GUS Daily Digest            Fri, 20 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  19 

Today's Topics:
                           3.59 instruments
                  CH FLIGHTSTICK connected to GUSMAX
                             GUS & AWE32
                             GUS and WC3
                            GUS HMI update
                            GUSMAX & WIN95
                      GUSMAX's memory upgrade ?
                         GUS MAX memory chips
                   Help with mic recording needed!
                               MAXSBOS
                      MegaEm for Protected Mode
                        Revision Upgrade Path
                   System Shock CD W/Digital Sound?
                       Us Navy Fighter with GUS

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: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 09:25:57 GMT
From: "Mark D. Billinge" <PPYLMDB@ppn3.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: 3.59 instruments

I recently downloaded and installed the new v3.59 install disks.  
Everything's okay except two instruments, which I assume is down to 
the 3.59 install which replaced all my patches.

The first problem is the celesta, which has been changed dramatically 
and is not as realistic as it used to be - could someone upload a 
copy of the old one to epas?  The second is just something which has 
remained the same since the very early days of the GUS - the strings 
patch marcato.pat is STILL left-right reversed.  The lower strings go 
on the RIGHT, not on the left - unless of course you are listening 
from a position in the orchestra.  It's not really much of 
a problem, since the patch can easily been modified with Patch Maker, 
but it's just an easy-to-fix point that's been ignored up to now.

Mark

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:28:14 -0500
From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski)
Subject: CH FLIGHTSTICK connected to GUSMAX

This was probably foolish of me to try, but I attempted to hook up a CH
FLIGHTSTICK to my GUS MAX.  Slight problem.  It doesn't work.  I was
hoping to use it with TIE FIGHTER.  I try to run GRAVUTIL, and calibrate. 
The square is flying around everywhere!  Nothing I do stops it, EXCEPT
holding one of the 2 buttons.  When a button is pressed, everythings ok.

Tie has the same thing.  Cursor and Ship flight erratic unless button
pressed.  I really don't want to play the whole games forced to constantly
shoot...  Trim doesn't help at all, and the only thing I could find in the
manuals is A) GUS MAN: Y ADAPTER CABLES don't work with GUS (nothing in Stick
manual about y cable), B) JOYSTICK MAN: Erratic movermet due to non-speed
compensating game port.  (Thought the gus max had a speed compensating
game port.  Says so on the box!)  I want to know if I can do anything
else, short of buying a game card. (didn't get one because I THOUGHT I
could use the GUS). If you can help, PLEASE do!  Do I need a midibox as
pictured in the manual?

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:00:02 -0500
From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du)
Subject: GUS & AWE32

In my last message, I asked why there isn't an AWE32 emulator
for the GUS.  Someone replied asking what the AWE32 had that
the GUS didn't have.  That's not what I meant.  The purpose of
an AWE 32 emulator would not serve for the card's features, but
for compatibility.  Also, some chorus and reverb features
wouldn't be that bad either.

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 01:25:44 -0300 (ADT)
From: Andre Arseneault <eaa2582@Umoncton.CA>
Subject: GUS and WC3

Gussers,

I Know this has already been answered but I don't remember the 
answer.  How can Gus and Wing Commander III work together.  This 
information is for a friend and any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in 
advance.

HAPPY GUSSING ALL
Caps

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 23:58:09 -0800
From: drkszk@ocf.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: GUS HMI update

For those of you who have had problems with audio skips and distortion
in HMI-based games, I have some further info:
There is a timer problem in the GUS HMI driver.  HMI is aware of it and
is notifying game companies of how to work around it.  In the meantime, you
can
get rid of the skips by lowering your ISA bus speed until they go away
(7.19MHz
for my machine).  You'll probably take a performance hit, though.

Derek
drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:34:11 MET
From: "Roy Koesters" <KOSTERS@brc.medtronic.com>
Subject: GUSMAX & WIN95

Hello,

I do not know if this is a frequently aksed question but I am 
considering installing/trying WIN95 on my system. Because I am very 
pleased with my GUSMAX, I use it for games, music (MIDI & TRACKERS), I 
would like to know if I can still go on using my GUSMAX as I am 
used to.

Are there allready drivers available for WIN95 or will the WIN3.x 
drivers do???

Thanx,

Roy Koesters

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 21:24:36 GMT+2
From: "Henry Timmerman" <HENRY@vm1.vm.ee>
Subject: GUSMAX's memory upgrade ?

Hello!

Can anyone tell me what DRAM chip to use when upgrading GUS Max from 
512KB to 1MB ? I know it must be 256x16, 40 pin, surface mount DRAM, 
but what I'm asking is can I find that kind of a chip from f.e. any 
network or display adapter ?
Any help is appreciated !

P.S. What is that MAXSBOS so many people been talking about ?

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 15:43:32 PST
From: "Ferdinand Mataragnon" <E3140016@BCITVM.BCIT.BC.CA>
Subject: GUS MAX memory chips

Hello. How many memory chips does the max use? Also, could someone
please give me the numbers so I can find the right one? Lastly,
are the chips surface mount type?

Thanks in advance.

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 16:35:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Kai Wu <kw10@crux2.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Help with mic recording needed!

I can't seem to record properly with the GUS under Windoze.  I'm 
using a microphone (an Apple Mac mono mike with a stereo plug) which I've 
already tested with a tape recorder and it worked fine there.  When I use 
Sound Recorder or Goldwave under Win 3.1, I have to shout into the mike 
at the top of my lungs before even the faintest sound is recorded; a 
regular volume voice is not picked up at all.
I've tried fiddling around with the ultrinit.ini, setting the mic 
input levels and gain to numbers like 75 and 100, but with no luck.  Can any 
fellow GUSer out there shed the light??

Kai

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:01:21 GMT+0100
From: "F. Viktor" <VIKTOR@evt.bme.hu>
Subject: MAXSBOS

What about maxsbos.zip?
I read that this is a SB emulator for MAX only?
What is the difference between GUS and GUS MAX, i mean that
difference, that this program uses?

Why is it better than SBOS? What is it at all?
Did somebody tried it out?
It is new, it is in the submit dir on every GUS FTP site.
It is 1 Megabyte long! Please tell me something about it!!!

Viktor

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 15:41:13 CST
From: Steve Sesterhenn at Zenith_SCS
<smtplink%Steve_Sesterhenn_at_Zenith__SCS@Janus-ccm.zenithe.com>
Subject: MegaEm for Protected Mode

     Hey All,

     I don't have convenient access to the digest and haven't been up on
     things lately.  Is the new Megaem for Protected mode out yet?  If not,
     what is the latest expected date of release?

     By the way, anyone been able to get the Dark Forces demo to produce
     ANY sound out of a GUS?  It runs entirely in DOS/4GW protected mode,
     but it has no native GUS support and won't even recognize SBOS.  Has
     anyone had any luck with this?
     Oh, Descent rocks with the GUS.  Kicks the crap out of dinky SB.  If
     you have problems try running it from a boot disk with bare minimums,
     like just the ultrasound init stuff and environmental vars.

     Thanks for any and all help regarding MegaEm and/or Dark Forces,


     Steve Sesterhenn

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 14:28:34 -0600
From: Tom Sedlack <toms@superman.rtsg.mot.com>
Subject: Revision Upgrade Path

I am currently running v3.53 (with the windows patch applied) on my 1 MEG
GUS.  I was going to upgrade the software to v3.57.  My question is, do
I need to go to v3.56 first or can I go straight to 3.57??  Are there any
features/utilties/programs included with 3.56 that are not in 3.57??

Thanks,

Tom

toms@superman.rtsg.mot.com

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 13:23:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Bachand <raistlin@cts.com>
Subject: System Shock CD W/Digital Sound?
Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.950119132141.24894A-100000@crash.cts.com>

I can get the Music to work fine in SYSTEM-SHOCK CD, but I can't get the 
Digital sound to. It freezes once I turn up the volume to hear a sound. 
It defaults to off, then i turn up the volume in SYSTEM SHOCK to get the 
sound to come out, i hear a few seconds of something, then it freezes and 
reboots my computer. I have a p-90 Plato w/16megs of ram. Please help. 

BTW, i am using AIL30 *.MDI and *.DIG files. I tried to copy them over 
Sblasters', and awe-32's sound files, freezes on both. PLEASE HELP!

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 09:10:18 +0100
From: Martin Laukkanen <martin@triode.apana.org.au>
Subject: Us Navy Fighter with GUS

I would like to know how US Navy Fighter works on GUS's out 
there, I want to buy it but my friend said that it doesnt support GUS and 
he couldnt get any sound from it! Someone must have has some experience 
with it?

Thanks in advance..

----
Random OF xTatic....
orMartin OF Laukkanen.(martin@triode.apana.org.au)

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