Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sun Jun 20 00:07     Volume 4: Issue  20  

Today's Topics:
						AIL: battlechess 4000
					Day of the Tentacle with SBOS
							   Hello...
						  MIDI file request
								xwing

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, 20 Jun 93 0:49:41 CDT
From: Michael J Stumpf <mjs7529@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Subject: AIL: battlechess 4000
Message-ID: <9306200549.AA15116@tamsun.tamu.edu>

Quick note to say the ail drivers work with battle chess 4000, but after
a bit the Digital Audio cuts out, I'm assuming because of the bug Mr. Smith
found.

Post the games that these drivers work/sound good with..

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 12:06:19 +0300 (EET DST)
From: J Juhana Enqvist <jenqvist@cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Day of the Tentacle with SBOS
Message-ID: <199306190906.AA23820@kruuna.helsinki.fi>

>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 15:43:44 -0500
>From: "A. Jeff" <eleeas7@Menudo.UH.EDU>
>Subject: day of the tentacle
>Message-ID: <199306182043.AA28117@Menudo.UH.EDU>
>
>Has anyone found out how to prevent day of the tentacle from locking up?
>
>It has prince of persia - like symptoms, it goes a while perfectly and
>then locks up, but it locks at different points in the intro.

I had a little fight with that, it took me about an hour to find out a
perfectly working configuration. What I noticed is that it refused to
work with QEMM, so here' my config (the relevant parts of it).

DOS = HIGH,UMB

DEVICE = C:\SYS\UMB_DRVR.SYS /C=09 (subst with whatever chipset you have)
DEVICEHIGH = C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS

and then anything you like, such as disk cache, mous driver etc.

And SBOS seemed to need -x2 and -o2 switches.

With this configuration, it has never locked up and I've almost played
it thru now. Great game!

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 17:06:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Siu-fung Lee <umlee182@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: Hello...
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9306191744.A7001-b100000@ccu.umanitoba.ca>

Just thought I'd say,"Howdy!" to all the folks out there in GUSLand.

I just got my Ultrasound, and have been play and testing for the last few
days.  As of yesterday, I have read thru everything available on the FTP
sites.  Didn't know Ultrasound is so popular already!

Ah, well I have read through the FAQ, but I still have a couple of nagging
questions hopefully someone can help me with (it's hard to be patient with
a new toy!... ah music studio :) ).

1)  How can I check the amount of mem on my GUS?  I've installed some dram
from my old add-on memory board (I think the dram is fast enough...) to
the GUS.  So now I should have 1 meg.  I tried to use audio.exe and
playdigi.exe (v 1.21), using the -a and then -g parms, but it doesn't seem
keep my loaded test .snd files (200+ K) for more than one play.
I don't know of any other ways to check.

2) This question concerns audio.exe and playdigi.exe (related to #1).
Whenever I used -a and -g parms I also noticed that there is a "skip" in
the music in the first second or so, altho the original doesn't have it
(and doesn't show up when I just use playdigi without -a and -g).  I
followed the manual (a big help, haha! :> ), and used the memory
parameters "properly" I think.

I have tested my setup (IRQ, base address, etc.), made a plain boot disk
using himem, ramdrive and mouse as my only TSR's.

Ah, a third question... I sent my registration card (to the site in BC
Canada, since I live in the little town of Winnipeg), and I read about
having to send a proof of purchase or something or other?  I hope not
(please, please, please no)!

Ack!

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Date: 19 Jun 93 16:23:00 EST
From: "Joseph R. Granto"  <GLOCK@chip.cba.ufl.edu>
Subject: MIDI file request
Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.930619162300.320@chip.cba.ufl.edu>

For all those who have the new GUS disks:

I deleted my favorite .mid file, and do not have the disks anymore.
Nor do I want to go through the download from EPAS and install all
over again routine.

Could someone please email me the file HIDNSEEK.MID?  I am unsure of
the length, but my mail system can probably handle it.  If not,
please uuencode and break it down.

Another option is to load this file to EPAS or WUARCHIVE.  This file
is not at either site; ARCHIE says it is available in Taiwan, but
when I downloaded it I found that it is corrupted.


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Joe Granto                                      GLOCK@chip.cba.ufl.edu

"When the going gets tough, the tough get a GLOCK!"
	--Guns & Ammo
"Don't clock'em, GLOCK'em!"
	--Miami Dade police officer
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 02:52:42 -0700
From: dross@ultrix4.csubak.edu (Dean Ross-Smith)
Subject: xwing
Message-ID: <9306190952.AA13013@ultrix4.csubak.edu>

ok folks, here's an idea- for all those complaining about X-wing not working-
check to see if your setup is recommended by Gravis- ie TAKE OUT STACKER!
A couple of you guys have said that X-Wing doesn't work and then ramble on that
your configuration contains stacker 3.0, which i thought Gravis said was a
no-no.  [Hey Gunnar Swanson- do you run stacker?]  Anyway, Other things
that might be tried are running your pc with out the disk cache and see if
that makes a difference...
l8r
Dean Ross-Smith {dross@ultrix4.csubak.edu}

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