Ultrasound Daily Digest     Tue, 19 Jan 93       Volume 2 : Issue  16 

Today's Topics:
							 669 composer
	 GUS Press Release: Midisoft Recording Session to be bundled
			GUS Press Release: Power Chords to be bundled
		Has anyone got the MIDI working?  I need assistance...
				  Hey! Turn it up! (but be carefull)
							 More Uploads
						 Note to Brad Craig.
							 OPTi and GUS
					 SC2, GUS, and noise solution
					Simultaneous playback/record.
					  Tons of Software for GUS!
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #15
				  Ultrasound FTP Sites News (+ OS/2)

	Information about the UltraSound Daily Digest (such as
mail addresses, request servers, ftp sites, etc., etc.) can be found
at the end of the Digest.
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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 12:48:02 +0700 (MST)
From: Adam Cowen <cowen@ee.ualberta.ca>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.03.9301181202.A11552-9100000@bode.ee.ualberta.ca>
Subject: 669 composer
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi, has anyone been able to get the 669 composer on epas to work. I am
using sbos v1.22 release version. I have also tried the sys driver and the
1.23 beta version. I have tried all of the combinations and nothing works,
it always says that it can't find the Soundblaster. BTW the -o3
option will lock up my computer always.

Any help is appreciated?
Hmmm,  will there be a 669 composer out supporting native gus?

Adam Cowen

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Date: 16 Jan 93 12:53:32 GMT
From: bs@mda.ca (Bruce Sharpe)
Message-Id: <3959@mdavcr.mda.ca>
Subject: GUS Press Release: Midisoft Recording Session to be bundled
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Just found this on the Gravis BBS ((604) 431-5927):

January 15, 1993                              Advanced Gravis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

	 ADVANCED GRAVIS AND MIDISOFT SIGN LICENSING AGREEMENT

Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd. and Midisoft Corporation
have signed an agreement whereby Midisoft music authoring software
will be bundled together with Advanced Gravis UltraSound(tm)
multimedia PC hardware.  The world-wide, non-exclusive licensing
agreement extends to the end of 1993.

Under the terms of the agreement, Gravis will license Midisoft
Recording Session for Windows and a collection of MIDI songs for
inclusion in the retail versions of the Gravis UltraSound sound
card.  The bundle will give users the ability to easily play,
compose, record, and edit MIDI music for personal, business, or
educational purposes.

"A large percentage of our sound card customers are Windows users
anxious to experiment with music composition and MIDI," said Grant
Russell, Advanced Gravis president.  "These customers are going to
find our CD-quality sound and Midisoft's revolutionary software
hard to beat, especially at the price.

Gravis UltraSound, released in early October 1992, is a 16-bit 
44.1 kHz, 32 voice stereo sound card with support for Standard
MIDI, 256K of on-board memory, and a speed-compensating game port. 
UltraSound features wave table synthesis for true professional
quality musical instrument reproduction.  It features Ad Lib(tm)
and Sound Blaster(tm) compatibility and supports Windows Multimedia
Extensions.  The suggested retail of the UltraSound bundle is
$199.95 and will begin shipping in March 1993.

Midisoft Recording Session for Windows is a notation-based MIDI
sequencer that displays standard music notation in realtime during
recording, editing, and playback.  The program converts a PC into
a multi-track recording studio.  With the program, users with
little if any music knowledge can easily edit existing MIDI files -
such as those being included in the Gravis/Midisoft bundle. 
Amateur musicians and hobbyists with a knowledge of music can use
the software to compose and record original music.

"Our Recording Session is a sophisticated music authoring tool
that's easy enough to use by mainstream Window users," said Raymond
Bily, Midisoft CEO.

Founded in 1986, Midisoft Corporation is a privately held company
rapidly becoming recognized as the leader in music software
technology for Windows.  The Redmond, Washington firm develops a
line of Windows, DOS, VIS, and Atari software which enhances the
music experience of people of all ages and levels of music
proficiency.

Advanced Gravis designs, manufactures and markets high-quality
entertainment devices for personal computers, including joysticks,
PC GamePads, MouseSticks, and the new UltraSound, a 16 bit, 32
voice sound card for the IBM PC.

For further information : Brad Craig, at 604-431-5020.

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Date: 16 Jan 93 12:58:03 GMT
From: bs@mda.ca (Bruce Sharpe)
Message-Id: <3960@mdavcr.mda.ca>
Subject: GUS Press Release: Power Chords to be bundled
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Just found this on the Gravis BBS ((604) 431-5927):

January 15, 1993                                  Advanced Gravis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

  ADVANCED GRAVIS AND HOWLING DOG SYSTEMS SIGN LICENSING AGREEMENT

Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd. and Howling Dog Systems
have signed an agreement whereby Howling Dog's music software will
be bundled together with Advanced Gravis UltraSound(tm) multimedia
PC hardware.  The world-wide, non-exclusive licensing agreement
extends to the end of 1993.

Under the terms of the agreement, Gravis will license Power Chords
for Windows and a collection of MIDI songs for inclusion in the
retail versions of the Gravis UltraSound sound card.  The bundle
will give users the ability to easily play, edit and compose MIDI
music for personal, business, or educational purposes using a
familiar guitar interface and powerful drum kit.

"A large percentage of our sound card customers are Windows users
anxious to experiment with music composition," Grant Russell,
Advanced Gravis president.  "These customers are going to find our
CD-quality sound and Howling Dog's revolutionary software hard to
beat, especially at the price."

Gravis UltraSound, released in early October 1992, is a 16-bit    
44.1 kHz, 32 voice stereo sound card with support for Standard
MIDI, 256K of on-board memory, and a speed-compensating game port. 
UltraSound features wave table synthesis for true professional
quality musical instruments reproduction.  It features Ad Lib(tm)
and Sound Blaster(tm) compatibility and supports Windows Multimedia
Extensions.  The suggested retail of the UltraSound bundle is
$199.95 and will began shipping in January 1993.

Power Chords for Windows is a object oriented music sequencer that
makes use of a playable on-screen guitar as one of its input
metaphors.  Users can create chord objects, strumming patters, drum
parts, melody and base parts, all with the mouse.  Compositions are
created by dragging the various parts into position in a song
framework.  This interactive approach to music making shows the
true power of the Windows environment.  Power Chords also supports
standard midi functions.  Amateur musicians and hobbyists with a
knowledge of music can use the software to compose, play and record
original music.

"We are constantly receiving reports from users of Power Chords who
can't believe how quickly and easily they can create music on their
computer," said Eric Bell, President of Howling Dog Systems.

Howling Dog Systems is a relatively new company devoted to the
production of top quality music software in the Windows
environment.

Advanced Gravis designs, manufacturers and markets high-quality
entertainment devices for personal computers, including joysticks,
PC GamePads, MouseSticks, and the new UltraSound, a 16 bit, 32
voice sound card for the IBM PC

For further information:
   Advanced Gravis Brad Craig, at 604-431-5020
   Howling Dog, Eric Bell, at 604-436-0420

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 09:42:48 CST
From: levitt@vault.WUstl.EDU (Scott Levitt -- Summer HS Coop)
Message-Id: <9301181542.AA01404@vault.WUstl.EDU>
Subject: Has anyone got the MIDI working?  I need assistance...
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi,

I have the Soundblaster PRO midi interface, a Korg 707 digital midi keyboard
with in out and thru, and Voyetra Sequencer Plus.  But I can't get it to
recognize the MIDI.  Does the Soundblaster PRO midi kit need modifying?  

Also, I noticed when I tried to play a .mid file thru the midi port it sounded
terrible...can anyone help with this problem?

Thank you...
				Scott Levitt
				levitt@informatics.wustl.edu

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 17:30:03 EST
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Message-Id: <9301182230.AA01707@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Hey! Turn it up! (but be carefull)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> From: "Bryon Daly, ECE Dept, UMass, Amherst" <DALY@ecs.umass.edu>
> Subject: Misc. GUS problems
> 
> First, I'm getting some sort of weird feedback sometimes.  Let me explain my 
> setup: The gus line out goes into the AUX input on my stereo.  The SPEAKER-B

Oh look stimpy! Smoke coming out of the card... And oh, what's that! My power
amp is melting! Happy, Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy...

THREE reasons why you shouldn't do that:

1- The line in (~30Kohm) expect a 1 or 2V peak to peak signal max. Anything more
than that will cause clipping and can damage the input circuit.

2- Your amp SPEAKER-B is in serie to SPEAKER-A and so your amp sees an extremely
high impedance. The transfer function is far from effective and so your amp
is producing most of its watts in heat, instead of audio.

3- The card is feeding back thru the stereo input stage, adding to the normal
feedback, and overdriving the amp. It is possible to remove this feedback,
but you'll still have problem 1 and 2.

> outputs from the stereo go into the line-in on the GUS (should this be mic-in
> instead?)  My stereo lets me play from 2 input sources at once, so I can have 
> both my CD player and the sound card playing at the same time (very convenient
> for certain games with sound effects but no music).  It normally works fine,
> but sometimes, I get all sorts of garbled output on the stereo.  It only 
> happens if I have the stereo volume up past 5, and I have just run ultrinit.

When you run ultrinit you physically connect thru a CMOS switch the line in to
the GUS out (and also the CDROM audio in). Now, if you are sending to the GUS
line in what is coming out of the GUS out thru your amp SPEAKER-B out, you get
feedback. Now In your case, it only happens with the line-in enabled because
by using the SPEAKER-B out, you feed a low ampere/high voltage signal, which
is not amplified a lot by the LM317 (but is still damaging) and so it is
stopped by the CMOS switch. In my case my mixer has a maximum transfer of
power because i'm using a 2V line out to the GUS, and if the CMOS switch
is open, it still leak enough to cause feedback. My solution: i have a
patchbay to physically disconnect the GUS line-in when i'm not recording,
and when i'm recording, i monitor thru my headphones on my mixer.

So what should you do? Plug your CD player to the GUS line-in, plug the GUS
line-out to the CD input on your stereo. Voila. Of course, if the computer
is off, you cant listen to your CD player... The other solution is to connect
your preamplified out to the GUS and you wont have to disconnect physically if
you use the utility i have uploaded which is called "set". (it sets the
line-in, mic-in, line-out, enabled or disabled without any text output). Can
be found on archie.epas.utoronto.ca in the submit dir.

> It seems as if the GUS is taking the stereo's output and passing it back in.

It is. disconnect the line-in if you are sending back the signal. It can cause
damage to your amplifier and speakers (and because you are using the speaker
out it's also possible it is damaging the GUS LM317s).

> SBOS immediately stops the problem, as does running playfile -r (no other 
> Also, is there anything wrong with my setup as it is, that might
> be unhealthy for the card?

Very definitely... Do not use the SPEAKER out. (And you say you were getting
acceptable sound?????)

> ------------------------------
> From: ebynum@server.cs.jhu.edu
> Subject: No more static!
> 
>   Well, my thanks go out to Apollo Shau-Yang Wong. He hit the problem
> right on the head in yesterday's digest. Seems I had memory clogged up with
> device drivers. I booted from a clean floppy, using low memory to set up a
> 4-meg ramdrive. The static's all but gone (there is still a little when I
> record a DDD compact disc, but I suppose that's to be expected with 8-bit
> recording). Time to look into the 16-bit daughter card?

Several advices: if you have a 286, do boot with a clean system. On a 386,
i'm running with qemm, stacker, smartdrive, ansi, vga-ntsc, mouse etc...
and even with all that, i have no problem. In fact the samples i have
recorded are better than all the 8 bit samples i have found on the net when
i was recording from a CD or a recent tape (i record on Sony Metal masters
on a TEAC with dolby C, HX-Pro, fine bias, dynamic bias adjust). Of course
if you record from a video or an old Fe tape sans dolby, you'll get lots of
noise.

Another important point: if you can adjust your line out on your preamp,
adjust it so that the VU meter "led" on USS8 will slightly light on heavy
drums. That way, you'll get a better S/N ratio even if you introduce a little
clipping (symmetrical).

As for the 16 bit card: yes it's time for it. A 16 bit 22KHz signal sounds
better than an 8 bit 44KHz signal from the tests i have done with my EPS-16+
for a digital file playback. For instruments, it is a little bit different.
Some 8 bit stuff sound better than 16 bit stuff (mostly because they are
synthetic sounds from 8 or 12 bit synths).

>   Second, make sure the signal's not too loud (or soft). Oftentimes
> the line out from a stereo receiver has no adjustable volume control, so you
> have two options:
> 
>   1. Manufacture your own connector, using the speaker outputs. Then
>      you can adjust the volume manually (attribute this idea to
>      ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu; he's actually implemented it).

Definitely not a good idea (or at least use a 8 ohm to 10K audio transfo. they
are most of the time the red ones and the green ones are 8 to 1K)

>   2. Get a direct connection from the headphone output to the
>      microphone-in jack on the GUS. This, *in combination with*
>      the line signal (hint - use USS8) works well for me.

I wouldn't use the MIC-in for anything serious as it has a dynamic gain
controller (it flattens outrageously bass)

> ------------------------------
> From: F. Wallace Peers <peersfw@tuns.ca>
> Subject: Oddss and Ends
> 
> (2) WHEN TELLING THE DIGEST ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL NEW PROGRAM YOU"VE
> UPLOADED TO EPAS, PLEASE SAY WHAT THE FILENAME IS!  It's rather
> fustrating searching through files trying to guess which one is the one
> you want.  (just a pet peeve of mine  :-)  )

Usually there is a .txt file. It is the description... Which brings to mind:
people who have uploaded huge archives of midi files, please upload a .txt
with the titles. We need an INDEX file for each directory on epas, so we will
need that info (i wont reupload all that)

Ciao,
--
Francois Dion
	'  _   _   _ 
 CISM (_) (_)  _) FM       Montreal , Canada       Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
	  (_)  / . _)             10000 Watts          Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
_______________________________________________________________________________
Audio-C-DJ-Fractals-Future-Label-Multimedia-Music-Radio-Rave-Video-VR-Volvo-...

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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 93 23:27:22 PST
From: mtichy@sfu.ca
Message-Id: <9301180727.AA26527@fraser.sfu.ca>
Subject: More Uploads
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Gussers are in for another treat.  I'm going to upload some more
669 files to klingon.epas.utoronto.ca (128.100.160.36).
 
Simon2
Massbach
and Shadow which is the best of the batch.
 
Also the first intro with GUS support by the incredible leaders
in DEMO technology, RENAISSANCE!  This one is called Daretro
because it was coded by Daredevil with some nice 8-channel
--More--(49%)
music by C.C. Catch.
 
Heh, heh, I'm not going to upload this one quite just to let
you suffer a bit.
 
For those of you who are new or are still in the dark, 669 files
are 8 channel "mod-type" music files.  You can play them on a
SB or SB Pro with COMPOSD13.ZIP.  However, I would reccomend
playing them on an UltraSound with P669GU0.ARJ as they sound
the best on a GUS.
 
Snoop around the \pc\pub\ultrasound\submit or \pc\pub\ultrasound\
soundutils directories to find the stuff.
 
Don't forget to buy Josh's Cyberstrike game when it comes out.
You gotta support the GUS and help Renaissance go to next
years DEMO competition, The Party for a show down with the
Future Crew!
 
Enjoy the files fellers!

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 14:04 EST
From: "Matthew E. Bernold" <MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Message-Id: <9301181904.AA00225@orca.es.com>
Subject: Note to Brad Craig.
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Here's a copy of a note I sent to Alan at GravisTech, and to Chris Yuzik,
hoping that one of them will forward it to Brad Craig.  If anyone happens
to know a direct mail address for Mr. Craig, please let me know, and I'll
send it directly to him.

Let me know what you think...but more importantly, let GRAVIS know what you
think.  Beta testing is one thing, but being a beta-tester on your own time
and money, and not getting copies of the new and improved package for your
time and effort is NOT my idea of a good time....  :-)

----------

Mr. Craig;

As a user of the Gravis Ultrasound card for nearly two months now, I was
both happy and upset to read the two press release announcements about the
new Ultrasound software bundles from Midisoft and Howling Dog.  I have been
using this card, as I said, for almost two months WITHOUT the benefit of
any sort of finalized software.  I've dealt with feeling like a beta tester,
and not having any programs that support my soundcard.  I've dealt with
flaky emulators and bad windows drivers and shortsighted programmers who
didn't bother to include patch caching in their programs.  I've basically
suffered through things with a great card and NO software support.

The whole point of this letter is to find out if Gravis plans on treating
it's current customers (especially the ones on internet who have been
fighting for this card for almost 6 months) to a taste of REAL software, or
if we are going to be left out in the cold.  Will current owners of the GUS
also get these software bundles, or will we have to buy them, thereby proving
that we have just been beta-testing the card for all this time?  I sincerely
hope that Gravis doesn't turn it's collective back on the customers who
risked their money buying a board that wasn't even supported yet, that had
no software to speak of, and doesn't even have a real SDK available.

BTW.  I STILL think it's a great card, after all I've said in this note.  I
just don't want to have to spend another 25+ or so dollars to get software I
could have had by just waiting for this "final release" package instead of
buying the "BETA version" back in November.

Thank you,

Matthew E. Bernold
The Pennsylvania State University

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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 03:24:32 GMT
From: jenqvist@klaava.Helsinki.FI (J Juhana Enqvist)
Message-Id: <1993Jan16.032432.7117@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Subject: OPTi and GUS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In article <1993Jan15.093209.11190@netcom.com> stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart) writes:

>it may fail completely on another.  Does anyone have any detailed information
>regarding which chipsets/motherboards/speeds/manufacturers/GUSes this appears
>to be afflicting?  I've been thinking about upgrading sound cards, and here I
>just got a nice OPTi motherboard for christmas...

It seems (what I have been reading from this group) to be a problem with
only some 486 motherboards. Mine is one of them. I've got two machines,
both with an OPTi chipset. My GUS works with no problems in the 386/40
machine, but in my 486/33 (392/491 chips), I had to disable external
cache in order to get it work decently. SBOS stuff worked great with the
cache, but Playmidi and windows kept saying 'On Board Parity Error'.
Disabling the external cache (256K) didn't seem to affect noticeably to
the speed, so I'm quite satisfied with this now...

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 17:30:50 -0500
From: "Frank Pikelner" <frank@cs.yorku.ca>
Message-Id: <9301182230.AA00920@cs.yorku.ca>
Subject: SC2, GUS, and noise solution
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I confirmed the solution proposed by someone on the net (sorry, I forgot the
name), but using the P669 player with a sound file prior to running SC2 or
MELEE fixes the noise problems reported with the 1MB upgrade.

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
   ---  ---     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, 19 Jan 93 01:08 EST
From: "Matthew E. Bernold" <MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Message-Id: <9301190608.AA11441@orca.es.com>
Subject: Simultaneous playback/record.
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I just had a strange experience with my GUS in Windows.  First a bit about
my setup.  I've got an external amp with three inputs and two outputs.
The line out on the GUS is hooked into an input on the amp, and the secondary
line out on the amp is hooked into the line in on the gus.  I've got a tape
player on another input of the amp, so I can play on the tape player and
record on the GUS.

I was playing back a MIDI file in Windows, and wondered if I could record
the output in a .WAV file, so I fired up the pocket recorder. (from EPAS)
I started the MIDI file, and then tried to start the recorder, but I got
an error that the pocket recorder couldn't open the device.  Then, I tried
it the other way around.  I started the recorder and then started the MIDI
file.  This time, aside from a few seconds of silence at the beginning, it
worked fine!  I recorded part of the MIDI file into a .WAV file.

I've still got a couple of questions though...

1) Does anyone know why I can't start recording once I've started playing
   a MIDI file?  The input and output shouldn't have anything to do with
   each other.  If a program uses the output, it shouldn't also tie up the
   input, should it?

2) Since I can record the output of the GUS, it is obviously not a hardware
   limitation.  It must be a driver bug. (or omission)  It seems to me that
   the driver checks the status of the output device when a program tries to
   use the input device.  Can anyone confirm/deny this?

Thanks in advance,

	   Matthew E. Bernold             MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
		 <<APOCALYPSE>>                  meb@haydn.psu.edu

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 03:46:19 GMT
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Message-Id: <1993Jan18.034619.1085@sfu.ca>
Subject: Tons of Software for GUS!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Somebody might want to cross post this to the games forum.
I just pulled it off Gravis BBS.

			   Titles Planned for UltraSound Support!
				   Shipping the 1st Qtr. of 1993
 
Publisher                Working Title            Rel.Date
_____________________________________________________________ 
 
1. Electronic Arts       NHL Hockey               Feb-Mar
						 Ultra Chuck Yeager       Dec-Jan 
 
	 They have planned support for other titles, but can not
	 release the working names of the titles as of yet.  
 
2. Interplay             Buzz Aldrins RaceintoSpace    Jan. 
 
	 Interplay has planned support for all future titles in 1993.
	 Interplay now handles VirginGames and they are also planning 
	 to support GUS.  
 
-More-3. Accolade              Star Control 2           Shipping
Already 
 
	 selling thousands of copies per month, the box is being
	 sticker with labels stating that (This Product Supports
	 UltraSound). Accolade plans support for other titles for 1993. 
	 
 
4. MicroProse            World Circuit            Shipping       
						 David Leadbetter's Golf  Jan-Feb        
						 Harrier                  Jan-Feb 
 
	 These titles will have either a patch to support the GUS or
	 will have re-vision with UltraSound support.  
 
5. Ibis                  EarPlay                  Jan
						 RiffTutor                Feb 
 
	 Well know for their Music programs. They plan support for all
	 up-coming titles.  
 
6. S.S.I (EA AFL)             Great Naval Battles      Shipping
 
-More-     This program supports GUS through an SBOS patch. They are
also
	 planning a re-vision in Jan. They plan support for the Gravis
	 UltraSound board as well as the PC Game Pad. S.S.I. is well
	 known for their Combat Simulations and D&D Software.  
 
7. Three Sixty (EA AFL)  Battle Cruiser 3-D       Feb 
 
	 Three sixty is well know for their air, combat, and war
	 simulations games. They plan support for GUS with several
	 other titles in 1993.   
 
8. Epic Games            Drum Blaster             Jan 
 
	 This shareware is planning support in all their new titles
	 Track Blaster, Zone 66, Solar Winds, Savage Crusade, Armada
	 2525, Screen Tracker, and several other titles.  
 
9. ID Software           Bio Hazard                    Feb-Mar   
						 Major Stiker              
 
	 Famous for Wolfstein 3-D. They are planning support for all
	 new titles in 1993.  
-More-
10. Apogee Software      Pickle Wars              Feb-Mar 
 
	 Big things are planned for GUS support this year, including
	 new educational titles.  
 
11. Psygnosis            Lemmings 2               Feb 
 
	 Well known for their arcade style games, Lemmings and Oh' no
	 More Lemming's. They plan support for Gravis UltraSound in
	 several of their tiles in 1993.  
 
12. Mystic Software      Music Works              Shipping 
 
	 Mystic Software is planning to bring out several other music
	 titles that will take advantage of boards rich sounds.  
 
13. Odessey Software          Space Wars               Jan 
 
	 They are coming up with a Wing Commader type game with GUS
	 support. Received great press in Computer Gaming World Nov.
	 edition.  
-More-
14. New World Computing  Empire Deluxe            Feb 
 
	 New World is an AFL of Broderbund Software. They have planned
	 support in all their future releases.  
 
15. Hollyware            Johhny Quest             Feb 
 
	 Famous cartoon adventure of the sixties, has several titles
	 planned for Gus support in 1993.  
 
16. Win Jammer Software. Win Jammer               Jan 
 
	 One of the finest Music Shareware companies. Wind Jammer is
	 producing a new commerical Midi Sequencer with Gus support.  
	  
 
17. Kesmai Corporation   Air Combat Warrior       Feb 
 
	 On-Line gaming system has big plans for supporting the Gravis
	 Ultrasound.  
 
-More-18. The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks Ltd.                    Feb-Mar

					Super JAM                           
 
 
	 This well known Music has been producing music titles for
	 everal years now. They are also working on othe MPC tiles.and
	 have had several features in Keyboard Magazine.  
 
19. Norsehelm Products Inc.   Ragnarok II              Mar       
							  Seven Wonders        
 
	 Arcade adventures game producers. Looking forward to
	 supporting GUS.  
 
20. VOR Technologies, Inc.    Empires of the Known Universe Mar
 
	 On-Line gaming system. They are working on adding support of
	 GUS to take advantage of the digital audio.  
 
21. Intel Corporation         960 Family Features Demo's    Feb.
 
	 They are planning to use GUS in several of their Multi-Media
-More-     projects.  
 
22. IntraCorp Inc.       Terminator 2 Chess       Feb            
						 Trump Castle 3           Mar 
 
	 One of the top game producers, they have produced such hits as
	 Hme Alone 2, Bridge Master and Dark Half.  
 
23. MidiSoft             Recording Session        Jan 
 
	 Midisoft will support GUS in all the future titles.  
 
24. NovaLogic            Comanche Maxium Overkill Shipping 
 
	 AFL of EA. Produced the number 1 selling fall title. NovaLogic
	 produced a SBOS for their title. The Sound Balster version
	 only plays mono. The GUS rocks in stereo, with much clearer
	 sound effects.  
 
25. Bt Software Enterprises   Xanthus                  Feb       
							  PC Composer              Mar 
 
-More-     Bt has produced 3 selling titles to date. Will support GUS
in
	 all future titles.  
 
26. Mercer Comp Systems  Midi Performer           Feb 
 
	 Music Software Company plans on support of GUS with several
	 new titles in 1993.   
 
Also look out for Josh's CYBERSTRIKE.  It's like smash TV with
some wicked Graphics and awsome music.  4-channel music for
SB owners and more for GUSers.

Later.

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:20:29 GMT
From: M.D.Hennessy@cen.exeter.ac.uk
Message-Id: <18283.9301181020@olib>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #15
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Can anyone explain why the 669 player just leaves a 
'Clearing memory...' message and hangs on my computer ?

(Tried the same files on a friend's and they worked.)


Mark.H.

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Date: 17 Jan 1993 10:16:02 GMT
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Message-Id: <1jbbl2INNh9s@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound FTP Sites News (+ OS/2)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

					GRAVIS ULTRASOUND FTP SITES NEWS
==========================================================================
Ftp Site: archive.epas.utornto.ca      Directory: pub/pc/ultrasound
		  wuarchive.wustl.edu                     systems/msdos/ultrasound
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi all. I just finished validating the latest batch of submissions in
the submit directory (in archive.epas.utoronto.ca). Thanks for all the
contributions! Special thanks to the programmers of the GUS native mode
softwares!!

All the files have been scanned for virsues and all seems to work fine.
They have been placed in their approproiate directories with one
additional note. There is now a new directory for all the Windows
programs ...../ultrasound/soundutil/windows.

A couple of notes from me as far as the new files go....

- More 669 files! These are great! A number are more complicated and more
impressive than the last batch. All GUS owners must try 669 files. They
are awesome. How well do they work with the base card (256k)? I have 1
Meg and they work fine. But just in case someone asks, do theywork ok on
the 256k cards as well? Anyone out there still have a 256K card?

- GUSMOD (official release, 1.1, not beta!) works great! I can hear my
MODs in stereo now (wow and the others have alwasys gave me mono on my
GUS only). Thanks Renassiance group!

- The New WinJammer works wonderfully with the GUS now that it loads
patches tself. No more needing Patch Manager! And of cousre you can now
have a list of midi files playing in the background automatically under
Windows. Pretty neat stuff. I haven't played with the mid*.arj and mmjbox 
much yet.  Can't remember if they load the patches themselves too....


OK, here is the OS/2 part I was talking about...

For all you OS/2 owners out there, even though I've always had
OS/2 crash on me with a trap, even with Gravis' playfile and playmidi,
gusmod works! Under OS/2 in a DOS windows. No crashes. So what Ihave
been doing now is playing a list of my MOD files in a DOS Window in the
background (using a batch file. Need a gusmodjukebox . :) ) while do
ing my work in other windows. Works great! All I need now is a ftp site
with a whole bunch of MOD files I can download with great songs. :)

Now I realize all you Windows people will come out now and say... we've
always been able to do this. ANd now with Winjammer patch loading (gus
compatible), we can do it in the background too. A whole list of songs
with better program interface et al. Well, no arguments from me here
except all the things OS/2 can do that Windows can't like multi DOS
windows all working at once. Really neat how I can download a file, play
songs, and be reading my QWK from my local BBS all at the same time. :)
But anyways, we can now (or at least I can) do this in DOS, Windows, and
OS/2 using the Ultrasound. The Ultrasound is getting better everyday!

Now if only playmidi and 669 player can work under OS/2 as well....
Actually I have a question here. Wasn't the 669 player for the GUS
written by Tran of Ren? Same fellow who just wrote this gusmod which
does work under OS/2? It'd be wonderful if someone can forward a message
to him asking him if he can get the 669 player to work too now that
gusmod works. Especially since the 669 files really shows off the
Ultrasound more than mods, hence sounds better and would make better
background music. :) Thanks.


Well, that's all the blabbling from me for now. Thanks for all the
uploads! I only mentioned some above. But thanks to ALL uploaders!
Keep'em coming. :)

Thomas.

P.S.
People keep asking me why I don't have a .sig..... well, my problem is
I'm involved with so many things here on Internet that my sig will be a
screenful and I'll get flamed for having too big a sig and wasting
bandwith. :( 

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 14:36:28 EST
From: snowdog@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Rodney CHANG)
Message-Id: <9301181936.AA20254@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I have a problem w/ setup.  When I run setup to let it configure the ports
for me, I get a EMM386 error right after I configure the base address.  
After many different configurations that still didn't work, I decided to
set the ultrasnd variable manually.  The manual explains the ultrasnd
variable, but I didn't find anything about the the ultradir variable.  Can
anyone tell me what I should put in my ultradir variable?  Thanks in
advance.

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Date: (null)
From: (null)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	YRRAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

>Also included to all GUS owners a new SBOS that does not use any
>options, and the program Patch Manager and a new set of Window's
>driver's. We will also include a coupon for ULTRA CHUCK YEAGER  for $15.00.

	YA YA YA YA YA YA!!!!

>Well, does it sound cool or what ? :)

	I can face exams a happy man....

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	.sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
	.sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
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			SUPRESS THE POOR, SAVE THE RICH, KILL THE STRANGE

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