GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 30 Jan 94  0:07         Volume 10: Issue  30 

Today's Topics:
							 .Au and more
							32-Bit AIL...
							Epic Megagames
					   GUS Daily Digest V10 #29
							   GUS Info
					 New windows drivers and kq6
				   Pinball Fantasy has GUS support!
		   Voice Blaster & GUS support in future Epic Games

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: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 21:35:06 -0500
From: David A Denis <denis@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: .Au and more

I found a whole bunch of these .AU files at some FTP site.  I realize you
need to convert them tp play 'em.  I got a file called SUN2VOC.exe , and
tried to convert a .au file I downloaded.  It  I then tried to play it
with playfile but it was all crappy.  Any ideas what to do?  Some of the
songs there are good, by good n bands.  Is there an FTP site like this one
that has .WAV files?  I heard of an MTV one.  BTW it is athena.sdsu.edu
and garfield.catt.ncsu.edu  .  
	Also, I got the index for epas, but when I look under voc/dos/util
or something, and no files except the index that says there should be a few files
there.  Are they gone or moved?
Well, I think thats it for now :)
Dave

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 19:50:25 +0800 (PST)
From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
Subject: 32-Bit AIL...

The 32-Bit AIL drivers are finished, yet I have not seen an official
release of them or such to use as a general purpose patch for games that
use them.  I have been waiting for a while to patch SimCity 2000.  I tried
copying the DLL's from the Shadow Caster patch, but the patch loader
doesn't seem to be able to find the patches?! It was noted that there WAS
a bug in the loader, how long is it going to take to get a final release?

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 20:52:01 EST
From: Greg <BGUZ@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Epic Megagames

Zone 66, Epic Pinball and its twin Silverball support the GUS.
Xargon, the most recent game by Epic seems to use the same
basic engine found in Epic's Jill of the Jungle. JOTJ was released
a couple of years ago when the GUS was being released and thus
lacks GUS support (I think!). The Help file that came with
Xargon specifies that Xargon has the same problems with SBOS that JOTJ
has with SBOS. However, the help file also mentions that
Epic will support the GUS in 4 new releases this year. I assume
that Epic has not decided to drop GUS support.

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 14:16:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Yoo-Shin Lee <yoosh@mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #29

Anyone get tetrisp working?  I downloaded the .arj and the a01 file.
Created the DDISKS directory in the tetris directory, but when trying
to run tetrisp.exe the programs can't find the NATURE.DD file inside the
DDISKS directory.

Any help would be appreciated.

					Yoo-Shin Lee
					yoosh@cs.mcgill.ca

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 20:58:44 EST
From: Ravi Chandra <KQ9R@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU>
Subject: GUS Info

hi,

I am interested in finding some info on GUS card. Can u send
me techinical details and also the FAQ?

TIA,
Ravi.
kq9r@maristb.marist.edu

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 15:24:51 CST
From: Jim English <jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu>
Subject: New windows drivers and kq6

when i run kq6 CD version in windows when it gets to the scene where the guy
has just gotten into the castle (after talking to lassie) :) and is talking to
the wizard guy with the turban, it just crashes my windows.  (drop to DOS)
and if i run windows wo rebooting it says the sound drivers arent installed.
but rebooting fixes it all.  So this seems like a problem with the new
windows drivers.  Anyone else had thisd problem?
-jim
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I do not represent the University of Tulsa in any way, but I'm sure if they
wanted me too they could easily create another Vice President position and
raise tuition.

"Oh good heavens baby where's my medicine?  Well I must have left it outside
with my ettiquette."  -  Hotel Illness  (Black Crowes)
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 08:57:50 +1030
From: 8919157Y@Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au
Subject: Pinball Fantasy has GUS support!

G'day,

	 Thought I'd let you know that the sequel to Pinball Dreams, that is,
Pinball Fantasy has native GUS support. The sound is in 4 channel MOD
format just like its predecessor. The game looks, feels and sounds very sleek.
It's very addictive! Look out for it.

l8r!
Mark

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:: My opinions are my own and not of this University! ::

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 12:01:12 EST
From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu
Subject: Voice Blaster & GUS support in future Epic Games

>I was just wondering if anyone has heard anything about or used the Covox
>Voice Blaster that has just come out at Radio Shack... it's supposed to
>be some sort of voice recognition software for sound blaster and
>compatibles and it says on the box that you can use it to work with games
>from Lucasarts, Microprose, Accolade, etc...

First off, let me say that the Voice Blaster really REALLY
*S*U*C*K*S*!!!  It's not worth your money at all.  I bought one for my
father awhile back at Babbage's (where, thankfully, I could and did
return it) and I was seriously underwhelmed by the performance.  It was
about as accurate at recognizing my voice as if the algorithm read
something like this:

if (input_from_microphone) {
	do_user_task(random(number_of_defined_tasks))
}

It's not even funny.  After we took it back, we learned that you HAVE to
have a printer for it to work, and you have to have the printer turned
ON for it to work.  So, to give it a fair shot, we bought it again and
tried it out with the printer on.  The results were slightly better, but
still very terrible.

>Does anyone know if it will work with GUS? The salesperson assured me
>that it will work with any SB compatible sound card but the GUS, as
>awesome a card as it is, has had some probs with total SB emulation in the
>past... it's just that they won't let me return it if I buy it because it
>is "opened software"...

It's not compatible with the GUS at all.  SBOS provides playback
compatibility, but I don't think it provides recording capability.  In
any event there's a special little SB-specific doohickey that you have
to plug into your parallel port and Sound Blaster, and I don't think it
would work with the GUS at all.

>MSL price is $199 Cdn, but they are selling it at present for $119
>regular. I asked why the "discount" and they said "monetary fluctuations"
>which I can't quite believe considering the value of our Cdn dollar...

I only paid $69.95 US for it.  I know that Canadian dollars are worth
slightly less than US dollars, but I'd still say $119 is a blatant
rip-off.  And, of course, the thing is worthless at ANY price.


If you want to play with some fairly decent voice recognition software,
look around for a demo of a package called InCube or something like
that.  It only works under Windows, but it's VERY good from what I saw.
Its recognition algorithm is so good that it can recognize several
different people speaking the same words (if they have a similar accent)
without having to be trained for each one.  Or, at least, it understood
me after a friend trained it for himself.  I was impressed.
 
--Michael--  << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >>  << dmcintyr@vt.edu >>

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>Aside from Zone 66, Epic Pinball/Silverball also supports GUS sound...
>it would be very disappointing if their newer games don't support GUS...
>can anyone confirm or deny this?

The docs in their latest release, Xargon, say "we promise to release
four new games with GUS support in 1994, in the meantime aren't you glad
you decided to install your old Sound Blaster just to play this game?"

--Michael-- << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >>  << dmcintyr@vt.edu >>

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