Ultrasound Daily Digest     Thu,  4 Feb 93       Volume 2 : Issue  32 

Today's Topics:
							Admin stuff...
					   axelf.arj & flphouse.arj
					 beginners questions answered
		  Does Gravis have an 800 number? If so what is it?
					   Filespec for Patchfiles
				   GUS: OK, I give up... help!!!!!
						GUS and Adaptec 1542B
						gusmod & time problem?
							 Gusmod 1.2 ?
							 opti chipset
							 OS/2 support
					Personal reply to BOB TILLMAN
			 Seeking comments of Adaptec 1542B with GUS 
						StarCon II and 1 MEG?
						  Ultra-won't-work 
			   Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #31 (2 msgs)

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 14:29:16 MST
From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry)
Message-Id: <9302032129.AA01598@itchy>
Subject: Admin stuff...
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

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	  com     edu      /   another doctor?"

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Date: 03 Feb 1993 11:01:34 -0500
From: "Bryon Daly, ECE Dept, UMass, Amherst" <DALY@ecs.umass.edu>
Message-Id: <01GUA6GDZF828WW7K4@UMAECS>
Subject: axelf.arj & flphouse.arj
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I just re-uploaded mod files axelf.arj and flphouse.arj to 
klingon.epas.utoronto.ca last night.  To the person who accidentally 
deleted axelf.arj, don't worry about it...I think the original upload 
was bad anyway, so you probably saved some people some wasted download time!

Anyway, the original uploads were bad, but I'm pretty sure that things should
be OK this time.  If not, let me know, and I will try again.  (RZ seems to
be faulty on my system and leaves files a few hundred bytes short...so I
had to use a slower, alternative protocol). 

-Bryon

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 10:48:51 GMT
From: "James Andrews, User Support" <james@sol1.east-london.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <11677.9302031048@uk.ac.uel.sol1>
Subject: beginners questions answered
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

>I am now the proud owner of a GUS soundcard (1mb).  I have some
>questions that maybe the net.experts can help me with.  If there
>is an FAQ please point me to it :-)
>

There is a FAQ but it isnt on the ftp server at epas.  The FAQ is done
by the maintainer of this list, so you should see it here pretty soon

>
>I installed the 1.21 disks that came with the board.  I also sent
>in my registration card.  Do I need to immediately download the
>1.22 disks that I see in utoronto, or should I wait (those suckers
>are big to ftp)?  Should I just wait for 1.23?  (I did load the
>1.22 version of SBOS.)
>

The main things that the 1.22 disks have in them that the 1.21 lack are
a midi patch manager and an improved windows mixer.

>I see a lot of stuff here about patches.  What are they?  What do I
>do?  How would I load them?  Are they just windows, or do I care
>even if I just run DOS?

How the GUS works is that digital samples, snippets of sound if you like,
are loaded into the GUS and then you tell the GUS to play them back.
These sample snippets are usually called patches.  For instance SBOS has a set
of patches that let it emulate other soundcards.
There is also a set of patches to play midi files supplied with the GUS

>
>Could some kind soul please define the various file formats
>(mod, snd, wav, 699, voc, any others?) What are they?  How are they
>created, edited, played?

mod= amiga music module, has sequence information and samples in them
	 to play them you need  gusmod11.lzh 
snd= there is no standard "snd" file format, but the GUS's USS8 program
	 saves samples with an snd extension- see the manuals
wav= windows sample format.  You can record these with the windows sound
	 recorder into a GUS if you have a microphone, and play back with
	 this
669= sequence/sample file  like a mod
	 play them back with p669gu0.arj
voc= soundblaster sample file format
	 I dont remember how to play back these except by using gts
If you want more stuff on sound formats see the file audio210.faq in the 
info directory on epas







I hope all this stuff makes sense
james@sol1.uel.ac.uk

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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 17:24:31 EST
From: Andreas Turanski <andreast@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Message-Id: <9302040448.AA26043@w20-575-41>
Subject: Does Gravis have an 800 number? If so what is it?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

>Anyone know if Advanced Gravis has an 800 number?
>Also I forget if there was any (semi-)official word(of mouth)...
>What is the ETA on the new GUS 3D???
>
>Thanks guys,
>Andreas.

I might as well answer the second part of my own question
since I bit the _long-distance_ ($$) bullet and called the
604-431-5020 (non-800) number back in my homeland (Canada):

I would still like to know if they have an 800 number.
They rattled off a few of the new GUS packages they will be selling
almost all of which included one form of Gravis hand controller
or other and some software (a game, etc. etc.)

More INTERESTINGly they said that the new music software was 
*SHIPPING-NOW* which *I* at least did not know until they told me.

When asked, they also said the GUS 3D would be shipping in *MARCH*
and that the 

*UPGRADE* for *CURRENT* GUS owners
 would be
				***  $10  ***

If this has been said already and I just forgot then 
Oops. Sorry.

Wish I could remember if she said _when_ in March...
I guess with the upgrade costing $10 (I already have a pair
of headphones which was THE ONLY OTHER NEW ADDITION TO
the GUS package besides the 3D software according to the rep)
I will probably take the GUS-plunge when I get the
money and hopefully _before_ the 3D comes out.

<Sorry for the double message in the digest.>
Andreas.

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Date: 3 Feb 93 11:37:03 MET+1
From: "Proconia"  <PROCONIA@trisse.hj.se>
Message-Id: <MAILQUEUE-101.930203113703.480@trisse.hj.se>
Subject: Filespec for Patchfiles
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi.

Are there anyone who has got the filespec for the patchfiles?
I would need it to improve my program WAV2PAT, that seams to have
become rather popular.

Lars Ljungberg

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Date: 2 Feb 93 23:16:08 GMT
From: SIMMONS@UCF1VM.BITNET (Tad Simmons)
Message-Id: <93033.181608SIMMONS@UCF1VM.BITNET>
Subject: GUS: OK, I give up... help!!!!!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hello, and thanks in advance for any and all help.
The first thing I would like to say, is that everything was working.  Then,
occasionally, I'd have problems with SBOS loading.  Then, I got a HDD
controller failure.  Now, I can't get SBOS to load without locking my machine.

some specifics:
using 1.22.  (I tried 1.23 but it didn't work, either. Didn't try extensively)
While using sbos -d it locks up while loading SBOS1.SBS, but I can CAD out of
it (Note, CAD = Ctrl-Alt-Delete) IF I don't run ULTRINIT first.  But, I don't
know if the problem is with sbos1, or just that sbos1 is the first patch...
  If I do run ULTRINIT, I don't get anything when I run SBOS, immediate hard
lockup.
  Everything that runs native (windows, GUS setup, playmidi) still runs fine.
  Loading SBOSDRV.SYS seems to make things worse, but by this point, I was losi
ng patience.
  My config.sys and autoexec.bat files change a lot.  Ive tried it with everyth
ing from load everything, to bare bones configurations.

My plea: Any ideas?  The HDD failure makes me think my controller might be
going, but I'd much prefer to be sure before replacing it.
What can I check in the GUS stuff?

Thank y'all for your time.

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 9:55:22 PST
From: Brian W. Antoine <briana@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>
Message-Id: <m0nJoJm-00011XC@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>
Subject: GUS and Adaptec 1542B
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	 I'm running the 1542B as the only disk controller in my 386/40 box
and the GUS seems to be working as well as I could expect.  I did have to
switch it to INT 15 because the 1542B was already using INT 11.

	 My only problem is that I can't use the 16bit DMA channels.  I don't
get parity errors, it just locks solid the moment I access the card.  It
works fine if I use the 8bit DMA channel.  I haven't opened up the box to
look for the "OPTI" word yet, I'm not sure I want to :-)

-- 
Brian W. Antoine    --------|
Olivetti North AM    ||
E. 22425 Appleway    ||  briana@tau-ceti.isc-br.com
Spokane, WA          ||
		 99220      ====

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 10:27:11 EST
From: snowdog@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Rodney CHANG)
Message-Id: <9302031527.AA12161@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>
Subject: gusmod & time problem?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

While playing some mods last night, I came across a very interesting
phenonemon.  I found that my computer system stopped while gusmod was playing.
So I timed it, and I found out that for every minute the system clock
only advanced one second.  Has anyone else had this anomaly?

-- 
Rodney Chang          | "Dohhh!!" - Homer Simpson, Springfield Nuclear Sup.
snowdog@cs.mcgill.ca  | "Dohhh??" - Richard Holden, a nobody.
b7jd@musicb.mcgill.ca | ** Les Expos & Nordiques in '93, '94, '95, '96  ... ***

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 11:40:03 GMT
From: Merlyn <mew@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <25134.199302031140@stone>
Subject: Gusmod 1.2 ?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I've been using gusmod1.1 for a while now and am very impressed with the
results, sounds equivalent if not better than the Amiga.. But some of mty mods
don't work properly, i think because they are Protracker mods, I heard that
version 1.2 was to be available in the next couple of days (over 2 weeks ago)
which would include Protracker support as well as a graphical interface,
background playing using interupts, and lots of other cute features.

Does anyone know if it available yet? Is Joshua still working on a few
minor bugs? (keep up the GUS support folks)

Mark

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|           Mark Watkins                   /| /| |-- :--; :  \ / |\  |      |
|       University of Warwick             / |/ | |-- |-\  |   |  | \ |      |
|     ( mew@dcs.warwick.ac.uk )          /     | |-- |  \ |-- |  |  \|      |
|                                                                           |
+--------------------"Drink up, the world's about to end"-------------------+

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 22:15:52 -0800
From: paladin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Robin Yang)
Message-Id: <9302040615.AA26289@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
Subject: opti chipset
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	 This may be a no-brainer, but if only one chip is the culprit why not
replace the chip (which is socketed) instead of replacing the entire
motherboard?  $30 for a single chip has got to be more cost effective.

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 09:01:26 EST
From: cjw@oclc.org (Craig J. Wright)
Message-Id: <9302031401.AA00442@next30-07>
Subject: OS/2 support
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I would really like to see the GUS supported when using OS/2.  I  
would like to be able to use Multimedia with the GUS and OS/2.   
Please consider it soon.
---
Craig J. Wright  --  MC 265
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, Oh  43017-3395

Voice: (614) 764-6114           Fax:  (614) 764-6096
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 15:14:31 CST
From: ibmpa!hartmann.austin.ibm.com!lance@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Message-Id: <9302032114.AA11994@hartmann.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Personal reply to BOB TILLMAN
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

TO BOB TILLMAN:

Bob,

My netpath (or lack of knowledge about our kludgey net-server) prevents
my ability to reach you at:

   cognex!bobt@ai.mit.edu

so please accept my post-of-thanks for your reply concerning
the Adaptec 1542B with the GUS.

MUCHO merci,
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
			   Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
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All statements, comments, opinions, etc. herein reflect those of the author
and shall NOT be misconstrued as those of IBM or anyone else for that matter.

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 93 16:09:22 -0500
From: "It's your hand, Buckaroo" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Message-Id: <9302032109.AA08336@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Seeking comments of Adaptec 1542B with GUS 
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> Awhile back, someone (or two) commented about problems with configuring
> a GUS in a system with an Adaptec 1542B.  Looking back over my archived
> posts, I found only a comment regarding the early GUS "setup" program
> causing problems due to its DMA poking.  I never saw another followup
> and hence am turning to the group for feedback as I am planning on getting
> a 1542B for my machine to replace a different brand controller with which
> I've had problems (NOT GUS related -- just buggy in general).  Is anyone
> using a 1542B as their primary controller and without difficulties?
> Any special setups, limitations (sampling rates???), etc.?

I've got an Adaptec 1540B (no floppy support, but otherwise identical to
the 1542B) and have had no problems with it and the GUS. The major problems
I had were with SETUP and the default GF1 IRQ (11 is taken by the Adaptec).
Since SETUP wouldn't co-exist well with QEMM, I couldn't change the default
and so access to the SCSI drive failed. Thankfully, my primary drive is an
IDE so I could still boot and fix the problem...

Note that I haven't tried 44.1Khz sampling but I think the Adaptec is fast
enough to handle it. Alot depends on what disk you're using as well...

DDA

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 18:16:30 CST
From: Bill Lockett <wrl7611@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Message-Id: <9302040016.AA12620@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Subject: StarCon II and 1 MEG?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I have 1 meg on my board and SatrConII, What is the problem people have been
having?  Everything sounds fine, no static or anything!  Am I missing some 
of the patches when I use 1 MEG?  Please fill me in on what's up with ! meg 
and StarCOn II.

Thanks,    BILL

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 93 16:13:51 -0500
From: "It's your hand, Buckaroo" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Message-Id: <9302032113.AA08372@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Ultra-won't-work 
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> There are obviously some problems with the windows drivers for the
> card - loading patches with Cakewalk and WinJammer, and the volume
> control. I want to get an updated Windows driver. I've tried the
> wuarchive ftp site, but the disks are version 1.21 (same as the
> software which arrived with my card). I've also tried connecting to
> the Gravis BBS, but it's a dumb modem and couldn't figure out the
> setup/rates etc.

Check out GUS0012.ZIP, it contains the "latest" Windows drivers that
support 44.1Khz and stereo...the "real" drivers are supposed to ship with
the GM patches and the new SBOS...

DDA

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 09:35:55 EST
From: sbm@pt.com (Steve McGowan)
Message-Id: <9302031435.AA19017@pt.com>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #31
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Chris,
Is there any chance that you could uuencode P699GU0.EXE along with a
sample .699 file and mail them to me I don't have FTP access. Or is
there some BBS that I could get it from?

Thanks In Advance.

Steve.

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 10:13:05 EST
From: sbm@pt.com (Steve McGowan)
Message-Id: <9302031513.AA19812@pt.com>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #31
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I called Gravis a week ago and they said that an SBOS upgrade would be
available in the "next couple of weeks". But they had not decided how
they were going to distribute it (Just sending it to registered users or
wait for you to call and ask for it).

Steve

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