GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 30 May 94  9:37 PST     Volume 13: Issue  27 

Today's Topics:
					  GUS 3.53 and HP Dashboard
					GUS 3.53 disk set - Patch set
					   GUS Daily Digest V13 #24
						   interesting card
						MAX Installation Hell
				  My review of the new GUS software
					 Network Card Problem, HELP.
						   New archive site
					   New drivers and NDW 3.0
					New Drivers Problem (Update!)
				   New patches? I don't think so...
					  Patch for 3.53 drivers...
						 SBOS & NMI problems
						  TWindows Start-Up
			  Ultrasound Internet Archives News - Update
				 What happened to gus-files on epas?
						Where to get 3.53 SW ?
						Windows startup Sound

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, 30 May 1994 00:44:58 -0400
From: sanwalk@ie.utoronto.ca (Roy Sanwalka)
Subject: GUS 3.53 and HP Dashboard

Hi all.  I just wanted to let you guys know that I've installed the 3.53 disks
and am also having the GPF problems in Windows.  I changed my shell back to
Program Manager, and that seems to have solved the problem, but now I need to
run Dashboard from ProgramManager and it SUCKS! AG: Hope you guys solve this
problem REAL SOON NOW.  Also, I have had the same .WAV file cut-off problems,
but not consistently (i.e. doesn't happen everytime I start Windows).  I will
experiment with the QEMM DMA Buffer settings as someone suggested, but I don't
think that's the problem.
 
 ByeForNow...
				 Roy S.
|          A. Roy Sanwalka      a.k.a.     sanwalk@ie.utoronto.ca          |
|#include <std_disclaim.h>   sanwalk@gateway.amg.com, sanwalk@robohack.uucp|
|                "Graduate Engineer and Wizard-in-training"                |
|   "People who think they know it all really annoy those of us who do!"   |

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Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 13:55:58 SAT
From: "Michael P" <PATRICIO@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>
Subject: GUS 3.53 disk set - Patch set

> Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL> wrote:
> >From: "George A. Montemayor" <gmontem@eis.calstate.edu>
> >Subject: What's in latest disk set?
> >
> >Didn't d/l all of the GUS disk sets v3.53.  Does this disk set have newer
> >and better patches?
> 
> Oh, yess!  It's amazing.
> After shuttling 8MB from EPAS to VM to Mac to PC to disk and back again, I've
> installed the drivers, and let me tell you... well, wow.
> The installation was very quick (write THAT down, Origin, $#%) so I thought
> that nothing really changed.  Well, 191 (one-a hunnerd anna ninety ONE) new
> patches!  Better drums with amazing basses, better slap bass, better GUITARS!
> (although not by that much), a GREAT brass section (63K) and a kick-ass
> orchestra hit that actually sounds like a mortar bomb hit the orchestra :)
That's weird, because I did file binary comparisons with the new 
patch set (3.53) and the old (2.06) patch set and found almost every 
patch to be the same. If I remember correctly, only about 4 patches 
were different.
The guitars sound the same and are the same; the harpsichord still 
sux. Needless to say I was rather disappointed. Oh well, back to 
Patch Maker to try and make some more decent replacements.

> The whole thing sounds PRO... I don't think any of my replacement patches are
> going back in.
Mmmmm, did you get the same 3.53 patch set as the rest of us?

Mike.
patricio@odie.ee.wits.ac.za
They said smile, things could be worse. So I did, and it was :-|

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Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 10:14:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bryon Thur <bhthur@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V13 #24

  I have a quick question regarding the creation and use of new patches. 
My GUS only has the basic 256k onboard (I'm upgrading today), so that may 
be the route of my problem, but I'm not sure.

  By using Wavelite, I digitized a guitar sound that I liked, and then 
used patchmaker lite to turn that into a patch. Great. Now I have a 
really cool patch that I can't wait to use with my midi programs to 
create some music. BUT, I can't seem to be able to load the patch in! The 
midi program (as well as Power Chords and Patch Manager) don't list the 
new patch among the ones available. The only ones I seem to have access 
to are the original 127 that came with my software to begin with. I 
realize that I can probably just change the file name of an old useless 
patch that I have no need for, but I would rather add a new one to the 
list and not worry about doing that.

  Any suggestions? Thanx in advance.

 Bryon Thur
 bhthur@watarts.uwaterloo.ca 

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Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 15:29:15 --200
From: knevalai@argos.ncp.fi (Kari Nevalainen)
Subject: interesting card

Hello !

I have very interesting problem
My friend and I bought two Gravis Ultrasounds V.3.73 with 1Meg

I installed my card and installation went okay, but when I 
use playmidi, graphicbars in lower right corner go crazy 
they blink and it looks like they are trying to get out of the 
box. Music sounded at first fine but after an hour
some songs started to sound weird (e.g. bohem.mid).
Then we tried moddemo and it did't work there were continuous
high beep sound at the front and mod was back somewhere.
bad card we tought, so we tried my friends card and it 
worked just fine. Even bohem.mid + playmidi sounded and looked great.

Then began the fun stuff

We went to my friends and we installed my card to his computer
and it worked fine, no trouble at all????
We tried moddemo, it grooved nicely, we played mids two hours...
NO TROUBLE !!


SO IF SOMEONE KNOWS WHATS GOING ON, PLEASE INFORME ME

THANKS






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Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 00:02:30 EST
From: dls@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
Subject: MAX Installation Hell

Well... I have a GUS MAX.  Am I the only one?

|But... My computer won't acknowledge its presence.  I have a Gateway 2000
4DX2-66V, and no matter what I do it tells me that no GUS was detected.
I've heard other people have had problems with GUS and GW2K.  What can I do?

Please help!  I need to hear this thing.
Email to DLS@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.ed{
or respond here

-Dan Sonenberg

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Date: Mon, 30 May 94 08:34:00 -0800
From: chris.campbell@mag-net.com (Chris Campbell)
Subject: My review of the new GUS software
Message-ID: <da.963.6.0CE06BC9@mag-net.com>

The total download size was exacally six 3.5" High Density
disks, and cost each of us $6.  After copying the
files to disk, I put disk 1 in and hit enter, after updating through
the standard Gravis install program, it re-booted my computer and
I was free to play around:-) first I started up DOOM.  You can't really
tell the difference in all levels, but some sound quite a bit better.
The Tie Fighter demo sounded excellent with the new precussion patches

Then I started up windows, I noticed a garbled startup sound, and Brian
handed me the v3.54 update disk that he had just downloaded that fixes
the problems with windows.  I heard there was a new MODUS, so I tried it
out, it works alot better, sounds almost as good as Capamod, and didn't
seem to be a bum buddy to GPF's:) The new Patch Maker looks great, but
I haven't had a chance to use it yet.  Same quality Gravis from all
the remaining Windows apps, but I didn't notice any distinct
differences.

There is a new version of SBOS, but I didn't find it sounded any better
for the one game I tried.  What are the toggles for SBOS?  The 3D demo
and most of the DOS apps are the same, playmidi now has a .BMP file
that is displayed in the background.  Fully replacable <evil grin>

All in all a most signifigant upgrade, the some patches sound alot
better, most have been touched up.  And it containes updates for
much of the bundled software.  Great job Gravis, now all I want is
protected mode Mega-Em to use with my new patches!;-)

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Date: Mon, 30 May 94 09:47:30 +1000
From: Remek Andrew Lipinski <ral@mlb.dmt.csiro.au>
Subject: Network Card Problem, HELP.

Hi,

	I have been trying to install a network card into my machine
which also has a GUS (hardware version 2.2), and have been having a
lot of problems. My GUS was set a default settings that is base address
220, DMA 1, irqs 11 and 5. The network card I am trying is a Western
Digital Elite 16. The moment I plugget the card into the machine I
strted getting problems, originally I set the network card at base
address 340, irq 10, memory address 0xEC000. My GUS would no loger
be found by the initialisation software and the network card would
not operate properly. I figure this would be an obvious conflict, but
the addresses do not suggest so. 

	I have tried a number of addresses and irq setting of the
network card, but I had the same probelms. And with just about every
address I tried the card would start working properly once I took
the GUS out. Next I thought, that maybe the gus is ussing up more
IO address space then I thought (although I don't think that this is
the case since I have a CD rom interface card at 300, and that works
fine). So I tried moving the GUS up and the network card below it.
I set the network card at 240 while the the GUS got moved up to 260.
An presto everything seem to work now. I have absolutely no explenation
for this, and it rather worries me. The only problem that I have noticed
since is that I can no logher get Start-trek the 25 anniversary CD edition
game to work with Mega-em, it just crashes, when it worked fine before.

	The network card that I am using now is a loaner, the one which
I want to use is an old NE2000 which has only 4 base addresses available
all above 300. Has anybody out there had similar probels? Any suggestions
will be grately appreciated.


Remek.

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Date: 29 May 94 14:27 -0700
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: New archive site

Stefan <S.Magdalinski@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>Regarding all this stuff about sites being overloaded
>
>It looks like nobody noticed the post from the wizards at
>src.doc.ic.ac.uk.
>(Imperial College, london)
>
>I posted them a while back suggesting that they do a mirror ofthe
>archives, which they have now done. I recommend that U.K. and European
>users use this site, because it's blisteringly fast.
>They had a problem with their ftp setup last week, but it's been fixed
>now
>
>look in
>
>/comp/audio/ultrasound
>
>
>and Dave, do you want to put this at the end of the digest, with the
>others?
>
>Now, I'll see if I can get them to mirror the submit directory at epas
>
>
>Stefan
>(I may lurk, but I do stuff too !)


Hi there Stefan. Actually, yes, I did notice this posting and I've been
trying to contact the wizards at <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> to see if they want
to be an official GUS site....etc. I hasn't been a week yet but I'm still
waiting for a reply. We want to determine what "status" this new site is
going to get before updating our documentations. And I also want to
contact them because I don't think they are mirroring the correct site
hence I want to give them instructions wrt how we are setup....etc.

Thanks for lurking and doing something about it! :)
With the rate our archive is going, the more sites we get, the less
congestions we'll have on each site. Hence the more the merrier!
Thanks again for your help.


Thomas.

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Date: Sun, 29 May 94 16:53:59 -0500
From: matthew@pi0.visim.uah.EDU (Matthew A. Kliesner)
Subject: New drivers and NDW 3.0

I downloaded the new drivers set yesterday and, after reading all of the 
problems people were having with non-program-manager shells, I hesitated
to install them.  Screwing my courage, I went ahead and, much to my suprise,
everything booted fine with Norton Desktop for Windows 3.0 (except the
startup sound - I'll go check my DMA buffers soon.)  I don't really have a
special configuration.  EMM386/WFWG3.11 and I've taken steps to reduce the
amount of TSRs on my machine (so there aren't too many little things running
around under the carpet.)

Just thought you might want to know that there's SOMEONE out here who is
loving his GUS _and_ avoiding Program Manager simultaneously.

			-Matthew

P.S. Queries to the address below, and I see I failed to mention I'm on a
V-Comm (ultra generic) 486DX-33, AMI Bios.  Haven't had a single GUS problem 
yet.  Thanks Gravis!

   --[ matthew@pi0.visim.uah.edu ]--[ "The spaces in between leave room ]--
					[   for you and I to grow."  -Rush  ]

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Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 18:04:41 -0400
From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: New Drivers Problem (Update!)

Somehow the new drivers of GUS does not like any windows' shell except the old
program manager. The same General Protection Fault occurs in Norton Destop, 
Dashboard, or even Backmenu. I wish there is soon an update of these buggy
drivers. 

In the meantime, let's cross our fingers and use the plain program manager and
hope no more GPF!

God Bless GUS!

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Date: Sun, 29 May 94 10:52:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
Subject: New patches? I don't think so...

I don't think most of the patches are new.  And YES, I am sure I got the 
new ones. I completely reinstalled to make sure I got the new stuff...But 
everything still sounds the same...The acpiano.pat is exactly the same 
size as the old one.  I got the 353 disks off epas...

The only differences in the software I could find that were major was the 
bank-manager and the e.bat...

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Date: Mon, 30 May 94 0:10:28 EDT
From: jvene@telxon.mis.telxon.com (Jim Veneskey)
Subject: Patch for 3.53 drivers...

For all of the people having trouble with the new 3.53 Software:
I was snooping around CIS last night and found a patch for it.
The file is GUS042.ZIP and is now on archive.epas.utoronto.ca in the
submit dir.
It supposedly cures the startup wave problems and the GPF's with shells
otherthan PM. 

Jim Veneskey
jvene@telxon.mis.telxon.com
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Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 18:17:00 -0400
From: Laszlo Megyesi <lmegyesi@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: SBOS & NMI problems

> It's neither the GW2K nor the GUS - it's the MS Mouse.EXE v9.0 on the PS/2
> port that is the problem.  It disables the NMI procedure.  Nice of it,
> huh?  MS Mouse.COM v9.0 or any previous version of MS Mouse should work
> fine.  Or another brand of mouse.

Hi GUSers,

Just a question about the NMI problem...
I recently bought a 486dx-40 (AMD) and installed the MS Mouse.EXE v9.0
driver on it.  When I'm trying to load SBOS I get the message about
the NMI procedure being disabled.
My question is: Does this mouse driver disable the NMI permanently?
And if it does how do I turn it back on?

I'd just like to determine if the problem is with the motherboard or
the mouse driver.

I HAVE tried other mouse drivers, but I'm still getting the same message.
(And my old mouse driver won't even work. It's a Dexxa 4.x driver)

Thanx...

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Date: Sun, 29 May 94 20:03:00 -0800
From: chris.campbell@mag-net.com (Chris Campbell)
Subject: TWindows Start-Up
Message-ID: <da.958.6.0CE06BC5@mag-net.com>

To everyone having problems with the Windows startup sounds, get the
small patch that upgrades v3.53 to v3.54, it fixes the problems.

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Date: 29 May 94 23:15 -0700
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Internet Archives News - Update

				   GRAVIS ULTRASOUND INTERNET ARCHIVES NEWS
==============================================================================
					   FTP Sites                     Archive Directories
					   ---------                     -------------------
Main N.American Site:  archive.orst.edu              pub/packages/gravis
					   wuarchive.wustl.edu           systems/ibmpc/ultrasound
Main Asian Site:       nctuccca.edu.tw               PC/ultrasound
European Callers ONLY: theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de    pub/sound/gus
Submissions:           archive.epas.utoronto.ca      pub/pc/ultrasound/submit
Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca      pub/pc/ultrasound
Mirrors:               garbo.uwasa.fi                mirror/ultrasound

MailServer For Archive Access: Email to <mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

OK everyone. Wuarchive has freed up some room and we're back in
business. I've finished uploading to the new files to wuarchive, and
have moved some of the older sound files from .../sound/misc to the
newly created subdirectories.

Notice! We can't free up anymore room for EPAS. So what I'll do is leave
the newly validated files on EPAS for a week. Then on the coming
Saturday, I'm going to validate files once again so that the current
batch of validated files can be removed (from EPAS only). Grab the
new files before Saturday. Otherwise, grab the new files from the other
(non EPAS) sites.

To the uploaders, if we run out of room on EPAS, hold off the upload for
a bit. We'll have more room by next Saturday. Thanks.

To summarize, next validation on coming Saturday, June 4th!


Thomas.

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Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 17:02:17 +0200
From: jons@stud.cs.uit.no (Jon Vidar Schneider)
Subject: What happened to gus-files on epas?

Today I was looking on epas under the submit dir and found some
files that was interesting. I think the files was called
gus353?.zip (?=1..6), and I looked on the readme files and did
see that it was the new drivers to the GUS released by GRAVIS.

But the problem is that when I tried to get them(mget) they was
suddenly deleted. 

What happened to this 6 files. I need them.....

Bye,
-- 
## Jon Vidar Schneider <jons@stud.cs.uit.no> ##

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Date: 30 May 94 11:13:00 MET
From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
Subject: Where to get 3.53 SW ?

Hi,

can a GUSer in Europe get the 3.53 update for free as well ? I don't suppose
it's complete with patches on epas, is it ?

				Martin

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Date: Mon, 30 May 94 9:48:35 EDT
From: "Brian K. Dowtin" <dowtin@ncat.edu>
Subject: Windows startup Sound

I had the same breakup problem - changed the DMA buffers to 1024 (from
4096) and it's fine now
`brian -- 

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