GUS Daily Digest            Sat, 1 Jan 94   007          Volume 10: Issue   1 

Today's Topics:
			   Error message from MegaEm v2.01 and 2.02
							  GUS & SB16
						GUS Daily Digest V9 #
		 HELP: Function of 36 pin connector and daughterboard
		  Iron Helix, Drum, Initialization, New Win Drivers
						   MOD4WIN Problems
						 New Megaem & X-Wing
						   Patch Maker Lite
						Patch Maker Lite v1.10
				 Program to reverse stero channels ?
						Static caused by DRAM?

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, 31 Dec 93 00:57:33 PST
From: Erik Teose <erikt@tekig1.pen.tek.com>
Subject: Error message from MegaEm v2.01 and 2.02

Hi,

Does anyone else get the following error message from doing "emuset off":

ERROR: Sound Blaster Emulation is not working correctly. Failed to detect base
	   address.

This occurs in both 2.01 and 2.02, but not the 2.00B023 version.

This message seems to jive with problems I'm having getting SB emulation to
work with some kids' games (Mixed Up Fairy Tales by Sierra). The MT32 music
is great, but no speech.

I'm using all the default parameters for ULTRASND and BLASTER. Anyone have
any ideas??? Thanks for any help.

Erik Teose
erikt@tekig1.pen.tek.com

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 10:19:45 -0600 (CST)
From: pjohnso2@ua.d.umn.edu
Subject: GUS & SB16

For those of you interested in making an SB16 coexist, please email me 
personally.  I have both cards in my machine and it took me quite some 
time to figure stuff out, but not only was it a IRQ/BasePort, etc. 
problem, it was using the SB16's mixer, too.  :)  
  So let me know and I'll help you through mail, so we don't clog up the 
digest.  :)

*Phil

pjohnso2@ub.d.umn.edu

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 02:34:00 -0500
From: jason.friedlander@canrem.com (Jason Friedlander)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V9 #

 Jc> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 11:46:30 -0800
 Jc> From: jakub@eskimo.com (Jake Cholewczynski)
 Jc> Subject: Lamers!

 Jc> I am fed up with this crap from Gravis.. I boght a sound card for
 Jc> sound and not for just it being in my computer.. 1. How come when you
 Jc> people say  a game will support the gus it never does.. ** Welcome to
 Jc> relality SBOS and MEGA EM no metter if the version is going to be two
 Jc> billion they will always suck 
 Jc> anyways.** 2. How do you expect people to get the drivers? FTP sites
 Jc> that don't even have them months after release or your bbs which is
 Jc> always busy.. people since this is such a new sound card you need more
 Jc> disks to be sent. 3. People like me are fed up with your stupid "They
 Jc> will be out by next month" crap as  far as the OS/2 2.1 drivers! I
 Jc> don't care if you have to acctually program  for once Gravis I want my
 Jc> drivers and I want them now!, SB 16 already had os/2 drivers as it came
 Jc> out!.. Not only that it didn't have any compatiblity  problems. Hey I
 Jc> am just talking about OS/2 2.1 drivers what about WIN NT drivers
 Jc> I know alot of people what those.. Come Gravis Microsoft is not a god
 Jc> and there is other operating systems from IBM support them... and At
 Jc> least let people like me know what in the world is going on


  I'll give ya $10 bucks for your gus!

   Jason Friedlander

 .. Do what you will with this tagline, just don't bother me about it!
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 19:38:04 PST
From: "Khong Win Leong" <kwl@khongws.pc.my>
Subject: HELP: Function of 36 pin connector and daughterboard

Hi fellow Gussers,

		This is just a matter of interest, what is the use of the 36 pin 
connector (labelled JP2) located next to ....surprisingly, JP1 the address
jumpers? 

		Also, is it possible to connect a CDI daughterboard and the 16 bit
recording daughterboard at the same time? Would it be possible to rig your 
own CD interface daughterboard? 

		
		Thanks,
		William
		

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 14:24:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Iron Helix, Drum, Initialization, New Win Drivers

> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 15:36:59 +0500
> From: d.m.koppen@LaRC.NASA.GOV (Daniel Koppen)
> Subject: Anyone playing Iron Helix??
> 
> Hi all,
>  I am just about to run my little body out to the software store and
> spend some of that money I got for Christmas. I have heard rave reviews
> on the game Iron Helix, but before I buy it I would like to hear from
> anyone who has had some experience with this game. The burning question
> is ---> Does it suport patch caching? (did I spell that right) <---
> Every Windows game I have purchased up to now does not. Anybody know?

I haven't played Iron Helix, but even if the game doesn't support
patch caching, you can still preload a small GM set into the GUS
and use it with the game.  Read about patch caching in Ultrahelp for
more details on how to go about preloading the GM set.

> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 17:49:49 -0700 (MST)
> From: jhender@nyx.cs.du.edu (djkc)
> Subject: drum.zip
> 
> I downloaded drum.zip from EPAS (MIDI drum player), but I can't get it to
> play the local patches for GUS.  There seems to be no option to set it up
> for what you want it to play.  Is this for external MIDI devices only?
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated,

I think there are two versions of Drum, one that supports patch caching,
and one that doesn't.  You must use the one that does or else you'll
have to manually load patches using patch manager.

> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 16:02:27 -0500 (EST)
> From: elminstr@hudlink.hoboken.nj.us (Jj pierson)
> Subject: GUSDK210.ZIP
> 
> Could somebody upload this to EPAS. It's not there. I would love to 
> finally program the GUS in pascal.

It's up on Epas in ../submit/gravis.bbs

> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 93 11:06:08 +0100
> From: Robert Virding <rv@erix.ericsson.se>
> Subject: GUS initialisation
> 
> As recommended in the GUS manual and by SETGUS I have both a
> DEVICE=ULTRINIT.SYS in my config.sys and a ULTRINIT.EXE call in my
> autoexec.bat. (I hope I remembered the name correctly) My question is
> do I really need both? If so why?

No.  It's quite safe to remove ultrinit.sys from config.sys.

> Is it perfectly acceptable to change the GUS parameters termporarily
> using ULTRINIT.EXE? A suggestion I saw for running DOOM with suitable
> IRQ's.

Yes, it's perfectly acceptable to change the GUS' settings by modifying
the ULTRASND variable and then rerunning ultrinit.  No need to reboot.

> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 15:59:55 -0500 (EST)
> From: elminstr@hudlink.hoboken.nj.us (Jj pierson)
> Subject: PMAK110.ZIP New Drivers
> 
> I installed the new drivers that came with Patch Maker lite and now I 
> don't get any MIDI sound what so ever. Attempting to use patch manager 
> shows that it can't load in the patches to GUS memory. When you click on 
> the ">>" icon, nothing happens. The patch name doesn't move over to the 
> right side. Anybody have any idea of what could be causing this.

Some things to keep in mind:

  1.  Did you copy the new ultrasnd.ini to your /ultrasnd directory?
	  and
  2.  Did you edit all the PatchDir= fields in the new ultrasnd.ini to
	  point to your /ultrasnd/midi directory?

Phat.

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 13:39:30 -0500
From: SHEMAVONIAN  DEREK MICHAEL <shemavo@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: MOD4WIN Problems

I recently ftp'ed MOD4WIN.ZIP from the epas submit directory, and am quite
impressed by its looks and ease of use.
However, I cannot get it to play the mods in stereo.  As soon as I go into
the setup and change it from mono to stereo, it hangs.  I have to do
Ctrl-Alt-Del to get out of the application.  This occurs no matter what
I set the other parameters (frequency, 8/16 bit, buffers).
Has someone out there gotten this to work?
I have a 486DX-33 with 4 Megs of ram, and a GUS with 1 Meg.
I'm using the new windows drivers from PMAK110.ZIP, but I've also tried it
with the older drivers.

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 14:12:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: New Megaem & X-Wing

Has anybody noticed a loss in the number of instruments playing in X-Wing?
It sounds like one of the channels died on the stereo- I had to look to be
sure it wasn't. 

Any thoughts??

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 12:40:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Vincent Poy <hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Patch Maker Lite

I noticed in comp.ibm.pc.soundcard that Phat posted the Ultrasound
Survival guide and it listed that Patch Maker lite is pmak110.zip and the
one that John Smith at Gravis announced in the digest was pmak106.zip, are
they both the same thing? or which one should I get? Thanks!


Cheers,

Vince
hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
root@kingdom.com
System Administrator/Owner 
Kingdom Communications Inc./California Unix Public Access Systems Inc.
San Francisco, California USA
		  
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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 15:05:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Vincent Poy <hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Patch Maker Lite v1.10

How does one go about installing Patch Maker Lite v1.10 like what's the
exact procedure after unzipping pmak110.zip? Thanks and Happy New Year!


Cheers,

Vince
hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
root@kingdom.com
System Administrator/Owner 
Kingdom Communications Inc./California Unix Public Access Systems Inc.
San Francisco, California USA
		  
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							(o o)
		   _____________oOO__(_)__OOo_______________
		  | No warranty for my actions of any kind  |

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 14:55:00 +0200 (EET)
From: thefinn@stekt.oulu.fi (Sami Nieminen)
Subject: Program to reverse stero channels ?

  Subject says it all but why not repeat: I want to make the left channel
come out of my right speaker and vice versa.

Thanks in advance,

  /         Sami Nieminen                    ---     May you live     ---  
 //              at                          --- in interesting times ---
///      Dept. of Electrical                 
  ///        Engineering    
  //     University of Oulu,
  /  I K       Finland

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 93 23:06:05 EST
From: ak016@freenet.carleton.ca (John Collins)
Subject: Static caused by DRAM?

Hi:

I've had my GUS since about March, but only recently got some memory to
upgrade to 1Mb (for Xmas).  The problem is, I think I either got some
wonky memory, or I'm doing something wrong.  The memory came from an old
286 motherboard, and seems to be the right kind:

AAAIM304P-08
NMBS    9051

But, here's the problem.  When I put all six chips in, some of it reported
as "bad" when I ran GUSDRAM.  But, I could load 1Mb worth of patches in
Windows, and when I ran EMUSET, 1Mb loaded up. However, to be safe, I
tested the chips two at a time.  So, I found the faulty chip, and thought
everything was okay.

But, I just got XWing, and noticed a *lot* of static when I ran EMUSET
with GMIDI emulation with the 1MB in.  With 256k it was fine (but only
running at 8 bit :( ).  With 512k, it was still okay, no static, but still
8 bit.  With 768k (with GUSDRAM reporting all DRAM good), I got the static
back.  So, I'm confused.  I thought the static was owing to the bad chip,
but even with the bad chip not installed, I'm still getting static (loud
enought to preclude enjoying the game).

I look upon this digest as the source of all GUS wisdom, and am sure there
are some wise and all-knowing sages out there who can tell me if the
static is, in fact, related to bad DRAM.  (Oh, by the way, I get the same
kind of static in Return to Zork, so I don't think it's just the game.)

Please respond to me directly at ak016@freenet.carleton.ca (John Collins).
Thanks.

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