GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 15 Mar 95  9:37 PST     Volume 20: Issue  15 

Today's Topics:
				  1 MBb midi bank for patch manager
		  GUS and disappearing mouse pointer in Windows....
						 GUS and SB together
				  GUS Daily Digest V20 #14 (2 msgs)
								Nascar
								PGA486
						 Relentless and GUS?

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	- 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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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:14:21 +0100 (MET)
From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
Subject: Re: 1 MBb midi bank for patch manager

> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 10:21:46 +0100 (MET)
> From: ralam@cs.vu.nl (Lam RA)
> Subject: 1 MBb midi bank for patch manager
> 
> Hello out there,
> 
>I was wondering if anyone out there has a good midi bank for
>patchmanager (preferebly a drum & a melodic bank that will load
>together in all my GUS mem (of one Mb) when the patchloading is
>put on 8 bit, to conserve memory). The reason I'm asking is because
>I just got King's Quest VII and I didn't get any music, (I asked
>about that here, but noone replied) And just now I found out that
>when I preload the patches my self I can get music, but I have no
>way of knowing which patches to map to which instrument. So, any help
>would be apreciated. Or, is it possible to use the ini-file from
>loadpats.exe or something likewise? 
> 
Err, I reedited your post. Maybe you can keep your lines shorter than 72
characters, for enhanced readability :) What you should do is go to the
midi mapper in windows, and select ultra1024, or something like that.
This is a mapping of general midi to a limited patch set that fits into
1 MB. You need to set the GUS driver to 8 bit patch loading before
loading the patches. The patches needed are in a midi file provided with
the GUS software it has 1024 in its name, maybe its just 1024.mid. Play
this file with the media player, or load its patches via the `get from
midi file' option in the patchmanager. Then run the game.

Eric Meijer

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:37:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Sinclair Shuit <sshuit@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: GUS and disappearing mouse pointer in Windows....

Intriguing. I have had my mouse pointer disappearing the first time I 
enter windows each bootup. It all started when I added LAN workplace for 
Dos into my system with a GUS.... I thought it was LWP4DOS related but 
maybe it is something to do with the GUS... I installed the 5.xx software 
at about the same time.... 

Anyone have a similar problem / solution?

Sinclair

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 19:09:34 GMT
From: ct91@cityscape.co.uk (Damian Scully)
Subject: GUS and SB together

>Someone wrote about getting a SB or SB Pro and a Gravis together.....
>
>1st Give the SB(Pro) 220 hex, Dma 1, and irq 7....all standard 
>soundblaster defaults...I bought a SB because of the motherboard and it 
>is picky.

>2nd Get the Gravis off any SB compatible base addreses (thats anything 
>except 220 and 240) I use 210, give the Gravis Dma of 3 and it keeps its 
>irq of 11. 

I have a GUS and an old mono SB compatible. I tried to get them to work
together a while ago, but many of my GUS compatible games would not run with
the GUS, so I took it out. Please could you tell me if you use multiple
config and autoexec files when you have both cards together, or wether you
just have the one. Also when I used both cards together my dual game card
did'nt work, will I be able to use the joystick ports from both soundcards
together so I still have two?

Damian Scully

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:24:01 -0500
From: acyr@you.wincom.net (Aric Cyr)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #14

Regarding the Warcraft sound problem...

download the AIL version 3 drivers from most any of the FTP sites listed at 
the bottom of this digest.  Or you can check out the warcraft upgrade which 
includes new executables and the Ultrasound drivers (native) located also in 
the FTP sites listed, under the 'submit' directory.

Warcraft sounds EXCELLENT with GUS support... especially after listening to a 
friends SB!!! :)


Aric Cyr
acyr@you.wincom.net
Windsor, Ontario
Canada

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:07:03 +0200 (EET)
From: Mikko Rauhala <mjr@lyseo.otol.fi>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #14

> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 08:35:09 EST
> From: snie@dsg343.nad.ford.com (Steve Nie)
> Subject: GUS/MAX players for .WAV .MID and .MOD under Linux?
> 
> Could someone recommend me the good players for .WAV, .MID and .MOD files
> under LINUX for GUS/MAX soundcard?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Steven    

WAV's:  cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp  (only uncompressed though I think, try 
sox to convert if doesn't work...)
MID's:  (x)mp, in the adagio package
MOD's:  gmod, in the gmod package ;)

Everything should be available on at least sunsite.unc.edu...

	- Mjr

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 11:03:10 GMT
From: Alan Wood <Alan@abfl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Nascar
Message-ID: <3230@abfl.demon.co.uk>

> From: Samuel Audet <samuel@gmgate.vircom.com>
> Subject: DARK FORCES disaster!!
>
> Wow, I can't believe it... this is really... a Disaster, just from what I
> saw from yesterday's digest, I just don't catch why they made the GUS
> codes so bad.  Maybe CL intentionaly paid them to make REALLY poor GUS codes 
> or what?  This really sucks, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!
>
> And what about Nascar?  Is there a way to make the joystick work with
> it?  Anybody knows if we plug the joystick on a seperate controller if it
> would work?
> 
> Thanks, Bye!
>

I have had no problems using a joystick with Nascar (apart from the 
usual ones of learning to drive with a stick not a wheel 8-) )


  Alan Wood     I have mastered the programming,
 ~~~~~~~~~~~        now to get the programs working.

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 14:13:29 -0800
From: moki@netcom.com (Andrew Wasa)
Subject: PGA486

Thanks for telling me about the "sblaster.mid".  I downloaded it and
replaced it with the existing sblaster.mid file and it still doesn't seem to
work properly.  I would run the file (pga486.exe) and it would attempt to
load and then automatically resets and reboots the computer.

I was wondering if anyone has encountered this problem.  Can someone help me
get the right file or the proper routine to run this program.

Thanks in advance for your help.


Andy

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:19:35 -0700 (MST)
From: mental@acca.nmsu.edu (Mental???!$@#)
Subject: Relentless and GUS?

I may have missed this being discussed, but is it possible
to use Relentless with GUS and still get sound and
music?

Thanks
Kevin

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