Ultrasound Daily Digest     Thu,  4 Mar 93       Volume 2 : Issue  60 

Today's Topics:
						   [GUS] SBOS 1.4B2
						  [GUS] SBOS V1.4B2
				   Apology & World Circuit Support?
					drivers for Gravis UltraSound?
				  How to play CD-ROM audio thru GUS
							 Midi (again)
							 Parity error
								 SBOS
						  SBOS is possessed
					Tried these games with SBOS???

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Date: 3 Mar 93 21:16:01 GMT
From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Message-Id: <C3C0Er.3nA@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: [GUS] SBOS 1.4B2
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

My quick trial with the new SBOS found some unsettling bugs.  It's
worse than SBOS 1.37B!

First of all, the digital sound handling hasn't improved... still that
looping and rambling problem where the card spits out whatever it has
in its RAM.  Only SBOS 1.20 emulates the DAC properly on my computer...
I'll see about the wait states as Francois suggested.

The FM emulation was a step backward from 1.37B.  Much of the FM music 
is just as good, but there are glaring bugs likely due to bad pointers
to the sounds in SBOSLIB.SBS.  For example, during the intro to Ultima
Underworld 2, there are LOUD screeches where there should be smooth
strings.  The screeches sound a lot like the digital voice has somehow
wandered off into uncharted territory on the card's RAM.  I think this
should be an easy bug to fix.

Oh well... back to 1.20.

Phat.

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Date: 3 Mar 93 15:29:39 GMT
From: olsen@vetmed.cvm.uiuc.edu (Aart_Olsen)
Message-Id: <olsen.81.731172579@vetmed.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: [GUS] SBOS V1.4B2
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

At archive.epas.utoronto.ca in directory /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit:

SBOS V1.4B2 in file GUS0014.ZIP, beta version of 2 Mar 93

I downloaded it and it sounds good with the one game I have (SWOTL).
Dunno if Wednesday night's big directory shuffle will affect FTPing.

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Aart M. Olsen   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   a-olsen@uiuc.edu
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 19:53:22 EST
From: adrianr@ecr.mu.oz.au (Adriano_Ennio RAIOLA)
Message-Id: <9303030853.28754@ecr.mu.oz.au>
Subject: Apology & World Circuit Support?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

First of all, sorry about my post to ask for subscription the other day, 
forgot how to use the GUS mailing list properly, thats what an (OZ) summer
vacation does for you.

My question, I saw on the faq list of games available that uses the GUS in
native mode, that World Circuit was one of them. I heard about this a while
ago, but my version (the original version I think) of course doesnt support
it, does anyone know if a native GUS version or update is available?

-- 
| adrianr@ecr.mu.oz.au --------| Adrian -aka- Plugger | *  * *  *   *  |  _/_\
| -----------------------------| What time is love?   | *_*  * *_  *_  | / OZ |
| -----------------------------| I think its gonna be | * *  *   *   * | \__-_/
| -----------------------------| a long, long time.   | *  * *  *   *  |     v

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 03:06:40 GMT
From: taylor@krusty.ee.udel.edu (Howard Taylor)
Message-Id: <1993Mar3.030640.19067@udel.edu>
Subject: drivers for Gravis UltraSound?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

does anyone know if there are drivers for the Gravis UltraSound for
either 386bsd or linux? thanks

--> howie
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Howard Taylor <taylor@ee.udel.edu>
Dept of Electrical Engineering
University of Delaware

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 19:33:33 -0800 (PST)
From: song@Cadence.COM (Song-Yu Yang)
Message-Id: <9303040333.AA14602@cds855>
Subject: How to play CD-ROM audio thru GUS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi,

My system has a SCSI controller, Adaptec 1542B installed. I have a CD-ROM
hooked up. I tried to use the Media Player of Windows 3.1 to play music
thru GUS. Unfortunately, I can only get the sound from the phone jacket of my
CD-ROM. I cannot hear anything through GUS. Is it possible to play the CD-ROM
audio directly thru GUS? Is there any program can do that?

Thanks in advance!

Song
-- 
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Song-Yu Yang                E-mail: song@cadence.com
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.        Tel:    (408)944-7995
555 River Oaks Parkway, Bldg. 4, San Jose, CA 95134

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 08:56 MST
From: Dustin Caldwell  <DUSTIN@gse.utah.edu>
Message-Id: <9303031558.AA10841@u.cc.utah.edu>
Subject: Midi (again)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, I appreciate all the messages I have recieved concerning the midi
connector box. However, it still will not work. I've spent so long on it that
I'm sure it must be a stupid almost-insignificant thing. I have gone over the
circuit many times checking the pinouts, connections, everything. 
So, how does everybody have the drivers configured? using the midimap applet,
I get 3 configurations to mess with: setup(?), patch map, and key map (I
think). inside these I  can use MT32(?) or proeus/1(?) and things like that.
Which do I need to use? - I assume that my midi setup (irq, dma, etc.) must
be correct, or I wouldn't get any sound at all. 
also, has anyone tried the gts program that is on epas? It seems pretty cool,
but the sound is... well... BAD.  However, if there was a gtsfile to .mid
converter, it might make up for that.

Ja ne,

Dustin

dustin@gse.utah.edu   or           Saru demo ki kara taoru.
dustin@ed.gse.utah.edu  or         (even monkeys fall from trees)
dcaldwel@peruvian.utah.edu              -Japanese proverb

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 09:20:09 -0500
From: KHAN  NAJEEB MOHAMMED <khann@ecf.toronto.edu>
Message-Id: <93Mar3.092020edt.8192@skule.ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: Parity error
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi!  I have a 486/dx50 and a GUS.  I get a parity error whenever I use
a 16-bit DMA (like 7) and I try to run the 669 player. (p669gu0)

The optifix program came with a procedure to check whether you have a problem
or not but I can run Playmidi and flidemo properly without any errors, even
while using a 16-bit DMA.

Anybody have any ideas?  I have a UMC chip set. and the motherboard is a
local bus board.

I also have a problem in Windows.  Everything works flawlessly but I know
how to crash the system.  If I go into a program such as MS Word or MS EXCEL
and do something to give me an error then I get the error sound.  This is
fine.  BUT, if I repeat the error very quickly then the system hangs.
I then have to use the hardware reset.  When the system boots up I get a
parity error as soon as the ultrinit get executed.  When I reset the
system a second time everything is back to normal.  This particular windows
problem occurs regardless of which DMA I use. (1 or 7)

To cause the error you can do anything that windows does not like.  For example,
I go into MS WORD and hold down the down arrow to try to go past the end of 
the document.  The CHORD wav file plays once and then the second time it plays
the system hangs.

So, I have two independent problems.  On the other hand, every single game that
I have tried with the GUS and SBOS works flawlessly.  The sound is hard to beat.

One last thing, GUSMOD 1.1 works quite well.  GUSMOD 2.04 just plays the first
couple of notes of any mod and then goes silent with occasional buzzing.  The
music is still scrolling by but I can't hear anything.  I have the gusmod
environment variable set properly.

Much thanks in advance!  I have had my card for a long time and I am more
impressed the longer I own it.

Najeeb
 

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 4:31:19 EST
From: jjlucsy@major.cs.mtu.edu (Lucsy)
Message-Id: <9303030931.AA25102@major.cs.mtu.edu>
Subject: SBOS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, I've finally got SBOS to work! The problem was that if my motherboard
has no parity ram, it disables the NMI. Now, this problems is easily solved
except for one thing, I need four more 1meg DRAM chips. The local computer
store can only get them in lots of 18. Oh well, I guess I can live at 6 meg
instead of 8.
-- 
Joel Lucsy                  | "Ha, ho, hee, dodge, turn, parry, spin,
JJLUCSY@MAJOR.CS.MTU.EDU    |  thrust... (BOINNNG!)"  - Daffy Duck

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Date: 04 Mar 1993 00:06:18 -0500 (EST)
From: DEATH BEFORE DISCO <JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Message-Id: <01GVE24WMU769AMJNR@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: SBOS is possessed
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Concerning SBOS:

1) What version (and settings) are recommended for Deluxe Monopoly?

2) Here's one for all of you Dune 2 gamers.....

	a) Does your digitized speech change from SBOS version to version?

	b) Why do the combat sounds change from version to version?

	c) Why does SBOS 1.22 make clicking noises whenever speech starts?


3) One more Monopoly question. If I run the game for SB instead of ADLIB,
   my system REBOOTS when running the g ame executable. This is SBOS 1.20
   and 1.22. I know it's easier to get adlib sound...but that's link
   (oops, I meant "like") using a ten year old operating system on a
   486. Yep, another boring OS/2 advocator.



Jeff

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 09:51:15 -0600
From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Message-Id: <9303031551.AA19316@daedalus.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Tried these games with SBOS???
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, I have a hard decision to make. I want to get a new game, but
I want to make sure it works decently with SBOS.

I really want X-wing, but I see posts saying it works great and
then others saying it sucks. What's the truth? I've only got a
386-25mhz with 4 meg RAM - how bad will performance be?

Last night I saw Alone in the Dark running at a computer store and
I was schwinging! What an awesome game! Has anyone tried it with
SBOS, and how did it work?

Lastly, I'd like to get some sports games, namely golf and football,
so if anyone has any recommendations about games that work well
with SBOS, let me know.

In the interest of space, you can email me directly and I will
post a summary both to the digest and the appropriate Internet
newsgroups.

Thanks,

Ken
ken@austin.ibm.com

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