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Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com GUS Daily Digest Fri, 26 Nov 93 0:07 Volume 8: Issue 25 Today's Topics: ARJ files GUS Daily Digest V8 #24 (2 msgs) Hand Of Fate Idea for gravis-sales MEGAEM 23B and Elite 2 (Frontier) Megaem And Dune 2 MegaEm and MOO MegaEM Games list (11/25/93) Midi Cable/Box answer Midimate MIDI on GUS My Store Carries GUS!!! NMI problem Rebel Assault - conclusion Rebel gets an F?? Responses from Gravis Inc. Sam 'n' Max Surround : What does it really sound like? Ultrawlf question 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: Thu, 25 Nov 93 12:47:33 +0100 From: Roberto Bonet <d93-rob@nada.kth.se> Subject: ARJ files ARJ is a compress/uncompress program. It is available on several ftp-sites. One example is: dorm.rutgers.edu in the drawer /pub/DOS_Uncompress. The file is named arj.exe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 00:38:26 -1000 (GMT-10:00) From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V8 #24 > Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 18:04:30 GMT > From: olivier martinelli <martin_o@epita.fr> > > Surround : What does it really sound like? > > hi, > I have an AIWA stereo system, wich is supposed to provide surround sound. > I have connected my GUS to it, and I am now always surprised to hear the sound of the two rear speakers also comming from the left ones. > As I had never experienced surround before, I'd like someone to confirm if it is normal or not. It all depends on what surround system you have. I have an early model surround sound system (circa 1989), and it basically something that enhances the depth of the stereo sound to make it sound like you are immersed by the sound. However, if you have a system that uses the Dolby Pro Logic surround sound, you can actually direct sounds to specific speaker(s). I think it is Front/Left, Front/Right, Rear/Left, Rear/Right, Front/Center, Surround (Front & Rear), and all the various combinations of these. Ususally the Pro Logic code is embedded within the audio source being played back. My friend has a Pro Logic decoder in his amplifier, and when we play back some Pro Logic encoded Laser Dics, you get the full surround effect. Try out Second Reality on your stereo. It has some surround sound at the the very start (albeit, not very much)....I don't think they used Pro Logic encoding though... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____ ___ ____ / \ / / \ / \ 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: 25 Nov 93 11:16:16 PST From: pil!zapo@PacBell.COM (Zapo Zapper) Subject: GUS Daily Digest V8 #24 Regarding: GUS Daily Digest V8 #24 > I bought Rebel Assault when it first came out. There is no indication on > the box nor on the disk that GUS is supported. Does anyone out there know > if there's a special installation procedure or do the older versions of > Rebel Assault not have the GUS support? > P.S. I've looked in the stores at the newer Rebel Assault Packages and it > doesn't mention anything about GUS at all. Has it come out in Canada yet > or is it hidden in small print somewhere? My Rebel Assault box lists "Ultrasound" as the last card in it's list supported cards, and it IS in the menu. My GUS is in for repairs, so I've only played the game with an SB 1.05 and I think I'm missing something :) -Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public Image Limited VBBS (510) 831-3634 [ASV] Guest Account open Home of VUUCP/2 USENet Interface! [VSP] VBBS 6.10 [Primary Dist. Site] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 13:24:24 -0800 From: jakub@eskimo.com (Jake Cholewczynski) Subject: Hand Of Fate I would like to add this great game to the list of games that work better with mega-em then with SBOS .. Kyrandia 2: Hand Of Fate works great.. I think Mega-Em is a lot better then SBOS keep up your great work Gravis and the same to the creator of Mega-Em ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 13:13:45 MET From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk> Subject: Idea for gravis-sales Seeing how many people are on the net I just wondered: Would it legally be possible for Gravis to receive orders for hardware through the net ? People could send their address and VISA number to an e-mail address. It's both cheaper than using the phone + the chance of getting your address mistyped is reduced. Verification of the order would also be simple as the sales team could easily reply to the mail. Just an idea. Is it viable at all ? The could have like a list of current products, including what extra p&p it would be to ship overseas. Ivar Froelich ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 10:00:04 MET From: hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de Subject: MEGAEM 23B and Elite 2 (Frontier) Morning. Since I haven't seen it here this week I thought I'd post. I tryed out the new Megaem with Frontier. The intro is lovely. But the problem is, even with -SS set to stop long sustains, during the game there is a continuous droning or whining from the speakers. I had to go back to my SB. Has anyone else got this to work? I will admit, I didn't try very hard to get it working. No time. Bye. -- Wayne Hodgen | hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de | Have you heard about the Uni Koblenz, | or Fight-o-net 2:245/5600.11 | riscy project? A GPL based Rheinau 3-4, | Voice: +49 261 9119-645 | design for an R4000 PC MB. 56075 Koblenz. | Fax: +49 261 9119-499 | MIPS, Power to the people! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 10:26 GMT From: MFZPITT@VAX.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK Subject: Megaem And Dune 2 To get both SCC1 midi with SB digital in Dune 2 you need to use a hex editor to change the file dune.cfg to - B6 A8 A9 A0 A1 A6 A4 00 B8 - this sounds great although I do get the occasional random midi sound played. Does anyone know if we wilget 32 bit .dll AIL drivers for the GUS? Anthony Pitt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 19:19:01 +0100 From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: MegaEm and MOO Peter.Enzerink@FINANCE.ausgovfinance.telememo.au wrote: >Subject: MegaEm and MOO? > >Well this may have already been thrashed, but I can't get megaem 2.x to >work with Master of Orion. > >It seems to recognise the emulation when I run the install program, but >the game never starts; big black screen. It works fine on my system. The funny thing is, it didn't recognize the emulation in the install program, but did let me select General Midi/ Sound Canvas anyway. You should be aware of the time it takes for the game to 'start' after you've pressed return. It shows a black screen for a while, then something like "loading..." at the top of the screen for yet some time before the actual intro is starting. I'm not sure how much memory it really wants though. I use QEMM v6.x in stealth mode (no, haven't upgraded yet.. this version has yet to fail me), DOS 6.0 (never did trust those upgrades) w/doublespace on a 386DX-33 w/4MB, GUS w/1MB, ET-4000 w/1MB, SCSI controller, IDE controller (no idea what the SCSI address is, but it works, so why worry? :)). But lets not get out of hand here.. here's the important stuff in my autoexec.bat and config.sys files: --------------------------------- AUTOEXEC: C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE 512 .. SET ULTRADIR=E:\ULTRASND SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T1 SET ULTRASND=220,7,7,11,7 .. CONFIG: DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS R:3 RAM ON X=B000-B7FF DMA=96 ST:M DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 E:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT.SYS ULTRASND=220,7,7,11,7 ------------------------------ And MOO works like a charm. I think I have about 612k base mem free after everything is loaded (TSR's, mouse, mega-em etc.). ---> for that list of games that work great with MEGAEM - Include MOO ! ---> The sound and effects are great! GM/Sound Canvas + SB. Good work Gravis! Erik chief@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:39:56 -0400 (AST) From: Jurassic Mark <markus@Info.UMoncton.ca> Subject: MegaEM Games list (11/25/93) Date compiled: 11-25-93 Here's a list of games that work under the new MegaEM that includes SB DAC emulation. ============================================================================== GAME TITLE COMPANY VERSION OF MEGAEM ============================================================================== 7th Guest, The Virgin/Trilobytes All Bloodnet Microprose All Civilization Microprose All (-f22 recommended) Day Of The Tentacle Lucas Art All (-f22 recommended) Discoveries In The Deep ??? All Dungeon Hack SSI/Dreamforge All (Run MegaEM with /RIRQ2 _before_ selecting the sound and to run the game) EcoQuest Sierra On-Line All Eye Of The Beholder III SSI All Freddy Pharkas Sierra On-Line All Gods Bitmap Brothers All Halloween Harry Apogee/Sub Zero All Hand Of Fate Westwood All Hardball III Accolade All Incredible Toons Sierra On-Line All Island Of Dr. Brain Sierra On-Line All Lands Of Lore Westwood All (With the update for multiple soundcards selection) Laura Bow ][ (Amon Ra) Sierra On-Line All Legend Of Kyrandia Westwood All (music only) Lost Viking, The ??? All (music only) Jordan In Flight Electronic Arts All Jurassic Park Ocean All King's Quest VI Sierra On-Line All Prehistorik ][ Titus All Prince Of Persia II Broderbund All Quest For Glory I (VGA) Sierra On-Line All Quest For Glory III Sierra On-Line All Quest For Glory IV Sierra On-Line All Risky Woods Electronic Arts All Shadow Caster ??? All Sherlock Holmes (CD-ROM) ??? All SimFarm Maxis All Simon The Sorcerer ??? All (music only) Slater & Charlie ??? All Space Quest V Sierra On-Line All Team 17/Alien Breed AVM All Veil Of Darkness SSI All Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego Broderbund All X-Wing Fighter Lucas Art All (To remove the annoying pauses, remove all EMM manager and load MegaEM with the /NOEMS switch). If you have a game or any DOS program that works under MegaEM (with both Roland and SB DAC emulation) and would like to add it to the list, email me at markus@info.umoncton.ca or you can contact me on IRC (my alias is Extreme). I will need the following information: GAME TITLE: Title of the game. COMPANY: Name of the company who produced the game or distribute it. VERION OF MEGAEM: Version of MegaEM you used to test this game. There is only one version at the moment, but updates are to come. SPECIAL PROCEDURES: Only if necessary. If the gamer will have something special to do before having MegaEM to work. Example: Lands Of Lore (see above). A special thanks to all those who contributed to this list. You are too many to named, but you know who you are. :) Cheers! Marc Y. Paulin - Jurassic Mark (Usenet) - Extreme (IRC) - markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (Talk 'n Mail) - (506)856-9518 - APICS Programming Contest Winner of 1993 -=* GUS won over SB by a score of 32 to 11 *=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 2:29:59 MST From: Steve "Bongos" Larson <larson@ee.ualberta.ca> Subject: Midi Cable/Box answer Hi Susan and all GUSland. I'm posting this for (1) general interest and (2) because email to your address bounced. Yes the PAS cable will work fine with your GUS, according to Matthew Arabeid (former Gravis tech) with no modification needed. I might sugggest the "Sound Galaxy" midi cable; it has midi-in/out and joystick port. In my experience, it works excellent and is a LOT cheaper than the other cables and boxes (~$19.95 CDN, versus ~$35 for the PAS cable, ~$50 for the Gravis box) Hope that helps! Steve Larson, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Univ. of Alberta larson@bode.ee.ualberta.ca or larson@amisk.cs.ualberta.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 18:42:28 +1100 From: David Mitchell <davidm@hparc7.aus.hp.com> Subject: Midimate MIDI on GUS Susan White asked whether the PAS Midimate works on the GUS. I've got it and it's working fine, but for some reason MIDI clocks aren't getting to the PC through this port. I think the problem probably lies in the GUS Windows driver, but haven't bothered to investigate it further. This problem is in the old driver; again, I haven't tested the new drivers yet. So much to do, so little time... Dave Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 08:09:00 BST From: f.graham@genie.geis.com Subject: My Store Carries GUS!!! It WORKED!! After most of a year badgering a computer store my friend works at, they are now Wise GUS Suppliers!!! In The Store, On The Shelf!! This is a popular and successful store (and we know why!), locally-owned, in a population of about 250,000, with another branch store 45 miles away serving about 50,000 (S.C., USA). 'Course there were probably more and more badgering them lately <g>. They also have a GUS packaged in an "Ultra Action Pak" which included: - Ultrasound card (don't know memory) - Gravis PC Gamepad - Accolade Test Drive III - Accolade Winter Challenge Retail $180. I've never heard of this package. Wonder if those Accolade games have GUS support?! (hm, maybe they were mentioned in Gravis' "Just to let you know" list of titles...) Anyway, I tried to peek inside, but couldn't tell much, everything was all wrapped up, and we were in a hurry. I'm getting them up to speed with some back GUS Digests, Megaem23b, drivers, and the State of GUS in general, all of which the manager is eating up! And away we GUS! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 14:05:19 +0200 From: MATERIA1@IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT Subject: NMI problem Hi all. I just upgraded to a 486/DX33 and now my GUS does not work properly. I have the following problems: 1) Failure in the automatic setup (SBOS). If I try to load SBOS I get the messa ge "The NMI procedue is disable din this PC". I know this has been reported previously and I do recall seeing long postings about it. Now I need some technical info on why this is happening (so I can convince the people I bought the PC from to change the motherboard). I did not find anything in the FAQ (it could be useful to insert there some info). I E-mailed Gravis tech support but NO answer [shame on them!]. The only guy that ALWAYS answers promptly is John Smith (space for public praise), but I don't want to bother him with my problms. 2) I went ahead with the installation but when I play a midi file from Playmidi or Mediaplayer the sound comes out only from one speaker and it is filled with cracks and pops and hisses. Gustest finds my card at the right address (220h) and the DRAM is all OK. The card is installed on the default settings, BTW. To my (poor) understanding this is a problem not related to the NMI procedure, but it is a separate problem. Please correct/confort/HELP! Of course the GUS previously was working PERFECTLY (384/DX33). Ciao to all. Paolo Colombo MATERIA1@IPDUNIVX.UNIPD.IT (from Italy, Europe). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 10:52:57 -0800 (PST) From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor) Subject: Rebel Assault - conclusion Since my initial post about the extender crash with Rebel Assault, I was contacted both via phone and e-mail by Lucas Arts tech support. They were very helpful and professional, but were unable to offer any other solutions than the one I tried (use DOS4GW from Shadow Caster) or just return the game before Egghead's return policy deadline ran out, and try again later. They expect a fix to be available in a few weeks, and Lucas is working with Rational Systems right now to resolve the problems with the DOS extender on some PCs (Lucas Arts has several PCs that crash like mine does, so they knew exactly what I was experiencing). So although I must give the game itself a grade of 'F', Lucas Arts tech support gets an 'A' for their quick, professional, and honest response to my trouble report. I *will* try the game again when the fix is available. -- Mike Batchelor | mikebat@netcom.com | This space for rent mikebat@qdeck.com | ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 01:56:06 PST From: sbeier@icogsci1.UCSD.EDU (Steven Beier) Subject: Rebel gets an F?? I really don't like being hasty, but my initial reaction to your bogus opinion is this, perhaps you get an F!!!! I have a GUS, my fellow employee has a GUS, my roomate has a GUS and my other 2 roomates have a SB16. All of these machines have 2x drives. Guess what...NO PROBLEMS!!!!!! The game is incredible, the best game to hit PC/CDrom since 7thGuest. The sound is the best part of thhe game! Maybe you don't have tech experience, or maybe you do. But in all of these situations no special modifcations were made. Why don't you ask for help, instead of jumping to conclusions that this is a piss poor game. I have MAC freaks wishing they owned PCs for this game, believe it or not that is amazing. This FAQ is here for comments/help etc.. but ripping a product apart that is not worthy falls a little short. What kind of CDdrive do you have, machine etc..I find it hard to believe the game is COMPLETELY Defective. My roomates have already played through ALL 15 Chapters, NO PROBLEMS. There may be a bug in certain situations, but this happens with almost ALL software programs at one point or another. The whole concept behind 'clones', makes this inevitab Anyway, enough said. If you own a GUS, then you must realize that Hardware and Software don't always coexist the way we want them to. THEREFORE, you make them work! Steve Beier icogsci1.ucsd.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 10:02:58 +1100 (EST) From: Tony Molina <tony@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> Subject: Responses from Gravis Inc. > Has anyone ordered a GUS directly from Gravis? Did you have any problems > with your order? I ordered direct from Gravis to insure that I get the > lastest rev. 2.4 board. > > When I ordered my GUS, I was told that it would be delivered within 10 days. > Now it has been 22 days and I am still waiting. Gravis does not return my > calls or answer my email. Oh well. At least now I know it's not just me who never gets a response out of Gravis. Over the last 6 months I have probably emailed John (john@gravis.com) about 15 times, Chris once or twice, I've faxed Gravis direct and lastly called them voice (left a message on their answering machine).All I was looking for swas simple sales information. I've never once had the courtesy of a reply. Maybe it has something to do with me being too far away (I'm in Melbourne, AUSTRALIA). My last fax to Gravis was to order a copy of Chuck Yeager's flight sim. I faxed my credit card authority and asked for confirmation. No reply at all. So if it's any consolation David. You are not alone. Cheers, = Tony = (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA) tony@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au ------------------------------ Date: 25 Nov 93 10:27:03 PST From: pil!puppet@PacBell.COM (puppet) Subject: Sam 'n' Max >> From: STU_JABIRCHE@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU >> Subject: Sam & Max >> Anybody got this game working with MegaEm yet? This morning I installed Sam & Max on my computer and now I'm having some major sound problems. I originally configured the game to work with the new Megaem Beta (Sound Blaster and General Midi). Things worked ok in the sound configre program. It has a little test to see if the sound is working correctly. I configured it with the default SBlaster setup (IRQ 7, etc) and I configured the music to use Genrral Midi with the standar setup ( 330h, no IRQ, etc.) The Midi sample tested out perfectly but when it came time to test the SB, the sound was quite broken up. After I was done configuring the sound and loading Megaem I started the game. The music worked great but there were no sound effects at all! What could be wrong? As a last resort I then tried SBOS10B and SBOS2.4 with no luck! There was still no digital sound and the dame froze up! What can I do? Have I overlooked something? -Sam BTW, I'm running it on a 386DX\33 with a 256 GUS and I'm using Qemm 7.01. Any help will be greatly appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public Image Limited VBBS (510) 831-3634 [ASV] Guest Account open Home of VUUCP/2 USENet Interface! [VSP] VBBS 6.10 [Primary Dist. Site] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 09:14:35 +1000 From: David Vu <ccdvu@cc.uq.oz.au> Subject: Surround : What does it really sound like? olivier martinelli wrote: > I have an AIWA stereo system, wich is supposed to provide surround sound. > I have connected my GUS to it, and I am now always surprised to hear the sound of > the two rear speakers also comming from the left ones. As I had never experienced > surround before, I'd like someone to confirm if it is normal or not. To experience surround sound, you 'll need to have an application that can output surround sound. There are two that I know of: Second Reality demo by FC, and Epic pinball/silverball by Epic. You can get both from ftp.uwp.edu. Also DMP is supposed to provide pseudo surround sound as well, though I think it's simulated and not coded in Dolby Pro Logic. -David- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 0:03:16 EST From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu Subject: Ultrawlf question In editing the .INF files of UltraWolf to set up your own mods, what do all the funky little characters at the right mean? Like: ; - 23|27 33|37 I read the docs and it didn't explicitly say anything about it one way or the other except to mention something like ; - Level 1.1 or some such which does not appear in the actual .INF file I realize that this is just a comment and is not important for the functioning of the thing, but I'm trying to add some of my own mods to the mix without replacing the existing ones wholesale. I've mapped out a couple of levels so far, but it's a real pain in the ass and I was wondering if anyone out there in netland (or in digestland as the case may be) had already figured out the mapping for the thing to determine which mod goes with which level. There seems to be many more lines in the file than levels in the game as well... Thanks... --Michael-- << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V8 #25 ****************************** 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.).