GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 19 Dec 93  0:07         Volume 9: Issue  19  

Today's Topics:
			  GUS and SB in same machine - still at it!
						GUS Driver with WINOS2
							 LSL6 & QOG4
						   LSL6 and the GUS
							 Mail Server?
						multiple applications
				  Samples to GUS patches for FX etc.
				Settings for Broderbund Playroom V2.0
						   Sierra Stupidity
					   Sound Blaster 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: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 12:22:28 -0600
From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach IBM)
Subject: GUS and SB in same machine - still at it!

Hi guys,

First, thanks for all the email. I got Jerry Koh's BAT files to
switch from GUS to SB, and all that, and I finally got it working.
Then I screwed it up again!

Whenever I try to load SBOS, it fails with the "Interrupt timeout"
error message. Anyone know why?

I can't believe I goofed it up again. I even saved copies of the
addresses, IRQs, DMAs, etc. in another set of BAT files, and they
don't even work now.

I'll keep toying with it, but damn it's getting old!

Ken

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Date: 18 Dec 1993 17:24:00 +0100
From: lehmann@nilo.han.de (Ulli Lehmann)
Subject: GUS Driver with WINOS2

Hello,
I tried to install the gus driver for windows 3.1 in WIN-OS2. When I start  
WIN-OS2 there is an errormessage that tells me to start windows in  
enhanced mode. But I have started WIN-OS2 in enhanced mode. Is there a  
possibility to run the windowsprograms for the gus in WINOS2?
yours,
Ulli
Ulli Lehmann,        eMail: lehmann@nilo.han.de
				CompuServe: 100112,1770
## CrossPoint v2.92 ##

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 11:15:09 -0500
From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: LSL6 & QOG4

		I've installed LSL6, I do not know why the game crashes my windows if
I run any programs (besides patch manager) before running the game. LSL6 runs
only if it is started at the very beginning of the windows sessions. Perhaps
the game doesn't like Windows for Workgroup or Norton Desktop 3.0. I hope 
someone could help me to solve this problem.

	Also I've noticed that Quest of Glory 4 supports windows, has anyone
tried to run under windows, cause everyone says it cannot run with GUS under
DOS because of the new 32-bit driver Sierra is using.

Thanks in advance!
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 21:13:06 -0800
From: petar@ship.net (Petar Nikic)
Subject: LSL6 and the GUS

> I am sorry, but the GUS card will not work with the new
> games we are currently producing. We have changed to a 32 bit
> development system and the GUS drivers are not compliant with
> it. It does not support SBOS either, sorry. The game does work
> fine with DAC devices, but the GUS uses Wave table sysnthesis.
>
> Happy Gaming!
>
> - Chris/Sierra On-Line Tech Support

>> I guess this means the new Leisure Suit Larry VI and Quest >> for Glory IV
will most likely not work either. Is it just

Actually a friend of mine has told me that LSL6 works just fine on his GUS...

petar@ship.net

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Date: 18 Dec 93 20:23:42 EST
From: "Ramsay B. Young" <71540.1124@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Mail Server?

Could someone please let me in on how to use the mail server?  I don't 
really have an net hookup (yet) so I can't FTP.  I have already gotten the 
help file from the server but to no avial.  Thanks for your help.

Finale of Seem,
Jessee Young
71540.1124@compuserve.com

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 13:36:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Antonio Guia <guia@CC.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: multiple applications

i just tried using mediaplayer playing canyon.mid and winjammer player
with 2002.mid, and both sent their output simultaneously (no, it's not
that good an effect)..   the conclusion:  more than one application can
obviously access the midi output synth simultaneously in win31

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Date: 18 Dec 93 09:40:28 EST
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Samples to GUS patches for FX etc.

Dave Horoschak writes...

> Is there any way to take samples on the GUS and the incorporate them into a
> song somehow?  I am experienced w/ MIDI and synths and recording, but I'm
> not too familiar with the different music formats that the GUS supports.  Is
> it safe to assume that I can't do it with a MOD?  What about some how
> triggering them through the MIDI interface?  Or, making them into a patch
> right on the card and writing a MIDI song for the card using that patch?
> Thanks a lot.  later...

It's easy and practical to do this. All yagoddado is take your sample, say its
a .WAV file, and use WAV2PAT on it. This converts it to .PAT format. WAV2PAT
is available on epas, as is RIPPER and MOD2PAT.

RIPPER and MOD2PAT pull samples from MOD files and save them as patches.

Now to get your gus to play the sound FX .PAT file you've created, all you
have to do is put it in the ULTRASND.INI file. If you want, you can create a
new bank for your sound FX patches, but you have to use software to play the
music that supports the GUS' bank scheme. The newer versions of Power Chords
Pro will do this.

If you put the patch in Bank 0 (the default) you will be replacing one of the
General MIDI patches with your new one. Now you just write a song, or trigger
through an app that has MIDI through to get your FX.

Come see us over on the Music digest, if you have more questions.

Eric

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 04:36:26 PST
From: markus!mark@softy.softwords.bc.ca
Subject: Settings for Broderbund Playroom V2.0

I have SBOS V2.04 and have tried every o and x option combination.  o2 works 
about the best but it hangs after a few sec's.  

Playroom itself has some problems because it runs out of memory now and then
when I run without the sound board.

I'll also follow up with Broderbund and post any info I get from them.

Thanks!

Mark Perrin,
Victoria, BC.

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 14:41:34 EST
From: <jeffow@aol.com>
Subject: Sierra Stupidity

Kinda stupid that Sierra is giving away Gravis Ultrasound Boards in their
"Key to Adventure Contest" when their products do not fully support them!

Hope those 32-bit drivers come out soon, before their contest ends!

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 21:58:25 PST
From: "M H Foo" <foo@mhfoo.pc.my>
Subject: Sound Blaster digest???

Hello everybody,

This may seem like blasphemy, but does anybody know of a Sound
Blaster/Pro/16 digest that works like this GUS digest? Admittedly, I
would be interested in it. Could anyone tell me how to subscribe to
such a digest?

Thanks a lot,

Foo Chik Chuan
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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