GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 16 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  15 

Today's Topics:
                   Choppy .AVI playback in Win 3.1
                               Descent
                        DOOM 2 sound problem.
                            gus  and biab
                       GUS Daily Digest V18 #12
                      GUS emulator for the AWE32
                              GUS Server
                             Lionking+GUS
                           Making of WC III
                  Midi in not working (on a pentium)
                            Nx586's & GUS?
  Play AudioCD from CDRom not directly connected to GUS Max (2 msgs)
                         Problems Recording!
                          Real-time effects
                             SC2000 & GUS
                       System Shock CD-Version

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: Mon, 16 Jan 95 08:59:17 EST
From: jday@bank-banque-canada.ca (Jim Day)
Subject: Choppy .AVI playback in Win 3.1

Hi,
I recently got a GUS MAX and everything works OK in Windows
EXCEPT when I play back .AVI files in Microsoft Video for Windows
the video is really choppy but the audio is normal.  It didn't do this
when I had my old ATI F/X 8-bit card.  Any ideas?

Jim

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 09:38:57 GMT
From: "egnilliB .D kraM" <PPYLMDB@ppn3.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Descent

This isn't exactly GUS-related, but does anyone know where I can lay 
my hands on a copy of Descent?  I take it it's shareware.

Mark Billinge

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 08:56:08 +0100
From: Martin Laukkanen <martin@triode.apana.org.au>
Subject: DOOM 2 sound problem.

In a past message someone said that they had a problem with DOOM 
2 working on their GUS. And also Heritic i think.
Those problems are not a problem with you GUS, just a problem 
with DOOM operating system v.1.666. Which (i believe) is used in both 
DOOM 2 and HEritic. The simple way to fix it is to run the game with a 
command line pramater of -GUS1 or -GUS2 . The second works for me.

---
Random OF xTatic....
orMartin Laukkanen.(martin@triode.apana.org.au)

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 11:09:50 EST
From: catena@arrcee.enet.dec.com
Subject: gus  and biab

The gus works GREAT with the latest version of band in a box for windows. It 
finally does patch caching just fine. Make sure you ask for the absolute 
latest  version. i think it's version 6.03.



have fun,

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 06:03:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Dedman <dedmanc@iia.org>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #12

On Fri, 13 Jan -1, GUS Server wrote:

  
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:26:49 -0500 (EST)
> From: jasonr@Newbridge.COM (Jason Rusmisel)
> Subject: Band-In-A-Box w/ GUS
> 
> Hi:
> 
> 
> I'm considering buying Band In A Box to use with my GUS.  Does anyone
> have any advice or comments about how well this works with the GUS. 
> Is BIAB patch cache aware??  Will it even work?  
> 
> Are there any comments about BIAB in general??
> 
> 
> 
> Jason
>
Jason: That was the first topic question I posted to this group about 4 
months ago. Unfortunatly, no one came up with any intelligent answers, 
but after contacting Peter Gannon at PG MUSIC, here is the scoop.

Band-in-a-Box has always worked with the GUS but it didn't support sample 
caching. 

The latest windows version advertised is 6.0.  BUT, you need 6.3 which 
supports the sample caching. 

So the bottom line is that if you get Band-in-a-Box for Windows Version 
_6.3_, you will love it as much as I do.

Chuck
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 10:00:36 -0800
From: eaaa006@rigel.oac.uci.edu (John Beppu)
Subject: GUS emulator for the AWE32

  This is not a tech support question, but I think the point I have to
  bring up is quite interesting.  Those who follow the newsgroup comp.
  sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.advocacy may have noticed the =AB=AB=ABIs there a GUS
  emulator for the AWE32?=BB=BB=BB thread.   I doubt one exists, but if such
  an emulator were to exist the GUS would have its greatest victory.

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=C4=C4=D9

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:59:01 +0800 (WST)
From: kimba@it.com.au (Kim Davies)
Subject: GUS Server

Hi,

I have been trying to unsubscribe to the GUS mailing lists for over a month,
however my returnable mail address has changed since, and it wont let me. I 
have tried repeatedly to contact the list owner to no avail. I'd really 
appreciate it if  someone removed my asap..

ta,
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 13:59:44 +0000 (GMT)
From: D.Kho@bi.HES-RDAM.NL
Subject: Lionking+GUS

Well to just comment on the last message about the lionking.

I've got the game as well and it doesn't work with my GUS either, but 
System Shock however works fine with me !!!!

Anyway i've got another question for y'all : I've recently installed WARP
on my PC and I'm trying to get GUS to run with OS\2 but it doesn't...huh?
I've tried the manley drivers (v0.6e) and also the alpha drivers from 
Gravis, and still n'thing.
Is it because I have 2 soundcards in my PC????
Config:
- AMD DX266Mhz
- 16Mb mem
- 3xi NEC CD-ROM drive
- Hercules Stingray videocard
- GUS with 1Mb
- Trust Sound expert deluxe 16-bit ( SB-PRO comp. )

Anyway when I  select SB PRO  in os\2 it works just fine, But I've got to 
start the drivers in DOS first, then reset and then run os\2.
If I start OS\2 WITHOUT starting DOS first and then reset, Os\2 doesn't 
"see" MY sbPro comp. What is the cause of all this trouble??? Please help 
me with this one, but on the whole I'm very satisfied with my GUS

T.I.A, DUCKS....


 ..ADULT GIFS ARE MEANT TO TEST MONITORS.......

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 09:47:06 GMT
From: "egnilliB .D kraM" <PPYLMDB@ppn3.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Making of WC III

Lo,

> On an unrelated note, has anyone gotten The Making of Wing Commander III
> cdrom to work?  It skips really badly.

Just a thought, but have you tried setting your GUS sound buffers in 
Control Panel to as low as possible?  I did that, and it cleared up 
all my Windows AVI video problems.  It does seem to have an adverse 
effect on some other audio though.  Ho hum.

Mark

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 08:48:15 EST
From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom)
Subject: Re: Midi in not working (on a pentium)

  >> 
  >> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 00:11:21 GMT
  >> From: jase@nedlog.demon.co.uk (Jason Nedlog)
  >> Subject: Midi-in not working in Windows
  >> 
  >> Hi,
  >> 
  >> I have been very happy with my GUS (especially now that games are
supporting
  >> it natively). Recently though, after system changes, MIDI-IN stopped
working
  >> from Windows.
  >> 
  >> I have a 512k GUS (quite an early version) and I have built the MIDI
  >> connector as described in these digests yonks ago.
  >> 
  >> Everything (including MIDI-IN) used to work perfectly on my old system:
  >>   DOS 5, Windows 3.1
  >>   386sx-16 2Mb
  >>   V2.05 of GUS disks.
  >> 
  >> Recently I bought a new system:
  >>   Viglen PCI P66 8Mb Stealth64
  >>   Dos 6.2, Windows 3.11
  >>   V3.56 of GUS disks (ftp'd in november)
  >> 
  >> All gus functions (wav and midi) appear to work perfectly from both DOS
and
  >> Windows except MIDI-IN which does nothing.
  >> 
  >> However I suspect that I can reject hardware/connector/wiring failure as
if I
  >> use the midifier.exe, MIDI-IN works OK.
  >> 
  >> So if MIDI-IN works under DOS, why would it fail under Windows?
  >> 
  >> MIDI-OUT works under Windows.
  >> 
  >> I have tried removing 3.56 of GUS software and installing the original
2.05
  >> instead, but this makes no difference!
  >> 
  >> I have the gus configured as 220,6,6,11,5 and I have entered these
details
  >> into the ICU (intel configuration utility) plag and play wotsit.
  >> The control panel settings for the gravis midi port drivers alse
  >> appear to be correct.
  >> 
  >> Has anybody else had just MIDI-IN not work?
  >> 
  >> Help!
  >> 
  >> Jase.
  >> 
  >> ---

I had this same problem on a Pentium90 (Neptune chipset, working NMI).
What finally solved it was upgrading ultmport.drv (may be spelling this wrong)
-
a new version appears in the new 3.59 set of drivers on epas.  (Note the old
3.56 drivers will probably work if you turn off your CPU cache, implying a
timing problem which seems to be fixed with the new driver, but then why buy a
Pentium?)

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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 22:45:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Tinsman <bobti@sco.COM>
Subject: Nx586's & GUS?
Message-ID: <9501152245.aa05178@kilauea.sco.com>

I noticed that the Capricorn motherboard using the Nexgen Nx586-90
recently became available for much less than a Pentium 90. It's got
an ISA and VL bus. Has anyone used one of these successfully with a
GUS board? If you have, I'd also be interested in your general 
impressions of the board and whether it's worth the risk of going 
with bleeding-edge technology. 

Bob Tinsman

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 10:39:47 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Play AudioCD from CDRom not directly connected to GUS Max

> I want to buy a CDRom very soon and
> I want it to be SCSI2 to be used with my Adaptec controller.  Will I be
> able to play Audio CDs from a CDRom not connected to my sound card?  To my
> understanding, I cannot connect a SCSI drive to the sound card.(?)

It will work fine. The GUS plays little or no part in playing Audio
CDs. The player program (e.g. Media Player in Windows, or various DOS
utilities) just tells the CD player to start playing, which it will
then do with no further intervention - of course the software may
want to keep tabs on the current position of the disk, so as to display
time remaining etc.

While playing, the CD drive is sending an audio signal out via the
headphone socket on the front, and via an audio connector at the
back. If you want to route the sound via the GUS, so that it emerges
from the GUS line/amplified out, then you connect the CD audio out
pins to the CD audio in pins on the GUS. Getting the right cable
can be difficult - you need four wires at the GUS end (LGGR), and
either 4 or 3 at the CD end.

You would still need this arrangement even if the CD drive was
driven via an interface on the GUS, or a daughtercard.

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 12:15:52 +0100
From: Jens-Uwe.Jansen@Germany.EU.net
Subject: Re: Play AudioCD from CDRom not directly connected to GUS Max

Hello Sylvester,

> I've recently purchased the Ultrasound Max card and so I'm new to
> this digest.  My question is this... I want to buy a CDRom very soon and
> I want it to be SCSI2 to be used with my Adaptec controller.  Will I be
> able to play Audio CDs from a CDRom not connected to my sound card?  To my
> understanding, I cannot connect a SCSI drive to the sound card.(?)

If you mean to play the CD output trough the GUS the answer is YES.
You just have to find a cable to connect the line-out of the CD-Rom with the
CD-in on your GUS. Thats all.. ;-) All the controll commands are sent trough
the SCSI Bus and the audio output is independent of that.

If you buy an external CD-Rom, because you don't have any more free space in
your super mini baby desktop case ;-), it gets a bit tricky.
In that case it's  better just to hook the CD-Rom to your stereo (or BoomBox
or whatever you call it....), because external drives normally have standard
chinch plugs.

If everything fails for you, just plug a head-set into the drive ;-)


> I am new to both sound cards and CDRoms so please excuse my
> ignorance.  I've sent two requests to the tech@gravis.com with no response..
> so I'd appreciate any feedback.
> Thanks.
> Sylvester.
> 
> PS-Can the Ultrasound Max play both music and effects on Ultima8?  I can't
>    seem to configure it to.  I could only get music using the patch for U8.

Sorry, I don't know anything about the MAX.

Cheers,
Jens-Uwe Jansen

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 08:42:30 +0100
From: Fernando Espi Huerta  <fespi@etsit.upv.es>
Subject: Problems Recording!

  I've got a problem with my Gravis Max. When I record sounds
with a mike (using programs like Ultrasound Studio or other
similars for Windows), after record a few seconds, the program
access to the hard disk and all that i'm recording in this
moment hasn't been recorded. The worse is that sometimes it
makes me crossed links in the FAT, and when i repair them
with Scandisk, some programs don't run. First I thought that
it was a virus, but it isn't, because i ran the best antivirus,
and it only happens recording sounds. I used Defrag, but it
didn't nothing. I tried to start without emm386, but nothing.
  I've got an i486 Dx2-66, 8 Mb Ram, 420HD Conner, Trident PCI,
and disk controller VLB, with 1994 Award Bios.... What can I do?

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 00:21:04 +0200 (EET)
From: Niko Varjonen <nipava@utu.fi>
Subject: Real-time effects
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950116001817.2795F-100000@polaris.cc.utu.fi>

Any real-time echo, flange or such programs for windows or dos
with gus-support?

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 00:41:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: SSARTOR@TrentU.ca
Subject: SC2000 & GUS

I am trying to get Sim City 2000 to work with my Gus and have been 
told to use the 32 bit drivers calle GAIL???.ZIP.  I have looked high and 
low for these drivers and cannot find them on any FTP (ie. epas.utoronto, 
orst.edu, ic.ac.uk).  Could someone please direct me to them, or send them 
to my encoded.  Thanks!


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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 16:39:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Bachand <raistlin@cts.com>
Subject: System Shock CD-Version
Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.950115163747.2814B-100000@crash.cts.com>

Well, I went to the computer store, and i looked at a copy of System 
Shock. IT said it had UltraSound Support (which I was happy since the WC3 
support works flawlessly) and I was happy. Next to it I found the CD-ROM 
version, enhanced! I said, yeah, I have a CD-ROM, why not! So I picked on 
up. I'm sure you all know that the CD-Rom version does not contain 
UltraSound Support. Why is this? and also, in the manual it said 
somehting about a patch coming out soon for Support. is this out yet?  
Thank you.

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