GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 31 Jan 94  0:07         Volume 10: Issue  31 

Today's Topics:
						  .AU files and SBOS
					32-bit AIL drivers are at epas
					 32 bit AIL and Sim City 2000
							cd pin config
						 Epic Pinball Cheats
							files at epas
				  GUS Daily Digest V10 #30 (3 msgs)
				  GUS SCSI Daughter-board with OS/2
			HELP: Gusser with severely limited FTP access.

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.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 14:14:01 -0500 (EST)
From: gt7039a@prism.gatech.edu (An anonymous word of wisdom.)
Subject: .AU files and SBOS

For the person who had problems with .AU files... have you tried to conversion
program called SOX I believe? Any .AU file I've gotten before I've been able to
convert sucessfully with that. It might not be the conversion process itself, at
any rate- it could be something as simple as forgetting to set your FTP transfer
to binary...

SBOS does support recording capability that I know of. I've used Blaster Master
before with it. The downside is that the recording is at a fixed sampling
rate...

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 11:52:55 EST
From: stephan@spine.med.utoronto.ca (Stephan Jou)
Subject: 32-bit AIL drivers are at epas

Francis Li wrote in yesterday's digest:
> The 32-Bit AIL drivers are finished, yet I have not seen an official
> release of them or such to use as a general purpose patch for games that
> use them.  I have been waiting for a while to patch SimCity 2000.  I tried
> copying the DLL's from the Shadow Caster patch, but the patch loader
> doesn't seem to be able to find the patches?! It was noted that there WAS
> a bug in the loader, how long is it going to take to get a final release?

While I haven't tried it out yet, gail3213.zip is at epas.archive.utoronto.ca
in /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit and are the official 32-bit AIL drivers released
by Gravis.  According to the readme file, will fix up SimCity 2000 for you so
you'll have native GUS support.


Good luck,
StEpHaN!
---
Stephan F. Jou                | Institute of Biomedical Engineering
stephan@spine.med.toronto.edu | Rosebrugh Building, University of Toronto
MSc student and computer geek | Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, CANADA

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 12:18:18 EST
From: Greg <BGUZ@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: 32 bit AIL and Sim City 2000

The 32 bit drivers, I think were released on Friday and
I downloaded them from my local authorized BBS. I installed
them for SC2000 and they sound great.

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 11:03:24 -0600 (CST)
From: mjs7529@tamuts.tamu.edu (Michael J Stumpf)
Subject: cd pin config

Can anyone drop me a quick note on how to do this:

I've got a toshiba cdrom driven by scsi, and a gus.  I got a specialty
cable to go from toshiba to gus, and checked all connections for
continuity w/a voltmeter.  yet when I plug it in, I get nothing..
I'm trying this w/cd audio, and I get output from the 1/8" stereo jack
on the front.. I suspect the gus connector was wired wrong.. what are
the gus pinouts for "CD", do I have to software enable this input
(like the mike/line in), and will it work w/a first generation GUS 
(I bought mine really really early)?

Any help is appreciated, the way it's set up currently is:

toshiba:

		[g r l]  (I think, this may be wrong, but it's g l r if so..)

GUS:    

		[r x g l]  (x indicates no connection)

in any case, someone please indicate to me which wire goes where.. do I
just need to ground both middle ones, or just the leftmost one, or what?

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 18:08:25 -0700 (MST)
From: Derek the Dweebosaurus <dng@med.ucalgary.ca>
Subject: Epic Pinball Cheats

I recall seeing a message a few months ago regarding Epic Pinball Cheats. 
I just got it was wondering if someone could mail me or post those cheats 
again. The only cheat I've found so far is to modify the config.pin file 
to give you a maximum of 9 balls...

Thanks a lot
 -----------------------------------------------
dng@med.ucalgary.ca

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 22:25:22 -0800
From: blarren@uclink.berkeley.edu (Bart Adam Larrenaga)
Subject: files at epas

I just saw the files gus0037.zip and gus0038.zip up at epas.  They had no text
files with them, so I'm wondering what they are.  Anyone know?

--Bart Larrenaga

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 08:56:14 -0800 (PST)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #30

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
$  
$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 12:01:12 EST
$  From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu
$  Subject: Voice Blaster & GUS support in future Epic Games
$  
$  >I was just wondering if anyone has heard anything about or used the Covox
$  >Voice Blaster that has just come out at Radio Shack... it's supposed to
$  >be some sort of voice recognition software for sound blaster and
$  >compatibles and it says on the box that you can use it to work with games
$  >from Lucasarts, Microprose, Accolade, etc...
$  
$  If you want to play with some fairly decent voice recognition software,
$  look around for a demo of a package called InCube or something like
$  that.  It only works under Windows, but it's VERY good from what I saw.
$  Its recognition algorithm is so good that it can recognize several
$  different people speaking the same words (if they have a similar accent)
$  without having to be trained for each one.  Or, at least, it understood
$  me after a friend trained it for himself.  I was impressed.
$   
$  --Michael--  << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >>  << dmcintyr@vt.edu >>

There's also a package called Dragon Talk that is bundled with the IBM
Audiovation/A sound card for PS/2's.  It appears to be a baby brother to
Dragon Dictate, a huge application that is used for voice control of X
workstations.  Dragon Dictate runs under DESQview/X, and requires about
16Mb of RAM to function, but its accuracy is near 100% after about an hour
of training.  It's truly amazing, but expensive.  You can manipulate
menus, move the mouse, type in text, all with voice commands, and you can
control a remote workstation over the network.  Dragon Talk is much
smaller, and only controls Windows, but appears to be as full-featured as
the bigger package.  I would expect that it approaches the quality of
Dragon Dictate.  If you are interested, I will try to find out if Dragon
Talk is available separately. (The Audiovation/A is a total loss for game
compatibility, by the way).

"File, Exit Windows, EnterKey"

-- 
Mike Batchelor      |
mikebat@netcom.com  |                  This space for rent

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 18:23:52 MST
From: Juggler <IH23%UTEP.bitnet@UTEPVM.EP.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #30

You can get a converter for .au files called SOX. I got mine at
techno.stanford.edu in the pub/raves/sound_samples/utils dir...

---
- = Juggler = -  [ IRC: jugular - vrave: jug ]
IH23@utep.bitnet
IH23%utep@utepvm.ep.utexas.edu
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
"Sometimes I wonder about the karmic implications of our actions"
								  -Farmer Vincent in "Motel Hell"
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 22:06:47 -0700 (MST)
From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #30

> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 21:35:06 -0500
> From: David A Denis <denis@acsu.buffalo.edu>
> Subject: .Au and more
> 
> I found a whole bunch of these .AU files at some FTP site.  I realize you
> need to convert them tp play 'em.  I got a file called SUN2VOC.exe , and
> tried to convert a .au file I downloaded.  It  I then tried to play it
> with playfile but it was all crappy.  Any ideas what to do?  Some of the
> songs there are good, by good n bands.  Is there an FTP site like this one
> that has .WAV files?  I heard of an MTV one.  BTW it is athena.sdsu.edu
> and garfield.catt.ncsu.edu  .  

My favorite convertor program, WHAM (Waveform Hold And Modify) for Windows,
can read from and save to AU files, as well as WAV, RAW, VOC, IFF, and AIF.
However, I don't remember where I got it.  Ah, just found it - it's on a local
BBS.  I'll upload it to epas, OK?

BTW, I've never had an AU file to try and convert, but it seems to work OK
otherwise.  It's a fast, fairly slick, stable program.

>   Also, I got the index for epas, but when I look under voc/dos/util
> or something, and no files except the index that says there should be a few files
> there.  Are they gone or moved?

Epas has a new policy of keeping only recent uploads, for a week or a few, 
and then deleting them.  You have to go to one of the mirror sites for old
stuff.
-- 
 _______                                                             KB7PWD
(_  | |_)                                            shawn.rutledge@asu.edu
__) | | \__________________________________________________________________

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 21:39 GMT
From: DAVE <CSU0001@VAX2.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK>
Subject: GUS SCSI Daughter-board with OS/2

Hi all.

   Here's a nice question...

   I've seen a ad. for the GUS SCSI daughter-board and I'd like to replace my
Future Domain 8bit SCSI card. Trouble is, I don't know if any of the drivers
that come with the daughter-board or OS/2 will handle it. Any ideas? Are there
OS/2 drivers with the board?

   Thanks in advance!

   Jonathan Clark (Queens University, Belfast)
   

------------------------------

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 23:27:33
From: Win Shaw <kws@khongws.pc.my>
Subject: HELP: Gusser with severely limited FTP access.

Greeting Gussers,

	Just a simple plea for help as my FTP access is limited to 2.5MB 
per month. Could someone mail these files in encoded form to the 
newsgroup 'comp.binaries.ibm.pc'?

	1) Ultrajoy.exe  (with the bug fix)
	2) midfir76.zip
	3) pmak110.zip
	4) gusdk210.zip
	5) midiband.zip
	6) patshad2.zip
	
	Thanks a HUGE bundle!!!!
	
	William

------------------------------

End of GUS Daily Digest V10 #31
*******************************
