Sorry it took up sooooo much bandwidth, but I figured it was *IMPORTANT* !
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 09:46:25 -0800 (PST)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: DOOM uses UltraMID!
The problems you are having with no music in DOOM are caused by NOT
LOADING ULTRAMID!
DOOM uses it. It even caches patches (say that five times fast). Just
load it -M110 or whatever volume you prefer, and DOOM will ROCK!
I get 4 FX channels, easy. Sounds GREAT! I'd cry if I had to play it
with a SB or PAS. The music is not fantastic, musically speaking, but the
quality is fine, and it sets the mood well. FX are very clean throughout,
but even with four channels, some are dropped because it's just so busy.
--
Mike Batchelor |
mikebat@netcom.com | This space for rent
mikebat@qdeck.com |
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 11:05:30 EST
From: lcheung@mosaic.uncc.edu (Leung Cheung)
Subject: DOOM with Ultrasound
The DOOM does not native support the Ultrasound. It needs the Ultramid. If
no ultramid, the sounds are very bad. With the Ultramid, the digital sound is
nice, but no music. Has anyone get the music works?
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 14:39:23 EST
From: jwarren@mcs.capital.edu (Jeremy Warren)
Subject: DOOM Works, and VERY nicely
In order to get Doom to work, you have to set your Ultrasound IRQ to soething less than or equal to IRQ 5. On IRQ 5, I can get the digitized sound,
which is very nice, to work, but the music doesn't work. I haven't tried it
under Megaem yet, but I'll do that and get back to all of you.
Jeremy Warren
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 21:51:20 -0500
From: TOMMYLEE@uhura.trinity.toronto.edu
Subject: Gabriel Knight...
So what's the deal with this game? Does it work with the GUS or
not? I know there are a couple people on this list who have tried
this game -- did you eventually manage to get it to work? Did you
manage to get in touch with Sierra?
This is definitely a game I'm interested in buying, but I won't
touch it unless it supports the GUS. (After hearing KQ 6, and LSL 6
which DO work with this GUS, I won't tolerate anything less (ie. I
won't re-install my cheezy adlib card...)
Tommy...
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 19:03:15 -0700 (MST)
From: Kevin Fason <kfason@csn.org>
Subject: GUS and SCSI Card
An expansion of my previous message. The SCSI Card is a Future Domain
Model # TMC-850M. The GUS' DMA is set to 11 while the SCSI has no DMA..
No matter what the GUS DMA is set to they still interfere... All other
variables are different too...
thanx
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 09:04:07 CST
From: rjf1@ho1focus.ho.att.com (Robert J Flynn)
Subject: GUS Daily Digets v9 #11 (2 msgs)
In GUS Daily Digest Volume 9 #11 Damon Brodie writes....
>... I think it is the new drivers because
>the problem began only after they were installed. I have the problem when
>any .wav file is played.
>
>I have a 486 DX 50 with 16 megs ram
>and a GUS with 1 meg.
>
>Damon Brodie
>n0di@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
Thanks for the reply Damon. I haven't noticed any problems with WAVs
because I don't have any over about 2 seconds. I'll create a long
one, start to play it and then download a file. I'll let you know
what happens.
In GUS Daily Digest Volume 9 #11 Stefan <S.Magdalinski@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes
>...send messages to both GUS and midi lists automatically (hello Bob Flynn).
>Can we suggest steps to discourage this behavior as the wasted
>bandwidth costs a lot of people money, and rather defeats the point of
>having more than one list.
>Some consideration for the people with slow modem connections please!
>Try one list first, and if you don't get an answer to your problem try the
> other a few days later.
Hello Stefan...
While I can sympathize with your slow modem download problems, I
posted my message to both digests for the very reason you criticize,
i.e., some people don't get both digests and the problems mentioned
may affect people running games or playing midi files in both areas.
Since I may be doing more than one thing at a time, such as uploading
files to work, running a spreadsheet, writing documents and playing a
midi file or game this is important to me, as it is to others. As I
understand it, this digest is here to offer general support and tips
to the GUS community, not just to support games. The other Digest is to
support music related topics. This problem affects both communities.
Notice I did not ask how to do something in Cakewalk, where can I get
midi files, etc. I subscribe to both digests, and I too get frustrated
when I see the same message in two places, especially when it clearly
belongs in one the "other" digest. To me, this is a gray area.
In addition, some people ARE experiencing similar problems with WAVs (look
at today's digest's post from Damon Brodie), I've seen similar postings on the
net shortly after the new drivers came out. I have contacted Gravis
about the problem, as well as other problems, and their response was
"...does your computer have a 16550 uart?" I e-mailed them back
saying yes, I have three of them. To date, I've received no reply so
I assume they are working on the problem, however, if enough of us are
having the same problem and report it to Gravis and in the digest,
perhaps it will get fixed a little faster. In addition, there is a
lot of experience out there from people who have had a GUS from the
beginning, maybe they encountered the problem and have solved it. If
they have, don't you think that it should be disseminated in both
digests so everone benefits?
So no flames please, if I have a question that relates to midi only
I'll post it in the other Digest, otherwise it seems to make sense to
post it in both areas since not everyone gets both Digests. BTW, if
we really want to shrink the size of the Digest, how about limiting
everyone to only one or two tag lines and not including entire messages,
just the parts that are relevant to the reply? Another BTW, I did not
"automatically" post to both digests, I did it with concious thought (at
least I think so <grin>) although you may take issue with the thought
part (heavy sarcasm, <grin, grin>).
>Personally, I don't run comms software with anything else, it's just not
>reliable enough.
My point in my original post was I could do it before with my GUS. I
could do it when I had a PAS 16. I've done it with Soundblaster
Cards. Now, I may have a problem with one of my other drivers but I
restored the previous release of my video and mouse drivers, REMed out
the CD-ROM drivers and reinstalled the GUS beta driver. It made no
difference. Reinstalled the old GUS driver, works great. This seems
to me to be a problem with the new driver. When Gravis responded to
my first e-mail, they admitted there was still a problem with dropped
notes and saving some values when exiting the control panel driver.
Like I said above, they may be working on the problem or maybe they
just think it is Damon and me. Has anyone else experienced the same
problem?
Anyway, off of the soap box <grin>, thanks for the reply.
Bob Flynn
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 20:10:57 -0700 (MST)
From: "David J. Julian" <djulian@nmsu.edu>
Subject: installing gus in Gateway 2000
I just ordered the Gravis Ultrasound after hearing how great the
sound is on my roommates computer. However, when it arrived and I
installed it and ran the gusset.exe I goa a MIDI / SB Interrupt Time Out
error. I can get sound out of the included demos, however, when I load
other software, such as wolf3d what happens is very random. I'll get PC
speaker support only, quit, then get sound blaster support, quit and the
get only adlib support with no pattern. The -o and -x options seem to have
no effect. I have tried changing the IRQ for both the Ultrasound and
SB/MIDI to IRQ's 5, 7, 11, and 15; I have changed the Ultrasound DMA to 1,
3, and 7; I have moved the jumpers between 220h and 240h; I removed all of
my other expansion cards. I exchanged my card with my roommate and mine
worked in his machine, but his generated the same error in my machine; so
it is not the card. A couple months ago I had bought, but returned a
Logitech Soundman which worked fine with my computer, other than not
generating the same quality sound as the ultrasound. Crystal Dreams 2 demo
work with the soundman but crashes with the ultrasound almost immediately.
Using by Norton Utilities and QAPLUS I know the interrupts are open. I
have even tried different expansion slots. I have a Gateway 2000 486-33DX
with 8 mag RAM and am using the built in video card. If anyone has gotten
the gus to work with a similar setup could you please post or mail how.
Thank you very much.
-a much frustrated new gus owner
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 18:41:45 -0600 (CST)
From: read@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Dave Read)
Subject: Problems: MOD4WIN and GUS, and SB/GUS simultaneously
I have been playing with the recently-released MOD4WIN, and have had
some troubles...I wonder if anyone else out there has these problems!
Basically, mod4win refuses to admit that the GUS has 2 channels
available; when I try to select 'stereo' from the setup dialog box,
mod4win hangs immediately. When I edit mod4win.ini to force it to use
stereo, it warns me that there is only 1 channel available when it
starts up.
Is there a bug in the GUS Windows drivers so that they report only one
channel available?
On a separate note, would someone out there who has successfully gotten
a SoundBlaster and a GUS to coexist tell me the tricks involved?
Thanks, and praise to anyone who can shed some light on these
problems...
-Dave
--
Dave Read (read@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu) "When in doubt, sheet it out."
UT-Austin Heavy Ion Physics Grad Student
PGP public key available by 'finger' G O B R A V E S ! !
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 14:42:19 +0100
From: f93-maj@nada.kth.se
Subject: some rumouring 'bout the 16bit daughtercard/MAX
Well I probably shouldn't be posting this since it's quite a far shot
(but I've apparantly done it anyway...)
I saw somewhere stated (can't remember where exactly... maybee it was from one of the Gravis 'just to let you know' postings...) that the 16bit daughtercard (and so also the GUS MAX I suppose) would have a CRYSTAL codec.
Now CRYSTAL (A ship designer) has recently introduced a chip called:
CRYSTAL CS4920-KL
Spec:
* Fully Programmable DSP, 33MHz clock (16.5Mop/s)
4Kx24 bit program RAM and 2Kx24 bit data RAM.
Can be programmed to handle MPEG-1, MPEG-2 audio, Dolby AC-2 or whatever.
(Reverb, chorus???).
* 16 bit AD converter, sigma-delta tec, 90dB S/N, harmonic dist < 0.01%.
* Price: $38/chip.
Might this be what'll be on the 16-bit daughtercard? Let's hope so!
/FMJ
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 02:15:58 EST
From: nfdsouza@electrical.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
Subject: Where is DOOM?
So, anyone know an FTP site where DOOM is available now? And is GUS
support included within the package, or in a separate file?
Thanks in advance!
Noel
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