GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 31 Oct 94 12:29 PST     Volume 15: Issue  25 

Today's Topics:
					   Earth Siege - Metal Tech
							GUS & Pentium?
				  GUS Daily Digest V15 #24 (2 msgs)
				Lands of the Lore with GUS - SOLUTION
						Latest FAQ Version...
						Metaltech - Earthsiege
			   propats 3 will be available for two days
							 ProPats????
					UltraSound Experience Patches

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: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 13:25:34 -800 (PST)
From: Matt Bachand <raistlin@cts.com>
Subject: Earth Siege - Metal Tech
Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.90.941030132317.1888A-100000@crash.cts.com>

I have not succesfully got GUS sound from this also. It tests fine, but 
then i get an error message that immediately clears the screen after, so 
I paused it on it, and it is a bunch of error codes. I tried it on my 
Friends machine w/Gus and same problem. I also read someone else has this 
problem. It seems common. I am surprised Dynamix let Gus support on this 
one, and didn't just delete or hide the gus code until they got it 
working. I think they will be hearing a lot of complains about this one. 
Lets hope the HMI drivers are perfect, and it is coding error on 
Dynamix's fault. BTW< i am running on ALL default settings.

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 17:19:19 -0600 (CST)
From: ST4FX@Jetson.UH.EDU
Subject: GUS & Pentium?

I just got a pentium, and was listening to some of my MIDI files, but they
sound kinda strange now. I think they sounded better on my old 386 (I didn't
get the screeching notes). I've been using playmidi to play the files, anyone
have the same kind of experience and have fixed it?

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 13:29:54 -0500
From: AdvGravis@aol.com
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #24

Wing Commander III uses the HMI drivers and has support for the GUS and the
MAX.

If you would like to purchase the UltraSound Experience CD ROM, which
contains 40 minutes of digital audio and over 100 megabytes of additional
bonus software, you can call (604) 431-5020, ext. 1095. I think the price is
$6.95 but don't quote me.

Dark Sun II indicated native GUS support (in both the CD and floppy
versions), but because the game needs in excess of over 600K conventional
memory free, and they are using UltraMid, it is a pain to use (CD ROM users
cannot copy the drivers anyways). Use MegaEM, which works perfectly fine.

Anyone out there have Armoured Fist? We thought Nova Logic was including a
special version of SBOS (ala Commanche). Can someone please confirm or deny
this for me?

If you are talking about games with GUS support, please indicate whether or
not it is a game demo or actual game. Most demos use outdated sound drivers
and I do not want to confuse the issue.

Thanks!

Bryan

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 11:07:40 +1100 (EDT)
From: rorr@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard Peter ORR)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #24

> 
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 12:32:30 -0500 (CDT)
> From: ST4SI@Jetson.UH.EDU
> Subject: Desert Strike answer...
> 
> Here is what I have done with Desert Strike...
> 
> Turn OFF all sound Blaster support with Megaem and Emuset... It will load 
> the game, but the sound is compelety messed up! It is just one constant
> sound... Dont know why...

Just use the short sustain flag - ie. emuset -ss
This will kill that annoying sound after 1 second.

> 
> Other Question: I have heard that the NEW Dark Sun (II) will not work
> with the GUS.. Has anyone tried... is there Native support like Dark Sun I or
> do you need to use an emulator? Which one?

Uses 8-bit Miles drivers - works great.

> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 94 19:22:12 MET
> From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
> Subject: HMI drivers && Magic Carpet ROCKS and supports GUS
> 
>   Just like the demo of Nascar racing, which also uses the HMI-
> drivers, it fails to set up the GUS as midi. I ask again; is there a
> way to load the gus's memory to work with these new HMI-drivers ?

The HMI midi drivers require 'loadpats' to be run first. Dark legions V1.1
provided Loadpats V1.9 - I don't know if this new version is required for
HMI or not.

> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 11:15:30 -0500 (EST)
> From: Timothy B Martin <Xeltar+@CMU.EDU>
> Subject: WC III Question...
> 
> Excerpts from GUS DIGEST: 29-Oct-94 by AdvGravis@aol.com  
> > We took a look at Wing Commander III, and all I can say is WOW! I ran the
> > demo on a machine with 16 megs of RAM and it worked awesome! (wonder how it
> > would work on my own 4 meg machine..sigh). This game is a sight to behold.
> > What a super job Origin has done.
> 
> 
> do you mean to say that it has GUS support? If so, what kind? REAL
> NATIVE? or ultramid or megaem or 32ail...non of those are REAL NATIVE if
> you ask me!  Real native is when i don't have to run anything but the
> install proggy and the WC3.EXE!!!!!!
> 

It uses HMI drivers - so really all you should need to do is run 'loadpats'
before running the game.

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 19:14:37 -0800 (PST)
From: George!!! <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Lands of the Lore with GUS - SOLUTION

There is a file called LOLSOUND.ZIP by Marc Paulin, aka Jurassic Mark, 
that replaces the current setup file with a new one that allows you to 
select multiple sound cards, making it possible to use both Roland Sound 
Canvas and Sound Blaster configurations.

I don't know where LOLSOUND is right now, but I'll see if I can FTP it to 
the EPAS tomorrow (MOnday).

-George

<EOT>

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 16:26:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Latest FAQ Version...

I was finally able to get onto wuarchive.wustl.edu, and was able to 
upload the FAQ there.  I will try to find more places to send it as well, 
but it will always be available there (I know it's really tough to get on 
to, but it's a start).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu
University of Maryland at College Park
To quote IBM: "Think"

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 16:33:59 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mark T. Heintz" <mheintz@csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Metaltech - Earthsiege

> Im a little disappointed though. Yes it has GUS  support using the HMI 
> drivers but when you have GUS selected the game doesnt run. The strange 
> thing is when you test the sound selection the sound plays fine. If i 
> select soundblaster or no sound the game functions fine.
> 
> Has anyone had a similar problem??  i would have to put it down to a bug 
> in the HMI drivers.! arrgh!

I have the exact same problem, just as you explained it...  Dynamix tech 
support wasn't much help...  I'm still looking for a solution...  I hope 
this problem isn't present in Wind Commander III...

Mark Heintz
mheintz@csd.uwm.edu

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 22:12:27 -0600 (CST)
From: Antonio Guia <guia@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: propats 3 will be available for two days

Since i cannot fullfil my promise to put the propats collection on epas, i
will set up an ftp site on monday night called polim.ph-th.umanitoba.ca
and on that site i will put the entire collection of propats 3 for two
days before the site goes down again.  This way i will still make the
files available to all by tuesday as per my word, just a change of site
address since epas is complaining about no more disk space.  

to get propats3, ftp to

polim.ph-th.umanitoba.ca

enter anonymous username, etc...   

this site will be available monday night until probably wednesday night or
thursday morning.  

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 22:03:41 -0600
From: lala@interaccess.com (Imre Olajos)
Subject: ProPats????

I just tried to download ProPats 3 from the EPAS FTP-site. The first 9
packages came thru without a problem, but all other ZIP files came thru
as corrupted. I tried to download #14 again (this being the smallest
file), but same result.

Will the person who uploaded them please upload them again (all
parts from #9-#18) ? 

Thank You,


Imre OLAJOS, Jr. (LaLa of TranSByte)
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 19:08:24 -0800 (PST)
From: George!!! <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: UltraSound Experience Patches

> The custom patches on the UltraSound Experience CD were a brite piano 
(500k).

Hmm... anyone know the FTP site that contains this?  Or can someone 
please upload it to EPAS?  I cannot to download it from the GUS BBS 
since it is not a local number.  8-(

Thanks,
-George

<EOT>

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