GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 20 Feb 94  0:07         Volume 11: Issue  18 

Today's Topics:
				  GUS Daily Digest V11 #17 (2 msgs)
					New software version questions
						   Sam&Max and GUS
			  Star Trek 25th Anniversary CD-ROM version

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 11:21:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #17

> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 13:05:33 -0400 (EDT)
> From: LFG3397@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
> Subject: CD-ROM interface with GUS
> 
> I have had a GUS card for over a year now.  I recently purchased a CD-ROM
> drive, but my problem is after pluging the audio cable from the ROM drive into
> the GUS card I only receive a mono signal from one speaker.  But if I plug the
> audio into the CD-ROM card I get stereo, but this doesn't help my CD games. 
> Can anyone give me assistance?

The connectors are probably not matching.  The pins on the GUS are
right-ground-ground-left, while some CD connectors are r-g-l-g.


> Date: 18 Feb 94 08:49:00 PST
> From: "Midnight Cowboy" <LDANG@CSUPomona.Edu>
> Subject: GUS & Pentiums
> 
> Also, can two GUS's exist in the same machine?

Yes, if you have enough free I/O addresses, DMA channels, and IRQs.

> And lastly, is a 1 meg GUS sufficient for excellent MIDI and digital
> playback?  Or should I resort to a Roland SC/GUS combo?  Speed and ease of
> programmability are also to be taken into consideration also.

IMO, a 1 MB GUS is sufficient for midi and cached digital sounds, if 
your game is intelligent enough to cache only the instruments and
sound effects it needs for a particular segment, stage, cut sequence,
whatever.  A typical MIDI piece uses about 15 instruments, which will
usually fit into 512kB of GUS RAM (if not at 16-bit, then at 8-bit), 
leaving the remaining 512kB available to cache sound effects.  

> Date: Fri, 18 FEB 94 15:06:16 BST
> From: ERH6HALLS@CLUSTER.NORTH-LONDON.AC.UK
> Subject: Megaem & drivers .ini files
> 
> Simon says: It's a real mess but it's Fun!..  
> 
> Having been playing around with Megaem and the syndicate AIL drivers for a 
> while I'm getting more and more frustrated at trying create custom 
> configurations.. whatever I do I can't get the replacement patches to work in 
> X-Wing, and my attempts to change patches.ini for syndicate were a disaster.
> 
> What I would like to know is, which .ini files are used by which driver in 
> which order? Does Megaem use ultrasnd.ini or ultramid.ini? How can I get my own 
[...]

Mega-Em uses ultrasnd.ini.  The AIL32's use patches.ini and, I believe,
ultrasnd.ini.  Forget about customizing patches for games.  Too much
hassle since so many drivers share configuration files.

> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 14:47:49 GMT
> From: cgd@ecmwf.co.uk (Dick Dixon)
> Subject: Megaem + Ballade and/or Lemmings 2
> 
> Also Lemmings 2:  with both SBOS and Megaem, the
> music is fine, but in the loading phase, it displays
> (something like) 'FX initialisation failed'.

You probably do not have enough EMS/XMS (whatever the game uses)
for the digital sounds.  

Phat.

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 94 18:42:46 +0200
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #17

From: calvid@rpi.edu (David J. Calvin)
>The GUS is awesome, but I still have a few questions/problems...
>
>1) Where do I get the drivers to make Simcity 2000 work?  What's the filename?
gail3214.zip from EPAS.
Yossi.

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 14:52:00 -0500
From: calvid@rpi.edu (David J. Calvin)
Subject: New software version questions

I know this has been discussed before, but I just got my GUS and I have a few
questions about all the upgrades out there.  Should I get the latest version?
 What are the filenames?  What will it do for me?

Also, I know what a .mod is, but what are .669's and .gts's?

Thanks for the help.


-- 
Dave Calvin                | May the Force be with you! - Obi Wan
calvid@rpi.edu             | Live Long and Prosper! - Spock
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 00:52:42 +0200
From: Erik Bunn <ebu@delta.hut.fi>
Subject: Sam&Max and GUS

I finally got around to buying the game and just finished installing
it, but.. nope, no native GUS support (boo) and megaem 2.02 won't
work, and even SBOS (2.08 I believe) won't do a thing.

What do I need to do to get sound out of this thing? DOTT worked fine
with SBOS..


Thanks already;

//Erik

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 94 03:45:52 PST
From: 1447P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL
Subject: Star Trek 25th Anniversary CD-ROM version

Just upgraded from the disk version of Star Trek the 25th Anniversary to
the Enhanced CD-ROM version.  The old version worked fine, but I can't
get the sound-FX and digitized speech in the CD-ROM version to work
(only the background music works).  I called the tech support at
Interplay and they said they would look into it (and suggested
contacting Gravis for help).

I'm running a 386-40DX, 20 MB RAM, 1 MB GUS, QEMM 7.03 memory manager.
If anyone has an idea or has gotten the CD-ROM version to work, please
let me know (via BBS or Directly).  Thanks...

-Dave

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