GUS Daily Digest            Fri, 13 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  12 

Today's Topics:
                         Band-In-A-Box w/ GUS
                  Clock speeds and NMI procedures...
                      GUS/Descent error message!
                         GUS and Descent 1.1
                         GUS and Tie Fighter
                  GUS Daily Digest V18 #11 (3 msgs)
                       GUS w/256k and Harball 4
                        Lion King GUS support
                         Motherboards (again)
                                 Myst
                            WarCraft Patch
                  Where oh where has my digest gone?

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: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:26:49 -0500 (EST)
From: jasonr@Newbridge.COM (Jason Rusmisel)
Subject: Band-In-A-Box w/ GUS

Hi:


I'm considering buying Band In A Box to use with my GUS.  Does anyone
have any advice or comments about how well this works with the GUS. 
Is BIAB patch cache aware??  Will it even work?  

Are there any comments about BIAB in general??



Jason

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:36 -0500
From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
Subject: Clock speeds and NMI procedures...

Clark Brunt asked...

> I've often wondered, with these clock doubled processors, does
> CLK/4 mean 16MHz, or does it mean 8MHz? I always assumed the
> latter.

I've always assumed that the BIOS is controlling the clock speed of the
mother-
board which is "normal." The chip doubles the clock internally, but it
shouldn't
matter to the BIOS (or the GUS), since it's the ISA bus we're talking about.

> Now there may be other reasons that justify your statement, but the NMI 
> issue shouldn't be your only justification.  I belive many PCI 
> motherboards lack NMI, and I wouldn't call them lame just because they 
> lack the NMI procedure.

According to Intel, the NMI procedure is part of the hardware spec. Boards
that don't support it aren't really 100% PC compatible. As to why it's often
left out, one can only assume lazy/cheap manufacturers. Since it was
originally
used for memory parity and memory is perfect nowadays :-), there is no need
for
NMI so why bother? The same goes for non-parity memory, it's just cheaper and
hey, memory doesn't fail anyway, right?

Enough sarcasm for now. The point is that no one would by a motherboard that
didn't support DMA. Not supporting NMI is the same thing...

DDA

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 15:38:04 -0600
From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach IBM)
Subject: GUS/Descent error message!

Nabil Rehman <nrehman@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> seems to be
getting the same error when running Police Quest Open Season
as I get when I run Descent. The game crashes, sustaining the
last note, and an error almost identical to this is displayed:

>DOS/4GW Professional error (2001):
>exception 0Dh (general protection fault) at 170:0016ED9E
>TSF32: prev_tsf32 626C

etc.

So, any clues for either of us? We seem to have a related problem!

BTW - I had posted in the 1-11 digest about my Descent problems.

Thanks,

Ken

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:52:18 -0800 (PST)
From: aktang@sdcc15.UCSD.EDU (Anthony Tang)
Subject: GUS and Descent 1.1

I'm having a problem with Descent on my GUS rev. 3.2 card.
Everything runs and tests fine in the setup program (Digital samples
play, music plays).  But when I run DESCENT, it gets up to the
Loading... part, then either it crashes, or (more often) my computer
resets!  I've tried various configs w/QEMM w/o QEMM, clean boot,
etc, as well as different IRQs and DMAs (8 and 16 bit) and no go.

If I do the -noloadpats command line option, it either runs with a
" error HMI: Sound Driver not properly initialized", or crashes with
a lot of DOS4GW type General protection fault errors.  If I run
-NoSound, it works fine, but I'd _really_ like to hear some
music/sound.  Another note is that on exiting, it always crashes
with a "Memory Allocation Error", and I need to reboot.

This is the shareware version 1.1, running on a 486/DX50, 16MBs of
memory.  Yes, I've tried the BUS clock rate setting thing as well.

Thanks for any help!
-- 
Anthony TangCall The AANThill BBS!
aant@ucsd.edu(619)550-8168
aktang@sdcc15.ucsd.edu FidoNet (1:202/244)
Computer Engineering, UCSDAdv. Gravis Dist. Node

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 19:16:20 -0800 (PST)
From: "Christopher A. Johnson" <chrisj@seattleu.edu>
Subject: GUS and Tie Fighter

I have a problem using my GUS while playing Tie Fighter.  The joystick JUMPS
when I move in any direction (up, down, left, right, diagonal, etc...).  I've
seen mention of the problem before, but don't ever remember seeing a solution.

Is there one?

I KNOW it's the GUS card because the game works fine if I use my old 8-bit
Sound Blaster.  I even tried disabling the joystick port on the GUS and using
the port on my IDE card, but it still didn't work.

Any help would be appreciated!  My GUS is version 3.4 and I'm running on
a 386-40 Mhz machine.

Chris

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:40 -0500
From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #11

Shih-Ping Chan writes regarding replacing broken 8C206 chips...

> This might be safer than motherboard surgery 
> with a soldering iron. Any comments?

It's usually a surface-mount chip so it amounts to SERIOUS motherboard
surgery to replace it. Far easier to simply use an 8-bit DMA channel if
possible. The resistor fix isn't for the faint of heart, either...

DDA

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:28:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Tinsman <bobti@sco.COM>
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V18 #11
Message-ID: <9501121328.aa17739@kilauea.sco.com>

> >I just fixed my problem wich was similar to yours...
> >In my [AMI] BIOS setup the AT BUS CLK was set to CLK/4
> >having a DX2/66 this makes it 16Mhz.. which is probably to high..
> >I changed it to CLK/6 and now Descent as become a great game!
> 
> I've often wondered, with these clock doubled processors, does
> CLK/4 mean 16MHz, or does it mean 8MHz? I always assumed the
> latter.
> 
> I have a DX2/50, with AT BUS CLK set to CLK/3, assuming that
> this is near to 8MHz. I'd want nearer CLK/6 to arrive at 8MHz
> if you are supposed to count the doubled speed.
> 
The clock multiplier CPU's are magic in that they input one frequency
and use a phase-locked loop to generate a higher frequency. For a DX2/66, 
the external clock is 33 MHz and the 66 MHz only exists within the CPU.
Therefore, running the bus at CLK/4 should put it at 8.25 MHz. Most boards 
should be able to take this, but who knows, maybe there's something else
in your system that's causing problems. CLK/3 is about right for a DX2/50.
I've heard people talk about running their bus at lower divisors than usual
to try increasing performance, or increasing their CPU clock which bumps
up both the CPU and bus speed. Hey, you wanna risk frying a $400 motherboard,
be my guest.

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:39:18 -0800
From: sbrindle@netcom.com (Stephen Thomas Brindle)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #11

>Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 15:25:00 +0100
>From: enzo.siragusa@galactica.it (ENZO SIRAGUSA)
>Subject: ULTRINIT's switches
>Message-ID: <8A1739D.0001013939.uuout@galactica.it>
>
>Hi there !
>
>I have a little question for you GUSers.
>
>In the software preceding the 3.53 version, the ultrinit.exe
>driver was put in my autoexec.bat without any switch. In the
>next releases, the ultrinit.exe is followed by switches like
>(in my configuration) '-dj'.
>
>I wonder what does it mean and if there are any other options.
>Any suggestions?

-dj is disable joystick.  You chose not to have your joystick port
functional during the GUS installation.


Switches include:

-s: don't print header version
-l: leave line input enabled
-m: leave mic input enabled
-o: leave output enabled
-dj: disable joystick
-ej: enable joystick
-cd: disable CD-ROM output
-ec: enable CD-ROM output
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  Stephen Thomas Brindle |"I have made this letter longer than usual, 
                         |because I lack the time to make it short."
-------------------------|                                        -Pascal
     Ethereal Dragon     |
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 15:40:30 -0400
From: pmhesse@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU (Peter M. Hesse)
Subject: GUS w/256k and Harball 4

        Has anyone been able to get Harball 4 by accolade to work with 256k
memory on a GUS?  I get an out of memory error, but the program does not
specify if my GUS or my main memory is the one that is "full".  Is there a
patch of some sort to get it to work with 256k?

Thanks!

--Pete Hesse
  pmhesse@vax1.acs.jmu.edu

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:48:14 --100
From: v931065@si.hhs.nl
Subject: Lion King GUS support

It's nice to see Virgin and Disney drop the AWE support from Aladdin and
replace it with GUS support in the Lion King, but why does my GUS produce
absolutely no sound with this game. It's supposed to work, I would think.

Anybody has any ideas or faces similar problems?

Thanks in advance.

Bert

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 95 10:58:58 GMT
From: kmh@kid01pml.icl.co.uk (Kieran M. Hoban)
Subject: Motherboards (again)

I am still trying to compile this list of motherboards that are compatible
with the gus (and which ones to avoid!!) but I need a lot more input!

Please send me as your specs if you have the time!

I need to know ...

1. Manufacturer name - eg, UMC, Green, Intel
2. Chipset name - eg, SIS, UMC, OPTI 
3. Architecture type - VLB, PCI, EISA, ISA
4. BIOS type - AMI, Award, IBM, Phoenix
5. Processor type - 386/486/Pentium

Any info will be most useful and gratefully received.

Regards,

Kieran

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 16:18:46 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven Matthew Wiercinski" <wiercin2@student.msu.edu>
Subject: Myst

I'm thinking of buying this game.  I am wondering if anyone has been able to
get this to work with the GUS.  If it works, does it have good music and
sound.

                                                    Steven Wiercinksi
                                                    wiercin2@student.msu.edu
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:59:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher McKillop <cdmckill@steam.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: WarCraft Patch

Hello....

I saw a requst for  a patch for the drivers in WarCraft.  Get the 
usail310.zip file from epas. It was the right drivers for the game, and 
it sounds so much better than any card I have heard to date!!!  But then 
again, should I be surprised???

Chris

*********>>>>>>> Chris McKillop - Aspiring Computer Engineer <<<<<<<**********
cdmckill@sail.uwaterloo.ca (school)     
University of Waterloo                Christopher, Chris, Chrissy, Christ??
cmckillo@fox.nstn.ns.ca (home)

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 11:30:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Where oh where has my digest gone?

Dear GUSers,

No digest is worse than coitus interuptus.  Well not really but close! 
Just wondering where the digest is?

Sincerely,

Gunnar Swanson

end.

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 10:59:13 PST
From: thoh@tcsegp1.PEN.TEK.COM (Tho Dong Hoang)

  Please someone help me with Rebel Assault. I don't get very good sound.
  Is there a patch for this problems?. Thanks in advance for any info.
  T. Hoang

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