GUS Daily Digest            Tue, 1 Feb 94   007          Volume 11: Issue   1 

Today's Topics:
							  .au files
							   CD Pins
						  Customize MEGAEM ?
							 GUS0038.ZIP
						  GUS Windows driver
							   indycar
							IndyCar 32-AIL
						  Limited FTP access
						  New Files at EPAS
			   New windows drivers and kq6 :: and GK CD
					   problems with reception
							   Thanks!

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: Mon, 31 Jan 94 09:53:55
From: blevins@MIT.EDU
Subject: .au files

>Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 21:35:06 -0500
>From: David A Denis <denis@acsu.buffalo.edu>
>Subject: .Au and more

>I found a whole bunch of these .AU files at some FTP site.  I realize you
>need to convert them tp play 'em.  I got a file called SUN2VOC.exe , and
>tried to convert a .au file I downloaded.  It  I then tried to play it
>with playfile but it was all crappy.  Any ideas what to do?  Some of the
>songs there are good, by good n bands.  Is there an FTP site like this one
>that has .WAV files?  I heard of an MTV one.  BTW it is athena.sdsu.edu
>and garfield.catt.ncsu.edu  .  


There is a .au player for windows called WHAM.  As long as you have the GUS
drivers for windows installed, then WHAM will play the .au files (among 
many other formats) on your GUS.  You can get it at the ftp site
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /PC/Mosaic/Viewers I think.
MTV has a WWW site where you can download .au files of current songs, if 
you have an ethernet hookup to the net, check it out using Mosaic.

Matt Conway
blevins@mit.edu


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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 09:48:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: CD Pins

> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 11:03:24 -0600 (CST)
> From: mjs7529@tamuts.tamu.edu (Michael J Stumpf)
> Subject: cd pin config
>
[...] 
> Any help is appreciated, the way it's set up currently is:
> 
> toshiba:
> 
>         [g r l]  (I think, this may be wrong, but it's g l r if so..)
> 
> GUS:    
> 
>         [r x g l]  (x indicates no connection)
> 
> in any case, someone please indicate to me which wire goes where.. do I
> just need to ground both middle ones, or just the leftmost one, or what?

The GUS' pins are [r g g l] (at least for the 2.4 - 3.x revisions), so the
GUS end of the connector seems to be correct.  I would think that only one
of the ground pins need be grounded, but you might try grounding both to
see if that matters.

> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 23:27:33
> From: Win Shaw <kws@khongws.pc.my>
> Subject: HELP: Gusser with severely limited FTP access.
> 
> Greeting Gussers,
> 
>     Just a simple plea for help as my FTP access is limited to 2.5MB 
> per month. Could someone mail these files in encoded form to the 
> newsgroup 'comp.binaries.ibm.pc'?
> 
>     1) Ultrajoy.exe  (with the bug fix)
>     2) midfir76.zip
>     3) pmak110.zip
>     4) gusdk210.zip
>     5) midiband.zip
>     6) patshad2.zip
>     
>     Thanks a HUGE bundle!!!!

Try send these requests to the niker mail server 
(mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de).  

Phat.

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 16:51:04 +0100
From: Gerd Reichinger <greichin@CSlab.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Customize MEGAEM ?

I wonder if it is possible to customize MEGAEM, so that (most of) the  
correct patches are loaded - instead of the standard set of patches.
I imagine that one could find out (don't ask me how) which MIDI  
instruments are really used by a certain game, so that you can decide  
which of the standard patches to replace by other, more suiting ones.
This could eliminate the 'wrong sounds' you can hear in many game  
tunes and which I find extremely annoying.
Let me know what you think of this idea, and if you know how to do  
this.

Greetings,
		   Gerd.

+----------------------------------------------------------+
I Gerd Reichinger        Schpne Grv{e aus sterreich       I
I TU Wien                no German font - no greetings ;-) I
I----------------------------------------------------------I
I email to: greichin@tick.cslab.tuwien.ac.at               I
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 12:32:16 +1030 (CST)
From: Gavin <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>
Subject: GUS0038.ZIP

OK, who uploaded a 2.5meg file? How about if some nice person could split this 
up into something that fits onto a floppy please.

Also what's the story with the v3.1 disks, are these to be mailed to anyone?

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 10:19:04 EDT
From: Henrique 'Snoopy' Vianna <HVIANNA@BRUFPEL.BITNET>
Subject: GUS Windows driver

 
Hi ev'ryone!
 
I am a happy recent owner of a GUS... well, I still have some
problems to make both my GUS and my SBPro live together, but
it's fun after all.
 
One thing that is really boring me is my Windows start. Since
I installed the GUS drivers, Windows now takes several seconds
to start up because the driver loads a lot of those patches...
It looks kinda useless, since the correct patches will be loaded
again for each .MID file I want to play.
 
My question is: IS THERE A WAY TO TELL THAT STUPID DRIVER NOT
TO LOAD THE DAMNED PATCHES BY THE WINDOWS START ???
 
Thanks in advance,
   Snoopy.
 
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Henrique Avila Vianna                                   hvianna@brufpel.bitnet
Universidade Federal de Pelotas                         hvianna@vortex.ufrgs.br
Centro de Informatica            "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
96010-900  Pelotas, RS  BRAZIL                               - Albert Einstein

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 21:50:38 -0500
From: Michael Dauria <dauria@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: indycar

Hi, I have a question about indycar and the 32 bit miles drivers, how
do I get engine sounds? I assume that I have to somehow adjust the 
patch.ini file.
Thanks Mike

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Date: 31 Jan 94 02:15:15 EST
From: Tom <70431.2447@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: IndyCar 32-AIL

	For some reason  the 32-AIL driver only gives SFX when crashing or at the
beginning announcement. There is no engine or skidding sounds. The music sounds
great though. Any suggestions?

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 08:21:48 -0800 (PST)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Re: Limited FTP access

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
$  
$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 23:27:33
$  From: Win Shaw <kws@khongws.pc.my>
$  Subject: HELP: Gusser with severely limited FTP access.
$  
$  Greeting Gussers,
$  
$      Just a simple plea for help as my FTP access is limited to 2.5MB 
$  per month. Could someone mail these files in encoded form to the 
$  newsgroup 'comp.binaries.ibm.pc'?
$  
$      1) Ultrajoy.exe  (with the bug fix)
$      2) midfir76.zip
$      3) pmak110.zip
$      4) gusdk210.zip
$      5) midiband.zip
$      6) patshad2.zip
$      
$      Thanks a HUGE bundle!!!!
$      
$      William

Unfortunately for you, William, posting binaries for this reason would be
inappropriate.  Besides, comp.binaries.ibm.pc is moderated, which means
that the files would have to be submitted for approval before they could
be posted, and that takes about three months with the backlog that group
has.

You have e-mail access, though, so you can get files via mail.  Send a
message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com, with the single line 'help' in the body
of the message.  The ftpmail server, if given the right commands, will ftp
a file for you, uuencode it, and mail the result where ever you specify. 
It's all detailed in the help message you will receive.


-- 
Mike Batchelor      |
mikebat@netcom.com  |                  This space for rent

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 18:36:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Fitzgerald Jr Steele <fjsteele@icaen.uiowa.edu>
Subject: New Files at EPAS

I downloaded the new files from EPAS today (yesterday).  As no doubt many
people will mention today, GUS0037.ZIP is a new version of SBOS, version
3.7B2.  This is an offical release (not that makeshift release from that
game).  I haven't checked out GUS0038.ZIP yet;  it's 2 megs and I didn't
want to terribly irritate my roomate by downloading 2 MB at 2400 bps.  But
I'm sure someone will know what it is...

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 15:06:50 EST
From: brian@ee.cornell.edu (Brian Kelley)
Subject: Re: New windows drivers and kq6 :: and GK CD

Jim English wrote in Digest #30 V10
> when i run kq6 CD version in windows when it gets to the scene where the guy
> has just gotten into the castle (after talking to lassie) :) and is talking 
> to the wizard guy with the turban, it just crashes my windows.  (drop to DOS)
> and if i run windows wo rebooting it says the sound drivers arent installed.
> but rebooting fixes it all.  So this seems like a problem with the new
> windows drivers.  Anyone else had thisd problem?
> -jim

I have had a similar problem with the Gabriel Knight CD and the New windows
drivers.  Here are the symptoms:

	1) breaks to dos if EMM386 has been loaded into memory and
		drops to DOS.
	2) Using only HIMEM.SYS, Gabriel Knight CD works for a while,
		then at some random point, the program crashes and
		hangs Windows
	3) (Also, Microsoft Arcade Pack will crash after a short time)
	4) All midi applications, Power Cords, Cakewalk ... + patchmaker work
		fine, so I don't know what the problem is.

Solution:  I reverted to the earlier windows drivers and everything works
		fine.  (even emm386)  This is my suggestion to your
		problem.  If you miss the fact that you can save the
		ultrasound settings from the mixer, you can do the 
		same thing from the control panel.


Anyone else have similar problems?

Brian Kelley
brian@marvin.ee.cornell.edu
	
	 

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 17:41:39 +0200
From: Erik Bunn <ebu@delta.hut.fi>
Subject: problems with reception

GUS Server writes:
 >  Your name could not be found in the GUS mailing list.  This
 > could be due to one of several reasons:

<reasons deleted>

I was trying to unsubscribe and resubscribe in order to start
receiving the digest again. Has anyone else been missing copies? I
haven't received anything for a few days.

So, please resubscribe..


Thank you;

//Erik

Erik Bunn // DiscworldRingworldCerebusSandmanC&HBrazilWandaXpilotRaceDrivin'
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".
		-- (Terry Pratchett)

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 11:17:52 -0500
From: David A Denis <denis@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Thanks!

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who wrote twelling me where to get
osx-- I mean SOX and other programs!!  This FAQ is a godsend.  
]OK, I understand that EPAS doesn't keep the old files, so I have to go
to a mirror, right?  Couyld someone tell me where the mirror is?
Thanks again!  Those .au files are only 8000kw, but they are still
listenable(is that a real word?)  
Dave

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