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The GUS Daily Digest        Monday, 5 June 1995        Volume 22 : Number 034

Today's Topics:
    GUS for Sale!!
    Varied
    Various things....
    X-Wing and GUS...digital sound, Cyberia too
    XM, Dope, Triton (twice, actually, cool huh!)
    Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #33
    GUSPRO
    Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #32
    SSF2T Problems
    AMD Interwave specs would be nice
    ????????Wing Commander III?????????
    Sam & Max CD: Solved!
    TV
    GUS for sale (fwd)
    Sam & Max CD: Solved
    GUS for Sale!!
    Re: Various things....
    Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #32

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.

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From: HkStD <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 00:56:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GUS for Sale!!

Hi, I'm not sure if it's appropriate for posting this, sorry if it's not.
But anyway, I have a GUS for sale. It's a 1meg rev 3.4. If anyone is
interested, please leave me an e-mail message and I'll get back to you. I
don't really have a price on it, but if you offer, I'll see what I can
do.

HkStD.


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From: [e-mail]
Date: Sun,  4 Jun 95 12:39:07 PDT
Subject: Varied

Hi,

* Part 1 - Trackers

Someone asked about trackers...

Trackers are MOD type player/writers, though the actual
.MOD format is rarely used in newer types of songs as it
does not support the flexibility as Fast Tracker (XM)and
Scream Tracker (S3M) formats.

If you want a tracking composer get either
the Fast Tracker (search archie for FT2),
latest version is 2.03 (not 100% sure about that)

Or, get the Scream Tracker v3.21.

Scream tracker seems to be simpler to use, but Fast
Tracker is much stronger, offering Sample editors,
16bit recording, Using a midi keyboard for input (gus only),
and other strong features.

I haven't seen many players play the .XM format tough.
(90% of players play the Scream Tracker's format though...)

Both Trackers work with the GUS, and i belive that the
Fast Tracker was written with GUS in mind, as it only
supports the GUS midi in (SB midi doesn't work).


* Part 2 - Win95 beta

Here's my input on the Win95 beta.  It seems to work MUCH
better than the older win (3.11), and responds faster,
looks ALOT better, and i mean ALOT!.

Unfortunantly for me, i use the Windows for Workgroups with
Hebrew language support, which the beta of Win95 simply
does not allow you to install from.

I had to do a complete install from dos, which was kinda
annoying.

But i was successful in transferring the gus driver from
the old windows, by doing this:

1. Telling win95 i want to install new hardware.
2. Telling it i don't want it to search for any hardware.
3. Telling it to look in my windows\system directory
   for the drivers (example: c:\windows\system\)

And it worked fine...

I tried to run mk2 from a dos window, and it got stuck, but
within windows itself everything seemed to work fine.


* Part 3 - Toshiba 3601 SCSI

Someone asked about the Toshiba 3601 SCSI x4+ cdrom.

By chance... i own such a CD-Rom, and...

I connected it to an Adaptec Fast SCSI controller, and it works just
fine, the thing is, that the controller came on IRQ 11, and caused
havoc, so just switch it to IRQ 15, and you're fine. Also notice that
the controller comes on port 330, which tends to cause all sort
of wierd stuff to happen with roland emulation (switch emulation to
300 if possible).

The only problem i couldn't solve is that for some strange reason
i couldn't get CD-Audio to work well (sound played from music CDs),
it played it only in one channel (left), but when i connected headphones
to the CD-Headphone plug, the sound was stereo, i have an old GUS
so the problem may be there, it may also be a faulty cable connecting
the CD-Audio to the GUS-CD Audio connection, but this doesn't bother me,
since im not actually playing music from the CD-Rom, and i only seen 2-3
games that played recorded songs via the CD-Audio cable.
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From: [e-mail] (Matt Robinson)
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 09:00:38 GMT
Subject: Various things....

> > What about changing the settings in ULTRAMIX.INI and trying ULTRAMIX in DOS. Or
> > use one of the millions of PD dos mixer programs for the GUSMax on the various
> > GUS ftp archives.
>
>     Hmmm, I thought Ultramix works only under Windows since in
> Windows, it works fine.  DOS is where the problem lies...  I have tried
> GUSMIX though and the same thing happens...  Ofcourse, this may all have
> a problem to do with the Intel Triton chipset based ASUS P54TP4 P5-90
> motherboard I used since two days ago since Windows would lock up one
> minute after I start it up or sooner if I decided to try MODUS or
> something.  In DOS, I noticed when using GUSMOD, it sounds like static
> while MIDIDEMO would play the first note and lockup.  I am using the
> v3.53 disks with a GUSMax v1.8 board so are there problems with the v3.53
> disks?  Any help would be appreciated...  Thanks!

There should be 2 versions of ULTRAMIX.EXE (I think) one in the root GUS
directory and one in the %gusdir%\windows directory. Either way, I'm pretty
sure that the motherboard isn't to blame, because otherwise you'd have the
same problems in windows (logically). You might try fiddling with your BIOS
settings, (Always does SOMETHING when I play with them, though whether it's a
good or bad thing is a random effect =)

> From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <[e-mail]>
> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 15:31:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: USS8/16/SAW help needed.
>
> The SAW demo doesn't work for me, perhaps because I have the regular
> UltraSound (8-bit recording).  Can anyone tell me if this hard disk
> recorder works at least for the MAX?  If it does, then I suppose I'll
> upgrade to 16-bit recording (perhaps wait for the Interwave).  Failing
> that, I tried USS8, which is just a regular recorder, but at least it
> allows mixing.  BUT, at 44100 khz sampling, I only get up to 45 seconds
> of recording, after which it stops automatically.  I have *way* more hard
> drive space, so theoretically I should be able to record longer.  Is
> there a work around for this, or is it just software limited?  Does USS16
> have this 45 second or so limit, or can those of you with the MAX or the
> DB have hard disk space limited recording?

I think the 45 second limit is RAM based, and after that it would spool to
your HD. The problem is that a lot of HD's aren't quick enough, so USS8 stops
dead, to stop those people getting choppy sound files or worse.

> From: [e-mail] (P.Chen)
> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 23:39:11 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: location of Dope demo
>
>    I've looked all over the place for the Dope demo (wuarchive, epas,
> and the mirrors) and haven't been able to find it.  Could some kind
> soul point me in the right direction, or perhaps put it on epas?
Look in the demo/ directory for CLX_DOPE.ZIP. I think it's around 893K.

> From: -Vince- <[e-mail]>
> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 01:15:08 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: GUS & ASUS P54TP4 Problems/Line In Volume
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>     I mentioned earlier I am having lots of problems with the GUSMax
> and a Intel Triton based motherboard, the ASUS P54TP4, it turns out that
> the motherboard doesn't support NMI since the Intel Triton chipset
> doesn't have parity checking so anyways, I have updated my GUS drivers to
> v4.11 and it still locks up in both DOS and Windows so does anyone know
> if the machine is supposed to lock up if it doesn't support NMI?  What I
> don't get is that SBOS loaded fine since I thought SBOS was supposed to
> not load if there isn't NMI?

Well, I'd take the motherboard back and exchange it for one with NMI, while it's
still free to do so. That'll save you a LOT of bother in the future.

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From: [e-mail] (Scott A. Jones)
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 20:33:09 -0400
Subject: X-Wing and GUS...digital sound, Cyberia too

Everyone probably knows the answer to this by now, except me that is...but is
there any way to get digital sound with a GUSMax in X-Wing?  I can get music
but no digital sounds.  This was my favorite game but it's not as cool without
the sound....any help would really be appreciated as I've tried everything.

Oh, has anyone ever figured out how to get any sound out of Cyberia?  It's
been boxed away since I bought it.  Tried everything with that one too.
     Thanks!

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From: Sam <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 12:03:51 +0100 (BST)
Subject: XM, Dope, Triton (twice, actually, cool huh!)

> I haven't seen many players play the .XM format tough.
> (90% of players play the Scream Tracker's format though...)

There are quite a few players supporting XM now. (though still not as
many as s3m).

> Both Trackers work with the GUS, and i belive that the
> Fast Tracker was written with GUS in mind, as it only
> supports the GUS midi in (SB midi doesn't work).

When Triton wrote it, they didn't have an SB at all, which is probably
why the MIDI doesn't work ;)

> Subject: location of Dope demo
>
>    I've looked all over the place for the Dope demo (wuarchive, epas,
> and the mirrors) and haven't been able to find it.  Could some kind
> soul point me in the right direction, or perhaps put it on epas?

ftp.cdrom.com /pub/demos

and look around from there for the file, which is cx-dope.zip or
something similar. (Try the "alpha" directories first, if it's not there
look in incoming, some party directory).

> Subject: GUS & ASUS P54TP4 Problems/Line In Volume
>
>     I mentioned earlier I am having lots of problems with the GUSMax
> and a Intel Triton based motherboard, the ASUS P54TP4, it turns out that
> the motherboard doesn't support NMI since the Intel Triton chipset
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> doesn't have parity checking so anyways, I have updated my GUS drivers to
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ouch! that's bad news, if Triton can't do NMI...

> v4.11 and it still locks up in both DOS and Windows so does anyone know
> if the machine is supposed to lock up if it doesn't support NMI?  What I
> don't get is that SBOS loaded fine since I thought SBOS was supposed to
> not load if there isn't NMI?

I don't think it should lock up. NMI is not used except in the emulators.
Have you tried playing with the BIOS setup to see if that fixes it? Maybe
change the bus speed?

Sam

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From: [e-mail] (Chris Campbell)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 13:41:08 -0300
Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #33

>From: "Jurassic Mark" <[e-mail]>
>Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 21:51:35 +400
>Subject: Gus PRO - Review

>GUS day everyone,

:)

>     I guess many of you are curious about the set of files called
>GUS Pro that appeared on Epas.  I was too and downloaded them all,
>backed up my PAT files and installed it.

Same here...

>     I played with more MIDI files, but I think this post is long
>enough.  I love the bass of some patches.  They really add something
>to my MIDIs, but there are some (like the Orchestra Hit) that are way
>off-note.  The snare patch also annoyed me in some MIDI files...  I
>think I'll unzip my old GUS patches now...

Actually, I really like the GUSPRO patches, they make most of my MIDI's
sound better, I might look for replacement for a few myself, but for the
most part I'm happy with the quality.

Hopefully we will see an update soon :)

                  IRC: Popcorn - TraxWeekly Editor / Hornet
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      "Who is General Failure, and why the hell is he reading my disk?"
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From: [e-mail] (Mark Leung)
Date: Sun,  4 Jun 1995 17:00:12 GMT
Subject: GUSPRO

    Can someone upload GUSPRO to GRAVIS BBS?
Many useful files on epas are not on Gravis BBS!!! ARRR

[e-mail]



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From: Yossi Oren <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 95 20:24:13 +0300
Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #32

Vince, your line problems:
The MAX and newer cards have a mixer chip (or part of chip in the MAX).  It can
set volumes and whatever.  You should try running ultramix with its various
settings and see if it does you any good.  The old GUS probably doesn't have
the mixer (2.x board?) and doesn't have that problem.  The MIDi mess sounds
like DMA trouble, but you can try running PLAYMIDI in interactive mode  (i.e.
type PLAYMIDI and press enter), and
telling us the message on the screen when it crashes (i.e. Loading Patches,
Cleaning Up or whatever)

Yaron and WFWG3.11/MultiLingual:  (aba shelcha kana internet, nachon? ;-)
I think Milton or somebody's distributing a beta of Windows 95 with Hebrew
Support (The system is prerelease, the Hebrew is beta I).  Try that one out.
I've seen it installed over WFWG3.11/ML with GUS support.

Chen, just click this:<ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/alpha/c/clx_dope.zip>

About the resonant filters or whatever - I think it's the sorta "wnyaaaw" sound
you hear in techno music, specifically the 2ndreal soundtrack (where it's cut
up) and ccity12.s3m (good tune, BTW).

Yossi.

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From: Ted Ching <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:44:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: SSF2T Problems

To the guy with SSF2T & GUS problems,  are you loading loadpats.exe?

You can just insert it in the ssf2t.bat file thats used for starting the game.

For example, ssf2t.bat could read:  (I just added "loadpats" in the 2nd line)

@ECHO OFF
LOADPATS
IF EXIST EDPMI.SWP DEL EDPMI.SWP
MAKESWP
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO END
SF2TURBO
:END
IF EXIST EDPMI.SWP DEL EDPMI.SWP


hope that helps...  BTW, surprisingly the GUS provides the best music in
this game since it only supports FM synthesis music and GUS's wavetable
synthesis.

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From: Ted Ching <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:50:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: AMD Interwave specs would be nice

Could someone please post all the technical specs on the AMD Interwave
here?  I've only seen the press-release.

I would like to know:

1) How does it support General MIDI?  (load GUS patches or ROM patches?)
2) Is it hardware SB compatible?
3) Is Gravis going to use the chip in their next GUS? and when?
4) Will current Ultrasounds have an upgrade option to the Interwave?
5) How will the current Ultrasound owners benefit from Interwave support?



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From: [e-mail] (Emil Rakoczy)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 19:28:56 +0100
Subject: ????????Wing Commander III?????????

Know it doesn't sort of belong here.
But....
I get:  ....exception 0 happenend... ...bad CD Data read...
when I try to play WC3. It sucks. Didn't have it before, except for some
occations in the middle of the game, and now it won't even start.

I have an GUS, SB16, Toshiba 3.4 and an adaptec EZ-scsi lite controller.

Anyone?

Thanks in advance....

Emil R

See? No signature!!!


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From: Francis Li <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 95 14:19:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Sam & Max CD: Solved!

I belive I have found a way to get Sam & Max Hit the Road CD-ROM working
fully:

First, get a hold of a copy of DOS4GW.EXE version 1.8.  You can get it
from the Rebel Assault patch on the LucasArts BBS (415-257-3070).  Use it
to load the game (or SETMUSE) like this:

Assuming you have DOS4GW.EXE in your SAMNMAX.CD directory, and your
CD-ROM drive is E:

E:\SAMNMAX>c:\samnmax.cd\dos4gw samnmax

Second, install the game using the Sound Blaster PRO digital sound
driver.  The test sound works like a charm, and same with game sound.  If
you are using SBOS, go to the advanced menu to set the music to AdLib (as
opposed to 4-OP).

This ALSO works with the Sound Blaster emulation of MEGA-EM 3.04B.
However, since I have a Rev. 2.2 card, I can't test the General MIDI music
(well, I can _test_ it, but it doesn't work).

Drat drat drat drat drat drat drat!

Anyone have a GUS MAX or a GUS 3.7 they'd like to trade?:)  There's no
exhange program from Advanced Gravis...  Sigh.

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From: Will Dormann <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 18:27:33 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: TV

Sorry if I am reposting something already said. . . I haven't really been
following along the Terminal Velocity thread.

Well, there is a patch out for the game.  It will now support the GUS!  :)

It's a great game, now that I have sound!  <G>


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From: [e-mail] (John Wallace)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 19:30 CDT
Subject: GUS for sale (fwd)

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>From: [e-mail] (Rob Thompson)
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>Subject: GUS for sale
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Hi,

I have a GUS for sale. It is about 2 years old and has 256k RAM.
It has barely been used, but works fine. I want to buy a better
OS/2 supported card. I'd like to get $70 but I don't know what
the going prices are so I'll also accept best offer.

Rob Thompson
Etch Engineer
Integrated Device Technology


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From: Francis Li <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 95 17:41:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Sam & Max CD: Solved

I belive I have found a way to get Sam & Max Hit the Road CD-ROM working
fully:

First, get a hold of a copy of DOS4GW.EXE version 1.8.  You can get it
from the Rebel Assault patch on the LucasArts BBS (415-257-3070).  Use it
to load the game (or SETMUSE) like this:

Assuming you have DOS4GW.EXE in your SAMNMAX.CD directory, and your
CD-ROM drive is E:

E:\SAMNMAX>c:\samnmax.cd\dos4gw samnmax

Second, install the game using the Sound Blaster PRO digital sound
driver.  The test sound works like a charm, and same with game sound.  If
you are using SBOS, go to the advanced menu to set the music to AdLib (as
opposed to 4-OP).

This ALSO works with the Sound Blaster emulation of MEGA-EM 3.04B.
However, since I have a Rev. 2.2 card, I can't test the General MIDI music
(well, I can _test_ it, but it doesn't work).

Drat drat drat drat drat drat drat!

Anyone have a GUS MAX or a GUS 3.7 they'd like to trade?:)  There's no
exhange program from Advanced Gravis...  Sigh.



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From: [e-mail]
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 20:21:21 -0700
Subject: GUS for Sale!!

I have a GUS rev 3.4 with 1Meg for sale. If anyone is interested, plese leave me
e-mail at [e-mail]. Price is negotiable, just leave me your price. Sorry if
this message is inappropriate for the digest. I just thought that some people might
be looking for a GUS on the digest.

HkStD.


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From: -Vince- <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 01:05:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Various things....

On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Matt Robinson wrote:

> > > What about changing the settings in ULTRAMIX.INI and trying ULTRAMIX in DOS. Or
> > > use one of the millions of PD dos mixer programs for the GUSMax on the various
> > > GUS ftp archives.
> >
> >     Hmmm, I thought Ultramix works only under Windows since in
> > Windows, it works fine.  DOS is where the problem lies...  I have tried
> > GUSMIX though and the same thing happens...  Ofcourse, this may all have
> > a problem to do with the Intel Triton chipset based ASUS P54TP4 P5-90
> > motherboard I used since two days ago since Windows would lock up one
> > minute after I start it up or sooner if I decided to try MODUS or
> > something.  In DOS, I noticed when using GUSMOD, it sounds like static
> > while MIDIDEMO would play the first note and lockup.  I am using the
> > v3.53 disks with a GUSMax v1.8 board so are there problems with the v3.53
> > disks?  Any help would be appreciated...  Thanks!
>
> There should be 2 versions of ULTRAMIX.EXE (I think) one in the root GUS
> directory and one in the %gusdir%\windows directory. Either way, I'm pretty
> sure that the motherboard isn't to blame, because otherwise you'd have the
> same problems in windows (logically). You might try fiddling with your BIOS
> settings, (Always does SOMETHING when I play with them, though whether it's a
> good or bad thing is a random effect =)
>

    Hmmm, there isn't much I can mess around with in the BIOS except
under Chipset Features setup:

DRAM Read Timing EDO/STD: x222/x333
DRAM Write Timing: x333
RAS to CAS Delay: 3T
DRAM Leadoff Timing: 7T

CPU to PCI Burst: Enabled
16-bit I/O Recovery Time: 3 BUSCLK
8-bit I/O Recovery Time: 3 BUSCLK

    Any ideas what I can try?  As for the Ultramix, I found it as
soon as I upgraded to v3.59 for the GUS Drivers but for some reason, with
GUS v3.59 the stuff works under DOS fine while it hangs under v4.11 and v3.53
of the GUS Software.  Also, for the Ultramix, I noticed that with line in's
volume at 0dB, it seems to be lower than the actual line in volume, any
ideas as to how many dB's the GUSMax's mixer actually reduces the volume by?

> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >     I mentioned earlier I am having lots of problems with the GUSMax
> > and a Intel Triton based motherboard, the ASUS P54TP4, it turns out that
> > the motherboard doesn't support NMI since the Intel Triton chipset
> > doesn't have parity checking so anyways, I have updated my GUS drivers to
> > v4.11 and it still locks up in both DOS and Windows so does anyone know
> > if the machine is supposed to lock up if it doesn't support NMI?  What I
> > don't get is that SBOS loaded fine since I thought SBOS was supposed to
> > not load if there isn't NMI?
>
> Well, I'd take the motherboard back and exchange it for one with NMI, while it's
> still free to do so. That'll save you a LOT of bother in the future.

    Well, but that isn't really a solution to the problem as all
motherboards based on the fastest Pentium chipset on the market, the
Intel Triton doesn't support parity so like you loose like the 100MB/sec
performance if you go with less of a motherboard.

Cheers,
- -Vince- [e-mail] - GUS Mailing Lists Admin
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95
SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!



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From: -Vince- <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 01:55:23 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #32

On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Yossi Oren wrote:

> Vince, your line problems:
> The MAX and newer cards have a mixer chip (or part of chip in the MAX).  It can
> set volumes and whatever.  You should try running ultramix with its various
> settings and see if it does you any good.  The old GUS probably doesn't have
> the mixer (2.x board?) and doesn't have that problem.  The MIDi mess sounds
> like DMA trouble, but you can try running PLAYMIDI in interactive mode  (i.e.
> type PLAYMIDI and press enter), and
> telling us the message on the screen when it crashes (i.e. Loading Patches,
> Cleaning Up or whatever)
>

    You are right about the first one but do you know how many dB's
does the mixer take off from the line in volume since at 0dB, the volume
is alot lower than the volume from the line in source.  As for the DMA
Trouble, I got the problem under DOS Fixed by changing the BusClock to 4
for 16 bit and 7 for 8 bit and also in the PCI Settings, I marked DMA 1,
DMA 5, IRQ 11, IRQ 5 as those used by a ISA card namely the GUSMax but
somehow in Windows, when I use MODUS, it just locks up but with Midisoft
Recording session, it plays the Midi file for like 1 minute and then it
locks up, any ideas on how to fix this?  Here are the settings that I can
still mess around with on my P5-90 Intel Triton based ASUS P54TP4 PCI/ISA
Motherboard:

    Hmmm, there isn't much I can mess around with in the BIOS except
under Chipset Features setup:

DRAM Read Timing EDO/STD: x222/x333
DRAM Write Timing: x333
RAS to CAS Delay: 3T
DRAM Leadoff Timing: 7T

CPU to PCI Burst: Enabled
16-bit I/O Recovery Time: 4 BUSCLK
8-bit I/O Recovery Time: 7 BUSCLK (Does the GUSMax use 8bit at all?)

    Any ideas?  Thanks!

Cheers,
- -Vince- [e-mail] - GUS Mailing Lists Admin
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95
SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!




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