GUS Daily Digest            Sat, 5 Feb 94   007          Volume 11: Issue   3 

Today's Topics:
								CD Rom
							GUS0038 & Epas
					 gus0038.zip Where ? where ??
				 Little problems with new Gravis soft
				   New software problem (easy easy)
			   O.K., where's gus0038.zip? Not on EPAS.
					  Repeats of prevois digests
								Stuff
						  Submit Dir on Epas
							Ultramid 1.07
				Where are gus0037.zip and gus0038.zip?
					Where can I get gus0038.zip???

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, 4 Feb 1994 15:07:29 -0600
From: jack yang <jyang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: CD Rom

I called one of the Tech support people about my CD Rom....
   I wanted my Mitsumi to play thru the GUS. I've connected that Y connector
Thing to the back of the Mitsumi to the back of the Gus.  The Tech guy said
to add one thing like a /l or something to the ultrainit in my config. or
something.. Well my point is I forgot what he said so I'd appreciate it if 
someone could mail me and tell me what to do.
thanx
Jack

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 23:24:45 -40962758 (PST)
From: adaswani@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Adarsh Daswani)
Subject: GUS0038 & Epas

If Gravis decides to release any more 2.5 meg updates, I truly hope
they find a faster FTP site than Epas...

Adarsh

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 10:02:20 -0500
From: Philippe Chayer <chayer@info.polymtl.ca>
Subject: gus0038.zip Where ? where ??

Can anyone tell me where I can get it ? (don't just give me the site, give the path please....

		   Philippe Chayer
				   chayer@info.polymtl.ca
_________________________________________________________cut here______
If it's there and you can see it, then it's real.
If you cannot see it and it's there, then it' transparent.
If you cannot see it and it's not there, then you deleted it...
						  ;)       See ya !!!

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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 12:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: DMC5483@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Little problems with new Gravis soft

My main question is... how do it use these AIL drivers with sc2000.
I remember you have to copy a file to a file , run ultramid, ebla,blaa.
Could someone explain exactly the procedure? Please??

Also, When I installed the new 3.1 software, and ran windows,
It never created a new GroupIcon, so I have NO idea what new
window routines are there. Could someone please list them and
their respective file names, so I can add them to the group.
(like patchmaker lite? WinMOd? is there more.??)

And a little comment, I also lost keyboard control when I 
unloaded the new SBOS (using -f) from memory!!1

thanx to all for any help.

ciao.

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 13:20:52 +0100
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: New software problem (easy easy)

I also have a problem with the new software (GUS0038.ZIP), but of a
more mundane way - I can't find it! Where have y'all put it?
Searched epas - nope. Searched (or _tried_ as it wouldn't accept
anonymous logins) theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de, did the only
think I thought possible ("They shipped it off to Taiwan!")
and searched nctuccca.edu.tw, but nooooooooo. Well, as this is
Sweden, and Finland is kinda close, I also tried garbo, but
nothing there either.

(ehm.. the first word in the fourth line should be "thing" not "think")

So where is it? H E L P.

 Erik
 chief@lysator.liu.se

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 15:29:53 CST
From: Jon Fletcher <fletcj@tenfwd.uci.COM>
Subject: O.K., where's gus0038.zip? Not on EPAS.

After reading the last digest I received, (V5 #2), I saw all the reveiws of this
patch/upgrade.  But when I got to epas (and other mirrors) I couldn't find it.
What happend to it?

Also, what is with this upgrade gus0037.zip-- why is this one going to 
cost us $$.  After quickly reading the reveiw it looked like it contained the 
same things that gus0038.zip does !?!??

Confused -
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 08:49:20 -0216 (GMT-2:16)
From: "J.Waghorn" <ts0jwa@orac.sunderland.ac.uk>
Subject: Repeats of prevois digests

I don't know about other readers of this digest, but after joining
only on Tuesday, 1 February, I'm sick of finding multiple copies of
yesterday's digests within todays, is there no way round this ???




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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 13:16:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Stuff

> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 07:20:35 -0700 (MST)
> From: ddebry@lhasa.dsd.ES.COM (Dave DeBry)
> Subject: DIGEST ADMIN: You're right, there were no digests yesterday!
> 
>   There were no digests yesterday.
> 
>   This may not seem like an amazing news item to many of you,
> but then a lot of you thought it might be one for me, and so promptly
> mailed me to let me know that there was no digest.
> 
>   Folks -- I know when the digests have screwed up.

I guess you already know, then, that a 141kB digest full of rehashed 
and new messages landed in my mailbox yesterday. :)

> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 06:07:45 -0500
> From: gmyles@cml.com (MajorBBS: Amber)
> Subject: GUS0038
> 
> First of all I would like to say that the new installation program in
> this is pretty good.  It only overwrites files that have an older date
> stamp.
>
[...]
> -
> 4) The only real bug I found is that the GUSSetup doesn't work properly.
> When you change your DMA or IRQ settings it correctly changes them in
> Windows for you but not in your Autoexec.bat.  You have to do this
> manually: change the lines Set Ultrasnd= and the Set Blaster= lines.

Setgus only passes parameters back to Setup, and it is Setup which modifies
your system files.  If you run setgus from within setup, and allow setup to
modify your system files, then the set ultrasnd, etc. lines in your
autoexec.bat should reflect your new configuration.  

> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 11:17:52 GMT
> From: Hauxwell James S BSc 1 Mod Comp 93-94 <J.Hauxwell@teesside.ac.uk>
> Subject: Help!
> 
> I have just downloaded the new version of SBOS ( v3.8b )
> and I cannot get it to work.
> 
> The version I recieved with my card was v3.6 and when I tried to install
> it it came up with a message
>   ' The NMI Procedure on this PC is dissabled '
> 
> I then upgraded to v3.7 which seemed to fix the installation problem but it
> didn't acctually appear to function - i.e. wouldn't play any sound but the GUS 
> test program said it functioned.
> 
> Now I have upgraded to v3.8b I am getting the original problem back of -
>   ` The NMI Procedure on this PC is dissabled '

SBOS isn't able to detect a working NMI on your motherboard, so it's 
refusing to load.  If it thinks that your NMI is disabled, then it 
probably is, and without the NMI, SBOS cannot work.  It is often not
possible to re-enable an inactive NMI (since, often, it seems that the
designers of the motherboard chose not to implement it).

> My machine is a 486SX local bus with 4 megs of ram and both
> local bus I/O card and Video.  Can anyone help me or am I better not to bother
> with trying to emulate an inferior card?

Mega-Em will emulate a Roland MT-32 or GM synth and an SB DAC on the GUS
without requiring the NMI (but requiring that the program you plan to use
the emulator with runs in real mode), so you aren't entirely tied to SBOS.

> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 20:17:51 +1100 (EST)
> From: Andrew See <asee@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
> Subject: Indycar
> 
> Phat, regarding indycar, and it's inability to produce engine
> sounds on a Wavetable synth, don't forget we have RAM. THere
> is no Engine sound in the GM set, so I guess that is why they decided
> not to implement engines on the SCC-1 and others.
>  
>  Now, to produce the fm engine noises on the SB's, it must still
>  be using MIDI with an SB custom patch. It may be possible,
>  with a custom patch (Engine noise), and the right INI file
>  to get a real digital engine on the GUS with INdycar.

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 09:10:15 GMT
From: "Paul S. Hannell" <supph@wrksun1.wrk.dupont.com>
Subject: Submit Dir on Epas

What happenned to the Submit dir on archive.epas.utoronto.ca ???
There appears to be no entries !!!
Paul S. Hannell
PC/LAN Helpdesk
Conoco Centre, Warwick
UK: 44-(0)924-404742 ETN:8-379-4245
Internet:  supph@wrksun1.wrk.dupont.com

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 23:12:42 -0800 (PST)
From: David Hoang <dhoang@eis.calstate.edu>
Subject: Ultramid 1.07

I can't seem to get Ultramid 1.07 (the one that came with the v3.1 
disk/gus0038) to load preset patches using the '-c' command. It'll load 
normal and I'll either get a divided error or no music will be played. 
Loading it with patch catching works perfectly normal. Any sugestions?

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 17:01:39 +0100 (MET)
From: Rob Cozzi <cozzi@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: Where are gus0037.zip and gus0038.zip?

Maybe I am not particularly smart but I cannot find ON ANY SITE the files
gus0038.zip and gus0037.zip that everybody is going on about.
I only tried for a few hours :-(
Anyone who can give me a pointer? And please, don't say "epas" or something
like that without mentioning a full path. 
I've been there.
Five times.
Sometimes life sucks. 
I think I'll go home and listen to my ultrasound for a while..
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 13:26:10 -0600
From: Matt Schikore <schikore@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: Where can I get gus0038.zip???

I looked all over epas and wuarchive, where is gus0038.zip?

-Matt Schikore
schikore@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu

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From: (null)

> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 16:11:22 FWT
> From: tblanchot@vnet.IBM.COM
> Subject: Indy Car Racer
> 
> I can't get digitized sounds with 32 bit ail drivers. Does it need a
> special setup? My GUS is currently at 210,7,7,11,5.

Others seem to be able to get digital sounds in Indycar just fine.
The proper functioning of the GUS' 32-bit AIL drivers does not 
depend on any special setups (except one that works), and does not
require you to configure soundcard base addresses or IRQs for the
game.

> 
> Also does the couple Xwing & Megaem need the GUS to be in 220? Since
> I moved the GUS to 210 to install a sb 2.0 at 220, Xwing crashes when
> I start it.

You might need to tell Mega-Em to not emulate an SB if you already have a 
real one co-existing with your GUS.  Also, check to see that the SB
IRQ isn't conflicting with the GUS' IRQs.

> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 11:59:01 +0100
> From: rock@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE
> Subject: Privateer
> 
> Hi!
> Is there any way to get the digital part working ? I use SBOS 3.7 and
> have patched sound.tre with the ailpatch.

Avoid using IRQ 7 and make sure that the game is configured correctly
for the SB base address and IRQ.

> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 21:46:20 -0500 (EST)
> From: "D. Michael McIntyre" <dmcintyr@vt.edu>
> Subject: Problems with new Gravis software
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else had had the following problems:
> 
> First of all, the Windows MOD player seems to be CPU sensitive.  It plays on
> my 386-40 but it sounds like a 45 being played at 33.3 and is, as such,
> pretty worthless to me.  WinMOD may not sound that great, but it doesn't
> drag like that.

MODUS is just as light on the CPU as a DOS GUS MOD player, so CPU speed
isn't your problem (I have a 386-33 and MODUS runs full speed on it).  
You might have another program which is trying to use the WAV/MIDI portion 
of the GUS driver at the same time that MODUS is running.  MODUS requires
sole possession of the GF1, so anything that attempts to play sounds or
music through the GUS at the same time as MODUS will screw up or cause
MODUS to screw up.

> My second problem is probably my own fault.  I got Ami Pro for Windows and
> got to screwing around with fonts in Windows for the first time, and I
> decided to clean out all of the fonts that I wasn't using, to reduce the
> number of worthless choices from the font menu.  I killed everything with an
> 8514 or an EGA in it.

Bad move, but I guess you've figured that out by now.  Try restoring the
standard fonts found on the Windows install disks.

Phat.

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