Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sun, 31 Jan 93       Volume 2 : Issue  28 

Today's Topics:
							  Hardball 3
						Interetsing price but!
					 Problems with PLAYMIDI 3.50
					Windows problems never die...

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 22:30:11 -0500
From: <cs911084@ariel.yorku.ca>
Message-Id: <9301310330.AA22553@juno.Ariel.YorkU.CA>
Subject: Hardball 3
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi,
Pardon me if this has been beaten to death, I'm new here.  Just wanted to 
know if anyone could get the announcer (Al Micheals) to work with this game.
It's a kind of strange game.  It asks you to specify what kind of sound card
you want to use for music, AND what kind of sound card you want to use for
sound effects.  I selected SoundBlaster for both.  Now I get the music, but
as for the sound effects, the game says it can't find the device I selected
which is strange because I'm using the same device successfully for the music!
The only thing that I can think of, is that maybe it's that SoundBlaster *PRO*
emulation problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Nemo De Furia.

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Date: 30 Jan 93  1:33 -0800
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Message-Id: <2952*twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Interetsing price but!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

HHmm... did things get better or what then? Let me elaborate. Ram prices
have always been going down year after year. In fact, awhile back, the
best price around here was $32 for a 1 Meg SIMM. But then, during Fall
last year, US slapped a 85% or some such increase in chips exported
from US and into Canada (some free trade!) with the results for the
consumers seeing abuot the end price doubled! And that just happened to
be around the time the GUS was released. So as I was one of the first
guys in town to get the GUS, they were all 256k only. After a couple
of weeks of playing around with it, I saw a local place putting the
DRAMs we need on sale and I was able to upgrade my card from 256K
to 1 Meg for $70, yes, CAN$70, not $30. ANd that was the best price
for a good many weeks cause I was watching. The best price for a
1 Meg SIMM was about $52 but normal was around $60. I see that the
prices of SIMMs around here have dropped but not by that much. SO
I don't expect the prices of our DRAMs to have dropped that much
either. I guess Eastern Canada must have recoverd from this US tariff
a lot faster than us in the west.

Oop,s just reread your email, you were talking about $30 + taxes,
while I'm talking about $70 taxes included. But still....

So, if prices are cheaper where you are (espcecially for those in US!!),
get the DRAMs locally. I'd be a lot cheaper in most cases for us in
Canada (in the west anyways) are still fighting trade wars.


Thomas.

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 08:18:20 -0400 (AST)
From: Shadow Of Fear <markus@Info.UMoncton.ca>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.02.9301300855.A7221-b100000@clement>
Subject: Problems with PLAYMIDI 3.50
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

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Hi,

	This is getting really annoying.  Everytime I play a MIDI file
using PLAYMIDI 3.50, randomly, the program will hang my computer
completely.  When I reboot and replay the same MIDI file, it will hang
again but at the different part of the file.  Some other time, it won't
hang until my second or third song.  Thus replaying the first MIDI file
correctly.  
	I heard that other GUS owners has the same problem with
PLAYMIDI 3.40 & 3.50.  I wrote a message to Chris Yusik, but he's still
silent.  We hardly hear from him.
	Yesterday, I couldn't play a single file.  I tried running
ULTRINIT, GUSMOD, PLAY669 before PLAYMIDI.  No improvements.
	Who else have this problem?
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 22:00:34 -0700 (MST)
From: michael a finkel  <mfinkel@argon.GAS.uug.Arizona.EDU>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9301302234.A9337-b100000@argon>
Subject: Windows problems never die...
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Windows problems never die --> they fester and mutate into something uglier.

I have done everything as I believe I am supposed to.. Ultrasnd.ini in the
Ultrasnd directory, the drivers are installed properly.

I now am getting the message "Invalid Patch Version" to appear twice upon
startup and any time I try to load a patch for use with the old version of
Winjammer. I am getting the system sounds out of my GUS, but nothing
more... Nothing from WinJammer 2.24 (or whatever the latest version
ftp'able is) or any other windows sound card using program (other than
Patchman - which I occasionally do get sounds out of).

PLEASE HELP ME (sorry, I thought the air of desparation would help).

Thanks you for your support.

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