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The GUS Daily Digest        Monday, 19 June 1995        Volume 23 : Number 019

Today's Topics:
    Transport Tycoon Questions
    Dark Forces music fix!
    CD and Support
    some sites
    So far, so good...
    some sites
    GUS Max CD?
    Re: ROTT and GUS Max
    Subject: ROTT and GUS Max
    Re: Toshiba XM5302B CD Rom Drive
    Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support!
    Re: GUS Max CD?
    Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #15
    Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #15
    GRAVIS CD
    NMI
    Re: NMI
    Gus max + win95
    Re: Subject: ROTT and GUS Max
    PQ4 CD-ROM and GUS...

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From: Rupert Burbidge <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 10:22:47 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Transport Tycoon Questions

    A friend of mine had the problem of the midi songs in TT speeding
up till the end of the song at various intervals in the game. He had a
GUSMax with 512k of memory. However when he upgraded to 1mb the problem
was solved. So I assume you have 512k of RAM which you should upgrade.

Rupert.    University Of Bath, UK


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From: Marty Danko -Khertz- <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 03:25:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dark Forces music fix!

Well I fixed my problem with DF. I kept getting courupted insturments.
Try this it might work for you!  FTP to epas, the filename is
fixdarkf.zip...
c-ya
Marty Danko ([e-mail])

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From: [e-mail] (Marc Kloosterman)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 13:20 MET DST
Subject: CD and Support

Hi all,

Here is a little something for all you people having problems with
a) the availability of the 'Experience CD' in Holland;
b) the pricing of this CD;
c) Gravis' support.

The fellow sysop of our bbs (Tim) wanted to make some patches, so after a year
or  so of having his GUS 3.7, he finally decided to make some samples.
Guess what? Full of static! Then we put my GUS 3.7 in his computer, and it
worked just fine. So we figured the card was busted.

Tim logged in on Gravis BBS here in Holland. Here he was instructed to send
the card to Gravis' Dutch HQ. As Gravis Holland doesn't sell any cards, they
offered him a replacement: Gravis had received a number of fine working GUS
cards, mailed by disappointed users (or lamers that can't get their card
working, or OS/2 users, or non-NMI motherboard owners :-). In a few weeks time
(2?) he got a 'new' card, together with an Experience CD (newer version than
I got with some British magazine).

Thus:
a) you can get it from:
   Advance [sic -check Dutch phonebook!] Gravis Comp Tech,
   Antennestraat 70,
   1322 AS Almere
b) it's free
c) their HARDware support is just fine! (we've got more SOFTware on our bbs :)

Marc

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                  Marc Kloosterman ([e-mail])
    Check out our totally unofficial Gravis UltraSound BBS: [phone]
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From: [e-mail] (Marc Kloosterman)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 13:22 MET DST
Subject: some sites

Have you ever tried Vocaltec's Internet Phone 3.0? This little piece of
software lets you talk to others over the Internet.
Version 3 supports full-duplex communications. Therefore it requires a
full-duplex soundcard (duh!).

And now for the burning question: how many cards are there (according to
Vocaltec) that support full duplex recording/playback?

Find out on www.vocaltec.com/fdxbr.htm ....

Marc

p.s. you don't need a 'Max', a regular one works too... =)

p.p.s. Creative Labs also sells a GUS:
       www.creaf.com/products/software/gus.html
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                  Marc Kloosterman ([e-mail])
    Check out our totally unofficial Gravis UltraSound BBS: [phone]
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From: [e-mail] (Marc Williams)
Date: 18 Jun 95 05:50:20 -0500
Subject: So far, so good...

Good morning.  I just sub'ed this ML so I'll be attentively reading all
notes that go through here.  I recently bought an older GUS (rev 2.4)
and have a few questions/observations.  First, the observations.

With one exception, the ftp sites listed in the various support sites
are worthless; either they are so bloody busy as to preclude any
meaningful xfers (e.g. uwstl) or they seem to be incomplete (most of the
others).  The exception was freedom.nmsu.edu.  A great site.  I'll be
there often.

The 2.02 faq is quite good and informative.

The 3.59 6-disk install was a piece o' cake.  Likewise, the 4.11 update.
Now for some questions.

The manual that came with my GUS is now virtually obsolete.  Is there a
full manual available electronically?

I want to upgrade the memory.  Can I use some ancient SRAM chips I have
laying around or does it have to be the DRAM mentioned in the faq?  Is
my lack of memory the likely reason I can't seem to get sound fx working
in a couple games (music works fine).

I'll be purchasing the Warp full-pack.  Does it have GUS support built
it or will I have to use the 2nd party drivers I've seen about?  I
recall that OS/2 v2.1 didn't have GUS support.  Any other Warp comments
appreciated.....

Thanks, Marc.
([e-mail])


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From: [e-mail] (Marc Williams)
Date: 18 Jun 95 07:34:28 -0500
Subject: some sites

At 08:22 on Jun 18, 1995, Marc Kloosterman wrote:

MK> Have you ever tried Vocaltec's Internet Phone 3.0? This little piece of

Not yet.  Is it shareware or commercial?  If shareware, do you know
where to get it?


MK> Marc

Nice name.  :)

Marc ([e-mail])


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From: [e-mail] (Andrew Du)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 05:48:07 -0700
Subject: GUS Max CD?

What's on this CD that's Gravis is now giving out with the GUS Max?

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From: [e-mail] (Miles Lott)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 10:01:42 -0500
Subject: Re: ROTT and GUS Max

>> I loaded ROTT from the CD included with the GUS Max.  I have a 512k
>>card.
>
>A CD came with your GUS Max?  What's on it?
>
There were two CDs.  One has Doom 2.  The other has 100Meg of shareware.
There are games and demos and Midisoft Recording Session, plus some other
neat utilities written third party for the GUS.

But how do I get ROTT sounds to work?
Miles Lott, A.A.S. E.E.T. in Houston, TX
Home of the 2-time World Champion
HOUSTON ROCKETS!!!

"Milos" on Internet Phone.


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From: [e-mail]
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 11:12:11 -0400
Subject: Subject: ROTT and GUS Max

You need 1MB of memory on your GUS to get effects AND music in ROTT.  For
some strange reason, Apogee decided not to support music at 512k.

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From: Chua Jen Chian <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:40:22 +0800 (SST)
Subject: Re: Toshiba XM5302B CD Rom Drive

On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Jon Cossin wrote:

> I just purchased a Toshiba XM5302B CD Rom Drive.
>
> The drive didn't come with any disk or drivers.
> Does anyone know where I can get them?

Hi,
    :) U are real lucky. I just bought one a few days ago and the drivers
come with it. If u want, email me privately and I will zip them up for u. :)


> Also, can I hook this CD-Rom up to my Gravis Max?

   No prob man. Almost like Plug-N-Play. :) Just hook up the audio cable
to the auio-out at the back of the drive (taking note of the right and
left) and connect to the Sony audio interface. According to my friend,
any of the 3 audio interfaces can work, depending on what type of audio
cable comes with the drive. Just play around with it. :)


God Bless,
Richard

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From: Mike Batchelor <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 11:48:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Hooray! IW does not have hardware GM/SB support!

Not The GUS Daily Digest once wrote...
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Sam <[e-mail]>
> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 11:20:48 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: 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
> 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 ;).

"Abuse is the first shareware release from Crack dot Com:

  Dave Taylor (Partner/Producer),
  Jonathan Clark (Partner/Project Leader),
  Duong Nguyen (Artist/Level Designer), and
  Murray McMillan (Artist).

Abuse will be mastered August 31 and the Linux shareware version will
released at that time.  The DOS version will follow shortly thereafter
and will be sold through mail order then stores."

I forgot where the screens shots I have were obtained, but I put them up on
ftp.clark.net:/pub/mikebat/files/abuse2pc.zip.  This game looks like it will
be the next DOOM, before QUAKE becomes the next DOOM. :)  The Linux version
will support play in the X Window environment, and also with SVGAlib on the
console at 640x480.  Naturally, it has multi-player network support, and is
completely editable, with a Lisp-like programming language for making custom
levels.  It will ROCK!!!  And it will come out for Linux first, so THERE!

> ------------------------------
>
> From: Gunther Schulz <[e-mail]>
> 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...

Of course it will.

- --
%%%%%%% Mike Batchelor %%%%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%%%%
  "The avalanche has already begun.  It is too late for the pebbles to vote."

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From: Chua Jen Chian <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:08:40 +0800 (SST)
Subject: Re: GUS Max CD?

On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Andrew Du wrote:

> What's on this CD that's Gravis is now giving out with the GUS Max?

   Apparently, it is the GUS 'Experience' CD. I noticed that only after I
bought the GUS Max. :)


Richard

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From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 12:04:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #15

From: CHRIS M PIPER <[e-mail]>

- -- [ From: Chris Piper * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] --

> 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.

Well, this is partially true, because of the cascade, the priority
looks more like this....

  0 -> 1 -> 2/9 -> 3/10 -> 4/11 -> 5/12 -> 6/13 -> 7/14 -> 8/15
  ^                                                          ^
Highest Priority                                      Lowest Priority

                    Fuzzy




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From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 12:04:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V23 #15

From: CHRIS M PIPER <[e-mail]>

- -- [ From: Chris Piper * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] --

>A couple of quick questions...  First, someone was trying to tell me
that there
>was a GUS card above the MAX that was geared towards the
prosumers/studio
>market.  Is this true, or was this guy blowing smoke up my
balmyarse???  Second,
>can the GUS MAX (or this fabled studio card) do digital disk audio
recording of
>four simulateous tracks??  I'm trying to set up small studio (already
have mics,
>drum machine, and mackie mixer :> for startup equip), and a four track
would
>REALLY round out the set up...  TIA!

Unfortunatelly, the GUS can only record from one source at a time.  It
can playback 14 voices at a time while recording this voice.  So it is
possible to record 14 different tracks, but they must be recorded at
different times.  It wont behave like a 4-track, but it can be quite
nice if used properly.  The problem arises that the original GUS can
only record 8-bit.  I saw a program that was a 14-track Multi-Track
Recorder for the GUS, but this was only an 8-bit version.  If you have
a GUSMAX, there was just released an 8-track 16-bit version called
RSTUDIO.  This may help you.

                                                Fuzzy




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From: [e-mail]
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 11:29:04 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: GRAVIS CD

Just to let you know, I found the  Ultrasound EXPERIENCE CD at babbages
for 4.99 so any one who wants one should check babbages. [that is if oyu
have one near you.
[e-mail]
PS I dont know who makes the sharp marketing decisions for gravis but I
think the need to hire some one who Realy knows about marketing. That is
one thing canadians are know for, "no pressure" sales. [I mean hey in all
the years I have had my gus I have only see it advertised maybe 4 times.]
The GUS  is a wonderful pice of hardwear but if they dont PUSH it it will
DIE. [things have been looking up as of late though]
PS
I have a quad speed cdrom and I wouldd like to make some direct recorins
form it but the normal program does not work any ideas what program I
sould use? It is an ide cdrom not scsi. [hey for 160 Im happy]
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Leung)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:14:29 GMT
Subject: NMI

    Can anyone give me a list of P5 MotherBoard which GUS can run
perfectly with it? like NMI stuff...
Thanks

[e-mail]


Direct all replies to challenge.com please!  Ignore cyberstore.ca


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From: -Vince- <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:29:35 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: NMI

On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Mark Leung wrote:

Hi Mark and fellow GUSers,

>     Can anyone give me a list of P5 MotherBoard which GUS can run
> perfectly with it? like NMI stuff...

    All the ASUS P54TP4 and the P55 series will work just fine with it.
My Diamond SpeedStar+ ISA Video Card was the problem not the motherboard
at all...


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: Ryan Andrew Schutt <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 19:12:26 EDT
Subject: Gus max + win95

Let me get this straight: the current win 3.1 drivers work with
win95?  Not for me.  It causes win95 to lock up at the
beginning with some message about an error with Msgsrv32.
That's if I have all the win drivers loaded.  If I comment out
the line 'aux=ultrasnd.drv' in my [drivers] section of
system.ini, win95 will load ok, but the gus drivers still don't
work.  I have a Gus max with 1meg, win 95 build 480, and a Zeos
Pantera 90.  Can anyone help me get the drivers to work?
Thanks..

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From: Mark Woon <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 21:57:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Subject: ROTT and GUS Max

On Sun, 18 Jun 1995 [e-mail] wrote:

>
> You need 1MB of memory on your GUS to get effects AND music in ROTT.  For
> some strange reason, Apogee decided not to support music at 512k.
>

I don't know if it won't work at 512k, but I do know ROTT will work at
768k, since that's what I have...

***********************************************************************
Mark Woon                * I have spoken!
[e-mail]                * ASCII stupid question, get a
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~markwoon *   stupid ANSI.
***********************************************************************

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From: Francis Li <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 22:24:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PQ4 CD-ROM and GUS...

I have been unable to get Police Quest 4 CD-ROM to work in DOS with my
GUS rev 2.2.  I have properly installed the 32-bit SCI drivers for the
GUS, and ran LOADPATS etc etc.

But, the moment a digital sound is played, I get a big DOS4GW error.

I know that clicking past the Sierra logo avoids the lockup there, but I
still can't play the rest of the game.

I have tried different boot configurations, different IRQ/DMA
combinations, and don't know what to try next.

Anybody know how to get past this?


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