Ultrasound Daily Digest     Tue, 12 Jan 93       Volume 2 : Issue   9 

Today's Topics:
 Gravis Signs Licencing Agreement For Software -- Related to GUS 3D??
						Gravis UltraSound 3D!
				  WinJammer for GUS uploaded to epas

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:55:32 GMT
From: gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca (George Kirikos)
Message-Id: <1993Jan9.165532.25362@epas.toronto.edu>
Subject: Gravis Signs Licencing Agreement For Software -- Related to GUS 3D??
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

The following brief paragraph appeared in the Report on Business
section of the Globe & Mail (Canada's version of the Wall Street Journal),
on Saturday, January 9, 1993 (page B7):

"ADVANCED GRAVIS signed a licencing agreement to make and distribute a
software product -- Focal Point SD Audio -- for IBM personal
computers. It added 25 cents to [close at] $2.70 [per share]."

[text in square brackets added for clarity by me]

This would seem to confirm the view that the 3D technology is via
software. However, what's left up in the air is whether or not this
software requires any of the special features of the Gravis hardware,
or can be adapted to other sound cards. Also, it is unclear whether
the deal is an exclusive licence (in which case the previous point is
moot). Given the uptick in the stock price of Gravis, the market seems
to have found the news favourable. Also, the company which licenced
the software to Gravis isn't named in the newspaper story. It has been
speculated that Archer Communications provided the software, and its
stock price performance (up $0.50 for all of last week, but down a
nickel on Friday, to close at $3.25/share) would seem to confirm this.

BTW, those who follow the stocks of sound card companies might want to
compare Advanced Gravis (AED on Toronto & Vancouver, GRVSF on Nasdaq)
with Mediavision (makers of PAS) (symbol MVIS on Nasdaq). Both have
about 10 million shares outstanding. MVIS is at approximately
$21/share, while Gravis sell for one-tenth that amount. Can this last
for long?? Gravis' sales are taking off with the introduction of the
Ultrasound, while not too many people have been talking about the Pro
Audio Spectrum lately (except to remark that they decided to buy the
GUS instead of the PAS 16!). Time will tell whether my guess that
Advanced Gravis will rise, and Mediavision will fall is realized (or
perhaps both will rise, but Gravis at a faster rate), but I've already
put my money where my mouth is.

So, can anyone confirm that Archer's Q-sound is being used by Gravis?
Is Ultrasound hardware required to yield the desired 3D effect (i.e.
or other "smart cards")? Is the deal with <insert name> (Archer?) an
exclusive deal, thereby leaving PAS, SB, and ARIA owners to watch the
GUS world with envy?


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| George Kirikos                   Internet: gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca      |
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Date: 9 Jan 93 23:50:21 GMT
From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
Message-Id: <1993Jan09.234529.12405@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
Subject: Gravis UltraSound 3D!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

primus@netcom.com (Robert keng) writes:
>       But back to the Gravis 3D again. There's just not enough
>concrete information on this product right now, hell, most of us still don't
>know whether the difference between it and the Ultrasound is hardware or
>software (I still don't see how they'll be able to do it by a driver alone...

  I talked to a friend of mine who talks to a Gravis sales rep.  He thought
  the 3D would come on a daughter-board, along with a scsi interface for
  cd-roms.
  ==

  Bob                                       Seattle, Washington

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Date: 9 Jan 93 14:17:37 GMT
From: mdavcr!bs (Bruce Sharpe)
Message-Id: <3938@mdavcr.mda.ca>
Subject: WinJammer for GUS uploaded to epas
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

WinJammer v2.3 is a shareware Windows 3.1 MIDI sequencer that now supports the
Gravis UltraSound.

I have uploaded it to klingon.epas.utoronto.ca (128.100.160.36).  It can be
found in
  /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/wjmr22.zip

(I don't know why it isn't called wjmr23.zip, "22" is the author's 
designation.)

Bruce Sharpe

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