GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 9 Nov 94  9:37 PST      Volume 16: Issue   9 

Today's Topics:
							 Colonization
						  DOOM 1.7 and PCTW
 Dynamix Cant Write Drivers, Inc. - Earthsiege native mode workaround
						   Earthseige & gus
				   GUS Daily Digest V16 #8 (2 msgs)
							  GUS Digest
				  Latest GUS Software disks (3.56?)
					   Linux & General Comments
					   MegaEM and DX2 problems
						OS/2 supporting GUSMax
					   UltraSound Experience CD
							   WC3 Demo
						Where to get WC3 demo
					  Windows native mod player?

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: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 17:11:32 -0500
From: "Frank Pikelner" <frank@otter.cs.yorku.ca>
Subject: Colonization

Has anyone got Colonization to work with the GUS?
If yes, then what emulation SBOS, MP401?

Thanks,

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	   ___/     /   Frank Pikelner                                        /~\
	  /     _/ /    Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science  <v.v>
	 __/   ___/     York University (Toronto, Canada)                    ,\^/;
   _/    _/         Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca                          _{!}_
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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 12:41:20 +0300
From: "Christopher Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: DOOM 1.7 and PCTW

>>  To Christopher Bolin or anyone else with DOOM 1.7, I have DOOM2
>>v.1.666 and would like to know if you 
>>  1) either know where to get 1.7 patch
>>  2) Could upload patch somewhere.

There is no patch.  Some of the distribution CD's are v1.7.  ID says 
a 1.7 patch will be uploaded soon.  finger help@idsoftware.com for 
more info.

>>  In addition, I have also had some trouble with PCTools for Windows
>>and GUS Drivers.  The problem had something to do with not having the GUS
>>set as first WAVE and MIDI device.  Make sure that if you have drivers for
>>another card that you have the GUS Drivers as WAVE= and MIDI=, and the
>>next drivers are WAVE2= and MIDI2=.  I'm not sure that was the problem,
>>but it seemed to fix it for me.

As luck would have it, I am on the PCTools for Windows development 
team.  If you get the latest windows drivers from Gravis, all the 
problems with PCTW as shell disappear.  The problems were not 
exclusive to PCTW, but also NDW, Dashboard and others.  In any case, 
Gravis fixed the problem.

Christopher Bolin

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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 07:42:28 +1000 (EST)
From: Chuck Biscuits <chuckb@paxnet.com.au>
Subject: Dynamix Cant Write Drivers, Inc. - Earthsiege native mode workaround

re: adaswani@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Adarsh Daswani)'s post about "EarthSiege & GUS"

NO one has got it working in Native mode?

wrong :)

try this;

in the resource.cfg file, change the driver from E027 to E028. you'll 
notice in the soundset.ini file, e028 refers to the 8-bit stereo driver.  
Out of all the "drivers" (numbers) listed for the GUS/GUSmax, the 
"GUSmax" stereo 8-bit one is the only which works.

To get it to work, also you need to (it seems) put the music driver as

A002

(adlib)

but LEAVE the port address alone.  Just change the driver number.
that should fix things.

you wont get music, but you'll get stereo digital efx. that's the best 
i've been able to kludge it to do. 

One thing gets me offside though - why the hell dont they fix their 
drivers?  (assuming there IS a 16-bit GUS driver included)

They talk in the readme alot about no longer having to use an expanded 
memory manager, which says to me that they changed over to using a 
protected mode handler at the last moment (i.e, DOS4GW - probably 
originally compiled it for BC/C++ and then tried a Watcom compile and saw 
that it ran about 300% faster under Watcom so they decided that their 
engine needed all the help it could get, so they used watcom+dos4gw)

now. the soundset program is coded in realmode - and the drivers it 
selects work for both digital and wavetable music. 

obviously, as we have seen, the drivers dont work in protected mode. 
(DOS4GW bails with a general protection (#13) exception).

so, the simple rule is - Dynamix didn't bother to test the protected mode 
code with their drivers - very poor form on part of a company that's been 
around awhile and SHOULD know better.

My advice - dont buy their software - wait for someone else to buy it, 
take a look, if the drivers dont work, bitch to them, and wait till they 
fix the bloody things.

cb/htc

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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:24:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: cs4dw <B.Whitwell@helios.herts.ac.uk>
Subject: Earthseige & gus

Ok, I've running it for a while now and have noticed the problem with the
GUS sound (or lack of it :)). I'm running both a gus and a SBPro in my 
system and have had to use the SB to get sound ou the game. What really
interested me though was the setup program.....

It seems that when running the SB you get the FX and drumbeat for the 
music but also the FM melody. But the GUS only gives the drums!!!

Now Its fairly obvious to anyone who listens that the drums are not 
patches (unless custom) so where are the patches for the melody?
This I think is where the error lies. I've tried loadpats but
still get errors, anyone else have suggestions?


Brad

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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 12:47:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Chris Bongaarts <bong0004@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #8

>If you want to get Mosaic to work wth your GUS, there's nothing
>device specific to be done....here's a script I used to use:
>cat $1 > /tmp/sound_file
>cat /tmp/sound_file > /dev/audio 
>

Why is it necessary to copy it to /tmp first?   Wouldn't it be easier
to say:

cat $1 > /dev/audio

============================================   bong0004@gold.tc.umn.edu
Chris Bongaarts    http://reality.cs.umn.edu   bong0004@mermaid.itlabs.umn.edu
Univ. of Minnesota  /~cbongaar/cbongaar.html   cbongaar@reality.cs.umn.edu
My opinions are my own,  and they are right.   cbongaar@nyx.cs.du.edu
GeekCode2.1: GCS d-- s !g p1 a20 w+ C+++ ULS++ P+++ L+ E N+++ K+++ W M++
			 H !V -po+ Y-- t+ 5 R G* tv b++ D+ B- e+ u+ h! f+ r* n---- y?

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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 23:45:54 +1100 (EST)
From: Iain Huxley <ihuxley@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #8

Where can I get this WC3 demo?  it sounds way cool..

is it playable SVGA space fighting or what?

thanx,

Iain.

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Iain Huxley  *  Electrical Engineering II  *  University of Sydney, Australia
email: ihuxley@extro.ucc.su.oz.au      WWW:  http://www.usyd.edu.au/~ihuxley/
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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 94 20:02:37 +0000
From: Stefan <S.Magdalinski@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS Digest

>
>     
>     Someone is using your account to do ridiculous things.
>     
>     For instance, they included the entire 11/7/94 GUS Digest in
>     a post to the 11/8 GUS Digest.  
>     
>     Can you believe it?  Even as a joke it defies logic.
>     
>     I hope the prankster knocks it off.
>     

Sincerest apologies.
My mailer (MH) has a filter mechanism, and it was in the process of
trying to turn it off (so that this wouldn't happen!) that I reached a
prompt asking me if I wanted to use my old draft (which I didn't,
because it was the whole digest), to which I chose 'No', only to find
that it had been sent anyway! 

Apologies to all!
Slapped wrists for Stef!

Stefan.

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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 11:14:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "K.S. Holly" <u8843389@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: Latest GUS Software disks (3.56?)

Is the only place that we can get this on the BBS? I would prefer to be 
able to get it on the net somewhere. Is it here? The latest version on 
the ftp site is 3.53.

			Pat

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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 13:33:14 -0800 (PST)
From: sabe@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Shige Abe)
Subject: Linux & General Comments

How to most of you reply or answer messages on the GUS digest?  I
always endup with the whole message in VI and have to delete 99% of
it before sending it back.  Is that the only way?  Because of the
hassle, I normally don't reply to messages even when I know the
answer.

Can't we have each message send indivudually?  This allows us to
save indivudual messages instead of the whole digest when there are
useful bits of information.  Also, making it easy to reply will
encourage more discussion and will better help the people asking
questions.

For Linux users, which is the best way to play back digitized
sounds?  I'm using dsp right now.  Also, can you send the beep
through the soundcard?

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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 00:46:46 -0700 (MST)
From: rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff)
Subject: MegaEM and DX2 problems

I just upgraded to a DX2 a couple weeks ago. Since then, I noticed 
something really weird. I can't use MegaEM! The mission disk for TIE 
Fighter will be out within the next 2 weeks! I gotta get this workin' 
before then!!! HELP! I can't play my beloved TIE with loser-FM music!!

I saw someone post this same problem a couple weeks ago but I never saw 
the solution. HELP!


		   -- Ryan Korniloff
		   -- rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu

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Date: 9 Nov 94 09:53:46 MET
From: "R."  <R.G.Middelkamp@kub.nl>
Subject: OS/2 supporting GUSMax

I am about to get Warp (OS/2 v3). But I am wondering: Does it support
my recently bought advanced GUSMax? 'Cause I read in a faq that OS/2
2.1 didn't. Do the drivers come with the package or should I download
it from a site?

R.G.Middelkamp@kub.nl

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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 17:26:53 MST
From: "Dean C. Johnson" <JOHNSODC@caedm.et.byu.edu>
Subject: UltraSound Experience CD

I just got the UltraSound Experience CD.  I am very impressed! I 
think they did a superb job putting it together.  It should show the 
people at Logitech how to put together a promotional CD.
All of the software on it is great; bunches of mods, mids, games, old 
digest issues, demos, install disks, utilities, etc.  I really hope that 
Gravis succeeds in getting these up in despays in lots of software 
stores.  The presentation is very convincing.  I know that I will be 
showing/recomending it to people. Now that the GUS is getting such 
good support I won't hesitate so much in recommending  it to novices.

I noticed in the credits that Phat Tran did alot of the work on it 
(music, scenery, and script I think).  If I am right he used to 
answer alot of people's questions on the old digest, but did not work 
for Gravis.  Did he get a job with them?, when? 

-Dean

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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 12:21:13 -0800
From: Derek Suzuki <drkszk@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: WC3 Demo

	I tried it with SBOS 3.7.  Skips terribly.  They'd better not let the
release version run like this (fingers crossed).  I know it'll be native,
but so was Rebel Assault.
	Oh, for the guy who asked, the Manley drivers (ultra05e.zip) seem
to be fine under OS/2 Warp.  Now all I need is another 8 megs.

Derek
drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu

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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 12:27:28 -0800
From: Ferdinand Mataragnon <stud001@athena.bcit.bc.ca>
Subject: Where to get WC3 demo

Hello. Could someone please give me an ftp site address that 
has the WC3 demo? Many thanks. Happy GUSing!! :)

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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 12:19:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Dylan Nicolle <dnicolle@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us>
Subject: Windows native mod player?

Gusmod sucks, I think anyone with a scread of intelligence will see that. 
Mod4Win and other modplayers hog too much cpu, anyone with an IQ higher 
than 60 and a computer that isn't a dx2 can see that too. 
What we really need is teh combination. Iplay for windows! NOW! get to 
work people!

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