | | ;-) | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 12:10:43 +0100 (MET) From: ralam@cs.vu.nl Subject: Re: SB and GUS live together! In yesterday's Digest lliams44@genie.geis.com wrote that to get the SB to work he needed to run setgus.exe. There is a way around this, you only have to load and unload sbos. you could do this in your autoexec during startup or prior to a game. This way you don't have to go through all the menu options of setgus Have fun with your GUS and SB (But get the new megaem GM + SB digital is better than FM + digi) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Better Dead than Smeg Arnold J. Rimmer in Red Dwarf `Out of Time' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 14:08:39 MST From: Stuart Yoshida <yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com> Subject: She's So Funky: A new GUS song! There's a new dance/funk/pop song on EPAS! This one's an original GUS tune that I created with the help of some people on the Net. It's called "She's So Funky," and it can be found on EPAS under /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/sofunky.zip The ZIP file contains MID (General MIDI compatible song file) and POP (Power Chords Pro song filel) files. Check it out and let me know what you think! (It's great to listen to when you're doing aerobics.) Thanks to Paul Tucker, Ken Goach, and Eric Bell for their creative contributions. Keep on GUS'ing!! -- Stuart Yoshida Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com Voice: (303) 229-2324 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 12:01:40 +0200 From: CRTGRA01@Uctvax.UCT.AC.ZA Subject: Sierra Drivers and MegaEM Hi, I downloaded the new MegaEm yesterday aind installed it as suggested. The only program I could test it out with was Freddy Pharkas DEMO. It worked 100%. BUT - here comes my question: If I walk out into the street I hear birds tweeting and other background noises. If I use the new Sierra GUS drivers I hear none of that. The sounds are obviously generated by the digital audio driver. Howcome then I only hear these sounds thru the SB driver and not thru the GUS one? Any ideas? Thanks, Grant ******************************************************************** * Grant Carter | Simon says: DIR *.bak * * University of Cape Town | Simon says: DEL *.bak * * South Africa | DEL *.* * * Internet: crtgra01@uctvax.uct.ac.za | * ******************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 14:05:57 EST From: BGUZ000 <BGUZ@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA> Subject: Solution to target slowdown (xwing) When I play Xwing with the new megaem, the game seems to skip or slow down when when selecting a target. I have a solution to the problem. On my hard drive I have three versions of EMM386.exe. One came with dos 6.2, one came with dos6, and the third one I THINK came with windows 3.1 (it is in my 3.1 directory). If I use the EMM386 from the windows directory, the game has no problems. However, this version of EMM386 only gives around 30k of high memory for drivers. Therefore, doublespace loads low leaving me with only room for a mouse driver. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 6:14:12 PST From: dries@sfu.ca Subject: UltraWolf To all of you who think that UltraWolf is gods gift to Wolf3D I would have to AGREE!!! But if you are sick of playing the same Wolf missions over and over again I would INSIST that you get INSANITY.ZIP. It is 30 new missions made by some guy who found quirks in the wolf engine. He was able to create: walk-through-walls, Force Fields, Doors that can't be opened even with the key, invisible enemys, fire wall, etc. etc. etc. You start of the game in a jail cell with the door locked and you don't have any keys! (and no there is noe secret pasage in the starting jail cell!) This file can be found on ftp.uwp.edu (the (un)-official ID ftp site) in the directory incoming/id. For those of you who have not found it yet there is also a built in cheet for WOLF3D. (although insanity can be won without using it, it may still come in handy), just puch the letters 'I','L','M' at the same time and you will get full amo, health and both keys. BUT your score gets set to zero! I have also made some new sounds for ultrawolf. I have better gun sounds and better dog sounds. If anyone is interested I will *TRY* to upload them to epas and/or wuarchive. Also if you are interested, I have replaced all of my guard sounds (sayings and yells) with Ren And Stimpy sounds as well as some simpsonds sounds. I also replaced a couple of the mods. I can upload this to epas to if anyone is interested. But the samples are kind of large and a 1 meg gus is required if you want to use all of them. But if you just want the gun sounds then 256K MIGHT be enough. David Ries dries@sfu.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 10:17:24 EST From: Matthew Spewak <Matthew.Spewak@lambada.oit.unc.edu> Subject: Ultrawolf - Must get!!! Ultrawolf is amazing! It works sooo well. I plug in my favorite mods, and I get blazing music with great Surround Sound effects in one of my favorite games! Just think, maybe we could add this for other games too! How about making something like this for other ID games. Who ever wrote it.. You did a great job. Keep up the good work! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 01:43:15 -1000 (GMT-10:00) From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au> Subject: Wolf 3D & UltraWolf 1.3... Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 01:16:05 -1000 (GMT-10:00) From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au> To: brain@ccnext.ucsf.edu Subject: Wolf 3d... The version you need is 1.0, but I doubt this version will be found on the net anymore, since it has been updated to version 1.4. The other version that docs refer to is the full-blown version of wolfenstein (the one with all the extra levels and stuff like that). I still have v1.0 on disk, and if the need arises, I can probably upload it to epas. I have a look around for 1.0 on some local BBSs, and if you still can't find it, let me know, and I'll transfer it to epas for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____ ___ ____ / \ / / \ / \ Paul Murgatroyd (s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au) / / / / Student of Computing Science \----\ / / \----\ School of Information & Computing Science / / / / B O N D U N I V E R S I T Y \____/ / \___/ \____/ Gold Coast, Queensland, AUSTRALIA ------------------------------ From: (null) Maybe QEMM 6.0 will work if you have that version kicking around somewhere... Here's a question for everyone: Does anyone know of anyway to trick NHL Hockey in using MT-32 for music and SBDAC for sound? Tommy. ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V8 #20 ****************************** To post to tomorrow's digest: <gus-general@dsd.es.com> To (un)subscribe or get help: <gus-general-request@dsd.es.com> To contact a human (last resort): <gus-general-owner@dsd.es.com> FTP sites: archive.epas.utoronto.ca /pub/pc/ultrasound wuarchive.wustl.edu /systems/msdos/ultrasound archive.orst.edu /pub/packages/gravis theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de /pub/sound/gus FTP mail server: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to <gus-general-request@dsd.es.com> for info about other GUS related mailing lists (programmers, musicians, etc.).