GUS Daily Digest            Thu, 12 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  11 

Today's Topics:
                            GUS & WfW3.11
                    GUS and Descent (TIP:BUS CLK!)
                       GUS Daily Digest V18 #10
                           Hi, gus problem
                              Mitsumi 4x
                         Motherboard chipsets
                             MPEG layer 2
                             NEC CDR-260R
              Problems with Police Quest Open Season CD
                 Replacing 8C206 (?) on OPTI mboards
                     Strike Commender and Mega-Em
                         ULTRINIT's switches
                             Warcraft ?!
                      Windows 3.1 noise after W

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: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:58:35 -6000
From: Igor Brzezinski <ei@ikp.atm.com.pl>
Subject: GUS & WfW3.11

Hi,
Is anybody have a problem with playing AVI files under WfW v.3.11
with GUS driver v:5.48 (from release 3.59)? My system do not play=20
sound correctly (short 0.05 sek) blocks are playing, next long
silence, sometimes video stop too and sometimes video plays very
slow (my machine is 486dx-66 EISA/SCSI and VESA Video with 32MEG RAM).
This problem I have since ver 3.11 of GUS drivers. May be it is my
machine is stupid (and me too) - but GUS=B1D drivers are GOOD!
Any sugestions?

P.S.
THANKS to JASON WAGHORN (ts0jwa@orac.sund.ac.uk) for HELP!

Igor.

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 09:38:08 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS and Descent (TIP:BUS CLK!)

>I just fixed my problem wich was similar to yours...
>In my [AMI] BIOS setup the AT BUS CLK was set to CLK/4
>having a DX2/66 this makes it 16Mhz.. which is probably to high..
>I changed it to CLK/6 and now Descent as become a great game!

I've often wondered, with these clock doubled processors, does
CLK/4 mean 16MHz, or does it mean 8MHz? I always assumed the
latter.

I have a DX2/50, with AT BUS CLK set to CLK/3, assuming that
this is near to 8MHz. I'd want nearer CLK/6 to arrive at 8MHz
if you are supposed to count the doubled speed.

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:57:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: "John Dudley" <jd@mfltd.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #10

> 
> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 10:28:57 EST
> From: jday@bank-banque-canada.ca (Jim Day)
> Subject: 562b driver switches
> 
> Hello,
> I just purchased a Gravis UltraSound Max.
> I also have a Panasonic 562b CD-ROM drive.
> The driver that comes with the drive is cdmke.sys.
> I have setup (removed jumpers and connected interface
> cable and sound cable) the GUS Max for the Panasonic drive.
> 
> Can you tell me what switches on the cdmke.sys driver will
> work with the GUS Max?
> 
> I previously had the drive on its propietory interface card
> with the following:
> 
> devicehigh=c:\batch\cdmke.sys /d:mscd001 /P:300 /A:0 /T:5 /I:10 
> 
> I left the default 340h address on the Max.
> 
> The documentation with the Panasonic drive is terrible.
> I'm sure other users have this same sound card / CD-ROM
> combo.
> Anything to get me up and running would be appreciated.
> 
> Jim Day
> Ottawa, ON
> jday@bank-banque-canada.ca
> 
The first thing you have to do is make sure that all the jumpers are set up 
correctly on the MAX.
Remove JP10,JP11,JP12 and install JP6. 

Try this in your config.sys.

  device=<driver path> /D:MSCD001 /P:340 

This should get the drive up and running. Don't forget to set up MSCDEX in
your autoexec.bat.

If you need I will give you a list and explaination of all the cdmke.sys 
options.

If this doesn't work mail me at the address below and give me details of your
config.sys and autoexec.bat and I will try to sort it out.

Thanks.  
--      
John Dudley    | Lord Percy : I even touched her once.
jd@mfltd.co.uk | BlackAdder : Touched her what?

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 12:11:50 +0100
From: hb@medio.mh.se (--- not set ---)
Subject: Hi, gus problem

 Hi, I have a weird problem with my GUS. I bought it in jan-feb of 1992
and it has served me well this far. But, when doom2 came it didn't quite 
work as well as with doom. The F/X are distorted (sounds like krsssh)
and I first thought it was something wrong with my settings but I've 
tried all kinds of settings, no change. And when I tried doom2 awhile agoo
I got the same dirstortion and the same goes for heretic...
  I have a p90 Intel m/b and an ati graphics ultra (pci). The GUS
is equiped with 1MB... first I though some of the mem on the board was
falty but, the sound didn't change when I ripped out the memory I've
added to it. If anyone has had the same problem, please tell me, or if
anyone have a good advice of what to do tell me. I just hope the board
is ok (I mean, doom/MODs play just fine)

  Hans Bruman

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 00:14:42 -0500
From: JeffOw@aol.com
Subject: Mitsumi 4x

Still haven't gotten around to buying a CD Rom drive.  I've seen the Mitsumi
4x for what?  $200-$300 or something.  Should this be the one to buy at this
time.  Basically looking for something decent to play games, and that won't
be obsolete by next year.

Jeff

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:28:06 -0500 (EST)
From: liaor@umcc.umich.edu (Royce Liao)
Subject: Motherboard chipsets

To the person who said UMC and Bioteq chipsets suck...

be aware that few VLB motherboards support NMI.
My Amptron DX-6800G (SiS 85C461 chipset, SiS 82C207 peripheral 
controller) doesn't support NMI.  Most 486 85C471 motherboards don't support 
NMI either, and the SiS471 chipset is probably one of the best among the 
lower-priced non-name brand motherboards.

Now there may be other reasons that justify your statement, but the NMI 
issue shouldn't be your only justification.  I belive many PCI 
motherboards lack NMI, and I wouldn't call them lame just because they 
lack the NMI procedure.

Anyway, interestingly, my old ISA/486 85C401 worked just fine with NMI.  
Wonder why everyone stopped implementing it.

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 22:37:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Francois Dion <francois@hyperreal.com>
Subject: MPEG layer 2

> From: ping@cais.dsm.sp-agency.ca (Ka-Ping Yee)
> Subject: MPEG Layer 2
> 
> I'm starting to see some files with extension .MP2 around, and it sounds
> like these are "MPEG Layer 2" files.  Do these contain just audio, or
> both audio and video?  Where can i find an MPEG-2 decompressor or player?

These are MPEG 1 layer 2, not MPEG 2. MPEG 2 is broadcast quality
encoding demanding huge bandwidth, with HDTV in mind. The layer 2 refers
to medium bit rates. Layer 3 is for low bit rates (under 64kbits/sec)
but encoding/decoding on even pentium machines take forever.


As for where to find encoders/decoders, on hyperreal.com (by ftp), you
will find these in /music/tools if i'm not mistaken. By www:
http://www.hyperreal.com:70/1/tools. As for my gusppg6.mp2 file i
posted about 2 issues ago, it moved (well the whole emulations directory
moved) to /music/machines/sounds/emulations/gusppg6.mp2 (by
www, http://www.hyperreal.com:80/music/machines). An update on the
project can be found there also as gusmodular_draft.txt (yes, i'm
going over board doing a modular synth with a GUS... If ya want a
part of the action, better get in touch fast...)

If you want to access other mpeg files, browse around hyperreal, there
are already a bunch in the /music/artists directories (including mine).
Check also in /music/labels (in orbitrecords for example).

All of ya>
On the Jaleo story... i would doubt very very much that Cornel Huth
would have camouflaged his software under 359. This is just not like him.
As for accusing him of not supporting the GUS, this is a bit ridiculous
as he is the only one up to now to have done a midi player from scratch
that supports the GUS. I've done a drum machine, and i know it's not
trivial at all.

Ciao,
-- 
Francois Dion (IdMEDIA)                   [> Email: francois@hyperreal.com <]
    '                         [> C.P. 278, St-Lambert, QC, Canada, J4P 2N8 <]
        [> Raving Up North Ezine: run-request@hyperreal.com, subject: help <]

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 23:25:43 -0800
From: sbrindle@netcom.com (Stephen Thomas Brindle)
Subject: NEC CDR-260R

Hello, I have an NEC CDR-260R double speed internal CD-ROM, and I would
really like to play music CDs on it.  It didn't come with an audio cable,
and neither did my GUS MAX, which I want to hook it up to.  How do I go
about hooking the two up?  Thanks very much!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
  Stephen Thomas Brindle |"I have made this letter longer than usual, 
                         |because I lack the time to make it short."
-------------------------|                                        -Pascal
     Ethereal Dragon     |
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:29:31 -0500
From: Nabil Rehman <nrehman@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Problems with Police Quest Open Season CD

Hi.

I have an Ultrasound MAX (512k) which I am trying to get to work with
PQ4CD.  I have installed the GUS drivers contained in the gus32.exe file. 
When I run the game in DOS mode (on a 386-33 with 4Mb), it starts up okay
and shows the sierra logo and plays the music.  Just before those points
of light are supposed to show up on the Sierra name with the "ting" sound,
the game crashes with the last note playing continuously and the following
error: 


DOS/4GW Professional error (2001):
exception 0Dh (general protection fault) at 170:0016ED9E
TSF32: prev_tsf32 626C

 ..

CS:IP 170:0016ED9E    ID  0D    COD  0    FLG  10046

 ..

Crash address (unrelocated) = 1:00017D9E


Can anyone help me out here?  In the meanwhile can I get it to work with
SBOS? (I get an "unable to initialize audio hardware" error). 

Thanks.
Nabil.
nrehman@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 08:47:51 +0800 (SST)
From: Shih-Ping Chan <matcsp@math.nus.sg>
Subject: Replacing 8C206 (?) on OPTI mboards

Regarding the faulty 16-bit DMA on older OPTI
motherboards (I guess that means those OPTI 
motherboards that incorporated a faulty 8C206
chip from UMC), is it possible to just replace
the 8C206 chip. Has anyone done this?
Where do you buy replacement 8C206 chips from?

This might be safer than motherboard surgery 
with a soldering iron. Any comments?

Shih-Ping Chan   ~{3BJ=1r~}

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Date: 12 Jan 95 10:26:48 +0200
From: kormilainenu@hermes.ncp.fi
Subject: Strike Commender and Mega-Em

I have problems with Origins Strike Commander.
When I load Mega-em and start game, I can hear some music but there is 
strange instruments, and when SFX-starts it locks up my machine. Game 
works with Sbos but I prefer midi more. Do I need some kind of patch and 
where can I find it (FTP).

If someone can solve my problem, I would be very happy!!

You can E-mail to kormilainenu@hermes.ncp.fi

               -UPI- 

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 15:25:00 +0100
From: enzo.siragusa@galactica.it (ENZO SIRAGUSA)
Subject: ULTRINIT's switches
Message-ID: <8A1739D.0001013939.uuout@galactica.it>

Hi there !

I have a little question for you GUSers.

In the software preceding the 3.53 version, the ultrinit.exe
driver was put in my autoexec.bat without any switch. In the
next releases, the ultrinit.exe is followed by switches like
(in my configuration) '-dj'.

I wonder what does it mean and if there are any other options.
Any suggestions?

                            Enzo


 .. Happy Gusing !
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:22:35 +0100
From: v9110138@is1.bfu.vub.ac.be (Rademakers Tanguy)
Subject: Warcraft ?!

Anyone got allready a 100% working patch for WarCraft ?

v9110138@vub.ac.be

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 23:23:00 -0500
From: blair.boyle@canrem.com (Blair Boyle)
Subject: Windows 3.1 noise after W

Subject: Windows 3.1 noise after WAV files

What is causing my GUS to make a beep after it plays a wave file or
system sound in Windows 3.1?

Can anything be done to correct this?

ALSO, do I have to download ALL the disk files every time there is a
GUS Install/Setup software disk update?

Please respond directly to me at:

        blair.boyle@canrem.com

Thanks again!

brb!

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