GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 15 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  14 

Today's Topics:
                         Band-In-A-Box w/ GUS
                        Hell & X-Com Problems
                    Midi-in not working in Windows
                                 XCOM

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, 15 Jan 1995 10:46:03 -0500
From: asimard@nrcan.gc.ca (Andre Simard)
Subject: Re: Band-In-A-Box w/ GUS

>Hi:
>
>I'm considering buying Band In A Box to use with my GUS.  Does anyone
>have any advice or comments about how well this works with the GUS.=20
>Is BIAB patch cache aware??  Will it even work? =20
>
Version 6.0 is not patch aware however version 6.03 is.  You can get the
update from compuserve or by standard mail.

Andre Simard          |  Andr=E9 Simard
NRCan, Mining Sector  |  RNCan, Secteur minier
asimard@NRCan.gc.ca   |  asimard@RNCan.gc.ca
Tel.: (613) 995-6512  |  Fax: (613) 952-7501

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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 01:11:30 -0800 (PST)
From: nullset@netcom.com (nullset)
Subject: Hell & X-Com Problems

> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 17:43:51 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
> Subject: MicroProse's X-COM -- help!
> 
> The setup for this game has the UltraSound listed for sound effects, but 
> only lists SB and Roland for music.  (I select SB).  Then I run SBOS, but 
> only get sound effects out of the game.  How do I get music as well?
> I tried mega-em, but of course, being the incompatible with 
> protected-mode game procrastinated only good for old games emulator it 
> is, it crashed.  Of course.
> 
> -Peter


Native GUS support in MPS's X-Com is _really_ poor. Supposedly, a patch 
is being worked on, but that's been mentioned by Microbugs, er, Prose, since
last summer. I wouldn't hold your breath.

I never got it to work with my GUSMAX at all. Good luck.

Alvin M.
nullset@netcom.com


> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 14:56:25 +0100
> From: SIMEN LOKEN HAAGENRUD <SIMENLHA@sofus.hiof.no>
> Subject: No music in HELL!
> 
> Hi folks.
> 
> I've got some problems with Hell, if you know what I mean (not THE 
> Hell, but with the game Hell, of course). I can't get any music in 
> the game with my gus. If I choose SB+Roland I get music, but the 
> soundeffects and speech is VERY bad. I kinds of jumps. So that is not 
> an option. Anyway, the game do have a gus-choice in the setup. But it 
> doesn't seem like the midi-music is intepreted with GUS.
> 
> Anyone else got the same problem? And do anyone know of a solution?
> 
> Simen Haagenrud
> Viking
> Real

I had the same problem with jumpy or skipping digital voices in Hell.
So did my girlfriend who has the same card. My workaround: well, I have 
an SB compatible soundcard, and I use that for the digital FX. As for 
music, I run MEGAEM with the -SBOFF option. 

Alvin M.
nullset@netcom.com

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 00:11:21 GMT
From: jase@nedlog.demon.co.uk (Jason Nedlog)
Subject: Midi-in not working in Windows

Hi,

I have been very happy with my GUS (especially now that games are supporting
it natively). Recently though, after system changes, MIDI-IN stopped working
from Windows.

I have a 512k GUS (quite an early version) and I have built the MIDI
connector as described in these digests yonks ago.

Everything (including MIDI-IN) used to work perfectly on my old system:
  DOS 5, Windows 3.1
  386sx-16 2Mb
  V2.05 of GUS disks.

Recently I bought a new system:
  Viglen PCI P66 8Mb Stealth64
  Dos 6.2, Windows 3.11
  V3.56 of GUS disks (ftp'd in november)

All gus functions (wav and midi) appear to work perfectly from both DOS and
Windows except MIDI-IN which does nothing.

However I suspect that I can reject hardware/connector/wiring failure as if I
use the midifier.exe, MIDI-IN works OK.

So if MIDI-IN works under DOS, why would it fail under Windows?

MIDI-OUT works under Windows.

I have tried removing 3.56 of GUS software and installing the original 2.05
instead, but this makes no difference!

I have the gus configured as 220,6,6,11,5 and I have entered these details
into the ICU (intel configuration utility) plag and play wotsit.
The control panel settings for the gravis midi port drivers alse
appear to be correct.

Has anybody else had just MIDI-IN not work?

Help!

Jase.

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Jason Dore  -  jase@nedlog.demon.co.uk




-- 
Jason Nedlog

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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 11:16:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harry C Pulley <hpulley@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: XCOM

For XCOM, I use maxsbos and it sounds great!  I select soundblaster for 
both sound effects and music.  I can't run XCOM with maxsbos and emm386 
at the same time or else my machine just reboots.  Other than that it 
works great.

Harry

<:-{}   hpulley@uoguelph.ca       |This message released|It takes all kinds,
 \      Harry C. Pulley, IV       |to the PUBLIC DOMAIN.|and to each his own.
 ---------------------------------+---------------------|This thought in mind,
Ultra-Violence with Ultrasound    |     Ultraverse      |I walk alone.

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