GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 3 Jan 94   007          Volume 10: Issue   3 

Today's Topics:
						  about SCSI & GUS!
						  arrrrrggggghhhhhh
							CD ROM Cables
						  Cornel's ramblings
						  FS5 & New SBOS 3.7
							 Gravis Node?
				   GUS Daily Digest V10 #2 (2 msgs)
							 GUS RAMchips
						New GUSser needs help.
		Thomas, quit forwarding Usenet articles to the Digest

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: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 23:12:00 GMT
From: thomas@hammer.hacktic.nl (Thomas van Kuipers)
Subject: about SCSI & GUS!

I want to buy a DAT streamer from HP (SCSI II & HP35480A) and i need a 
SCSI controller, probably adapatec 1542 C....
alot of guys out there want SCSI from there soundcard, why? Could somebody
explain that to me?

BTW: i KNOW that's cheapier then a real SCSI card, but what else?

ALso does a DAT streamer work with SCSIsoundcards?


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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 23:53:57 -0600
From: jack yang <jyang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: arrrrrggggghhhhhh

Arrrrrgggggghhhhh help
I have two questions here.
1) Just got a CD-ROM for Christmas. how do I make it play music through my
GUS?
2) I also just got OS/2 how do I get my gus stuff to work cuz I used dmp
ver 2.74 (?) and it plays the 1st 2 seconds of a song and then freezes. It
exits fine with the escape but it still won't play anything. 
Anyone got a solution?
Thanx
jyang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 94 10:40:05 -0500
From: df085@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William W Stone)
Subject: CD ROM Cables

	I found a place that mailorders custom cables.  Got my Mitsumi to GUS
cable within 4 days of ordering.  Great service, so I thought I'd give 'em
a plug...

Multimedia Cables
1-800-887-4968

Not affiliated, blah blah...


--
Up yours                                  "The stock footage owls
Up mine                                   are not what they
But up everybody's, that takes time       seem..."
But we're working on it...

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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 94 23:06:00 PST
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org ("James M. Blakely")
Subject: Cornel's ramblings

chuth@lonestar.utsa.edu wrote:

> or whoever wrote the SDK 2.10 thing. I'm here complaining about the SDK 
and
> FTS's position on what "should" be in there.

Listen, if you don't like the software, then either don't use it, or 
complain by writing a letter, fax, or telephoning the support lines given in 
the manual.

Some of us *pay* for the priviledge of reading this digest, and your 
derogatory ramblings are inappropiate. Keep them between you and Forte.

Incidentally, the header of the message from Forte in the digest gave their 
email address:

support@fortech.com (Technical Support)

Many companies do not give/have personal mail addresses, or choose to not 
give them to the outside world, for a number of reasons, almost all of which 
are directly for better customer support.

Jim Blakely, Microsoft Certified Professional
Blakely-Signature Associates
A Microsoft Solution Provider

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 10:46:05 -0330 (NST)
From: Edward Reddy <ereddy@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: FS5 & New SBOS 3.7

Is it just my machine or is there considerable hang time whenever the
engine noise changes (ie accelerating) or the landing gear comes down.
 
I mean about 15 seconds of hang time until the change stops. Ie from no
gas pushed up to the stops.
 
Is this suppose to be a working SBOS? I have to use synth. sounds just to
get rid of the hangs. 
386DX25.

	_____       - If every man stopped thinking about war and hatred,
   / ### \        and started to think about Space, just imagine how 
 ()\_____/()          close a reality Star Trek would be right now..
ereddy@morgan.ucs.mun.ca & edward@dragger.ifmt.nf.ca

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 94 15:30:50 EST
From: jmorris@ace.com (Cuthalion)
Subject: Gravis Node?

   How does one go about becoming a liscensed gravis distribution node?
I am cosysop of a bbs, and have asked the sysop, and he seems to be in
favor of the idea, but would like more info.  where can i get a text
file about this?

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 94 11:01:23 -0500
From: ap641@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Leukart)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #2

>Why must i do this, to get gus & doom to work ... (together with 
>dmxgus.ini):
>
>@echo off
>set ultrasnd=220,7,7,7,5
>doom.exe
>set ultrasnd=220,7,7,11,5
>@echo on

	DOOM doesn't support IRQs above 9.


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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 94 11:05:44 -0500
From: ap641@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Leukart)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #2

>> I've had my GUS since about March, but only recently got some memory to
>> upgrade to 1Mb (for Xmas).  The problem is, I think I either got some
>> wonky memory, or I'm doing something wrong.  The memory came from an old
>> 286 motherboard, and seems to be the right kind:
>> 
>> AAAIM304P-08
>> NMBS    9051
>> 
>> But, here's the problem.  When I put all six chips in, some of it reported
>> as "bad" when I ran GUSDRAM.  But, I could load 1Mb worth of patches in
>> Windows, and when I ran EMUSET, 1Mb loaded up. However, to be safe, I
>> tested the chips two at a time.  So, I found the faulty chip, and thought
>> everything was okay.
>> 
>> But, I just got XWing, and noticed a *lot* of static when I ran EMUSET
>> with GMIDI emulation with the 1MB in.  With 256k it was fine (but only
>> running at 8 bit :( ).  With 512k, it was still okay, no static, but still
>> 8 bit.  With 768k (with GUSDRAM reporting all DRAM good), I got the static
>> back.  So, I'm confused.  I thought the static was owing to the bad chip,
>> but even with the bad chip not installed, I'm still getting static (loud
>> enought to preclude enjoying the game).

>The problem is really the NMBS brand itself, it is incompatible with the
>GUS because I have bought the same chips before of a quantity of 6 and
>they always failed the GUSDRAM test so I tested them in pairs and they
>were fine until I go pass the 768K bank and I switched the last bank, It
>always would have a error there so I exchanged all 6 of them and the same
>thing happened so then I exchanged and tried out the new ones and the same
>thing still happens so then later I just got other brands, Samsung,
>Hyundai all mixed together with the original NEC 80ns chips and everything
>was fine.  The NMBS I had were the same part number as yours rated at
>80ns.  My dealer where I later turned to for the Samsung and Hyundai chips
>said the NMBS are not rated at the correct speed because 80ns maybe 120ns
>compared to other brands.  I hope this helps.  Have a Happy New Year!

	That is strange.  I am using six of the AA1M304P-07
						NMBS 9311 E2
chips, and they work great.  On the package it said they were 256 x 4, and
they run at 70ns.

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 17:39:38 -0700 (MST)
From: jhender@nyx.cs.du.edu (djkc)
Subject: GUS RAMchips

> > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 93 23:06:05 EST
> > From: ak016@freenet.carleton.ca (John Collins)
> > Subject: Static caused by DRAM?
> > 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > I've had my GUS since about March, but only recently got some memory to
> > upgrade to 1Mb (for Xmas).  The problem is, I think I either got some
> > wonky memory, or I'm doing something wrong.  The memory came from an old
> > 286 motherboard, and seems to be the right kind:
> > 
> > AAAIM304P-08
> > NMBS    9051
> 
> These don't look like they are the correct type of chips.  You should
> use 256k by 4 bit DRAMs.  They have the sequence 4256 on them.
> 
> Phat.
> 

Yes.  256-by-4's are used for video cards, so you can just ask for video RAM.

-djkc

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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 94 20:24:05 PST
From: Erik Teose <erikt@tekig1.pen.tek.com>
Subject: New GUSser needs help.

Hi,

I'm a new GUS owner (one of many, I'm sure). I have a few things I'd
sure appreciate some help with. Don't get me wrong, I think the GUS
sounds great, but...

The "gusdram" DRAM diagnostic program gives me inconsistent results.
I installed the additional memory to bring it up to a meg (Samsung
4x256 parts).
Are there known problems with gusdram? (I don't have SBOS running when I
run gusdram.) All indications from using applications show that the RAM is OK.
Another DRAM tester named "dram10b" (GUS DRAM Tester v1.0B by Richard 
Janicek) shows everything to be fine consistently. What gives???

I have a few questions (for now) concerning MegaEm:
What causes the following error message, when doing "emuset off":
ERROR: Sound Blaster Emulation is not working correctly. Failed to detect base
	   address.
This occurs in v2.01 and v2.02, but not in v2.00b23. I'm using all the default
values for ULTRASND (220,1,1,11,7) and BLASTER (A220, I7, D1, T1).

MegaEm seems to ignore controller 7 (channel volume) messages. Is this so?
If this is the case, this is a serious problem for DOS-based MIDI music 
software. In my case, Band-In-A-Box for DOS (which works quite well
otherwise).

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 16:06:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Thomas, quit forwarding Usenet articles to the Digest

Like the subject says.  Thomas van Kuipers, stop forwarding articles
from the comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard newsgroup to the digest.  First
of all, the articles you forward are weeks old, and secondly, unless
you're also willing to forward the follow-ups to those articles (please
don't!) it's mighty useless to just forward the initial posts (nobody
wants to answer questions once on the newsgroup and then see the same
ones in the digest).  The digest is already very noisy as it is, and
your efforts aren't helping.

Phat.  

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From: (null)

I'd sure appreciate it if someone could shed some light on these issues.
Thanks!!

Erik Teose
erikt@tekig1.pen.tek.com

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