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- The GUS Daily Digest Friday, 16 June 1995 Volume 23 : Number 016
-
- Today's Topics:
- Re: Descent settings, other stuff...
- Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #34
- Re: GUS with SB and megaem; Myst volume
- Triad and GUS, Manley Drivers?
- Mortal Kombat question
- Any Win95 GUS MAx drivers?
- Strike Commander
- guspro - distgtr.pat
- Dark Legions and GUS Max?
- Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #18
- Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #14
-
- 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: Michael Brinks <mbrinks@einstein.ot.dk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 12:41:44 WETDST
- Subject: Re: Descent settings, other stuff...
-
- bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin) wrote:
- >> fact that my GUS IRQ's are set high may also help as they have a
- >> higher priority than most of the lower ones. This comes from them
- >> being cascaded off of IRQ2 (i think). Priority: 0,1 ,2/9, 10, 11,
- >> 12, 13, 14, 15, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I dunno, but that might help some
- >> infinetesmal little bit.
-
- I fact the IRQ priority is:
- 0, 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- (you got 8 wrong - doesn't really matter since IRQ8 isn't available on
- the bus. Neither is 0,1 and 13 for that matter).
-
- "Henry Timmerman" <henry@vm3.vm.ee> replied:
- > r u sure about that stuff ? r u saying that u r using higher irq for
- > better sound quality? so when u r using modem on com1 (irq4) and gus
- > on irq11 then the gus is getting more attention from the system and
- > you r hearing better sound ? sounds really lame to me...
-
- "More attention" isn't the right phrase - both the com1 and sound driver
- gets attention - the question is who gets it *first*.
- If the GUS is on IRQ11 and COM1 is on IRQ4, and a interrupt request
- occurs at the same time - then the GUS driver will get called first,
- because IRQ11 has the highest priority. The COM1 (modem/mouse/etc.)
- driver will have to *wait*, until the GUS driver is finished (or at least
- clears the interrupt in the interrupt controller).
- If a GUS interrupt occurs while the COM1 driver is servicing an interrupt,
- then the GUS driver will get immediate attention (assuming interrupts are
- enabled), and again the COM1 driver will have to *wait* until the GUS
- driver has finished it's work.
- Of cause it works the other way around if the COM1 has the highest
- priority (e.g. COM1 on IRQ4 and GUS on IRQ7).
-
- To summarize: The hardware that uses the IRQ with the highest priority,
- gets the fastest response time. Whether or not that affects sound quality
- I can't say - it will depend on the specific system and setup.
-
- Michael
-
-
- P.S. Halloooo Gravis.......... Still alive ?
- - just testing.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 19:51:34 +0300
- Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #34
-
- X-Wing sounds: Get the file xwngsnds.zip (duh) from a big archive (say EPAS)
- and look for the sequel (something like xsnds2.zip). These files update
- Megaem's patch set and give you effects in GM mode.
-
- About the NMI/Parity mess: A parity error causes a non-maskable interrupt.
- If you don't have parity, then a parity error would do nothing. This STILL
- doesn't imply that NMI is not supported, in OTHER cases. Think about it.
-
- Jason and Where Have My Files Gone: EPAS maintains a submit subdirectory, and
- a set of the most recently validated files. That's all. They're running out
- of disk space, you see. If you want an older file, turn to a mirror - any
- mirror will do. Check the bottom of the digest for more info.
-
- Neal Pitts' info: Nononono! The Interwave will NOT support the SB in hardware.
- It will do so by a program called SBOS (gulp). General MIDI support will be
- supported to some extent by the Interwave but most of it will come through a
- shim which sounds amazingly like Megaem to me. As for GUS support - if a
- game is going to use the Interwave-equipped card as a MOD player with under
- 14 channels and some simple effects, I see no reason for the GUS to sound
- different on it. Now if the app gets heavy, gives you a 28-channel soundtrack
- with reverb and the AMD Mix, Move and Modify feature, and uses 2MB of patches
- and so on, the GUS will sound strange. Bottom line - the register-level
- support is there, but there's a whole new bunch of registers.
-
- Haydn's MIDI keyboard: Try using Microsoft MIDI Mapper as your device. It
- saves a lot of hassle. Also make sure your keyboard's not set to some wierd
- channel or something like that.
- As for authentic MIDI files - it's all in the hands of the man who does the
- sequencing. Can be amazingly similar or sound like a $20 Casio.
-
- The GUS Card Feature is called the Ultrasound ACE. It costs $100 in the US.
- Very simple to use.
-
- Damian - Check out x2ftp.oulu.fi. It's the Internet programmer's place. Lots
- of cool things you're not supposed to do but look amazing anyway. Also look
- around rec.games.programmer and comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos. Wanna go Windows or
- something? Just buy a book.
-
- Kong, the Interwave support 16 megabytes of RAM (plus 16 of ROM), which is
- exactly 8 times as much as 16 megabits. Let me just tell you that you're not
- the first one to fall for the old "Mb" trick.
-
- The GUS/Interwave story - Gravis claim, on the MSN Soundcard forum, that a
- driver for Windows 95 will ship when Windows 95 will ship. Only it's done
- using dimplomatic grammar. You know. It can also be read as "The GUS drivers
- will be released some time after Windows 95 ships". We just have to hope on
- this one.
-
- Mike Landers, look for wc2_gus.zip, mom_gus.zip and... huh? Bioforge should
- have native GUS? Oh well, just old me. Anyway, both or these files are up
- at archive.orst.edu and friends under ~/patches or something like that.
-
- Jason, stop befuddling. Using the same IRQ will cause problems in some cases,
- but usually it won't. Trust me. My GUS is set up for 5,5,11,11 too. I use
- IRQ 7 too when I have to. I think it just comes to show that unless you print
- and GUS at the same time (or try and play MIDI and record WAV) using a single
- IRQ won't hurt. As for the problems - I'd say try slowing down the bus. Works
- on so many problems it won't mind another one.
-
- Giora, a file called the "Address Tome" is posted biweekly to comp.sys.ibm.pc.
- games.announce, in both a software and hardware firm compilation. If there's
- enough of a need I'll post it up here, but note it's a bit big.
-
- Michael, when I got my GUS a year ago and couldn't get it going I was pissed
- off. When I read the FAQ (which was up to date then ;) and a few posts to
- here and csips I slowly got on track. So you can say a non-networked GUSser's
- a very poor soul indeed. But things are changing - everything's plug play and
- up the wazoo. Since everybody's using unified libraries (although a lot of
- different ones - missing the point a bit here) GUS support is very common now.
- Maybe it's matured.
-
- HTH Y'all, until my next leave,
- Yossi.
-
- lioren1@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il / Visit <http://www.golan.org.il>.
- Currently serving somewhere in / Politically correct my ass.
- the Israeli Defense Forces. / Gravis Ultrasound - you'd better buy one
- - --------( "ObKibo" )--------- or I'll hit you (like my slogan?).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: Harry C Pulley IV <hcpiv@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:51:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: GUS with SB and megaem; Myst volume
-
- I have a GUS MAX and an SB clone. To use megaem and the SB you just need
- to tell megaem to NOT do SB emulation and to leave the line-in enabled.
- For megaem 3.04b (and maybe 3.03b, I can't remember now) you can run the
- mesetup program to tell it to turn off SB emulation. Then run megaem -L
- to enable line in for 3.04b or run ultramix -le after running 3.03b.
- With older versions, run megaem -sboff and emuset -l (I think) or
- ultramix -le again to enable line-in. This works great for most games.
-
- Myst's volume is supposed to change with every step you take. It is
- supposed to give you the impression that you are getting closer to
- whatever is causing the noise. The music is included as part of the FX.
- If you run Myst on a card (like my SB clone) which doesn't have mixer
- control under Windows except from the mixer program included then the
- sound is constant throughout the game. It neither overdrives or goes so
- quiet that you can't hear it. If you have the latest GUS drivers and the
- latest video for windows then the GUS doesn't distort too badly but
- overall I think I enjoyed the constant volume of the SB better. I got
- the GUS before I finished the game so I played half of it one way and
- half the other way.
-
- Harry
-
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-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: rhs@pobox.com (Richard H. Stenson)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:01:41 EDT
- Subject: Triad and GUS, Manley Drivers?
-
- Have the shareware version of Triad, I get music but no effects.
-
- Is anyone using the Manley drivers? If so what kind of support do you get
- in Windows and DOS boxes?
-
- Rgds...Rick [rhs@pobox.com]
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: Farhan Thawar <fnthawar@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 10:12:02 -0400
- Subject: Mortal Kombat question
-
- Sorry about the repeat question, but does anybody remember the
- command line option to load up mortal kombat II on the pit stage every time?
-
- Thanks, l8r
-
- Farhan
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: Chua Jen Chian <isc40021@leonis.nus.sg>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:30:44 +0800 (SST)
- Subject: Any Win95 GUS MAx drivers?
-
- Hi,
- Just wondering if there are native 32-bit Win95 drivers for the GUS
- Max? If not, are those Win95 beta users out there using the real mode
- drivers. If there are, I would be most appreciative if someone can post
- the ftp site here. Also, what is the best ftp site for the latest GUS Max
- drivers/pathces/demos/MIDI files? Went to the 3 ftp sites (wuarchive,
- epas, orst) suggested but the Index files listed a lot but the directories
- are empty, probably the files were too old.
- I heard form my local agent that a new sound card from GUS might be
- released by this year end? Is that true? If so, what new features will it
- have? Sorry to bombard everyone with all these questions but I am a very
- new but proud user of GUS Max. :)
-
- TIA,
- Richard
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 00:10:51 EDT
- Subject: Strike Commander
-
- A friend got SC working by using MegaEM 3.03b. He has a Max, so it
- might not work with your 3.4 GUS. Privateer and a few others also
- worked this way.
-
- Baskin
- UT Austin
- Team OS/2
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: adu@ix.netcom.com (Andrew Du)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 10:37:51 -0700
- Subject: guspro - distgtr.pat
-
- Good day!
-
- Could someone possibly send me the file "distgtr.pat" from GUSPro?
- I lost it by accident. Thanks!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: Evan_Mullaney@brown.edu (Evan Mullaney)
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 13:53:09 -0400
- Subject: Dark Legions and GUS Max?
-
- I've installed the patch, but it doesn't seem to do anything,
- and doesn't have a readme. I've tried ultramid, which is supposed to work,
- but I must be doing something wrong. Would some kind soul tell me exactly
- how to get it going? My GUS is at port 260 (can't get 220 or 240), if that
- matters. Thanks!!
-
- - --Evan
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: s106275@cs.tut.fi (Anssi Saari)
- Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 01:29:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #18
-
- :>From: Sam <Samuel.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
- :>Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 15:06:50 +0100 (BST)
- :>Subject: SB+GUS, why you should; music notation, how you could. (If you felt , the urge to fill paper with dots and squiggles :> )
- :>
- :>> Get real! Sure every game works with the damned Sound Bastard but
- :>> who the heck wants one? And on top of it I'm sure that every other
- :>> GUSer on this digest doesn't want to here an advertisment for the SB!
- :>
- :>It makes it easier to run games.
-
- Correction. It makes it possible to get sound in certain games. Magic
- Carpet comes to mind. Maxsbos works maybe one time in ten for me,
- other times I get no fx.
-
- :>Don't knock it. Since in all probability
- :>you can get one second-hand, it's a great way to make sure everything
- :>It also doesn't add to creative labs profits, if you
- :>are concerned about this :)
-
- There are also cheaper and better clones available, in case one wishes to
- have a CL free computer.
-
- :>From: hastings@gasp.dseg.ti.com
- :>Date: Fri, 19 May 95 10:06:12 CDT
- :>Subject: Joystick problems with ACE
- :>
- :>Help!!!
- :>
- :>I bought an ACE to go with my SB16. Now my Flightstick pro buttons
- :>no longer work (any of them). If I disable the joystick port on the
- :>SB16 card, microsoft's MSD still detects a game port. If I remove
- :>the ACE card, the problem disappears. Obviously the ACE has no game
- :>port.
-
- I understand that the ACE actually does have a game port but you can't
- plug a joystick to it because there's no connector to plug to... The
- port needs to be disabled by ultrinit -dj.
-
- Anssi
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: ekadish@cris.com (Eugene Kadish)
- Date: Sun, 06 Feb 94 19:49:30 EST
- Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #14
-
- RE: Strike Commander
- I just got Strike Commander last night and got it work fine with my Ultrasound Max using Megaem 3.04b.
-
- Selected General Midi for music and Soundblaster for sound effects.
-
-
- - --------------
- Eugene Kadish
- ekadish@cris.com
- - --------------
-
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