GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 28 Mar 94  9:37 PST     Volume 11: Issue  52 

Today's Topics:
				 16 bit d/card availability in U.K.?
					  Diamond Stealth PRO & GUS
							DOOM problems
					  EPIC Pinball; Errant Sound
					  General MIDI set (11 #45)
				 Getting MEGA-EM and LOL CD to work?
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #43
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #49
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #50
					 GUS Max?  MIDI: DOS, Windows
						  Hiss in recordings
							instrgrps.ini
				 My MIDI won't come back :( (V11 #45)
				  New motherboard solved problems...
				   OPTI motherboards are crazy(!?)
						   Stealth and Gus

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 15:12:08 +0100
From: Stefan <S.Magdalinski@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: 16 bit d/card availability in U.K.?

Subject says nearly all
Supplier?
Cost?

Thanks for the help

Stefan.

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 09:30:31 CST
From: mcavity@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject: Diamond Stealth PRO & GUS

I am having problems with the diamond stealth pro and the gravis card
every once in a while [but way to much] my card's video mode is blown..
If I can swich video modes it usuly come back but it is not a "testable"
problem.. it does not do it to specific graphics modes..
If anyone has any ides let me know at Mcavity@panam.edu
Thanks..

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 09:27:05 EST
From: phaedrus%triples@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Phong Co)
Subject: DOOM problems

I've just installed the new drivers from gus0041.  I renamed my old
ULTRASND to ULTRASND.OLD, and had it install into the [now empty]
ULTRASND.  Afterwards I fiddled with the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT a
little bit, just moving some lines around (ie., since my ULTRASND
dir is on a stacked drive, I had to load STACKER befor ULTRINIT.SYS).
It boots OK (no obvious crap outs), but now DOOM does not play
music.  I have a batch file which changes the IRQ from 11 to 7, then
runs DOOM.  This has always worked in the past, but now only gives
me the effects.

Secondly, I can't play MIDI files under DOS (haven't tried under
Windows yet).  PLAYMIDI gets a DOS error.  

Thirdly (though this is less serious than the other two), what's
with the MOD player?  I liked the old GUSMOD, it showed more info,
and also lets you select a new file without quitting.  Is the old
one still included, or do I have to [re]get it from epas?

I don't fiddle with my Ultrasound stuff much, usually just load
things up the way they're meant to.  I'm probably missing something
simple.  And yes, I did read the README file!

Thanks!



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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 94 12:19:39 PST
From: ksoule@tatertot.com (Kent E. Soule)
Subject: EPIC Pinball; Errant Sound

I have noticed a slight problem with EPIC Pinball (which ships 
as Bonus Software with the GUS Rev. 3.7 card).  There are two 
major sound tracks in the program; the one that plays while you 
are going through the introductory material, and the one that 
plays while the game is actually being played.

I have found that when the program starts (intro mode), while 
the music is playing there is a random solid tone about every 
10 seconds. Short duration, perhaps 3/4 of a second.  It 
continues every 10 seconds or so, until the game mode starts.  
No problems in the game mode.  Further, if after being in game 
mode, I return to the intro/setup mode, the theme plays fine 
WITHOUT the random note.

It occurs to me that it is possibly a patch loading problem.  
Comments anyone?  Phat?

Thanks,

Kent



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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 10:53:06 GMT+100
From: "Viktor" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
Subject: Re: General MIDI set (11 #45)

> From: Sesterhenn Steven J <ssesterh@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: General MIDI set
> 
> To all who know,
>     I bought my GUS in June of 1993, have rev2.4 and install disks
> 2.06_.  Does anyone know if this is the set that came with the full
> General MIDI compliant set of patches?  Someone mentioned that 2.06

> the 2.06 disk updates on FTP and they are dated May 93.  Does anyone
> know for sure if I have them, or a way to check for that matter?

To solve this problem go and get install 3.1.
New patches, full release.

>     Thanks for any and all help,
>     Steve Sesterhenn
 
						Viktor

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				|   Viktor F.                            |
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				|  s5027feh@sun10.vsz.bme.hu             |
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Date: 28 Mar 94 08:51:30 EST
From: "Carl"  <CARL@BUSOP.CIT.WAYNE.EDU>
Subject: Getting MEGA-EM and LOL CD to work?

Well I've asked everyone I could think of about getting MEGA-EM to
work with Lands of Lore CD, including Gravis (no answer from
jayeson@gravis.com or tech1@gravis.com), Virgin/Westwood software
(they answered promptly, but didn't know. The tech admitted that the
GUS was the best sounding card out there, and he didn't know why they
weren't supporting it natively, hmm).

The thing is, the music and voices work GREAT for the Introduction.
It sounds, really, really nice.  No problems at all.  But as soon as
you "Start a new game", the voices are all messed up.  The music
continues to work correctly, but the voices sound-sound like-like
this-this.  The voices loop and are generally very messed up and
incomprehensible.

Can anyone help?  I tried all the switches I know of.  It even does
this with SBOS as well.  This is very frustrating and I don't want to
have to take this game back.

Other products from Westwood seem to work fine with MEGA-EM (Kyrandia
II works beautifully)

Help!

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 11:52:00 PST
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org ("James M. Blakely")
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #43

Paul Murgatroyd said...
> >
> > Will the Gus function with pure Windows? And if so, what programs will
> > function properly with Gus and Windows?
>
> My advice....forget about Windows 4.0! If you want to get rid of dos, then
> OS/2 is the way to go. I was introduced to OS/2 two weeks ago, and liked
> it so much that I deleted Windows off my hard drive (OS/2 will run all my
> Windows and dos apps).

Well, except for one small..teeny tiny little thing...

*NONE* of the major developers are developing applications for OS/2.

*ALL* of the major developers (and several thousand smaller ones) are 
developing Win32 applications, which will run under Windows 4.0 and Windows 
NT, but, alas, too bad, not under OS/2.

And, as has already been pointed out, Chicago (a/k/a Windows 4.0) will 
support existing Windows 3.1 device drivers, soooooo...

Oh, and it also has a "Single MS-DOS Application Mode" where you can run an 
MS-DOS app, such as a game, that violates the "rules". It'll be interesting 
to see whether SBOS & Mega-Em will run in this mode (they should).

+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Jim Blakely, MCP                    | Co-Author of                      |
| Blakely-Signature Associates        | "Windows Configuration Secrets"   |
| Bonita Springs, Florida, USA        | with Valda Hilley                 |
|                                     | Coming in May '94 from IDG Books  |
| A Microsoft Solution Provider       | ISBN 1-56884-026-8                |
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 13:32:32 GMT+100
From: "Viktor" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #49

[...]
> > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 08:24:41 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Rath <cllym@ucdavis.edu>
> > Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #39
> > 
> > RE: DOOM DIGITAL SOUNDS
> > 
> > YEAH!  I'm not getting digital sounds in doom either.  I thought it was 
> > just something I did wrong, so i fiddled with it for a few moments, but 
> > couldn't get it to work.  All i heard were a few pops from where the
> > digital was SUPPOSED to be...
> 
> Set both your GF1 and SB/MIDI IRQ to 7 or less (preferably less than 7).
> Doom doesn't properly support the high IRQs.
 
DOOM V1.2 both shareware and registered supports ALL IRQs (Also 11 = 
Default for GUS). If you don't want to change your setting you can 
ftp the 1.2 patch from ocf.unt.edu /pub/doom.

							Viktor
							

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				|   Viktor F.                            |
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				|  s5027feh@sun10.vsz.bme.hu             |
				|  (Technical University of Budapest)    |
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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 18:27:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #50

> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 11:13:14 -0500
> From: "Gregory K. Maier" <sg90b4yn@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
> Subject: Cant get any GUS sound with Ultima 8
> 
> I wish I could find the words to describe my anger and frustration.
> Oh, here, I found some...
> 
> I CAN'T GET ANY SOUND OUT OF THE GUS WITH U8!
> 
> 1. These are the files that look sound-related:
> ULTIMA8\AILXMI.DLL             18,568
> ULTIMA8\SOUND\SOUND.FLX        1,229,584
> ULTIMA8\SOUND\MUSIC.FLX        1,378,135
> ULTIMA8\SOUND\A16SBFM.DLL      18,568
> ULTIMA8\SOUND\A16MT32.DLL      13,191
> 
> 2. Setup History Iteration Table (SHIT)
> SBOS 3.08 - Hangs with params -x1, -x2, -x3, -o1, -o2, and no params

What about SBOS 3.8B?

> MEGAEM 2.03 - Hangs with params -mt, (no)-mt
>             - Haven't tried -RIRQ yet to see if that helps (I doubt
>               it will)

If the game uses protected mode or has its own memory manager, then
Mega-Em won't work.

> GUSAIL3214  - I tried renaming the A32... files to be called A16...
>               This made things worse - U8 exited with a gnarly error

The A16* at the beginning of the AIL drivers probably indicate that 
these are your run-of-the-mill AIL32 drivers.  Origin seems to love
using custom-modified drivers.

> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 20:40:40 -0800
> From: blarren@uclink.berkeley.edu (Bart Adam Larrenaga)
> Subject: SSI's Ravenloft and GUS
> 
> I just bought SSI's Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession.  Though it is supposed to
> support the GUS using the 32-bit drivers, it did not install them itself.  I
> did this manually, but the sound is erratic.  If the music doesn't play all of
> the patches in memory and crash, the digital sounds don't play.  Anybody else 
> tried this game?  IF so, did you get it to work?  How?

Just a suggestion:  Set both GUS IRQs (the GF1 and MIDI IRQs) to settings
less than 7 as protected mode drivers often have trouble with the
high IRQs.  Also, what version is loadpats?

Phat.

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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 18:23:57 -0500 (EST)
From: gt0074b@prism.gatech.edu (P.Chen)
Subject: GUS Max?  MIDI: DOS, Windows

  There have been a lot of posts referring to the GUS Max.
What's different between it and the standard GUS?  More memory?

  Another question:  The DOS MIDI player plays back MIDI
files much truer than the Windows Midisoft MIDI player. By
"truer" I mean that more of the original instruments are used.
Does the DOS player automatically conserve memory, an option 
which has to be manually set in Windoze?
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 08:38:04 TZ
From: Daryl James <darylj@microsoft.com>
Subject: Hiss in recordings

> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 13:06:19 EST
> From: Haroon Sheikh <hsasheik@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Hiss in recordings
>
> Why is it that no matter what sampling frequency that I record at, I always
> get a layer of hiss (noise) over the entire recording. I've tried all
> combinations (11KHz to 44KHz, stereo/mono and 8-bit).
> My setup is a portable CD player feeding into the LINE-IN of the GUS card.
> I've tried recording with playfile (v3.5), WaveLite and Goldwave with
> the same problem.

I too have the same problem.  Since I got the GUS I have tried 
recording using USS8 and the standard Sound Recorder Applet in Windows 
3.1, but my recordings all suffer from the same hiss.  I have also 
tried using Line-in and Microphone in, 3 different microphones (one mic 
from Windows Sound System, and the others were professional dynamic 
mics) all with mini stereo jacks- all of these produced a very 
distorted sound even before recording starts by just playing directly 
thru GUS using the Mixer applet. I have only been able to get the level 
high enough by using the headphones output from my CD player, but this 
too suffers from the background hiss when playing back the recording 
and seems unrelated to the input level.  I had basically written the 
problem off as either a faulty input jack or input amp on the GUS, or 
some mismatch with impedances and until recently I have ignored it 
since I love the other features of the GUS and have not needed to do 
any recording... Until NOW!

I want to use PatchMaker Lite and I need to be able to record decent 
mono samples!

Can someone please tell me what the input impedances/sensitivity are 
for the Line-In and Mic inputs?  I recall that the "Standard" for 
line-in is usually 1 volt into 600 ohms, but maybe it is something 
different in the GUS?

Any other ideas for tshooting this problem would be appreciated.

Daryl James (Sydney, Australia)
email: darylj@microsoft.com

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 11:49:32 +0200
From: johan linder <v92jl@hh.se>
Subject: instrgrps.ini

After I upgraded with gus0041.zip I got the following error
message when I start windows "cant find the file instrgrps.ini
in your path" What's wrong???
Johan Linder
v92jl@hh.se

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 11:05:16 GMT+100
From: "Viktor" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
Subject: Re: My MIDI won't come back :( (V11 #45)

Jason wrote:
 
> > Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 09:11:19 -0216 (GMT-2:16)
> > From: "J.Waghorn" <ts0jwa@orac.sunderland.ac.uk>
> > Subject: My MIDI won't come back :(
> > 
> > Since I upgraded to Winslows 3.11 and GUS Install 3.1, I've lost 
> the MIDI
> > in Windows. The .WAVs play fine, but I can't get .MIDs to play at
> > all. 

I had just the same problem.

> > 
> > So what should I be looking for in my config files ???

I couldn't find anything wrong by me in about 2-3 hours! So I just 
copied the previous version of ULTRASND.DRV (Date:01.03.93 
Length:80560 Bytes) to my WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdir over the new one 
and it works fine!

> > Jason 
					Viktor
					

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				|   Viktor F.                            |
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				|  s5027feh@sun10.vsz.bme.hu             |
				|  (Technical University of Budapest)    |
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 09:44:16 -0500 (EST)
From: "K.S. Holly" <u8843389@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: New motherboard solved problems...

I have had considerable trouble using my SB 2.0 and my GUS at the same 
time. You may ask, 'Then why bother with the SB?'.

Well, like others I have long since been fed up with SBOS. Megaem is good 
but still doesn't work every time i.e. NHL Hockey. So instead of bitching 
about it I picked up a used SB.

I just replaced my motherboard and now the GUS and SB co-exist PERFECTLY!
No fancy configs or autoexecs, no routing of one through the other, no 
hassles, none whatsoever. I let both setup programs do their thing and 
they run beautifully together.

Why am I telling you all this? To brag? NO! Just to let everyone know 
that despite the best and most generous efforts of everyone here to help 
each other with solutions to their problems (including all those that 
tried to help me), sometimes one person's solution will not work for 
someone else because the equipment is different. So keep this in mind 
when you consider flaming someone because they passed on a solution or 
complained about a problem but it didn't work for you or you never had 
the same problem.

If anyone is interested, the motherboard I am now using has the model 
number of PT-428 (manufacturer unknown at thos point) and uses the 
following chips:

UM82C491F-AC....direct-mapped cache controller w/ write back operation 
and fast-page DRAM controller, etc, etc

UM82C493F.....VESA controller for 3 VESA slots running up to 50mhz
			  (I thought the VESA standard only supported up to 40mhz?)


Kevin

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 17:26:42 GMT+100
From: "Viktor" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
Subject: OPTI motherboards are crazy(!?)

Hi folks!

I had an OPTI495-SLC motherboard (with 2 VL slots).
The FIRST time I plug in my GUS (3.3) SETGUS said:
 SBOS compatibility Test (IRQ x DMA 1) - Passed             
 MIDI IRQ x Test - Passed             
I set the IRQ-s to 11,7.
Doom v1.0 couldn't find my GUS so I changed them to 7,7.
And I tested my GUS with SETGUS: 
 SBOS compatibility Test (IRQ 7 DMA 1) - SB/Midi Irq Timeout
 MIDI IRQ 7 Test - SB/Midi Irq Timeout
I tried to change them back, but I couldn't get it work again. 
I changed my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT ==> still didn't work.
OK, I said it's not my fault and I brought the motherboard back to 
the store and got a new one. (Same type). And the SAME thing 
happened! First time ok :), than IRQ timeout :((. I didn't do
anything untill a got OPTIFIX.EXE.
I was explained that this file is not for this problem. But I tried 
it (it can't be worse I thought):
 SBOS compatibility Test (IRQ 7 DMA 1) - Bad dma data compare (read)
 SBOS compatibility Test (IRQ 7 DMA 1) - Busy (read)
 MIDI IRQ 7 Test - SB/Midi Irq Timeout
 UltraSound DMA Channel 5 Test - Bad dma data compare (read)
 SBOS compatibility Test (IRQ 7 DMA 1) - Busy (read)
Well I turnd my computer off really fast, and gone to drink something. 
I soon as a was back I turned it on again and since this it
works with every configuration. (BOOTCON) 
SETGUS.EXE (2.06 and 3.1):
 MIDI IRQ x Test - Passed             
 SBOS compatibility Test (IRQ x DMA 1) - Passed             
I used for IRQ-s 5,7,11, and for DMA 1,5,7. A can't reproduce the
error! 
Does somebody know what the errors above mean?
And can anybody explain this?

If so then please write to gus-general or e-mail me!

							Viktor


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				|   Viktor F.                            |
				|                                        |
				|  s5027feh@sun10.vsz.bme.hu             |
				|  (Technical University of Budapest)    |
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 11:02:16 CST
From: mcavity@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject: Stealth and Gus

Anyone know of a way to get diget # 50?
I seem to have missed out..
[and I think it had some info for me..]
Mcavity
Ps 
Mortal Kombat..
I run it with sbos [cuz mega em wont work though that would be cool]
and the music sounds good but the Voice sound VERY bad..Lots of static and
echo.. 
Any one have any ideas?

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