GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 27 Mar 94  9:37 PST     Volume 11: Issue  51 

Today's Topics:
					   GUS & TFX? Please help!
					  GUS and Windows, MPEG, ...
				  I'm not getting my daily digests!
						 Megaem with Novell 7
						   Ravenloft & Gus
					  ULTRAMID problem...Sigh...

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: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 14:05:00 -0500
From: calvid@rpi.edu (David J. Calvin)
Subject: GUS & TFX? Please help!

Please help!  I cannot get TFX to work with my GUS.  I got the two patches and
installed them, so now GUS at least appears on the config menu.  I picked it,
with no music, but when I typed TFX it said the following:

Loading....TFX Spawn Error

Never had that happen before.  I tried it with many different memory configs,
still no good.  I tried with no SFX or music, worked fine.  I tried megaem, it
says things like alloc: init and kicks me out.  I tried Sbos -x4 and the music
worked fine (fine for SB that is) but there was absolutely no sound effects
during the game.  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks for the help!

--
Dave Calvin                | May the Force be with you! - Obi Wan
calvid@rpi.edu             | Live Long and Prosper! - Spock
Computer Engineering - `97 | You've got no arms left! - King Arthur
PGP key available by finger                              GUS Rules!

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 22:29:08 +0800 (PST)
From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
Subject: GUS and Windows, MPEG, ...

First, nobody seems to have an answer for the .AVI slowdown caused by the
GUS in Windows.  Well, I guess its due to bad programming.  Supposedly, it
was made BETTER in the lateset Windows drivers.  Sigh...

PC Magazine actually stopped to say something NOT negative about the GUS. 
It has MPEG sound compression support.  It does?  Does that mean we can by
a card like the ReelMagic and have MPEG sound output from the GUS?

And, is there any drivers or something that makes the GUS Microsoft Sound
System 2.0 compatible?  I would really like to pick up the VR and
Text-to-Speech software, since the GUS doesn't have any.  But I don't know
if it will work...

And, now there's the new release of the GUS Rev 3.7 and the GUS MAX, with
improvements such as complete hardware mixing with Line-IN and Microphone
volume controls.  While it may be trivial to others, I would like to have
this option.  I don't need 16-bit recording, so buying the daughtercard
isn't an option.  Is there some sort of exchange-upgrade from Gravis for
their die-hard GUS Rev. 2.2 owners?  Yup, the ones who bought it very
early and supported it until the end?  I really don't want to go through
the hassle of trying to SELL the outdated version, then buying the new one...

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 94 11:20:15 PST
From: ebulalacao@csupomona.edu
Subject: I'm not getting my daily digests!

How come I'm not getting new digests every day?  Now, I get it like every 3
or 4 days.  What's going on with the digests?

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 18:53:38 -0800 (PST)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Re: Megaem with Novell 7

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
$  
$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Fri, 25 Mar 94 22:54:23 CST
$  From: Daniel A Nielsen <dnielsen@ria-emh2.army.mil>
$  Subject: Movell 7 and Megaem
$  
$  Megaem says I should report the following error on Novell 7:
$  
$  ERROR:  EMM incompatibility problem:  EMM internal structure is not recognized.
$  
$  What to do now?

Send Jayeson Lee-Steere at Gravis a copy of Novell 7.  The only way he can
support it is if he has a copy for testing.  You can ask that they obtain
their own copy, but unless you are the upteenth person to ask them about
it, I wouldn't hold my breath.  Jayeson's a nice guy, though, I am sure he
will add support if he has a copy, so I am not kidding when I suggest that
you buy him one and send it along.  That is probably the quickest way to
get support.


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Mike Batchelor      | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux
mikebat@netcom.com  | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU
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Q:  What machine does Windows/NT run best on?

A:  A 35mm slide projector.

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 94 19:29:06 CST
From: umcoyne0@cc.umanitoba.ca
Subject: Ravenloft & Gus

I have Ravenloft and have also tried using it with the GUS.

I ran the file SOUND.BAT, which purports to set up the game for use with
GUS.  First, I copied over the Roland and SBDIG .DLL drivers with the GUS
ones, ran LOADPATS, and then ran SOUND.BAT.  I was then able to select a
G-Midi device and the SB for digital FX.  It detected them and I now run
LOADPATS and then RLOFT.BAT before playing the game, and it works fine
(the music does anyway).  However, going into _Create Characters_ kills
the music.

Another thing; this game is _very_ buggy.  I don't know if it's the GUS or
not (haven't tried turning it off), but whenever I try to talk to the NPC
who is outside, the game hangs with "Invalid Code" or something similar. 
When I talk to the NPC on that old road, the game _goes BACK OUT to the
introduction_ and replays the introduction.  When the intro finishes (or
if I abort with ESC), it then goes back to the game, and the conversation
seems to be over.  Then if I walk around a little more and fight a bit, it
will eventually hang, with a blank screen, and continue playing the music.
 So either SSI has released a slightly buggy product, or the GUS .DLL
drivers are buggy....


Michael
[RISC version of .SIG follows to save bandwidth]
umcoyne0@cc.umanitoba.ca
University of Manitoba
Computer Engineering III

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 22:26:11 +0800 (PST)
From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
Subject: ULTRAMID problem...Sigh...

Well, here's ANOTHER problem with the GUS.  ULTRAMID 1.08 has a bug with
patch caching-mainly, it doesn't.  For some reason, ULTRAMID -C doesn't
preload the patches like its supposed to.  Whats the latest version?

AAAAaand, to top it off, the GUS got another LOUSYLOUSY review in PC
Magazine.  My question is this: is the sound on the GUS really as bad as
it was reviewed?  I upgraded from an SB 1.0 to the GUS, so I can't
compare.  But it sounds like the quality of playback is cleaner and
crisper on practically every other sound card.  If it wasn't for the
wave-table synth on the GUS, I probably would have dumped it by now!

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