Ultrasound Daily Digest     Mon Jun 28 00:43     Volume 4: Issue  27  

Today's Topics:
                       AIL Driver usage, Dune 2
                   Alternatives to epas, wuarchive?
                  DMA overflow with Qemm & 7th Guest
                                Dune2
                      proposed MidiMusic digest
           Windows Driver Problems: Can't open DOS session

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: Sun, 27 Jun 93 07:50:47 EDT
From: pccmoddan@aol.com
Subject: AIL Driver usage, Dune 2
Message-ID: <9306270750.tn08089@aol.com>

Well, after trying out the fix for Dune 2 to use the AIL drivers, it's
apparent that someone needs to say this:

IF A GENERAL MIDI OPTION EXISTS FOR THE PROGRAM, USE IT! 

The UltraSound has a General MIDI compatible patch set, and UltraMID is
intended to function this way. If it wasn't, ULTRAMID.INI wouldn't be mapped
to a GM patch set. The MT-32 has a different, non-GM patch set and frequently
uses data loaded by SYSEX. UltraMID supports neither of these. If there is a
General MIDI, SCC-1, or Sound Canvas option for a program's music, chances
are that the music will sound MUCH better than using the MT-32 option. Try it
with Dune 2 (after running the patch, run Setup and select the Sound Canvas
(note that you're going to lose digitized audio ability, and that it will try
and play sound effects through the canvas, which will screw the music up
occasionally, but you'll get the idea) If the guys who wrote the patch, which
was very well done, would provide us with a DUNE.CFG file that uses the SC
setting for music and leaves the sound effects and digitized audio to what
they've currently got, I'm sure we'll get much better results.

- Dan

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 08:44:40 EST
From: David Mitchell <davidm@hparc1.aus.hp.com>
Subject: Alternatives to epas, wuarchive?
Message-ID: <9306272244.AA28765@hp.com>

I've never seen any mirror sites for epas or wuarchive; does anybody know of
any, anywhere in the world?

Dave Mitchell

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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 12:00:27 CDT
From: Michael Jude Coyne <umcoyne0@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: Re: DMA overflow with Qemm & 7th Guest
Message-ID: <9306271700.AA09900@ccu.UManitoba.CA>

To the fellow who was asking about DMA overflow and The 7th Guest... 

Someone suggest (sorry, forget who) that you put a DMA=128 (or is it
D=128... or maybe that's for EMM) parameter into your QEMM line in your
CONFIG.SYS file, and while I agree with this diagnosis, you MAY find that
it causes problems for other pieces of software.

I recently had to put a DMA=64 parameter in to get Monster Bash working,
and on a whim, tried DMA=128... Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny then
ceased to work, and then Windows started acting up.  And of course, by
then, I'd forgotten that I changed it... so just a word of warning, you
may want to try DMA=64 if DMA=128 causes some things to screw up.

Just my $0.01 worth.


Michael
umcoyne0@ccu.umanitoba.ca
University of Manitoba
Department of Computer Engineering

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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 17:44:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: impster@umcc.umich.edu (Charles Budensiek)
Subject: Re: Dune2
Message-ID: <m0oA4WV-000AAhC@umcc.umich.edu>

[BEGIN QUOTE]

From: Yoo-Shin LEE <spader@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Dune2
Message-ID: <9306270107.AA03258@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>

Hi,

Has anyone got the ail drivers working for
dune2 yet?  I did everything that the readme file
from dune2ail.zip  (I think that was the file)
told me to do.  I had to reconfigure memory settings
so that the ultramid was loaded high.  I got
the intorduction going.  The music was great but
some of the digital sounds were missing.

I can't seem to get past the first menu.  When
I press start game, the music keeps playing and
nothing happens.

Oh well, it certainly looks promising anyways.

BTW: what should I set the soundcard to in the setup.

(Or does this matter?)

spader@cs.mcgill.ca

[END QUOTE]

Here's what I did to get Dune 2 to work this way:

ultrasnd=220,7,7,11,7
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T1
[note the SB part is set to IRQ 7, it would not work for me with any other
 setting]

I then set up dune2 for sound blaster support, BEFORE running dune2ail.exe
Then I ran dune2ail.exe and proceeded to play the game. At first, on my
system anyway, it sets up the mt-32 emulation <accessing both floppies for
some strange reason> and works just fine from then on.

Good luck...

-- 
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| "If I was a turnip, would I be revered and    | Charles Budensiek
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 17:13:55 GMT+3:00
From: iddos@math.tau.ac.il
Subject: Re: proposed MidiMusic digest
Message-ID: <9306271413.AA15946@virgo.math.tau.ac.il>

}
> suggesting that we set up}
> a digest or mail round thingy for this subject.}
}

Good idea, but why make a new news list when there already is one -}
GUS Programmer's digest. 
Since patch-making is officially SDK stuff, and heavy R2D
touches on the limits of the MCI itself -  it's natural that those of us who 
wish to DEVELOP a song using own patches and digital audio simply move over to
the currently low-volume gus programmer's digest, and leave non-developers
more space in the regular gus digest.

-- 
Ido Amin                                               iddos@math.tau.ac.il
3rd World Fox                                          fax/voice +972-3-5172713

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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 22:53:48 -0400
From: "Robinhood -- Marshall Lai" <mtl1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Windows Driver Problems: Can't open DOS session
Message-ID: <9306280253.AA17695@crux2.cit.cornell.edu>

Dear Fellow GUSers,
	Upgrading to WFS Pro 2.10a made something wierd happens.  I don't
think it is a problem with the upgrade because I've found that the problem
persist even when I am not running WFS Pro.
Problem:
	When the GUS drivers are accessed (by using WFS Pro or even using
MidiSoft Recording Session) in Windows, anytime if I try to open a DOS session,
Windows just dumps me back to DOS.  Windows exited abnormally and when I
try to run Windows again, the machine hangs.  Sometimes, after the drivers
are accessed, if I open a DOS session, Windows churns out some GPF like
WINOLDAP causes a GPF in KRNL386 or the GUS driver.  Both of these GPFs
happened just now.  Any clues to this situation?  I've tried re-expanding
KRNL386 and WINOLDAP.386 from the windows distribution disk.  No go.
This problem happens independently of whether SBOS is loaded before I go into
windows.

System setup:
		486DX33 EISA, 20MB RAM, IDE caching controller, WDAC2200 and
WDAC2340 IDE hard drives.  OH, one more thing, I am using QEMM386 6.02
			Thanks for your attentions.
								Marshall

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