GUS Daily Digest            Thu, 23 Feb 95  9:37 PST     Volume 19: Issue  23 

Today's Topics:
                            Armored Fist?
                 Best CD-ROM for low-end use with GUS
                Dark forces, GUS, LucasArts, and you.
                         Dark Forces / Win9x
                   Dark Forces Demo works with GUS?
                            Detroit sound?
                         GUS & Win95 - HOW ??
                  GUS Daily Digest V19 #20 (2 msgs)
                  GUS Daily Digest V19 #22 (2 msgs)
                      GUS ver. 2.4 CD connection
             I GOT FRONT PAGE SPORTS FOOTBALL WORKING!!!
                 Lion King and Native GUS Support...
                          LucasArts messages
               MaxBos beta .021 and Magic Carpet, Yuk!
                       maxsbos causing reboots
                           misc answered...
                             MK2 demo...
                  Okay.. more memory is important..
                        OS/2 and Win31 and GUS
                 Patches, Patches, Megaem and drivers
                     Rise of the Triad -- HELP!!
                      Tie Fighter Drift Problem
            Will Gravis ever really support General Midi??

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, 22 Feb 1995 22:28:26 -0600
From: lala@interaccess.com (Imre Olajos)
Subject: Armored Fist?

Hello folks,

I am pretty sure it waz discussed before, but can a
helping soul tell me how to get sound and/or music
out of this game on my GUSMAX? I tried SBOS, MAXSBOS,
MEGAEM with no luck at all.

BTW, thanx for the guy who told us the location of
the Warcraft GUS patch, it worx GREAT!!!!!

Imre OLAJOS, Jr. (LaLa of TranSByte)
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:46:38 +0500
From: Chris Hillery <cjh@ebt.com>
Subject: Re: Best CD-ROM for low-end use with GUS

David Bakken wrote:

> I must say that the SCSI daughtercard sounds very interesting if I
> could later get SCSI hard drives to hook onto it, though I don't
> know anything about how many SCSI CD-ROM drives are available and
> how they compare to non-SCSI ones.

Even if this were technical feasible (which I believe it might be), I
can virtually guarantee you that it will be unsatisfactory at
best. The kind of "SCSI connector" that comes on a soundcard is just
good enough to service a CD-ROM drive, which tops out at say 450k/sec
for a triple-speed drive. Hook up a reasonable (4M/sec? I'm not even
sure, but around there) hard drive to it and you'll be seriously
bottlenecking it.

On the other hand, that daughtercard is still a reasonable option for
just hooking up a CD-ROM drive. SCSI CD-ROMs tend to be slightly more
expensive, but then again you could conceivably use them elsewhere as
well. If you got that card and an external SCSI CD-ROM drive, for
instance, you could probably move the same drive between multiple
computers and other equipment. Whether this is useful to you or not I
cannot say, of course.

I know nothing about the daughtercard existences or usefulness (I have
a GUS MAX which came with three types of CD-ROM connector, one of
which I'm using with a Panasonic drive that was packaged up by
Reveal), so I will wish you good luck in your purchases..

Ceej
aka Chris Hillery
cjh@ebt.com

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 16:49:16 CST
From: Steve Sesterhenn <sesterhs@Janus-ccm.zenithe.com>
Subject: Dark forces, GUS, LucasArts, and you.

     Congratulations all!

     Your overwhelming response to LucasArts about putting GUS support in
     Dark Forces seems to have had a lasting effect on LucasArts, as
     evidenced by the "form letter" they sent to all who wrote them
     regarding the GUS.  Evidently enough people wrote to make them
     notice!!!

     Good job to the many people who wrote and hopefully helped clinch
     LucasArts' support of the best damn sound card inovation since the
     original AdLib....


     Steve

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 10:04 EST
From: "Neil L. Sharp" <0006796954@mcimail.com>
Subject: Dark Forces / Win9x

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the demo for Dark Forces?  I have
tried Babbage's, Software Plus, and Electronics Boutique.  Is it anywhere on
the
internet, or is it CD-ROM and huge?

Anyone out there using Linux Slackware Professional 2.1.1 (Fall 94 release)
and
the GUS and could give me some help setting it up?  

Also, anyone know where to get a copy of Win9x beta?  I would like to try to
test it and get the GUS to work.  

And lastly, it seems we've gotten LucasArts attention.  They are sending
"form-email" to everyone, so the mail must have gotten kinda heavy.

For everyone who wants to know, the Descent game on epas is not corrupted, and
the files DSCENT-1 and DSCENT-2 are version 1.1 and work fine on my GUS.  The
game is awesome!

 -------------------------------------+---------------------------------------
         Neil Sharp                   |                            
         MCI Engineering              |                         
         Richardson, TX  USA          |
         679.6954@MCIMail.com         |                       
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 19:37:58 -0800 (PST)
From: h0mi <homi@netcom.com>
Subject: Dark Forces Demo works with GUS?

I had downloaded the DF demo, but was never able to get it to work with 
the GUS. How did you (whoever managed this feat) do this?

Since I found this game unable to work on my system, I deleted it, 
unfortunately. If anyone can direct me to an FTP site with this game (and 
with the demo version of Tie Fighter- I saw a floppy disk at a computer 
store and suspect it must be out there _somewhere_) and instructions on 
getting it working with the GUS, i'd appreciate it.

And my last request is this. I might be able to get a SB-16 card with CD 
rom package for a very good price. Has anyone used a SB16 and Gus card 
simultaneously, with CD Rom installed, and run os/2? I ask because I'm 
curious about how the IRQs should be set, esp in OS/2 so that the printer 
port (I'm printerless _now_ but I'd rather avoid future troubles) IRQ of 
7 isn't used by either card, and that I dont have a problem with the SB 
or the GUS. Perhaps I should uninstall the GUS driver in OS/2 and use 
only the soundblaster in os/2? Again, any suggestions or help would be 
much appreciated.



"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely 
idealizing envy." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.homi@netcom.com
Don't like guns? Don't buy one.

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 06:28:11 -0500
From: banshee@rbdc.rbdc.com (Scott A. Jones)
Subject: Detroit sound?
Message-ID: <B$nIlCT1NesG079yn@rbdc.rbdc.com>

An old game and this has probably been asked before so forgive me...but can
anyone give me some suggestions on how to get Detroit by Impressions to work
with a GUS Max?  I tried using the GUS AIL drivers but it locks up as soon as
I run the game. Thanks!

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:00:02 +0100
From: Espen Wang Andreassen <espeand@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: GUS & Win95 - HOW ??

Excuse me - but isn't Win95 supposed to have crash-protection and full 
HW-control etc. etc.?? How on earth are the GUS drivers allowed to
work??? (Hey - of course it's nice they do - but...?)

If someone could explain this to me, then MAYBE I would be able to
understand it... :+)

This is maybe more Win95 than GUS related, but I find it interesting because
we who use OS/2 just have Alpha drivers (and no Win-OS/2 drivers) for the same

reason I thought Win95 would have problems too.


BTW: Nice to see how many got "personal replies" from LucasArts... :)


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- jeps -  Student at University of Oslo, Norway -
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Espen Wang Andreassen    -     espeand@ifi.uio.no

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:02:25 +0100 (MET)
From: appel@stack.urc.tue.nl (Stanley Appel)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #20

> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 01:18:31 -0600 (CST)
> From: Tone <guia@cc.UManitoba.CA>
> Subject: parity errors revisited
> 
> Hi, sorry for the delay in checking through these messages...  the reply 
> to my original query was:
> >Oke here we go again. There is a bug in a OPTI chip set, it has to do
> >with the high dma channels. This chip set is also used by UMC. The number
> >to look for is ???c206???.  If you have a chip set like this, you cant
> >use the high dma channels for your GUS. if you try this you will lock-up
> >or die with a off-board parity error (0000:0002).
> 
> the only problem here is that i did try the low dma channels as the first 
> effort in trying to get this thing going.  i realize there's no working 
> around a bad chipset for the 16-bit dma, but at least it should have 
> worked with the 8-bit stuff.  it didn't.  

Sorry most of the parity errors is caust by it.

> a summary of the continuing problem:
> 486dx33, 4meg RAM, a bum chipset, and many parity errors with the system 
> lockup.  these are the type that show up in 40-column mode.  the parity 
> errors are not affected by using low dma, low irq's, or by a clean boot.
> 
> i still have to check through the rest of the digests to get up-to-date 
> here, but i've had no messages sent to me directly yet which may help out 
> aside from the idea of maybe changing the cache ram.
> 
> any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> -tg
> 
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> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 20:02:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: Ted Ching <eauu906@ea.oac.uci.edu>
> Subject: Suggestions to Advaned Gravis
> 
> I don't know if Gravis actually reads these messages, but I here are some 
> suggesstions to them.
> 
> 1) Make 1 megabyte a standard for the GUS & GUSMAX.  Unfortunately, many 
> people who buy the card want it to play games. They don't want any extra 
> hassles. Extra hassles means less GUS's in the world.

Most games and programs handles the less memory quite well.

> 2) Since the card's performance is based entirely on the software running 
> it, invest more money/resources in professional programmers. This means 
> flawless Sound Blaster emulation.

WHAT ??? Dont do the SB emulation. Do your own sound system. They are doing
there best I think (dont make me laugh).

> 3) Either update your General MIDI patch set, or increase the memory of
> your card. 1 MB is the bare minimum for General MIDI support. Or maybe
> find a way to use XMS memory as a cache storage for patches, which can be 
> loaded into the GUS when needed.

Use UltrMid if you have to have patch caching. And why use almost 9MB of
XMS memory who most people dont have on patches that are not needed. The
new software builds a list of used patches for each games and then loads
them the next time. quite nice i would think.

> Thats it. I really think that the GUS can become as famous as the Sound 
> Blaster one day if its implmented correctly. And please don't flame me for 
> this. Its just one man's opinion.

I is more famous then the SB, there was almost a riot a few year ago. The most
people thought we were infecting the news-groups and we had to have ower
own group.



Stanley Appel


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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 13:33:56 GMT
From: n9251896@eng.hud.ac.uk (MR. J.R.SINCLAIR)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #20



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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 08:14:56 +0800 (HKT)
From: Jonathan Chen <jchen@bbs.hkis.edu.hk>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #22

> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 21:43 GMT
> From: haydn@cix.compulink.co.uk (Haydn Evans)
> Subject: Upgrading
> 
> Hi All!
> I have a 1 meg GUS (upgraded), not the MAX. It came with ver.2.06 
> software. I purchased THE ULTRASOUND EXPERIENCE CD-ROM and tried to 
> upgrade the software to ver.3.56. Unfortunately it does not work. I have 
> tried numerous times but I get the following error, on loading windows,

GUS software version 3.56 have a known incompatibility problem 
with PCTOOLS or Norton's shell for Windows.  Simply upgrade (or 
downgrade) your version of software and the problem should go away.  Or 
you could start up windows with Microsoft's version of PROGMAN.EXE (edit 
the shell= line in SYSTEM.INI) and manually start the PCTOOLS Shell in 
Program Manager.

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:00:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: Sam <Samuel.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #22

On Wed, 22 Feb -1, GUS Server wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 13:37:30 +0500
> From: dbakken@BBN.COM
> Subject: Best CD-ROM for low-end use with GUS

> I guess, since I'm not a MS-DOS expert and don't have a lot of time
> to waste getting things working right, that I would be best off getting
> a daughtercard for the GUS and then the corresponding CD-ROM drive.

Wrong. If you have a spare slot in the computer, the easiest and most 
trouble-free way to do things is to buy the separate interface card with 
the CD-ROM. It's also cheaper. We have this setup with a Panasonic drive 
and it works just fine.

Sam

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:25:28 +0100
From: Nils Olav Brandstorp Bekken <NILSOBB@sofus.hiof.no>
Subject: GUS ver. 2.4 CD connection

I've bought a Toshiba CD-ROM 3.4 spin and I'm wondering if it's 
possible to connect a CD-ROM to a 2.4 ver. of the GUS.

I found a jumper on my GUS that says: CD "jumpernumbersomething"
But even if I've searched through all the docs that came with it, I 
can't seem to find it listed anywhere. 

Can someone help me out on this one.

Thanks.

Nils.
E-M: nilsobb@sofus.hiof.no or nils.bekken@euronetis.no
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 07:31:44 -0500
From: kjancef@tiac.net (Ken Jancef)
Subject: I GOT FRONT PAGE SPORTS FOOTBALL WORKING!!!

Boy oh boy!!!!! I FINALLY got Sierra's Front Page Sports Football Pro 95 to
work!!!!!!

All you have to do is run MAXBOS with the /A option like this:

SBOSON /A

And voila! It works!!!! The music is awesome!!! And the sound is great too!

Somebody else please try it, just so I don't think I was dreaming!

Ken Jancef

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:59:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher McKillop <cdmckill@sail.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Lion King and Native GUS Support...

Hello...

I have recently installed Lion King on my 'puter and the NATIVE 
GUS support doesn't work.  I have tried using different IRQ's and DMA's 
but to no avail.  I can use MAXSBOS, but the music is WAY, WAY to fast.  
Has anyone out there gotten the native support to work??  Many thanks...

Chris

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 12:50:11 "CST
From: Jim English <jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu>
Subject: LucasArts messages

hmm, I must say that it is a bit suspicious that all the people who
sent a complaint letter to lucasarts got the _exact same_ reply.  It
could just be that this guy got tired of answering the same question,
or it could be some auto-generated reply...hmmm
-jim
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:03:31 +0000
From: "Chris Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: MaxBos beta .021 and Magic Carpet, Yuk!

Has anyone had any success with Magic Carpet and the latest MaxBos 
beta?  Although I get Great SFX sound, the music is really poor.  
There is a dull hum/buzz always.

This is the only program I have that has this problem, but almost 
everything else supports GUS natively. (almost)

Any successes?  Is there a later maxbos beta?

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 18:42:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harry C Pulley <hpulley@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Re: maxsbos causing reboots

On my system, maxsbos only reboots if I am using emm386.  himem or qemm 
works fine.  This only happens for protected mode games which don't need 
emm386 anyways.

I have a 1MB GUS Max on a 486DX-33.

Harry

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 12:41:26 -0700 (MST)
From: "Ignatius Tam" <itam@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: misc answered...

Forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 10:02:13 -0600 (CST)
> From: rwright@dhostwo.convex.com (Randy Wright)
> Subject: Archives of recent Ultrasound digests?
> 
> anonymous ftp site carrying more recent back issues?  If not, do any
> readers have private archives which they could upload to one of the
> current ftp archive sites? If readers will email responses to me, I'll

visit my page... hope this helps...

> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 13:37:30 +0500
> From: dbakken@BBN.COM
> Subject: Best CD-ROM for low-end use with GUS
> 
> I guess, since I'm not a MS-DOS expert and don't have a lot of time
> to waste getting things working right, that I would be best off getting
> a daughtercard for the GUS and then the corresponding CD-ROM drive.

even if you have the daughtercard you still have to mess with
drivers, the point of getting a daughtercard is just to save you a
slot, that's it.  IMO, getting a separate card is better.

> daughtercard sounds very interesting if I could later get SCSI hard drives

to what i've learned, SCSI on a soundcard is too slow to drive a hd,
it's only enough to drive a cd-rom; moreover, you'll encounter less
hassles when u're upgrading.

> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 11:24:49 GMT
> From: S94 <abrahami@cs.man.ac.uk>
> Subject: Dark forces-gus
> 
>>We hope to support the GUS card in native mode for the release version of
the
>>game. Hope you liked the demo!
> >
> >Ian / LucasArts
> 

oh, this message appears 5 times... it seems it's autoreply...
folks, don't count on that...

> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 21:46:50 -0500
> From: Nick Avgerinos <gambel@wam.umd.edu>
> Subject: OS/2 Warp/WinOS2 Question...
> 
> for the GUS drivers (in windoze) saying that the driver needs to be in
> Enhanced Mode to run, and then another error saying that the GUS can't be

yup, u did nothing wrong here.

> I understand that the OS/2 probably had control of the GUS set for itself.
> My questions are these: Is there are way to set Windoze to run in 
> Enhanced Mode (I couldn't find any on the settings) and will this fix my 

nop, you can't. period.

> problem, or is it even possible to get the GUS to work in Windoze while in
> OS/2.

nop. except:

1. register Manley's driver
2. bug gravis to release a non-VxD win driver

> 
> If it's not possible, is it at least possible to get it so it doesn't
display
> those error windows every time I load a Windoze program, while still having
> the drivers installed so I can run Windoze from DOS???  Or am I the only

my best and easiest way: install another windoze on your warp drive

-iGnatius

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 09:37:43 EST
From: ukrwitt@apg.philips.co.uk (Trevor Witten)
Subject: MK2 demo...

Hi,

Can someone e-mail me the ftp site address of the MK2 demo as well?
Thanks :)

Trevor
trevorw@pavilion.co.uk

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:27:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Woldrich <davew@uofport.edu>
Subject: Okay.. more memory is important..

I'm not a big shooter when it comes to the GUS, but I think that a 
question needs to be raised about the future GUS/AMD Interwave:

   What do we, the consumers, want to see in the amount of base RAM that
   will be shipped as standard on the next "GUS"?

I mean, I'm trying to tinker with the GUS programmically.  Because the 
silly original GUS came loaded with only 256K, I have to cater to the 
lowest common denominator when writing software -- this cramps my brain.

I would like to organize some sort of informal poll among folks on this
list.  If you would like to have some say, please mail me with the amount
of RAM you would like to see shipped as standard on every new GUS.  This
might make design and cost issues inside Gravis easier if we let them know
how we feel now.  Anyhow, I'm assuming that the next GUS will be able to
use SIMM modules instead of DRAMs, so you'll probably need to base your
vote on available SIMM module sizes out there...  My address is
davew@uofport.edu

Mail me before February 29.  I will tally your votes and post them to the 
GUS general mail server on the next day.  I will repost this a few times so 
everyone gets a look at it.  PLEASE DO NOT POST A VOTE TO THE MAIL 
SERVER -- that is clutter and clutter is *LAME*!  Don't be a lamer.  :)

GUSsin along..
David Woldrich    (davew@wally.uofport.edu)  |  Majoring in Computer Science 
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         "Uh ... d'they do that with LASERS?!?!"  -Dave Letterman 
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 19:02:53 -0600
From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin)
Subject: OS/2 and Win31 and GUS

Again Y'all,

Gravis messed up when they wrote the Win31 drivers. They are VxD's which
allows direct hardware access. This also compromises whatever stability a
version of Windows might posess...

Anyhow, as an OS who cares about not crashing every other day, OS/2 won't
allow these drivers to load. This is about the only Win31 item not
compatable with OS/2.

So, either find OS/2 native versions of your apps and utils, or unload the
drivers. It's also possible to make a batch file that swaps *.ini files
depending if you are in DOS or OS/2.

On another note:

Even though the response fom Lucas Arts was canned (i got the EXACT thing
too), hopefully the volume of mail sent will convince them to make that "we
hope" to "we will".
                                                  Baskin -)
                                                  The University of Texas at 
                                                  Austin
                                                  Team OS/2

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 18:34:24 MET
From: Alessio Lomuscio <tcmb0081@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it>
Subject: Patches, Patches, Megaem and drivers

 Hi everybody ,
 I am getting really disppointed of how gravis is managing the ultrasound.
 You send the card and you dont get anything for two years.
 
 Everytime a new release of the install-disks is out there is ALWAYS something
 not working ( now for the 3.59 for example its just clear they even didnt try
 to install it on a single machine and see if the gus was functioning).
 
 They announce something ( read Megaem protected mode ) and after 2 months
 none has seen even the beta.
 
 We just cannot let everything go this shameful way.
 
 If the situations keeps this way i am going to sell this card.
 Alessio.
 
 P.S. : yuck! when i wrote the subject i thought i would have not be so 
        polemicus but while writing i got much angry! :) Bye


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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 23:47:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Loren Kling (that's me) <lkling@rohan.sdsu.edu>
Subject: Rise of the Triad -- HELP!!

I just got the full commercial version of Rise of the Triad but I am not 
able to get sound effets to work when playing the game.  

I ran the sound setup and selected the Ultrasound for sound effects and 
music.  When I selected the Ultrasound for sound effects, and each time I 
entered the Sound setup afterwards, the GUS (MAX) with 512k would play 
various midi notes.  WHILE IN THE SOUND SETUP, when I moved in and out of 
selection screens, I would get sound effects.  When I ran the game, 
however, I get music perfectly, but no sound effects.

I even tried using SBOS (E.exe file and Soundblaster selection) but game 
could not find the SB.

Any ideas??

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 19:00:22 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Jude Coyne <umcoyne0@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: Tie Fighter Drift Problem

Anyone else noticed that when the digital sound effects are turned on in 
Tie Fighter, a joystick plugged into the GUS will cause huge amounts of 
drift.  And it's a drift to the bottom left too, very annoying.

This joystick is absolutely rock solid in XWing, but Tie Fighter is 
virtually unplayable with the digital FX on, with both SBOS and Megaem.  
Sigh.

Anyone got any ideas how to fix this, short of turning off the sound?


Michael

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:00:33 +0000
From: "Chris Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: Will Gravis ever really support General Midi??

A couple months ago I wrote gravis and asked them if they would ever 
really support General Midi. (MegaEM works with almost nothing these 
days... expanded memory? humpf)  I got a snotty response from one of
their techs saying "a super version of MegaEM is in the works".

A couple  issues:

1. Hopefully it won't require expanded memory.
2. It better work with protected mode.
3. it will be nice if SB emulation is provided simutaneously.
4. I hope MaxBos isn't what the tech was talking about. (no GM)

I really like my GUS MAX, but I would sure like it if it DID support 
General Midi like it says on the box (emblazed on the box actually).

Maybe this is hoping for too much.  I just purchased a Tropez card
and have almost everything the GUS does, plus General Midi, plus 
better than Sound Blaster Pro emulation (no drivers), plus I can put up to 12 
megs on it, and I paid less.

Does anyone have the scoop?  Or has Gravis given up on us GF1 folks?

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