GUS Daily Digest            Fri, 24 Jun 94  9:37 PST     Volume 14: Issue  12 

Today's Topics:
			   3.53 Installation Disks -> What a Crock!
					Digital and/or synthesized...
								FINALE
				  GUS Daily Digest V14 #11 (3 msgs)
							 GUS problems
	   Ultrasound Internet Archive Services News - New services
							 Xwing sounds

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: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 01:02:25 -0230 (NDT)
From: Edward Reddy <ereddy@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: 3.53 Installation Disks -> What a Crock!

The disks that I downloaded (twice to make sure the files were not bad) 
do not install properly.

Now, Windows doesn't work properly, SBOS does not work, and I can't get 
ANY sound out without running software programs that say

"INCORRECT VERSION".

If Gravis had a head on their shoulders, they should of kept this 
freaking version at bay until they had all the bugs out of the 
installation process. But, oh no, someone was impatient to get this 
headache version out.

Of all the other update install disks (I have gone through them all) I 
got from the internet, this particular version is the most fustrating. 
Hats off to the programming department of any version less than 3.53, and 
thumbs down, index up to the current one.

Ed

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 12:00:58 EDT
From: Akintunde Omitowoju <ZAO1@ETSU.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
Subject: Digital and/or synthesized...

Hi GUSsers,
I had posted this message to the GUS programmer's list, and got no response
whatsoever...So I am assuming the list is dead or something, so I'll ask it
here.

I was reading the text on my GUS's box, and it said something like digital
and/or synthesized instruments.  Does this mean that I can create custom
synthesized instruments much in the way that I would create FM instruments
with an FM instrument editor?  If so, are there any programs out there that
do this?  Thanks!

Oh, also, I just uploaded a MIDI file called UNCRTAIN.ZIP to
archive.utoronto.ca under the /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit directory.  Check it
out if you want.

Thanks again!!!  =)

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   | Akintunde Omitowoju, Computer Science Student            |
   | East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee |
   | InterNet:  zao1@etsu.east-tenn-st.edu                    |
   |            omit@wiw.org                                  |
   | BitNet:    zao1@etsu.bitnet                              |
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:03:21 -0600
From: wcgraham@acs.ucalgary.ca
Subject: Re: FINALE

MABLE THE PRIZE-WINNING PIG WROTE THIS MESSAGE AND PUT IT INTO MY BRAIN:
(WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE?)

In my limited experience with Finale, who knows what version, in Windows,
I could not get it to work with my GUS, because it would only play music
when NOT in Enhanced mode.  I assume that this is because it wanted to
access a MIDI port directy.  I figured that it was a fairly archaic version,
pre-"Multimedia Extensions" and all that.

I don't remember much in the way of details, because the program didn't suit
my needs in the slightest, and I haven't touched it since.

Just a thought.
										 - Chris, AKA Wenugo

	 "If your something stops working, call ACS!"   -- from the ACS gopher
		   (yeah, their answering machine never stops working!  -- me)

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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 20:13:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V14 #11

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
$  
$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 12:32:23 -0700 (PDT)
$  From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
$  Subject: GUS MAX upgrade?
$  
$  Soo...I got a reply from the Gravis tech support that a GUS MAX upgrade 
$  isn't available now, but will be "very soon"...now that we have missed so 
$  many digests, does anyone know if it is available yet?  I would REALLY 
$  like to know... 

No, it's not.

$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: 23 Jun 1994 12:57:00 +0000
$  From: /PN=BRYENTON/DD.ID=MA.BRYENTON/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/@resonet.com
$  Subject: GUS upgrade to 1MB
$  
$  Hello out there is Ultrasound land. Have heard rumors that Gravis supplies
$  the memory chips to do the upgrade at a reduced price. Is this true, or if
$  not where is a good place to start shopping for these ?

Computer Shopper.  I may have ONE more left by Monday.  I got my employer
to order 10 of them for me, since the local NEC distributor does not sell
to end users.  This chip is VERY hard to find. I called 7 NEC distributors
before I found one that had them in stock.  My price is $31 US.  E-mail
for more info.

-- 
Mike Batchelor      | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux
mikebat@netcom.com  | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is said that Dreams are real while they last.
Can we say more of Life?

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 12:52:23 +0300
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V14 #11

>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 23:06:47 -0400 (EDT)
>From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
>Subject: ADPCM with GusMAX?
>
>Well, gee, I have been playing with my GusMAX for the past few days, and
>so far, I can only play/record ADPCM samples with USS!
>
>I tried playing an ADPCM compressed WAV with Media Player, and with the
>included Sound Station, and it says the driver doesn't support this
>format.  This is WACK.  No ADPCM support in the MAX Windows drivers????

Well, do you have Sound Mapper installed?  You need it for ADPCM recording and
playback under Windows.
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developer/drg/multimedia/vfw11a.zip
is your ticket.  When you open an ADPCM file you don't see the waveform display
but it plays back and records fine.

Yossi.

+---+-----------------------------------------------------------+---+---+
| = | Yossi Oren, Al-Daf Technological Mercenaries.             | v | ^ |
+---+------------------------------------------------++---------+---+--+|
|LIOREN1@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (or just @weizmann) || GUS - hearing  ||
|Doom's JUST A GAME, OK?  Now give me back that gun. || is believing.  ||
[The People are with the Golan Heights!]=============++================++

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 11:26:24 CDT
From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V14 #11

Don Whiting writes:
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 17:36:47 -0300
> From: Don Whiting <dwhiting@cs.stmarys.ca>
> Subject: GusBoT on IRC!
> 
>   Just to let all of you know, the IRC conference #gus now has a permanent
> (we hope) bot, called GusBoT.  Next time you're there, check it out!
> 
> ------------------------------

What and where is the IRC conference? How can I access it or participate
in it?

John
-- 
	 John Cowles        cowles@hydra.convex.com   CompuServe: 72074,451
						Convex Computer Corp.  214 497 4375
						3000 Waterview Pkwy
						Richardson, Tx. 75080

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:16:38 +0100 (BST)
From: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell)
Subject: GUS problems

Got a new GUS yesterday, looks like I have some problems.
System: DX50ISA (not Opti), 16Mb RAM, Adaptec 1540B
GUS:    Board v3.73, 1Mb RAM

Installed the card. It came with software v3.11, but I'd already ftpped
v3.53 so I used that instead. A soon as the setup than the first tests
the screen flipped to 40 column mode and the message

OFF BOARD PARITY ERROR

ADDRESS (0000:0002)

SYSTEM HALTED

Wow! I'd never seen that message before. Suddenly occurred that the GUS
was on IRQ 11 the same as the adaptec, so I rebooted and changed the IRQ
to 7 and the tests checked out.
Re-booted after the setup (I didn't ask for SBOS to be installed). Ran DOOM.
Amazing music, now I realise why I bought the GUS *8>) However, no
sound effects. Exited doom to double check that I had chosen the GUS for both
music and effects and unfortunately I had.
Tried dmp v3.00. It detected the GUS and started playing, but no sound. I turned
the amp. onto full volume and very quietly, even below the amp. hiss, I could
hear the music.
Changed the card settings from the defaults with IRQ 7 to GUS IRQ 12 + GUS DMA 7.
Started Doom again. The default demo mode in doom, the guy with the pistol walks
spins around and opens a door, the sound effect for the door occured, but that
was it. I've tried doom many, many times and that is the one and only time I heard
a sound effect. I did actually try it once with SBOS loaded and effects set to
soundblaster and heard the effects, but with music on GUS and effects on SB all
I get is the music.
By this time I thought I'd try the advanced diagnostics. All check out okay except
for the DRAM which detected I had 1M, but failed the check. I removed the DRAMS
in 256K banks and checked after each. Only when I got down to the original GUS 256K
did the DRAM finally check out okay. I swapped the other DRAMs around and tried in
vain to get a working 512K, but no luck. So, I presume that either all the extra
768K, installed by the company I purchased the GUS from, is faulty or there is 
some problem on the card? I had actually noticed slight glitches in some of the
music I'd heard, maybe faulty DRAM explains this?
Tried some of the GUS demos from the ftp archives. Again, great music. A few of the
demos just hung the machine.
Tried some of the GUS games from the archives. Raptor, music, but no sound effects.
Tetris, seemed okay. It did mention on start-up that it may hang with emm386 loaded,
but it didn't. However, maybe that explains why those demos did?
I've tried all of this with and without ASPI4DOS, HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE (the later
to with combinations of the version supplied with MSDOS 5 & 6.2), but with no
improvement. Also, noticed in doom that with a lot of monsters on the screen the
music slows down noticably. Is this usual?
Anyway, is my card bad or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance for staying with me though this.

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Date: 23 Jun 94 14:09 -0700
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Internet Archive Services News - New services

				   GRAVIS ULTRASOUND INTERNET ARCHIVES NEWS
==============================================================================
					   FTP Sites                     Archive Directories
					   ---------                     -------------------
Main N.American Site:  archive.orst.edu              pub/packages/gravis
					   wuarchive.wustl.edu           systems/ibmpc/ultrasound
Main Asian Site:       nctuccca.edu.tw               PC/ultrasound
Main European Site:    src.doc.ic.ac.uk              computing/audio/ultrasound
Submissions:           archive.epas.utoronto.ca      pub/pc/ultrasound/submit
Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca      pub/pc/ultrasound
Mirrors:               garbo.uwasa.fi                mirror/ultrasound

					   Gopher Sites                  Menu directory
					   ------------                  --------------
Main Site:             src.doc.ic.ac.uk              computing/audio/ultrasound

					   WWW Page
					   --------
Main Site:             http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/audio/ultrasound/

MailServer For Archive Access: Email to <mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
							   Email to <ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk>

New Submit Files Mailing List: Email to <majordomo@wotan.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello everyone. Notice the much bigger header above? Yes, we are on the
grow again! Thank you for the support of everyone!

Please look at the header above for details. But I'm more than happy
to annouce the availability of the following new services:

- a New European FTP site (one of the biggest in Europe)
- New gopher service
- New WWW service
- a New Mailserver/Ftpmail service

A great big thanks to Lee for putting all this together!
Thanks for all the support for GUS by everyone!
We now have more services and in fact more different types of
services than I'd ever imagine. And don't forget the digests
which isn't listed above. With digests, ftpmails, ftp sites
all over the world, gopher, WWW.... what more can we ask for?
 .... don't worry, I'll think up more and more stuff to add
to our list of services. To keep us forever on the grow! :)


Happy GUSing!

Thomas.

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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 18:12 BST-1
From: Mark Charsley <mcharsley@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: Xwing sounds

There's been several posts asking for xwing.ini here lately. I did get 
xwngsnds.zip before it disappeared. I no longer have Xwing, so I can't 
check whether I've still got all the right files, but a couple of GUS 
owners over here at CIX are sorting it out. Do you lot want us to upload 
it to the ftp sites when we've got it all working, or has it reappeared 
again?

Mark

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