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- The GUS Daily Digest Sunday, 18 June 1995 Volume 23 : Number 018
-
- Today's Topics:
- Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #17
- Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support!
- Transport Tycoon questions
- Gravis@aol.com - Important
- Re: Sound problem with Myst
- ROTT and GUS Max
- Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support!
- Win95 drivers
- Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support!
- Re: ROTT and GUS Max
-
- 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: John Fulmer <jfulmer@midwest.mwol.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 02:41:11 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #17
-
- > >I'm really sorry, and to be quite frank with you, I DON'T GIVE A
- > DAMN!!!!!!!
- >
- > Not the kind of attitude i like from a company i paid good money to. We
- > are the customer, and they exist because of us. They can also cease to
- > exist because of us. I seriously hope this was a joke... but i'm not
- > laughing.
-
- I don't think that the GRAVIS@aol.com is a real Gravis Employee. Gravis
- maintains their own mailsite (tech1@gravis.com is a valid user), and doesn't
- need aol for e-mail.
-
- In fact I would send a copy of the reply you got and send it to gravis (try
- usernames sales, info, root, postmaster) and see what they say...
-
- jf
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: Sam <Samuel.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 11:20:48 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support!
-
- > >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
- >
- > This is enough to make me never buy anything from Gravis again. Windows 95,
- > OS/2, Windows NT, and Linux are the way the world seems to be going and they
- > are still relying on NMI and protected mode? They may have produced a great
- > piece of hardware, but their software is severely lacking. Unfortunately,
- > now that I have heard the GUS I can't go buy a SB and be satisfied.
-
- What!!?!?! The whole POINT of Win95 DirectSound, and I think OS/2 has an
- equivalent - both currently either vapourware or unreleased beta, not sure
- which - is that soundcard support for programs under these OSes can be
- done in a standard way, that also allows use of advanced features. You
- don't need emulation, or NMI, or protected mode, or etc. But you do get
- the proper wavetable support - i.e. more games will move to the XM format
- and similar wavetable formats, away from crap crap crap general midi.
- Hopefully.
-
- That's if the game runs under Win95, and assuming Gravis get their act
- together with Win95 drivers. (They will, definitely, for Interwave, and
- I'd guess for GUS as well since they will probably still be selling it
- for a while. Whether they get them done by Win95 release is more doubtful).
-
- If it runs under DOS, well, there aren't many DOS games coming out
- without GUS support.
-
- Oh, those other OSes (NT, Linux) don't support soundcards or game
- programming very well, so they're pretty irrelevant. The next version of
- NT/Win95 will probably combine the best features of both OSes, however.
- (my guess... Win95 minus all the 16-bit parts, plus the NT filesystem,
- vaguely ;).
-
- Sam
-
- ps Don't know if it got mentioned here, but apparently many of the
- problems with Win95/GUS are due to the "old" beta version that was
- sold, and newer versions are much better. I hear you'll be able to get a
- new version (for 30 quid again) with the MS Office beta that's coming out
- soon.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: h0mi <homi@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 04:30:22 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Transport Tycoon questions
-
- Friend of mine lent me his copy of Transport Tycoon and I discovered it
- has GUS support. Apparantly, however, you need to use the UltraMid TSR to
- run it. I get sound and music, but have a question. The game fairly
- frequently freezes up on me as the music speeds up to where it sounds
- like gibberish, until the song ends. Is it because of the Ultramid tsr
- that gets loaded? (Incidentally, Im posting this here because I don't
- really know what this program is for and why TTycoon needs it, instead of
- just supporting the gus "normally." Oh well.) Perhaps I could/should
- update it?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: NickWT@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 09:51:49 -0400
- Subject: Gravis@aol.com - Important
-
- ....I just read about this in todays digest that someone got this response
- from gravis@aol.com:
-
- >I'm really sorry, and to be quite frank with you, I DON'T GIVE A
- DAMN!!!!!!!<
-
- GRAVIS@AOL.COM is -NOT- an email address for Advanced Gravis on America
- Online...quite frankly I do not know who it is...but its not gravis.
-
- If your going to send email to Advanced Gravis on here, you must sent email
- to GRAVISTECH@AOL.COM.
-
- This is one of those cases where someone else got that screen name
- first....long before AG ever came on here. :/
- Nick
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: "Stephen Thomas Brindle" <NETCOM.On-line.Communication.Services@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 10:40:40 -0800
- Subject: Re: Sound problem with Myst
-
- > From: e8925292@student.tuwien.ac.at (Gerd Reichinger)
- > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 13:47:51 +0200 (METDST)
- > Subject: Sound problem with Myst
- >
- > Anyone remember Myst?
- > Well I've got an annoying problem with this great game:
- >
- > When I move around, after almost every step the sound volume
- > changes! Right now I'm using the mixer to restore the sound volume
- > to the maximum level every time, but as you will understand it is
- > getting on my nerves...
-
- I think that is supposed to happen. For example, the farther away
- you walk from the docks on Myst Island, the farther and farther away
- the sound of the water and the boats knocking up against the docks
- will be. It's all part of the realism.
-
- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- Stephen Thomas Brindle|"I have made this letter longer than usual, because I
- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=|lack the time to make it short."
- Ethereal Dragon | -Pascal
- -==(UDIC)=-- |
- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: milos@electrotex.com (Miles Lott)
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 13:45:28 -0500
- Subject: ROTT and GUS Max
-
- I loaded ROTT from the CD included with the GUS Max. I have a 512k card.
- I cannot get both music and sound to work, even using emulations. The
- error given when selecting the Max for both is "Not enough memory".
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: tom@pandemonium.saar.de (Thomas Weber)
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 20:14:18 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support!
-
- > Oh, those other OSes (NT, Linux) don't support soundcards or game
- > programming very well, so they're pretty irrelevant. The next version of
-
- I can't say for NT, but Linux has GUS (and GUS MAX) drivers. One in the
- kernel source tree and one optional and they work.
- As for game programming support:
- You want to tell us, that DOS supports game programming???
- NT is absolutely no market for game programming because no average user
- can afford a machine that can run NT. That's why companies don't write
- games for NT.
- Linux is still regarded as a hacker OS and compamnies just don't see the
- market behind Linux. Only few have realized that there is a market, and
- even more will when Quake comes out. BTW, DOOM runs here faster under
- Linux than DOS (including sound support).
-
- > NT/Win95 will probably combine the best features of both OSes, however.
- > (my guess... Win95 minus all the 16-bit parts, plus the NT filesystem,
- > vaguely ;).
-
- 'Win95' and 'minus 16-bit parts' don't fit together. Win95 will be better
- and more stable than Win3.1, but it's far far away from a good designed OS.
- Don't belief everything MS tells you!
- And NT is nothing that you can run on an average machine.
-
- Tom
- - --
- i feel like a falling leaf / departed from my source of life
- dipping into the ground / to become one with the earth
- todessehnsucht - wo bleibt die gerechtigkeit? -atrocity-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: tech.support@gravis.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 16:54:43
- Subject: Win95 drivers
-
- G>I've now been several times around the world from my little dusty
- G>screen in Denmark to try to locate GUS-drivers for windows 95, I am
- G>getting desperate. The wfw311-drivers obviously f┤cks it all up and
- G>makes win95 crash. I have tryed several ftp.sites, compuserve
- G>EVERYWHERE nobody seems to know anything and nobody seems to care. BUT
- G>the drivers MUST exist somewhere! Win95 is set to ship in August and
- G>GUS will obviously DIE if the drivers are not going to be on the
- G>disks! So therefore is it possible to accept my humble BEG for the
- G>drivers? I am readyy to kill for them (or the other way around - I
- G>WILL kill if I don't get them.
-
- G>Thanx from Denmark
-
- G>Lars Bonefeld (100564.1643@compuserve.com)
-
- We will be working on windows95 drivers, however they probably won't be
- available until windows 95 ships.
-
-
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- ------------------------------
-
- From: Gunther Schulz <gabriel@franklin.fairfield.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 18:21:59 -0600 (GMT-0600)
- Subject: Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support!
-
- > even more will when Quake comes out. BTW, DOOM runs here faster under
-
- What? Do you mean Quake will be available as a Linux version?
- I guess (hope not) that will always remain a dream...
-
- B.B.
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: milos@electrotex.com (Miles Lott)
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 00:21:09 -0500
- Subject: Re: ROTT and GUS Max
-
- >> I loaded ROTT from the CD included with the GUS Max. I have a 512k card.
- >> I cannot get both music and sound to work, even using emulations. The
- >> error given when selecting the Max for both is "Not enough memory".
- >TRy running your GUS on a low IRQ like 5 or 7.
- >
- I already am.
-
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