Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sun,  7 Feb 93       Volume 2 : Issue  35 

Today's Topics:
							   Comanche
							DRAM problems
					   Full MIDI On GUS Found?
						 Links386Pro & SBOS?
							OPTI question
							Questions... 
							 SBOS lockup
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #34

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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 19:19:52 MST
From: ehobbs@prism.nmt.edu (Eric Hobbs)
Message-Id: <9302070219.AA08641@prism.nmt.edu>
Subject: Comanche
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi.

I've been noticing that people have been having problems with
getting the digitized sound to work.

I've got a 256K GUS, with a 386-40, and SBOS 1.23, and it has
always worked flawlessly.  I think it worked fine with 1.22 also.

Install the patch, reconfigure the sound by running comanche's
SOUNDSET.EXE, reboot with just HIMEM and the GUS settings, and
run SBOS with no options.  Works for me!

Have Fun.
Eric A. Hobbs
ehobbs@jupiter.nmt.edu

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Date: 06 Feb 1993 09:56:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: OH YEAH? <HOLLYK@SSCvax.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Message-Id: <01GUEB490BZA95O4D2@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject: DRAM problems
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In Ultrasound Digest #33 v2 ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat Tran) writes:

>Gravis first shipped the GUS with 100ns DRAMs, but then started shipping
>boards with 70ns chips. This leads me to suspect that 100ns is not 
>fast enough.

I too have been having trouble with DRAM. When I upgraded, I removed the
original 100ns chips and installed 8 70ns chips. After that, only the 
mididemo and flidemo worked. SBOS does not work at all. Crashes every time.
When I called Gravis, they said that it shouldn't make any difference what
speed I used and that I better ship the card back to them for warranty repair.
I have to wonder why they would have used 100ns chips in the first place if
it didn't matter. Are 100ns cheaper for them? I for one have had great
difficulty locating shops that still stock 100ns. They look at you kinda
funny when you ask for it!
I also had inconsistent reports from the DRAM tester but then again it is a 
beta release isn't it. :-)


Kevin Holly

hollyk@sscvax.cis.mcmaster.ca

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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 14:16:49 EST
From: "The Wombat" <mfrazer@skidmore.EDU>
Message-Id: <9302061911.AA05494@scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Full MIDI On GUS Found?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	I was at the Crossgates mall in Albany NY yesterday, and I've
been toying round with purchasing a GUS ever since I've heard bout it
on the net, while at Babbages I picked up a box for one, and a lable
was affixes to the back over older specs, of note was the fact that at
the bottom of the label, in the midi specs it stated that it contained
all 192 general/stendard or whathave you midi patches.
If it's in the stores, my guess is it'll be shipping soon, and No, I
haven't yet gotten my GUS, I'm not sure if my visa would have taken
the 150 since I bought around 500 woth of books in this billing cycle.
Enjoy The Weather, no one else will...
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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 13:28:28 PST
From: Lee Bollard <bollard@hpspkma.spk.hp.com>
Message-Id: <9302062128.AA05486@hpspkma.spk.hp.com>
Subject: Links386Pro & SBOS?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I've tried to get Links386Pro (ver 1.07) to work with SBOS but
haven't had any luck.  I've tried SBOS 1.20 and 1.22, and virtually
all the option settings.

I'd like to hear from others who have made Links386Pro work with
their GUS cards. Maybe they could suggest something I haven't tried.

When I go into Options I can't select any of the Soundblaster buttons.
At first I was using IRQ12.  Since that isn't on the list in Links options
I changed the IRQ to 2.  The SB buttons still don't work.  The links
readme file mentioned possible memory problems as a cause for these
symptoms.  After checking (golf /m) I have plenty of conv & ext memory.

Please tell me I'm missing something here.  Links386Pro is my favorite
game. 

Lee Bollard
bollard@hpspkma.spk.hp.com

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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1993 16:20:16 EST
From: wsm0@Lehigh.EDU (Wayne S. Mery)
Message-Id: <199302062120.AA54328@ns1.CC.Lehigh.EDU>
Subject: OPTI question
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Short of tearing open the PC, or buying GUS and having it fail, is there a
way to tell whether this chip is in my PC?
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Wayne S. Mery             Systems Programmer  Lehigh University Computing Ctr
WSM0@Lehigh.edu  (Unix)                       LUWSM@IBM1.cc.lehigh.edu  (VM)

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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 93 20:54:31 -0500
From: "It's your hand, Buckaroo" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Message-Id: <9302070154.AA15401@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Questions... 
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> 2. How about the 3D-techinque - do you have to have special recording
> equipment to create a 3D-sample? I am thinking of the microphones-in-a-
> head-technique...
>    Or can I take a normal sample, and then play them thru a special 3D-driver
> with some additional parameters to position the sound?
>    Must a 3D-sound have to be a static sample, or can you modify a sample
> in realtime to create the feel of "movement"?

It's the later, the sample is played through a special 3D driver with
additional paramters to specify postioning. Or so I'm told by Gravis. They
have a demo where you "move" a sound around with a joystick in realtime...

DDA

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Date: 06 Feb 1993 10:36:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: OH YEAH? <HOLLYK@SSCvax.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Message-Id: <01GUECJ91VUA95O4D2@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject: SBOS lockup
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In Ultrasound Digest #32 v2 simmons@ucf1vm.bitnet (Tad Simmons) writes:
]
>While using SBOS -d it locks up while loading SBOSS1.SBS......if I don't
run ULTRINIT first. If I do run ULTRINIT I don't get anything when I run
SBOS, immediate hard lockup.


I have had the same problem ever since I upgraded my DRAM. EXACTLY the same
problem. Native mode works but not SBOS. I also found that ULTRINIT caused
problems with my modem. When I removed it from my autoexec.bat my modem
worked again. Gravis has asked me to send the card in for warranty. Maybe
you should consider the same.

I am sending my card on Monday. I'll let everyone here know how long it takes
for me to get my card back.......     :-(


Kevin Holly

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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 7:28:22 PST
From: dedmunds@sfu.ca
Message-Id: <9302061528.AA03891@selkirk.sfu.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #34
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I sent a message to the Digest yesterday that somehow got butchered
by David's software.  For those who care, here it is again.

> 
> A brief followup to yesterday's message.  Apparently the registered
> version of Cakewalk is a little friendlier to Patch Manager than their
> demo.
> 
> From Greg Hendershott of 12-Tone:
> 
> > Hi.  Actually, the last maintenance release, 1.05, has a "YieldDevices"
> > setting you can make in WINCAKE.INI. With this enabled, Cakewalk surrenders
> > the MIDI devices when you activate another application, and regains them
> > (hopefully, if another program isn't hogging them) when you return. There's
> > no demo of 1.05 that I can give you, so you'll have to trust me, but it's
> > true <g>: this does what you said you wanted.
> >  
> 
> I'm impressed with their product and their customer service (and the
> forthcoming patch caching (GUS) support).  I'm going to buy.
> 

Darran Edmundson
dedmunds@sfu.ca

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