Ultrasound Daily Digest     Fri, 26 Feb 93       Volume 2 : Issue  54 

Today's Topics:
							 card-review
						   Demos for 3D???
								DUNE 2
					  GRAVIS SUPPORT (FEB)  1/2
					  GRAVIS SUPPORT (FEB)  2/2
					Hard Disk Scrambling (Me Too!)
						 SBOS config for SQ5
					  SCREW YOU SIERRA-ON-LINE!
					   SDK, Unix and wavetable
							  SQ V Again
								submit
			   Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #53 (2 msgs)
								X-Wing

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 08:56:49 -0600
From: lindberg@esds.mdc.com (Drew Lindberg)
Message-Id: <9302251456.AA03847@esds.mdc.com>
Subject: card-review
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>



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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 01:50:29 PST
From: brian@ccnext.ucsf.edu (Brian Huddleston)
Message-Id: <9302250950.AA19751@ ccnext.ucsf.edu >
Subject: Demos for 3D???
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Question.....Why hasn't Gravis released a simple demo showing off the 3D 
abilities of our GUS'es????????   From what I've heard, it's not to complecated
to put togeather, and They have obviously demo'd ones at shows.....So what gives?  

						Maddly Courious,
						brian@ccnext.ucsf.edu

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Date: 25 Feb 93 09:01:41 AST
From: GJames <GJAMES@SHARK.STMARYS.CA>
Message-Id: <MAILQUEUE-101.930225090141.352@science.stmarys.ca>
Subject: DUNE 2
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Has anyone had any luck getting Dune 2 to work with the GUS. It seems
to hang after about 20 min. of playing.

Thanks

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 16:42:00 -0800
From: john.smith@gravis.com (John Smith)
Message-Id: <730648449.AA01133@ship.net>
Subject: GRAVIS SUPPORT (FEB)  1/2
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

			   Titles Planned for UltraSound Support!
				   Shipping the 1st Qtr. of 1993
					   Updated: Feb 20th, 1993

The following list has been complied from information given to us
by the publishers at the time they received our GUS development
kit.  What follows is a partial list of those publishers' plans.

Publisher                Working Title            Rel.Date
_____________________________________________________________ 

Accolade                 Star Control II          Shipping
	 Other titles planned for summer.

Activision               Return to Zork           March
	 Future titles also planned for 1993

Apogee Software          Pickle Wars              Feb-Mar
	 Extensive GUS support this year, including educational titles

Apunix                   Sound Tool               Mar-Apr
	 They plan to release four other titles with GUS support.

The Blue Ribbon Sound    SuperJAM                 Feb-Mar
 Works Ltd.
	 Also working on other MPC titles.  Well known music company
	 producing quality work for several years.  Featured numerous
	 times in Keyboard magazines.

Bt Software Enterprises  Xanthus                  Feb
						 PC Composer              Mar
	 Published 3 selling titles to date.  Will support GUS in all
	 future titles.

Comptons New Media       Untitles                 Apr-May
	 Has planned support for all future releases.

DigiVox                  Sound Impression         Mar
	 Has plans for other future titles

E Book                   Untitled                 Apr
	 Has plans to support the GUS in future releases. An EA(AFL)

Electronic Arts          Ultra Chuck Yeager       Shipping
						 NHL Hockey               Feb-Mar
	 Further support planned for additional titles.  Cannot release
	 working names yet.


Epic Games               Drum Blaster             Feb-Mar
	 Shareware company planning support for all their new titles
	 including Track Blaster, Zone 66, Solar Winds, Savage Crusade


Hollyware                Johnny Quest             Feb-Mar
	 Famous Cartoon adventure series of the 60's.  Several titles
	 planned for GUS support in 1993.

Ibis                     EarPlay                  Jan
						 RiffTutor                Feb
	 Well known for their music programs.  GUS support planned for
	 all coming titles.

ID Software              Doom                     Feb-Mar
						 Bio Hazard
	 Huge success with Wolfstein 3D.  GUS support planned for all
	 upcoming titles.

Intel Corporation        960 Family Features      Feb
	 Planning to use GUS in several Multi-Media Projects.

Interplay                Buzz Aldrin's            Mar
						   Race into Space
	 Plans GUS support for all 1993 titles.  Now handles Virgin
	 Games, also planning GUS support.

IntraCorp Inc.           Terminator 2 Chess       Feb
						 Trump Castle 3           Mar
	 Have produced quality games, such as Home Alone 2, Bridge
	 Master and Dark Half.

LucasArts Entertainment  Untitled                 Apr
	 Several titles planned for GUS support

Kesmai Corporation       Air Combat Warrior       Feb
	 Online gaming system has big plans for GUS support

Megatoon                 Jersey Devil             Mar-Apr
	 Electronic Arts (AFL) has many titles planned for GUS support

Mercer Comp Systems      Midi Performer           Feb
	 Music Software company plans GUS support for several new titles


(Continued to next message)
 ~ QMPro 1.01 05-8925 ~ Press "+" to see another tagline.

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 16:42:00 -0800
From: john.smith@gravis.com (John Smith)
Message-Id: <730648449.AA01134@ship.net>
Subject: GRAVIS SUPPORT (FEB)  2/2
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

(Continued from previous message)

MicroProse               World Circuit            Shipping
						 David Leadbetter's Golf  Jan-Feb
						 Harrier                  Jan-Feb
	 These titles will include a patch, or will be revised for
	 full GUS support

MidiSoft                 Recording Session        Shipping
	 Music Software Company.  Will support GUS in all future
	 titles.

New World Computing      Empire Deluxe            Feb
	 An affiliate of Broderbund Software.  Plan GUS support for
	 all future titles

Norsehelm Products Inc.  Ragnarok II              Mar
						 Seven Wonders
	 Producers of quality arcade adventure games.  Plan to support
	 GUS in future titles.

NovaLogic                Comanche                 Shipping
						   Maximum Overkill
						   The new Missions disk.
						 UltraBolts               April
	 Affiliate of Electronic Arts. #1 selling fall title. Includes
	 their own SBOS.  GUS delivers superior stereo sound (not MONO)
	 with much clearer sound effects.

Odyssey Software         Space Wars               Mar
	 Received excellent press coverage in recent articles

Psygnosis                Lemmings 2               Feb-Mar
	Renowned for huge successes in arcade style games.  Plan to
	support GUS in other 1993 releases.

Sierra                   The Sierra Network       Mar-Apr
	One of the fastest growing OnLine services.  Has plans to write
	code for several Sierra titles.

Silicon & Synapse        Lost Vikings             Mar
	Well known developers of the SNES.  They have also done
	development for Interplay

S.S.I.                   Great Naval Battles      Shipping
	Electronic Arts affiliate.  Well known for combat simulations
	and D&D software.  This title includes their own SBOS patch.

Twelve Tone Systems      Cake Walk Pro            Mar
	Music publisher will produce several titles with GUS support

Three Sixty              Battle Cruiser 3D        Feb
	Electronic Arts Affiliate.  Excellent reputation for air,
	combat and war simulations.  Plan to support GUS in other
	1993 releases.

VOR Technologies, Inc.   Empires of the Known     Mar
						   Universe
	Online gaming system.  Plans GUS support to take advantage of
	digital audio.

Westwood Studios         Untitled                 Apr-May
	Has plans in the works for GUS support and 3D support in
	summer releases.

WinJammer Software       WinJammer                Shipping
	Well established Music Shareware Company.  Producing a new
	midi-sequencer with GUS support.
 ~ QMPro 1.01 05-8925 ~ Press "+" to see another tagline.

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 9:21:53 -0700 (MST)
From: MASON@CC.SNOW.EDU
Message-Id: <930225092153.20601cc9@CC.SNOW.EDU>
Subject: Hard Disk Scrambling (Me Too!)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I've noticed some discussion about the FAT table being scrambled.  I also had
the same problem.  I'm not sure it is tied to a particular application.  It
seems everyone had run different programs when it happened.  Just before my FAT
table scrambled I had run the game "The Incredible Machine" from Sierra.  Upon
exiting the game, my system froze.  When I rebooted I noticed an entire
directory tree had been destroyed. (fun!)  I was able to correct that problem
using Norton Utilities, however my volume label now has garbage in it, and I
can't change it.  Even when I try to do a DOS LABEL command, it states it can't
process the entry.

If anyone can figure out the problem, let us know so we can avoid it happening
again!!!!!      MASON@CC.SNOW.EDU

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 13:44:44 -0800
From: Tony <tonus@tsoft.net>
Message-Id: <93Feb25.134456pst.18531@gilligan.tsoft.net>
Subject: SBOS config for SQ5
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

		The setting for Space Quest 5 is -x3.. this is using SBOS 1.20.. It
won't hang and it sounds great..

Tony

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 0:21:58 PST
From: gabrielj@sfu.ca
Message-Id: <9302250821.AA12861@fraser.sfu.ca>
Subject: SCREW YOU SIERRA-ON-LINE!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, I sent mail to Sierra-on-line after the nice fellow
posted all of those e-mail addresses.  SOL was the only
response I've had so far and it was a bad one.
 
To paraphrase, they said "no plans for GUS support at this moment"
 
Well, then I say to them "Screw You!"  They've jerked us all
around.  First no support.  Then support.  Then no support.
 
Frankly I don't care if they support GUS or not.  Seriously
their games really lick anyways.  They're all the SAME!
I used to like Kings Quest several years ago.  It was considered
innovative but now?  No way.  All their damn games are the
same.  They use the same engine.
 
They only thing they have to do for a game is make new graphics,
new music and a new story line. Whoopee!  Yah, they're really
breaking new ground.  If you've played one, you've played
them all.  The interface sucks too.  I preferred the text
parsor because it didn't limit your immagination.  Sure the
GUI is much simpler to use which is good for children but
you've got your options all layed out.  More user friendly
but not as educational.
 
My final words to SOL: Eat me!
 
Da Lazer (of Da Ghetto Bwudaz)

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 1:41:46 EST
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Message-Id: <9302260641.AA14937@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: SDK, Unix and wavetable
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Regarding the SDK and Unix, check my post on that in the soundcard
newsgroup.

Regarding wavetable, i will type a nice detailed text this weekend on the
GUS implementation, some other implementations and the relation with soft
synths and other synthesis methods (AM, PM, FM etc...)

That's all folks (i have only 7 minutes of free time today. so busy...)

Ciao,
-- 
Francois Dion
	'  _   _   _ 
 CISM (_) (_)  _) FM       Montreal , Canada       Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
	  (_)  / . _)             10000 Watts          Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
_______________________________________________________________________________
Audio-C-DJ-Fractals-Future-Label-Multimedia-Music-Radio-Rave-Video-VR-Volvo-...

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:20:22 PST
From: biggles@berlioz.nsc.com (Winston Worrell)
Message-Id: <9302251820.AA08335@berlioz.nsc.com>
Subject: SQ V Again
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In relation to SQ V, I could get the music to play if:

1: I did not install the SB option.
2: Started the game, got out of the simulator.
3: Saved the game.
4: re-configured it for SoundBlaster.
5: restarted the game.

This was fine until I got futher along and then the screen froze and broke up,
and the whole thing hung. After this happend twice (I had to do this myself with
no help from Sierra), I decided it wasn't worth it. Plus the fact that Sierra
acknowledges the fact that there is a driver problem that they weren't going to
fix, I decided to dump it. 

All this points to is that it may be an intermitent problem, but the problem is there
and everybody should be aware of it.

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 14:28:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Gardner <tkabal@u.washington.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05z.9302251403.A9819-9100000@carson.u.washington.edu>
Subject: submit
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

As many of you know SBOS will not run with OS/2 as far as i can tell. The
driver loads and everything fine. But when trying to run a game or
anything. You get major conflicts. Does anybody know of a place i can
complain to get some drivers made. Or has anyone figured any tricks in
thier setups that they could share to help me out. I am running OS/2 2.0
and about to switch to 2.1 praying that will fill my problem. Thanks for
all the info.

tkabal a VLA programmer.

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 12:59:36 EET
From: Keijo Hautala <hautala@mail.vitech.fi>
Message-Id: <9302251100.AA17351@uwasa.fi>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #53
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>



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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 08:57:57 -0500
From: "Anthony Green" <roboco!green>
Message-Id: <2b8c8a18.roboco@roboco.UUCP>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #53
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> Date: 24 Feb 93 21:10:17 EDT
> From: Richard Wyckoff <RWYCKOFF@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu>
> Subject: Csound OS/2 port??
> 
>     How is this coming?  (The OS/2 version particularly)  I've sent you two e-
> mails about it, and received no response, so I figured I'd send this to the
> whole list...anyone else working on interesting GUS software for OS/2?

Hmmm.. good thing you did - because I did not receive any mail from you. 
In fact, I only received mail from one person. They did not use my 
green@roboco.uucp - but rather, roboco!green@utai.toronto.edu. I have
changed my .sig to reflect this.

Csound works well... of course it does not make any sounds under OS/2. I have
been in touch my Advanced Gravis MANY times about the non disclosure agreement
needed to get a copy of the SDK source code (needed to write any OS/2 driver).
I have yet to receive anything.

On the bright side, you can play the output under DOS. I have also just written
a little program that converts .pat files into AIFF files for use with Csound.

*NOTE* If anybody sent me mail about Csound and did not receive a reply - 
	please try again - but this time to roboco!green@utai.toronto.edu.

I am constantly making little changes to Csound - and will wait for a couple 
more days before I send it out.

Thanks  
-- 
Anthony T. Green                343D St. Clair Ave W, Toronto, Ontario M5P 1N3

Home   (416) 968-0817           Internet: roboco!green@utai.toronto.edu
Office (416) 340-0887           UUCP    : ...!uunet!utai!roboco!green

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 12:35:07 -0700 (MST)
From: michael a finkel  <mfinkel@argon.GAS.uug.Arizona.EDU>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9302251207.A6136-b100000@argon>
Subject: X-Wing
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, I just got XWing out of the box today (one of the benifits of being
on an order list for an eternity and a half), popped it in for the 20 min
installation to find out that it has no native GUS support as I was led to
believe it would on many of the newsgroups.  What it does do is play very
Ad-Libbish sounding music (no drums or separate instruments - they all
sound the same) with some pretty decent digitized voices using SBOS 1.22
with no extra switches.  Make sure you have plenty of conventional memory
(it requires 580k for all sounds) and plenty of EMS (at least 1 meg).

I noticed that in the install some of the sound options I saw was General
Midi and then there was a General Midi music with Soundblaster sounds.  Is
there any way to utilize either of these with the GUS to get the enhanced
music capabilities that the GUS is able to achieve?  Or is there some sort
of upgrade on the way (either from Lucas or one of you who CAN program for
the GUS) to allow the GUS to work in it's native mode?

While all the sounds worked and such, it was quite disappointing to hear
the 'one instrument Ad-Lib' music playing after all the .MID .MOD and .669
music I had heard.


Please respond and correct any misperceptions I have stated or to answer
any of the questions I have raised either via this group,
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcards, or via email.  


P.S.  The game is really cool - very playable and no noticeable slowdown
	with SBOS.

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