GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 9 Mar 94  9:37 PST      Volume 11: Issue  34 

Today's Topics:
							  7th Guest
					 AAARRRRGGGGHHH! Problems...
						   AMI BIOS and GUS
						   FS5.0a problems
						GUS-General archives?
						GUS and Duke Nukem II
							 gus and qemm
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #32
				  GUS Daily Digest V11 #33 (4 msgs)
							 gus on 50mhz
						 Help with 7th Quest
	Here is the COMPLETE (?) list of Monkey Island II instruments
						Keyboard and 7th Guest
							 MOD2PAT v0.8
				  Monkey Isle II & GUS - READ!!!!!!!
				  Putt-Putt's Uneven Music Continued
						REBEL ASSAULT (2 msgs)
					  Replacement MIDI patches?
						 Stacker 4.0 and GUS
					   techwhatever@gravis.com
				  UltraMid/v3.xx disks/The 7th guest

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, 8 Mar 1994 23:01:35 -0500
From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: 7th Guest

	I had experienced problems with 7th guest, each time I type any keys
from the keyboard during the game, everything freeze and hangs up. I need to
reboot the system. Is there a fix for that problem or any one has a solution?
Thanks in advance!

Also I want to make sure if my groove.ini is write, could someone post the
correct setting. Thank you!

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 18:07:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Slacker <yaga@u.washington.edu>
Subject: AAARRRRGGGGHHH! Problems...

OK, I've just about had it.  I accidentally erased my config.sys and 
autoexec.bat a while back, and couldn't remember the proper GUS 
settings.  I didn't worry about it for a while because I had to steal one 
of the jumpers for my new HD anyway, so I figured as soon as I got 
another jumper, I'd plug it back in and everything would be fiiiine.

Wrong.

I've got my autoexec.bat and config.sys set up just like the manuals say 
to do (except I left the "call C:\ULTRASND\sbos.bat" line out).  I've got 
the card set on the default settings and everything.  It initializes fine 
(i.e. doesn't say "no card found").  In fact, it initializes twice.  
How?  I only have the damn commands once.  Anyway, gus0041's install 
won't help, because the damn program:
	1)  Says I don't have a GUS installed (even though ultrinit 
recognized it
	2)  Crashes right after the GUS/SB/Gameport options.  Just a 
friggin blinking cursor, and I have to reboot.

Well, I figured...I have my autoexec and config right, so everything 
should work correctly anyway...right?  Nope.

Try to run sbos - it says "invalid SBOS port address selection" (it's set 
on 220, just like it should be)

Try to run ultramid - it says "can't read ULTRASND environment variable" 
(it's _EXACTLY_ the same as the one in the manual.  Checked numerous time)

Try to run megaem - it says "the parameters in the ULTRASND environment 
variable are invalid"  (they're not, dammit!  It's the same as before any 
of this happened, but now it won't work)

So, 1)  can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong  
	2)  why is ultrinit loading twice?  Is this the problem?
	3)  could someone _please_ upload me a copy of their autoexec and 
config (I'm using DOS 6.2 w/multiple configs, GUS at the default 
settings, etc.)
	4)  someone grab this hammer out of my hand before I don't have a 
GUS to worry about anymore

Thank you all for your time and consideration.   Please someone help, 
last time I asked for help (it was a lot easier than this), I got a 
whopping two replies (thanks again, guys!).  I'm seriously hacked off 
right now, and really want to get this settled.

Thanks again.

chris
yaga@u.washington.edu

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 23:51:24 -0500 (EST)
From: William Birkmaier <wbirkmai@lynx.dac.neu.edu>
Subject: AMI BIOS and GUS

Thanx to all who replied about my message. I have a DX50 CPU and The
fastest I could get the bus to run was at the one before the highest. 
The only problems that I had was that when windows loaded I got memory
parity errors.  Any way to fix this? 

Thanx


Will

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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 08:34:52 -0700
From: ttrusk@post.its.mcw.edu (Thomas C Trusk)
Subject: FS5.0a problems

I read the FS50.a reports from the 2 Michaels, and frankly, I've experienced 
NONE of those effects. Perhaps it's time to exchange configurations to see 
if these problems can be fine tuned away.  I have a DTK 486-33 with 20 MB 
RAM running DOS 5. I boot from a disk configured as to the suggestions in 
the FS5 manual's back page, but for extra measure I configured extra XMS 
(although I understand the program doesn't use it anyway). The GUS is at 220 
with DMA 1 and IRQ 7, and I run the latest version of SBOS with no switches. 
 I am NOT using the FS5PATCH that predates FS5a.  The program starts up in 
silence until I am on the runway at Meigs, then the engine noise just 
begins.  It has never paused once, and I experience no 'looping'.
My complete setup (autoexec.bat and config.sys) is at home, so I'll bring it 
to work and have it available if anyone is interested.  I've read on USENET 
that 4DOS and QEMM cause some problems, and that some homebrewed scenery 
files (Kenya) and the CDROM set USA(east and west) won't work with FS5a.  I 
have NOT tested Megaem with FS5 as I'm satisfied with SBOS (am I alone 
here?).  Is there any reason to expect the sound to improve with Megaem?

Thomas
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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 94 14:42:21 +0200
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: GUS-General archives?

Hi folks.
Does anybody know where I can FTP for back issues of this digest?
TIA,
Yossi.

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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 17:58:14 PDT
From: david.rogers@aldus.com (David Rogers,Eng)
Subject: GUS and Duke Nukem II

Anyone run the GUS successfully with Duke Nukem II (SBOS? MEGAEM?) ?  I am
thinking about getting a GUS, but I'd like it to work with DN II which I
just ordered and which is the best game in the world (this week).

Regards,
David

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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 94 01:29:48 GMT
From: Simon@geordie.demon.co.uk (Simon Crute)
Subject: gus and qemm

I think using stealth is affecting the performance of my GUS card, what
ram addresses should I exclude from Qemm ?

Thanks

-- 
Geordie

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:04:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #32

> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 11:11:42 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Toby <T.W.Nichols@hertfordshire.ac.uk>
> Subject: MTM players
> 
> The only problem with it is with my 2.4 card and the problem I have with 
> ultrinit v2.18, I have to run gusmod first or face a complete reboot. I 
> shall be going back to my old ultinit shortly. Why do gravis update 
> ultrinit anyway? Surely it's job is simply to initialise the card, no 
> updating necessary.

Ultrinit had to be updated for the new GUSes and the 16-bit DB.

As for ultrinit 2.18 not initializing your 2.4 GUS properly, I'm
not sure why.  It does for me.  I use the -ej switch to enable the
game port -- that might help.  Also, there is a version of ultrajoy
that messes up 2.4 GUSes, so try removing ultrajoy from your 
autoexec.bat if it's in there.

> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 15:49:15 -0500
> From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
> Subject: REBEL ASSULT
> 
>   I saw the REBEL ASSULT has Ultrasound support, anyone knows how good
> it was? Native mode or SBOS or Mega-em?? 

If you're looking for proper GUS support, look elsewhere.  Rebel Assault
uses 8-bit mono recordings for all of its music, so it doesn't take 
advantage of the GUS' synthesis capabilities, and plays them on the
GUS by poking the samples to the card instead of using DMA.  The game
in fact runs _better_ under SBOS since its SB driver uses DMA to play 
the samples!  

> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 94 12:50:42 +0100
> From: Roberto Bonet <d93-rob@nada.kth.se>
> Subject: Signed to unsigned? Doom?
> 
>  Also when playing Doom I sometimes get slowdowns in the music. I have a dx2-66 and a 1meg gus on 220,1,1,7,5. Should I change dma or irq?
> 

Version 1.1 of DOOM had this problem.  Deleting DOOM's configuration file
in \doomdata and then setting up the game again might help.  Upgrading the
game to version 1.2 should also get rid of this problem.

> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 01:09:35 EST
> From: phaedrus%triples@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Phong Co)
> Subject: Where is gus0038?
> 
> I've just downloaded gus0039-gus0041. 0040 indicates that it is a patch
> for 003 (and I think I saw it mentioned on the list as well).  However, I
> can't seem to find gus0038 anywhere?!  Does anyone know where it is?
> Also, gus0041[a,b] looks pretty hefty, but the readme is exceedingly
> cryptic.  What does it do?

If you have gus0041, then you don't need gus0038 and gus0040.  Gus0038
upgrades your GUS software to version 3.1, while gus0040 fixes some bugs
in the upgrade.  Gus0041 is the new upgrade with the bug fixes included.

Phat.

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 12:31:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Shawn Talbert <ironside@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #33

DRACULA UNLEASHED


Anyone get this CDROM game to work? I get interrupt/dma conflict errors 
with the GUS... kinda frustrating, considering it is suposed to be a 
really cool interactive movie... 

Shawn....

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:23:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #33

> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 13:14:24 +0000 (GMT)
> From: M Beddow <gll6mb@gps1.leeds.ac.uk>
> Subject: GUS and FS5.0a
> 
> Before everybody gets too excited, I'm afraid I have to report that my
> experience with the upgrade has been very different. Apparently the same
> settings as Thomas describes, but for me the digital sound option produces
> a half-second silence every four seconds on steady sounds, and when the
> sound changes (throttle opening, etc.) the same silly cycle of snatches
> of wrong sounds (tire squeal, jet noise, water splash) as before.
> Synthesised sound continues to work OK, if you can stand it.
> 
> Could this be a DOS version problem, as suggested in earlier postings?

It sounds like an _SBOS_ problem.  If you have your GUS on IRQ 7 (GF1 or
MIDI/SB IRQ), then change it to something else.  If that still doesn't
work, then you should try getting your hands on SBOS 1.20, which can be
DLed from the GUS archives.  SBOS 1.20 works well on many machines that 
later versions do poorly on.

> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 14:41:25 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Toby <T.W.Nichols@hertfordshire.ac.uk>
> Subject: That init problem again
> 
> Success at last! I finally got my 2.4 card to init properly with version 
> ultrinit v 2.18. How ? ? buy remming out ultrajoy. Quite what ultrajoy 
> has to do with ultinit is beyond me. If I find I need ultrajoy for 
> anything I will reinstall from my origional disk set.

Your ultrajoy is probably an old one.  The ultrajoy in gus0040/41 fixes
the initialization problem.

> My advice to anybody with a 2.4 card:
> 
> DO NOT let the GUS0041 upgrade intall over the top of your old files.
> tell it to install to a seperate directory. Then copy over all the new 
> files into your existing ultrasound directories but leaving out. 
> Ultrinit, ultrajoy, and the setup programs. The new versions do nothing 
> new and only lead to problems. Once you have all the files in place wipe 
> the new directory and edit you autoexec and config.sys putting your old 
> ultrasound path back in.

_My_ advice is to delete everything from your \ultrasnd directory and its
subdirs, but leaving the patches in \ultrasnd\midi and Powerchords and
Recording Session if you have them and them installing gus0041, letting the
install do everything for you.

BTW, ever since the digest mailing time was moved to 12pm, I occasionally
get digests a day late, so some of my replies might be a bit stale.

Phat.

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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 09:04:05 -6816 (GMT-68:16)
From: "J.Waghorn" <ts0jwa@orac.sunderland.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #33

> 
> My records indicate that correct Internet addresses are  
> "tech1@gravis.com" and "tech2@gravis.com".  This would explain 
> why your mail is being returned.

Noooooooo
My mail is not being returned at all, I sent it & like almost everyone else 
I know of have had no response from either sales@gravis.com or 
tech@gravis.com.
I suspect it is all going to /dev/null at Gravis :)

Jason
--
Questions to keep you awake at night No. 3769

How does the driver of the snowplough get to work in the morning???

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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 14:47:40 GMT
From: Mike Geileskey <GEI0089L@whstud1.uel.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #33

Just a little thought....
  Surely Gravis could make a daughterboard that provided complete 
Soundblaster compatibility?
 I know it would be admitting that SB is the industry standard (for 
the moment, that is) but would solve a lot of problems with SB 
compatibility.

Well?

-:@)   -Mike!

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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 0:36:08 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: gus on 50mhz

Thanks to all who replied to my question a couple of digests back.

We found the solution to the problem after thorough testing and
swearing. Changing irc, dma, bus-speed, motherboard; you name it,
nothing worked with the 50mhz processor....

The solution laid in the processor being overheated and for some
rreason heated to gus to such an extend it was not able to play
digital sounds in doom (music still worked).
So when we at last mounted a cooler onto the cpu, all the problems
were history. 

So now you know, remember to place your gus some distance from the
motherboard, and if possible, give it a cooler so that it doesn't
heat the gus....

thanks again for your help,
The Norwegians in Denmark.

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:20:29 -0800 (PST)
From: sjs@netcom.com (Stephen Schow)
Subject: Help with 7th Quest

Just bought an Orchid 2x speed CD-ROM and installed.  After fooling with
the IRQ's and so forth, I finally got it set so that it worked (at least
it seemed so).  I could read and write from it.  I don't think I conflicting
with anything else.  I also played back from midi files from windows and 
WAV files were playing OK, so I guess that means that the Gus is happy with
it.

Now then, I just bought 7th Guest and tried to install it and use it and NO
DICE!  I tried using megaem.  No dice!  It just flickers this SYSEX message
up in the top left corner of the screen.

Anyone get 7th Guest to work with GUS?  What did you do?  Are there GUS
drivers for it at all?

Thanks in advance
-- 
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Steve Schow       | But you don't need to use the claw, if you
sjs@netcom.com    | pick the pear with the big paw paw......
(415) 354-4908    | Have I given you a clue......?
800-722-2007x4908 |                    - Baloo the Bear
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 04:03:09 -0500
From: fwang@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Frank Wang)
Subject: Here is the COMPLETE (?) list of Monkey Island II instruments



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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 01:09:02 -0500
From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: Keyboard and 7th Guest

I finally solve the hangup problem, but I want to know if the Esc key works
on the 7th Guest? 
Thanks in advance!

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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 14:11:54 +0100
From: f93-maj@nada.kth.se
Subject: MOD2PAT v0.8

Hi folks!

My MOD2PAT are now available in v0.8 on epas 
(/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/mod2pat.v08.zip)

Windows haters should stick with v0.7 'cause 
v0.8 is now a windows hosted program.
The user interface is really improved and if
you've got a midi in device you can play the
samples on a keyboard so you can decide wich
samples you want.

As usual, let me know if you have any problems
especially with the new 'midi in patch play'
feature wich will probably show up in the next
version of my :Midi Patch Browser: (v0.8) as
a disk-browser that'll let you play any .PAT
file on the disk. If it works well for everyone
i.e., it's not as if Gravis has documented how
to do it very well...

/FMJ (Markus)
<f93-maj@nada.kth.se>

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Date: 9 Mar 1994 09:02:19 GMT
From: fwang@cs.sunysb.edu (.)
Subject: Monkey Isle II & GUS - READ!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <2lk3ar$kp5@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu>

ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard

My friend and I spent around 5-6 hours dissecting Monkey Island II, to try
to figure out what the exact instruments were.  I have been insisting on the
net that the Whiff ratio is high, and that there is WAY too much piano being
played.  I decided to try to prove it.

Here was the basic plan.

Using the patch.exe in the SDK, we made a new silent patch.  We set the sound
to zero, and used it for instrument #0.  We called this instrument 'silent'.

We changed ultrasnd.ini so that EVERY instrument was 'silent'. 
Then we chose 10 distinct instruments.  We set #1-#10 to the instruments.  I
believe we used 'Overdriven guitar, ringwhsl, choir ahh, harpsichord, steel
drum, viola, ... uh, I forget.

Anyway, so we played.  Basically, if we heard an instrument, then the song
obviously used that instrument.  (if it didn't, it wouldn't have gotten 
played).  Any instrument not loaded was using #0, which was 'silent'.
Any instrument besides the 10 we had set was also 'silent'.

Lah de dah.  Next 10.  repeat till done.
Then choose 5 different percussions and repeat till done.

The results?  Monkey island uses a LOT of piano.  There were 7 instruments,
and THIRTY percussion instruments!!!  If you replay using this as an 
ultrasnd.ini replacement, I guarantee that you will hear background rhythms
that you haven't heard before.

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#==============================
# Title:   ULTRASOUND Patch Library for Monkey island
# Purpose: Do the Monkey like never before.
#==============================
[Ultrasound]
PatchDir=D:\GUS\midi\

[Melodic Bank 0]
PatchDir=D:\GUS\midi\
0=acpiano
3=honky
6=hrpschrd
16=homeorg
17=percorg
19=church
20=reedorg

[Drum Bank 0]
PatchDir=D:\GUS\midi\
27=highq
30=scratch2
32=sqrclick
35=kick1
36=kick2
37=stickrim
38=snare1
39=claps
40=snare2
41=tomlo2
42=hihatcl
43=tomlo1
44=hihatpd
45=tommid2
46=hihatop
47=tommid1
48=tomhi2
49=cymcrsh1
50=tomhi1
51=cymride1
60=bongohi
61=bongolo
62=congahi1
63=congahi2
64=congalo
65=timbaleh
66=timbalel
70=maracas
75=clave

[Melodic Patches]

 .. copy the melodic bank above

[Drum Patches]

 .. copy the drum bank above.
 

------------- CUT HERE---------------------

Everyone enjoy this!

			
Frank Wang              |   Come and go gonzo on Wacko
fwang@sbcs.sunysb.edu   |   red-branch.mit.edu 6003

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 14:30:22 EST
From: David Steinberg <desteinb@tews16.cs.hh.ab.com>
Subject: Putt-Putt's Uneven Music Continued

Thank you Phat, for answering my query. Unfortunately, I did choose SB for
music and voice, and that's where I get the occasional deafening measures.
I could try changing it to Adlib tonight (first I have to put an AC adapter
on the powered speakers - the kids never remember to shut them off). I'm open
to any other ideas, too.

David
steinberg@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 10:40:01 MST
From: tschmidt@pefs1.micron.com (Tom Schmidt)
Subject: Re: REBEL ASSAULT

> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 15:49:15 -0500
> From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
> Subject: REBEL ASSULT
> 
>   I saw the REBEL ASSULT has Ultrasound support, anyone knows how good
> it was? Native mode or SBOS or Mega-em?? 
> Thanks in advance!

I bought the Rebel Assault CD-ROM because the box said it supported the
Ultrasound.  So far I am very disappointed in it.  The GUS support is native,
but it appears to be very picky about what systems it will work with (computer,
CD-ROM type, amount of memory, joystick type, etc.)  I have not been able to
get it to work using the Ultrasound selection on my system (486DX33VLB, 16MB,
Mitsumi FX001D doublespeed CD-ROM drive, MS-DOS 6.2 with doublespace, GUS V2.4
with 1MB RAM, Kraft joystick, Diamond Viper 2MB graphics).

When I choose the Ultrasound option, the program runs VERY SLOW and the sound
is extremely broken up.  The graphics is also very slow and jerky.  I tried
both versions of DOS4GW that came with it, along with changing several other
options (frame rate, CD-ROM speed, DMAs, IRQs, etc), and never could get the
native support to work.  I also called Lucas Arts Technical Support, and they
were of no help in resolving the problem.  They told me that they don't even
plan on a fix for it at this time.

The only workaround I have at this time is to use SBOS and select Sound
Blaster for the sound device.  When I do this, the program runs at normal
speed (same speed as if I selected no sound), but the sound is terrible.
The music is very choppy, and the dialog breaks up and repeats words a lot.
I am using the latest SBOS (3.81), and have tried several switch options to
SBOS, but could not find any to improve it.

Anyway, my overall opinion at this time is that Rebel Assault sucks.  I have
also played X-Wing from Lucas Arts, and expected the CD-ROM version of RA to
be much better than X-Wing.  X-Wing has excellent MIDI music (the only bugs
with the GUS on it deal with some of the patches sounding a little weird for
some of the sound effects).  I expected RA to have either a nice MIDI or
Red-Book audio soundtrack, but instead it has a poorly sampled WAV soundtrack.
Lucas Arts just sent me a patch disk for V1.4 (also available on the
internet as rebfix14.zip) which fixed the controllability problem I had with
the joystick, but the sound still sucks.  At this point, I am about to return
Rebel Assault to Lucas Arts for a refund.

Has anyone been successful getting Rebel Assault to work with MegaEm or with
the native Ultrasound support?  I tried MegaEm several different ways, but I
get no sound at all from it in Rebel Assault.  However, MegaEm worked good
for the sound support for the two of the three demo programs on the Rebel
Assault CD-ROM using Roland for music and SB for sfx.  Day of the Tenticle and
Indiana Jones and the Secret of Atlantis demos worked great, but Sam and
Max Hit the Road didn't give any sound.

						Thanks...Tom

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 10:30:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Eli Bingham <ebingham@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us>
Subject: Re: REBEL ASSAULT

>        I saw the REBEL ASSULT has Ultrasound support, anyone knows how good
>it was? Native mode or SBOS or Mega-em??
>Thanks in advance!

Rebel Assault uses compressed 8-bit, 22Khz digitized sound tracks on ALL 
sound cards that it supports. Not only does it sound mediocre on a GUS, 
it sounds mediocre on every card I've ever used it with. It does, 
however, have native support. Just too bad they wasted it on such 
terrible sound.

==========================================================================
Eli Bingham     ebingham@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us     ebingha@ctp.org
==========================================================================

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 14:46:02 -0500
From: Greg Chung <gchung@eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Replacement MIDI patches?

I've noted that there are quite a few sets of new patches lying around
on the ftp sites.  I would like to be able to improve the GUS's patches
(esp the guitars)... but I don't have disk space to keep every patch set
on my machine.  Could someone who has tried and tested the new patches
list and evaluate particularly good/bad patches?

(I know this is a lot of work... thanks a million.)

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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 11:55:24 CST
From: d7924115@sparc1.cc.ncku.edu.tw
Subject: Stacker 4.0 and GUS

Hello , all 
After I upgraded my Stacker from 3.1 to 4.0 , the mega-em seems to go wrong
in games. When I play Xwing , the speech sounds strange. It just can't say
the whole words. It often say the first word and keep slience later. Before
I upgraded Stacker , GUS worked well with megaem in muisc and sound. So can
anyone know what happened on my system and how to fixed it ?

Thank you for reading my poor English ...

Ps : This is my first time to post her . It is new to me !!
	 The mega-em version is 2.03

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 15:24:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Fitzgerald Jr Steele <fjsteele@icaen.uiowa.edu>
Subject: techwhatever@gravis.com

I've never been able to contact Gravis by email.  I've tried tech, tech1
and tech2, even sales -- I always bounces back.  I thought it was only my
mailer that was having problems, but if other people are having the same
problem then maybe gravis.com is screwed up.  I hope the gravis people
look into that and fix it soon, it sure would be nice to talk with then
directly.

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Jerry Steele                   "True peace is not merely the absence
fjsteele@icaen.uiowa.edu        of tension; it is the presence of 
fsteele@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu    justice."   -- Martin Luther King, Jr.     
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 00:23:23 +0200
From: tjakobs@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl (THEO_JAKOBS TEL.62667)
Subject: UltraMid/v3.xx disks/The 7th guest

Hi..

Is there an option in UltraMid to enable Line-In (because i have an external
CD-Rom player, and i can't connect it to my gravis)..

For some people who had some trouble with Using 7th Guest with the Gus....

here is what the GROOVIE.INI should look like for the sound..

  ..
  ..
  midi=GeneralMidi
  pcm=UltraSound
  ..
  ..
  [GeneralMidi]
  irq=default
  port=default
  xmi=gf1midi.adv

  [UltraSound]
  irq=default
  port=default
  pcm=gf1digi.adv
  dma=default

and don't forget to load ULTRAMID -C -M100

Could Somebody tell me which file i should get to get the new gravis software
 (gus00xx.zip)...

How can i play King's Quest V CD-ROM with the gravis.. 

Andre Jakobs

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