GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 4 Apr 94  9:37 PST      Volume 12: Issue   4 

Today's Topics:
							  Doom Music
						General MIDI crystal?
					   HELP! On Windows MIDI...
						 IRQ 7 DisInformation
				  Michaelangelo?  Origin?  What??!!
					  Novell DOS 7 good for GUS?
					  Pascal GUS SDK available?
					   Ravenloft works fine...

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: Mon, 04 Apr 94 00:51:35 EDT
From: Akintunde Omitowoju <ZAO1@ETSU.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
Subject: Doom Music

Hi all,
Is there an FTP site where the GMIDI music files from Doom can be gotten?
Any help would greatly be appreciated.  Thanks!!!!  =)

Akintunde Omitowoju
zao1@etsu.bitnet           (BitNet)
zao1@etsu.east-tenn-st.edu (InterNet)

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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 94 14:02:12 EDT
From: Akintunde Omitowoju <ZAO1@ETSU.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
Subject: General MIDI crystal?

Hi all,
I've another question.  Since the GUS has a General MIDI crystal with 192
general MIDI samples on board, does that mean I can delete the samples (.PAT)
files off of my harddrive?  I mean if the instruments ARE on board the card,
then why leave them on my hard disk??

I'm not too sure...any help and/or explanation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!!! =)

Akintunde Omitowoju
zao1@etsu.bitnet           (BitNet)
zao1@etsu.east-tenn-st.edu (InterNet)

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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1994 16:22:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: LFG3397@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: HELP! On Windows MIDI...

I am in dire need of assistance with getting MIDI to function again in widows
after the  installation of the new drivers.  
On my first attempt to repair the damages I was told just to replace the win.in
with the most recent.  So I did this and downloaded it from compuserve. 
However after replacing the new win.ini I then only got back the percussion
patches!  So then i was told to get gus0041.zip.  But where do I find such a
file and then what is it to do?
Please, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Lee F. Griswold

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 10:07:26 CDT
From: Jay R. Jaeger <dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us>
Subject: Re: IRQ 7 DisInformation

> > Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 2:49:16 -0600 (CST)
> > From: Erek Adams <941ADAMS@MERLIN.NLU.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: Some Newbie Questions
> > 
> > > Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 20:15:06 -0500 (EST)
> > > From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
> > > 
> > > Avoid IRQ 7, since it's been found to be problematic for many people,
> > > me included.  The base address should be 220h so that the GUS emulates
> > > the SB on that address.
> > 
> > Hmm...What kind of problems?  Printer conficts?
> 
> IRQ 7 is just flaky.  It tends to fire late, sporadically, or not at
> all on many systems.  If it's a simple printer conflict, then disabling
> the printer port should resolve it, but it doesn't for me.
> 
> Phat.
> 
> ------------------------------

I wish you would quit spreading this piece of Dis Information.  From a hardware
perspective, IRQ7 is no different from the others.  The typical problem is
that that is also the IRQ used for parallel port 1.  And NO, disabling the
printer port WON'T always make it go away.  It would *IF* the card was designed
correctly.  However, parallel ports are NOTORIOUS for incorrect designs.  Ask
lots of folks who put OS/2 on their machines and found out that their printers
that used to work fine under DOS didn't work under OS/2 because the interrupt
logic on their card was messed up.  I was one of them.  And moving the parallel
port doesn't always work.  In the case of one card, not only was the interrupt
broken, but it was HARD WIRED as IRQ 7, regardless of how the card was set up.
So, to get OS/2 to print correctly, I had to move my 2nd parallel port to the
first ones address, and CUT the IRQ7 line on the bad one when I installed it
in the 2nd port address.  (DOS didn't mind because it doesn't use the interrupt
and I didn't need it for OS/2 or NT).

The problem with sporadic interrupts on "many systems" is NOT NOT NOT the
IRQ hardware itself, it is the blasted poorly desinged parallel port cards!
  
IF the card is correctly designed AND all that it is being used for is LPT1
under DOS THEN it can share IRQ7 without problems, because the BIOS and/or DOS
drivers do not enable the interrupt.

So, folks should:

1.  Check out their parallel ports and make sure that their IRQ's match their
	I/O address settings.  If they don't know exactly what all that means, they
	should find a friend who does.  Note that this may also mean checking more
	than just the first parallel port (in my case, the 2nd parallel port from
	an I/O port standpoint was giving me problems because it was using IRQ7
	too, and didn't change IRQ's with I/O addresses).

2.  If they still have problems, try and borrow a know goody goody parallel
	port card.  I find that the ones on IDE disk controllers tend to be 
	designed correctly.

--
Jay R. Jaeger                   dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us
(608) 266-7767                  State of Wisconsin
Room 201B, 4802 Sheboygan Ave, PO Box 7982  Department of Transportation
Madison, WI  53707-7982             Bureau of Automation Services

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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 94 13:48:01 EDT
From: Akintunde Omitowoju <ZAO1@ETSU.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
Subject: Michaelangelo?  Origin?  What??!!

Hi all,
I was reading some *really old* information about the GUS, and it raised some
questions.

While reading through this long document, I came across Michaelangelo, some
kind of emulator for the GUS that was supposed to be able to emulate Sound
Blaster/Pro and the Adlib Gold (OPL3) type chips...Is "Michaelangelo" SBOS?
If it is, I'm not too impressed with at least what the document said...

Also, the document said that Origin was going to support the GUS...a joke that
obviously is.

My last question is:  Is there a better version of SBOS coming out anytime
soon?  I would say the the GUS *could* become an industry standard if they
got the FM synthesis part taken care of...or at least if more software support-
ed the card natively anyway...I'm getting somewhat tired of using MegaEm all
the time, and EMUSETting it between Roland MT32, and the Sound Canvas.

Has anyone heard of Logitech's new sound card using the OPL4 chip?  Sounds like
they're pushing this one *HARD* ...it's supposed to be *COMPLETELY* backward
compatible with any software that uses the Adlib, Sound Blaster/PRO in them.
They're even giving away free CD's to let you hear what the card sounds like
before you buy it.

Gravis, please don't disappoint us...we all have faith in you!!!!

Akintunde Omitowoju
zao1@etsu.bitnet           (BitNet)
zao1@etsu.east-tenn-st.edu (InterNet)

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 11:07:56 CDT
From: Daniel A Nielsen <dnielsen@ria-emh2.army.mil>
Subject: Re: Novell DOS 7 good for GUS?

>Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 09:18:48 MST
>From: "Dean C. Johnson" <JOHNSODC@caedm.et.byu.edu>
>Subject: Novell DOS 7 good for GUS?
>
>Many months ago I remember reading that DR DOS 6 does not 
>support some GUS software well.  ( Is this correct?)
>
>Does anyone know if Novell DOS 7 supports GUS software well or 
>not?
>
>-Thanks

Well, from my experience, NOT.  Megaem does not work with Novell 7, but
SBOS does.  However SBOS does not emulate the SB as well as Megaem.  I'm
hoping Megaem will be updated, but if you heard it doesn't work well with
DR 6, then I guess I have no hope of it being changed :-(.

I suppose if you have an EMM386 manager that will work with Novell 7 and
Megaem things will be OK.  Anyone know of a free mem manager that will
work with Novell 7 and Megaem?  What would be the risk of using my MSDOS 5.0
EMM386.exe with Novell 7?

regards
dan

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 09:06:06 +0200
From: Christian Klass <chribeag@w250zrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Subject: Pascal GUS SDK available?

Hello there,
I have just one question: Is there a Pascal version of the GUS SDK?
If there is, please tell me were it is! Thanx in advance...

Bye,
	Chris

BTW: Ultima8 + GUS (What else does one need to live ;))

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 16:55:44 -0400
From: rezaei@tristan.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Mohammad Ali Rezaei)
Subject: Ravenloft works fine...

I just wanted to say that Ravenloft works great with the GUS.
All I did was 
1) install the game, choose no sound.
2) unpack gail3214.zip in the rloft directory.
3) run copydrvs
4) run sinstall, select 2 cards, General Midi and Sblaster Regular.
5) edit the rloft.bat file to include loadpats.

Oddly enough, if you look at the rloft.bat file, it is quite
evident that GUS support was removed the last minute :-<

				-Mohammad
P.S. Choice of memory manager seems to be important to the stability
of the game... Try either himem.sys or nothing at all.

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