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The GUS Daily Digest       Wednesday, 7 June 1995       Volume 22 : Number 036

Today's Topics:
    cyberia
    Ultrasound experience CD in Holland ??
    MK2 Under Win95
    Gus digest #35
    [none]
    Re: TV
    GUS Tech
    [none]
    Re: Gus Experience CD.
    NMI being phased out
    Terminal Velocity patch
    Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #35
    RE: XWING and GUS
    Megaem 304 and Terminal Velocity....
    Shitty digest and dumb returning
    GUS and MIDI Keyboard.
    Mark Leung
    Re: NMI is being phased out, thus so is SBOS
    GUS Interwave
    Vince!  Fix digest automated stuff!
    X-Com solution
    Vince's Prob's and onother guy's

Standard Info:
    - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
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From: [e-mail] (dean ross-smith)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 00:05:33 -0700
Subject: cyberia

I bought Cyberia when it first came out and returned it within a couple of
days because Interplay's solution to my GUS sound probs was to just turn off
the sound by typing "Set Blaster =" at the DOS prompt (thereby setting no
sound card at all!).  Anyway, tech support said they MIGHT patch the sound
to support more sound cards besides SB (the only card supported if I remember).
So call them because that was a couple of months ago.

On another note...
does anyone have Interplay
(oops)'s BBS number?  714-252-2822 doesn't work as it's listed in the Descent
manual...

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From: "R. Van Der Veen" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 08:37:52 MET-1DST
Subject: Ultrasound experience CD in Holland ??

Fellow GUSsers,

This is mainly for all the GUSsers in Holland:

I read a lot about the 'Ultrasound experience CD' and most of the
time, if not all, people say 'get it'. Well, I live in Holland
near schiphol airport and I wonder where I could get this CD.

Thank you for your time,

Richard ([e-mail])

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From: Khetan Gajjar <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:08:23 +0200 (GMT+0200)
Subject: MK2 Under Win95

Hello all.

> 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!.

I have to agree. Look where it is coming from - not where Microsoft said
it would be going to. Anyone who believes what Microsoft PR says is living
in a dream world! I mean, just look at the Windows Sound System :-)

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

I have noticed with a lot of games under Win95, to get the GUS working, I
just created a seperate command shortcut, with the all the Gravis
settings in the config and autoexec sections and then booting with that.

All of the things work fine, but the big problem is that the Win3.11 drivers
that we have to use under Win95 often corrupt / sound gets distorted /
stuffed up when two apps try to play sound at once.
- ---
Thanx,
Khetan Gajjar

E-Mail :
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]

Voice  :
  [phone]


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From: Khetan Gajjar <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:22:45 +0200 (GMT+0200)
Subject: Gus digest #35

Hello

Any particular reason why everything was repeated twice ? I *love* the
Gravis, but everything twice ? Not that much!
- ---
Thanx,
Khetan Gajjar

E-Mail :
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]

Voice  :
  [phone]


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From: [e-mail] (Angel Fern'andez Gonz'alez)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 12:03:52-010
Subject: [none]

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T>It has been said in the digest that Gravis is going to release a
T>a sound card based in the Interwave chip from AMD around
T>September. Is it true?.

It could be true, but I don't know...I guess we'll just have to wait.

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T>When is Gravis going to have an internet node connected with its BBS?.

Within a month.


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From: Will Dormann <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 07:06:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: TV

> Now for the next question ...
>
> Well, where can we find it? =)

I E-mailed the file to someone who said he would put it on epas.

It should be there soon.


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From: [e-mail]
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:05:50 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: GUS Tech

Can someone say me the GUS Card Feature?
I have a Sound Blaster 16 :(
and I would like to ear real-multi-track modules.
Thanx!

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From: Bruno Afonso <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:52:21 GMT
Subject: [none]

 I'm a new GUS owner, and I was wondering if any of you old GUS gurus
could tell us which patches you added to your normal GUS .PATs.
 I replaced around 10 pats, drums and electric guitars, the difference
is clear in the first level of Doom I.. music is more powerful now...
but some instruments still need to be more realistic.

 I suppose 1MB is required to make decent replacements. My Max
1.8 has only 512 (It's not easy to find the damn DRAMs here). Anyone
wants to sell?
 Ahem, anyway, there are TONS of patches out... Some are worse than the
original, some are too big, some just don't fit there. The idea is to
pick the only the best from each pack and compile them in a single
EXCELLENT little pack.  Don't say "well, do it yourself then"; I'm not
just lazy, I'm also a GUS rookie. :)

 Has any of you guys gone thru the work of checking them all and making
a list of the ones that are worth using not for specific stuff, but in
general?
 I think most of us would like to see your list of "must-have PATs" :)

                                                Nuno


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From: Bryan Maher <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 95 09:18:50 EDT
Subject: Re: Gus Experience CD.

Peter,

>For people who got the CD, tell me how much you were charged for it;
>I would like to know if I was overcharged $7.

You were ripped... I paid $6 at a local Software Etc.  One would think that
Gravis Should be able to offer it to you for less or equal.

Bryan Maher

P.S.  It was also my understanding that it shipped with GUS cards for some
period of time.  I bought my GUS MAX in December of '94 but there was no CD in
the box.  I had to send it back because it was defective and the replacement
also did not have a CD.  Wonder why?

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From: "Rich" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:28:34 +0000
Subject: NMI being phased out

I too have a motherboard with no NMI procedure on it. (Supermicro
Pentium 100). I also have been having some problems getting certain
games to run. Can someone please explain why NMI is needed for SB
support?? I thought the NMI is for checking RAM parity. I don't see
what that has to do with sound card compatability. One little side
note. Has anyone out the succesfully installed OS2/WARP on one of the
Motherboards without NMI. I have tried for over 2 weeks, but when I
get to a certain point in the install routine, my machine just simply
reboots with no warnings or error messages. Kinda stange, huh??
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From: [e-mail]
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 09:29:25 CDT
Subject: Terminal Velocity patch

[e-mail] forwarded the Ultrasound
patch for Terminal Velocity to me. I have uploaded
it to archive.epas.utoronto.ca in the submit
directory.

clint

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From: Gus-club <[e-mail]>
Date: 6 Jun 95 17:45:42
Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #35

oh my goodness!!!!!!!!! (hm, what this means..)
anybody, don't you its *TIME* to split up this digest to smaller
parts?
why don't anybody write to musix & programmers digests!!!???
the last daily digest was kinda adventure book by size or what?

JoZ.


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From: Harry C Pulley IV <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: XWING and GUS

To get FX with XWING on the GUS you must either put the GUS at 220 (since
XWING only looks for SB's at 220) or you must have a real SB in with your
GUS.  Even with real SB's, it must be at 220 for it to work.  In later
LucasArts games they allow you to select the port address but not in good
old XWING.

For those that use XWING I find that Megaem 3.04 is better in many ways
than 2.xx but worse in some other ways.  Maybe I'll have to make a
special bank for XWING that uses the special patches.

Harry

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From: "Brian Hayes, Sierra Systems" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 09:51:43 PDT
Subject: Megaem 304 and Terminal Velocity....

To: GUS-GENE--INTERNET gus-general@gaia.u

Ok people, heres the scoop. The mega304.zip was bad, mega304b.zip is good. So
what do you do? Well I ftp'ed to epas, and deleted the offending file. Why
waste time telling everyone which one is good/bad--just delete the damn thing
and nobody will have to worry!

As for the Terminal Velocity patch, it's on EPAS (something like TV11.zip or
something like that...

cheers all,

Brian Hayes                       Health: [phone]     o
Ministry of Health,                                          />
Client Registry       internet: [e-mail]  ._/<

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From: [e-mail] (Emil Rakoczy)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 21:22:56 +0100
Subject: Shitty digest and dumb returning

It sucks !!!!alot!!!! when idiots like "we all know who" can't empty his
mailbox so that his mailer daemon returns the complete fucking digest. I
don't wanna read yesterdays digest in todays. Either something has to be
done about the digest and how it handles mail, or silvert has to be kicked
out. This is the second time it happens, and I wont accept it again.

Best regards,

EmilR

No sig this time either....


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From: [e-mail] (Haydn Evans)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 22:43 BST-1
Subject: GUS and MIDI Keyboard.

In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
Hi All!

I have just bought a MUSICSTAR MIDI keyboard (MKB02) package to assist my
kids with learning music. I know it's pretty basic to you knowledgeable
sorts but it should suit the purpose.

Could any of you answer the following:

1.
I am having problems setting it up reliably despite reading and following
the manual (Novel, eh? Reading the manual I mean :-). It's quite
straightforward but the software supplied (Windows) does not seem to
recognise the GUS MIDI driver properly. I can configure it OK but there
is no sound. Although I have managed to get it to work, some of the time.
Anybody else using this keyboard with a GUS?

2.
Where can I find the best info on MIDI? Basic stuff to get me started.

3.
The company that market the keyboard (Reveal of America) have a
conference on CI$ where they offer assistance, updates, etc. I am not on
that system. Can I access it via the Internet?

4.
Which is the best software to use with this system?

5.
Are there any MIDI files that actually sound like the music we listen to,
pop chart music for example. The stuff I have heard is so bland and
contrived. I suppose it's a question of copyright?

Thanks for your time...

                        ]-[aydn


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From: "Jurassic Mark" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 19:23:31 +400
Subject: Mark Leung

Who ever you are, you've trying several times to request the G-List,
but it bounces back here everytime saying "Unknown username".

You have your from field as [e-mail].

Either change your from address to the right one or stop requesting
the list.
               Jurassic Mark (Marc Y. Paulin)
Where:   [e-mail]                   IRC: J-Mark
The G-List is alive!!!                  WARPing & GUSsing
How to crash Win95? Write "F 0000:0000 FFFF 66" in debug!
     "The 486 is RISC based!!!!" - someone I know...

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From: "Stephen Thomas Brindle" <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 18:36:48 -0800
Subject: Re: NMI is being phased out, thus so is SBOS

>From: Gavin Scarman <[e-mail]>
>Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 13:57:05 +1030
>Subject: NMI is being phased out, thus so is SBOS

>Since SBOS (and the new Megaem??) require the NMI, the GUS will soon no longer
>be able to bill itself as Sound Blaster compatible.
>The final result? It is even more critical the the GUS get native support in all
>new games.

I doubt that.  Seems to me that the final result would more likely be
the death of the GUS.

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From: Thaddaeus <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 12:25:58 +1000 (EST)
Subject: GUS Interwave

    John Smith was quoted as saying that the next GUS will N.O.T have
hardware SB/GMIDI compatability.

- --
Thaddaeus Kong                               [e-mail]
I hate people who don't finish their

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From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 21:13:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Vince!  Fix digest automated stuff!

Hi, Vince, there are growing (literally!) problems with the digest.
First, please delete from the list the guy who has his mailbox full.  His
stupid server is bouncing the mail back to the digest -- complete with a
complete repost of everything.  Secondly, you recommended that we say
"yes" when asked whether to reply to all recipients.  However, I believe
it is causing the double-posting to the digest.  Please fix so that we
can still say yes to reply to all recipients, but single postings to
digest.  If not, I will say "no."  Also, it would be great if you can
write a stripper/truncator/mail bounce backer/rejector on posts greater
than, say 50 lines long.  I think that's a reasonable amount of space to work
with (anyone else can suggest a number), and it prevents accidental reposts of
the entire digest.  If anybody UNIX savvy can help him with the batch
file, please do.  Thanks.
                        -Peter

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From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 21:21:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: X-Com solution

Justin, I too have installed the 1.4 patch over UFO (Defense).  I do get
a hanging, but only out of *certain* batch files installed.  Only one of
them loads UltraSound patches prior to running the game.  The others
don't which cause the system to hang.  You must try all batch files to
see which one actually loads the game with UltraSound patches pre-loaded
first.

                        -Peter


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From: [e-mail] (Bryan K. Baskin)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 95 16:06:36 EDT
Subject: Vince's Prob's and onother guy's

Hey Vince,

This is my first suggestion:

Since your problem is Windows not DOS, the RAM settings may be the
culprit so...
Set all wait states, etc to the highest numbers. See if this works. If
not...

Reinstall windows. Its a pain, but often it can solve little anoying
things that may be impossible to track down. First try installing over
the current setup to see if one samll file got corupted, then if that
doesn't work, reinstall fresh, which is a royal pain. Also make sure
you have fresh Windows drivers.

See if you can get an OS/2 boot floppy set from someone and boot off
of them. OS/2 tends to be sensitive about memory speeds and refreshes
and if it loads, chances are the settings are okay.

Also, the ISA Speedstar should be a problem, i had one w/ a GUS and no
prob's. It CAN use IRQ 2 for EGA compatability. Don't think it needs
DMA.

To Khor Chin Heong,

Seems clear the real problem is with the motherboard. Not all MB's are
of the same design or caliber, and i think yours is on the lower end
of that spectrum. See if you can get it exchanged for one that is know
to work. The DRAM refresh will affect the DMA since DMA stands for
Direct Memory Access i believe.

About EPAS,

Just use it for the submit directory, its the only current thing on
the site, but VERY useful. If something is new, put it or check there.

Interwave,

I've heard all about its Win95 support, but what about WinNT and OS/2?
Anyone?



Baskin -)

Write failed on device /dev/brain0: Filesystem full

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