GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 25 Apr 94  9:37 PST     Volume 12: Issue  25 

Today's Topics:
					  Betrayal at Krondor sound
							 gus'n stuff
						   GUS AIL drivers
					   GUS Daily Digest V12 #20
					   GUS Daily Digest V12 #24
							  GUS Static
					  Linux and GUS, thanks all
				   Locking to sync recorded on tape
					   Mixer for windows of DOS
						 Playfile frequencies
						   Protmode Mega-Em
								 Qemm
				   stealth pro and gus & 32 channel

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: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 12:38:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: gt0074b@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: Betrayal at Krondor sound

  I just got the CD-ROM version of Betrayal at Krondor, not,
knowing that Dynamix was a part of Sierra.  Ack.  Does anyone
know if the 16-bit Sierra GUS drivers will work on with this
game?  If not, when are those 32-bit drivers coming out, and
what site will they be on?

Thanks.

What do Sierra, Origin, and Microsoft have in common?

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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 22:11:10 -0700
From: dross@ultrix5.cs.csubak.edu (dean ross-smith)
Subject: gus'n stuff

ok, folks I need mucho help.  I've just recently upgraded to a Cyrix dlc-40
with an opti 495 vl-bus.  I have a gus 2.4 purchased around this time last year
which has worked pretty well until now.  I've bought a new keyboard (the typing
kind) and a CL/Panasonic 2x CDROM.  About half the stuff I use w/my GUS
chokes.  I have the GUS set on 220,1,1,11,7. I can't find Optifix and dunno
if it would solve my problems anyway.
Raptor doesn't work.  Even with no sound I get a stack overflow.
Pickle wars doesn't work.   If I select the GUS drivers, the game never
   never finishes loading.  No GUS and the game loads.
Megapede burps & farts a few sounds and locks solid.
Comanche still works ok.  Locks occassionally.

Any ideas?
I've tried just about every combination of GUS settings (upped dma, dropped
GF1 int to 5, changed SB em. to 5), increased stacks, done stacks=0,0
takent out the CD-ROM driver and MSCDEX and done a lot of screaming and yelling.
The only thing I haven't been able to verify (conflict wise) is if my com2
and my CD use the same interrupt (com 2 is unused, 4 has a Hayes 14.4 int, 1
has a mouse systems/Genius mouse w/ new drivers, 3 is unused).

Oh yeah I've only gotten inertia player to play one song. It usually locks
with the HD light on.
My BIOS has video bios and bios remapped, hidden refresh off, default wait
states, and clkin/5. And I tried turning off the bios remapping.

help.
dross@ultrix5.csubak.edu

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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 12:59:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: GUS AIL drivers

If anyone has the GUS AIL drivers (not the 32-bit) later than v1.0 
(gusail10.zip), PLEASE upload to the epas ftp.  The game Microcosm has 
AIL drivers created in April '94 but recommends even more updated 
versions to prevent hangups.  Thanks.

Peter

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 14:46:15 GMT+1
From: "F. Viktor" <VIKTOR@evt.bme.hu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V12 #20

> From: pcady@celestat.com
> Subject: GUS vs. Turtle Beach?
>
> Anyone have any (personal) experience comparing GUS vs. the Turtle 
> Beach
> Monterey card?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul Cady
> pcady@celestat.com

Turtle Beach cards are not for playing games but to compose music.
It sounds a bit better, costs a lot more. Is that what you wanted?
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> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 14:48:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Desolation <decko@u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Qemm 7.03 Problems
>
> I just got my new 486/33 motherboard and CPU and I can't seem to get 
> MEGAEM to load anymore under Qemm 7.03.  It keeps telling me there 
> is a 
> memory error.  If I use emm386.exe, it loads fine, but Qemm isn't 
> work 
> (and it worked on my old machine just fine).  Any suggestions?

1. Are you useing the ST:M or ST:F switches?
2. What is your command line for your qemm? 
	e.g. device=path\qemm386.sys RAM ST:M ...
3. What about upgrading to 7.04 ?

Viktor

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 94 14:49:02 EET DST
From: s106275@ee.tut.fi (Saari Anssi)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V12 #24

>I like Inertia Player 1.1 as well.

Well, it seems to have some slight out of tune problems especially
with chiptunes.

>Another good player is Metal 025
>(and before anyone says otherwise, this version is quite accurate,
>and you can't beat the sound :)

Sure, now if they'd get the popping and occasional weird screech out of
it, it'd be very nice. Plus a DOS shell of course...

Anssi

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 94 8:10:25 CDT
From: Daniel A Nielsen <dnielsen@ria-emh2.army.mil>
Subject: GUS Static

Well I was getting static when B's 5th played after I installed gus0041 so
I did a complete reinstall of the GUS software and nothing changed.  It
happens right on startup when the base section is tunning up.  What is this,
What can I do?  Get a different PAT?  Its my kids' favorite GUS music.
I have 1 Meg of RAM on my 3.4 GUS.

Also SBOS will only load when I'm in the ultrasnd directory.  I thought I
could do this anywhere before GUS0041.  Has something changed or did I 
screw up?

Thanks in advance.

regards
dan

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 08:23:49 -0500
From: marek@austin.ibm.com (Marek R. Telgarsky)
Subject: Linux and GUS, thanks all

Hi, 
 I installed the 1.1.8 kernel with the 2.5 sound driver and everything
is peachy. Thanks for the help everyone :)

Marek

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 16:35:32 +1000
From: Dennis Mills <dcm@mlb.dmt.csiro.au>
Subject: Locking to sync recorded on tape

Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I can't find anything about it in any of
the FAQs I've seen: I am interested in the use of the midi sync signal
recorded on (say) a 4 track to lock a sequencer. Is this possible with
PowerChords or Recording Session as supplied with the GUS? (I don't have
my GUS yet). Is it purely a function of the sequencer or does the GUS
hardware into the picture (I assume at that a midi adapter is obviously
required - does it need to be special in any way?). I would like to
understand this as much as possible, but my bottom line question is:

If I record the midi sync signal from the GUS (assuming it generates one)
can I later record midi sequences from something like Recording Session
and have them correctly lock to the sync?

Thanks for any help.

Dennis
--
Dennis Mills, Senior Research Engineer,     Phone:  +61 3 662 7758
CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, Fax:    +61 3 662 7851
Cnr Albert and Raglan Streets, Preston
Victoria, Australia, 3072.      Internet: dcm@mlb.dmt.csiro.au

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 02:35:54 -0400
From: Menoche@info.polymtl.ca
Subject: Mixer for windows of DOS

Hi guys,
	I'm looking for a special mixer that will let me control:

		1-  the volume of the amplified and non-amplified output
			separetely.
	
		2-  It will let me choose between line-in or mic-in

		3-  
			control the cd-input level

he different output.

If any of you know or can program a mixer like this, please e-mail me at Menoche@info.polymtl.ca cause i really need this!!!

tnks for the effort you guys will make !!!

					Philip Veilleux
					Menoche@info.polymtl.ca

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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 17:48:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Emory Menefee <em@crl.com>
Subject: Re: Playfile frequencies

Perhaps someone could explain this to me.  I downloaded some wolf.wav 
sounds, and brought them up on Playfile.  At 22 or 44k they sound absurd, 
and I had to crank down to 5k to get an approximately correct sound.  In 
the game, they of course sound fine -- are they running at such a low 
frequency there too?  What gives?

Emory Menefee    em@crl.com

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 08:45:58 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Mikko Rauhala <mjr@lyseo.otol.fi>
Subject: Protmode Mega-Em

I'd like to make it clear (since in my previous posting I seem have made 
myself very unclear ;/ ) that I know Mega-Em and am using it, I just 
wanted info on the Mega-Em version that's under development (works with 
protmode programs etc). I have that info also now, thanks all who replied...

	- Mjr

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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 18:09:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Desolation <decko@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Qemm

I've tried to fix the Qemm problem I was having by adding in the SH:N 
line, but I still can't get megaem to work.  It keeps saying "megaem has 
found an incompatibily with the current EMM driver loader, it would be 
safe to rebbot because the system is now unstable."  I looked at the .TEC 
help from Qemm and it hasn't offerened anything useful either.  Any other 
suggestions?

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 09:31:35 CST
From: mcavity@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject: stealth pro and gus & 32 channel

Iok for all you out there here is the info on the stealth pro ..
The one I have is a stealth pro 1 meg ISA [not vlb - i hear that one works]

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to Phat,
	Actulay I think you are doing a great job and yes gravis should hire
you..you tend to think on a problem befor answering and I Like tat.. as for 32
channel doom.. well actuly I  think the by changing the number up it is raising
a "cut off" point.. in othere if 4 channels are active then cut chanel 1 and
replace with new sound..but if the cut off point is moved to 50 tehen it is
much less likely to need to cut something.. and yes it dose slow down a little
when all "hell"[sorry bad pun] breaks loose but I get fewer lockups.. played
modoom for 2 hours yesterday at 99 with no lockups on my 38640.. you may not
get more "channels"[heck the card is stereo anyway ] but it mixes everything
that comes quite well..and I doo get more sound output.. personsly i would call
it # of sound fx at one time rather than # of channels.. it may verry well only
be able to handle 4 sound channels and mix all the sounds into them..
just an idea..
to relay test the effets put it on ultraviolent and go somplace with a lot of
monsters in god mode and see what happens..

[please excuse spelling ]
Mcavity

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