GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 30 Mar 94  9:37 PST     Volume 11: Issue  54 

Today's Topics:
						  .au files for GUS
					  6 digests in a row ! WOW!
							 Anyone help
					 DOOM locks up for me, too...
						Dropouts in recordings
							   GUS BBS
				  GUS Daily Digest V11 #52 (2 msgs)
				  GUS Daily Digest V11 #53 (2 msgs)
				   Latest Gus Version & Windows 4.0
							One more note
							 PC Magazine
							   Playmidi
							 SB going out
							SBOS 3.0? [6]?
						STEALTH PRO and GRAVIS
					  U8 and Gravis (some news)
						   Who knows Rigor
							XWINGSND.ZIP?

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: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 09:33:00 -0600 (CST)
From: vic@cd.com (Vic Serbe x237)
Subject: Re: .au files for GUS

> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 11:03:01 +0800 (WST)
> From: Tien Choon Wei <alextien@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
> Subject: .au files for GUS
>  
> Just a question....does anyone know what programs for GUS supports Sun's
> au sound format?

I've had great luck with a shareware program called "goldwave 2.0" it is
only for Windows, but it supports the NeXT .snd format, the Amiga IFF
format, .wav, .voc, and matlab (.mat) format (whatever that is).  The
editing tools are very good.  I like it better than the wave editor that I
got with MCS Stereo.

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 13:01:37 +0100 (BST)
From: Toby <T.W.Nichols@hertfordshire.ac.uk>
Subject: 6 digests in a row ! WOW!

This really is bad. No digest for a week then six in a row !

Right....

If you really want to write to PCFORMAT the address is to the best of my 
knowledge:

PCFormat letters
PCFormat
30 Monmouth street
Bath
Somerset
England

Sending letters to these mags is very important. They hardly ever get 
their facts straight. Unfortunately they have no email as yet. I believe 
they are setting one up so i'll let you know when they do.

Secondly:

All GUS software works fine with DR-DOS6. I have had no problems at all. 
The only problems I have is when I need extended ram but no emm386. I 
have a 'Shite DOS' (MSDOS6) boot disk for these situations :)

cheers, Happy Easter :)

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 02:23:58 -0600
From: jack yang <jyang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Anyone help

   Hey there:
	I know it's been asked before but.... How do I get Syndicate to work
with my gus? It use to work, but I think I switched SBOS versions and it no 
longer works. Can someone direct me to a place to get it from? or how to 
get it to work? Thanks a bunch.
			jyang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 16:33:51 -0800
From: mbarboni@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Real Athletes Throw! )
Subject: DOOM locks up for me, too...

NOTE THE GUS DIGEST ONCE WROTE:    

> I'm at the end of my rope with Doom 1.2.  It locks up on me every
> time I play, within 20 minutes or so of starting, and usually sooner.  What
> happens is the screen freezes or distorts, and the music goes bonkers.
> I have to powerdown to shut the GUS up.  (I suppose ultrinit would reset it,
> but I'd have to listen to it during the whole reboot).

I'm getting the same problem...and I've got all my IRQ's less than
7, too...it's kinda wierd...could it have something to do with the
80486slc40 (cirrux) I'm running?  Ultrainit?  GUS0041?

Thanks in advance,

Mike
barboni@ucsd.edu

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 10:28:31 -0500
From: davidm@marcam.com (David MacMahon)
Subject: Re: Dropouts in recordings

>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 15:59:39 +0200
>From: johan linder <v92jl@hh.se>
>Subject: uss8
>
>When I record and playback music at 44100 sample rate, drop outs
>occurs, is my disk to slow or is a software problem?
>Is there any other good program for recording and mixing sound?
>Johan Linder
>v92jl@hh.se

(Some of you may have seen this on USENET already...)

What type of CPU do you have?  How fast is it?  On my 396DX-25 I get clicks 
when I record using Playfile or USS8.  USS8 produces more clicks than 
Playfile.  These clicks are due to missing samples or dropouts.  As as 
extreme example, (I hope this looks OK on your end)...


	/\        /
  /    \    /
/        \/

becomes


   |      /
  / \    |
 |   |  / 
/     \|

It is typically not as bad as pictured here, but you get the idea.  One way 
to tell if this is happening is to record to a raw format (i.e. .SND) for a 
fixed amout of time (say ten seconds) at 44100 kHz in stereo.  If your file 
is substantially smaller than you'd expect (882000 bytes for 10 seconds of 
44.1 kHz stereo), you are definitely missing samples.  This may be caused by 
delays in writing to the disk.

To find out if the clicks are caused by delays in writing to the disk, 
record to a ram drive.  This will eliminate the delays.  My guess is that 
the clicks will still be present.  This is due the way that most programs do 
continuous recording with the GUS.  The very-soon-to-be-released version of 
my program, GusDelay, uses a unique (as far as I know) technique for 
recording and is the only program I know of that produces click-free 
recordings using the GUS.

Until GusDelay comes out, I would recommend using Playfile to record your 
"reels" (otherwise known as ".SND" files).  Use USS8 only for mixing.

I hope this helps,
Dave

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 11:40:30 GMT+100
From: "hallgato" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
Subject: GUS BBS

A Question on official GUS BBS-s:
A friend of my is going to turn his BBS to Hungary's first 
GUS BBS but he still needs some infos how to do it. 

Please send the answers to gus-general or
	 "AKOS" hallg@vegygep.bme.hu
	 
								Viktor
								

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 20:32:22 +0100
From: "Thomas Lundquist." <THOMASEZ@dhhalden.no>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #52

> ------------------------------
> 
> From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org ("James M. Blakely")

Subject: OS/2 vs Win4.0
> 
> >Paul Murgatroyd said...
> >
> > My advice....forget about Windows 4.0! If you want to get rid of dos, then
> > OS/2 is the way to go. I was introduced to OS/2 two weeks ago, and liked
> > it so much that I deleted Windows off my hard drive (OS/2 will run all my
> > Windows and dos apps).
> 
> Well, except for one small..teeny tiny little thing...
> 
> *NONE* of the major developers are developing applications for OS/2.

Boo, Lotus is doing it. And a lot of smaller companies are seeing a niche 
in developing for OS/2. Now, when Novell have bought WP they will restart 
the WP/2 6.0 project.

OS/2 has a Multimedia system (Ultimedia) that is *WAY* better than any 
Windows based systems ever will be. Even PC-rags is saying that.

And Robert J. Manley is making some wery good GUS drivers. They still miss 
GUS Midi sounds, but it's on the way. (MIDI through is supported)

> 
> *ALL* of the major developers (and several thousand smaller ones) are 
> developing Win32 applications, which will run under Windows 4.0 and Windows 
> NT, but, alas, too bad, not under OS/2.

Booo (2), OS/2 2.2 (release in July) will have Win32s support. It will run 
Windows 4.0 programs *before* Windows 4.0 will be released.

> 
> And, as has already been pointed out, Chicago (a/k/a Windows 4.0) will 
> support existing Windows 3.1 device drivers, soooooo...

Booo (3). If this is true, the Win 4.0 system will still be 16 bits, not 
32 as the hype says. MS has to choose. (NT can not use Win 3.1 drivers 
because of this (and some more.) 

> Oh, and it also has a "Single MS-DOS Application Mode" where you can run an 
> MS-DOS app, such as a game, that violates the "rules". It'll be interesting 
> to see whether SBOS & Mega-Em will run in this mode (they should).

Booo (4) Not even NT (that was supposed to run everything.) can't do that.
But according to MS this was never meant to be in NT. Read magazines from
two years ago and they say something else. 

I wish I could stay away from answering such mails. they shouldn't be here.

> | A Microsoft Solution Provider       | ISBN 1-56884-026-8                |

WOW, now I understand why you are saying this.

I wish I would get all Digests so I could read the answer.
I am only getting one or two each week.


--
ThomasEZ

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 15:06:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #52

> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 09:27:05 EST
> From: phaedrus%triples@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Phong Co)
> Subject: DOOM problems
> 
> I've just installed the new drivers from gus0041.  I renamed my old
> ULTRASND to ULTRASND.OLD, and had it install into the [now empty]
> ULTRASND.  Afterwards I fiddled with the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT a
> little bit, just moving some lines around (ie., since my ULTRASND
> dir is on a stacked drive, I had to load STACKER befor ULTRINIT.SYS).
> It boots OK (no obvious crap outs), but now DOOM does not play
> music.  I have a batch file which changes the IRQ from 11 to 7, then
> runs DOOM.  This has always worked in the past, but now only gives
> me the effects.

You have to let gus0041 install itself over your previous GUS installation,
not an empty directory, since it's only an update, not a full release of
the 3.11 software.  To salvage your situation, just copy the files, in
their respective directories under ULTRASND, to their respective directories
under ULTRASND.OLD, delete ULTRASND, and then rename ULTRASND.OLD to
ULTRASND.

> Secondly, I can't play MIDI files under DOS (haven't tried under
> Windows yet).  PLAYMIDI gets a DOS error.  

Doing the above should restore your MIDI funcionality.  You're missing
the patches from the ULTRADIR\MIDI path, you see.

> Thirdly (though this is less serious than the other two), what's
> with the MOD player?  I liked the old GUSMOD, it showed more info,
> and also lets you select a new file without quitting.  Is the old
> one still included, or do I have to [re]get it from epas?

It's the same GUSMOD, except that it starts in oscilloscope mode.  To
get back to the text mode, just hit the TAB key.

> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 94 12:19:39 PST
> From: ksoule@tatertot.com (Kent E. Soule)
> Subject: EPIC Pinball; Errant Sound
>

Whatever sound problems you might experience in the game are due to
bugs inthe game itself.  Epic hasn't bothered to iron out several
problems with the GUS sound driver.
 
> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 13:32:32 GMT+100
> From: "Viktor" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #49
> 
> > Set both your GF1 and SB/MIDI IRQ to 7 or less (preferably less than 7).
> > Doom doesn't properly support the high IRQs.
>  
> DOOM V1.2 both shareware and registered supports ALL IRQs (Also 11 = 
> Default for GUS). If you don't want to change your setting you can 
> ftp the 1.2 patch from ocf.unt.edu /pub/doom.

DOOM 1.2 doesn't run reliably if the GUS is on the high IRQs.  The game
locks up very frequently if I leave my GUS on its usual IRQs or 12 and 5.
I have to change both GF1 and MIDI IRQ to 5 to play the game.  So I
recommend that people stick with the low IRQs, even with version 1.2 of
the game.

> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 18:27:04 -0500 (EST)
> From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #50
> 
> > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 11:13:14 -0500
> > From: "Gregory K. Maier" <sg90b4yn@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>
> > Subject: Cant get any GUS sound with Ultima 8
> > 
> > I wish I could find the words to describe my anger and frustration.
> > Oh, here, I found some...
> > 
> > I CAN'T GET ANY SOUND OUT OF THE GUS WITH U8!
> > 
> > 1. These are the files that look sound-related:
> > ULTIMA8\AILXMI.DLL             18,568
> > ULTIMA8\SOUND\SOUND.FLX        1,229,584
> > ULTIMA8\SOUND\MUSIC.FLX        1,378,135
> > ULTIMA8\SOUND\A16SBFM.DLL      18,568
> > ULTIMA8\SOUND\A16MT32.DLL      13,191
[...]
> 
> > GUSAIL3214  - I tried renaming the A32... files to be called A16...
> >               This made things worse - U8 exited with a gnarly error
> 
> The A16* at the beginning of the AIL drivers probably indicate that 
> these are your run-of-the-mill AIL32 drivers.  Origin seems to love
		^^^
  should have typed "aren't"

> using custom-modified drivers.

> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 18:23:57 -0500 (EST)
> From: gt0074b@prism.gatech.edu (P.Chen)
> Subject: GUS Max?  MIDI: DOS, Windows
> 
>   There have been a lot of posts referring to the GUS Max.
> What's different between it and the standard GUS?  More memory?

The Max is a GUS with 16-bit recording, the CD-ROM interface, plus
the enhancements of the 3.7 GUS and some extra glue circuitry between
the 16-bit codec and the GF1 all on one board.  Nothing more, nothing less.

>   Another question:  The DOS MIDI player plays back MIDI
> files much truer than the Windows Midisoft MIDI player. By
> "truer" I mean that more of the original instruments are used.
> Does the DOS player automatically conserve memory, an option 
> which has to be manually set in Windoze?

Windows usually plays MIDI files better than PlayMIDI.  If not, you
might

  1.  Be using an improper setup for MIDI Mapper.  Make sure that you
	  are using the Ultrasound setup, not the Ultra1024, etc. setups.
  2.  Be running out of memory on the GUS.  Media Player doesn't
	  alert you to when instruments will be dropped due to memory
	  shortage, whereas PlayMIDI not only notifies you, but first attempts
	  to fit in more instruments by loading them at 8-bit resolution.

> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 08:38:04 TZ
> From: Daryl James <darylj@microsoft.com>
> Subject: Hiss in recordings
> 
> > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 13:06:19 EST
> > From: Haroon Sheikh <hsasheik@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
> > Subject: Hiss in recordings
> >
> > Why is it that no matter what sampling frequency that I record at, I always
> > get a layer of hiss (noise) over the entire recording. I've tried all
> > combinations (11KHz to 44KHz, stereo/mono and 8-bit).
> > My setup is a portable CD player feeding into the LINE-IN of the GUS card.
> > I've tried recording with playfile (v3.5), WaveLite and Goldwave with
> > the same problem.
> 
> I too have the same problem.  Since I got the GUS I have tried 
> recording using USS8 and the standard Sound Recorder Applet in Windows 
> 3.1, but my recordings all suffer from the same hiss.  I have also 

The hissing you're experiencing is likely the quantization noise of 8-bit
recordings, which is _very_ noticeable.  There's not much you can do
about the low dynamic range (48 dB) of 8-bit resolution.

> I want to use PatchMaker Lite and I need to be able to record decent 
> mono samples!

"Decent" and "8-bit" are mutually exclusive, in my experience.

> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 11:49:32 +0200
> From: johan linder <v92jl@hh.se>
> Subject: instrgrps.ini
> 
> After I upgraded with gus0041.zip I got the following error
> message when I start windows "cant find the file instrgrps.ini
> in your path" What's wrong???

Type "path" at the DOS prompt to see whether your ultrasnd directory
is in your path.  If not, add it to your autoexec.bat file.

> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 11:05:16 GMT+100
> From: "Viktor" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
> Subject: Re: My MIDI won't come back :( (V11 #45)
> 
> > > Since I upgraded to Winslows 3.11 and GUS Install 3.1, I've lost 
> > the MIDI
> > > in Windows. The .WAVs play fine, but I can't get .MIDs to play at
> > > all. 
> 
> I had just the same problem.

Re-Run install, choose the Restore Files option, then restore
ultrasnd.ini to your ultrasnd directory.

Phat.

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 13:27:34 -0500
From: Fok Leslie Li Sze <a228fokl@cdf.toronto.edu>
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V11 #53

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 16:14:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter C Chien Jr <pchienjr@uclink.berkeley.edu>
Subject: audio CD pin assignments

Dear anyone,
	 Can someone PLEASE tell me what the pin assignments are for the two 
audio CD jumper connectors, i.e., which pin is LEFT, RIGHT, and GROUND?  
I must have emailed tech@gravis.com about 10 times and never got a 
response (maybe I'm supposed to know it already, but it isn't in the 
manual).  I have card version 3.4, but it's probably constant throughout 
the versions.  Thanks.

Peter

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The pinouts are Left, Ground, Ground, Right. The important thing to remember
is that the grounds are the middle pins.

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 20:02:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "K.S. Holly" <u8843389@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: CGW article revisited

After reading the post in last Wednesday's digest about Don Griffin's
soundcard article in CGW I wrote to them basically slamming Don for not
acknowledging the GUS and what it can do.  

To my surprise I received a reply from the on-line editor the same day!
Alan Emrich responded by saying that I should not stop reading CGW just 
yet because the next issue will address the situation in their 'letters 
to the editor' section. He forwarded my letter to the editor and Alan is 
hoping that he will use it along with their reply (whatever that is....).

I hope this generates more interest in the GUS and it's capabilities. 
Either that or it will just give them a chance to slam the GUS even more....


Thanks to Fok Leslie Li Sze for last Wednesday's post about the article 
in CGW.

Kevin

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You're welcome 8-> I was really disappointed that they seemed to be pushing
CL products. I've sent the editor a letter and it was faxed to Mr. Donald
Griffin and he gave me a reply on the matter. Firstly, it was an oversight on
his part that he forgot to mention all these other wave cards with RAM on `
board. However, he did feel pretty strongly about the AWE32 because that it has
both ROM and RAM on board (and he emphasised it with no uncertain terms).
Understandable as I'm very curious about that card too, although I still feel
it is not an excuse that the GUS wasn't even mentioned. Also, eh also told me
to watch for the READ.ME section of the mag next month. Something about the
AWE32 using TSRs to get GM/MPU-401 compatablity would be mentioned 8->. 
I mistook his intention of the second part of his article in my gripe, and
I apologise if I misled anyone. I simply blew it (though, again, I still don't
share his view point about digitised music <my point: Rebel Assault. I'd rather
listen to synthesised music than 8-bit 22Khz recorded .wav files>). 
On my third point of 3D-sound. I still am not sure about his position on it. 
Sure, he told me that Focal Point can only be used with the GUS, but so far
I think only the SB16 with ASP chip can do Q-sound without taxing the CPU to
death. 
All in all, I'm just waiting for next month's second part of the cards review,
which would include a "blind" listening test, and a more in-depth review of the
GUS. 

_______________________________________________________________________________-

	The movie works though.  I mean the "making of..." movie.  But 
the game just doesn't want to work.  I also tried with and without 
loading my patches with PatchManager.  I tried with linear or exponential 
volume.  I tried with 8bit and 16bit samples.  I tried everything!!!

	I don't have anything running in Windows.  I had King's Quest VI 
CD under Windows before and it was working perfectly.  This one is giving 
me real troubles.  Do you have any idea of what I should do that I didn't 
think of?  Any suggestions?  

	If I can't get this game working, I'll have to return it.  That's 
too bad because it seems like an incredible game.

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If you could get KQ to work under Windows, then you should get GK to work. To
get these games to run under Windows, you have to have the Midi Mapper to use
the Ultra1024 (or whatever size of memory you have on the GUS). Then turn
8-bit loading on in the Drivers section of Control Panel (Setup on the 
Ultrasound driver). Then use Patch Manager to "get from Midi file" to load 
"load1024.mid" or "loadgm.mid". then go into the game and you should be
listening to VERY beautiful music (not the intro as it is a .wav, but the
other midi music is excellent, as usual from Sierra). If you've done all that,
did you install the game to use "extended midi"? Try installing it again and
specify to use "extended midi".

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 00:46:14 -0500
From: ap641@cleveland.freenet.edu (Hank Leukart)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #53

>    I'm at the end of my rope with Doom 1.2.  It locks up on me every 
>time I play, within 20 minutes or so of starting, and usually sooner.  What
>happens is the screen freezes or distorts, and the music goes bonkers.
>I have to powerdown to shut the GUS up.  (I suppose ultrinit would reset it,
>but I'd have to listen to it during the whole reboot).

	v1.2 has a GUS bug, but most people haven't experienced it.
Here is what I have been told.  It seems that as long as you have 1024k
on-board RAM on your GUS, DOOM will not crash.  However, if you have less than
that, it will.  That's about all I can say.

-Hank Leukart

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 12:49:01 +1000 (EST)
From: Murphy Simon Charles <s9407312@yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Subject: Latest Gus Version & Windows 4.0

	Can someone please telll me what the lastest version of the GUS is

as I considering buying one, and also whether its worth waiting for
the GUS MAX to come out.
	Also there has been alot of mentioning of Windows 4.0 in the
last few digests, does that mean its out in America.
	Any answers to these question appreciated!

		Simon Murphy
		(s9407312@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU)
 

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 19:42:50 -0500
From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" <dantonio@tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Re: One more note

Actually, PC/Computing (yet another Ziff-Davis publication :-) has a review
of 16-bit soundcards and manages to not mention the GUS at all, except to
point out a "red flag" about boards that record 8-bit but play 16-bit. The
entire article was really about how great DSPs are so it would follow that
they ignored the GUS...

I might be wrong, but I think they loved the SB16 (of course :-)...

DDA

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 11:21:20 -0500 (EST)
From: gt7039a@prism.gatech.edu (An anonymous word of wisdom.)
Subject: PC Magazine

The April issue of PC Magazine did give the GUS a so-so review. However,
I think that was because of what they were considering.
It looks like to me that A) price was not in consideration, which meant
that other more expensive cards can beat the GUS (ex: Turtle Beach), B)
Wavetable was not a consideration, which meant that the $400 FM
synthesis cards (?????) beat them. Though why anyone would pay $400 for
a FM synthesis card when the Turtle Beach Multisound is avaliable for
that price (slightly better at GMIDI in my opinion though certainly not
as good as the GUS for digital music like MODs)...
I still wonder though about their Soundblaster 16 ratings. My personal
experience of hearing them produced less quality audio then the GUS...
I also noticed how low the Pro Audio 16 rated, which to me is a very
good soundboard. Oh, well. 

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 11:33:00 GMT+100
From: "hallgato" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
Subject: Playmidi

Somebody supposed me to use the -x32 switch.
So, what does the -x## switch do?

								Viktor


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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 8:55:39 CST
From: Jim English <jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu>
Subject: SB going out

My father read an article or something about the industry getting
together and deciding to oust the SB as the standard.  Nothing was
said as to what exactly would take its place as the standard.  (Let's
hope it's not from Creative Labs :) )  A very logical choice would be
the GUS, but I wouldn't cross my fingers.
-jim

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Jim English - jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu / EJP51823@vax1.utulsa.edu

I do not represent the University of Tulsa in any way, but I'm sure if they
wanted me too they could easily create another Vice President position and
raise tuition.

"Oh good heavens baby where's my medicine?  Well I must have left it outside
with my ettiquette."  -  Hotel Illness  (Black Crowes)
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 09:26:32 CST
From: mcavity@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject: SBOS 3.0? [6]?

I have the Sbos from 3.06 or some such.. and found something interesting
It came with a bunch of *.sbs files [look like patches] and if you run 
the line "SBOS -D" It loades these things up.. But I'm not realy sure what it
is realy doing...
[also mortal kombat should work under sbos -o3 but it crashes [though the sound 
plays right.. I hear the gong ok..]
Also anyone know how to load megaem without the ems running.. [cant seem to get
it to kick in.. Yes I've tried the "-noems" swich..
Mcavity@panam.edu

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 12:08:19 CST
From: mcavity@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject: STEALTH PRO and GRAVIS

Well I called gravis and found some things out...
The problem I am having is not real the Gravises fault..
Diamond Computers Stealth *PRO* card Is taking addreses that It should not be
It is the Videocards Fault.. [I should not be suprised du to some other
problems with this particular video card..Such as Realy Bad Vesa support]
So some FREE advice is..
DONT get a diamond stealth *PRO*
Especialy if you wat to run a Gus
also If you want 16.8 million colors [cuz this only realy works under windows
the onboard vesa bios is screwed up..wont be fixed for a while..]
[Heck your probably better off not geting a Diamond video card at all...]
Mcavity @panam.edu

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 10:51:14 EST
From: "Frank Pikelner" <frank@otter.cs.yorku.ca>
Subject: U8 and Gravis (some news)

After buying U8 and trying to get it to work (it won't). I called Gravis. They
are already aware of the problem and say it was a timing problem (they could
not finish the fix in time for the game release). THey are almost done (from
the person I spoke to) and they will release the fix to various sources 
including the net. THey feel it should be ready in about a week (I say this
without permission from Gravis, but as I've now seen several posts I decided
it would benefit those waiting to play the game). As for myself, I've started 
playing and will just add the drivers when they are released. SO far the
game is excellent.

Cheers,


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	   ___/     /   Frank Pikelner                                        /~\
	  /     _/ /    Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science  <v.v>
	 __/   ___/     York University (Toronto, Canada)                    ,\^/;
   _/    _/         Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca                          _{!}_
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 11:43:19 GMT+100
From: "hallgato" <HALLG@vegygep.bme.hu>
Subject: Who knows Rigor

If somebody knows Rigor from USA or Canada please 
send his e-mail addy to me! 
He's collecting MIDI stuffs as far as I know...

							Viktor
							

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				|   Vik                                  |
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				|  s5027feh@sun10.vsz.bme.hu             |
				|  (Technical University of Budapest)    |
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 20:01:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Public Image <scall@ccnet.com>
Subject: XWINGSND.ZIP?

I just d/l'd the XWINGUPD.ZIP file from epas, but it says it requires a 
previous patch set called "XWINGSND.ZIP".  This file is nowhere I can 
find it.
Not any of the mirrors or the Gravis BBS.

-Scott
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