GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 26 Oct 94  9:37 PST     Volume 15: Issue  20 

Today's Topics:
					 CD-Audio Line-in under OS/2
							   Dune II
						   Give me a break
							Gravis' plans
						   gus 3.57 disks ?
					   GUS Daily Digest V15 #19
						  GUS Max w/ PCI bus
					Including the previous digest
						 Mail Delivery Status
							 Media Player
					MEGAEM and EMM incompatibility
							 Myst and GUS
						  MYST works fine...
						 OS/2 drivers (sigh)
		  PLEASE remove Reply-To: gus-general@mail.orst.edu
							   ProPats
						 Simple mixer thingy

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: Tue, 25 Oct 94 15:29:12 CDT"
From: Mike Laster <lasterm@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu>
Subject: CD-Audio Line-in under OS/2

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 15:39:16 -0400 (EDT)
> From: rjm@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca
> Subject: CD Audio line-in under OS/2
> 
> Mike Laster <lasterm@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > I am running a GusMax under OS/2 2.11, and when the system is first booted, my
> > CD audio input is disabled.  The only way I have been able to enable this is
> > to go into the MMPM2 CD tool, switch to digital transfer, and then switch it
> > off.  I can then quit this, and load up Albatros to play CD's.  This is very
> > annoying to do.  Is there an OS/2 program similar in function to ULTRINIT?
> > If not, does anyone know what value I need to write to what port in order to
> > turn this on?  I have the UltraSound Lowlevel Toolkit, and it makes no mention
> > of how to turn on the CD input...just line in, mic in, and the main output
> > signals.
> 
> Get ultra05e.zip from hobbes.nmsu.edu.  This is the first version to
> fix the external line-in disabling problem.  You might also try getting
> GUSmixer from the same site.

I'm running ultra05e.zip, and I still see the problem occasionally.  I think
it's only when the machine is first booted.  Since I don't reboot too often,
I don't see the problem too often.  I've also looked at GUSMixer, and the
version I saw didn't handle CD input. Just line in, mic in, and main out.
If there is a newer version floating around which can handle CD in, where can
I ftp it from?

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 22:09:40 -0400
From: Christian Brideau <brideau@revcan.ca>
Subject: Dune II
Message-ID: <9410252209.aa26043@macdonald.revcan.ca>

Hi GUS folks!
I remembered a while ago when the digest was young, that somebody has posted
a modification to dune.cfg that will allow the use of megaem.
It was posted because the setup program can't specify two different cards
for sound & Music, but the game was capable to... (pretty silly, huh?)
So would a nice gusmaniac be kind enough to repost that for me?
I just pulled out Dune II from the dust, and would really enjoy playing it
like these old days...

Christian O. Brideau
Cert. Analyst
Revenue Canada,
Customs, Excise & Taxation

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 16:51:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: rjm@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca
Subject: Give me a break

scannon@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> Subject: OS/2 Manley Dvrs Install
> 
> I've just downloaded the 5e version of the "Manley" drivers for OS/2 and 
> find the .doc file very lacking in installation instructions.  I have done 
> exactly as they state for installing the drivers.  I get NO sound in OS/2 
> and haven't a clue as how to install the WinOS/2 part of it.  I DO get great 
> sound in my DOS sessions though.

The docs are a lot better than Gravis' OS/2 installation instructions!
Seriously, I think that v0.5e has very detailed instructions.  Are you
reading all of it? (10K!)

> I would be eternally greatful to anyone who can give me detailed 
> installation instructions for these drivers.

Ug.

> I wrote Robert Manley an email asking for help and informing him that I 
> would gladly pay the shareware fee if he could tell me how to get them 
> working.  To date, I haven't heard anything from him.

If I didn't respond, I didn't get it.  As many people know in this
mailing list, I respond to ALL of my e-mail.

> PLEASE HELP SOMEONE!  I'm desperate for OS/2 sound on my GUS!

Try mailing me again.  If you have a bug to report, don't forget
to fill out the form included.

Robert.
-- 
# Robert J. Manley,  rjm@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca      #
# NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA      #
# OS/2:OSs :: 92,93 Blue Jays:MLB :: Canada:World #

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 21:13:21 -0700
From: dross@ultrix5.cs.csubak.edu (dean ross-smith)
Subject: Gravis' plans

As I was reading through the usual computer verbage on Warp and Win'95 I came
across a piece on Windows
supporting DSPs that run a bunch of applications from a single board. I'm
talking telephony, CD, audio and video decompression stuff.  Seeing as this
support is being added to PC OS's, wouldn't it make sense for gravis to head
in this direction (hence the teaming up with AMD)?  Its just a thought.
On a different note, has anyone out there seen or used WinG (speedier graphics
engine from Microsoft for Windows)?  The new Loderunner from Sierra supposedly
will support it and the docs in Loderunner said WinG would be out September.

Also, Has anyone had sound problems running Loderunner for Windows?

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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 11:59:06 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From: FLAT^^TOP <kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg>
Subject: gus 3.57 disks ?

so anyone got these ?
-- 
/===<Jerry Koh aka FLAT^^TOP at DISCS National University of Singapore>===\
| kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg, MsWFWG, GUSmax, Kelvin 64, & Supra v.Fc 28.8 user |
\====<DOOMer, X-phile, BattleTech, Babylon 5, StarTrek & StarWars fan>====/

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 13:49:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: George!!! <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #19

> If HMI is so much better than AIL, why do we still have to wait for patches
> from the game vendors so it will work with the GUS HMI drivers?
> 
> Riddle me that one, Batman.

The answer is really simple.  Read on, and take careful note at what is 
emphasized.

>> The following games listed are games that use the HMI drivers without GUS
>> support (they cut the game before HMI updated their drivers):
>>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[The rest deleted]

The GUS HMI drivers are one of the new batch of REVISED HMI drivers.  In 
other words, those games that use HMI but had no GUS support were 
released before HMI released a new batch of drivers.  The new HMI drivers 
are different than the old ones, so you just can't stick a GUS HMI 
driver.  It's like using a Windows 3.0 video driver for Windows 3.1.

-George

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 17:46:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: restrugo@netcom.com (Ramiro Estrugo)
Subject: GUS Max w/ PCI bus

Hi Gussers:

Is anyone using the GUS Max under a PCI bus ?  Does it work fine ?  I
specifically want to know if it works with an ASUS PCI motherboard.
Also, does anyone know if the GUS can live happily with a Number 9 GXE
Pro 64 PCI vga card ??

I used to have a GUS MAX with an ATI GUP and I could not get them to
live happily in the same machine...it was either one or the other ???

I would appreciate any info on this....

thanks.

-ramiro

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 17:38:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Seth Delackner <dax@rahul.net>
Subject: Including the previous digest

Would the Brainless #$!%%@ers who've been replying with entire digests 
please knock it the hell off?

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Date: 26 Oct 1994 12:08:12 GMT
From: "Central Postmaster" <POSTMSTR@MAIL.LOC.GOV>
Subject: Mail Delivery Status

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 20:20:46 -0500
From: jfulmer@databank.com (John Fulmer)
Subject: Media Player

>Finally a question of my own. At some point I acquired a new better
>Media Player than the one with Windows 3.1. It has more controls,
>and can play e.g. embedded AVI files while still in the host
>document (is this OLE2?). This is used to good effect in the
>MS Dangerous Creatures CD. Does anyone know if this Media Player
>came with this CD, or if not, where did it come from?
>

It either came from the Video for Windows package, The WIN32s package(?), or 
it could have come from the CD. Take your pick

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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 07:04:39 -0400
From: wright@lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright)
Subject: MEGAEM and EMM incompatibility

>MegaEm used to work fine for me on my i386DX33 with QEMM 7.04 
>but when i got my i486DX66 with the VERY SAME software 
>configuration than i had this EMM incompatibility.

I have the same problem. QEMM 7.04 and MegaEm worked fine
on my 486/33, but fails on my Pentium. Any suggestions?
Ted Wright (wright@lerc.nasa.gov)

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 20:20:43 -0500
From: jfulmer@databank.com (John Fulmer)
Subject: Myst and GUS

>
>   Has anyone gotten Myst to work?  It's not on the g-list, and I 
>assumed that since it was going through windog, it would be alright.  Uh 
>uh.  Total system lockup.   If I choose the making of Myst movie, it 
>freezes and I have to hard reboot.  If I choose the game, the screen 
>blackens, and something starts to come up, then an ungodly racket comes 
>from the gus and another hard boot is in order.
>
>Help!  Please!
>
>My system:
>
>AMD 486/67
>8 meg RAM
>2x Phillips CD-ROM
>Windog 3.11
>Dos 6.2
>Gus rev 2.4 (yep, an oldie but a goodie)
>Midi Irq: 11  Digital fx:  5  DMA:  1

Myst Worked just fine for me, (I have the 2.4 board as well). You might try 
installing another windows to a different directory, removing any extra 
drivers, removing the GUS drivers, and see if it works without them. Also 
make sure that it installed the quicktime drivers correctly.

jf

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|John Fulmer(jfulmer@databank.com)|      "I find it in-ter-es-ting,  *
|National Electronic Type         |       A noun's a person, place,  *
|Lawrence, Ks.                    |              or thing..."        *
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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 17:32 EST
From: 000082937@UCIS.VILL.EDU (LIFE IS A GREAT ADVENTURE)
Subject: MYST works fine...

	I have MYST, and I have no problems with it what so ever.
I am using an Intel 486dx2-66, 20 megs ram, SCSI MO drive, 2x cdrom, GUS v2.4
and the GUS 3.56 install disks.
	It worked fine at install, using ultrasnd at 220,7,7,11,7 with the
drivers from 3.53 with the gus0042/3? patch....  TRy changing your GUS settings
and using a small DMA buffer in windows.. Also try re-installing the 
gus drivers, they may be slightly corrupt.
					Harald van der Kam
				000082937@cats.ucis.vill.edu
				vanderka@monet.vill.edu
				FurySound - IRC #GUS

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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 03:17:30 -0700
From: Derek Suzuki <drkszk@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: OS/2 drivers (sigh)

	I now feel a surge of hope that I may yet see OS/2 support for the
GUS synth by year's end.  Of course, I say that every October.  Still, I
thought I'd mention a few things I'd like to see with the drivers.

	First, they obviously need to support onboard MIDI playback.  This
is the only reason I haven't registered Robert's drivers.
	Megaem functionality in a VDD is another obvious inclusion.  Robert
is reportedly working on this, but Gravis shouldn't have too much trouble
either.
	Driver-level chorus/reverb.  I keep hearing Linux people brag about
this, and rightfully so.
	A good patch management system for those of us who like to use 3rd
party patches.
	Support for the OS/2 MIDI subsystem when that clears the gates
(hopefully in the same time frame).
	Lots of nifty PM utils.
	Driver support for MODs, just because.
	Finally, is there anyway to make a WIN-OS/2 device driver that
passes requests to the MMPM driver?  I only thought of this because I read
once that IBM was thinking of implementing something along these lines.  It
would save me a lot of twiddling, as well as getting rid of that nast VxD
problem.
	I'll take any of this in small doses, guys, but after two years I
feel I ought to see some drivers soon.

Derek
drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 22:24:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Batchelor <M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net>
Subject: PLEASE remove Reply-To: gus-general@mail.orst.edu

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remove Reply-To: gus-general@mail.orst.edu from the
list configuration!

Seems like everytime a subscriber's mailer has a problem, and bounces, we
all get another copy of a previous digest.  Today's digest had THREE - count
'em - THREE bounced copies of a previous digest!!!

-- 
M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net

Administrator's note: Please understand this has nothing to do with the
	Reply-To: header since there is a Return-Path header and 99% of
	all bounces have went back to gus-general-owner@gaia.ucs.orst.edu
	instead of gus-general@gaia.ucs.orst.edu, this has nothing to do
	with the Reply-To: header as that is to make it so people have
	easier access replying/submitting a article but might be more due
	to the bouncing systems mailer setup since if the Reply-To: header
	was the problem, wouldn't mailing lists and digests running under
	Majordomo have the same problem?  Thanks and Happy GUSing! 


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Date: 24 Oct 1994 18:27:00 +0200
From: christian@birdy.ping.de (Christian 'Kiki' Schmitz)
Subject: ProPats

In the last time I always hear about some patches called propats or  
something like that. Are these patches entirely better than the patches  
from gravis. So, is it worth downloading ?

-------------> mostly harmless

Christian    (0234)232783            christian@birdy.ping.de
## CrossPoint v3.0 ##

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 16:49:19 -0500
From: scottb@cnde.iastate.edu (Scott Bilas)
Subject: Simple mixer thingy

Could somebody refer me to a book or mag on building a mixer?  At least I
think that's what I need.  I have a GUS and a PAS16.  [Why do I have a PAS?
It's a great, cheap card, and it has drivers for Windows NT (GUS DOES NOT,
arrr...wait for win95 I guess)].  Anyways, in order to sample with the PAS,
I bought a cheap little splitter from radio shack and have just plugged my
stereo's line out and the GUS's line out into that, and that into the PAS's
line in.  This is a bad approach, I know, since it has the GUS and stereo
competing for who's going to control the line voltage.  Well, the GUS
usually wins and causes weird stuff to happen to whatever I'm listening to
on the stereo.  How should I fix this problem?  I don't want to go buy an
expensive mixer thing, in fact it would be great if I could build this thing
myself, and better yet if it was passive (i.e. no external power source
required).  My current solution is to unplug the stereo's line in when I
am playing with my GUS...  Help please!  Thanks in advance.
==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==
Scott Bilas <scottb@cnde.iastate.edu> | "Oh pointy bird, oh pointy pointy"
	   Iowa State University          | #include <stdcorn.h>
 Center for NDE, Eddy Current Group   | #include <stdbs.h>

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