Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sat, 24 Apr 1993     Volume 3 : Issue  24 

Today's Topics:
				  Comanche and dblspace - working !
	 Does anyone have the E-mail address for Software companies?
					   Game Patches Old Message
				   GUS's Future, present? (2 msgs)
			 New PLAYMIDI embedded in 2.05 Install Disks
					Night on Bald Mountain on epas
					  Strike Commander and SBOS
						Top Mod Update 4/22/93
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #23

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 15:58:54 PDT
From: nestlero@chekov.usc.edu (Mikeee)
Subject: Comanche and dblspace - working !
Message-ID: <9304232258.AA18777@chekov.usc.edu>

OK, I've seen several people(including myself) that have had problems getting
Comanche to work in a doublespaced drive.... Well, thanks to a post a week or
so ago, I've now got everything working fine!

The problem is that Comanche doesn't allow emm386(or whatever...) so you're
stuck with the 640 k limit. With DOS, himem, dblspace(44k!), and SBOS all
taking their chunk of memory, Comanche doesn't have enough left to include
digitized sounds. (The easiest way to tell if you have this problemi s 
to start up a mission.... if you don't hear "All systems functional" as soon
as the mission starts, then you've got the problem.)

The fix: A neat little program that gives you access to upper memory without
the aid of emm386. The program gets loaded before himem, so you can even
put himem in upper memory! Anyway, I put himem, dos, and dblspace all high, 
and Comanche is back to its full glory! The important lines from my config
are below:

	device=c:\umb_drvr.sys /c=09  
	devicehigh=c:\dos\himem.sys
	devicehigh=c:\dos\dblspace ....( forgot the stuff here...)

I load SBOS manually(low) and end up with ~580 k left....

Note: The /c switch tells the driver what chipset you have..... I have the
	  bad Opti chipset, and 09 works fine with it.

I've just spent a half hour hunting through wuarchive to figure out where I 
found this little gem (I've forgotten the location and the name of the guy
that first told the digest about it (sorry!) )

I did find it in:
	wuarchive.wustl.edu
	(mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/msdos/util/system)
	"umbdr522.zip"

[ Ed. Note: I just dl'ed this from wuarchive and uploaded it to
	archive.epas in the ultrasound/submit directory.  - Dave ]

So, give it a try... looks like it'll solve a lot of problems I've read about.


Mikeeeeee
nestlero@spock.usc.edu

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 21:40:36 +0501 (EDT)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Does anyone have the E-mail address for Software companies?
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9304232136.A7590-9100000@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

I want to send Lucas Arts, Microprose, and Accolade E-mail notes about
games I have and to lobby for GUS patches for games that I have and future
GUS support.  Does anyone have a list of assress that they can share?  If
so please send them to 

			gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu




Very Greatfull

Gunnar

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 21:33:43 +0501 (EDT)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Game Patches Old Message
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9304232143.A7590-b100000@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

Hey there folks I sent this a while ago and I got no response.  But my
guess this is like fishing you gotta keep dropin the line in to get a
bite.  Once again if anyone has heard anything regarding new patches tell
me.  By the way Computer Gaming World in their latest issue said that
Accolade has posted a bug fix for there Star Control II game.  Bug fix 1.02
or some thing like that.  





>Hey what is the  deal is the only game patch available for Commanche
>Maximum Overkill?  I have X-Wing and the list says that Lucas Arts will be
>supporting the GUS.  Is it true?  If so, is there a patch in the works. 
>Also if there are all of these patches available why aren't they on the
>Internet?  I got an $80.00 dollar phone bill calling VANCUVER I did not
>know that the Gravis BBS was in CANADA.  So I am using the Internet its
>cheaper.

>What's the low down?

>Oh by the way if you have X-wing do not use the key board arrow keys with
>a joystick because it locks out most of the other keyboard functions.

>Well I hope this gets through.  If anyone wants to my address is
>gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu   



Thanx

Gunnar

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 16:25:51 GMT
From: byrd@lucerne.rice.edu (Marc J Byrd)
Subject: GUS's Future, present?
Message-ID: <C5y2z4.M0I@rice.edu>

ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard

Perusing the GUS faq, I didn't see the answers to these questions:

1)  Can one insert multiple 16bit recording daughter boards for
	multichannel, direct-to-disk recording?  If not, will this
	be possible in the future?  Might it require WindowsNT's
	multithreading capability?  Is compression handled on the
	recording board?  How much is the daughter board?  How does
	the future look for multi-track direct-to-disk digital recording
	using GUS++ (that is GUS +multiple daughter boards).  

2)  Might not a daughter board which receives digital inputs from
	an external digitizer be a good idea?  Sample/digitize near the
	source to take full advantage of digital, avoid noise problems
	surrounding PC?  Then maybe multiple tracks could also be
	handled by extra external units (multiplex on digital input).

3)  How about WindowsNT support?  

-- 
Marc J. Byrd - byrd@rice.edu       |  United We Stand. 
Rice University                    |  Whether or not you accept it, you are 
Dept of Elec & Comp Engr           |  responsible for the actions and 
Confocal Holographic Microscope    |  inactions of your government. 

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 16:36:05 GMT
From: byrd@lucerne.rice.edu (Marc J Byrd)
Subject: Re: GUS's Future, present?
Message-ID: <C5y3G5.M6s@rice.edu>

ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard

Oh yeah, forgot another couple of questions:

4)  I saw a Borland Pascal 7.0 unit which gives
	some programming control.  How about a (MSWindows) DLL and the
	associated documentation?  How about a TPU which interfaces this
	DLL?

5)  What processing power, if any does the GUS have onboard.  Does
	playback bog down the rest of the system?  Does it have onboard
	DSP like the Turtle beach (my guess is no for $150-$200!).  

-- 
Marc J. Byrd - byrd@rice.edu       |  United We Stand. 
Rice University                    |  Whether or not you accept it, you are 
Dept of Elec & Comp Engr           |  responsible for the actions and 
Confocal Holographic Microscope    |  inactions of your government. 

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 17:36:04 EDT
From: Meshreki@ee.udel.edu
Subject: New PLAYMIDI embedded in 2.05 Install Disks
Message-ID: <9304232136.aa05010@zip.ee.udel.edu>

Actually, in reference to ...

+> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 01:53:41 GMT
+> From: wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda)
+> Subject: GUS New Installation Disk Ver 2.05
+>
+> There are new GUS disk ver 2.05 in epas, I downloaded it, and installed it.
+> These are the differences between 2.05 and 2.01
+> - SBOS Ver 2.04
+> - PLAYMIDI.EXE and PLAYFILE.EXE are the same version,
+>   but they are a little bigger.
+> - CALLIOPE.PAT is different, although their sizes are same.
+>   (I only compared it with comp.exe)

...PLAYMIDI did increase a version and added an additional feature that you
can only see in the new README or if you type "playmidi -h".  PLAYMIDI can 
now run in the background using "playmidi -tsr".

I've uploaded it separately to epas.

FTP:    archive.epas.utoronto.ca
	/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/pmidi405.zip

Sam

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 16:44:26 -0400
From: "It's your hand, Buckaroo" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Night on Bald Mountain on epas
Message-ID: <9304232044.AA00485@magick.tay2.dec.com>

Is there something that I've missed or is the Night on Bald Mtn file out on
epas bogus? I grabbed the nightbald_fixed.zip and didn't do anything
special and all I got were the drum tracks. Do I need a specific midimapper
setup?

DDA

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 19:03:01 -0700
From: Eric N. Liao <liaoe@aero.org>
Subject: Strike Commander and SBOS
Message-ID: <199304240203.AA13992@aerospace.aero.org>

Amazingly, Strike Commander works fine with SBOS (at least on my system, a
486sx/33 with 8megs RAM and MSDOS-5, QEMM 6.02, etc.etc.etc)

However, I tried Strike Commander at Egghead, and I did notice one horribly
wrong sound effect.  The vulcan gun on SBOS sounds like this horibly high-
pitched whine...worse yet it sounds like it's clipping (too loud for the GF1.)

The real noise (on a genuine SB) is a noise that I can only describe as a
repeating drum.  It sounds decent, but I liked the gun noise in Jetfighter II
more.

Are their any digital SFX in the game?  The only I can find are in the intro.

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 23:03:56 GMT
From: bbs.rainman@tsoft.net (George Loo)
Subject: Top Mod Update 4/22/93
Message-ID: <0kkF3B5w165w@tsoft.net>

ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard

New list has some minor changes from the older one, but is pretty much 
the same except for a switch in the top 2 mods.

*-------------------------------------------------------------*---------*
|                         Top Mods List                       | 4/21/93 |
*-------------------------------------------------------------*---------*
Vot Mod Name            Filename      Composer/Group   Comment/FTP
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 6 Beyond Music         beyond.mod    Captain/Image    ?
 6 Space debris         spacedeb.mod  Captain/Image    ?
 5 AxelF                axelf.mod     ?                ?
 4 Boesendorfer         boesendo.mod  Romeo Knight     "Wicked Sensation"
 3 12th Warrior         12warrio.mod  Dr. Awesome      ?
 3 Approach             approach.mod  ?                ?
 3 I Like Chopin        chopin.mod    ?                ?
 3 Klisjepa             klisjepa.mod  ?                ?
 3 Xmas pudding mix     xmas.mod      U4ia             ?
 2 Andante              andante.mod   Dr. Awesome      ?
 2 Big in Japan         biginjap.mod  ?                ?
 2 Dungeonquest         dungeon.mod   ?                ?
 2 Mandelforce          mandlfrc.mod  ?                ?
 2 Popcorn              popcorn.mod   Captain/Image    ?
 2 SpaceX8              spacex8.mod   Infinity/Codeb.  ?
 2 Starwars.remix       starwars.mod  Captain/Image    ?
 2 U Fat Bastard        ufatbast.mod  U4ia             ?
 2 Unveiled             unveiled.mod  Watchman&Trixal  ?
 2 Worlds War           worldwar.mod  NHP              ?
 1 -> B A T T E R Y <-  ok5.mod       ?                ?
 1 2                    2.mod         ?                ?
 1 6Beat                6beat.mod     ?                ?
 1 Acid Age             acidage.mod   ?                ?
 1 Adeline              adeline.mod   ?                ?
 1 Age of Time          ageoftim.mod  DEZ              ?
 1 Alive                alive.mod     ?                ?
 1 Almost               blubros1.mod  ?                ?
 1 Amegas               amegas.mod    ?                ?
 1 Antares1             antares1.mod  K. Stadler       ?
 1 Beautiful Girl       beaugirl.mod  ?                ?
 1 Blackmoremore        blackmor.mod  ?                ?
 1 Blue Monday          bluemon.mod   ?                ?
 1 Bridge to the un..   bridgeto.mod  ?                ?
 1 BST                  bst.mod       ?                ?
 1 Clasified Crusader   crusader.mod  ?                ?
 1 Diehard              swhere.mod    ?                ?
 1 Digital Dream        digdream.mod  ?                ?
 1 DNS                  dns.mod       ?                ?
 1 Egypt                egypt.mod     ?                ?
 1 Emotional things     emotionl.mod  ?                ?
 1 Empty Spaces 2       emptyspc.mod  Dens             FTP.UWP.EDU
 1 Enigma               enigma.mod    ?                ?
 1 Enter Sandman        entersan.mod  ?                ?
 1 Everybody Dance Now  c$cmusic.mod  ?                ?
 1 fctitletune          fctitle.mod   ?                ?
 1 Freddie              freddie.mod   ?                ?
 1 Hypnautic-ii         hypnauti.mod  ?                ?
 1 Jam                  jam.mod       ?                ?
 1 Labyrinth.sfx.2      gamov.mod     ?                ?
 1 Let's swing it       logo2.mod     ?                ?
 1 Madhouse jazz        nepal.mod     ?                ?
 1 Mercury              mercury.mod   ?                ?
 1 MOD.Move             move!.mod     ?                ?
 1 Moongazer            moongaze.mod  ?                ?
 1 Nemesis              nemesis.mod   ?                ?
 1 Occ-san-geen         occ-san.mod   ?                ?
 1 Oh_yeah              oh_yeah.mod   ?                ?
 1 PC90                 pc90.mod      ?                ?
 1 Peter Gun            petergun.mod  ?                ?
 1 Rainy Night          rainy_nt.mod  Moby             ?
 1 Re-call              re-call.mod   ?                ?
 1 Red Sector-Theme     redsect.mod   4-mat            ?
 1 Resonance            resonanc.mod  ?                ?
 1 Rowrowmonsterremix   rowrowmx.mod  ?                ?
 1 Rsi Riseup           7rs.mod       ?                ?
 1 Runaway scales       runscale.mod  ?                ?
 1 Self Control         selfcont.mod  Laura Branigan   ?
 1 Smoke                smoke.mod     ?                ?
 1 StarDust Memories    stardust.mod  Jester/Sanity    ?
 1 Stevespam            stevspam.mod  ?                ?
 1 Stories never end    storiesn.mod  ?                ?
 1 Street jungle        strtjngl.mod  ?                ?
 1 T.K.G. Loader Final  tkg.mod       Ray Norrish      ?
 1 Tiger road           tig_road.mod  ?                ?
 1 Tune2                tune2.mod     ?                ?
 1 TZPACK '93           tzjung4.mod   ?                ?
 1 Wasteland            wastelnd.mod  ?                ?
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------*
|   All of the previous MODs are listed in alpha order and are numbered |
| according to popularity.                                              |
|   If you wish to add your MODs to the list, please give the following |
| information:                                                          |
| 1  MOD's name (first 20 bytes of the file header  \  Please try to    |
| 2  Distribution file name                          > provide at least |
| 3  Name of composer or group                      /  these 3 things   |
| 4  FTP site (optional, but would be of a big help                     |
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------*
 
Note:  If you can fill in the "?" then email me.


If you haven't sent in your favorites, do so!


George Loo

_____________________________________________
George Loo, Sunnyvale, CA
bbs.rainman@tsoft.net   or 
rainman@spectrx.saigon.com 

--
George Loo (bbs.rainman@tsoft.net)

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 20:53:42 PDT
From: hippo@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Vincent Poy)
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #23
Message-ID: <9304240353.AA23933@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>

Hey, where do I ftp the GUS Software Disks v2.05 and what files and what
directory are they? I can't seem to find it anywhere...


-- 

Cheers,

Vince

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