Ultrasound Daily Digest     Tue,  3 Nov 92       Volume 1 : Issue   8 

Today's Topics:
							 EA Delivery 
						 GUS/Modem conflict?
				  New Cadenza MIDI prg demo in Cica
						  post to soundcard!
			 The Multisound and Adlib/SB software & cards
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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 92 11:11:37 -0500
From: "What the World needs now..." <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Message-Id: <9211021611.AA16452@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: EA Delivery 
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> From: nestlero@daystrom.usc.edu (Mikeee)
> I spoke to Judy at EA on Thursday.....she said Gravis promised the next delivery
> would be "next week"...here we go again! :( 
> On a more disturbing note, Judy also expressed extreme displeasure with Gravis
> and their on again off again delivery schedule. She said that she wouldn't
> have anymore to do with Gravis, if she had her choice. Luckily, she's just a
> sales rep. and hopefully her opinions aren't those of EA. We don't want to lose
> any supporters!

Sorry, I REALLY have to disagree with this attitude. In my opinion, EA
should indeed have nothing to do with Gravis ever again. Consider that EA
has taken an immense amount of flak/heat for something over which they have
no control, namely Gravis's delivery fantasies. EA is a business and their
reputation is being trashed as a result of this, which ain't good for
business.

Also, Gravis should indeed pay for both their "predictions" and their
attitude about said "predictions." They just don't seem to get it; they
can't play fast and loose with their customers and expect to not suffer the
consequences. OS/2 drivers? Who cares, we might do 'em. Developer's kits;
well, 300 other folks don't have a problem with that nondisclosure. Yea,
we'll ship "next week." :-( Come on now...

Now, I'm sure the board sounds bloody awesome, but for most folks it's
still vapourware! I for one and extremely anger and frustrated over this
whole thing, Gravis's excuses and justifications notwithstanding. I want
their attitude "corrected" and if they won't take the hints, let them
suffer the consequences...

DDA

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Date: Mon,  2 Nov 1992 11:32:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "Adam K. Rixey" <ar2w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Message-Id: <kexJUs_00UzxE2KFB8@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: GUS/Modem conflict?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

   I've had my GUS for about a week now, and have noticed a possible
conflict with my modem.  I'm using an internal Lightcom 14400 Fax/Modem
set up for Com 4 Irq 3.  [My Gravis is on default settings].  When I
load up Telix, the computer hangs when the "Initializing Modem" box is
on screen - UNLESS I have loaded SBOS.  If SBOS is installed, everything
works fine.  Has anybody else had this problem?

	On another note, I recently got Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis
and would swear that some of the music is in stereo. . .could it be
emulating the Roland music?


	- AkR
	- ar2w@andrew.cmu.edu
___
Art is anything you can get away with.
	  - Marshal McLuhan

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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 10:22:04 GMT+2
From: Antti Peltonen <apeltone@smtplink.oulu.fi>
Message-Id: <9211031022.A01721@smtplink.oulu.fi>
Subject: New Cadenza MIDI prg demo in Cica
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hello GU(y)S,

A new MIDI program demo available from anonymous FTP.
   
				   address: ftp.cica.indiana
(tuesday 08:00 GMT) directory: pub/pc/win3/uploads
						 file: cadwdemo.zip

The program is CADENZA FOR WINDOWS 2.0 DEMO beta 6
from Big Noise Software

I don't have the card yet, but i think that with this 
demo you can test MIDI features of GUS quite well.

(I hope new Windows driver will come out soon...)

I would like to read Your comments about GUS and Cadenza

How it works, sounds ....?

-Antti-
apeltone@smtplink.oulu.fi 

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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 19:51:40 PST
From: mtichy@sfu.ca
Message-Id: <9211030351.AA19796@fraser.sfu.ca>
Subject: post to soundcard!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I agree with the person who said that the digest should also be posted in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.  Ever since we switched to digest format there
has been less and less messages.  I believe mainly because it is more difficult
to have to go to the trouble of posting a message than to reply to one.
Besides comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard has been virtually dead with out the gus
talk on there.  We could help promote the card by discussing it on there as
well.
 
I'd like to know how many people have gotten many of the demos on 
ftp.uwp.edu in the pub/incoming/demos directory to work with the GUs.  I
have had very limited success.  Putrefac works, vector demo sometimes,
a few others I have tried will not recognize the GUS as a soundblaster at
all.  I've tried the command line switches too.  Most of them just hang.
 

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Date: 1 Nov 92 00:48:51 GMT
From: dchien@boole.seas.ucla.edu (David H. Chien)
Message-Id: <8565@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: The Multisound and Adlib/SB software & cards
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	   A Sierra game often is compatible with the Adlib, SB, and Roland 
		 sound cards.  Many times, other programs are compatible with one
		 or more of these sound cards.

		 Is the Multisound compatible with these programs?  
		   y - Which one(s)? and how compatible?
		   n - Can it be made compatible?  Does it coexist with the above
			   cards inside a PC?
david :)  dchien@boole.seas.ucla.edu  

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Date: 2 Nov 92 10:13 -0800
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Message-Id: <2345*twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #6
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Charles Choi <choi@ocf.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
>
>I just upgraded from a 386-16 to a 386-40 today, and I'm now 
>having problems with the ultrasound.  Before the upgrade, everything
>worked fine.  Now, neither the mididemo nor the flidemo runs properly.
>The midi files in general don't sound right, and in some cases I just
>get noise.  In the flidemo, the video part works fine, but I get clicks
>with the sound part.  I tried reinstalling everything from scratch,
>but that didn't help.  Also, I'm getting the off board parity error
>when I try to sbos driver after doing a warm boot to get out of the
>mididemo.  
>
>Note, the sounds that run when I was installing the ultrasound files
>and everything under the soundblaster mode works fine too.
>

Ah, the "new motherboard" syndrome...... :)
And you only found one card that is incompatible? Congrats!
Normally, PCs are really a pain with no standard on most things.
(Although Macs are too expensive to be funny, they do have one good
point in that a Mac is a Mac is a Mac. All the scsi drives work with
each other, all monitors, mouse.... everything is the same. They don't
have a large range of choices like we do with PCs but they have just the
one standard so everything is plug and play. And their card is self
detecting too so when we plugged an ethernet card into a Mac in our Mac
lab for example, it self configures itself on bootup and no jumper or
dip switches or setup programs.... need to be run) OK, enough Mac
praising! :)

PCs have so many 3rd party companies making so many things for them that
compatiblity is a BIG issue. We all know that if you want to go scsi,
you have to know ahead of time what you want to get so that you can make
sure your scsi adapter will be compatible with your scsi devices. But
even IDE drives and controllers are not all compatible (we found this
out the hard way). Even memory (when you upgrade SIMMs) maybe not be
compatible.... You have to be real careful with PC and the compatibility
issue. I look after all the computers in our dept so this is a real
nightmare for me. :)

OK, you don't want to hear about my life story. Onto your problem. It
think the "parity error" you talked about is the key problem. If you
read through the card-review or gravis-talks files in our mailing list
archive (mailserver), you'll find (somewhere in there) a hint from
Gravis stating that if you get a such a parity error, try using DMA
channels 1 or 3. They had a similar finding on a noname brand clone.

Thomas.

BTW,
you didn't carry your old RAM from the old motherboard to the new one
did you? You may also be looking at a speed problem with the speed of
the chips on a faster motherboard.

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Date: 2 Nov 92 10:26 -0800
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Message-Id: <2346*twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #7
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Paul Wang <paulwang@ocf.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

>Has anyone out there gotten GUS to work with Falcon 3.0: Flying Tiger?
>I've gotten music when I'm in the war room but I can't get any other
>kind of sound to work at all.  There's absolutely no sound at the
>starting sequence of the F16 chasing the mig.  I have 2 megs of memory
>and talked to SH about it but he couldn't help me and said that he
>hasn't gotten much complaint about GUS not working with Falcon.
>
[Aside.... Who's SH? ]

I think there was a posting about making Falcon 3 work on a GUS last
week on this mailing list. I think the person setted Falcon up as Adlib
instead of SB.
>
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>
<woan@vnet.ibm.com> (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
>
>Has anyone gotten Links 386 Pro to recognize the SBOS emulation
>as a SB? It only recognizes it as a Adlib for me thus far.
>
Gravis is looking into Links 386 Pro .... or was when I first got my
card and called them about it. So we should get a reply from them soon?
Alan?

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>
(Gnit Leirbag) writes:
>
>There's no doubt in my mind that this mailing list is a great way to obtain
>info about the GUS - I have one myself and already have gained a few tips 
>from the digest.
>
>However, has anyone noticed that absolutely nothing's been posted about the
>GUS on comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard since the digest went into effect? I just
>feel that some of the newcomers to the net might not have heard about this
>wonderful card and without any mention about it on c.s.i.p.s, they might
>not even know of its existence. Not exactly the best way to advertise
>the card, is it not?
> 
>I was just thinking, wouldn't it be better if the digest could be posted
>to c.s.i.p.s on a daily basis? I'm sure a lot of the newcomers on the net
>would appreciate it.
>
I think you may be asking for it from owners of other cards if you do
this. They'll ask us to keep the mailing list to ourselves especially to
not waste bandwidth. So I don't think this is a good idea.

However, we can do what the PAS people are doing, and that is post a
monthly (or bi monthly) GUS FAQ file.
>

Thomas.

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