Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sat, 23 Jan 93       Volume 2 : Issue  20 

Today's Topics:
						About T2029 and IRQ's
	Cakewalk and GUS (A Gravis rep, please read the last section!)
					  Front Page Sports Football
					  GUS comments and questions
						   GUSDAC Problems
					  How to get DuneII to work
					   MIDI interface problems?
						 Missing Left Channel
							 OS/2 support
		   Survey: Ultrasound ftp site directory structure
						 UART and MPU-401 ??
							   ultima7
							Walkman's mics

	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: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:30 EST
From: "Matthew E. Bernold" <MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Message-Id: <9301221830.AA24862@orca.es.com>
Subject: About T2029 and IRQ's
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

>Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:29:41 -0500
>From: Kevin Wengcheong Cheng <kc3b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>Message-Id: <8fLUeJe00VpEMZkpZC@andrew.cmu.edu>
>Subject: GUS and T2029 WORKING
>To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
>
>Just in case anyone is wondering...
>
>I managed to get the digitized audio to work... I think...
>
>Using SBOS 1.23 with no switches ( -o3 seems to hang the thing )
>and settings
>ULTRASOUND IRQ = 5
>MIDI IRQ = 7
>
>This was someone's ( I can't remember who ) suggestion that IRQ 7 is
>hardwired in T2029. I figure that this might be the same problem with
>alot of games with digitized audio problems. Unfortunately, I also found
>out that with the IRQ settings this way, The Lost Files of Sherlock
>Holmes just crashes on me...

I know for a fact that the IRQ 7 is hard coded into T2029.  Many people
had problems with the PAS-16 for just this reason.  The PAS-16 defaulted
to SB emulation on IRQ 5, and lots of PAS-16 owners had problems.
Someone out there made a crack file that lets you search the .EXE file
and manually change this IRQ 7 to IRQ 5 (or I'd assume whatever you
want to change it to)

When the company that makes T2029 was asked about this problem, they
said that their product does not support the PAS-16, and since it was
a PAS-16 specific problem, they had nothing to offer as help.  Real
nice tech support, eh?

I'll look for this crack, and if I find it, I'll post it to the list.

>Anyone want to confirm this?
>And who's updating the compatibility list?
>/<evin

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

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 16:36:00 -0600
From: captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin)
Message-Id: <9301222236.AA13555@tigger.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Cakewalk and GUS (A Gravis rep, please read the last section!)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Subject: Cakewalk and GUS (A Gravis rep, please read the last section!)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Original poster said:{
In addition, it would be EVEN BETTER if you would modify your drivers to either
interpret a SYSEX command to load patches, or (BEST OF ALL) make the drivers 
load a patch when it sees a patch-change request!  So what if it pauses?  It's 
better than silence.
}

Better for whom?!?!  Certainly not better for a professional musician on stage
trying to play along with his sequence.  One can often cover the loss of a few
instruments, but dissaster would ensue if the background musicians (MIDI) just
decided to stop playing, lose time, and start up again.  Remember, not everyone
has the same goals or desires, particularly when it comes to what to do with a
computer.  ;-)

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:15:18 -0500
From: Greg Cummings - Computing Services <gcumming@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <9301221715.AA03347@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Front Page Sports Football
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

 I can not get the GUS board to work with this great game. The intro
sounds good but... when the game starts the voices studder. This is with the
SoundBlaster as the sound board choice. When I select Adlib as the sound board
the intro again sounds fine but...when the game starts the voices are s..l..o..w
but do not studder. Are there any patches etc. that might get around this
problem.
 

Thanks.....Greg Cummings
		   

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:04:21 GMT
From: harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison)
Message-Id: <1993Jan22.180421.7138@lclark.edu>
Subject: GUS comments and questions
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In article <1jnj3n$pv0@agate.berkeley.edu> ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
>Now the questions:
>
>1. What are the bundled software packages that I heard will be included
>   with the card after Jan. 25?

Midisoft Recording Session from Midisoft Corporation and Power Chords from
Howling Dog Software.

>2. Will I be eligible for a free upgrade since I purchased the card
>   recently (Jan. 20)?
>
>3. If not, is the price $10 + $4, as I've seen posted?

Probably have to pay the $14.  I doubt that anyone will get them free. 
Gravis will probably up the price a bit.  But this is just a guess.

>4. How common have missing/damaged disks been for other people?

I had a bad disk 3 and have heard from MANY other people with a bad disk
or two.  This is something Gravis should seriously look into since not
everyone can easily ftp the correct disk.

>6. What is the general consensus on the best SBOS, 1.20, 1.22, or 1.23?

It seems to be a toss-up depending on which you prefer.

>7. Is the message from the Windows Media Player that 'This file may not
>   play correctly with the default MIDI setup.' supposed to appear, or
>   have I messed up the installation?

That's fine.  I'm guessing that it will go away when we get the new patch
set.
-- 
=============================================================================
Mark Harrison           |  "We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
harrison@sun.lclark.edu |   Our great computers fill the hallowed halls."
			  -- Me     |                                    -- Rush

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 9:52:50 EST
From: jagati1@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (JAGATIC JASON            )
Message-Id: <9301221452.AA08693@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>
Subject: GUSDAC Problems
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I have had problems when trying to use GUSDAC on my Machine.  I am using a 33mhz 386 machine with 5 megs of ram. The Problem is that, when I try to load GUSDAC itself, everything works fine, but when I try to load either mp4to4 or mp4to2 (with the same parameters as GUSDAC) it freezes up on me and I must then reboot my whole system.  Can anyone help me out with this problem.

Thanks.

jagati1@server.uwindsor.ca 

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:05:50 +0100 (MET)
From: Andreas Henning <d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se>
Message-Id: <9301220906.AA12412@hackes.dtek.chalmers.se>
Subject: How to get DuneII to work
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

About DuneII :

It works on my machine, here is my setup:

SET ULTRASND=3D220,7,7,11,3
C:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT
SET ULTRADIR=3DC:\ULTRASND
SET BLASTER=3DA220 I3 D1 T1

I get both sound/speech and music.
I have 2 megs of EMS memory and 5 megs XMS.


-- 
Andreas Henning -- d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se
Student of Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?" - Marvin The Paranoid Android

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 10:16:48 CST
From: John Riedl <riedl@cs.umn.edu>
Message-Id: <9301221616.AA09212@hannibal.cs.umn.edu>
Subject: MIDI interface problems?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi everyone.

A friend helped me build the MIDI interface for the Gravis UltraSound
described on the epas archive, and it works fine when I'm using it.
The joystick works just like before, and both MIDI in and out now work
to my keyboard from WinJammer.  (Yes, I do have problems with the
general protection fault in WinJammer.)

Disaster occurs when I'm *not* using the interface.  If I leave my
keyboard plugged in to the MIDI in of the interface when I'm running
SBOS, and I touch even a single key on the keyboard, my computer locks
up.  I have to use the hardware reboot button to get it to respond.
The problem occurs even if I'm not running a game that uses SBOS; the
computer freezes at the C> prompt.

Two questions:

1) Do others who have built the interface have this problem?  Is there
a fix?

2) Are there any hardware experts who can speculate as to what kind of
mistake in building the interface could lead to this sort of
behaviour?

Thanks,
John

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:53:10 -0500
From: marc@csi.on.ca (Marc Sherman)
Message-Id: <9301221553.AA103662@cod.csi.on.ca>
Subject: Missing Left Channel
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I just bought a new GUS yesterday, and on plugging it in, I was only
getting output from the right channel; the left speaker/earphone was
dead.  This happened using both the line out and the amp out.  It also
happened using all modes: both demo batch files, all the various
player programs that come with the software, USS8, the Win3.1 drivers,
and SBOS running various games.

I tried a number of IRQ/DMA combinations, and while some obviously
didn't work at all, none of them solved the missing output problem.

The output I did get from the right speaker was just the right
channel, not a mono mix of both channels; setting the right volume to
0 and the left to 100 in USS8 resulted in no output (well, very low
output, in the right speaker; it seems that USS8 does not actually go
to _0_ volume...)

I suspect a hardware problem, and will contact the store I bought it
at regarding a board swap.  Anyone ever have a similar experiance?

Please reply directly to the address listed below; I only just
subscribed to this list, and will probably not receive mail to it for
a few days.

-- 
Marc Sherman - 3A? SD Eng. | Gemutlich, gemutlich, GEMUTLICH!
msherman@zeus.uwaterloo.ca | Die Welt ist gemutlich mit die Kasewaffe!

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:24:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Philip Andrew Nemec <blackdiamond+@cmu.edu>
Message-Id: <UfM6Lni00Von16Lpca@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: OS/2 support
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

The ability to get Windows sounds is another aspect of OS/2 support that
I'd consider pretty necessary!

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Date: 21 Jan 1993 23:13:38 GMT
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Message-Id: <1jnan2INNgju@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Survey: Ultrasound ftp site directory structure
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
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I have a question concerning the current structure of our ftp site 
which I'd like to get some feedback from all our users out there. As it
is right now, we have the directory "gravis-disks" for all the Gravis
Install Disks releases, while the individual fixes/patches (gus00*.*)
are stored under the "soundutil" directory. Now I have been asked in the
past why this is so. Why don't we put all the Gravis releases into one
directory and call it "gravis-rel" or some such (install disks, fixes,
and all). I guess the reason is the fixes and patches are a temporary
thing where when Gravis is satisfied with the patches, they come out
with a new package of install disks with those patches (eg. 1.21 disks
from before, and 1.22 install disks now, which are basically the files
we have individually as the gus00*.* files under "soundutil" but all
bundled into one neat and tidy install disk release package).

So what I want to get feedback on is.... how do you all like the
arrangement as is? Should we create or rename some directories and place
all the Gravis files together? Comments?

Thomas.

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:51 GMT
From: Andy Phillips <PHILLIPSA@LARS.AFRC.AC.UK>
Message-Id: <9301221409.AA20562@orca.es.com>
Subject: UART and MPU-401 ??
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I'm thinking about buying a GUS so that I can input data from my MIDI-
compatible Yamaha electric piano into a sequencer/notator running on my
PC, and then play back arrangments on the GUS (and maybe the piana too).
I've been told by Dave Ingles that the MIDI interface on the GUS is only
UART 6850 standard, not MPU401. If this is going to be a problem, I
suppose I could fork out an extra 100 pounds for a proper MIDI card as
well as the GUS, but I'd rather keep costs down to a minimum. Please
forgive me if there is a FAQ file on this somewhere, but I have a couple
of questions:

1) What are the limitations of UART 6850 as opposed to MPU401?

2) Are these limitations likely to be a problem with the setup I have in
mind?

Thanks in advance

P.S. The January edition of the British electronic music magazine "Sound
on Sound" promises a full review of the GUS "soon".

Andy Phillips (PHILLIPSA@LARS.AFRC.AC.UK)
Long Ashton Research Station,
Bristol, UK

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:46:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Morgan Stair <morgan@dl5000.bc.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.03.9301220807.A8957-b100000@dlws9>
Subject: ultima7
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

On Thu, 21 Jan 1993, Michael J Stumpf wrote:

> Apologies if this has been posted and missed, but how did any of you guys
> get Ultima 7 to work?  I read in the general listing that you use sbos 1.23,
> and I did that.. but, the digital speech comes out ofor only a split 
> second and then dies..
> 
> The manual said if this happened it was an irq conflict, but that was for
> a genuine sb..
> 
> My computer is a 486/33, never had a problem with any other ultrasound tool
> except the dram tester. (reports bank 3 and 4 or just 4 bad)  Bare system,
> except himem.sys and dos being high, and of course sbos 1.23.
> 
> Whoever got this working, please let me know how you did, if you used the
> device driver in conjunction with the tsr (as the included text file implies)
> or what..
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike.
> 
> ------------------------------

Sorry to say, that I just use SBOSv1.23 and everything works fine.  I have
a 486/33 too.  My only suggestion is use IRQ7 for whatever IRQ is the
lower one... GF1/MIDI/I can't keep them straight.  That's the
soundblaster's IRQ number.

I can't get SoundBlaster speach to work with Might and Magic 4, even
though everyone else apparently can.  I have no other discernable problems
with SBOS. 

Looks like SBOS is getting better, but it's far from perfect!

Morgan

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:44:36 +0200
From: Shmuel Gazit <keeper@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
Message-Id: <9301220944.AA01182@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Walkman's mics
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi guys,

I have two microphones (stereophonic) which I got with two of my walkmans,
Sony, and Aiwa. 
Does anybody know if they can be used with the card ?

thanks

/Shmulik.

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