GUS Daily Digest            Tue, 14 Mar 95  9:42 PST     Volume 20: Issue  14 

Today's Topics:
					(Fwd) GUS Daily Digest V20 #11
				  1 MBb midi bank for patch manager
						 CD Audio programming
		 GUS/MAX players for .WAV .MID and .MOD under Linux?
					   GUS Daily Digest V20 #12
				  GUS Daily Digest V20 #13 (2 msgs)
							GUS lock ups!
								panic
				  System Shock CD and GUS 2nd level

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, 13 Mar 1995 10:10:12 -0800
From: "Gary Wingert" <gary@z-code.com>
Subject: (Fwd) GUS Daily Digest V20 #11

Bryan Maher wrote about SAW (Software Audio Workshop):

> recorder for Windows.  The next version due out sometime in the next
quarter
> will support up to 8 stereo tracks!  There are also add on modules for

I called them, May 1 is the target ship date.  It will be 16-tracks,
stereo and mono-mixed.  It's name will be SAWPlus.

> You can contact Innovative
> Quality Software at 702 435-9077 for a free demo. They offer lifetime free
> software upgrades!

Except in this case.  SAW is normally around $450-500, and the Audio
Rack #1 (the effects processing module - more are planned) is usually
around $300.  After SAWPlus is announced, there will be a special
offer made to existing SAW users for about 6-8 weeks, and the upgrade
to SAWPlus will be $400.  The list price for SAWPlus will be around
$1000.  Either way, around $1K, whether you're a current user or hold
out for the May release.

:(

Gary

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 10:21:46 +0100 (MET)
From: ralam@cs.vu.nl (Lam RA)
Subject: 1 MBb midi bank for patch manager

Hello out there,

I was wondering if anyone out there has a good midi bank for patchmanager (preferebly
a drum & a melodic bank that will load together in all my GUS mem (of one Mb) when
the patchloading is put on 8 bit, to conserve memory). The reason I'm asking is
because I just got King's Quest VII and I didn't get any music, (I asked about that
here, but noone replied) And just now I found out that when I preload the patches my
self I can get music, but I have no way of knowing which patches to map to which 
instrument. So, any help would be apreciated. Or, is it possible to use the ini-file
from loadpats.exe or something likewise? 

Thanks

Remco

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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 95 14:39:50 EDT
From: "Henrique 'Snoopy' Vianna" <SNOOPY@BRUFPEL.BITNET>
Subject: Re: CD Audio programming

 
On Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:15:14 +7516517 (MET) majo@shmu.sk (Majo Fukasz) said:
>Hi there,
>
>   I'm trying to get some info about how 2 program a CD Audio
>player under DOS but none of my friends knows a solutions so I'm trying
>this. Please don't get upset, I know this doesn't belong here but this
>is one of the last chances so please give your best ...
>
>THANX IN ADVANCE ...
>
>                            Majo Fukasz ...
 
  Hi,
 
  you need the oficial MSCDEX documentation from Microsoft. The last one out
I know of is from version 2.20; look for the file DR0498.ZIP somewhere
(sorry, I don't remember the directory) at ftp.microsoft.com.
 
  Also, if you wanna see the best (IMHO :-) ) DOS-based CD audio player,
then take a look at my SMART! CD. You can get it from oak.oakland.edu at
/SimTel/msdos/cdrom/smrtcd20.zip. This is version 2.0; version 3.0 will be
released soon. The main advantage of SMART! CD is its ability to save and
restore CDs and tracks titles, what I call the "Know-What-You-Are-Listening-
To" function! Many other great features are available, and version 3.0 is
almost ready and looking good!
 
  BTW, if anybody else has interest in CD players and got the time to test
SMART! CD, I would appreciate any feedback you can send me. I'm also looking
for documentation on later versions of MSCDEX.
 
  Best regards,
  Henrique.
 
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 08:35:09 EST
From: snie@dsg343.nad.ford.com (Steve Nie)
Subject: GUS/MAX players for .WAV .MID and .MOD under Linux?

Could someone recommend me the good players for .WAV, .MID and .MOD files
under LINUX for GUS/MAX soundcard?

Thanks in advance.

Steven  

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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:36:51 -0500
From: hmt0018@pop.wimsey.com (Warren Zatwarniski)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #12
Message-ID: <3aCPl4dEv4pS079yn@pop.wimsey.com>

I remember in a previous digest someone mentioning a problem getting
Warcraft to work with Megaem or SBOS. I purchased the game, and it worked
fine with SBOS *for*a*while*. Now I keep getting a DOS4G error. I don't
think I've changed anything, but this error is consistent, and it works
fine without sound now. Anyone have any ideas on how to get this game to
work?

Also, this game seems to use the AIL drivers for sound. Here's some info
from the beginning of the drivers in HEX format. Maybe someone can
suggest a driver that I could install over these.

Here's from SBLASTER.DIG:

000000  41 49 4C 33 44 49 47 1A 11 01 00 00 00 00 00 00  AIL3DIG.........
000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
000030  00 00 00 00 1A 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

And from another driver called MPU401.MDI:

000000  41 49 4C 33 4D 44 49 1A 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00  AIL3MDI.........
000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
000030  00 00 00 00 E2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Anyone know if these are in fact AIL drivers?

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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:38:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harry C Pulley <hpulley@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #13

Date: 12 Mar 1995 22:34:00 +0100
From: christian@birdy.ping.de (Christian 'Kiki'Schmitz)
Subject: System Shock CD 2nd level
 
> Ok, I patched the System Shock CD with the usail310.zip file and
> everything worked great. But after entering the 2nd level the music stops
> playing after 5 seconds. Does anyone found a solution to this problem or
> is a real patch out by Looking Glass.

This happened to me on the disk version too.  Don't worry, the music 
starts up again.  I don't know if it was intentional or not but after 
playing the game for hours and hours and hours (best game of the year in 
my opinion!) I actually found the short period of relative silence to be 
quite welcome.

Harry

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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 20:38:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: Sam <Samuel.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #13

> Subject: Dark Forces, GUS and Joysticks
> is there a any way to play Dark Forces with an Ultrasound (MAX) and a
> Jostick ?

Why use a JOYSTICK?!?! This is a doom-game, right, so keyboard and mouse 
will be MUCH better?!

> Subject: GUS + EIDE2300 Promise
> I purchased a 3rd IDE drive, so I bought a Promise EIDE2300Plus (I'd 
> The drive now works fine, but my GUS is tweaked.  Doom works fine,  the 

I suppose you have tried altering the bus speed, just in case this helps? 
(CLKIN/whatever in BIOS setup, increase the number).

> I ran setgus (via setup) and ran the tests there.  IT's getting a DMA 
> Read error from soundblsaster dma(1)

This shouldn't affect your native support.

[another message...]

> Correct. And the above comment about the PowerPC is also rubbish. The PowerPC
> processors are even more capable than the Pentium. I won't delve into

hmm? the first comment you quoted said PowerPC was better (at floating 
point) than pentium... and the second only mentioned the 680x0 line not 
ppc... never mind anyway :)

> Subject: GUS Max review in PC mag

>      said that Gravis has "noticably upped the quality of the card's MIDI
>      playback capabilities from the previous generation of UltraSound."

Hmmm. In fact the MIDI playback capabilities are identical :) Shows PC 
mag know what they are talking about!

I wonder if they would have been even more impressed by Ultrasound ACE, 
for costing $40 less or so and having the same MIDI?

>      A side note:  the article said that gravis will be releasing CD-ROMs
>      soon with patch libraries to expand the GUS's MIDI library.  Anybody
>      know anything about that?

Possibly the same as the 500 disks of patches available from some weird 
company or other. I had a few demos of these, they weren't too special.

>      that means anything.  The reviewer also noted the AWEful32 SB
>      compatibility is provided using an 80k TSR... clearly inferior to
>      SBOS's 20k or Mega-Em's 0k of conventional memory.

um? AWE has SB compat. in hardware, it's GM that needs the TSR, right?

> Subject: latest instrument patches
> Hi again,  Where are the latest and "bestest" instrument patches for the GUS?

Don't know, but cruise along to Xography's Web page (a demo group, if that
helps you find it, I don't have the URL right now) and then choose music
information, and there are a few sites, one of which has loads of Kurzweil
patches that can be converted to GUS format and might be good. The others
are supposed to have `convertible' samples for other pro-samplers, but I
couldn't get the links to work. 

> Also, does anyone have any patch for effects like footsteps, heartbeat, etc?

Possibly on some of these archives. (if there weren't any in propats).
Alternatively make your own. My `block dropping' thud sound effect in 
Netris game started off as me dropping the mike onto the floor, or 
stamping my foot next to it, or something :)

> Subject: mouse disappering/reappearing act
> I have both a GUS and an SB16 in the same machine
> I copy in the Windows system.ini and control.ini files, depending on which
> sound card I am using, in my autoexec.bat because I only want to use the
> 
> SB16 with Windows gives me no such problem.

Are you sure the files are identical apart from the soundcard drivers? 
Otherwise, have you tried different IRQs for the gus? I mean I don't 
SUPPOSE it's the same as the mouse, but you never know...

By the way, our mouse disappears sometimes with TCP/IP software. You can 
fix it usually by running a fullscreen dosprompt and coming back, without 
having to restart windows.

Sam

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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:57:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Timothy B Martin <Xeltar+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: GUS lock ups!

I just recently upgraded my motherboard and video card... but
unbeknownst to me, this would screw up my game playing because now my
gus doesn't work properly.  Maybe i just fried the gus, but that's why
i'm posting this..if you can help me, please drop me a line.  Here's the
stuff:

I have an ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G with an Intel DX/2 50Mhz processor
this has a built in PCI SCSI controller... which needs lots of tsr
drivers (might be the problem..i dunno yet)
And i have a Genoa 8900PCI

I get no conflicts in the gus setup, and things actually run okay.. but
all my games eventually lock up.  These includes the following: Creature
shock, heretic, malcolm's revenge, and i think a few smaller games i
can't remember right now.  

I tried booting up with no tsr's but some are needed to run the cdrom
which some of my games are on.  

Does this sound like an odd problem or what?  anyway, please email me if
you can help..

thanx in advance..

-tim


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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 19:24:31 -0500 (EST)
From: CHESSON@SCSUD.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject: panic

Hi all-
I know that this has probably been covered before, but after checking everything
I could, I still cannot find an answer to this problem:
Is there a way to get Future Crew's demo, "Panic", to work with the GUS? The 
documentation that came with the 3.59 disks says that SBOS will work with it.
However, after trying this, I still get no sound. Is there any way to get it
to work?

Daniel Chesson [chesson@scsu.ctstateu.edu]

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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 15:54:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Angeles <jangeles@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: System Shock CD and GUS 2nd level

On 10 Mar 1995, Christian 'Kiki'Schmitz wrote:

> I just bought the System Shock CD. After patching it with the usail310  
> drivers I got sound and fx's in the intro and in the first level and  
> everything worked great. But after entering the second level the music  
> stops after 5 seconds. Does anyone has an idea how to fix this problem, or  
> does Looking Glass have released a patch like they promised in the readme.
> 

I've experienced this problem myself. If I can recall, I warned GUSsers 
who use this patch will need to copy the THM?.XMI (the question mark 
represents a number from 1 to 10) files from the /sound/sblaster directory 
to the /sound/genmidi directory. This should solve your problem. Worked 
for me...

Good luck, and happy GUSsing.

Jeff Angeles - Original Poster of the System Shock CD Fix for GUS

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