GUS Daily Digest            Fri, 18 Mar 94  9:37 PST     Volume 11: Issue  42 

Today's Topics:
					Gravis CDrom Daughtercard woes
					   Gravis Ultrasound MAX???
						 GUS and Windows 4.0
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #39
				  I need disk five of 2.06a software
								NOEMS
						 SimCity 2000 and AIL
					  Synergy GUS Multimedia Kit
					 XWING Target jumping problem

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, 18 Mar 1994 10:12:12 SST
From: FLAT^^TOP <kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg>
Subject: Gravis CDrom Daughtercard woes

i need help...
i bought the synergy multimedai upgrade kit, and asked for the CDrom (sony 31A
compatible) daughtercard adapter. Well, it's this nice tiny little board that
piggy backs on the GUS, now the board need it's own DMA, IRQ and port address,
which i currently set to DM 3, IRQ 5, and port 340. 

My GUS is on 220 DMA 7 IRQ 11 SBOS IRQ 7

now the clincher is that the device drivers for the CDrom drive install and are
executed properly, in fact teh CDrom light lights up when the driver
initialises, and also lights up when MSCDEX runs. All the drivers and MSdex
report that the CDrom drive was successfully initialised, but then i switch to
drive G: (i have 4 HDD partitions and also 2 FDD), insert a CDrom disk, wait
for the light to go off (after loading the CDrom), i do a dir command, and lo
and behold i get

CDR101: Drive is not ready
(A)bort (R)etry (I)gnore ?

gosh this happens countless times..

okie so the obvious thing is to check for IRQ clashes, i discover that my
serial card's com2 is alos hogging IRQ 5, so i promptly remove the offending
jumper, fine... i do the same thing.... SAME message !!!!

next comes the port address, i try 360, 330, 320, ALL give the saem messge and
problems,

then the IRQ on the daughtercard is changed from 5 to 4, Comport freezes up,
and the message

CDR101: Unable to read drive
(A)bort (R)etry (I)gnore ?

comes out...

change IRQ to 6, and my FDD controller fails

change IRQ to 3, my com 1 freezes up and i get 

CDR101: Unable to read drive
(A)bort (R)etry (I)gnore ?

so now i try DMA, i leave the IRQ back to 5, and chose DMA1, i get

CDR101: General Reading error
(A)bort (R)etry (I)gnore ?

so change to DMA 2, my HDD dun light up and boot. 8(

so back to DMA 3, same problem again !!!!!

IS THERE SOMETHING I AM DOING WRONG ?

does the daughtercard require me to pull some jumpers or change some jumper
positions on the GUS card itself ? There is not documentation on the other
jumpers on the GUS !

teh CDrom uses the following lines to initialise

[in CONFIG.SYS]
LASTDRIVE = Z
DEVICE = C:\CDROMDRV\LM328A.SYS /D:LASERWAV /S:2 /P:340 /V

[in AUTOEXEC.BAT]
C:\CDROMDRV\OPTI-CD\CDCACHE /H:LASERWAV /K /DC /X:512
C:\CDROMDRV\MSCDEX.EXE /D:$cdcache /M:8 /V /E

i tried the following too.

[in CONFIG.SYS]
LASTDRIVE = Z
DEVICE = C:\CDROMDRV\LM328A.SYS /D:LASERWAV /S:2 /P:340 /V

[in AUTOEXEC.BAT]
C:\CDROMDRV\MSCDEX.EXE /D:LASERWAV /M:15 /V /E

i also vary the M value in the mscdex line
and also change the mscdex to the latest dos 6.2 version.

SAME PROBLEMS !!!

is my CDrom driver faulty ? or am i doing something wrong ? does the
daughtercard require some special jumpers or anything else ?

PLEASE HELP ME ! ANY help or suggestions is appreciated, i am getting REALLY
desperate, email me please !

thanks

Jerry Koh
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|  <<<<<<<Jerry Koh aka FLAT^^TOP>>>>>>>   Email: kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg   |
| MSwin, GUS & Scout+ Terbo User, Fanatic Gamer, DOOMer, BT, ST & SW fan |
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 22:11:51 +1000 (EST)
From: Murphy Simon Charles <s9407312@yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Subject: Gravis Ultrasound MAX???

Hi
	Can anyone give me any information on the Ultrasound MAX
and a price if anyone has one. I have also heard a rumor that a
ultrasound version is coming out with SoundBlaster Pro chips or something
built, if anyone knows anything about this, the information will be
appreciated.

	Simon

s9407312@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au
	OR
s9407312@minyos.cc.rmit.edu.au
(Simon Murphy - Melbourne, Australia)

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 18:10:48 +0100 (MET)
From: Geir Johannessen <joge@stud.unit.no>
Subject: GUS and Windows 4.0

The release of Windows 4.0 is soon seeing the day of light.
This version of Windows will *not* run on Dos. Instead Dos will be
availiable from Windows.

Will the Gus function with pure Windows? And if so, what programs will
function properly with Gus and Windows?


Geir

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 15:48:31 EST
From: Meshreki@ee.udel.edu
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #39

>Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 08:24:41 -0800 (PST)
>From: Rath <cllym@ucdavis.edu>
>
>RE: DOOM DIGITAL SOUNDS
>
>YEAH!  I'm not getting digital sounds in doom either.  I thought it was 
>just something I did wrong, so i fiddled with it for a few moments, but 
>couldn't get it to work.  All i heard were a few pops from where the
>digital was SUPPOSED to be...
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated, and please post them to the digest, 
>as there are probably others with the same question..

This file is available on the FTP sites (DOOMGUS.TXT), and will be updated 
as any new versions of DOOM are released.

Sam

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To get DOOM to run properly with both music and digitized sound effects
on the Gravis Ultrasound:  3 steps.

SOUND

*** NOTE: DOOM v1.2 may be able to use any valid GF1 IRQ including 11,12,15 ***

(1) Set your ULTRASND environment variable, and use GF1 IRQ less than 8

	example:  SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,7,5
								   |_______ GF1 IRQ

MUSIC

(2) Doom requires that you have installed the General MIDI patch set from
the 2.06 Install Disks that came with your Ultrasound (and are also
available via FTP and BBS).  DOOM will find your patches (using the 
ULTRADIR variable) in the MIDI subdirectory pointed to by ULTRADIR.

	example:  SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND

	(DOOM will look in C:\ULTRASND\MIDI for the patches)

*** NOTE:  Step 3 is only required for DOOM v1.0 / Operating System 0.99 ***

(3) You will also need to copy ULTRAMID.INI into your DOOM directory and
rename it to DMXGUS.INI (or find and use the DMXGUS.INI file).  ULTRAMID.INI
is a part of the UltraMID/AIL package (also available via FTP and BBS).

SETUP

Run the SETUP program in the DOOM directory and select the Ultrasound for 
both sfx and music.  Now run DOOM!

*** NOTE: DOOM v1.2 is known to occasionally lockup with GUS support. ***
***       If you experience frequent lockups and are using a high     ***
***       GF1 IRQ (11,12,15), try using a low IRQ (less than 8).      ***

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:09:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Ernest Chow <echow@chaph.usc.edu>
Subject: I need disk five of 2.06a software

Fellow GUS users,
Please help me out, my disk five of my GUS software 2.06a has a bad sector
error. Can somebody with this disk upload it for me to their account.
Then I can dcc it from you on IRC. Thanks contact me at echow@usc.edu


			Thanks in advance

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 10:08:47 EST
From: symon@radonc.unc.edu (James Symon)
Subject: NOEMS

	Oh, and do not use the EMS:N switch for QEMM, even if you use the
	corresponding switch with MegaEm for -NOEMS.  The -NOEMS switch is risky
	with any memory manager that has put the CPU in protected mode.

	-- 
	Mike Batchelor      | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux
	mikebat@netcom.com  | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU

Please help a beginner who has read the FAQ and DOS docs but is still
confused. My G2000 486 machine runs EMM386 with the -noems switch. If
I try to run megaem -noems I still get a message saying there is not
enough EMS space.

What is the reason for using EMM386 with the -noems switch? What will
I be risking if I get rid of it? Will that be likely to solve my
problem getting megaem to run?

Thanks,

Jim
symon@radonc.unc.edu

"...any different from a person who believed in the Judeo-Christian
god, a concept no more provable than space aliens? The only difference
I could see was that the prevailing culture supported one belief
system and condemned the other."
		_Other People's Skeletons_, Julie Smith

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 17:51:38 -40962758 (CST)
From: jfulmer@databank.com (John Fulmer)
Subject: SimCity 2000 and AIL

,
TW> 

TW> Hi,
TW> 
TW>         I play simcity2000 using the 32AIL drivers which enable
TW> me to use a
TW> 
TW> Roland Sound Canvas for music and an SB for FX. I'm no musician
TW> but I'm sure
TW> 
TW> the music I hear when playing the game is out of tune !!!!!!,
TW> 
TW> 
TW> 
TW> Any one out there running sc2K with these drivers ? what do you
TW> think ?   

Hmmm. I'm running SC2K with the ail-32 drivers and they work just fine. 
And the music sounds great! 

I have no ideas at all why yours doesn't......

:x

:wq


 
a

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 11:10:17 MST
From: "Dean C. Johnson" <JOHNSODC@caedm.et.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: Synergy GUS Multimedia Kit

>i bought the Synergy GUS multimedia upgrade kit, it came with

Do you get the Sony CD-ROM that they advertised as part of the kit?
Can you realy play music CDs with out software, i.e. does it have 
buttons on the outside of the CD-ROM to select the track and play?

Tell us about it? 

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 08:00:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: JARGANZA@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU
Subject: XWING Target jumping problem

Someone posted about a prolem with XWING and it jumping everytime you target. I 
would also like to know how to stop this problem. If it is a problem with a 
memory manager, I need a solution for QEMM though, not EMM386.

Also, Does anybody know which patch is used on a 1 MB GUS for the SFX beep when 
changing to a new target? I found that when I use MegaEm, there is no 
[beep-beep] sound effect, I'd like to change the patch to something that is 
audible.

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