GUS Daily Digest            Tue, 28 Mar 95  9:37 PST     Volume 20: Issue  28 

Today's Topics:
		   -ANNOUNCEMENT- Digests moving to Majordomo soon!
				..with a little help from a friend...
							  95 and GUS
					DMP 4.00: right channel toast
						  Fried DMA on GUS!!
				  GUS Daily Digest V20 #27 (2 msgs)
						   Kings Quest VII
					   Mega-Em music PROBLEM!!!
							  Noise ....
					   No sound in Windows 3.1
						Panasonic CD-ROM & GUS
					   Quad Speeds and the GUS
					 SV:  Dark Forces - no sound
				 Ultrasound vs. AWE, & Sound Station
						Win95 beta and GUSMAX
				WWindows and AVI files (yet again)...

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, 27 Mar 1995 12:31:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct <mailserv@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
Subject: -ANNOUNCEMENT- Digests moving to Majordomo soon!

	The GUS Daily Digests will all be moving to run under the
Majordomo Mailing List Server soon (hopefully!) but there is only one
slight problem, I don't know how to setup Majordomo.  Can someone out
there help?  As this will put Majordomo on a faster machine and you will
get your digests more quickly than with the current buggy mailserv digest
software... Thanks. 


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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 20:20:02 +0200
From: Espen Wang Andreassen <espeand@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: ..with a little help from a friend...

>Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 09:53 -0500
>From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
>Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #26
>
>>I am unable to "SUBSCRIBE" to the Ultrasound digest. I have tried putting
>>subscribe in the text, and in the subjext lines. If you could, please put
>>me on the list. 

>>What address did you send to? This is the correct one:
>> To (un)subscribe or get help:     <gus-general-request@mail.orst.edu>

Excuse me, but how do you think he's going to get your answer when he can't 
get the digest....? :+))

- sorry.....


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- jeps -  Student at University of Oslo, Norway -
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Espen Wang Andreassen    -     espeand@ifi.uio.no

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 20:35:13 +0200
From: lemmen@IAEhv.nl (Frank Lemmen)
Subject: 95 and GUS

>Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 20:00:33 -0500
>From: Art Iraidnakov <iraida@rpi.edu>
>Subject: 95 and GUS
>
>   Could someone please tell me what the best way to setup Windows 95
>and the GUS are?  I am running the Final Beta and and didnt know what
>drivers I should install.  Thanks..
>
>Art
>iraida@rpi.edu
>
You don't have to install anything. Just install the w95 over your existing
windows 3.1 or 3.11
and W95 wil automaticly get the drivers.

Midi files can give problems with W95

SUC6
Frank Lemmen  -=*=-  lemmen@iaehv.nl  

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 13:59:15 EST
From: ping@cais.dsm.sp-agency.ca (Ka-Ping Yee)
Subject: DMP 4.00: right channel toast

I downloaded DMP 4.00 and tried it out with my GUS MAX.  I was very pleased
to discover that it supports the MAX codec (so i could do digital reverb,
for instance, and proper surround).  However, occasionally every sound that
comes from the right channel is replaced with loud scratching noises.

I suspect this is a problem with DMP and not my GUS for two reasons:
	- the noises hit in a similar rhythm to the notes on the right channel
	- i can make the problem go away by telling DMP to play everything on
	  the left channel, then panning the channels back to the right.  i can
	  also duplicated the problem by panning enough channels to the right
	  side (seems to start when some amplitude threshold is passed).

Has anyone had this experience?  I'm just looking for confirmation so i can
rest easy it's not a hardware problem.

As a (possibly) related issue, playing waveforms on the codec in Windows
seems to become static-filled occasionally as well, although the noise in
that case is not nearly as annoying (the original wave is still audible).
Every once in a while, when this occurs, it sounds like the original wave
is being clipped short, making rasping and clicking noises every time it
gets a little loud.  I can work around this usually be stopping and playing
again, or sometimes i need to quit the application and restart it.

Is this a common problem too?

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:42:21 +1000 (EST)
From: cscsj@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Lunar Tuna)
Subject: Fried DMA on GUS!!

Hi -

I have a GUS v2.2,  and accidentally had my AT bus running at 16.666Mhz.
It seems now that DMA operations will no longer work.   That is,  I
think the DMA has been fried.

All programs that DMA - playfile,  playmidi,  Windows,  Doom,  will no
longer work.  Programs that send data through the port still work,  eg:
One Must Fall,  Gusmod.

Is there any way I can fix/replace the fried parts involved.  My GUS is
no longer covered by warranty :(.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Steven Junacko
cscsj@lux.latrobe.edu.au

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 14:26:48 EST
From: RICK_SCHREIBER_at_TPPEP@smtpgw.lcp.com
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #27

	 > Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 17:28:45 -0500 From: RonHall@aol.com
	 > Subject: Dark Forces - NE1 get any sound?
	 
	 >Has anyone gotten ANY sound from Dark Forces CD? The setup sound 
	 >works fine, but I get NO sound in the game.. if you get sound from 
	 >that game, please post how you did, and what you used, thanks.
	 
	 I got it to work with the 3.53 disk set that was included on the GUS
	 Experience CD.  I just installed the 3.59 disk set and haven't tried 
	 it since.  
	 
	 Summary:  Installed Dark Forces.  No sound card detected.  Installed 
	 3.53 Drivers.  Everything worked great.  Installed 3.59 drivers.  ???
	 
	 -Rick Schreiber

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:48:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: appel@stack.urc.tue.nl (Stanley Appel)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #27

> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 95 20:18:00 +0100
> From: nuno.neves@skyship.alce.pt (NUNO NEVES)
> Subject: RAM/3D SOUND
> 
>  Sorry for asking something you're probably tired to hear...
>  I'm searching a GUS, but since they come with 512KB,I'd like to
>  order the DRAMs at the same time.
>  I've heard that the Max uses different chips, so which chips should I
> get to upgrade the normal GUS to 1MB?
> 
>  Just 2 more questions, what's the latest version of the normal GUS
>  (3.7?), and is it true that Gravis had to remove the 3-D sound effects
> from recent cards because it was some other companie's technology?

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 18:46:36 -0400
From: nstn1306@fox.nstn.ca (Robert White)
Subject: Kings Quest VII

		Hi, does anyone knwo how to get the harp in Ethera to play music in
KQ7? I have all the other music and sound in the game (I loaded the patched
before I started the game) but I still get no harp, I need that to pass this
area. Thanks


Rob White, nstn1306@fox.nstn.ca

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:14:26 -0600
From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach IBM)
Subject: Mega-Em music PROBLEM!!!

Can someone help me?

I can get Mega-Em to work fine if I use the -NROFF flag to turn off
Roland emulation. I then get digital audio when I select SB in a
game's configuration.

Everytime I try Mega-Em to have it emulate Roland, it crashes, displays
EMM386 exceotion errors, and/or reboots my machine!

I'm not going to bore you with my AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files, but does
anyone else recognize this problem and know of any fixes?

For the record, I've *never* gotten Mega-Em to work successfully with
a game doing both Roland and SB, and I've never gotten just the
Roland emulation to work either. Only SB alone.

Thanks,

Ken

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 20:26:13 +0200
From: Espen Wang Andreassen <espeand@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Noise ....

>A couple of months ago, I started hearing high pitched
>squeals in the music of TIE Fighter.
>:
>:
>This weekend I bought Dark Forces (WOW!), which also starts
>to squeak at me after a while.


Just to be sure: How are you listening to the sound? The noise you describe 
CAN be caused by your amplifier, if it's breaking apart....


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- jeps -  Student at University of Oslo, Norway -
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Espen Wang Andreassen    -     espeand@ifi.uio.no

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Date: 28 Mar 1995 14:57:10 GMT
From: Duncan_McKay@scet.org.uk (Duncan McKay)
Subject: No sound in Windows 3.1

Well I have read the manual and followed the steps described in the FAQ, but I
am still having no luck. I don't get a peep out of my Ultrasound in Windows
3.1. The drivers are installed, the settings match up, but when I go to the
Sounds control panel and test a sound everything is silent, even although
Windows thinks it is playing. I have the latest Windows drivers in the
correct places, so what is going on? Can anyone help?

Another less irritating thing is that on my new Pentium machine, when testing
the Soundblaster settings with SETGUS.EXE it reports a failure on every IRQ
between 2 and 7. The good news is that the only game that I have come across
so far that refuses to work with SBOS on my machine even although it works on
others is Colonization (which has passable Midi music anyway).

Any help greatly appreciated!

Duncan 
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 21:53:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: SSARTOR@TrentU.ca
Subject: Panasonic CD-ROM & GUS

	Good day fellow GUSers.  I just had a friend install a PANASONIC 
CD-ROM in my system which has a regular Gravis Ultrasound.  When we went 
to plug the cable into the plug on the soundcard it was smaller than the 
plug.  We went to a local computer store and first off they tried to sell 
me a sound blaster - which I refused.  Secondly, they told me I could buy 
just a straight controller card.  Is this the right way of doing it, and 
if not what should I do?  Thanks.


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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 02:06:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Quad Speeds and the GUS

I tried to send this privately 2ice.  But as you can see it did not go so 
well.  Sorry to waste the bandwidth.

Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown

550 jiang@ux5.cso.ucic.edu... Host unknown

  --- The unsent message follows ---


Dear Fellow GUSer,

In reference to your question what CD-ROM drive should I get for use on 
my GUS I would recomend a TEAC CD-55A 4quad drive.  While not a true 4 
quad it does perform faster than a 2x drive and uses a panasonic 
interface and can be used with your GUS Max.  I have one at home and have 
seen them via mailorder for as low as $200.  The only problems that I had 
with installation was with having all of my software parameters set 
correctly.  Good luck with your choice and if you get the Teac and need 
help to configure it please e-mail me.

~~ Note, for those of you poised to flame, I am fully aware of the 
~~ limitations of this drive.  While it comes up short in tests as a 
~~ 4x drive, it should do a fine job playing most games and is cheap. The 
~~ poster said he wanted recomendations for inexpensive drives.

Sincerely,

Gunnar Swanson

end.

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995   11:31:28  +0100
From: david.jarlestedt@datamedia.se
Subject: SV:  Dark Forces - no sound

>Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 17:28:45 -0500
>From: RonHall@aol.com
>Subject: Dark Forces - NE1 get any sound?

>Has anyone gotten ANY sound from Dark Forces CD? The setup sound works 
fine,
>but I get NO sound in the game.. if you get sound from that game, please 
post
>how you did, and what you used, thanks.

>RonHall@aol.com

Are you sure you have the file: IMUSE.INI in your c:\dark ?
If not. Thats it. It solved the problem for me.
By the way. I_ve had the opportunity to play DF on both
a GUS and an AWE32  - The GUS Sounds Incredible!! , when
the AWE32 just sounds awfull. Exactly what did the guys
at Creative Labs do wrong? = )

RESPECT,
/David

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:24:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Lance Kalzus <kqy5125@is.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Ultrasound vs. AWE, & Sound Station

Please keep further posts like this out of the digest.  Not to mention 
the fact that this sort of thing doesn't have much to do with using the 
UltraSound by itself, I would guess that almost everyone who gets this 
list already owns a GUS or is set on getting one (or is unsubscribing to 
the list because they'd rather go for something else).

Anyway, about Sound Station:

Anyone manage to record 44Khz 16-bit properly?  I tried to record a large 
(2 minute) section off a CD.  Doing it at any other setting than 44/16bit 
worked okay.  But when I tried this, the data was, well, completely wrong 
;)  Sounded like recording static, or more like playing back 16-bit u-law 
data at 8-bit (a quite nasty sound).  Any pointers?  (Using Max board 
rev. 1.6, disk set 3.59)

	"Invisible airwaves crackle with life
	 Bright antenna, bristle with the energy
	 Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength
	 Bearing a gift beyond price that's almost free" -- Rush

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 10:33:40 -0800
From: cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu
Subject: Win95 beta and GUSMAX

I just got the final Win95 beta. It didn't have any settings for the GUS
MAX. I tried to install 3.59 using the Win95 install applet but it hung the
system during the hardware setting check. I tried to install it from the
Win95 Dos bootup, but that also hung on the setting check. I installed
Win95 to another disk so it wouldn't overwrite my current win3.11/doc6.22
setup and so it doesn't see the GUS driver installed for win3.11. Has anyone
been able to install the GUS drivers in Win95? Does Gravis have an email
tech support number anymore?
cliff

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:16 -0500
From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
Subject: WWindows and AVI files (yet again)...

I'll ask this again...

I am having a problem with AVI files under Windows 3.1 and the last few revs
of the GUS drivers. The trouble is that AVI files played with no sound, until
one pauses and resumes them. Then they are fine. I'm using VfW1.1d and 5.50
of the GUS drivers. I've tried reduces buffers to 512 (withOUT the fixed box
checked. Should it be checked?) and that didn't help. I can't say when this
problem started, but I KNOW it worked a while ago, before upgrading the GUS
drivers. I've noticed this mentioned in the digest a couple times, without any
solution...

Any help from anyone?

DDA

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