GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 1 Jun 94  9:37 PST      Volume 14: Issue   1 

Today's Topics:
							3.53 Disk set
								Aegis
					  GUS 3.53 and HP Dashboard
						   GUS programming
				MAX memory upgrade - I have the chips!
						   NMI, mouse, etc.
						 Oh no: The 7th Guest
					 Problem: GUS MAX and PENTIUM
							   Ultima 4
							Upgrade disks
					  Where to get GUS Max cheap

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: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:31:18 +0100 (GDT)
From: dustin@ed.gse.utah.edu
Subject: 3.53 Disk set

I downloaded the 3.53 disk set, and used it as a first-time install. I 
guess this is a bad idea. Setgus doesn't work (it refers me to setup, 
which dowsn't exist, but even gsetup doesn't work..) 
The install interface seems to indicate that this could be an _original_ 
installation, not just a patch fix, but it doesn't work. 
If I install the 2.06 (?) disks that were sent out 7 Mo. ago, then 
install 3.53 as a patch, it works okay. (A lot of wasted time, it seems 
to me!) Actually, If I could get info on how to make setgus (or whatever) 
work, the rest I could do, I believe.
Anybody run winsock with the GUS installed? I'm using a gateway DX2-66, 
and winsock performance goes to the toilet with the gus windows drivers 
installed. (No IRQ conflicts, etc.) 
ps. I would avoid Gateway altogether. I've used their 4DX2-66 models 
quite a bit, and they lose configuration often (even after replaced 
batteries) especially on a network. And that cheesy any-key keyboard, yuck!

-dustin


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Dustin Caldwell                                 dustin@ed.gse.utah.edu
Computer Engineering         Japanese proverb: saru demo ki kara taoru.
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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 17:34:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tomas Tomas <tomasfgt@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Aegis

Anyone have any experience with the Gus and the new Aegis cd games?

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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 94 09:41:10 +0100
From: "|\/|artin" <martin@wyvern.bri.hp.com>
Subject: Re: GUS 3.53 and HP Dashboard

Hi ,

In message <199405301930.AA23435@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> you mentioned that:

>Hi all.  I just wanted to let you guys know that I've installed the 3.53 disks
>and am also having the GPF problems in Windows.  I changed my shell back to
>Program Manager, and that seems to have solved the problem, but now I need to
>run Dashboard from ProgramManager and it SUCKS! AG: Hope you guys solve this
>problem REAL SOON NOW.  Also, I have had the same .WAV file cut-off problems,
>but not consistently (i.e. doesn't happen everytime I start Windows).  I will
>experiment with the QEMM DMA Buffer settings as someone suggested, but I don't
>think that's the problem.

Well, I'm running DB as my shell with no problems. I'm using whatever GUS
drivers came in the 0039 file + the 0040 upgrade (or is that 0038-0040?)
and I've got DB 2.0.

The only thing I've heard about sound files cutting off is when the [MCI]Sound
is set up with a small seconds count. Maybe that's the problem?

Cheers,

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Date: Tue, 31 May 94 19:07:10 -0400
From: davej@ferry.polymer.uakron.edu (Dave Jiang)
Subject: GUS programming

Under which category on the FTP would I find GUSDK201.ZIP? I looked everywhere
and can't find it. Thanks!

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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:17:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: MAX memory upgrade - I have the chips!

I located a local supplier of NEC parts, and my employer was kind enough
to have our order department place a Net-30-days order for 10 of them
($250 was the minimum purchase for a first-time net-30 account).  I will,
of course, reimburse them when the bill comes in.  My cost is $25.38
each.  This is the NEC part no. uPD42S4260LE-70, and it is the exact part
no. recommended in the MAX manual, but is 70 ns speed, instead of 80 (no
60's were available).

I will sell them at my cost, plus $5.00 for UPS ground shipping and my
small amount of trouble obtaining them.  Make it an even $31.00 US to any
place in the USA.  Send me e-mail if interested, and I will reply with
instructions.  I'll accept money orders or cashier's checks only; no cash
please, or personal checks, or credit cards.  First 9 responses get them.

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without user intervention.

No more jumpers to misplace!  The computer will misplace them for you.

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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:30:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Re: NMI, mouse, etc.

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
$  
$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 18:04:41 -0400
$  From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
$  Subject: New Drivers Problem (Update!)
$  
$  Somehow the new drivers of GUS does not like any windows' shell except the old
$  program manager. The same General Protection Fault occurs in Norton Destop, 
$  Dashboard, or even Backmenu. I wish there is soon an update of these buggy
$  drivers. 
$  
$  In the meantime, let's cross our fingers and use the plain program manager and
$  hope no more GPF!

Well, hold on there, pahdnah.  Going from the specific to the general like
that is usually a poor risk.  You lose again.  No problem at all with the
new drivers, a 3.7 GUS, and Quarterdeck's SideBar Windows shell.  SideBar
worked fine getting the new groups setup, too.

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$  
$  Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 18:17:00 -0400
$  From: Laszlo Megyesi <lmegyesi@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
$  Subject: SBOS & NMI problems
$  
$  > It's neither the GW2K nor the GUS - it's the MS Mouse.EXE v9.0 on the PS/2
$  > port that is the problem.  It disables the NMI procedure.  Nice of it,
$  > huh?  MS Mouse.COM v9.0 or any previous version of MS Mouse should work
$  > fine.  Or another brand of mouse.
$  
$  Hi GUSers,
$  
$  Just a question about the NMI problem...
$  I recently bought a 486dx-40 (AMD) and installed the MS Mouse.EXE v9.0
$  driver on it.  When I'm trying to load SBOS I get the message about
$  the NMI procedure being disabled.
$  My question is: Does this mouse driver disable the NMI permanently?
$  And if it does how do I turn it back on?

Remark the mouse driver from your startup files, and turn the machine off,
then back on.

$  I'd just like to determine if the problem is with the motherboard or
$  the mouse driver.
$  
$  I HAVE tried other mouse drivers, but I'm still getting the same message.
$  (And my old mouse driver won't even work. It's a Dexxa 4.x driver)

You already have determined that the problem is not the mouse.  Your PC
has disabled the NMI procedure.  Try turning on memory parity checking in
your CMOS setup.  If that's off, then NMI is disabled.  Other than that,
you are probably out of luck, and your motherboard is a defective design.


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Mike Batchelor      | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux
mikebat@netcom.com  | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU
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Plug 'N' Play:  A specification invented by Microsoft and Intel which
enables a computer and its operating system to create hardware conflicts
without user intervention.

No more jumpers to misplace!  The computer will misplace them for you.

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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 03:11:54 EDT
From: gchung@eden.rutgers.edu (Greg Chung)
Subject: Oh no: The 7th Guest

Well, I finally got T7G and yes, I'm having troubles getting it to work with
the GUS.  First of all, let me tell you I got the two patch files T7G-FIX
and T7GFIX3 (I think they are called...)  I also went back through old
volumes of digests and tried to research this.

I changed groovie.ini to use midi=GeneralMidi->gf1midi.adv and pcm=UltraSound
->gf1digi.adv.  Then I used ultramid -c and started the game.  However, at
some point I get a crash.  I've tried using my Roland for MIDI and ultramid
for digital, and that works -- except the line-in on the GUS keeps getting
turned off/on at unexpected points.

Thanks

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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 21:52:31 -0400
From: YANG TUN-CHERN <yangt@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: Problem: GUS MAX and PENTIUM

Hello fellow Gussers.
I just got my GUS MAX on friday and until now, it is still not working
properly. During installation (ver 3.53), the SBOS Compatibility test 
failed, saying -BUSY (READ!). After installation, I cannot get SBOS 
loaded. Every time I try to load it, the program (GF1 SBOS V.3.82) would 
return with "Interrupt time out", "Error on load of patch library 
(C:\ultrasnd\sbos\sboslib.sbs)"

Also, there is a huge problem in windows. Every time I startup windows,
it would play the "tada" non-stop, until i go into control panel, sound
to click cancel. However, the next time something happens that would 
play a sound, that sound would stay on forever. Even if i disregard these
annoying repeated noises, somehow, windows would start screwing up really 
bad. all programs would stop responding to the system, even progman.exe.
most of the time, i'll have to restart the computer as i can't quit
windows! 

In the beginning, i thought that it could have been some sort of conflict
with the scanner or the modem. However, I have tried countless times to 
setup the MAX by removing both the scanner and modem. Nothing helped the 
situation. It still returned with the same problems. I have tried changing 
the mouse driver to MS ver 7.00, dexxa 5.01, logitech 4.01. Nothing 
provided a solution either. I have even downloaded older versions of SBOS 
for testing. Again, i had no luck.

I have listed my system configuration below, hopefully somebody can 
provide me with some helpful hints or solutions. Thanks a million!!

motherboard     INTEL BP5D60AT8C    PENTIUM 60 pci/isa bus
				AMI-BIOS ver 1.00.08.AF1
memory          8 megs
video           ATI ULTRA PRO 2 megs(ISA) 
hd controller   INTEL/NCR PCI-SCSI, with SDMS 3.0
				(running 1 seagate st11200N)
mouse driver    MICROSOFT v9.01
sound           GUS MAX rev 1.7
				(default setup)
scanner         GeniScan GS4500
				(dma3, address 272-27B)
modem           internal CARDINAL 14400DSP (softmodem)
				(com3, irq 2 or 9)

all other ports (com 1, com 2, lpt 1) are all built onto the 
motherboard, standard configuration.

thanks again :)

TunChern Yang                   INTERNET:yangt@ugsparc10.eecg.toronto.edu
										 yangt@ecf.utoronto.ca
										 
										 

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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 10:57:10 WET DST
From: Steve <gei055@rowan.coventry.ac.uk>
Subject: Ultima 4

Has anyone tried running Ultima4 with the gus.  I'm a bit loathed to
spend 40 pounds (+20 for the speech upgrade) only to find that the sound's
a bit dodgy.

If you've tried it and got it to work (or not) could you mail me personally
'cause I don't always get time to read the full digest.

Thanks

Steve


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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 15:48:46 GMT
From: Mike Geileskey <GEI0089L@whstud1.uel.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Upgrade disks

Hi there!
 I've heard about ther new upgrade disks, and would like to replace 
my old v2.1? GUS installation. The trouble is, there's no way I can 
get hold of them. I have access to Email via my University's 
computers, but there is no FTP facility, and therefore no way by 
which I am able the retrieve files from an FTP archive.
 
 Is it possible to be sent GUS files via Email as a whole file 
(Pmail has this facility)? Are there any gophers/newsgroups that 
support the GUS, and regularly update their files?

Are there any sites in the U.K.? 

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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 16:33:03 -0700 (MST)
From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
Subject: Where to get GUS Max cheap

Alright, I guess I'm going to have to break down and ask this question which
was already answered in a previous digest:  Where was that that one can get
the GUS MAX for $179?  I lost a bunch of digests from that period.  That
mailfile mysteriously got filled with nulls on my PC, AFTER I had downloaded
it from the mainframe and verified that it was OK.  Go figure...

I probably won't be buying one but there's this guy I've been talking to
who is reviewing soundcards and thinks that the GUS sucks.  He said he never
got ANYTHING to work, not even Doom (hard to believe).  He also said that
the GUS max is $299 and the Rap-10 is $350 so he'd recommend the rap-10
because he has tried it and gotten it to work.  I mentioned that the max
really can be gotten cheaper, but that won't do much good unless I tell
him where.  BTW, he's more of a musician than a gamer so he's also looking
for fancy stuff like being able to play multiple waves at once, play and
record at the same time, do reverb and stuff in real time, etc.  Anybody
have experience with these things?  I know you can't do reverb, at least
not in hardware, but what about multiple waves?  Which apps let you play
and record at the same time?

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