Ultrasound Daily Digest     Thu Jun 17 00:37     Volume 4: Issue  17  

Today's Topics:
			   bad motherboard causing sampling noise?
			Canada's Post not a source of national pride.
							Canadian disks
							  ecoquest 2
				   EOB II and ver2.06 SBOS problem
				 Football from Dynamix wiht New Sbos
						gravis / adaptec 1542b
						 MIDI BOX from SB-Pro
					   MOD player for Windows? 
						More GUS 2.06 Problems
						  responses to post
				  The music in Twilight Zone's demo.
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #16
						 Where are MY disks?
								Wow!!

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 14:25:22 BST
From: "James Andrews, User Support" <james@sol1.east-london.ac.uk>
Subject: bad motherboard causing sampling noise?
Message-ID: <9610.9306161325@uk.ac.uel.sol1>

Heres a little problem with sampling that has been annoying me for
months.  When I use the ultrasound to sample anything it has a small
amount of noise in the background.  This is noticable in the fade sections
of samples not so much when you are shouting into the mic.

This problem occurs:

* with mic or with line in
* with no signal, high levels, low levels
* under MS windows/USS8/ the SDK example program
* with various combinations of emm386, smartdrv, ram disks etc etc

In a nutshell whatever I do in software it makes no difference the fizzling
noise bursts are still there.

I do vaguely remember reading in csips that someone said that there could be
a problem with noise on the bus on some motherboards: the fizzling noises
are caused by the soundcard picking up and sampling the noise of its own DMA
bursts.

Is this true for some motherboards?  Is clear sampling on a GUS actually 
possible?  If it is the motherboard at fault ( I have a very cheap motherboard)
then what statistic do I ask the suppliers in order to get one that I can use 
for sampling? (eg. bus r/f noise or something )
Will the 16bit sampling daughter card suffer in a similar way?

My gus/pc combination plays back pretty much crystal clear

Comments please
james@sol1.uel.ac.uk

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 09:06:27 +0501 (EDT)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Canada's Post not a source of national pride.
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9306160927.A25737-a100000@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

To my dear cousins north of the border, 

	I don't know what you are complaining about after all everybody
knows that the Canadian mail service is one of the worst in the world. 
Not only are the workers always going on stirke but the mail is ALWAYS
sloooooow.  It can take 4 days to 2 weeks to get a letter from Eastern
Canada to the West.  This is not to say that the U.S. post does not have
its problems our postal workers seem to always be shooting one another. 
Do not worry it is a wild west thing you would not understand.  

	Anyways my fellow Canadian GUSers do not worry your disks will
come, eventually.  ;-)

	Till then happy GUSing



			Gunnar Swanson



gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu


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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 09:56:24 -0400
From: "Frank Pikelner" <frank@cs.yorku.ca>
Subject: Canadian disks
Message-ID: <9306161356.AA16291@cs.yorku.ca>

Did Gravis forget us Canadians. I've been sitting, waiting, wondering when
it is that Gravis will decide to send us our promissed disks. I've seen
people who have received them from all over the world except us (or me). Any
one have any clues?

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	   ___/     /   Frank Pikelner                                        /~\
	  /     _/ /    Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science  <v.v>
	 __/   ___/     York University (Toronto, Canada)                    ,\^/;
   _/    _/         Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca                          _{!}_
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 8:05:12 CDT
From: Michael J Stumpf <mjs7529@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Subject: ecoquest 2
Message-ID: <9306161305.AA24143@tamsun.tamu.edu>



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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 13:40:31 MST
From: Fred W. Kuhlman <kuhlman@skate.az05.bull.com>
Subject: EOB II and ver2.06 SBOS problem
Message-ID: <199306162040.AA26138@mailsrvr.az05.bull.com>

  I just received the new version 2.06 disk set from Gravis and after
installing them I ran EOB II.  The music is horrible.  There is a ringing
buzz all the time also.  The pervious version of SBOS I used was 2.04
and I had no problems with it.  I still have the same port setup as before
and I am not using any switches.  Could someone please help.
Thanks....

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|  Fred W. Kuhlman      |  kuhlman@skate.az05.bull.com     |
|  (602) 862-4425       |  Internet: 141.112.24.1          |
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 09:36:59 EDT
From: thduda@mosaic.uncc.edu (Tony H Duda)
Subject: Football from Dynamix wiht New Sbos
Message-ID: <9306161336.AA03506@mosaic.uncc.edu>

The new sbos (v2.0b9) seems to work with the XWING.  But now, I have a problem ith the Front Page Sports: Football from Dynamix.  The game have sound at the 
begining, but later in the actual game playing, no sound and no music. I check 
the sound is on, and music too.  The game works fine with the old sbos.

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 09:41:47 +0100 (BST)
From: Dave Ingles <davei@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: gravis / adaptec 1542b
Message-ID: <23391.9306160841@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>

I have just moved my GUS card to a machine which has an Adaptec 1542b SCSI
controller installed and I am experiencing problems in getting the GUS to work.

Whenever the install program runs the tests, I get the following message and
my machine locks up :

	i/o channel check - checking for segment address...
	offending segment: 0000
	press f1 to disable nmi, f2 reboot

When I select the diagnostics section and run the tests, I have found
that both 'sbos mode' and 'dma channel' tests display the 'offending
segment ...' error and crash the machine 

Has anyone else experienced this ? Does anyone know of a solution ?

Davei

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 08:23:53 PDT
From: Scott.Jordahl@Eng.Sun.COM (Scott A. Jordahl)
Subject: MIDI BOX from SB-Pro
Message-ID: <9306161523.AA21919@klinger.Eng.Sun.COM>

I just inherited an SB-Pro MIDI breakout cable and wanted to know
what needed to be done to it to make it work on the GUS. I know there
was discusion about this a while back, but I can't seem to find the
information anymore on EPAS. Any pointers would be appreciated.

-- Scott

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 18:55:33 -0400
From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Re: MOD player for Windows? 
Message-ID: <9306162255.AA17904@magick.tay2.dec.com>

>   Does anyone know of a MOD player for the GUS that works in
> Windows?  I've tried Win Pro MOD, but it doesn't seem to
> work.

Works fine for me, although it does miss notes occasionally and (I think)
isn't fully "Protracker" compliant. What doesn't work for you?

DDA

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 12:52:32 EDT
From: decvax!yfandes.agfa.com!pasky@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com (Bob Pasky)
Subject: More GUS 2.06 Problems
Message-ID: <9306161652.AA03761@yfandes.agfa.com     >

Ok, so I think I figured out my first problem (GMODDEMO.BAT
complains that I need to run MOD\SETUP every time).

It turns out I had previously set GUSMOD=C:\ULTRASND\UTILS
in my AUTOEXEC.BAT. GMODDEMO.BAT was looking for the GUSMOD.CFG
in the MOD directory, and SETUP was putting it in the UTILS
directory. GMODDEMO should look for the GUSMOD environment
variable, but I don't remember enough about DOS batch
programming (backward compatible to version 3.0?) to know if
this can be done.

Now for a new problem: The Windows Sound Converter! I tried
to convert a .SND file previously created with USS8 to a .WAV
file (since it's the only thing the SC plays -- why? I thought
this was a supposed to be a converter; it should know how to
interpret .SND, .VOC and .WAVs).

When it finished and put up that totally useless dialog box
announcing that it was done, I clicked on OK, and got a GPF
which caused an infinite GPF in my Norton Desktop for Windows!
Had to use the RESET button to get out... Looks like I'll be
using SOX for a while longer.

And an update on a previous problem: (LOADSBOS gets an error
loading the patch library). I installed a previous version
(2.04) of the SBOS directory and the same problem occurs.
Yes, I moved the driver and LOADSBOS up to the \ULTRASND
directory, and no, I'm not loading it high.

Any suggestions?

-- Bob

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 8:14:56 CDT
From: Michael J Stumpf <mjs7529@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Subject: responses to post
Message-ID: <9306161314.AA25021@tamsun.tamu.edu>

For the benefit of the general public,

I was told that to fix sierra games it is necessary to use the windoze
patchmanager and load a patch set, such as 1024.mid..

Thanks to all of you that responded so quickly.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 11:31:15 +0930 (CST)
From: SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au (Gavin)
Subject: The music in Twilight Zone's demo.
Message-ID: <930617113115.43b8@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>

Here's something I didn't know but thought the rest of you may be interested as 
well....
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G>the music in the last two parts of jungly kitchen are
G>great, is it possible to get those in a general type music file? I'd like to
G>able to play them as background music on my PC in Windows.
Just rename the biggest files to *.MOD and play them with a module-player :-)

Morten Eriksen - The Bogeyman / Twilight Zone
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 08:55:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: HIMELSTEIN MEAD JEFF <himelste@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #16
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05a.9306160814.A21019-b100000@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>

On Wed, 16 Jun 1993, Ultrasound Server wrote:

> From: MoonCat <T.D.Witten@lut.ac.uk>
> Subject: X-Wing...
> 
> I've just installed X-Wing + the new Gravis update disks. SBOS 2.08 seems to 
> work ok - the adlib music plays and you can even occasionally hear samples. It 
> does slow the game down a lot (running on a 386,33) but if you turn the 
> in-flight music off things are ok - and the digital sound works fine. However, 
> you can still hear the occasional parts of the music, at a low volume - 
> despite the fact that it should have been switched off. And now when there is 
> an explosion, I hear a couple of music chords as well as the sample. Has 
> anyone else had this problem? Am using Dos 5, 4mb Ram configured to 1Mb XMS, 
> Stacker, SBOS 2.08/2.09b and the ultrasound is configured to DMA channel 1.
> 

I'm having the exact same problem posted here several days ago but got no
response. I'm beginning to think that the GUS is just incompatible with
Xwing, so much for their "compatibility plus" guarantee <grin>

Has anyone been able to get Xwing to work (without bugs) with the GUS?????

Mead
Boulder, Colorado

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 07:43:45 EDT
From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: Where are MY disks?
Message-ID: <9306161143.AA14237@pesto>

John Smith wrote:
 
>> ALL the disks were mailed out way back when over a one week period. 
 
For the umpteenth time...where are *MY* disks!!!!???????  John, 
I have already sent you my new address as you have requested 
and I still don't have my disks!!!!!!!!

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 0:54:21 PDT
From: Aaron Ryan <aaronr@ucs.usc.edu>
Subject: Wow!!
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.2.740217261.aaronr@skat.usc.edu>

Hey people,
	Just got my GUS sound board.  I was ready for it.  I had the memory 
upgrade waiting and all the software ftp'd and ready to go.  The demos played

great and so did the mod player (best of all sbstudio).  Well, anyway,
I had all the Sound Blasters (ver. 1(sucked) -> SBPro(stereo) -> SB 16 ASP 
(clear-- but not good enough)) and I like the GUS the most.  
I sold my SB's... Now I'm a dedicated GUSer.
I don't care so much about the Gamesand SBOS... 
supports on the way for the new games anyway.  
I suggest buying a GUS board it's great!!!!! 
(Don't wait or you'll miss out on all the excitment)

Now, for a question,
When I use Winmod in MS-Windows, it sounds just like the old card (sound
blaster) in mono and digitized (yuk)....will there ever be a mod
player that can play Music to the full Ultrasound capacity
(as demonstarted in the demos) underwindows..or is 
that prohibited by the way windows uses sound cards?

Love my GUS.....
Aaron "Lone Star" Ryan
aaronr@skat.usc.edu

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