GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 22 Dec 93  0:07         Volume 9: Issue  22  

Today's Topics:
				A message to all of the GUS people...
				   Annoying Sound when I play mods
							  DOOM audio
							   Doom SFX
						   Duke 2 and SBOS
					   floating adlib registers
							  Goal & Gus
							 Gravis EMail
				GUS and NEC 3Xe CD-ROM works (so far).
				   GUS Daily Digest V9 #21 (4 msgs)
					 Headphone out to line level
						Help for Noisy GUSses
						   Mega-em with t7g
						   MIDI patch names
			   Need .MOD and .MID players for windows.
							  NHL Hockey
						  Ranting and Raving
							Rebel Assault
							 RTZ and GUS
		   The Seventh Guest (T7G) and MegaEm works for me!

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, 21 Dec 1993 10:33:49 -0800 (PST)
From: "George A. Montemayor" <gmontem@eis.calstate.edu>
Subject: A message to all of the GUS people...

I know how frustrated some of you guys are with the Gravis, but lighten 
up! It's almost Christmas. Don't get mad at it now.

Merry Christmas to all of you!
-George

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 11:57:50 -0500
From: chucky@acs.bu.edu (Charles Miller)
Subject: Annoying Sound when I play mods

Just the other day, while playing a mod, my GUS started making a really
obnoxious noise. Right in the middle of a song, it made a loud sustained
sound kind of like an air horn. It did this on two different mods, during
one I even turned off all the channels and it still made the sound (I 
was using gusmod). 
I have never had this problem before and it didn't happen last night while playing 
playing mods.
I recently upgraded to MS-DOS 6.0, have a 486-dlc40 with 4 megs RAM.
I also recently changed my GUS settings to comply with DOOM (the irq is
at 7 and the DMA's are at 5)
Does anyone know what could have happened? I checked the 1MEG RAM with
gusram and it checked out...

BTW: Did anyone ever post an updated version of gusmod??? There was some
talk about 1 1/2 months ago...

chuck miller
chucky@csa.bu.edu

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 15:40:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: DOOM audio

To get both music and sound working in DOOM, your GUS must use IRQs < 9.
This is a limitation of the DOS extender that DOOM uses -- it just won't
support the high IRQs.  I suggest using settings of 5 and 7 for your
GF1 and SB/MIDI IRQs, respectively.  Create a DOOMGUS.BAT file that
does the following

set ultrasnd=220,1,1,5,7   ;use your own port and DMA settings
ultrinit
doom.exe
set ultrasnd=220,1,1,12,5  ;return the GUS to its usual settings
ultrinit

Phat.

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 10:51:01 EST
From: David Ball <dball@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: Doom SFX

> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 12:38:30 EST
> From: "Frank Pikelner" <frank@cs.yorku.ca>
> Subject: Sound effects in doom - trouble
> 
> I've installed and finished Doom over the weekend. The only thing I could not
> do was get the sound effects working on my GUS (1MB). The music plays fine
> and I ended up using the speaker for sound effects. For sound effects the
> gravis only game me very soft pops when the gun was fired. Have I done
> something wrong in the install or setup? I triedd both 4 and 2 channels when
> running the game setup. Also since I upgraded my hard drive I reinstalled the
> 2.06 disks - did I miss someting during the reinstall maybe?
> 
In case some one else hasn't mentioned it yet, you need to use a low IRQ
for the GF1.  9 or lower maybe, I used 7. OOOHHHH what a difference!
(maybe you can help me too, I can't find any of the secret stuff on the last
regular level.  Any hints?)

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 12:02:08 -0500
From: chucky@acs.bu.edu (Charles Miller)
Subject: Duke 2 and SBOS

Well, I have been playing the new version of Duke nukem(pretty decent) and
it seems to work with SBOS (too bad they don't support GUS or at least
Roland). But when I got to level 5, at a certain point, it would freeze.
I rebooted and tried again. It froze again. When I didn't use SBOS, it 
went right past that point where it would freeze and worked fine but
w/o the cheezy sound blaster effects (that might be a good thing:) )
but it is a little less excitng totally quiet...

Any comments??
chuck miller
chucky@acs.bu.edu

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 12:19:56 EST
From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom)
Subject: floating adlib registers

Is there any way other than loading/unloading sbos to float the adlib registers
(or to get sbos working for the following configuration)?
A SB16/SCSI + GUS combo causes a load failure for sbos (current version gives
error message, 1.20 just hangs). SB16 is at A220 I5 D1 H5 (highdma 5) T6 P330
(MPU on 330).  SCSI using port 340, irq11, dma0.  GUS ordinarily at
260,7,7,12,15, but I also tried 260,7,7,7,7 and 210,7,7,7,7.

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 23:09:13 +0200 (EET)
From: Jani Forssell <janif@mdata.fi>
Subject: Goal & Gus

It supports LAPC1 , SB and Adlib. Has anyone got it work right with gus ?
Megaem doesn't produce any sound with SB DAC emulation. Sbos works , but 
samples play kinda too slow. Any suggestions  ?

janif@mdata.fi

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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 93 3:48:13 GMT
From: nbjornb@ismennt.is (Nemendur Bjorns Bjorgvinsson)
Subject: Gravis EMail

Hey Gussers

What is Gravis's EMail adress in Canada?  And how long does it take,
average, until I get my reply from them?

Thnx

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 08:25:00 -0600 (CST)
From: ibmpa!hartmann.austin.ibm.com!lance@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Subject: GUS and NEC 3Xe CD-ROM works (so far).

Previously:

H> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 13:55 EST
H> From: 155722937@UCIS.VILL.EDU (LIFE IS A GREAT ADVENTURE)
H> Subject: Does the NEC 3x have probelms with a GUS?
H> 
H>         I was going to buy the 3x speed CD-ROM. But was wondering if 
H> anyone new of any problems if there are any. Thanks.

Though I've only had the drive a few of days, the NEC 3Xe (connected to my
Adaptec 1542B -- NOT the GUS -- with ASPI drivers, MSCDEX) hasn't caused
any problems with my GUS.  I only own one computer-CD-title (The Seventh Guest
[T7G]), but so far so good.  Also, I did buy a cheapy Y-cable to run from
the AUDIO-OUT of the CD-ROM to GUS's AUDIO-IN port.  Seems to work okay,
though I'd like to find a higher quality cable...

-- 
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
			   Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
All statements, comments, opinions, etc. herein reflect those of the author
and shall NOT be misconstrued as those of IBM or anyone else for that matter.

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 17:25:45 -0500 (EST)
From: m8088044@llohio.ll.pbs.org (Fred Coffey)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #21

> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 15:26:17 EST
> From: Philippe Chayer <chayer@info.polymtl.ca>
> Subject: au to wav converter
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for an *.au to *.wav converter (*.au is sounds for the suns
> at school on unix) is one ? if so where can I get it ?
> 
> Thanx in advance, and keep on gussing !
> -- 
>              Philippe Chayer
>                    chayer@info.polymtl.ca

	I have a program for the IBM that is called SNDSOX.  It converts
from almost any sound format to any sound format.  .au is on the list. 
E-mail me and I we can negotiate transfer options.

Fred Coffey


-- 
Fred Coffey                |  
Sandusky, Ohio             |  PGP Public Key Available Upon Request
m8088044@llohio.ll.pbs.org |  
"....for the world is hollow and I have touched the sky...." -- Star Trek

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 18:08:45 -0600 (CST)
From: "WILL HATCHER, AKA SILIKON" <WCH1965@tntech.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #21

The Gus is a lot more complicated to use than other cards.  Then again -- I
purchased a PAS at Wal Mart and it wouldn't install correctly (a plug and play
board to boot!)  After reading of some of the headaches, I was a little scared
to buy the unit, but I wanted improved midi (over my current Soundblaster). 
$129 was quite a bargain it turned out.  As all of us here know, the music
capabilities of the Gus are unbelievable.  I would have paid a good deal more
for it.

Nevertheless, I kept my Soundblaster too (blasphemy!) hoping that it would be
easier to use than SBOS and Megaem.  And it has turned out that way.  Getting
them to work together hasn't been much trouble either.

Of course, as I am writing this I am planning on attempting to use the SB for
f/x and pump the midi through the gus.  Could be a fun night!

Will

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 16:24:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Vincent Poy <hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #21

On Tue, 21 Dec 1993, GUS Server wrote:

> 
> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 10:33:07 -0500 (EST)
> From: RBIRCHAL%WNEC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
> Subject: Best(?) speakers
> 
> I have a quick question about speakers for my GUS output.
> 
> I currently have the card attached to a low-end Pioneer receiver
> (20 watts per channel) using some OLD three way no-name speakers.
> I have looked at the review of amplified speakers in the Oct. issue
> of PC/Computing (they recommend the Acoustic Research) and was
> wondering if I could or should get a new pair of speakers for
> $100-200?  Will I see a big difference in sound quality?  What
> should I get?  Thanks.
> 
> Russ Birchall    RBIRCHAL@WNEC.BITNET
> 
I think you should get the Altec Lansing ACS-300 or the SONY SRS-D4K
Speakers since those seem to be the most popular among companies such as
Crutchfield.  I think the Sound Quality on anything $150+ is supposed to
be pretty good! 


Cheers,

Vince
hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
root@kingdom.com
System Administrator/Owner 
Kingdom Communications Inc./California Unix Public Access Systems Inc.
San Francisco, California USA
		  
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 16:31:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Vincent Poy <hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #21

On Tue, 21 Dec 1993, GUS Server wrote:

> 
> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 14:28:04 -0500 (EST)
> From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #20
> 
> > From: Vincent Poy <hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>
> > Subject: Microphones
> > 
> >     I am looking a Microphone to use with the GUS, what Microphones
> > are available that are Stereo? Thanks!
> 
> You dont need a stereo microphone. A mono microphone will work ok. Only thing,
> it has to be either dynamic or self powered condenser. Check micro.arj if you
> want to make one or use a Mac microphone. (I've put it on epas, but dont
> remember the directory). BTW, somebody had promised me a Mac microphone...
> If you are out there, i'm still interested you know, cause i had to canibalise
> my mac microphone to do micro.arj...
> 
I know but I want to buy a Stereo Microphone since I need it for my stereo
also and don't know what is good.

> >     I'm planning on getting new speakers for my GUS as the Labtec
> > SS-700 I have kinda sucks.  Is there any particular speaker anyone out
> > there would recommend? I saw Altec Lansing, Labtec, Koss, Sony, AR
> > Speakers but are not sure which is the best...
> 
> The best are the Accoustic Research 570 powered partners. If you have nowhere
> that amount of money, get Sony SRS-D2K (i've heard about D4K but dont know if
> they have the same quality/price ratio).
> 
I thought the Acoustic Research 622 was the best ones from the Acoustic
Research Line.  I'm thinking about the Sony SRS-D4K and the Altec Lansing
ACS-300 but have no ideas what is the real differences among them.  Are
the Sony SRS-D2K's any good at all since Crutchfield ran out of D2K's and are
offering the D4K's for the same price as the D2K's at $169.95 + $3
Shipping/Handling which seems to be a good deal since the D4K's sells for
$225 elsewhere while the D2K's are like $149.  Do you know if the D2K's are
shielded speakers or not?  
 > > or maybe I should get a
> > cheap SONY Receiver and hook up some Polk or Infinity Speakers ;-) Thanks!
> 
> It's purely a budget thing...
> 
I knew that but I see that Yamaha and AIWA have these Mini-Stero Systems
for $400 or so and it seems like it's a full featured systems.

> BTW, it's just out of curiosity i checked the Gus general today. Microphone,
> speakers, amplifiers, interconnects and music at large is discussed in gus-
> music. That's where i'm at, along with most people serious about their GUS
> making music...
> 
I saw that too.  I'm the one who posted about Microphone and Speakers and am
getting famous for asking too many questions on one day I guess <grin>.

> Ciao,
> -- 
> Francois Dion
>     '  _   _   _ 
>  CISM (_) (_)  _) FM       Montreal , Canada       Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
>       (_)  / . _)             10000 Watts          Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
> _______________________________________________________________________________
> Audio-C-DJ-Fractals-Future-Label-Multimedia-Music-Radio-Rave-Video-VR-Volvo-...
> 

Cheers,

Vince
hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
root@kingdom.com
System Administrator/Owner 
Kingdom Communications Inc./California Unix Public Access Systems Inc.
San Francisco, California USA
		  
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Date: 21 Dec 93 09:03:00 EST
From: "VULCAN::WATTERS_C" <WATTERS_C%VULCAN.decnet@gate.hosp.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Headphone out to line level

Ok, I've a NEC CDR36 external cdrom unit, with no line out ports, but a nice 
headphone jack.  I look kinda silly (that's what the wife said) wearing a
set of earbuds and my full coverage headphones when playing software which 
supports music from the CDROM (Return to Zork) and SFX from the GUS.

Here's my question:

Barring opening the CDROM (still have 1.5 year's warranty on the thing) and 
finding some sort of line output (catching it before the amp, as it were) is
there a SAFE and SANE method by which I may connect the headphone output of the
CDROM unit to either the CDrom or Line inputs on the GUS?

-Coyt

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 6:00:34 MST
From: Steve "Bongos" Larson <larson@ee.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Help for Noisy GUSses

I've uploaded a document some of you may find useful regarding
noisy GUSses on Epas. Hopefully it will soon be a valuable  
addition to the FAQ. Look for GRNDLOOP.TXT in the submit dir.

steve

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 19:58:45
From: jayeson@gravis.com
Subject: Mega-em with t7g

>Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 12:24:53 -0800 (PST)
>From: Mark Harrison <harrison@lclark.edu>
>Subject: Re: Megaem & T7G

>Is this true Jayeson?  I'm using the first or second T7G patch (the
>third locks my system up solid no matter WHAT I do.)  I ran T7G with
>both MT-32 and SCC emulation to hear which was best.  Never had one
>problem.

>Mark Harrison
>harrison@sun.lclark.edu

The incompatibility mentioned in the docs was based on a single user
report. I later tested T7G with Mega-Em and it worked fine, except upon
start up the game warned that the digital might fail because the memory
manager was slowing things down. Sure enough 10 minutes into the game
it quit to DOS with an error message saying something to the effect that
the digital playback was falling behind.

Jayeson
---
 þ QMPro 1.51 þ GUS - The Quantum Leap of the 21st Century

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93  08:27:32 EST
From: dklash%sedofis@VM1.NYSED.GOV
Subject: MIDI patch names

First off, just want to say that I finally upgraded my GUS to 1 Meg and it sure
cleans up a lot of staticky-sounding patches, NAUSICAA sounds great! Anyway, I
have the .PAT files for 808 drums and ANASYN3 off of EPAS so I got into
ULTRAMID
INI and changed the patch mappings to those files (
saving the original ULTRAMID.INI, of course!). I then go into Patch
Manager under Windows. I noticed that the same sound names were there
(Bright Acoustic Piano, etc..) but when I played the sounds they were
the ANASYN3-ones that I had mapped in ULTRAMID.INI. Thinking about it,
there's no way to indicate the *full name* of the patch in ULTRAMID.INI
anyway, so where is the patch name coming from - do I have to change the names
using MIDI MAPPER?  Is there just one program or file I can use or change that
will update both the patch file name as well as the full name?

--Dave (dklash%sedofis@sed.bitnet)

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 17:00:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Firoozfar <mfirooz@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Need .MOD and .MID players for windows.

Hi everyone,
	I have a 486DX/33 with 8MB of RAM.  I use MS WORD for windows
and Visio to do a lot of my school projects.  I like to be able to 
listen to music in the background since it relaxes me, and I love the
sound of my GUS.  Currently, I use the Midisoft Recording Session to play
 MID files, but MRS was not desinged to be a background .mid player, since
it does not even loop through songs.  Long time ago when I had an Amiga 500,
I used a PD program called Multiplayer that allowed me to select a number of
songs and then it would play them in-order, or randomly.  Is there such a
thing?  Also, I need a similar tool for .MOD's and I have tried the one
that was wrongly posted on c.s.i.p.s, but it was buggy and had a very 
choppy sound even on my 486DX/33.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Mark

mfirooz@wam.umd.edu

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 10:05:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Pete Kilcullen <pmk@access.digex.net>
Subject: NHL Hockey

Has anyone gotten the new NHL Hockeey (Elec. Atrs) to work with GUS? I've 
tried Megaem ,SBOS, And Ultramid to get sound effects ( I do get music) 
such as crowd noise, but no luck yet. Does ANYONE know what settings i 
should use??

Pete

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 22:20:07 MST
From: dustin@edna.gse.utah.edu (Dustin Caldwell)
Subject: Ranting and Raving

> Well, I'm just about fed up.  I've been a GUS owner for about six months
> and I must say..............

[mucho ranting and raving deleted]

Whoa boy! Sounds like he installed the board into his underpants. I'd be pissed
too if I had that big 'ol board in _my_ shorts for 6 Mo.

>Gravis themselves:  I read in a recent digest about some poor fella
>who had to wait three months to receive his 2.06a disks.

and related topic:

>Product availability:  God help those without InterNet access.  They'd
>never know about epas or the Digest.

Well, if the person didn't have internet access, they wouldn't be reading the 
digest, and subsequently they wouldn't even know about the upgrade until it
arrived at their door. I'd say that that is better support than I have _EVER_
seen from _ANY_ of the 150+ software and hardware vendors that I have ever worked
with in my 10 years experience. Having this digest, and the attention that Gravis
pays to it is a BONUS of having the card, definitely not typical. 

>Add to that the complete ignoring of several help requests mailed to 
>Gravis.

Are you sure that your mail is even reaching Gravis? I know that several people 
that subscribe to the digest have reported not being able to reach Gravis. It 
seemed that the problem was found to be that the mail never even made it to them.
You might want to check how many hops it takes to reach gravis.com. It might be 
more than your sendmail can handle.
Personally, I have had several responses from Gravis. Yes, it took awhile for me 
to get my upgrade, but I found out that it was due to a change of address problem.
Gravis downloaded their database for us to search for our names. (above and beyond
the call of duty) Otherwise, I would have joined the ranks of the users of _most_
other computer products, and recieved NOTHING.

>Compatibility problems:  It won't work with this, or that, or that ....

Oh, you mean like MS Windows, Packard Bell, Zenith, and practically every DOS app.
ever written? Definitely frustrating, but its the price you pay when you don't 
buy into a monopoly like Apple. Personally, I'll take my chances.

>*WAKE UP, GRAVIS!!!  YOUR CUSTOMER BASE IS GETTING PISSED OFF!!!*

Make that your CUSTOMER BASE -1. I for _at least_ one am perfectly satisfied with
my GUS. I installed it with not a single problem. No, not one. I have since 
upgraded my computer, and still, nary a problem. Maybe its luck, maybe its just
that I don't load every TSR known to mankind on bootup, who knows. All I know is 
that the GUS seems to me to be THE BEST SOUNDCARD AVAILABLE. 
As a side note, I was in the mall the other day, at Software Etc. and the salesman
was trying to sell a soundcard to a kid who wanted to have MIDI support. Well, I
grabbed the GUS box and said "This has better MIDI support and sound than any other
card you will find anywhere". I told him the merits, and he seemed impressed. As I
was leaving, I heard him talking to his friend, saying, "Cool, I'm getting this!".
To which his friend replied, "I'll get my Mom to buy me one." 
Welcome to the GUS, pals.

-Dustin

Dustin Caldwell
Computer Engineering
University of Utah

---- Data is the perfect example of asynchronous computer architecture ----

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Date: 21 Dec 93  12:19:00 GMT
From: fredrik.vraalsen@circus.bbs.no
Subject: Rebel Assault

Hello!

I just got Rebel Assault from LucasArts, but I can't get it to work
with my GUS... :-(  When I run it with the UltraSound-driver, the
game slows down to about half the normal speed, and the music/sound-
effects are terrible.. I have a double-speed Toshiba CD-ROM, and
Rebel Assault worked perfectly when I ran it with the "No Sound"
option...

I've read that it should work with the GUS if I use DOS4GW.EXE v1.8
instead of v1.92 that is on the CD-ROM, but how do I exchange
them?? I tried to copy all the *.EXE files to the harddisk and run
it from there (after copying DOS4GW v1.8 to the directory), but it
just said that it couldn't find the intro-files on the CD-ROM...

Here's a copy of my REB.BAT (modified to run from the harddisk)...:
  C:
  CD\REBEL
  ASSAULT /x2 /c7 /b220 /i11 /d0 /s700000 /f15 /t300 /u0

And here's my computer's configuration...:
- 486 DX 33MHz
- 8 MB RAM
- Paradise SVGA w/512 KB RAM
- GUS v2.2 w/1 MB RAM     (ULTRASND=220,1,1,11,7)
  (I have also tried other IRQ-settings, but nothing seems
   to work.. And I also have an OPTI-chipset, so I can't
   use a 16-bit DMA-channel...)
- 2 x 330 MB IDE-harddisk
- Toshiba XM-3401B CD-ROM w/Future Domain SCSI-controller


**FV** - InterNet : fredrik.vraalsen@circus.bbs.no

Why be perfect, when you can be like me?!? ;-)

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Date: 21 Dec 93 19:43:31 EST
From: "Ramsay B. Young" <71540.1124@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: RTZ and GUS

I am having a problem with RTZ and the GUS.  The sound is working, but only 
the digital part.  There is no MIDI music.  Is there supposed to be?   I 
have tried changing the RTZ.bat file to make it work, I have done 
everything I can think of.   Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Jessee Young

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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 08:17:42 -0600 (CST)
From: ibmpa!hartmann.austin.ibm.com!lance@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Subject: The Seventh Guest (T7G) and MegaEm works for me!

With respect to T7G and MegaEm, we saw previously:

MH> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 12:24:53 -0800 (PST)
MH> From: Mark Harrison <harrison@lclark.edu>
MH> Subject: Re: Megaem & T7G

   MB> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 07:37:49 -0800 (PST)
   MB> From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
   MB> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #17
   MB>

	  LH> $ Thu, 16 Dec 1993 09:08:36 -0600 (CST)
	  LH> $ From: ibmpa!hartmann.austin.ibm.com!lance@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
	  LH> $  Subject: Seeking help/suggestions installing T7G (The Seventh Guest).
	  LH> $
	  LH> $  I don't know how the rest of you do it, but it just doesn't seem
	  LH> $  possible for me to load EVERYTHING high:
	  LH> $
	  LH> $    o QEMM

MH> I had to use Stealth Mode.  Works fine.

I'll give Stealth Mode a try -- thanks.

	  LH> $  As such, I tried to use MegaEm.  I've used it quite successfully
	  LH> $  with
	  LH> $  XWing so I gave it a shot.  Unfortunately, I cannot even complete
	  LH> $  the
	  LH> $  install.  T7G's INSTALL immediately complains that it cannot find
	  LH> $  the "device" (yes -- I run MegaEm/Emuset BEFORE T7G's INSTALL).

   MB> 
   MB> Read the MegaEm docs.  T7G is one of the games listed as incompatible
   MB> for reasons Jayeson has not yet discovered.

MH> Is this true Jayeson?  I'm using the first or second T7G patch (the third
MB> locks my system up solid no matter WHAT I do.)  I ran T7G with both MT-32
MB> and SCC emulation to hear which was best.  Never had one problem.


I'm happy to report that I was successful in getting MegaEm to run with
T7G.  I had to change my ULTRASND variable from 220,7,7,11,5 to 220,7,7,11,7.
It seems that T7G didn't like the SB IRQ5 for some reason.  T7G seems to
work fine except that at one point I did get some stuttered speech but I
think this is due to the simultaneous sound and massive-screen updates
on my crummy Diamond Stealth/VRAM (S3 which STINKS in DOS).  I plan to
pick up one of the new Hercules ET4000/w32i boards soon.

Thanks to all who wrote/posted,
-- 
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
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