GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 23 Nov 94  9:37 PST     Volume 16: Issue  23 

Today's Topics:
						"Manley" OS/2 drivers
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				   16 bit digital recording on GUS?
						Buying a GUS soundcard
					   DOS extender and Megaem
							  GUS & NMI
						  gus & yamaha noise
				  Gus and voice recognition software
							 GUS demo cd
						  GUS experience CD
					   GUS MAX and SONY CDU-33A
							Load Runner II
							 Lode Runner
							 Noctropolis
						 Wacky Wheels problem
						  WarCraft and GUS?!
							   WinDoom?

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, 23 Nov 1994 11:22:55 +0100
From: Mark Ruys <markr@cs.kun.nl>
Subject: "Manley" OS/2 drivers

Yesterday I installed Manley's newest (registered) GUS drivers for
OS/2. I tried The 7th Guest. It ran perfectly with (CD-)voices and
midi music, exactly the same as in plain DOS. That's great!

Today I'll try Return to Zork. Besides ultramid, it runs gf166.com
from the ultramid directory. Can anyone tell me what this program
does?  What has it to do with midi?

Mark Ruys

(I hope I didn't misspell gf199.com)
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 16:48:33 GMT
From: Dave Griffiths PML Plymouth 0752-222772x271 <dkg@unixb.nerc-pml.ac.uk>
Subject: .



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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 12:28:22 MET
From: <martinus@morra.et.tudelft.nl> (Martijn de Jong)
Subject: 16 bit digital recording on GUS?

Hi Gussers,

I was thinking:
If you disconnect the adc from the gus and give it a direct
digital input from for example a cd-player (you'll need a
chip to convert the signal, but that is not too difficult)
it might be possible to record 16 bit with very high quality!
So you won't need the daughterboard, you'll just need some
other chips (this will be cheaper than the daughterboard!)
and the quality is better!
The problem in here is: Where are the 16 bit lines in the
gus?
any comments on this?

Martinus.

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 94 14:58:01 -0500
From: george@ll.mit.edu (George Valaitis)
Subject: Buying a GUS soundcard

I am trying to decide if I should buy a GUS soundcard or go with
the "wave" Soundblaster.  I have been reading about incompatability
problems, and frankly they worry be as unfixable.

I would like "game" compatability, but I'm willing to sacrifice this
for good MIDI performance.

I had a microsoft sound system.  It was poor.  This was replaced
with an Ensonique card (from Gateway).  This card had many bugs,
and was incompatible with everything.  The final straw came when
Ensonique's help desk (the Gateway people were useless) admitted
to known incompatabilities and was giving me instructions over
the phone on how to rewire (including soldering) the CD adaptor
cable.

The Ensonique went back for credit and I bought a Turtle Beach
Tropez card.  This card still will not record (static emits from
both speakers and nothing is recorded), I had to install EMM386
or (so I was told by Turtle) the card would not run correctly.
The windows games are slowed to such an extent that they are not
playable, and the "help desk" has not been able to fix the problem,
despite the promise of a call from an engineer (supposed to call
yesterday).  I realize that this kind of "help" is standard in
the industry, but when the driving software will not set the
interrupt on the card, I have to wonder about the quality of some
of the boards.

But when the only thing that runs correctly is "DOOM", you have
to wonder . . .

This brings me to my questions:

1.  If I get a gravis, will all the adaptors come with the card.
I had to buy a joystick port to MIDI adaptor from Turtle, and it
still isn't here yet.

2.  Exactly how compatible is the GUS?

3.  Is their software relatively bug free?

4.  How is their help - really?

5.  What is a good "street" price of a GUS?  With MIDI, sample
memory, and the appropriate driving software.

6.  Has anybody expeienced similar problems with "other" soundcards
and how does problem resolution compare with Gravis?

Thanks,
George
PS: If anybody cares, I have a Gateway 2000 4DX66 with 16 Meg of
memory, two hard drives, and smartdrive installed.  There is no
TSR stuff and I'm running DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1.

PPS: I finally did get to set the interrupt on the Tropez card
by editing the system.ini file.  I don't want to have to do this.
.

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 05:45:08 -0600 (CST)
From: ST4FX@Jetson.UH.EDU
Subject: DOS extender and Megaem

Has anybody else tried the game Warcraft? Megaem works great with it, but
it uses the DOS4GW dos extender. I thought Megaem was NOT supposed to work
with protected mode games? Just thought it was very peculiar, and has
anybody tried and gotten megaem to work with other 32 bit games?

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 17:02:16 -0330 (NST)
From: Bruce White <bwhite@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: GUS & NMI
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.941122165407.24636A-100000@plato.ucs.mun.ca>

I recently read in the latest FAQ that there are ways to slove the NMI=20
problem on some motherboards.  I tried the suggestion in the FAQ but it=20
did'nt work.=F6I took my computer apart and found what kind of chipset i=20
have i beleive it's a "Uni Chip u4800VLX" i have an AMI BIOS and=20
can switch on the parrity check but i still can't use SBOS because the=20
NMI is disabled. I purchased the computer from Steals Direct, in ontario,=
=20
and they assure me that the board is 100% ibm compatable. Can someone=20
help me please. Or let me know of who i can write to get some answers.
Also i heard that there will be a new version of Megaem available that=20
will run inprotected mode. is this true? when will it be available?

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 15:39:48 GMT
From: Dave Griffiths PML Plymouth 0752-222772x271 <dkg@unixb.nerc-pml.ac.uk>
Subject: gus & yamaha noise

 dragos@pub.ro (Dragos Manolescu) wrote:
Hi all, I have a GUS 3.7 and the original Gravis MIDI box, together with a
Yamaha PSR310 electronic keyboard. My problem is that, when the keyboard is ON,
I can hear a hiss in the speakers.

Use the windose level controller to drop the line in by say 10db ,assuming
you connect the lineout from th PSR to the linein of the gus mixer. This
was source of noise on by system, not the midi note off signal

Dave G dkg@pml.ac.uk

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 21:24:27 +0100
From: SIMEN LOKEN HAAGENRUD <SIMENLHA@sofus.hiof.no>
Subject: Gus and voice recognition software

Hi folks....

I was wondering if anyone knew about a program for voice recognition 
in Windows for Gravis?
I'll be really happy if anyone knew of a shareware or freeware 
program, but since I am not THAT blueeyed (or stupid) I would be glad 
if it was a commercial program out too.

Simen
Viking

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 00:13:31 -0330 (NST)
From: Bruce White <bwhite@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: GUS demo cd
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.941123001038.17179A-100000@plato.ucs.mun.ca>

where can i get a copy of the Gravis Ultrasound Experience CD-ROM demo?
How much is it? 

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 17:45:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Ngo <tngo@netcom.com>
Subject: GUS experience CD

	I'm still looking for a way of getting this.  I think I missed a 
couple of issues(maybe that's why I missed the post).  Anyways,  Is there 
any way I can get a copy?  E-mail address? snail mail? phone? what $$?
I live in San Francisco, USA.  E-mail would be my perfered method of 
contact, but anything is good. :) (I really want that CD).

						tngo@netcom.com

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 16:20:29 +0000
From: "Chris Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: GUS MAX and SONY CDU-33A

I have the SLDC.SYS 1.73a, MSCDEX 2.23 and running Windows for Workgroups 3.11. 
I have the drive hooked up to my GUS MAX card and am experiencing 
intermittent lockups when in Windows (usually when running MYST).

I called SONY, and not surprisingly, they told me all my problems 
were caused by the GUS MAX interface.   What drivers does Gravis
reccomend for use with the MAX?

Anyone else had this experience?  Any guidance or suggestions
would be very welcome.

Does Gravis have a Faxback document on troubleshooting CDROM 
connections in general?

Thanks.

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 13:47:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher McKillop <cdmckill@sail.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Load Runner II

Somebody asked about Load Runner II, well, All I can say is that it sounds
WAY better on my GUS than on the PAS or SB.  It uses Windows GM for music
and any Windows Wave device that you have installed.  Worth playing!!1

	Chris

//// If you love your fun, die for it!!!!!, J.Biafra ////////////////////////

Christopher McKillop                cdmckill@novice.uwaterloo.ca
Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 19:59:30 GMT
From: Mike@sindev.demon.co.uk (Mike Watson)
Subject: Lode Runner

In message <199411221903.LAA03776@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> GUS Server writes:

> Anybody purchase Lode Runner for either Dos or Windows.  The box for Dos sez
> only Soundblaster compatible.  I am ASSUMING that the Windows, with the
> Windows Driver, has native GUS sounds.
It sounds superb in Windows, lots of nice MIDI music. And of course puts the
Soundblaster stuff to shame!
I dunno about the DOS one.

-- 
Mike Watson, Sinister Developments, Edinburgh, Scotland 

"Sorry, MY thoughts are a buck apiece." - Calvin and Hobbes

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 20:15:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Moore <yaga@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Noctropolis

Does anyone else have this?  I just purchased it, and it's by Electronic 
Arts (which means Origin, blech).  At any rate, here's my problem:  I can 
only get sound to work with sbos.  I believe it's protected mode, and 
there is no option for GUS, that's for sure.  With sbos, the sound cuts 
and goes, and makes it pretty worthless (crucial clues in dialogue are 
just junk).

Complicating the situation, my sbos is acting weird.  Something about the 
sboslib, I did get it to work, however I cannot remember the version 
number.  The install.cfg is in code, so I cant text edit it.  I'm 
stumped.  Any help would be greatly appreciated before I lambaste the 
Origin tech line.  

Thanks!

chris 
yaga@u.washington.edu

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 10:25:26 +0100
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: Wacky Wheels problem

I am trying to run wacky wheels on my new GUS MAX, but I can't get the
joystick to work properly. 

I already had a gameport on my computer and I want to keep using that
because I don't know how to disable it and I want to use the port for Midi
without buying a spilt box (if anybody has schematics for such a box,
please inform me). I disabled the GUS joystick with ultrinit -dj in
autoexec.bat, but the joystick just won't work. If I run SETUP or WW, the
computer hangs and I must press the RESET button to get it rebooted
(CNTR/ALT/DEL doesn't work).

What must I do to get it working? The gamepad is a 4 button digital one (not
analog).
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 11:52:30 MET
From: perk@stud.cs.uit.no (Per-Ivar Knutsen)
Subject: WarCraft and GUS?!

I just tried WarCraft by Blizzard Entertainment, but couldn't get any 
digitized sound from it. I was able to get SoundBlaster FM music 
(with SBOS), but no speech...

WarCraft runs through the DOS4GW extender, so MEGAEM is not an option.
The drivers that come with the game is some sort of AIL drivers, that's
all I found out about them (the drivers are not the regular 32-bit DLL). 

Anyone had better luck than me here? Or know where I could find an upgrade
patch for the GUS? 

Would be pleased if I got any quick replies!

--
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# Name       : Per-Ivar Knutsen     
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 08:56 EST
From: M.Irvin@dialogic.com (Michael Irvin)
Subject: WinDoom?

Ok, I've seen a lot of information being said about WinG and
and games that use it.  I for one would *love* to see WinDoom!
I know several people have expressed interest in this and no one
seems to be providing.  

My question specifically:  WinDoom - Where is it?

Is it commercial? Shareware? Vaperware? (as of today?)

Any information, of course, will be appreciated!

Thanks,
MCI
--
Michael C. Irvin  -=-  M.Irvin@dialogic.com
Software Engineer      Let's go Penn State! (10-0)
Dialogic Corporation   Let's go Steelers!   (8-3)

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