GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 10 Oct 94 21:46 PST     Volume 15: Issue   3 

Today's Topics:
					 #1(2) GUS Daily Digest V0 #2
			 -= ANNOUNCEMENT =- Digests Volume # updated
							  11th hour
				  Best Mod ect. Player for Windows??
							   CD-ROM?
							 Dark Legions
						 discount on GusMax??
							  DOOM GUS!!
				 Front Page Sports: BaseBall with Gus
					General Questions and Answers
						  Gravis Europe BBS
							 gravis piano
							GUS & Pentiums
							GUS and CD ROM
						GUS Daily Digest V0 #1
				   GUS Daily Digest V0 #2 (3 msgs)
			GUS Daily Digest V0 #2,Tomorrow's GUS bulletin
					  GUSMAX - should I get it??
							 GUS software
						How much is the MAX ?
					   Mega-em and OS/2 Drivers
					MegaEM, and Sam and Max CD Rom
				   MegaEM NMI bug same as Emm bug ?
					   MIDI keyboard for GUS ?
				   MIDI receiving problems (2 msgs)
				  NHL '95 CD-ROM info for asking guy
						   NHL '95 with GUS
					   PatchEZE 1.01 released!
					  Quarantine Sound Problems
					SBOS error with 3.53 disk set
   Strange chirping w/new GUS drivers in Windows-How to get rid of?
					   Syndicate and Quarantine
						 syndicate and sbos?
	What to do with DOOM 1.666 (and background buzzing in demo3d)

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, 10 Oct 94 01:36:21 EDT
From: AdvGravis@aol.com
Subject: Re: #1(2) GUS Daily Digest V0 #2

The OS/2 drivers will be released this year (hopefully be end of November). 

Protected mode MegaEm will be released around the same time (before the
middle of December).

Bryan

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 21:42:04 +0100
From: Vince <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
Subject: -= ANNOUNCEMENT =- Digests Volume # updated

	Well folks, the volume # and issue # of the GUS Daily Digests have
been adjusted correctly this time..... Now folks, let's start posting, 
and also, how many of you guys would like a mailing list too so that all 
replies for the digest goto the mailing list and then the mailing list 
consists of all posts from the users while the digest will carry all the 
stuff posted on the mailing list... Let me know.  Thanks.

Happy GUSing!


							  Cheers,
					   Vince
E-mail:
vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu,\|/ Sys Adm - CircleStar Technologies,Inc. 
  root@berkeley.circlestar.com,(o o) San Francisco, California USA
  _________________________oOO__(_)__OOo_____________________________
 |  There are many forms of science but only physics is the quantum  |
 |                    leap of the 21st Century.                  |
  \_________________________________________________________________/
	uPoy@physics.ucla.edu        UCLA Physics
					 Los Angeles, California USA
		
GUS Digest Adminstrator
Advanced Gravis UltraSound Card - The ultimate in soundcard technology 

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 14:30:51 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: 11th hour

	I got a demo of this, along with Kings Quest VII, and made the
music work by the same means that made 7th guest work. I did not make
the digitals come through though, although it accepted the ail. I am
just curiuous if anyone else have made this work, the game looks truly
awesome, and the music is great as always.

	Funny enough, the same goes for Kings Quest VII. The 32-gus ail
drivers from sierra are accepted, music plays, but when digital is supposed
to go off, (when the princess tears her dress), the system goes boom. 

	Anyone have the adress to trilobyte or Sierra ? I wanna mail them
to see what's up. Lastly, mega-em works with Zool2 on disc, but when used
on the cd-rom version it barfs. Oh well, System Shock rocks. :)


	See ya boys and girls,
	Ivar Froelich

P.s. I mailed origin prior to the release of System Shock, and they told me
that all their releases would support the gus after wing commanda aramda.
They kept their promise..... :)

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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 23:55:56 -0500
From: "KrisJon A. Hanson" <hansonka@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu>
Subject: Best Mod ect. Player for Windows??

Could anyone reccomend a good MOD player for Windoze that uses the GUS to mix and does not screw up like MODUS when system sounds are played?

Thank you in advance,
KrisJon Hanson
hansonka@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 15:11:49 -0400
From: pasky@cg-atla.agfa.com (Robert Pasky)
Subject: CD-ROM?

The return of the GUS Digest comes just in time for me to ask this
question:
	Someone (on c.s.i.p.soundcard?) recently mentioned a
	PC magazine that contained a free CD-ROM with the
	ultrasound archives on it (or something to that effect).
	Can somebody tell me the name and issue of the magazine?
	(I'm assuming it was distributed in the US. I didn't see
	anything resembling the description on the newsstands
	last weekend.)

Thanks,
Bob

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 01:32:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Teper <mt3q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Dark Legions

Has anyone had ANY luck getting GUS to work with this game ?

Thanks,


=========================================================================
+  Michael Teper        | Member: TeamOS/2                              +
+  nuvision@cmu.edu     | NuVision Technologies                         +
+  mt3q@andrew.cmu.edu  |                    - The Vision of the Future +
=========================================================================

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Date: 10 Oct 1994 00:00:00 +0000
From: tom@cat.ping.de (Thomas Adams)
Subject: discount on GusMax??

Hello

I've read a bit about a discount that Gravis grants to registered GUS  
owners when they order a GUSMAX. Is this true and who is eligible for the  
discount?

I'm a German and sent my registration card to Logitech in Switzerland and  
I'm sure that the card got through to Canada as I received a parcel from  
Gravis, Canada a while back containing some "additional software".

But I haven't gotten information about a new Gravis soundcard in the mail  
so far. I'm so glad about Usenet. :-)

Thanks in advance

Thomas Adams

## CrossPoint v3.02 ##

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 10:44:54 CDT
From: mcavity@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject: DOOM GUS!!

I am *SO* glad the digest is back! 
I have heard that the -gus 1 helps somtimes with doom but I want to know  why
somtimes I start doom witth -gus -gus1 -gus active and sometimees only -gus1
-gus2 acttive.
I also would like to know what they REALY do.  
I have source code for they guys at ID for how to support the gus if they want
it.. [grin] 
I have been told that the gus who did the sound support HATES the gus [propably
becous it is diffrent and he cant adjust]

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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 23:58:09 -0400
From: Leung Cheung <lcheung@uncc.edu>
Subject: Front Page Sports: BaseBall with Gus

I have a Gus with 1mb memory, and I try to load the FSPB with ultramid, megaem,
or sbos, none of those are woking.  Any1 have suggestions?

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 09:11:39 -0500
From: "Tim Langlois" <langlois@beanie.hsv.crc.com>
Subject: General Questions and Answers

Hot Damn the Digest is back!

Here's my list of questions that were not answered in the FAQ.

 1) I'm adding a CDROM to my system.  Should I go with the GUS daughtercard
	or just use the CDROM's card (will the daughtercard save me an IRQ as
	well as a slot?)

 2) Regarding Daughtercards: can someone verify which CDROM interfaces the
	GUS supports?  These are the ones I've heard about:

	Panasonic
	Sony
	Mitsubishi
	SCCS?????

	Anyone have opinions on which is the best GUS/CDROM combination?

 3) When connecting the GUS to my stereo system, I hear a low-level humming
	coming from the speakers (ground noise?).  Is there a way to filter
	this out or does that mean my system is not grounded properly.  I do not
	notice this sound when using my headphones or cheap computer speakers.

 Answer section:

  XCOM

  I got the GUS to "work" with XCOM by selecting Soundblaster (setting
  appropriate address and DMA settings) and then running setup again and
  selecting Ultrasound.  However, the game hangs when going to battlescape.
  I was successfull in getting XCOM to work with SBOS, except there is an
  annoying clicking sound in the background in Battlescape mode.

  DOOM 1.666

  There is an environment variable DMXOPTION which you can set to -phase.
  This seems to improve the sounds I get from DOOM.  Can anyone else
  verify this?  I believe the DOCS say use DMXOPTIONS <-with the S, which
  is incorrect.
  I havnt heard about the -gus -gus1 options. I'll have to try that.

  Later,

  Tim

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 14:39:10 +0100
From: A.R.vanGog@ET.TUDelft.NL
Subject: Re: Gravis Europe BBS

J.Waghorn wrote:

>According to ZYE Technology, they are ceasing to have their BBS running, 
>which was the Gravis Support BBS in the UK, and a new Gravis Europe 
>Support BBS was being set up, but they couldn't supply a number or even a 
>contact. So anyone got any ideas.

>Jason


Gravis is starting up a Gravis B.V. in the Netherlands. They have a BBS 
which I have logged onto two or three times. They were still setting up
the system and at the moment it doesn't pick up the phone. Anyway, the 
number is (036)-5360379. Ofcourse if you're calling from outside the 
Netherlands you'll have to dial your international access code first. I 
hope it will be back up soon.

Arjan van Gog
Delft University Of Technology
Deparment of Electrical Engineering

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:08:41 -0600 (MDT)
From: Ignatius Tam <tam@amisk.cs.ualberta.ca>
Subject: gravis piano

Hi guys,

glad to see the digest is back...

i've received the gravis piano (from the gravis offer).  the keyboard
is great, however there's nothing on it except the keys, midi out, the power
switch and power in (not even a gravis label!), that's strange, i think 
they shipped it in a hurry since they forgot the midi adaptor in the first
shipment. anyway i called customer service and i received the adaptor
the next day.  well i played around with it and the bad thing is that i
still can't manage to the velocity change.  i played piano and organ and
have a little band experience but i've never played anything so sensitive
to velocity change.  is it just me?  any comments?

well, for the price of cad$199, the keyboard worths it's price
(what do you expect?) and it meets my needs...

btw, get One Must Fall 2097, great fighting and great sound!
(in cs.uwp.edu:pub/incoming/games or maybe moved, don't know)

- Ignatius

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 09:55:24 EDT
From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom)
Subject: GUS & Pentiums

Harri Tuomela reported his GUS midi port works on a friends 486, but
fails on his Intel PCI Baby AT motherboard Pentium/60.
I can confirm this behavior - works on my 486/66, fails on
my Intel PCI Baby AT (Plato) motherboard Pentium/90.
My BIOS (most current, the 1.10) is set to compatible AT-bus timing
(not enhanced timing).

Is anyone else using the GUS midi in port in a pentium system?
Are you having success with midi in?

					Ivan Strom

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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 21:12:52 -0700
From: "Mike J. Chen" <mchen@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: GUS and CD ROM

Hi folks,

I have a novice's question about CD ROMs and the GUS.
I often see CD ROM drives being sold with interface cards
of their own.  So, why would I want to pay for the daughter
cards which allow direct connection of the CD ROM drive
to the GUS (I have the original and not the MAX), especially
since that card only supports a few drives?  Also, if I do
get one of the dirves and attach it to my GUS, does that
mean I don't need a separate controller card?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

Mike

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 10:07:28 +0100
From: Karl Erik Asbjoernsen <KARLEA@oleg.hiof.no>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #1

> From: Dylan Nicolle <dnicolle@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us>
> Subject: yes! Hopefully this will be the first question!
> 
> Argh! I need some help setting up Linux to use my Gus! I got the 
> Slackware 1.2, and during the installation, it did ask a question about 
> the Gus, but that was it. I need to know how to setup the rest. Or if I 
> should get more drivers. 
Try slackware 2.0.0!
A question: Has anyone got gus-sound with the LinuxXDOOM? HOW?

 -------------------------------------------------------------
- karlea@oleg.hiof.no - ShortSig -  :-)  =3D8*}  (:-]   {8--)- -
 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 15:23:33 +1000
From: U2102846@csdvax.csd.unsw.EDU.AU
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #2

My flatmate's GUS wouldn't work with Doom II, but mine did. We couldn't
work out why, and we thought it was a problem with Doom 1.666. 
IT IS NOT DOOM 1.666 - IMHO

WE FIXED THE PROB. BY CHANGING THE 'AT CLOCK SPEED' IN HIS CMOS SETTINGS.
Most PC's have very inefficient AT clock settings, and some people 
push the clock from CLK/6 to CLK/4 (CLK is the main CPU external bus
clock). This make ISA graphics faster. The drawback is that it will
fuck the DMA transfers to the GUS. We simple slowed the ISA bus 
slightly, and it now works fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO, try slowing your ISA clock with Doom II, by changing this CMOS
from CLK/x to CLK/y. Where x>y .

I hope this helps some people. 
Bye

Steen Andersson

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 10:17:37 -0400
From: davidm@marcam.com (David MacMahon)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #2

>Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 11:10:18 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
>Subject: OS/2 and GUS
>
>I doubt that OS/2 drivers by Gravis will be made soon.  On the good note, 
>IBM is releasing a new OS/2 that is compatible up to Windows for 
>Workgroups v3.11, and it can use the *386 drivers, so that means that 
>OS/2 can use existing GUS drivers for windows (but no native OS/2 
>drivers).

The new version of OS/2 will NOT use *.386 or any other VxD type driver.  
The current Windows drivers will not work with the new version of OS/2.  I 
really wish Gravis would get off their collective butt and get the native 
OS/2 MMPM/2 driver out the door.  Can you say "Miss the boat"?

Dave

David MacMahon
Software Engineer
davidm@marcam.com

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 22:25:50 +0100
From: Vince <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #2

On Sun, 9 Oct -1, GUS Server wrote:

> 
> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 11:50:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Thomas Ngo <tngo@netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #0 (fwd)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 12:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Thomas Ngo <tngo@netcom.com>
> To: GUS Daily Digest <gus-general@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #0
> 
> 

Hi Thomas,

> Hey, Glad to see the GUS Digest back up!!
> 

	Yeah, I'm glad to bring it back! :-)

> Did you guys recieve the special deal in the mail from Advanced Gravis w/ 
> special deals on the MAX, Phoenix Joystick, and Keyboard?  I'm thinking 
> about buying the keyboard.  It's a 4-octave, velocity sensitive, MIDI 
> keyboard.  It's comes with speakers, MIDI Adaptor, and Windows software 
> which teaches you how to play the piano.  It's only $155!  Is that a good 
> price?  Anyone out there have it?  What's your opinions on it?  Can you 
> really learn how to play? 
>

	I'm thinking about the GUSMax but couldn't you get one mail-order
for about the same price so that wouldn't make it a special offer then.
As for the keyboard, I don't know but I wouldn't touch any keyboard 
that's not made by a real keyboard company since I am sort of a audiophile.
Anyone think I should get the GUSMax as a upgrade or just buy a new one
and how much does the 1 meg upgrade cost?
 
> Thanks for any and all advice.
> 

	You're welcome!

> 
> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 15:45:46 -1000 (GMT-10:00)
> From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #1
> 
> Gee, I had long forgotten that I was still on this list...until I 
> remembered that it vanished.
>
 
Hi Paul,

	Really?  Guess you never know how valuable the thing is til it's
gone <g>

> 
> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 1994 20:19:24 CDT
> From: mcavity@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #1
>

Hey Mike,
 
> The GUS List Is back! COOL!! well Thats it for now...
> Mcavity@panam.edu
> 

	Yeah, you mean the Digest, we don't have a list yet.  And I guess
the whole world hears you now, atleast those with a GUS <g>

> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 14:16:51 +0800 (WST)
> From: sjm@it.com.au (Simon Mackinlay)
> Subject: GUS support under Linux
>

Hi Simon,
 
> *Really* glad to see the daily digest back and running... good
> work folks.
> 

	Thanks, glad to get the digest running again.

> I just thought I'd drop by and offer my address as somewhere to
> send GUS/Linux general problems - been hacking about with linux
> for near on 3 months now and I reckon I could answer a fair few
> of the queries that'll pop here :)
>

	Heh, I've been running Linux and FreeBSD for nearly 2 years so I
should be able to answer all those questions relating to GUS under 
FreeBSD and Linux now :-)
 
> Cheers, and *thanks* for the digest, much appreciated.
> 

	Cheers to you as well and you're very welcome!

> 
> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 19:59:33 +0200 (EET)
> From: H{m{l{inen Jori <h149373@proffa.cc.tut.fi>
> Subject: Linux
> 
> > Glad GUS Daily Digest is back!  ^_^
> 
> Me also, my world felt empty without this.. :)
> 

	Never knew it had such a big impact on you and your world :-)

> 
> Date: 8 Oct 94 23:57 -0700
> From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
> Subject: NHL'95 with GUS support? + CDROM on GUS question....
>

Hi Thomas,
 
> Do I get to be the first to ask a game question on the newly
> revived GUS Digest.......? :)
>

	I guess so :-)
 
> Date: Sat,  8 Oct 1994 20:39:36 GMT
> From: sue.lane@gusngolf.com (Sue Lane)
> Subject: Thank You!!
> 

Hi Sue,
> Vince,
> 
> Thank you for bring back the Gus Digest!  It has been sorely missed by
> many, including me!!
>

	You're very welcome!  Wowm so you run a BBS in Chicago or is that
Skokie?
 
> Sue
> Gus 'N Golf BBS..(708) 369-9183...Chicago Metro..14.4..24hrs..
> 

> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 00:29:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "C.Moore" <yaga@u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Try Number 2... yay!
> 

Hi Chris,

> Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes!
>

	Don't get too excited!
 
> Finally!  This is great!  Thank you very much for getting it going again, 
> I found the gus list the most informative and useful mailing list I've 
> ever been on.
>

	You're welcome and thanks for the nice compliments!
 
> I guess that was all I had to say.  =)
>

	Until you had another comment :=)
 
> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 01:13:17 -0700
> From: "Paul Ho" <pho@dilow.asd.sgi.com>
> Subject: Ultrasnd Max?
>

Hi Paul,
 
> Just got this slick ad from Gravis on the Ultrasnd Max. It did not give
> much info. For those of you that already have one of these, any info
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 

	I would like more info on it as well since the prices doesn't seem
like a good upgrading price like if someone would post what's the lowest
price for a UltraSound Max and how much does the 1 meg upgrade cost.  

Thanks!

> Thank you, Vince, for the digest. It is already much appreciated.
> 
> Brandon
> 

Hi Brandon,

	Sorry I lost your address in the reply, afterall, how many Brandon's
are there on the list?  j/k.  Anyways, you're welcome.  

Happy GUSing everyone!


							  Cheers,
					   Vince
E-mail:
vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu,\|/ Sys Adm - CircleStar Technologies,Inc. 
  root@berkeley.circlestar.com,(o o) San Francisco, California USA
  _________________________oOO__(_)__OOo_____________________________
 |  There are many forms of science but only physics is the quantum  |
 |                    leap of the 21st Century.                  |
  \_________________________________________________________________/
	uPoy@physics.ucla.edu        UCLA Physics
					 Los Angeles, California USA
		
GUS Digest Adminstrator
Advanced Gravis UltraSound Card - The ultimate in soundcard technology 

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 14:04:12 AEST+1000
From: Andrew McDonald <ANDREWM@HALLS1.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V0 #2,Tomorrow's GUS bulletin

>Subject: DOS volume
>Newbie question:
>I just picked up a GUS MAX, and LOVE it!  I like the mixer for 
>Windows, but the one for DOS leaves me scratchin' mi noggin'.
>
>Even on the lowest volume setting on my speakers (amplified) the GUS 
>shakes the roof.  I've fiddled with ULTRAMIX, but I can't get 
>acceptable volume levels without lots of speaker static, or ear drum 
>splitting shock waves.
>
>Any help at all will be appreciated...
>
>------------------------------

Hi, how are ya! Great to see the digest back up and running again! 

Sounds like you probably have the amplified speakers plugged into the 
amplified output of the gus. Since the amplified speakers are 
probably designed to take line input voltage, you will get distortion 
if the signal has already been amplified in the card.

The solution: Plug the amplified speakers into the line-output on the 
back of the gus, not the amplified-output. On the regular gus, the 
amplified-out is the top socket and the line-out is the one just 
below it. I assume it's the same for the max. 

I'd say that'll fix your problem. Sheesh, i have cheap NON-amplified 
speakers and they're too loud plugged into the amplified-out! hehe! 
:> Maybe i'll just have to get a max also so i can get the groovy 
mixer function! 

Glad to see you love your new gus! i love mine too!

Hope this helps, have a nice one (or more!!!)

from Andrew McDonald
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 00:06:53 -0600 (MDT)
From: rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff)
Subject: GUSMAX - should I get it??

Greets all you GUSers out there!! Nice to have the list back!!

Being a registered GUS owner, I received the special offer last week. 
I've decided on getting the GUS Max but I'm curious as to how much better 
it REALLY is:

* What is the advantage of having 48Khz as opposed to 44.1 -- the sound 
  quality can't be THAT much better, can it? Does this mean more than 14 
  channels can be mixed at 44.1Khz?

* Can anyone tell me what sets the DDSP apart from other DSPs? Will it 
  actually be used or will it meet the same fate as the SB16 with it's ASP?

* I currently have 1meg in the GUS I own right now. The revision is 3.4. 
  I was told by someone that the 4x256 RAM chips are not compatible with 
  the GUS Max. I need 4x512 or something.. This means I'll have to buy the 
  GUS MAX with 1meg installed (I'm not settling for 512k, thank you). 
  I'd rather save the $20 if I could.

As you might guess, I will be selling the GUS I have in the comming 
weeks. Like I said above it's revision 3.4 with 1meg. I've had it for 
about 6 months and still have the box and everything that came with it 
(minus the registation card or course). The GUS and RAM cost about $170 
all together. I'm selling it for $110 US. I live in Columbia, Maryland 
USA (Maryland is on the east coast).


		   -- Ryan Korniloff
		   -- rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 15:01:25 +0100
From: bjarne@fagmed.uit.no
Subject: GUS software

Long time no see!

I=B4m glad the digest is back.
It=B4s been so long that I=B4m totaly out of it. If somebody could=
 post a list
of all the new GUS software and where to find I=B4d be mighty grateful

Bo!
<bjarne@fagmed.uit.no>

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Date: 10 Oct 94 14:17:00 MET
From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
Subject: How much is the MAX ?

Hi,

how much is the best price for the GUS MAX (oversea order) ?

			Thanks
			Martin Grecner

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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 22:48:15 -0700
From: Derek Suzuki <drkszk@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Mega-em and OS/2 Drivers

	I remember sometime in spring I asked Jayeson about some problem I
was having with Mega-em and he told me it would be fixed in the next release,
which would take a while.  Any news since?  I always hear mumblings about
it working with protected mode programs, but nobody can quote an official
source.
	As for OS/2 drivers, I must say Gravis has pissed a number of people
off unneccessarily in this area.  Not that they have done a particularly
good job with the Windows drivers, but at least they put some work into
those.  I recall Robert Manley saying that he put off working on his next
release (with support for the onboard synthesizer) because Gravis had led
him to believe that they actually had something in the works.  Well, we 
probably could have told him that they were lying.
	Oh, I believe someone mentioned that OS/2 3.0 would support use of
VxDs, allowing the use of the Windows drivers in Win-OS/2.  This is a rumor
stemming from 3.0's Win32s support.  IBM has denied this.  As far as anyone
can tell, VxDs wouldn't work in a purely virtual machine unless the CPU
could be completely virtualized (x86s can't).  Supporting them in a non0
native environment would require the system to let them bypass memory
protection, in which case you might as well be running real Windows anyway.
	
Derek
drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 14:49:27 BST
From: "Stephen Todd" <todd@VNET.IBM.COM>
Subject: MegaEM, and Sam and Max CD Rom

I too would like a protected mode MegaEM,
or something else that would make the CD Rom version
of Sam and Max work. (The old demo version of Sam and Max worked
fine,  but the CD rom uses protected mode).

Stephen Todd

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 15:12:58 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From: FLAT^^TOP <kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg>
Subject: MegaEM NMI bug same as Emm bug ?

hi !

recently, after chnaging video cards, MegaEM complains that EMM is
incompatible. I was running QEMM 7.04 and thought it bould be the
cause... sure enuff, i disabled all the memory managers and brought up
emm386 of dos 6.22 instead.. megaem ran like a charm... but i had VERY
little lowmemory...

rushed out and got QEMM 7.5 once i saw it... thought it would solve
everything.... but no... same problem...

I need QEMM now more then i need megaem, but i hate to lose out on the
roland stuff in games...

so the Question is, why does megaem complain about emm incompatibility
? and how is this fixed ? is this the same as a NMI bug i read about
somewhere ? 

any help would be appreciated.

i've tried emailing gravis but no news from them... i wonder if john
is still reading the net and the digest.. 8)
-- 
/===<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: 10 Oct 94 10:04:00 MET
From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: MIDI keyboard for GUS ?

>about buying the keyboard.  It's a 4-octave, velocity sensitive, MIDI 
>keyboard.  It's comes with speakers, MIDI Adaptor, and Windows software 
>which teaches you how to play the piano.  It's only $155!  Is that a good 
>price?  Anyone out there have it?  What's your opinions on it?  Can you 
>really learn how to play? 

Does it have a pitch-bender and modulator wheels, MIDI channel selection,
does it support after touch, is it polyphonic (how much voices) ?
And last but not least, what size are the keys ?

Assuming satisfactory answers to these questions, the price is a really good
deal. But I strongly doubt about one half of these features and the standard
key size. Has someone seen it already ?

				Martin Grecner 

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 05:38:55 +0100
From: A.PAUW@ELSEVIER.nl
Subject: MIDI receiving problems

Harri S J Tuomela wrote:
> 
> Hi all folks...
> 
> My Windows 3.11 can't receive MIDI data at all. Dos programs (eg. Midifier)
> work instantly and Windows programs transmit MIDI data, but can't receive it.
> I've gone trough all the IRQ, DMA etc. settings. When the card is installed
> into my friend's 486, any problems doesn't appear. 
>   I'm suffering, because I'm composer and can't do what I want to do.
> I can't even save my synth sounds trough MIDI. Help me...
>   Equipement info: 60 MHz Pentium (Intel PCI Baby AT motherboard), 
> Diamond Stealth 64 videocard, Conner 420 Mb HD and Gravis Ultrasound MAX 
> without memory extensions running Windows for Workgroups. Installed GUS 
> software version is v3.53.
>   
>                       Harri Tuomela
>                    <htuomela@snakemail.hut.fi>
Well,

I have a 486SX 33 MHz machine and had the same problem with the
GUS. I got help from the people at Gravis/Forte and found the
following:
Under Windows the MIDI input works with the NMI interrupt. This
is because the GUS has no input buffer and Windows works in
time-slices. To handle all incoming data it uses the
Non-Maskable Interrupt. Now here lies (probably) the problem.
In the early days of PCs this interrupt was used for parity
error checking. Nowadays, it is hardly used so manufacturers of
motherboards have a setup switch (Parity check on/off) or
something like that. You could try switching it on.
If that doesn't work (or you can't find this `switch' (my setup
board has none for the parity) then I might have a trick which
works for you too. I don't have it with me (I am at work right
now). You could e-mail me directly if want to know this trick
(it is switching some bits on and off directly in the system
controller, so it might not work for your system).

Good luck..
Albert Pauw
a.pauw@elsevier.nl

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 13:19:50 MET
From: Odd Kenneth Oden <odd_oden@spirea.gih.no>
Subject: Re: MIDI receiving problems

>My Windows 3.11 can't receive MIDI data at all. Dos programs (eg. Midifier)
>work instantly and Windows programs transmit MIDI data, but can't receive it.
>I've gone trough all the IRQ, DMA etc. settings. When the card is installed
>into my friend's 486, any problems doesn't appear.
>        I'm suffering, because I'm composer and can't do what I want to do.
>I can't even save my synth sounds trough MIDI. Help me...
>        Equipement info: 60 MHz Pentium (Intel PCI Baby AT motherboard),
>Diamond Stealth 64 videocard, Conner 420 Mb HD and Gravis Ultrasound MAX
>without memory extensions running Windows for Workgroups. Installed GUS
>software version is v3.53.

Your problem may not be Windows for Workgroups at all... Recently I upgraded
to a 486 PCI-board, and suddenly I was no more able to run SBOS or do MIDI-
recording in Windows.
The problem seems to be lack of parity enabling in CMOS and on the mainboard
in general.
This means no NMI on my PC, and both SBOS and MIDI-recording depends on that.
When asking Gravis tech, I was told to get a new mainboard.
Uh, uh. I don't think so! I've already spent too much money on my gus,
upgrading to GUSMAX, upgrading memory, buying MIDI-keyboard etc. I do not
wish to switch my BRAND NEW! mainboard just because Gravis uses some ancient
way of coding.
RECODE!
I did get MEGAEM to run with SB-sound, though, with the v3.53-disks shipped
with the GUSMAX. But when installing the 3.56 disks, megaem suddenly refused
to do SB-sound because of the lack of NMI. WHY??? Did the downgrade the
Megaem code from V3.53 to V3.56??? Heck! It used to work!
Well. I'm sorta pissed off here....

Odd Kenneth Oden
odd_oden@spirea.gih.no

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 8:34:26 CDT
From: Jim English <jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu>
Subject: NHL '95 CD-ROM info for asking guy

hey, it's great to see the digest up and running again!!!  Ok here's
some info for the person who asked about NHL '95 CD-ROM.  The game
(ie actual playing) graphics did not change much, they are smoother and
there are new player animations.  The non-playing graphics all went SVGA
which is nice.  There are new player moves: Diving in front of a shot (
can't remember the term), faking a shot, backwards skating, maybe one
other.  There is a central registry feature letting you create players
and move players from team to team.  There are several video clips which
play after exhibition games.  The sounds are good.  I've heard people say
that it is a little slower than NHL '93, but it is a bit more realistic.
The computer players are better.  And oh yes, the native gravis support is
good.  Some of the crowd noises get a little scratchy, but I think it's
my nasty computer speakers that have been corroded.  I would say the game
is definately worth it, but I don't know if it's worth getting a CD-ROM
for.  Although a CD-ROM is worth having overall for many other reasons
than NHL '95.  Hope this helps.
-jim

--
______________________________________________________________________________
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"Aw man, the Doobie Brothers broke up!  Shit.  When did that happen?"
______________________________________________________________________________

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 17:06:48 AST
From: Jeremy McIntosh <jeremy@nbnet.nb.ca>
Subject: NHL '95 with GUS

>Do I get to be the first to ask a game question on the newly 
>revived GUS Digest.......? :) 
Yup! Looks Like It.
 
>Has anyone with a GUS tried NHL'95 yet? I hear it has GUS native 
>support. I don't have NHL'94 so I'm thinking of getting 95 since it has 
>the GUS support. How is it? Worth the money? Especially since I'll also 
>have to get a CD ROM drive since I hear it only comes in CD format. So 
>it better be worth it..... 
I just bought it on Friday. Wow! GUS Support. That is one of the main 
reasons why I bought it. The Sound is excellent! It is a CD-Rom Game.
They really made some improvements over NHL '94. The Game is in Hi-Res
now. I Recommend it! Yet Another game that supports the GUS!

			
	 ____________________
	 |jeremy@nbnet.nb.ca|  A Happy GUS Owner/User!
	 --------------------

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 19:56:39 +0800 (WST)
From: Software Hallucinations <hallucin@iinet.com.au>
Subject: PatchEZE 1.01 released!

  Hello fellow GUS-lovers. Just an announcement that PatchEZE 1.01 has
been released!!
  PatchEZE 1.01 is a bug fix version for those GUSers having problems
installing the software (there was a problem with some versions of the
UltraSound installation), or with the MIDI in/output (problem with
other MIDI drivers being used). If you haven't had any problems in these
two areas, then don't bother getting the new version.
  If you DO get the new version and you have already installed PatchEZE,
be sure to read the upgrade section in INSTALL.TXT before reinstalling.

  If you don't even know what PatchEZE IS... then read the announcement 
in the soundcard newsgroups, or get the readme file via ftp.


  PatchEZE has been uploaded to the following FTP sites:

	archive.epas.utoronto.ca          /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit
	ftp.cica.indiana.edu              /pub/pc/win3/uploads
									  (or check /pub/pc/win3/sounds)
	wuarchive.wustl.edu               /pub/msdos_uploads/sound

	File: P-EZE101.ZIP
	Readme: P-EZE101.TXT

  PatchEZE has also been posted, uuencoded and split into three files of
less than 64k each, to the comp.binaries.ms-windows newsgroup.


  Hope you enjoy it!


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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 16:35:37 -0300
From: terry barratt (09/14/94) <tbarratt@Fox.nstn.ns.ca>
Subject: Re: Quarantine Sound Problems

I'm running Quarantine fine. No problems at all with sound. Although the 
occasional time when I load a save game I get garbled death crys but after 
about 3 secs they finish and the game continues fine. I do know that you
need to run HIMEM and not EMM or QEMM, because the game uses XMS!

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 13:32:37 -0400
From: Christian Brideau <brideau@revcan.ca>
Subject: SBOS error with 3.53 disk set
Message-ID: <9410101332.aa03534@macdonald.revcan.ca>

Hi Gussers,

I just installed the 3.53 GUS disk set, and everything works fine, except that
when I try to run SBOS, I get this error:

Invalid (C;\US\SBOS\sboslib.sbs) SBOS Patch library

Error on load of patch library (C:\US\SBOS\sboslib.sbs)

Is it possible that the installer seeing that I already got patches installed,
did not install the new ones and caused this problem.

(Must sound like a silly question to you experts... :-(  )

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

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 05:47:33 +0100
From: A.PAUW@ELSEVIER.nl
Subject: Strange chirping w/new GUS drivers in Windows-How to get rid of?

> Hello everybody.  What a shock to find the digests coming in again-I had not
> realized how much I had been missing them.  Yesssssssssssss!!!!!!!
> 
> I thought I would submit a question just to get things rolling:
> 
> I am using the latest windows drivers from gus0043.zip on EPAS, and have
> noticed that ever since I installed them, I hear this annoying 'chirp' when
> software accesses the card.  Now that I am thinking about it, I don't recall
> hearing this when playing MIDI files, only when playing digital samples from
> either the hard drive or from CD-ROM (usually along with video clips, eg.
> Quicktime or Video for windows, but also using media player).  The sound
> occurs at the beginning of the clip, and again at the end when the player is
> relinquishing control of the GUS.
> This was never heard with any drivers before this version.
> Anyone else experiencing this phenomenon?  Can it be eliminated?
> 
> Some info:  I have an original GUS, purchased sometime in 1993, with 1meg
> RAM on board.  
> It's running in a 80486, 33mHz noname clone with 8 megs of RAM, Windows for
> Workgroups, Norton Desktop for Windows 3.0, Stacker 4.0, with a cheap
> Philips single-speed CD-ROM Drive.  Oh, and Qemm 7.04. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Terry
> triplett@utsw.swmed.edu

Yep,
I got the same problems with the new drivers so I went back to
the older ones which indeed didn't had this very anoying thing.
I tried fiddling around with the buffer sizes. The effect didn't
disappear but changed the amount and length of this pweeeeeek
thing. According to Gravis it was fixed but unfortunately it
isn't. I also found the sort of pweeeeeek isn't the same every
time I use the sounds in another session of Windows. It must
have something to do with the buffer I reckon....
Oh yes, my system: a 80846 noname clone (custom build so to say),
5 megs of RAM, Windows, EMM386 (the one from MSDOS), no CD-ROM
at that time.

Let's hope it will be fixed soon.

By the way, when will the new drivers have bank switching?

Albert Pauw
a.pauw@elsevier.nl

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 00:44:44 -0400
From: Leung Cheung <lcheung@uncc.edu>
Subject: Syndicate and Quarantine

For Syndicate, take out the sound blaster address from the synd.bat.  The sbos
version 1.20 is the best to work with the syndicate.
For Quarantine, the irq needs to set to under 9, I set my ultrasound variable
for: set ultrasnd=220,1,1,7,5
and that works great.

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:59:05 +0100
From: Jens-Uwe Jansen <Jens-Uwe.Jansen@Germany.EU.net>
Subject: Re: syndicate and sbos?

Hello Damon, 

why don't you just use the 32-bit Miles Drivers, they work perfect with
Syndicate. You get native support for the GUS that way, even if Syndicate just
says it will only have sound on an SB ;-)

If you don't have the drivers, they are on any Ultrasound FTP-site
and are called something like ail3214.zip. There is even a nice setup-program
to back-patch games which use 32-bit flat-model AIL-drivers.

	Cheers,
	Jens-Uwe Jansen

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 10:54:27 +0200 (SAST)
From: bxxmic01@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (M R Bax)
Subject: What to do with DOOM 1.666 (and background buzzing in demo3d)

>   I have heard many conflicting stories about how to make doom v1.666  
> work with the GUS.  Some say it works fine, others don't (mine sounds like  
> s***!!).  What is the general consensus?  Are there any sure-fire fixes (for  
> the intermitent-soundfx problem)????

If you have a motherboard that can do this, try increasing your ISA wait states
by one.

E.g. on my motherboard (ExpertBoard 4049), in the CMOS Advanced Chipset setup, 
change the settings "16-bit ISA Read Wait State" and "16-bit ISA Write Wait 
State" to 1, rather than 0.

It worked for me, and cleared up a nasty buzzing sound whenever demo3d was
running.

Cheers
Mike

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