> Subject: what i had to do for doom. this is different.
>
> Some people have expressed that you SHOULD NOT run ultramid.
>
> I have to run ultramid, or doom does not function... I get chirps and
> crap.
>
> Just thought I'd let some of you with the same symptoms as me know that
> it's just fine to do that.
Don't load Ultramid. For one thing, it's not required, so why let it
consume 50k of memory? It may also conflict with the GUS routines in
DOOM leading to sporadic problems later on.
Just do what GUS owners are told to do (i.e. copy dmxgus.ini into /doom
and set the GF1 IRQ to < 9 and != MIDI/SB IRQ) and the game should run
fine without Ultramid.
Phat.
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 20:28:14 -0800
From: jakub@eskimo.com (Jake Cholewczynski)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #11
DOOM? Personally I tried it and GUS sounds like a SB or SBOS ver. 1.2 the sound
is not clean must have been recorded at really poor quality, the game looks great slow on a 386 but cool but sound is not anything like SCII or Epic's Pinball
or Zone 66.. Not only there is no 3-d support the sound sucks, I only have one
thing to say to that, ID why support a sound card if you are not going to use
the sound card's great sound
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 02:54:58 -1000 (GMT-10:00)
From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #14
On Tue, 14 Dec 1993, GUS Server wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 14:31:33 +0000
> From: Stefan <S.Magdalinski@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> Subject: bugs in new Gravis Ultrasound windows driver(beta)!!
>
> I've recently installed a new s3 video card into my 386dx-40, and yesterday
> installed the Microsoft Mouse v2.0.
> I use a shareware program called Backmenu as my shell, and since I installed
> the s3 drivers, its startup screen has been garbled. I originally to a fault
> in the graphics drivers.
If you are referring to the text in the box being unreadable, then rest
assured, this is quite normal, especially if you are running in 1024x768 mode.
I have an S3 video card (2Mb VRAM), and I run it in 1024x768 mode. The
Backmenu box that appears during startup is not readable for the most part
(it is on my friends machine, but he doesn't have an S3 video card). I can
never recall having any problems with the GUS drivers, but I have not
tried the new ones yet, as I lent my GUS to a friend for the Christmas
vacation (and because I have not had time to get it to co-exist with my
PAS16). I will try everything out after vacation, but I do not suspect
that Backmenu is at fault. My S3 drivers have caused one or two programs
to crash, but otherwise they have been pretty stable for the year I have
been using them.
As for the mouse drivers.....I use a Logitech MouseMan Cordless, which is
much better than anything Microsoft produces in terms of mice. The
Logitech drivers have not given me any problems at all.