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- GUS Programmer's Digest Thu, 6 Jan 94 3:50 Volume 8: Issue 6
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- Today's Topics:
- [GUS] Index table in gus dram !?!
- General ....
- GUS Programmer's Digest V8 #5
- Linux sound-driv with GUS
- Negativity
-
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- Date: 5 Jan 1994 11:55:46 GMT
- From: APPEL@stack.urc.tue.nl (Stanley Appel)
- Subject: [GUS] Index table in gus dram !?!
- Message-ID: <2ge9s2$koe@tuegate.tue.nl>
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- ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
-
- Hi, i was with a friend and we wrote some routines to play some sounds
- on the gus (resident .snd and .wav player, but more about this later
- when i release these on the internet).
-
- We can up witha idee about patch/sample management in gus dram.
- WHY NOT BUILD A INDEX TABLE in GUS DRAM ???
-
- So we did this and made a little table in the first K of the GUS
- dram. Now ower player will look for it when it starts and also
- can add and delete the samples.
-
- The table looks like this (it was a quick and ruf idee):
-
- ID (to make chure it is ower table and samples)
- Sample Name
- Sample Start Pos
- Sample End Pos
- Sample base Frequency
- Sample Resolution (8/16 bit)
-
- So i want to know
- - are the more idees about this.
- - should we start a threat about this (I have some big idees)
- - has someone done the simular thing.
- - etc.
-
-
- So let me know.
-
- Greatings and happy GUSing
-
- Stanley
-
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- +===============================================================+
- | Stan Appel I cant have said that |
- | Hoolstraat 73 because I cant |
- | 4847 AB Teteringen even speak english |
- | The Netherlands right....... |
- | |
- | Tel +31-76-810346 |
- | EMail APPEL@STACK.URC.TUE.NL |
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-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 09:43:00 EST
- From: support@fortech.com (Technical Support)
- Subject: General ....
-
- Hello,
- >From: "Michael Grant Wilson" <Mcq@oti.on.ca>
- >Subject: I vote we bounce this guy.
-
- >chuth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Cornel H. Huth) wrote:
- >> 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.
- >Ok. He doesn't like us. He thinks we're idiots. He can't open his mouth
- >with out flaming somebody, and to top it all off, he doesn't know what he's talking
- >about. I say it's time to set the mailing list up to stop distributing
- >mail from him.
-
- >McQ
-
- No, I don't agreee with this at all. In his first message (about a week
- ago) , he had some valid comments that we will incorporate. Granted, most
- of the mail since then has not been productive, but that doesn't mean that
- he may not have things in the future. I don't want to cut anybody off
- from giving their feedback. Its the best way to improve it.
-
- >Do you guys need beta testers for your SDK? It seems to me you desire feedback
- >on the SDK but you never really asked for it and when somebody points out an
- >error then I've never seen you acknowledge it. Things are a bit confusing in
- >this area at the moment. I know you're busy but you've got support here and
- >for free but you've gotta ask for it.
-
- I suppose we could open the pre-release stuff to more people. There are several
- people that had gotten the SDK before it was released to the public. They had
- lots of input that was incorporated. Also, a lot of people asked for changes
- after the 2.01 version came out. (Some thru direct e-mail some thru the
- digest). Many of these requests were incorporated also. If there is ANYTHING
- that you see inthe SDK that is wrong, unclear or incomplete, please let us
- know so we can look into makeing the changes. I can't promise we will be able
- to put all the stuff in, but everything will be considered.
-
- >BTW thanks for making it free, but can we ask for a few more examples (I'd
- >love the source code to playmidi <g>).
-
- Unfortunately, we are not allowed to freely distribute the source to playmidi.
- Gravis may change that policy in the future, but right now we can't. If
- anybody out there has written anything that they think is neat or shows off
- some feature of the card or the toolkit, we would be glad to distribute it
- with the SDK. You folks tend to be very creative and have come up with some
- nice utilities that other people probably would benefit by.
-
- We will probably be cutting a new version in a few weeks that incorporates
- some of the changes/fixes that have been addressed so far. If anybody has
- anything, let us know right away. Thanks a lot for your help.
-
- Forte Tech Support
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 04:47:50 -0800 (PST)
- From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
- Subject: Re: GUS Programmer's Digest V8 #5
-
- Not the GUS Programmer's Server once wrote...
- $
- $ ------------------------------
- $
- $ Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 11:07:07 +1030 (CST)
- $ From: Gavin <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>
- $ Subject: Re: SDK
- $
- $ BTW thanks for making the SDK free, but can we ask for a few more examples (I'd
- $ love the source code to playmidi <g>).
- $
-
- I second that emotion! I'm looking at writing a X11 front-end for playing
- MIDI files under DV/X, and if I could incorporate the playmidi engine, so
- much the better. I will probably write it to use UltraMID, though, since
- I can easily spawn a background window and load that big sucker in it.
- Come to think of it, I could just spawn playmidi itself. :)
-
-
- --
- Mike Batchelor |
- mikebat@netcom.com | This space for rent
- mikebat@qdeck.com |
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 04:56:43 -0800 (PST)
- From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
- Subject: Linux sound-driv with GUS
-
- I have a problem that has persisted now through two kernel revisions, and
- two sound-driv revisions. Whenever I try to play an .au file using
- /dev/audio, I get no sound at all, and my console is screwed up with funny
- characters afterwards. This happens when using "cat sound.au > /dev/audio"
- or when using rplay and rplayd (and some other utility as well, I forget
- the name of it).
-
- I'm using currently kernel .99.14f, but it occurred also with .99.13. My
- sound-driv is v2.0, and I have applied the gus_wave diff to the sound
- driver. The new gmod plays modules just fine, and the sequencer also
- works as it should. Running rplayd in debug mode shows nothing wrong when
- I try to play a sound. Everything looks as if it worked.
-
- Anyone have a clue what might be wrong? Has anyone gotten
- "cat sound.au > /dev/audio" to work with the GUS? It would be really nice
- if I could get this working, since Mosaic, XBoing, XPilot and others all
- want to use /dev/audio for playing sounds.
-
- --
- Mike Batchelor |
- mikebat@netcom.com | This space for rent
- mikebat@qdeck.com |
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 07:25:55 -0600 (CST)
- From: Jason William Whiteman <jww9624@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Negativity
-
- > From: "Michael Grant Wilson" <Mcq@oti.on.ca>
- > Subject: I vote we bounce this guy.
- >
- > chuth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Cornel H. Huth) wrote:
- [....]
-
- Mcq:
- > Ok. He doesn't like us. He thinks we're idiots. He can't open his mouth
- > with out flaming somebody, and to top it all off, he doesn't know what he's talking
- > about. I say it's time to set the mailing list up to stop distributing
- > mail from him.
-
- Michael, I am afraid you may be jumping the gun a little here.
- You may want to find an archive site for the mailing list and read some
- of Cornel's original postings expressing his opinion about the shortcomings
- of the SDK. Not only did he point out some serious problems with the
- focus of the SDK, he also pointed out (in great detail) errors, flaws in
- logic, and typos. As a developer, or a user of GUS third party software,
- you should be thankful that Cornel is pointing these problems so that the
- SDK can come closer to being a solid and useful tool.
- I think what you are upset about is how Cornel handled the flames
- against him for critisizing the SDK. Sure, he could have been more
- diplomatic. However, I know that I would become very frustrated if
- I tried to help only to be flamed in return for offering constructive
- critisism.
- Again, I urge you to read the original post. You will find
- that Cornel does indeed offer very constructive critisism. All this
- arguing is not going to make the SDK any better: and I hope that is our
- common goal. There are some problems with the SDK and a lack of
- balance. Instead of censoring Cornel, more developers should follow
- his example in helping Forte refine the SDK.
-
- Jason
- jww9624@tamsun.tamu.edu
-
-
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