GUS Daily Digest            Tue, 31 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  30 

Today's Topics:
                      CD audio realtime playback
                            cdrom cutting
                   Dark Forces demo GUS sounds bad.
                 GUS Daily Digest V18 #29 (GUS-clone)
                 Just a few questions and thoughts...
                          Last word on Myst:
                              local bus
                MAXSBOS and GUS rev 2.2 with 1Meg RAM
                            MaxSBOS v.021
                     Nascar Joystick calibration
                            nascar racing
                        Off board parity error
                                sig2.0
                         Tweaked bosendorfer
                   Ultrinit-ish program for Linux?

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, 31 Jan 1995 09:35:10 +0100 (MET)
From: Dick Verweij <hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: CD audio realtime playback

> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 22:22:10 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Sam <Samuel.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: CD-DA digital read and playback
> 
> Someone wrote saying they had written a cd-da digital read/playback 
> program, and would let people have the code to improve etc... Does this 
> mean you're letting the code into public domain (well, freeware, 
> whatever)? If so, it occurs to me my brother would probably like a copy. 
> We've done the double buffering before (which is I think what your 
> program lacked) & would like to try adding variable speed, scratching etc. 
> 
> Didn't reply right away, and deleted the message, 'cos I have no access 
> to cdrom drive here, forgot my brother would be interested...
> 
> So, whoever it was, count me interested! Thanks!
> 
> Sam
> 
> --> Home Page <-- ** Go on, try it! ** --> http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d405ua <--
> 
I have put cds.zip on EPAS, you could try it out. But BEWARE! it is very
beta!!
I have only tested on a SONY CDU33A...

cds tries to read the cdrom & plays it directly on the GUS.
-- 
DickyDick
email: hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl  
ONLY A DICK MAKES IT POSSIBLE

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 16:56:52 +0100
From: vincent@orsay.icdc.fr (Vincent RAYMOND)
Subject: cdrom cutting

I just want to say that I'm totally agree with Antonio Guia
for his idea about the year cdrom of gus archives ( D.18#29 ).

I pass too much nights on the ftp...

How could we make this know to Gravis ?

A question :

Dark Force is not available in France, Is it in U.S ?

If it is, is it compatible with the Gus ?

Good Day to all of yours, Vince.


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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 23:11:06 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Dark Forces demo GUS sounds bad.

Did anyone try the Dark Forces demo, using SBOS to emulate an FM chip?  
The music sounds, SBish, but the digital was really bad, with garbled up 
speech that was playing fast forward.  What can I do to hear them talk 
at a comprehensible rate?  I am not surprised by LucasArts.

-Peter

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 10:36:23 GMT-0100
From: "HOOGENDOORN,A" <9210246@HSU1.HVU.NL>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #29 (GUS-clone)

> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 14:00:19 WET
> From: MAMMET Jean-Francois <mammet@univ-mlv.fr>
> Subject: Re: gus clone
> 
> In yesterday's digest Saari Anssi wrote :
> >What I'd like to know, are they legit or did they just copy the
> >card and the software and get rich in the process or did they do it
> >legal. If it's the former, I hope Gravis can get them nuked... After
> >all, there should be some use for all those nukes in the world and I can't
> >think of a better use :)
> 
> 
> I think this card is made with the gravis license because this card uses
> the gf1 chip, with the gravis logo on it ! So that must be the real one.
> I hope this is it, because even if gravis is a very good enterprise, we
> don't want to see it falling down because of gus clone !!!

Some time ago, I saw a GUS-clone myself. After asking te reseller, he 
told me it was made by GRAVIS too, only sold under a difrent name...

A.H.

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 13:20:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher McKillop <cdmckill@anchor.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Just a few questions and thoughts...

Here they go, a bunch of stuff I have been wanting to ask (I hope I can
rememeber it all)...

1) XWING:  can someone tell me how to get everything to sound right with it??

2) TIE FIGHTER:  how does one get the joy to stop drifting around during
play??  Is Gravis aware that this happens???

3) GF2:  Is there one, and when will it be out and how much will an upgrade,
if possible, be???

4) Pmode MegaEm:  Where the heck is it???  It is almost Feb 1995!!!!!


Hummmmmmm, i think that is it, if it isn't I will let loose some
more... TTYL.

Chris


--------- XORcists, 1B Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Chris McKillopcdmckill@sail.uwaterloo.ca
Eng Soc Rep."      "
Nice Guy.      -The Man That Couldn't Talk

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:18:30 -0800
From: sbrindle@netcom.com (Stephen Thomas Brindle)
Subject: Re: Last word on Myst:

>Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 10:47:41 -0800 (PST)
>From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
>Subject: Last word on Myst:
>
>I was able to completely solve Myst buzzing and popping noises by:
>
>Using the 5.47 drivers, setting the card to: 220,1,1,7,5
>
>And setting the playback buffer to: 8192
>
>This brought back all of the sounds for me.  The only downside is if you 
>don't have a fast CD-ROM drive, the QuickTime video will not play as 
>well.  Otherwise (I have a Quad-speed), everything will run fine..

Sorry, I tried that and Myst still sounded like a dusty, scratchy phongraph.
It's my final opinion that either Myst just does not work with a GUS, or
Myst just has really terrible recording.
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 21:21:27 -0500
From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du)
Subject: local bus

Anyone know what will happen if a VL-bus video card is placed
in an ISA slot?

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:42:53 -0400
From: j5oa@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Craig Galbraith)
Subject: MAXSBOS and GUS rev 2.2 with 1Meg RAM

Can I use maxsbos with my plain old GUS rev 2.2?  I wanna try using it with 
X-COM Ufo Defense...I heard somewhere that it made it sound MUCH better.

I downloaded maxsbos and whenever I try to load a game with it...I get no 
sound, now, is that because I suck? or is it because I just plain ol' can't 
use it?

Thanks
e-mail to j5oa@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
Craig Galbraith
Rush/BIM
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 19:25:19 +0200
From: Samuli Niiranen <samulin@walli.uwasa.fi>
Subject: MaxSBOS v.021

Anyone tried the new v.01beta? Works great!!! They've fixed some problems
with DOS-extender games, now even digitized effects work in Magic Carpet.
Great work Gravis. All we need now is the new PMODE megaem and goodbye to 
compability problems!

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Samuli Niiranen PML - Finland     ! I was born not knowing and have only had 
E-mail: samulin@walli.uwasa.fi    ! a little time to change that and there
        samulin@freenet.hut.fi    !               -Richard Feynman

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 09:23:49 +0100 (MET)
From: hh@hhdo.venture.net (Henning Holtschneider)
Subject: Nascar Joystick calibration

> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 01:59:03 -0500 (EST)
> From: Buddy <cs3mh3dn@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
> Subject: Nascar Joystick calibration

> Has anyone else had a problem with the joystick suddenly going out of 
> calibration in Nascar Racing? It works for a few minutes and then goes nuts!

I have the same problem. Sometimes, I can calibrate the joystick at startup
and it lasts for some minutes and sometimes it's the other way round; the
joystick seems to be crazy :) and it works after a few minutes.

BTW, I have a Gravis joystick.

Greetings from Dortmund

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      Henning Holtschneider * Bauernkamp 41 * 44339 Dortmund * Germany
 Telefax: +49 231 7285296 * Home: hh@hhdo.venture.net * Work: hh@venture.net
  mail to my home address w/ the subject "GET PGP" to get my PGP public key

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 10:49:31 -0800
From: dross@ultrix5.cs.csubak.edu (dean ross-smith)
Subject: nascar racing

I too have a problem with an erratic joystick in Nascar.  I've used both
a gravis gamepad and a gravis analog to no avail.  I have a 2.4 GUS and a
compaq 633 system

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 23:08:34 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Off board parity error

>Just a guess, but this would seem to mean that the machine does not believe
>any software has been set up to catch the NMI interrupt.  Two things come to
>mind that I can think of, and maybe others can think of more:
> 
>        - SBOS was not really loaded and ready (did is speak "SBOS 
>Installed")?
>        - Something wrote over the interrupt vector after SBOS was loaded.
> 
>If you are currently loading SBOS in your autoexec.bat, you might try moving
>it towards the end of the list of things you do in autoexec.bat.

Here's the strange thing, it says this *after* a warm boot that I do when 
the game crashes the machine.  The problem disappears when I don't load 
emm386.exe.  SBOS was loaded, and the only thing that the docs say about 
the interrupt vector being overwritten is under netware.  Anyway, why 
would there be a parity error after a warm boot?  Another thing I would 
like Gravis to do is to rewrite SBOS so that it can coexist with 
emm386.exe *and* a protected mode game at the same time.  Of course, this 
SBOS would really have the sound quality of 1 MB samples, just like 
MAXSBOS, but working for the digital audio on the regular GUS.  And 
another thing, since SBOS works with some protected mode games, as it 
supposedly is integrated more in the hardware of the GUS, why not make 
Mega-Em interface with the GUS like SBOS, but with the Sound Canvas 
emulation?  Oh well.  Just another waiting person for vaporware (I hope 
not!).
-Peter

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 0:24:05 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: sig2.0

T &A3&B1&H1&R2X4&M4&K1
This gravis driver came with the Mortal Kombat II driver. Anyone know what
it is and what its specs are ?

Name:grv.drv

Header:Gravis Ultrasound multi-channel. 
Sound Images generation 2 (c) 1992-1994. 
Tony Williams/Sound Images v1.11x

btw: has anyone noted and rejoiced over the fact that the one-channeled
s/fx days are over ?

Wheeeee...

(Sorry about init string on top.... :)

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:31:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Harrop <cph@inmos.co.uk>
Subject: Tweaked bosendorfer

> From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
>  
> I had to tweak the patch a little to make it sound better. I had to edit the

> envelopes a bit so the sound echos a bit longer as if it was played on 
> stage and I had to edit the use two tracks for every track that uses the 
> patch.  In other words, I make a copy of the tracks that use the piano 
> patch and re-pan them so the original tracks are panned all the way to 
> the left (0) and the copied tracks are panned all the way to the right 
> (127).  This makes the patch sound louder and better.

I know it's a bit of a cheek but could you upload it to 
archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit
Then we can all benefit from your tweaking !

Thanks,

Chris

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:46:59 -0600 (CST)
From: garner@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Mike Garner)
Subject: Ultrinit-ish program for Linux?

I have just recently begun to use my GUS with Linux and have found something
very annoying.  To get audible output from my GUS I first have to boot DOS
and run ULTRINIT.  Is there any type of init. program that is Linux-native?

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
*****Mike Garner - <garner@cs.unt.edu>***************************************
"Just ask yourself what could make this situation worse.  Then plan for that. 
If it happens, you look like you know what you're doing.  If it doesn't,
you're still better prepared to handle whatever does happen."  -David Gerrold

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