GUS Daily Digest            Sat, 18 Feb 95  9:37 PST     Volume 19: Issue  18 

Today's Topics:
                               Aladdin
                              descent...
                       DX4,QEMM AND THE GUS MAX
                     FS: GUS 1meg memory upgrade
                      Lucas Art's email address:
                           Mortal Kombat 2
                    parity RAM req'd for the MAX?
                       Random Comments and Help
               Win '95 incompatibilities with QEMM(?)!

Standard Info:
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 12:59:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Bachand <raistlin@cts.com>
Subject: Aladdin
Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.950217125834.2124A-100000@crash.cts.com>

ONce I realized Aladdin and LionKing were just like the Genesius 
versions, i went out and bought them and are impressed. EXCEPT aladdin 
doesn't have GUS support, LionKing Does, so it looksl ike the future 
games will, but I REALLY would like to get aladdins sound to work. If 
therea re any patches or whatnot, please say so. Thank you.

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 12:09:06 -0700 (MST)
From: "Ignatius Tam" <itam@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: descent...

Forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 22:13:26 -0400
> From: j5oa@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Craig Galbraith)
> Subject: Descent and GUS (yeah, I know...)
> 
> I know this has been asked many times already but I haven't been able to get

> this game to work with my GUS.
> 
did you get v1.1? v1.1 works really fine for me (even in os/2)

> 
> I have tried sbos and it gives some library error which messes up my screen 
> and locks on my machine. I tried megaem, lockup.  
there's no point to use sbos and megaem here, remember it's a dpmi client?

> 
> Is there some special config that magically works for everybody?
no, can use any irq, dma, etc...
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 95 10:44:04 GMT
> From: hickinl@VNET.IBM.COM
> Subject: SimCity 2000
> 
> This may well be old news but I am trying to get SC2000 to work with my
> newly acquired GUSMAX. In the sound dir there are a bunch of .DLL files for

goto any full archive and get ail32xx.zip (xx is a number) and install
over sc2000.  this is the 32bit ail drivers.

-iGnatius

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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 16:05:04 +0000 (GMT)
From: Grimshaw <G.R.Grimshaw@helios.herts.ac.uk>
Subject: DX4,QEMM AND THE GUS MAX

Ever since I upgraded to a Intel DX4, I've had no luck getting 
MEGAEM to install while running QEMM 7.5. Is QEMM & the GUS MAX a deadly
combination?

George
   csd3bm@herts.ac.uk

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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 11:31:37 EST
From: jvoge@teleng.eng.telxon.com (Jon Vogel)
Subject: FS: GUS 1meg memory upgrade

I have the 768K worth of RAM chips to upgrade the original GUS to 1meg.
Make an offer... I'll guarantee against DOA.

Getting off the subject, anyone know where I can get another Mitsumi
audio cable?  I hacked the original one to fit my old GUS, and now
I'd like an original one to fit my new GUS-MAX.

Cheers,
Jon

-- 
Jon Vogel
jvoge@telxon.com

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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 12:24:23 +0200
From: m@mjf.pp.fi (Mika Fonsen)
Subject: Lucas Art's email address:

        Someone said that the incoming Dark Forces wouldn't have a GUS
support. I decided to post their address here, so you all can mail to them.

        75300.454@compuserve.com (Jason Deadrich)
        Lucasart1@aol.com
        Lucasarts@genie.geis.com
--- __  __   ______                                         __  __   ______
   /  \/  \ | ____/ :          ,   : Mika Fonsen      :    /  \/  \ | ____/
  / /\__/\ \| |__   : Mika Fonsen  : Kaukonpolku 4b14 :   / /\__/\ \| |__
 / /      \ \  _/   : f@mjf.pp.fi  : FI-04200 KERAVA  :  / /      \ \  _/
 \/  OS/2  \/_|     :              : Finland          :  \/  GUS!  \/_|

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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 06:53:58 +1100 (EST)
From: Paul Conroy <tetsuo@daemon.apana.org.au>
Subject: Mortal Kombat 2

MK2 works fine with the Gus.. 
Firstly it only accepts IRQ's up to 10! As mine was 11 I had to make a 
GUS batchfile that changed it to 2, loaded Ultramid, ran the game, then 
changed the IRQ back to 11 for normal use.. No memory problems here. The 
game used to crash now and again, even under a SB16 (sounds awful tho').. 
Now with IRQ-2 and GUS it seems to work well..

My batch file:

@SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,2,5
@E:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT.EXE -dj
cd \games\mk2
lh ultramid -c -m80
lh E:\GAMES\MK2\MK2.EXE
@SET ULTRASND=220,1,1,11,5

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 18:20:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Felix Ng <fng@cyberstore.ca>
Subject: parity RAM req'd for the MAX?

Does the GUS MAX require NMI enabled or RAM with parity in order
to use SBOS like the GUS?

Felix
--
Felix Ng - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada                          
fng@cyberstore.ca / Fax: 604-322-5936 / VE7YDG / D.G.I.F. #8767

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 12:42:23 -0600
From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin)
Subject: Random Comments and Help

Hey Y'all,

To the guy with no Descent sound:
        Do you have Descent v1.1? An older version had problems with GUS's
w/ more than 512KB of RAM (I think.) It worked perfectly for me w/
220,5,5,11,7.

To the guy with the CD Error:
        Since both drivers load i concurr that the connections are fine,
etc. Try this: when wou switch to the E: drive, wait about 20 seconds. Then
type "dir". Sometimes drives take a bit of time before they are ready to
read data.

To everyone:
        Seems a lot of people have prob's with QEMM. I never did trust those
damn things; my DOS philosphy is KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). If
necessary, make a boot menu. The less crap loaded, the better. A lot of
games don't even need EMS anymore, and many PMODE games will run with only
590KB free. Often its not necessary to have 631KB free...

To Win95er's:
        Does Mega-Em or SBOS work in Win95's DOS sessions? How is the DOS
GUS sound? Don't worry about trying to get the Win31 drivers to work, Gravis
will make drivers for Win95. (Why, it Windows, everyone wants Windows!) Also
i tend to agree with whoever mentioned the incompatability possibilities
between Win95 and QEMM.

Later.
                                                  Baskin -)
                                                  The University of Texas at 
                                                  Austin
                                                  Team OS/2

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 14:39:15 -0500 (EST)
From: rjm@dciem.dnd.ca (Robert Manley)
Subject: Win '95 incompatibilities with QEMM(?)!

Mike Batchelor <M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net> wrote:
> Subject: QEMM, GUS, Win95, etc...
> 
> Not the GUS Server once wrote...
> > 
> [...bunch of stuff about QEMM and Win95 beta...by several people...]
> 
> Having worked for Qdeck previously, I can say with 99.999% certainty that
> Quarterdeck has Win95 already, and as soon as Win95 is an official released
> product, there will be a new QEMM release that will address the
> incompatibilities.  No doubt there will also be a new EMM386 as well.  
> 
> As a guess, the symptoms that have been described for failure with the
> GUS+QEMM+Win95 combinations all sound like a problem with the way Win95 beta
> handles drivers that do DMA, of which the grvsultr.386 is one.  That EMM386
> also has the same problem is a tip-off.  Both memory managers have to have
> hooks that allow Windows to take over the machine.  Change the way Windows
> takes over the machine, and the old memory manager's hooks no longer work. 
> As you know, Win95 has some significant changes to the ways it does memory
> management.
> 
> It's a similar problem to the occasional MegaEm error "Incompatible EMM."
> 
> And don't hold your breath about running absolutely everything in a Win95
> window.  Don't toss your memory manager registration until a version of
> Windows comes out that doesn't even boot msdos.sys, io.sys, config.sys,
> autoexec.bat, etc... Until that happens, it's still good ol' DOS.

I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, but this is unbelieveable!
I thought the whole point of Win95 was to get rid of these annoying
memory manager problems and run everything in flat protected address
space like every other real OS does.  If those in the know expect
these kinds of "features" to still be present at GA, then my advice
to everyone on this list is to rush out to the store and get your Warp
now before the demand overwhelms the supply even worse than it does now!

As for fully functional Win95 drivers, maybe Gravis will finally get
their act together and remove the VxD (.386) allowing them to operate
better in that environment and also inside OS/2.

Robert.
-- 
# Robert J. Manley,  NEW: rjm@dciem.dnd.ca        #
# NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA      #
# OS/2:OSs :: 92,93 Blue Jays:MLB :: Canada:World #

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