GUS Daily Digest            Thu, 17 Nov 94  9:37 PST     Volume 16: Issue  17 

Today's Topics:
						CD-ROM Testing program
						CD connector problems
					Fix for Earthsiege from Sierra
					   GUS Daily Digest V16 #15
								MEGAEM
						Mistake about the FAQ
				  New FAQ v2.02 [94/11/16] Released!
	O.K. I'm pissed.  Nasty surprise with new doom2 patch:part II
							  os/2 warp
						  Quest for Glory IV
						 SBOS not working....
						WC III Demo and HMI

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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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:21:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Ryan Baker <rynbaker@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: CD-ROM Testing program

	I have a TEAC C55-A cdrom drive, and I'm unsure whether it is
running full speed.  It should run at 600KB/sec, 190ms, but the only CD
test program (CDINDEX) registered it as 450KB/sec, 300ms without any
cache.  Actually before I was running Novell DOS's NWCDEX program and that
slowed it down to 300KB/sec.  The CD-ROM is hooked up to a GUS MAX and I
heard from someone that they couldn't use 4X drives on GUS.  Any ideas, or
names of better testing programs.

	Also, to everyone saying Ultrasound Experience doesn't work, I
haven't had any problems, the v5.47 drivers haven't given my MIDI files
problems, and DOOM2 works on my system.
	And thanks to the guy who uploaded the WC3DEMO

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 94 23:44:33 MEZ
From: Jochen_Quante <ukr8@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: CD connector problems
Message-ID: <"nz11.rz.un.950:16.11.94.22.44.36"@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk> wrote:

> >Who can tell me the pinout of the 4 pin CDROM audio input on a GUS V3.4? I  
> >suppose the two inner pins are ground and normally it isn't really  
> >important if I get the channels connected properly but I'd really like to  
> >hear the Left Channel on my left speaker and the Right Channel on my right  
> >speaker.
>
> Yes, the middle ones are grounds. Just sort out the others by experiment.
> For example, use Recording Session to play a MID, and pan it completely
> one way. Adjust your cable so that it pans to the correct speaker.
> (Otherwise we'll get a discussion like "While standing on your head,
> looking up at the GUS, the R pin is the one...")

Except that it's very unlikely that the MIDI music will ever pass the
CD ROM audio pins... :)  So probably better use some test CD which got
signals on the right and left channels only or something like that.


Timo M J Jantunen <jeti@snakemail.hut.fi> wrote:

> > Wellington, NZ, and the "gus expert" there tried to hook the audio from 
> > the drive to the gravis cd audio connections..
>
> Did you enable GUS line-in? It can be done in ultrinit, ultramid and
> emuset. There is also a programs which can control line-in directly.

You don't need to enable line-in, you just have to enable output,
which can be done by the ultrinit -o switch.

Jochen
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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 94 13:24:42 EST
From: catmgmec@ibmmail.com
Subject: Fix for Earthsiege from Sierra

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CC: IBMMAIL /INTERNET                                
 SUBJECT: Fix for Earthsiege from Sierra
 Found this on compuserve - I don't own Earthsiege (yet, maybe) so
 I'm just passing it along.
 ***
 I got this directly from inside Sierra, select GUS in the soundset
 program, after it exits, edit the resource.cfg file, set dir music
 driver to A002 from 0, and the port address from 228 from blank.  The
 game should then play fine.  Note, DON'T run with a memory manager,
 himem.sys only.  I tried this, the game did crash once on startup,
 but I rebooted with the mem manager, and it then ran fine, with full
 sound.
 *** END OF MESSAGE ***

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 14:44 -0500
From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #15

For what it's worth, my CD-ROM drive is I: and the demos fine. I haven't
tried the mondo .AVI file yet...:-)

DDA

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 11:24:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: SSARTOR@TrentU.ca
Subject: MEGAEM

Just recently I purchased a GUS for my 486dx-33 with 8 megs ram.  I have 
memmaker installed and am using both extended and expanded memory 
capabilities.  I am also running stacker 4.0.  I am very pleased with the 
sound but have one problem.

	I have the older version of NHL HOCKEY and it only supports ROLAND 
or SOUNDBLASTER.  When I load SBOS it loads fine in soundblaster mode but 
teh speech is very "SSSSLLLLLOOOOWWW".  When I try to run MEGAEM it comes 
up with the little saying that it was installed fine, but then reboots my 
whole system.  Why is it rebooting my system?

Thanks in advance!


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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:57:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Mistake about the FAQ

Sorry, I meant ftp.netcom.com/pub/jonin  not ~debry as I previously 
stated.  Once again I'm sorry for the confusion...

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Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu   | Major(s): CS && ??ASTR??
University of Maryland at College Park | CS && Space == cool == -270 C
Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) FAQ Maintainer | Current GUS FAQ is: v2.02 [94/11/16]
To quote IBM: "Think"                  | This space intentionally left blank.
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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:47:08 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: New FAQ v2.02 [94/11/16] Released!

A new version of the FAQ has been released.  It is version 2.02 
[94/11/16], and contains some minor changes.  It is called 
gusfaq.txt.v2.02 on sites where it is available.  Thus far it has been 
ftp'd to epas, and ftp.netcom.com/~debry/ and sent to the mail server and 
the GUS FAQ Distribution List.  

Also available is a new file called gusfaq.change.v2.02 which contains 
only the questions that were changed from the last version of the FAQ.  
This file should be avaiable wherever the FAQ is available.  

If you cannot get to any of these places, feel free to email me and I 
will send you either file or put you on the FAQ Distribution list.

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Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu   | Major(s): CS && ??ASTR??
University of Maryland at College Park | CS && Space == cool == -270 C
Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) FAQ Maintainer | Current GUS FAQ is: v2.02 [94/11/16]
To quote IBM: "Think"                  | This space intentionally left blank.
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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 23:14:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Stanley Kwong <shkwong@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: O.K. I'm pissed.  Nasty surprise with new doom2 patch:part II

	Well, the second patch didn't work. And guess what, the sound 
doesn't even work.  I don't have time to fuck around with it now.  I 
guess my Doom2 playing days are over.  (It's not that bad, it was taking 
too much time away from studying anyway.)
						Stan Kwong

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 14:17:27 -0500 (EST)
From: e302735@cafe.uqam.ca (TAT HAN DIEU)
Subject: os/2 warp

HI!

I want to know where can I download the drivers for gus support in os2/warp ?

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:21:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter C Chien Jr <pchienjr@uclink.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Quest for Glory IV

After patching Sierra's Quest for Glory IV game to work with the 32-bit 
drivers (the ones everyone was complaining about that was delayed), the 
game works.  But problems arise.  Around day 8 in the game, it 
crashes with an "internal error" numbered 121 or something, and a bunch 
of hexadecimal numbers.  This happens when I try to enter the gypsy camp, 
and especially within the castle.  I change the midi and sound effects to 
PC speaker (wonderful renditions) and I can enter the places that lead to 
the crashes.  Is this problematic with the UltraSound?  My friend has a 
ProAudio, and it crashes, but far less often, so it might not be a sole 
UltraSound Experience (ouch! I'm in a bad mood).  Is there anything I can 
modify in the resource.cfg file that fixes these problems while keeping 
the UltraSound as the music and sound effects setup?  I'm really tired of 
resorting to PC speaker effects just to walk across a certain room in the 
game.  Also, does anyone notice that as the game progresses, it takes 
longer and longer to restore a game (about 5 minutes)?  I'd really like 
to address these problems to Sierra, but they've disconnected their 800 
number.

Peter

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 15:14:02 GMT
From: Hay Y J <yjhay@essex.ac.uk>
Subject: SBOS not working....

Hi.

I have been using my GUS for sometime now. Recently I upgraded my motherboard 
to a 486 VESA SIS chipset m/b. I didn't change a single config on the GUS and
now my SBOS is not working.

Everytime I run SBOS, I got the error 

"The Ultra Sound Port Address is in conflict"  Tried changing the port address
but it doesn't work. Everything else works fine, ie Megaem, Ultramid, native ...

Can anyone help me? Thanks.

Rgds
Anthony
 

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 13:36:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Will race for food <JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: WC III Demo and HMI

Hello:
	Got the WCIII demo on CDROM, but no GUS support. I just read in today's
digest (11/18) that it uses HMI drivers and the NASDEMO.ZIP file has
them....all well and good. Now how do you get the GUS drivers to be selectable
with the demo? Can I just copy the GUS stuff over the SB stuff, run LOADPATS,
and  cross the fingers? The NASDEMO didn't run music on my system....will this
still be a problem with WCIII demo?
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