GUS Daily Digest            Sat, 19 Mar 94  9:37 PST     Volume 11: Issue  43 

Today's Topics:
			   cakewalk - not enough mem on your card?
					 Decent speakers for the GUS
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #39
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #41
				  GUS Daily Digest V11 #42 (2 msgs)
					  How to play all patches???
				  recommendation for midi-keyboard?
					  Terminator 2 Chess Cd-ROM
			   Want to use a MIDI keyboard with my GUS
					Windows 4.0 (aka Chicago)....
							  XMI.ARJ...

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, 18 Mar 94 11:32:47 MEZ
From: hach@oracle.dwhl.de
Subject: cakewalk - not enough mem on your card?

Hi,

I just tested cakewalk (midi prg. for windows) with my GUS.
It's sure a great peace of software BUT, if I try to load a big midi file,
Cakewalk reports 'There's not enough memory on your soundcard to hold all
patches' I don't understand this, because I can play these Midi-Files
with playmidi from dos!?

I've a GUS with 1024 kb!

Thanks in advance .....

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 08:09:40 -0800 (PST)
From: swoo@netcom.com (Sky Woo)
Subject: Decent speakers for the GUS

	Recently, both speakers on my boom box gave out on me.  Instead of
replacing the speakers, I've decided to get an entirely new boom box.  I
was about to get one when I see posts all over the place talking about
getting computer speakers for outputting their soundcards.  They list those
prices as going for $150+.  For just two speakers, that must be some pretty
decent output.  But I've always used my $60 boom box to output my GUS.  I've
always figured that since the boom box is good enough for the regular music
I listen to, than it should be good enough for the music I hear from my GUS.
I suppose I could always spend $150 to get a better boom box, but, is the
sound really that much different.  I would appreciate any replies that I
can get... Thanks.

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 09:05:16 -0800 (PST)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #39

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
$  
$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 18:39:31
$  From: bryan.rizzo@gravis.com
$  Subject: Gravis/sierra
$  
$  [...]
$  development.  This effort is beginning to pay off.  Already this month we have
$  seen the release of Hired Guns, Microcosm, Archon Ultra, Pinball Fantasies, and
$  are looking forward to Sea Wolf, Star Reach, The Horde, Great Naval Battles 2,
$  Arena and Out of this World 2 just to name a few. Of course compared to the

Out of this World 2???  When when when!!!!???  I must get it NOW NOW
NOW!!! :)

-- 
Mike Batchelor      | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux
mikebat@netcom.com  | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU
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Q:  What machine does Windows/NT run best on?

A:  A 35mm slide projector.

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 18:32:32 +0200
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #41

>Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 01:19:00 -0500
>From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
>Subject: Flight Simulator 5
>
>        I've heard of the FS5 update which have GUS support, I want to know
>where I can find that patch, I saw a major update of FS5 in the microsoft
>site (1.4 Mb) but the discription didn't mention about GUS.
That's the one.  The GUS support ends in telling you to load SBOS or Mega-Em,
but it's something.  It also doesn't crash, so I hear.
Yossi.

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 18:23:02 +0200
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #42

>Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 18:10:48 +0100 (MET)
>From: Geir Johannessen <joge@stud.unit.no>
>Subject: GUS and Windows 4.0
>
>The release of Windows 4.0 is soon seeing the day of light.
oooh... I'd LIKE that :)
>This version of Windows will *not* run on Dos. Instead Dos will be
>availiable from Windows.
>
>Will the Gus function with pure Windows? And if so, what programs will
>function properly with Gus and Windows?
>
There's a big file with Chicago Q&A at ftp.microsoft.com (perposys/win3x/
???/chicoq&a.doc), and among other things, it says Chicago will fully support
any Swodniw 3.1 driver.  The GUS drivers will work with it, then.
It also says that the NTFS or whatever Chico will use has automatic support
for 8.3 filenames, so the driver would find its patches with no problems.
Yossi.

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 18:27:11 +0200
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #42

>Please help a beginner who has read the FAQ and DOS docs but is still
>confused. My G2000 486 machine runs EMM386 with the -noems switch. If
>I try to run megaem -noems I still get a message saying there is not
>enough EMS space.
>
>What is the reason for using EMM386 with the -noems switch? What will
>I be risking if I get rid of it? Will that be likely to solve my
>problem getting megaem to run?
>
First of all, what's that hyphen doing there?  EMM386 can have "noems" or
"ram" as switches, the slash is probably an error.
If you have EMM386 invoked with the noems switch, it means EMM386 will use all
available UMB (or free high memory) as place to store programs loaded with
loadhi.  If you specify "ram" (or nothing at all), it will take 64K of this
free memory and turn it into an EMS page frame, which is a doorway into the
EMS memory.
I have a multiboot setup with EMM386 starring in both modes, but my default
is emm386 noems i=e000-efff (this gives me more UMB).  I type megaem -noems
and it loads and runs fine.
Yossi.

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||Bitnet EMail:LIOREN1@WEIZMANN                  || with the Golan     ||
||I finished level 2 of Speak'N'Pen in 3 minutes!|| Heights!           ||
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 12:00:36 MEZ
From: hach@oracle.dwhl.de
Subject: How to play all patches???

I've about 600 patches for my GUS, but how do I listen to all of them?
Patchmaker plays only 128 fixed instruments :(. And I don't want to edit
the *.ini each time I'm going to listen to a new patch!
Is there a program, that is able to play ALL patches I've got?

Thanks in advance .... bye

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 11:45:50 MEZ
From: hach@oracle.dwhl.de
Subject: recommendation for midi-keyboard?

Hi,

I would like to by a midi-keyboard for use with my GUS!
I'm completely new to the midi-keyboard stuff, so I need your recommend
for the purchase!

What do I have to buy?

Do I just need a plain keyboard to play the patches loaded to the GUS?
Or is it better to buy a real 'instrument' with CPU RAM etc.?
What do I have to invest?
What do I have to consider?

Thanks in advance ........ Greetings from Germany!

Bye

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 18:12:24 CST
From: Jim English <jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu>
Subject: Terminator 2 Chess Cd-ROM

Does T2 Chess CD-ROM work sufficently with SBOS?  I saw it for like 23$ and
it looked pretty neat, but low and behold no GUS support (am i not surprised?)
so I was just wondering if anyone knew how it sounded with sbos?
Any knowledge about Tie Fighter and GUS?
Sierra's Outpost and GUS?
Dragon's Lair CD-ROM and GUS?
thanks for all info.
-jim

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Jim English - jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu / EJP51823@vax1.utulsa.edu

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:12:07 -0700 (MST)
From: <kdorff@NMSU.Edu>
Subject: Want to use a MIDI keyboard with my GUS

I bought my GUS forever ago (back when they first came out) and have
been using it quite sucessfully since day 1.

Now I have decided I would like to hook up a MIDI keyboard to it
so I can make some music with it.  Can anyone make recommendations
for me?  I would like full size keys that are velocity sensetive.
I would like abou the right number of keys (as compared to a piano)
but if it was a little short, thats OK.  Something that is pretty
solid so I don't break it would be nice too.

Finally, if anyone can recommend some good software I would appreciate
that too.  Keep in mind I am musically oriented, so something
preferably that does real music notation, not this odd notation that
I see in some software. I have played with SuperJam and that seems
like a lot of fun (although the wrong notation) so compatibility
with that (under windows) would be nice, too.

If you make suggestions, please tell me what you like about the product
and a feature list would be nice.

Thanks mucho, fellow gus'ers.

-- 
Xeven++ C. Dorff                   mental@acca.nmsu.edu
5800 Osuna NE Apt. 93              505-889-3254
Albuquerque, NM 87109

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 17:30:29 -1000 (GMT-10:00)
From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.bond.edu.au>
Subject: Windows 4.0 (aka Chicago)....

On Fri, 18 Mar -1, GUS Server wrote:

> The release of Windows 4.0 is soon seeing the day of light.
> This version of Windows will *not* run on Dos. Instead Dos will be
> availiable from Windows.
> 
> Will the Gus function with pure Windows? And if so, what programs will
> function properly with Gus and Windows?

My advice....forget about Windows 4.0! If you want to get rid of dos, then
OS/2 is the way to go. I was introduced to OS/2 two weeks ago, and liked
it so much that I deleted Windows off my hard drive (OS/2 will run all my
Windows and dos apps).
OS/2 currently has two sets of GUS drivers, although, since my GUS is
currently in a friends computer, I can't comment on their performance.
Unfortunately, the GUS windows drivers will not work in a WIN-OS/2 session
because they are VDDs. WIN-OS/2 does not currently support VDDs.
Depending on what you use your GUS for, OS/2 may or may not be for you. I
am planning on getting my GUS back off my friend, and installing it along
side my PAS16. OS/2 supports multiple audio devices with no problems, so I
thought I'd give it a try.


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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 15:16:15 +0800 (PST)
From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
Subject: XMI.ARJ...

I ftp'd XMI.ARJ off of epas after the validation from the game directory,
but when I uncompressed it, it had errors! And ARJ doesn't have any fix
utility like PKZIP!  Well, then I d-loaded it off of orst.edu, but since
it had already copied from epas, it was also corrupted.

Could it be upoaded again please?

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