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Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com
GUS Programmer's Digest Mon, 3 Jan 94 4:27 Volume 8: Issue 3
Today's Topics:
Gimme candy
Standard Info:
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- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.
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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 94 12:34:17 CST
From: chuth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Cornel H. Huth)
Subject: Gimme candy
> if you have written your own GUS routines and SDK, and complain
Nope. Didn't write my own "GUS routines and SDK". I just wrote what needed
to be done for my purposes. That it is a complete MIDI, mod, and vox toolkit
is just happenstance. That is supports numerous other soundcards is too.
It is not something that gets pulled out of the closet twice a year, dusted
off, and then presented as a "new SDK", as it seems is FTS's definition of
"SDK". I suppose the tip-off is the "you get what you pay for" support
disclaimer.
> the (real) SDK; why don't you upload your routines to epas so we who aren't
> as clever as you can look at more code, and get wiser? I don't mean to be
You perhaps wrote this before reading that I'm not here to educate the masses
or give away what I've spent over two years developing. I'm also not here
selling a soundcard, or here running the "GUS fan club", as this mailing
list seems all to want to be.
> rude, but I like the phrase "Information wants to be free".
You may think this is the way it is from reading "College Life", but it just
ain't so. What I do is my business. What Forte does or doesn't do that affects
my business is also my business.
Regretably, I've wasted much of my time because of their lack of understanding
just what is needed in a usable SDK. In just about any real SDK, documentation
is _the_ number one concern. Any source code is candy. Nice, but hardly what is
required. And, unless you didn't read "My Impressions", all I care about is
that the patches be fully covered (among what already is). FTS's response to
this, to me, was, "patches are not the focus of the SDK". How anyone buys this
is beyond me.
> to have other peoples code to look at. I know you have been putting your
> entire soul
Not at all. I've been having to spend time on items simply not discussed
in the "SDK". Anything that has to do with patches is taboo -- verbotten,
off-limits -- in this SDK offering. And FTS says this is by design! Someone's
missing a cog. As for getting it, sure, it's for sale. Call the BBS for info.
> I hate cliches, but grow up and get over it. Jeez. Can't we keep fights like
> this on direct Email?
Or, how about, "can't we just get along?". Heh. Where does it say this mailing
list is a fan club? Where does it say "dissension" is taboo -- verbotten,
off-limits? I've had lots of e-mail telling my to "shut up or else". Ha!
Even had one guy tell me here ('course, all he demanded was I "shut up or
put up"). Man, some of you GUS'ers are something else.
[and then some light shone through]
> reviewing all the register calls etc, I am still confused as to how a GM
> patch is loaded using the info in this SDK. I know that programming
It isn't. Patches, as a whole, are purposely not covered in the SDK. It only
takes a desire to even "think about" patches to find out that the SDK is
probably under some court-imposed gag order. Heck, you'd think we were
going to _use_ that information to become "newlywed serial killers"!
> UltraMID is easier, but I would like to be able to program without using
> the 50k TSR. Besides, the UltraMID SDK is a little vague, when I glanced
> through it..
Gravis/Forte don't want you to. If they do, they sure don't show it (and
I mean they_sure_don't_show_it!). And judging from the response of the
readership in this maillist, it looks like there are quite a few that
just don't know what they're missing.
chh
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