Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sat, 20 Mar 93       Volume 2 : Issue  75 

Today's Topics:
					Booter15.ZIP available on EPAS
							documentation
					Fax numbers of computer stores
							 Forte is #1
					 General Midi Driver for GUS?
						General MIDI emulator
							GUS in DOS Box
				  GUS test in leading Dutch Magazine
					   KQ5 CD Settings for SBOS
						   Loading patches!
							Midi interface
				  MODs VS MEDs - How do I play MEDs?
					More GUS problems - Win, SBOS
			  MUSIX141.ZIP on archive.epas.utoronto.ca 
					 New Drivers and Super Tetris
					  NEW GUS PATCHES SOUND SCR
						   Noisy patches??
						 Opening up the lists
						   Patinfo question
					Please try this - system crash
		 SBOS 2.02 totally hosed on KQ5 - Gravis, please read
						 The Great Subversive
							Volume Control
			   Windows apps stop receiving mouse clicks

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 21:45:21 -0500
From: "Albert C. Lee" <alee@TC.Cornell.EDU>
Message-Id: <199303200245.AA09240@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>
Subject: Booter15.ZIP available on EPAS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi all,
	Booter15.ZIP is a dual configuration booting manager allowing you to
have both your full autoexec.bat and config.sys files on boot configuration
one and allowing you to have a clean autoexec.bat and config.sys on config
#2.  This is very useful, especially for those of you who don't like the
idea of having a boot disk for Zone66 (which is EXCELLENT -- if you don't
have it, GET IT!).  Now you can swap back and forth at will.
	It's available on epas.
										-Al

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 18:42:00 PST
From: GUIA@bldghsc.lan1.umanitoba.ca
Message-Id: <2BA9354F@adminbldg.lan1.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: documentation
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

is there any documentation available which explains the differences between 
the windows settings for the gus card?  specifically on the gus1024/512/256 
formats in the midimapper...      i have two keyboards, a roland piano 
4-voice, one channel, midi, and a roland d50, but only the piano keyboard is 
hooked up, will i have to modify things if i connect the d50? (multichannel, 
multivoice, programmable)

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 10:25:39 +0100
From: rock@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE
Message-Id: <9303190925.AA03619@messua>
Subject: Fax numbers of computer stores
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

 Hi Gus-Users!
 
 I finally decided to buy a GUS. The problem is that the card is very 
 expensive here in Germany (twice the US price) and very rare...;-)
 Thats why i want to buy it in the US. 
 Could please someone mail me fax numbers of big computer stores,
 like Telemart, Computability, Babbages, Bizmart.....or whatever.
 Thanks...  Olli
 
 -
 rock@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

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Date: 19 Mar 1993 13:41:26 -0500 (EST)
From: DEATH BEFORE DISCO <JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Message-Id: <01GVZT2H482Q9APDTC@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: Forte is #1
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	Just a quick note to Forte to say thanks for helping out
with my system and it's problems. You gotta give these guys credit...
they told me if I have any problems with SBOS or GUS, they want to know.
This firm really goes out on a limb to get the 'perfect' setup for the GUS.
Thanks again, guys!!

Jeff

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 08:31:10 EST
From: Matthew Spewak <mspewak@walnut.prs.k12.nj.us>
Message-Id: <930319.083110.6842@walnut.prs.k12.nj.us>
Subject: General Midi Driver for GUS?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

reply to:
-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 20:05:03 EST
-From: hellfire@acs.bu.edu (Peter ng)
-Message-Id: <9303190105.AA102826@acs2.bu.edu>
-Subject: General Midi Driver
-To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

-Does anybody have any info about a Genereal Midi driver for the Ultrasound. 
-Particularly one that will allow games like X Wing to support the ultrasound 
-through the general midi specs. Any info is greatly appreciated.

I am also interested in getting some sort of a MidiOS driver like the SBOS 
driver that would make games and other programs support the on board general 
midi.  This would be VERY nice for games that don't support GUS, in that it 
would give the GUS Roland compatibility!  Does anyone know if this is possible?

Matthew Spewak - Princeton, NJ

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Date: 20 Mar 1993 14:36:31 +0800
From: TC <SH7126146@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG>
Message-Id: <01GW19AJDBCYAC3PDM@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG>
Subject: General MIDI emulator
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Does anyone know if Gravis/Forte is working on a GM emulator for the GUS?

If not, perhaps we can write one ourselves. I'm a little sick of SB emulation,
and would prefer genuine midi emulation.

I was thinking of hooking up the GUS MIDI port (the TX pin) to one of the serial
ports on the PC and writing an ISR to read from this serial port. Anyone
interested in this?

.tc
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 15:38:43 CST
From: John Riedl <riedl@cs.umn.edu>
Message-Id: <9303192138.AA11410@hannibal.cs.umn.edu>
Subject: GUS in DOS Box
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

"Neil D. Danylczuk" writes:
 > I asked John Smith at Gravis about using SBOS through a DOS Window
 > and he said they have NO plans to ever support this.  He said they
 > don't know how, or even if they want to.  I believe PAS-16 supports
 > that feature, but I don't blame Gravis for not wanting to do it.
 > After all, it's dumb to play games and other packages that
 > require SBOS under Windows anyway.

I disagree.  It would be very nice for my kids if I could set up their
games so they can run them from windows again.  They love the better
sounds from the GUS, but aren't quite old enough for the DOS
interface.  (Are any of us?)

John

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:17:42 GMT
From: waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg)
Message-Id: <1993Mar19.121742@cs.utwente.nl>
Subject: GUS test in leading Dutch Magazine
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In a leading Dutch Magazine, PC Magazine (no, it is not affiliated with the
US or UK PC Magazine), a test of the GUS was published this month. It also
discussed other 'exotic' cards, like the Adlib Gold 1000, Opti.Sound and the
Turtle Beach MultiSound.

They were impressed with the GUS's sound quality. Their conclusion was (not
surprisingly) that the MultiSound has the best sound quality, but that it is
too expensive. The GUS, so they said, is versatile and 'has everything for
almost nothing'. So good value for money! Their only complaint was the not
so very good software support, but they mentioned that Gravis is working on
improvement of their drivers.

Greetz,

Jerry

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 12:43:06 PST
From: Scott.Jordahl@Eng.Sun.COM (Scott A. Jordahl)
Message-Id: <9303192043.AA27677@klinger.Eng.Sun.COM>
Subject: KQ5 CD Settings for SBOS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I loaded the new disks on my system with the new 2.02 SBOS and am now
trying to get the CD version of KQ5 to work. No matter what settings I
use, all I get is a "Cannot initialize sound hardware" error message,
the system locks up, and I have to reboot.

Do I need to use a different version of SBOS and if so, with what
settings?

Thanks,

-- Scott

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 02:04:10 -0500
From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
Message-Id: <93Mar20.020416edt.3135@skule.ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: Loading patches!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	The new version of the GUS drivers in windows work great. But still I
have a question on loading patches. I have downloaded a midi named " A Night
On Bald Mountain ", I need to reset all the patches for that midi using Win-
jammer (ver 2.24), it sounds OK in Winjammer. But when I tried to load this
midi with "Media Player" or "MCS Stereo", I've found that not all the patches
in that midi were loaded, only 8 of them were loaded and it sounds weird.
	Each time I played this midi, I've to loaded manually using patch 
manager or use winjammer. Could anyone help to solve this problem?

I do have:  1024 Kb of dram on GUS
		set resolution to High Fidelity
		set active voices to 20
		default IRQs, PORT, and CHANNEL
		set midimapper to cachable or non-cachable
			cacheable (gives more patches, still not all)
			non-cacheable ( gives only 8 patches)


Thanks in advance!

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 21:53:26 WET
From: dp@hydra.carleton.CA (Dave Perry VE3IFB)
Message-Id: <9303200253.AA28655@hydra.carleton.CA>
Subject: Midi interface
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Dave,

I reviewed the note that Paul Cunnel sent you and found it to be accurate.
The interface I built was the same with 3 exceptions:

1. I used a 4n137 rather than a 4n138, which as Paul points out may be
   marginal for current requirements, but I had one.

2. I used a 4K7 resistor pullup on the opto rather than 270 ohms. 270
   ohms seemed a bit low to me, considering the current transfer ratio
   of the 4n137 and the LED current.

3. I added a 0.1uF bypass capacitor near the opto, as recommended in the
   data sheet.

I hope this helps.

Dave

ps - works fine with my Kawai FS750 keyboard

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 08:25:42 EST
From: Matthew Spewak <mspewak@walnut.prs.k12.nj.us>
Message-Id: <930319.082542.6838@walnut.prs.k12.nj.us>
Subject: MODs VS MEDs - How do I play MEDs?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I have a large collection of .MOD files that sound GREAT on GUSMOD ver 2.11.
I have not experienced any problems at all with it.  I would like to know, 
though, what an MED mod is?  I cannot seem to play these files at all.  I heard 
that an MED is an 8 track mod as opposed to 4 track ProTrakter .MOD songs.  Does 
anyone know of an MED player for GUS or for any other sound card for PCs?

Matthew Spewak - Princeton, NJ

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 12:32:52 -0600
From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach IBM)
Message-Id: <9303191832.AA21851@daedalus.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: More GUS problems - Win, SBOS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I am having some problems, still.

I tried changing my DMA's/IRQ's with setgus. I eventually
had a test fail - an IRQ conflict. Maybe this is really
an IRQ problem. I don't know. Phat Tran suggested trying
the same DMA channel for playback and record, although I
don't know if this would have an impact on Windows.

Once I thought I had things worked out, I made a new MIDI
file. It has bad notes in it! It'll honk out a note when
there should be none, on some weird pitch. And timing is
really off. It kind of stutters, even with Media player.
I tried a "big" MIDI file, one that has a lot going on in
it, and I got kicked out of Windows *twice*! It didn't
display an error message, just booted me back to the C:
prompt. I tried this with and without the MIDI card
installed, so that's not the problem. One time it just
completely locked up with the GUS bleating out a chord.
I have also gotten EMM386 Exception Error 06, which is
invalid opcode.

And of course SBOS still hangs when it loads.

I am going to call the Packard Bell hardware support line
today and see what DMAs/IRQs the hardware might be using.
The software support folks said I can use DMA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6,
and 7. 2 is reserved for hard drives and 4 cascades for 0-3.
IRQ's - who knows. When I use MSD, it looks like they're
all assigned!

There are several messages in today's digest about people
having problems with the Windows drivers. I'm really
beginning to think there are bugs in the code.

Will the new PAT files work with the original Windows drivers
that came on my 1.1 install disks? That's an option.

Oh - one more thing. I tried loading SBOS with -x3 and it
said something like "NMI not on this machine" (some three
letter N acronym I'd never heard of - it's written down
at home, of course). Thought that was weird.

Ken

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 15:12:45 EET
From: s106275@ee.tut.fi (Anssi Saari)
Message-Id: <199303191312.AA16516@ee.tut.fi>
Subject: MUSIX141.ZIP on archive.epas.utoronto.ca 
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

>I was just validating files on archive.epas.utoronto.ca and I came
>across a file that's worth noting, musix141.zip. 

Unfortunately, the author posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard that there is 
some bug in the program. He wasn't very specific, but it probably isn't 
very serious.

>...for we all have DOS sound players that needs a
>GUI for if nothing else than the ability to scroll through a list of files 
>to select a file to play, instead of having to DIR and typing in the
>filename everytime.

I use V.Buerg's list to do this. If you have 4dos's executable extensions
set right, for example .mid=playmidi, you can just 'invoke' the files.
Of course, this doesn't work as a jukebox and I wish list would support
4dos's file descriptions. 

Anssi

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 09:34:04 -0600
From: aspencer@inetnode.austin.ibm.com (Alex Spencer)
Message-Id: <9303191534.AA14657@inetnode.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: New Drivers and Super Tetris
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I installed the new GUS software last night hoping that it would cure my
Super Tetris Lockup problem.  The install went smoothly, I erased
all files in the ultrasnd directory and removed any GUS related stuff from
my autoexec.bat and config.sys files.  I removed the old Windows driver
using the Driver applet before installing, but thats all I did for Windows.

All the demo's worked, patch manager worked, winjammer ok, but Super Tetris
still locks up when two bombs hit two bonus point boxes that are side by
side.  This is just one specific example that we observed last night. It
also started locking up when clearing the last row of rubble before going
to the next level.

Is anyone else out there playing this game?  Some feedback would be much
appreciated.

Thanks, Alex

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  Alexander K. Spencer           IBM Tieline:  678-6294
  IBM Corp.   AWD                USA Phone: (512)838-6294
  Mail Stop: ZIP 4305            IBM VNet: ASPENCER at AUSVM6
  11400 Burnet Road              IBM InterNet: aspencer@koi.austin.ibm.com
  Austin, Texas  78758           USA InterNet: aspencer@inetnode.austin.ibm.com

#include <standard.disclaimer>  /* I DO NOT speak for IBM */  Alex Spencer
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 16:08:00 -0800
From: john.smith@gravis.com (John Smith)
Message-Id: <732548467.AA01556@ship.net>
Subject: NEW GUS PATCHES SOUND SCR
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

 > I just downloaded the new disks from epas.  On some of
 >the midi files (quite a few, actually) and about any patch in
 >patchmanager, both in windows and with playmidi, I start getting
 >a lot of static and weirdness.

Go into your Control Panel Drivers icon, select the UltraSound
MIDI/Synth and select HIGH FIDELTY for the patches.  Windows install
defaults to 8bit mode and not 16bit mode.

John
 ~ QMPro 1.01 05-8925 ~ /l{TTh7$ C~hanks for hanging up, dear.

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 08:53:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: Lyn Holman <E.M.Holman@reading.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9303190852.A28245-9100000@suma1>
Subject: Noisy patches??
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I have found patches 94 and 95 (two of the Pad(xx)) have 'clicks' in them.
 This occurs both when in PatchManager and also when playing a midi file
with WinJammer.  Under PatchManager, if I hold a note down then the click
repeats, ie is cyclical.

Anyone else have this problem?

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 16:16:53 MST
From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry)
Message-Id: <9303192316.AA07728@itchy>
Subject: Opening up the lists
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	I've decided to open up the PUGD (PC/UNIX GUS Driver) list to
the public.  It's for users AND programmers, just like the GUS-OS/2
list.  Here's how to subscribe to everything:

	To subscribe to the Ultrasound Daily Digest:
		ultrasound-request@dsd.es.com

	To subscribe to the PUGD (PC/UNIX Gus Driver) list:
		pugd-request%itchy@dsd.es.com

	To subscribe to the GUS-OS/2 list:
		gus-os2-request%itchy@dsd.es.com

	One of the reasons I've done this is because I'm talking with
Gravis now about getting the source code SDK so we can develop drivers
and libraries for the alternate operating systems.

-- 
Dave  ddebry@ debry@   \
DeBry dsd.    peruvian. | "Now let's measure our swan candleholder."
	  es.     cs.utah.  | 
	  com     edu      /

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:08:25 EST
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering  19-Mar-1993 0909" <fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com>
Message-Id: <9303191408.AA17385@us2rmc.bb.dec.com>
Subject: Patinfo question
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Can someone explain the output fields in patinfo, please?  Also, is the same
old patinfo giving this?  I thought the patch format was new?


>File: CALLIOPE.PAT 
>This file contains  1  sample(s).

It would have multiple samples if, e.g., you had a different set of samples
for different frequency ranges?

>Sample # 1 
>Sample length: 45968        Loop start:  446            Loop end: 45942 

   Length in bytes??        Offset?? Does attack start at 1?  Why is the
length not the same as the loop end?


>Sample rate: 22321 Hz
>Low freq: 27.499 (A0)       High freq: 4186.073 (C8)    Base freq: 195.997(G3)

Is base freq the note that was actually sampled (and it was sampled at Sample
Rate)?

>Detune: 0     Octave: 2     Balance: 7    Mode: 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

What is octave?  What are the modes?  I suppose balance is stereo position?

>Envelope/tremolo/vibrato data:
>  63   8 132  72 131  63 246 246 246 180   8   8   0   0   0   0 200   0

Any guesses how this works?

>Flags: 16-bit looped forward melodic 

16 bit is clear.  How about looped (aren't they all?), forward, melodic?

Thanks,

Burns

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 16:45:37 -0600
From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach IBM)
Message-Id: <9303192245.AA29959@daedalus.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Please try this - system crash
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Please help me!

I am enclosing a MIDI file that kills Windows dead.
I have some kind of DMA/IRQ problem, and I don't know if
it's the new Windows drivers or my system.

If you have Windows, please try this file, preferably
with a sequencer. I get about to where the flute comes in, than
it kills Windows. Other MIDI files drop notes, add wrong
notes, etc. in Windows.

Thanks, and please email me your replies. It's uuencoded

Ken


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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:00:51 EST
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering  19-Mar-1993 0901" <fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com>
Message-Id: <9303191400.AA17320@us2rmc.bb.dec.com>
Subject: SBOS 2.02 totally hosed on KQ5 - Gravis, please read
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Here is a new problem report on SBOS 2.02 (the new one on GUS0017-0021).

I have seldom had SERIOUS SBOS problems before.  I have whine occasionally 
about out-of-pitch and out-of-phase problems, but I have never had *total
death*.  I say this to let you know that I seem to have a fairly vanilla 
configuration.  (386-40, Opti (but never any problems), 4Meg, EMM386, 
Smartdrive, no stacker, etc etc).

Everything on the new disks worked wonderfully when I installed.  No hangs, no
problems.  I took the defaults, which gave me DMA 7, BTW.  I guess it figured
out that my chips worked ok.  Windows drivers work great. SBOS seems to load
itself and unload with no problem.

UNTIL...I ran Kings Quest 5.  The game immediately gave me a dialog box saying
"Could not initialize sound card".  When I told it to continue, I then got
a message saying that EMM386 had gotten a fatal exception.  At this point I
had to reboot.

I tried everything I could think of.  Did not load the initializing driver.
Loaded SBOS low.  Did not load SBOS in AUTOEXEC.  Used switches.  Everything I 
could think of.  No go.

I finally fell back to 1.37B (you will remember that 1.4b2 was out of tune)
and all was well again.  So it is clearly SBOS itself, not the setup.

Personally, I don't care THAT much.  I can run KQ5 on my D110, and besides, I
don't play it much anyway.  It is mainly my daughter's, and she has lots of 
homework!  But I'm concerned that if this SBOS gets shipped to the whole world 
with SB Compatibility trumpeted, and if it fails on a lot of games, that the 
GUS will begin to get a seriously bad reputation in the world at large.

Burns

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 23:06:03 EST
From: pccmoddan@aol.com
Message-Id: <9303192306.tn42209@aol.com>
Subject: The Great Subversive
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Here's a story, but it has nothing to do with anyone named Brady.
After watching a lot of GUS bashing, Aria praising (and the reverse) etc. on
a soundcard discussion on America Online, I composed the following reply.
People such as the author of the Soundblaster book and others were making
comments along the lines of 'the GUS is a great MOD player, but it's garbage
for anything else' and 'I hooked the card along with my MIDI setup and it was
terribly noisy' You really would have to be here, but I'm happy to make
anyone laugh....

Here are some observations related to all your bickering:
	
   1) Dan Nicholson doesn't know anything about Sierra, the   
	   card industry, sound support, or writing music.
   2) This means that all of Rich's "highly respected" people in 
	   the soundcard industry don't either, since they share the
	   same occupation. 
   3) Someone is going to point out that Dan Nicholson is a  
	   novice with very little experience.
   4) Music (coming forth from EITHER an SB Pro or a GUS) 
	   speaks louder than words.
   5) Experts are people who are good at pretending that they 
	   know more than everyone else. Geniuses are people that  
	   do.
   6) I haven't seen a genius in years. If you have, please email  
	   me.
   7) Wouldn't it be wonderful if Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Front 
	   242, Public Enemy, and Pat Methany all sounded the same?
   8) They would if they all wrote for General Midi.
   9) Music used to be an art form.
 10) Music is now what the programmer does in his spare time.
 11) The Aria cards are ROM based (as are most wavetable sound cards). The
Gravis UltraSound is RAM based. I can a        do a heck of a lot more with a
blank canvas and some paint than I can do with colorforms. 
 12) It is not hurting me or the other firms I work with to support  
	   the Gravis. Apparently, it would damage Sierra for life. I 
	   don't know about you, but this kinda tells me a little about
	   Sierra. 

 13) After watching many computer industry companies over the       years,
I've noticed an awful lot of similarities in business       practice between
Microsoft, Sierra, and Creative Labs.

 14) I can find a LOT of applications that scream for more than 4       DAC
channels. This is why various groups are currently       creating new formats
with 16 and 32 channel support. You'll       be seeing it in games (yes,
commercial games) with
n a few       months. Ken W. and crew will probably "invent" the idea        

 around Space Quest XXVI.
 15) The real reason Rich doesn't like the UltraSound: 

	   Rich is a happenin' dude. He keeps up with the latest        trends.
Today's trend is GRUNGE. Grunge in everything:
	   grunge fashion, grunge movies, grunge ice cream, and..
	   grungey sounding soundcards. Hey, I've got one, a good
	   old Creative Labs SB Pro (v1 vintage). The best part is, 
	   you can pick 'em up for almost nothing compared to mall
	   groupie grunge like the Waveblaster.
 16) The UltraSound is (shhhh) QUIET. Let's see, turn up the     
	   SBP's channel to 10..... there's that airplane rumble sample

	   I've been looking for! And now the UltraSound.... Well, it            
LOOKS like it's turned up all the way, but I don't hear no 
	   rumble. Now, the CD player.... nothing. If your Ultrasound is
	   noisy and picking up any interference, take it back, it must
	   be defective. 

 17) There are two kinds of people in the gaming industry. Those        who
do it for the money and those who do it because they
	   love doing it. Seems to me that people who do something 
	   they like to do, do it a whole lot better than those who just
	   want to make a buck.

 18) It's really very funny that you find the most backward,      
conservative people in one of the fastest-changing industries       the
planet has ever seen. Those who don't want to change       with it are
generally left behind. Those who are th
first to       make changes are rewarded. 

 19) If you'd like to see a game, want more support for your       sound card
or want to tell me how insane I must be, call

	  PCkS at (908) 964-8066. Call anytime -- if I'm not around,        my
wonderful pre-recorded message is. No "experts"       please. :)

 20) Most of the gaming industry is, unfortunately, like any other       big
business. They don't really care about the customer. All       they care
about is profit. As long as the customers remain indifferent to              
being pushed around and buying whatever product comes                out, the
companies will keep making whatever they please. 
	   Speak out. Write letters, send email, videotaped threats              
	(.AVI if you've got a fast modem), fax everyone. They >will<
	   hear your voice eventually. True, some of these companies
	   may not listen unless you hit them in the pocketbook, but 
	   it's worth it in the end. Note that I am in NO WAY              
condoning piracy. (After all, if a program is good, it deserves        your
money, and if it's not then why would you want it anyway?) 

  21) Yes, I am related to Paul Revere, Hagbard Celine and Adam
	   Weishaupt.

 22) If you take offense to anything in this message, then       you probably
should. If you don't, you're probably laughing
	  your noggin off right now. 

 23) I have never received monetary payments from any        soundcard
manufacturer to champion their product, but hey,        why not start now?
Can't say I'd actually do it, but I'll sure
	   cash your check.
 24) PCkS is a real company (but then again what is "real" eh?) 

	  Unlike most companies we're not under one roof. I'm the       only one
at this location, but six people are currently       involved. 
 25) Yes, PCkS really does stand for Phantom Chicken 
	   Software. Shame there's no motto to go along with it.
 26) Nothing beyond 23 matters.

>end<

excuse the utterly horrible text formatting. I must be slipping in my
"expertness" :)

- Dan Nicholson
________________________________________________________
Dan Nicholson    -    PCkS Associates - (908)964-8066 - ModDan
							  553 Thoreau Terr. 
							  Union, NJ 07083
________________________________________________________
			   
						When I was young, we lived in Arizona,
						and the skies always had little fluffy clouds.
________________________________________________________

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 10:36:27 -0500
From: ral@cc.bellcore.com
Message-Id: <199303191536.AA15587@tbird.cc.bellcore.com>
Subject: Volume Control
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

It *is* disappointing to have no volume control on the GUS, as the
Sound Blaster has.  On the other hand, the volume control on the
SB is behind the computer and not so easy to reach.

I solved the problem by connecting LINE OUT to an old stereo
receiver and also connecting a decent pair of speakers to it instead
of the Walkman-type speakers.  Wow! That produces great sound.

However, if you don't have a spare receiver, as I did, I did see in
Nobody Beats the Wiz a possible solution:  it's a volume control with
Walkman-type connectors (M/F) on it.  It's a wire with a thumwheel in
the middle, and M connector on one end and F on the other.  I seem
to recall the price being something like $10-15 (USA), and I think
it was made by Recotron.

Ron Levenberg
ral@cc.bellcore.com

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 13:21:35 MST
From: "Dave Bakken" <bakken@cs.arizona.edu>
Message-Id: <199303192021.AA07585@centennial.cs.arizona.edu>
Subject: Windows apps stop receiving mouse clicks
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I have been having a problem with GUS 1.4B2 (and earlier)
running some programs under Windows 3.1.  I haven't
heard it described in this mailing list before, so here goes.

The problem is that after a while my program stops listening
to mouse clicks.  This happens with a Sierra Online kids
program called Alphabet Blocks (Windows 3.1 version).
After a while the program doesn't seem to receive the
mouse clicks.  If you keep on clicking after maybe 20
clicks each click starts to generate a beep on the PC
speaker.

To get out of it I hit <cntl><alt><del> and then <cr>.
When I'm returned to Windows it is obvious that some or all
of the mouse clicks have been handled by Windows, because
my screen has been rearranged some (like an arbitrary mouse
click might do).  No, I don't have SBOS running when I
fire up Windows.

I called Sierra Online about 3 weeks ago.  Their tech
support person took careful notes.  He said that they
had never had  this exact problem with a GUS setup
but that they had similar things happen.  He promised to
send a release that was supposed to fix/help this (it hasn't
arrived yet, though).

Oh, yes, for a while the only program this problem happened
with was Alphabet Blocks.  However, a week or so ago I
ftp'd a shareware/freeware disk copying program for Windows
(I forget its name) and once it also stopped listening to
mouse clicks. 

I don't know the exact settings for my DOS and Windows
configuration stuff.  (I know a lot about computers in
general but only got a PC in January.)  If anyone has any
idea of what is going on here or has any
hints to try to get around this problem I'd love to hear
them.  I'd be glad to experiment with different suggestions.

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 04:21:21 -0500
From: "Loking... Searching" <mcng@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <93Mar19.042133est.245851-2@descartes.uwaterloo.ca>
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>



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Date: (null)
From: (null)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Thanks for any help!

Dave Bakken
bakken@cs.arizona.edu
(602) 887-7444 (h)
(602) 621-4098 (w)

BTW, does Gravis monitor this list?  I would assume so.  I
haven't told them about this yet and hope this submission
accomplishes that.

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