Ultrasound Daily Digest     Wed, 11 Nov 92       Volume 1 : Issue  16 

Today's Topics:
								   
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				  Current SBOS version and Falcon 3
							   DESQview
				   Disk-Count software ships GUS!!!
					Electronic Arts, CD-ROM drives
							 GUS dealers
					  It's heeerre... (Finally!)
						IT CAME! I GOT MY GUS!
					  KBMIDI in epas.utoronto.ca
				   Let's go back to net posting...
						  problems corrected
							  Replies...
						Request server problem
					   SBOS <-> Win 3.1 survey
							SBOS problems
						Sending Gravis E-Mail
						Sox 5 for DOS released

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:40:26 MET
From: The Musician <tbra380@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it>
Message-Id: <9211101044.AA05793@orca.es.com>
Subject: 
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hey, 
I heard about GUS not being fully compatible with MPU-401 standard midi.
I would like to buy it but... I also have Roland Sound Canvas so I
would like the midi to work.
Does someone knows something about??

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:26 EST
From: MCI102@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Message-Id: <9211102225.AA16352@orca.es.com>
Subject: :)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Just for all of you that are in the US and are wondering if your card
will EVER come...I got mine today (11/10) and I am located at Penn State.
I got my card from Telemart for $133.  So for those who are still waiting,
your cards *ARE* coming!!!

I hope everyone gets there own card soon so we can *REALLY* see what this
thing can do!!!

Happy computing!!!
Mike Irvin
MCI102@psuvm.psu.edu

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 07:48:26 EST  
From: "Ted Wright" <wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
Message-Id: <28111.wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Current SBOS version and Falcon 3
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi,
What is the current version of SBOS? The label on my disks says 1.2, but the
programs say 1.1 when they load. If 1.2 is the latest, is it available for
downloading from somewhere?

The reason the I want an updated SBOS is because of the problems I am having
with Falcon 3 (3.01.1 really). I get digitized sound at first, but after a
minute or so it stops. It also sounds terrible (scratchy and distorted
compared to my prehistoric soundblaster). The music in Falcon 3 sounds much
worse with the Ultrasound as well. Every other (non Windows) program that
I have tried with the Ultrasound sounds at least as good as the
soundblaster. Has anyone else had this problem?

One more problem: when I play .MID files with playmidi they sound great, but
when I play them with the Media Player in Windows, I only hear one of the
many drums in the file. I know about the patch loading problem with Windows,
but I though that the Media Player was working correctly. Any ideas?

Ted Wright (wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov)

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:05:58 EST
From: Andrew Mccallum <andrewm@terranet.cts.com>
Message-Id: <9211101716.aa19639@generic.UUCP>
Subject: DESQview
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

		Is there a way that I can use any of the Ultrasound's utilities
(Playmidi, etc.) in DESQView withought it crashing on me?  (The window, not
the computer.)

UUCP: zoo.toronto.edu!generic!terranet!andrewm
ARPA: generic!terranet!andrewm@zoo.toronto.edu
INET: andrewm@terranet.cts.com

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 09:52:33 CST
From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Message-Id: <9211101552.AA07199@batman.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Disk-Count software ships GUS!!!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I called Disk-Count software again yesterday, like I said I would, and
they got about 1/4 of their order in from Gravis. They said they
would begin processing it immediately and that it would depend on
when I had ordered if I got one - where I am on the waiting list.
They also said they should get the rest of their order in on Tuesday
or Wednesday.

I figure, sure, pull my other leg, it plays "Jingle Bells."

So I called them back later in the day to see if my order had been
filled or if I was near the bottom of the list. The man said, "Looks
like you're one of the lucky ones. You should have it tomorrow or
Wednesday."

"Excuse me?!" I said.

Looks like it's on its way! I'll let you all know when (if) I get it
and will probably ask a lot of questions once I do ;-)!

Now if I can only get the bugger installed and working...

Ken

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:31:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Harrison <harrison@lclark.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.03.9211101637.A9915-a100000@sun>
Subject: Electronic Arts, CD-ROM drives
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

First of all, I have some good news for some of you.  I called EA today to
ask if they've gotten the GUS yet.  The guy told me they just got some in
today (Nov 10) and that mine was being packaged up as we spoke.  I ordered
mine around the beginning of September if that helps anyone.

Also I'll need to be hooking it up to a CD-ROM drive.  Anyone have any
experience with this so far?  I'm assuming that I'll need to make my own
cable.  Until then, I guess I'll be using them headphones.

=============================================================================
Mark Harrison           |  "We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
harrison@sun.lclark.edu |   Our great computers fill the hallowed halls."
			  -- Me     |                                    -- Rush
=============================================================================

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:43:38 PST
From: yuzik@sfu.ca
Message-Id: <9211101843.AA28685@fraser.sfu.ca>
Subject: GUS dealers
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi everyone,

I would like to take a few bytes to explain the Gravis distribution
process to clear up any confusion.  Generally speaking, Gravis sells
to a distributor, who in turn, sells to dealers, chains, and
mail-order houses.  The exceptions to this are some of the LARGE
chains or developers, such as Electonic Arts.

Due to the heavy demand for the UltraSound, distributors have been
allocating stock to their accounts, based on date of original order,
as well as other factors.  Gravis does not have any control of the
allocation process from the distributor.

We are currently filling backorders to our distributors and major
retailers, and have increased production in an effort to meet demand.

Thank you for your interest in the Gravis UltraSound, and I thank you
for your patience.


Chris Yuzik

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 00:51:17 PST
From: echuang@cco.caltech.edu (Ernest Y. Chuang)
Message-Id: <9211110851.AA18816@sandman.caltech.edu>
Subject: It's heeerre... (Finally!)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

If anyone ordered their GUS from Disk-Count Software and hasn't
received it yet, you can hopefully look forward to receiving it
sometime soon.  I just got mine today, and I placed my order a
little under a month ago (October 19th, according to the receipt).
(And yes, at the time I placed the order, I was told that the GUS
hadn't been approved by the FCC yet.)  Total cost, as promised,
was $133 ($129 + $4 shipping).

Now I've got a few questions for all you GUS-installation veterans.
(This was easily the most painful installation I've come across for
a sound card, in terms of tinkering with IRQ's, setup files, etc...
In earlier installations of the old Adlib and the Roland SCC-1, they
pretty much worked, right after plugging them in.  Not to say that 
I'd want to go back to the Adlib... :-) )

1) Is anyone else using the "audio in" jack to mix in another sound
   card output?  (especially other Roland users?)  It works perfectly
   in the native GUS mode -- I can play something on the Roland, and
   it will get played through the GUS to my amplifier (I'm using the
   audio-line-out, not the amplified-out).  However, if I run SBOS,
   then the audio-in no longer seems to work (I play something on the
   Roland, and I get silence from the GUS.)  Even after removing SBOS
   via "sbos -f", it still doesn't work.  It seems like I have to
   reboot in order to get it working again.  Any ideas?

2) Does anyone else have problems with loud screechy/staticy "speech"?
   I think about half of the programs that I've tried (that support
   Soundblaster speech) work fine on the GUS (including WC2, thankfully);
   but others will play the SB-emulated music fine, but the digitized
   sound effects and speech will be about 5 times louder than the 
   background music, and in addition will be hideously garbled and 
   noisy.  (All of the demo midi files and .snd files that came with
   the GUS worked fine.)

3) What are the default IRQ setting(s) for the original SB?  
   Or, alternatively, has anyone been able to get the GUS to play the 
   music from demos like Vectdemo and Unreal?  For me, Vectdemo hangs 
   after the title screen, while Unreal goes through the graphics
   fine, but I get no music/sound.  I'm not sure if it's the result of
   an incompatibility, or if it's looking for the default SB settings,
   which I'm not sure I'm using (220h, DMA 7, GUS IRQ 11, MIDI IRQ 5).

I guess that's about all for now, although I suspect I'll have more
questions as I play around with the card some more. 

Any help would be much appreciated!  Thanks.

- Ernest Chuang
  echuang@cco.caltech.edu

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:05:13 CST
From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Message-Id: <9211102005.AA07537@batman.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: IT CAME! I GOT MY GUS!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, I went home for lunch and there was a box waiting for me.
Inside the box was a GRAVIS ULTRA SOUND! So I guess Disk-Count
software wasn't lying after all.

Tonight I will install it and let ya'll know how it goes.

SCHWING!

Ken

P.S. If you ordered from Disk-Count, call them and ask them if your
order was shipped and if not, when it will ship. They only got about
1/4 of their stock of GUS's in yesterday.

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 18:55:13 -0500
From: ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca
Message-Id: <9211102355.AA13381@norton.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: KBMIDI in epas.utoronto.ca
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi everyone,

I've uploaded the modified version of KBMIDI by charles petzold to 
\pub\pc\ultrasound\submit directory in epas.utoronto.ca 

Have fun!

- Yuri Lee -

ylee@sunee.uwaterloo.ca

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 12:07:34 EST
From: iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado)
Message-Id: <9211101207.AA00686@stiatl.salestech.com>
Subject: Let's go back to net posting...
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I know it's nice to be in on the little Ultrasound club we've got going here,
but how in the world do we expect to spread the word about the GUS if we're
all holed up here reading this mailing list?  If we want this card to be as
successful as we know it can (and should) be, I think we should do all we can
to ensure everyone else out in net-land hears about our product.  Bandwidth
regarding the GUS has just about dropped to nil in the comp.ibm.pc.soundcard
group, and I don't think that will help sell GUS's to potential Usenet
customers in the future.

Something to think about...

Ian

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:25:11 CST
From: Bill Lockett <wrl7611@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Message-Id: <9211102025.AA17790@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Subject: problems corrected
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In last Friday's digest, I asked a few questions.  Why windows kept 
giving me    Error can't load patch ..........pat    and about 
93 others.  Well, after getting no responses, I called tech
support.  It took the nice gentleman about 8 seconds to 
tell me to remove ultrasnd.cfg from the windows
directory.  Whoever it was that stated to put that in the windows
directory was wrong.  I removed it and it sounds great.
 
bi

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Date: 10 Nov 92 12:33 -0800
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Message-Id: <2419*twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Replies...
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU writes:
>Subject: Price of GUS in canada
>
>I have a friend from Boston who is now visiting Canada.  How much does
>a GUS cost there?  I mean in a regular store, not from Gravis directly
>since their prices are higher.  Please let me know ASAP so that if
>it's really cheap, I will ask my friend to buy it for me in Canada.
>
I don't know if it's cheaper from stores. This is such a HOT card that
some stores have jacked up the prices. Locally, they are going around
CAN $189 to CAN $210.
>
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>
gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca (George Kirikos) writes:
>Subject: Ultrasound & OS/2 2.0
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm having problems getting my new GUS card to work with OS/2 2.0, and
>would appreciate any tips from those who have succesfully installed
>the sound card.
>....

Wait for the OS/2 driver from Gravis...
>

Thomas.

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 09:48:58 CST
From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Message-Id: <9211101548.AA07196@batman.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Request server problem
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I have a problem. I sent a request for instructions on how to build
the joystick port midi-connector and I never got them. Can someone
tell me what's up, or send me the instructions?

Thanks,

Ken

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Date: 10 Nov 92 12:37 -0800
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Message-Id: <2420*twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: SBOS <-> Win 3.1 survey
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

[Seeing as my posting was after that last digest where someone posted
a uuencoded file and I don't suppose too many people would go through
the 3 postings of uuencoded code to get to my posting instead of just
deleting that digest from their mailbox right away, I'll ask again...]

How many people out there is having problems running Windows 3.1 after
loading SBOS? How many people have no problem at all?

For example, say you load SBOS to play a game or for whatever reason.
You may not remove SBOS with the -f option for just leave it loaded,
doesn't matter. Now you run Win 3.1 and the first thing you should
hear is the Window Startup .wav file you've defined in Win 3.1.
Does it sound ok? And when you exit, does the exit sound ok? Or do
you get garbage?

Thomas.

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 13:07:27 -0500
From: <jason@ariel.yorku.ca>
Message-Id: <9211101807.AA00524@c11.Ariel.YorkU.CA>
Subject: SBOS problems
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi,
		The following is occuring 50% of the time when I attempt to load the
sbos driver:
				Parity check 2
				00000(s)

		This causes the computer to hang, requiring a hard reboot.
	I suspect that the memory on my UltraSound has failed, but I'm
not sure.  Has any one else had this problem?

	Also I am one of the poor unfortunates stuck using a 286, and I
am wondering if increasing the memory on my card might solve some of the
preformance problems I have been having using the card.


	I have sent my question regarding increasing the on card memory
both to Gravis Tech Support and to Chris Yuzik and have not heard
anything from them in 2 weeks!!!

							...Jason

Internet: jason@ariel.yorku.ca

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:07:25 PST
From: yuzik@sfu.ca
Message-Id: <9211101907.AA01111@fraser.sfu.ca>
Subject: Sending Gravis E-Mail
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi Everyone,

I'd just like to take a second to ask everyone who wants a personal
reply from me to please send mail directly to me.  You may also, of
course, post your message to the UltraSound daily digest.

I have been _swamped_ with mail lately, as I'm sure you can
understand.  I printed my mail from the weekend, and it totaled 54
pages!  Not that I'm complaining, I just wanted to let you know why it
sometimes takes me a couple of days to respond.  It is a _lot_ easier
to respond to mail addressed  directly, as I'm sure a few of you
have noticed.

Thank you.


Chris Yuzik
chris_yuzik@sfu.ca

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 13:18:19 GMT
From: gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu (Chris Adams)
Message-Id: <1992Nov10.131819.23835@riacs.edu>
Subject: Sox 5 for DOS released
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I have compiled the latest version of Sox (release 5) under DOS.  Sox is a
program by Lance Norskog for moving sounds between different formants.  Sox
is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cwi.nl [192.16.184.180], directory pub,
files sox5beta.tar.Z (source) and sox5dos.zip (my PC binary).
--
Chris Adams                       | "If tin whistles are made of tin,
Georgia Tech                      |  what do they make foghorns from?"
Internet: gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu|       --  Lonnie Donegan
----------------------------------+ 

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:28:06 EST
From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9211102228.AA15437@marinara>
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

A couple of days ago I cancelled my order with Gravis and made an order
for the GUS with Disk=Count.  They said I would be getting it in 2 or 3 days
at the most!  Rejoice!!  But when I called today, they said next week!
What the f**k is all this!??  I thought Gravis has made a large shipment to
Disk-Count.  So WHEN will I get MY card?  Is this really worth it?  Can I
sue Gravis if I get ulcers?  This is f**king pissing me off!

I HOPE CHRIS YUZIK IS READING THIS!  The GUS may be a great card, but the
company that makes it --------------- SUCKS!!!!

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