GUS Daily Digest            Tue, 5 Apr 94  9:37 PST      Volume 12: Issue   5 

Today's Topics:
						 fury of the furries
							Gabriel Knight
						 GUS & Origin support
							 gus and OS/2
					   GUS Daily Digest V10 #53
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #52
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #53
					   GUS Daily Digest V12 #4
						   GUS emulators...
								 info
						  Modem doom lockups
						   Police Quest IV
					   Police Quest IV and GUS
							Win32s support

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: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 11:13:03 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From: Michael Daniel <mdanie@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au>
Subject: fury of the furries

Has anyone got "fury of the furries" to work with the gus?

mdanie@wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au 
mdani@gpo.swin.oz.au
h8el140@stan.cc.swin.oz.au
u3932116@pluto.swin.oz.au

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 21:39:00 PST
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org ("James M. Blakely")
Subject: Re: Gabriel Knight

>>
I had King's Quest VI
CD under Windows before and it was working perfectly.  This one is giving
me real troubles.  Do you have any idea of what I should do that I didn't
think of?  Any suggestions?

		If I can't get this game working, I'll have to return it.  That's
too bad because it seems like an incredible game.
<<

Well, I couldn't get KQVI/CD Windows version to work on my machine. I even 
went so far as to bring up the debug version of Windows, and trace down the 
problem for Sierra (the problem is due to the way they compiled it -- a 
recompile with a certain compiler switch set would have fixed it).

And you know what? The danged BBS support people said that they couldn't 
contact a programmer to fix it, sorry. And this was after about 20 emails 
back & forth -- and my debugging it for them down to the exact (simple) 
fix!!!!!!!

I'd just return the stupid thing if I was you. I'm sworn off of Sierra 
products now.

 --Jim

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 18:24:58 -0400
From: liaor@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
Subject: GUS & Origin support

Somehow, I think Origin's pledge of support came at a time when Origin
believed the GUS would achieve mainstraim popularity.

Well it hasn't, so why should ANY company support it?  We should feel
fortunate that we have as much support as we already do, and just accept
the fact that just because one game company adds support for something, 
doesn't mean that other comanies MUST follow.

If that were the case, then maybe every game should have SVGA 640x480x256
support, dual joystoick suport and FCS support, etc. After all SVGA cards
are common these days.

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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 1994 14:44:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: DMC5483@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: gus and OS/2

I know this seems to be a sore subject here, and Ive havent been reading the
digest for quite some time, but maybe someone could directly me to where I can
find information on what, if anything the GUS and OS/2 can do today.
Ive heard of homemade drivers, and real drivers, but are they around?
Is there still a FAQ? (Or even was there?)

Basically I wouldnt mind using os/2 with dual boot (the windows version)
but every time I run windows in OS/2 it doesnt even recognize the GUS drivers.
Wants windows run in enhanced mode?

Can I have two versions of the windows config files, so I dont get those annoying 
"Ultrsound wont work" messages, when I run windows from OS/2??

any help at all is appreciated!

thanx - Dave

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 14:43:56 GMT+1
From: "Viktor" <VIKTOR@kge.bme.hu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #53

> Subject: Re: 'Very Best' MIDI compilation
> 
> I am making a compilation of the best MIDI files for the
> Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) at the moment. When I have the
> impression that I have heard enough .MID files I want to
> make them available to all GUS owners (free of charge of
> course!).

I begun the same way like you, dear Gusser!
Now I'm full of them...
 
> Please send me infos about good MIDI files you have come
> across! They should sound good on a GUS, of course.

I started to collect .mid files for some month. Now I have
over 10Megs of zipped(!) MIDI files. I've heard enough 
(too much). If it helps you I can give you these files.
(It'll be hard to get heard every song. It's over x100hours
of continuesly music :) ).
 
> I would also greatly appreciate any infos about FTP sites
> where I can get these or other MIDI files.

Try: archive.cs.ruu.nl pub/MIDI/SONGS
or: gus /sound/midi/files
and there's still more

> Thank you in advance,
>                       Gerd.

							Viktor

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				|                                      |
				|   Viktor F.                          |
				|                                      |
				|  viktor@kge.bme.hu (New e-mail addy!)|
				|  (Technical University of Budapest)  |
				+--------------------------------------+
ACAD+AMI+C+GUS+IBM+INTERNET+MAC_SUCKS+MID+MINISTRY+MOD+SMOKERS_GUIDE+VR

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 20:11:00 PST
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org ("James M. Blakely")
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #52

To be fair, my statement in the last digest that NONE of the major 
application developers were developing OS/2 apps is inaccurate.

I forgot that Lotus is being paid by IBM to write OS/2 apps.

 --Jim

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 14:53:16 GMT+1
From: "Viktor" <VIKTOR@kge.bme.hu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #53

> Subject: Doom lockups
> 
>     I'm at the end of my rope with Doom 1.2.  It locks up on me every 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be the problem?

Do you have 1Megs of GUSram or less?
If less then buy some more rams!

> Thanks,
>     -Bryon
> ------------------------------
> From: agranhol@bilbo.abo.fi (Alexander Granholm)
> Subject: Newest install-disks?
> 
> I just bought my GUS (last week, actually) and I'm very pleased with
> it so far anyway. However, the install disks that came with the
> soundcard are stamped 3.1 and with a revision date of january -94.
> So far I've only read about the 2.06 disks that are available
> in the archives. So, anyone else got the 3.1 disks?
> 
> (Or am I just imagining things?)

No you aren't :). Do you get all 8 disks or just the six install ones?
If you got only six go back and ask for the 2 Bonus disk with the
date 27/01/94 (I think). When I got my upgrade they forgot to give
me the bonus disks...

> Alexander Granholm (agranhol@bilbo.abo.fi) / -------------------------------
> Institution of Societal Sciences          /  "Put knot yore trussed    
> Abo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland.   /    in spel chequers"
>  ---------------------------------------/ 

							Viktor
							

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				|                                      |
				|   Viktor F.                          |
				|                                      |
				|  viktor@kge.bme.hu (New e-mail addy!)|
				|  (Technical University of Budapest)  |
				+--------------------------------------+
ACAD+AMI+C+GUS+IBM+INTERNET+MAC_SUCKS+MID+MINISTRY+MOD+SMOKERS_GUIDE+VR

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 17:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V12 #4

> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 94 14:02:12 EDT
> From: Akintunde Omitowoju <ZAO1@ETSU.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
> Subject: General MIDI crystal?
> 
> Hi all,
> I've another question.  Since the GUS has a General MIDI crystal with 192
> general MIDI samples on board, does that mean I can delete the samples (.PAT)
> files off of my harddrive?  I mean if the instruments ARE on board the card,
> then why leave them on my hard disk??

The GUS has memory crystals?  Umm...  I don't think we're there yet. :)

The GUS' patches are on disk, and loaded into the GUS' RAM as they are
needed.  There are no patches on the GUS in any form of permanent storage.

> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1994 16:22:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: LFG3397@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
> Subject: HELP! On Windows MIDI...
> 
> I am in dire need of assistance with getting MIDI to function again in widows
> after the  installation of the new drivers.  
> On my first attempt to repair the damages I was told just to replace the win.in
> with the most recent.  So I did this and downloaded it from compuserve. 

Ultrasnd.ini, not win.ini.

> However after replacing the new win.ini I then only got back the percussion
> patches!  So then i was told to get gus0041.zip.  But where do I find such a
> file and then what is it to do?

A version of the new ultrasnd.ini should have come with the new Widnows
drivers you installed.  Copy that one over to your /ultrasnd directory.

> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 10:07:26 CDT
> From: Jay R. Jaeger <dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us>
> Subject: Re: IRQ 7 DisInformation
> 
> > > Hmm...What kind of problems?  Printer conficts?
> > 
> > IRQ 7 is just flaky.  It tends to fire late, sporadically, or not at
> > all on many systems.  If it's a simple printer conflict, then disabling
> > the printer port should resolve it, but it doesn't for me.
> > 
> > Phat.
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> 
> I wish you would quit spreading this piece of Dis Information.  From a hardware

If anything, it's misinformation, not disinformation. :)

> perspective, IRQ7 is no different from the others.  The typical problem is

Yes, I realize that.  If printer ports started using IRQ 5 as the default,
we'd have IRQ 5 problems, even though IRQ 5 is no different from the other
IRQs.

> that that is also the IRQ used for parallel port 1.  And NO, disabling the
> printer port WON'T always make it go away.  It would *IF* the card was designed

And I also realize this.  The IRQ 7 problem for many people is not a
simple conflict that can be resolved by changing IRQs (or removing the
IRQ jumper) or disabling the printer port.  I, myself, have to physically 
remove my I/O card if I want to use IRQ 7.

[...]
> So, folks should:
> 
> 1.  Check out their parallel ports and make sure that their IRQ's match their
>     I/O address settings.  If they don't know exactly what all that means, they
>     should find a friend who does.  Note that this may also mean checking more
>     than just the first parallel port (in my case, the 2nd parallel port from
>     an I/O port standpoint was giving me problems because it was using IRQ7
>     too, and didn't change IRQ's with I/O addresses).
> 
> 2.  If they still have problems, try and borrow a know goody goody parallel
>     port card.  I find that the ones on IDE disk controllers tend to be 
>     designed correctly.

Or, simply,

3.  Avoid using IRQ 7.

The other options would take too long to explain each time someone has
problems with his GUS on IRQ 7.

IRQ 7 is, effectively, trashed on many computers.

> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 16:55:44 -0400
> From: rezaei@tristan.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Mohammad Ali Rezaei)
> Subject: Ravenloft works fine...
> 
> I just wanted to say that Ravenloft works great with the GUS.
> All I did was 
> 1) install the game, choose no sound.
> 2) unpack gail3214.zip in the rloft directory.
> 3) run copydrvs
> 4) run sinstall, select 2 cards, General Midi and Sblaster Regular.
> 5) edit the rloft.bat file to include loadpats.
> 
> Oddly enough, if you look at the rloft.bat file, it is quite
> evident that GUS support was removed the last minute :-<

If you could get GUS support into the game so effortlessly, perhaps
you should kindly chastise SSI for "wimping out" on the GUS support?
(I don't have the game, so I don't think it's my place to gripe.)
Their CES demo which showed off Ravenloft had GUS support (why demo
games on a soundcard if you're not going to support that card?), and 
their rep on CIS said that it would have GUS support when asked a 
couple months back.

Phat.

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 22:53:36 +0800 (PST)
From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
Subject: GUS emulators...

Are these GUS emulators we're seeing on epas real?  They actually can
emulate the GUS?  That's really wierd.  I doubt they can have all the
patches or anything though.  My guess is that these programmers are using
the Sound Blaster like a 32 channel modplayer...Anyone fiddled around with
these programs?

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 13:01:35 +0200
From: Brian Kirkegaard <bkirk@iesd.auc.dk>
Subject: info

info

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Date: Mon,  4 Apr 94 23:33:00 BST
From: r.buchanan14@genie.geis.com
Subject: Modem doom lockups

Jerry,
 
I had the same problem with lockups in doom using the modem.  I switched my
IRQ from 5 to 7 and the lockups stopped.  I use IRQ 11 for most games and 5
works fine in Doom in "Hurt me plenty mode" but would lock in "Ultra
violent".
 
Bob Buchanan
 

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 00:25:01 +0100
From: pauln <pauln@subzero.sbay.org>
Subject: Police Quest IV

What is the best way of getting sound using the Gravis Ultrasound
for Police Quest IV from Sierra ? SBOS ? MEGAEM ? ?

Thanks,
-Paul

---
Paul Nguyen - KD6OCZ - pauln@subzero.sbay.org
KD6OCZ @ N0ARY

 

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 11:43:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Police Quest IV and GUS

Has anyone gotten the GUS to work with PQIV: Open Season in the DOS 
MODE?  Windows version works great, but it is sooo slooooww on my 
486SLC2.  My friend has it in DOS with the SoundBlaster and it is very
 fast, even with detail at maximum (and my computer has higher MIPS).

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 21:32:00 PST
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org ("James M. Blakely")
Subject: Win32s support

>>Booo (2), OS/2 2.2 (release in July) will have Win32s support. It will run 

Windows 4.0 programs *before* Windows 4.0 will be released.
<<

Windows 3.1 has Win32s support >NOW<, as does Windows NT.

For what it's worth, Microsoft demo'd Win32 versions of Word & Excel today.

>>
Booo (3). If this is true, the Win 4.0 system will still be 16 bits, not
32 as the hype says. MS has to choose. (NT can not use Win 3.1 drivers
because of this (and some more.)
<<

Not at all true. Win 4.0 will have the ability to hook back to 16 bit 
drivers, until 32bit drivers become available. It can do this because it is 
designed only for the Intel platform.

Windows NT does not use Windows 3.1 drivers because it has a completely 
differnt, portable architecture.

>> ...Single MS-DOS Application Mode...

Booo (4) Not even NT (that was supposed to run everything.) can't do that.
But according to MS this was never meant to be in NT. Read magazines from
two years ago and they say something else.
<<

NT can't do that, again, because this mode puts the processor into real 
mode, and is Intel-dependent. OS/2 can't do it either, for that matter.

>>
> | A Microsoft Solution Provider       | ISBN 1-56884-026-8 
			   |

WOW, now I understand why you are saying this.
<<

Oh. Would my mentioning that we're also IBM Registered Consultants, and 
Novell Professional Developers help any?

 --Jim

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 16:22:21 CDT
From: cardona@rwasic23.aud.alcatel.com (Gabe Cardona)

 
> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 94 14:02:12 EDT
> From: Akintunde Omitowoju <ZAO1@ETSU.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
> Subject: General MIDI crystal?
> 
> Hi all,
> I've another question.  Since the GUS has a General MIDI crystal with 192
> general MIDI samples on board, does that mean I can delete the samples (.PAT)
> files off of my harddrive?  I mean if the instruments ARE on board the card,
> then why leave them on my hard disk??
> 
> I'm not too sure...any help and/or explanation would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!!!! =)
> 
> Akintunde Omitowoju
> zao1@etsu.bitnet           (BitNet)
> zao1@etsu.east-tenn-st.edu (InterNet)
> 

The GUS, unlike some other GM compatible cards, stores its 192 GM voices 
(patches) in its on board RAM. These must be downloded to the RAM from your
hard-drive every time the configuration changes or the card is powered down.
Other GM cards have the patches on permanent ROM, and obviously this is not as
flexible as the GUS approach.

Therefore, DO NOT erase these .PAT files from your HD, or your GUS will be
unable to function as a synthesizer.

BTW, what is a General MIDI crystal??????

Gabe Cardona
cardona@aud.alcatel.com
72020.2225@compuserve.com

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