GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 30 Oct 94  9:37 PST     Volume 15: Issue  24 

Today's Topics:
					   Desert Strike answer...
					   GUS Daily Digest V15 #23
							GUS Experience
							   GUS FAQ
			  GUS with send-only (controller) keyboards.
		  HMI drivers && Magic Carpet ROCKS and supports GUS
					   Lands of Lore with GUS?
						Metaltech - Earthsiege
						  Old GUS digests ?
					ProPats/NEW MEGA-EM questions
						  WC III Question...

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: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 12:32:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: ST4SI@Jetson.UH.EDU
Subject: Desert Strike answer...

Here is what I have done with Desert Strike...

Turn OFF all sound Blaster support with Megaem and Emuset... It will load 
the game, but the sound is compelety messed up! It is just one constant
sound... Dont know why...

Other Question: I have heard that the NEW Dark Sun (II) will not work
with the GUS.. Has anyone tried... is there Native support like Dark Sun I or
do you need to use an emulator? Which one?

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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 94 13:31:57 MDT
From: dchow@stu.athabascau.ca (Donald Chow)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #23

> 
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 13:40 -0400
> From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #22
> 
> >Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 13:28:20 MDT
> >From: dchow@stu.athabascau.ca (Donald Chow)
> >Subject: Re: GUS and IBM's Warp (OS/2 3.0)
> 
> Ah, the mis-information abounds! They found a bug wherein the installer would
> get upset if you had CONFIG.BAK in your root directory. But it would still
> install properly (any crash was at the very end of the install) and work fine
> when rebooted.
> 
  Actually the program installer would still crash on a few machines _without_
config.bak.  That was the reason for the delay, otherwise they could have
just tacked on a tech.note not to have config.bak on your system.

Don


-- 
Donald Chow                       | X-Phile & GATB
dchow@a.stu.athabascau.ca         | Call (202) 555-6431 for a 'IDDG' time
bf298@freenet.carleton.ca         | Don on IGS

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 10:39 GMT
From: mcharsley@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mark Charsley)
Subject: GUS Experience

In-Reply-To: <199410291737.KAA02388@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
> From: Dylan Nicolle <dnicolle@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us>
> Would some kid soul PLEASE upload the Gus Experince program to some 
> site?!??!
> I dont understand why it has not yet been done.

Becuase the vast majority of the program is in the form of about 20 mins 
of CD Audio playable by any machine including Hi-fi's. If you want 
details on how to obtain a back issue of PC Zone (which carried it on 
their October cover CD) try phoning their UK tel no. 0789 490215.

Mark

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 16:24:11 +1100 (EST)
From: Iain Huxley <ihuxley@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Subject: GUS FAQ

Any chance of getting someone literate to write the GUS FAQ?

Sorry.

IH.

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Iain Huxley  *  Electrical Engineering II  *  University of Sydney, Australia
email: ihuxley@physics.su.oz.au    *  "Most of AARNET runs at 2400 baud"
WWW: //www.usyd.edu.au/~ihuxley/   *  - Gareth Powell, Sydney Morning Herald
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 16:35:21 +0200
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject: GUS with send-only (controller) keyboards.

I have a controller keyboard (a Roland PC200MKII, very cheap and very
recommended) with no synth.  I just toggle "MIDI thru" and select the output
port to be the GUS and anything, from MIDIfier to Orchestrator works.  The
patch-caching is a bit nagging but do your best.
Yossi.

|IN REAL LIFE:                                      |IN PHYSICAL REALITY:
|lioren1@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il                    |Yossi Oren, Nahal,
|Gravis Ultrasound advocate, (a.k.a. "GUS idiot"),  |Alumim, D. N. Negev,
|Windows user and mercenary VB programmer.          |ISRAEL.

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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 94 19:22:12 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: HMI drivers && Magic Carpet ROCKS and supports GUS

	Well, will you look at this. Magic Carpet is the most awesome
sight to behold on a 486/pentium since I first layed eyes on Doom. This
game his killer code, it's like taken straight from an Assembly Demo.
You roar across the terrain, the water moves beneath you and casts
reflections, and everything is real 3-d. Makes the Vortex space engine
for Armored Fist a laughing matter, these guys code assembler with high
class. Anyway, this was just a demo, but it still had gus support.

	Just like the demo of Nascar racing, which also uses the HMI-
drivers, it fails to set up the GUS as midi. I ask again; is there a
way to load the gus's memory to work with these new HMI-drivers ?

	Oh well, I am sure the released version will work just fine, so
take my word; look out for Magic Carpet. It ROCKS! (The demo is only 
like 2mb's big, and the graphics look pre-rendered). Btw, I got it from
a german cd-rom magazine called PC-Games Disc & Mag. Last month it had
demos of the 11th hour and Kings Quest VII.

	Later all,
		\////
	|. .|
	( - )   Broderdue

(Gimme the new megaem Jayeson, gimme it.... ;)

Oh, has anyone gotten Zool 2 cd-rom to work with the gus ? It's a killer
arcade/platform game.

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 22:24:45 +1100 (EST)
From: Tom Minchin <tom@cairo.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Lands of Lore with GUS?

Hi all,
	Anyone know of a solution to the problem when using MegaEm with
	Lands of Lore? The music is cool, but the sounds are merely musical             notes (when some monsters attack you you hear applause!).

	SBOS works, but is a bit rough.

	Your sounds choices seem a bit limited too. You can only have a single
	type of board to play sound and music.

	Tom

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 15:50:58 +1100 (EST)
From: Anthony Thompson <musicman@werple.apana.org.au>
Subject: Metaltech - Earthsiege

I just had a look at Earthsiege which is a new mechwarrior style game 
from sierra dynamix. It look great. 

Im a little disappointed though. Yes it has GUS  support using the HMI 
drivers but when you have GUS selected the game doesnt run. The strange 
thing is when you test the sound selection the sound plays fine. If i 
select soundblaster or no sound the game functions fine.

Has anyone had a similar problem??  i would have to put it down to a bug 
in the HMI drivers.! arrgh!

Anthony.

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 21:29:13 +0900
From: Yoshiaki KASAHARA <kasahara@csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Old GUS digests ?

Hello.

I'm a newbie of GUS, and I want to read some old GUS digests.

Are they available from FTP site?
--
Yoshiaki KASAHARA
Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Comm. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

Email addr:                           |  I'm free!   & ~ __-^-_/~
	kasahara@csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp      |               ~   \___/

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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 13:11:05 -700 (PDT)
From: Matt Bachand <raistlin@cts.com>
Subject: ProPats/NEW MEGA-EM questions
Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.90.941029130929.15707A-100000@crash.cts.com>

1. What exactly are the propats? do I copy them over my existing patches 
and they rip? If so, wouldn't that cause problems since they are larger 
than the normal ones, programs couldn't tell whichones you had and they 
couldn't load them all when they need to?

2. I hear alot about the new MEga-em with Protected mode compatability. 
Is this out yet? If so, is it at the usual GUS sites?

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 11:15:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Timothy B Martin <Xeltar+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: WC III Question...

Excerpts from GUS DIGEST: 29-Oct-94 by AdvGravis@aol.com  
> We took a look at Wing Commander III, and all I can say is WOW! I ran the
> demo on a machine with 16 megs of RAM and it worked awesome! (wonder how it
> would work on my own 4 meg machine..sigh). This game is a sight to behold.
> What a super job Origin has done.


do you mean to say that it has GUS support? If so, what kind? REAL
NATIVE? or ultramid or megaem or 32ail...non of those are REAL NATIVE if
you ask me!  Real native is when i don't have to run anything but the
install proggy and the WC3.EXE!!!!!!

thanx for the info..

-tim

						   [ Xeltar+@CMU.EDU ]

	"Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character."
												   -Mr. Wolf

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