Ultrasound Daily Digest     Fri, 20 Nov 92       Volume 1 : Issue  25 

Today's Topics:
				  Drum patches problem solved (fwd)
				   Environment variable help needed
						  Gravis and EA news
						   GUS and 486's ??
				 Manual errors and SBOS<=>Windows 3.1
				 Mod editor and something called gts
			   My experiences with the GUS - Round Two
						  Problems with GUS
						Star Control  II Bugs
							  Telemart?
					  The Quest for the Holy GUS
								 Too
						   Too much hacking
						   UBOS and PCSHELL

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:11:27 -0400 (AST)
From: Shadow Of Fear <8900795@Info.UMoncton.ca>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.02.9211191227.B6897-b100000@clement>
Subject: Drum patches problem solved (fwd)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi,

	For those like who find the drum patches worse on the new disks
(1.21), I solved the problem by raising the volume of the percussion patches.
Just go into your DEFAULT.CFG file and locate the string "129-256 ....
default ...... 90".  Change the number 90 by 100.  The percussions sound
MUCH better.
	I also upgraded my GUS to 1 megabyte yesterday.  Now I can play
those MID files I couldn't play with 256K.  I no longer have the "Error
loading patch ......".  Now, I know the cause of this error. :)

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 08:51:00 MST
From: hutch@ilmen.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Message-Id: <9211191551.AA02720@ilmen.lanl.gov>
Subject: Environment variable help needed
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

OK, folks.  I'd really appreciate it if somone would just take a peek
inside their autoexec.bat file and explain to me how the ultrasounds
environment variables are set up there.  Like many others, setup.exe
won't run on my machine so I have to do this manualy only, unfortunately,
the manual doesn't tell me.

Here's what I've got so far (from memory, I think this is it):

SET ULTRASND=220,7,7,11,7
SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND\MIDI
SET BLASTER=C:\ULTRASND\SBOS
ULTRINIT

The ULTRADIR and BLASTER lines were just wild ass guesses.  Could someone
PLEASE tell me how these are _supposed_ to be defined?

Also, when I run Windows, I get "Error 3 on loading altosax.pat" type
errors.  I moved the CFG files to the Windows directory and selected
the Ultrasound driver in Windows but what did I miss?  I suspect this
is something to do with the ULTRADIR environment variable, above?

Thanks folks.  I'm anxious to complete my GUS installation.

___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
_________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies     Member - IAAD  _______________
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 11:35:10 PST
From: nestlero@chekov.usc.edu (Mikeee)
Message-Id: <9211191935.AA07134@chekov.usc.edu>
Subject: Gravis and EA news
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I spoke with Matt at Gravis and Mike at EA today(Thur.), and here with the play 
by play are Dick and John.....

Dick:
Well, good afternoon GUS fans, we have a beautiful day here at soundcard stadium, and what looks like a great matchup for the Delivery Delay Bowl!!!

On one side of the field we have Gravis, designer of, arguably, the best low-end
soundboard on the market today! 

John:
Yes, but on the other side we have Electronic Arts. They ran a promotion for 
Gravis, selling the cards for an outstanding price, helping to increase the 
interest in the board.

Dick: 
Point well made John. I guess the big controversy here is, which team is really
the bad guy, and which is getting their chain yanked along with all their fans.

John:
 Absolutely right, Dick. The fans are really getting upset with both teams.
They both have what looks like very impressive credentials, but neither team
has been able to produce. Quarterbacks Matt and Mike have both shown they have 
strong arms, but delivering the ball(board) to the receivers(you and me) has
been a big problem this season.

Dick:
Looks like their ready to kick off John, let's see what the strategy is for 
today....

(enough of the play by play....here's the scoop):

Mike at EA says they got a couple of boards last week(EA up by one), but I'm
lower on the list(Gravis ties it up). Mike says he has checked their inventory
list every day, and nothing is in their warehouse right now, they expect the 
rest of their shipment today or tomorrow. (Game still tied up) So I asked Mike 
for the Gravis # so I could check in there.

BTW: Side note....It took 4 calls to get through to EA, and 15 minutes on hold
	 before I spoke to Mike. Matt at Gravis answered after the 2nd ring.
	 (plus one for Gravis)

Matt at Gravis says EA should have received all of their order by Thursday of 
LAST week. He looked at their P.O. and said it had been completely filled, 
unless there had been a revision. ( This order has supposedly been in for 
several months.....last minute revisions?!?!?!?!) (Score one for Gravis.....
They're up by two)

Matt also checked into another order I had from Gravis(sent in 2 months ago). 
He said he would call me back in 10 minutes. 3 minutes later(score one for 
Gravis...up by 3) he called to say it would be here in another 2 weeks :-(
(EA is making a comeback....they're only down by 2 )

I called Mike(EA) again to check this new-found data....he insists that they
don't have their entire shipment, and more should be on the way this week.
I express my frustration(and concern that it would be 3 weeks--from an 
earlier letter in the Digest)...(he assures me that's just a rumor), and he 
promises to call me as soon as their next shipment comes in :-) (EA continues
their comeback----EA's lead is cut to 1)

On the ensuing kick-off...

Dick: 
What a lousy time for a rain storm.

John: 
You know these (wimpy) teams will have problems in the wet and mud.

Dick: 
Could make the game more interesting. To date, it seems like the teams have been
giving everyone the run-around.....here's the kick....

John:
Gravis FUMBLES!!!!!!! Looks like EA has recovered the ball at the 20 yard line 
Dick.

Dick:
With one second left, I think they'll go for the field goal and the win...

John: 
That would be the only correct choice at this juncture, Dick.

Dick:
The kick is up....it's.......






(static...........static....................................)

Anonymous newscaster:
We're sorry to announce that, due to an electrical storm in the area, all of 
our cameras have been wiped out.....Tune in next week for the conclusion
of the Delivery Day Bowl. 


Side note:
Tune in Saturday to watch the USC Trojans romp all over 
(F)UCLA's golden(pee-stained) teddy-bears!!!!!!!!!

Final Score:
	Trojans    : 35
	teddy-bears: 0

Phyte On!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
						Mikeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
						nestlero@spock.usc.edu
P.S. Any Bruins out there want to flame me?
	 I invite and encourage it!!!...and we'll see you Saturday!

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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!"     -RUSH

nestlero@spock.usc.edu ; nestlero@aludra.usc.edu ; the list goes on and on and..
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Date: 19 Nov 1992 13:51:52 -0400
From: 08SPICE@ac.dal.ca
Message-Id: <01GRC6JDGYYQ000G2J@AC.DAL.CA>
Subject: GUS and 486's ??
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	A couple of friends and myself just received our GUS's.  Three of us have 396DX's and
we had absolutely no problems at all installing the cards.  However, trying to install the
GUS on my friends 486DX/33 has proved to be a most formidable task.  I don't know if this
is because of his particular system, or if it's a problem with the card.  He origianlly had
a SoundBlaster in his system which worked fine.  We removed the SB and installed the GUS.
Everyting went smothly until the last stage of the setup tried to produce the audio
instructions.  Crash!!  The system went dead.  I proceded by manually inserting the
environment variables in the autoexec and then we tried the mididemo.  It worked fine!
Then we tried StarControl II (which supports the GUS!!!) and it sounded fantastic!
Excellent Sound!  So we thought, "Hey this thing must be working?"  So we tried the
setup program again -- CRASH!!.  We figured the base address, DMA channels, and IRQ's
must have been set ok since the card worked with MIDI files and Star Control II.  But, 
we still foolishly spent four hours playing around with different settings, pulling cards,
and running system diagnostics.  No results.  Finally we thought "Maybe the system is
too fast?"  So we disable the system cache (256K in this case) and turned of the turbo.
This time setup said "Let's configure your Ultra..." -- CRASH!!  Well, some progress.
So we ran a TSR called Whoa which slows your system down even more.  This time setup
worked just fine, but we now had a 486/33 running as slow as a 4.77Mhz XT!!!  Anyhow,
we reconfigured his system to normal and tried SBOS-o2 with Wolf-3D.  On my 386/33
this combination sounded pretty good, but on the 486 it was a mess!!  So again we tried
every possible combination of the o and x switch, but it was no use.  Then we thought,
it's running too fast for the setup program, let's try a modplayer and sbos.  It sounded
like we were listening to music underwater!! It was way too slow.  The same thing for a 
couple of games we tried, they paused whenever there were sound effects (and yes, we
did configure the back to it's original 33Mhz running speed).  

	The problems with SBOS don't bother me too much; after all, I din't pay a lot more
money for the GUS so that it would sound like a SB, I paid more money so that it WOULDN'T
sound like the SB!!  However, the problem with running the setup program does concern me
a great deal.  Is this a sign of problems to come?  Or is it a problem with this particalur
486 system?  I would really like to know if anyone else has had experiences with the GUS 
and 486's.

	By the way, I have a Yamaha DX7 and a Roland MT-32 and the sound quality of the
GUS playing MIDI files is equal to (if not better) than both of these.


SPICERJW@NEWTON.CCS.TUNS.CA
08SPICE@AC.DAL.CA

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:40:45 AST
From: F. Wallace Peers <peersfw@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>
Message-Id: <9211192241.AA25802@orca.es.com>
Subject: Manual errors and SBOS<=>Windows 3.1
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Yeah it's me again... I had a busy day but I still had time to read the
first 15 digests or so (got them from epas.utoronto.ca) and play a
little.

I found two minor errors in the manuals (I have the newer ones that give
a longer explination about GUS with Windows).  The errors are:
(1) On page 19 there is a picture of the cable connections on the GUS.
The picture is labeled incorrectly.  The Audio In plug is reversed with
the Microphone in plug, but the back of the GUS box has it labeled
correctly ( the Audio plug should be the closest to the joystick/MIDI)
(2) When running the joycomp program you reach a point where you have to
set the digital conversion index to 1.0 .  The manual says to press the
up and down arrows to do this, it should read use the left and right
arrows.  If you try the up and down you won't hurt anything, it just
doesn't do anything.

In response to V1 #12 from Thomas Wong:
>I am just wondering, how many of the GUS owners out there is having
>problems with sounds in Win 3.1 after loading SBOS, and how many
>doesn't have a problem at all?

First off, the grammer mistakes are Thomas' not mine  :-)
Seriously though,  I tried several combinations with the following
results:
(1) Load SBOS then run Windows 
	result:  crash and die
(2) Load SBOS, unload SBOS (sbos -f), then run Windows
	result:  crash and die
(3) Run windows, then load SBOS
	result:  crash and die
As you can see things got kind of repetative.  I have no idea why things
crash and if you can shead any light on the subject I'd really like to
know.  If any answer to this has been posted already I'll apoligize
now...   I just haven't read that far yet.  Just so you know, the first
20 digests make a stack over an inch thick!  Not to mention that my
teachers get a little annoyed when I read them in class  :-)
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 0:37:16 AST
From: F. Wallace Peers <peersfw@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>
Message-Id: <9211200437.AA02308@orca.es.com>
Subject: Mod editor and something called gts
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I just uploaded MODED301.lhz to epas.utoronto.ca  and I put it in the
uploads directory.  It's supposed to be an excellent MOD file editor.  I
also noticed that a serries of files with the prefex "gts" were located
in the same directory.  I'm not sure what they are but a somebody
mentioned they were useful in a previos posting.

I'll try to check them out over the weekend.

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:01:20 -0500
From: "What the World needs now..." <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Message-Id: <9211192301.AA25635@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: My experiences with the GUS - Round Two
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In which we try many things and finally reinstall the SoundBlaster...

When we last left our hero, he was still trying to get any sound out of
SBOS. The arrival of UPS with the memory chips interrupted this adventure
to upgrade the GUS to 1 MB of 70ns RAM. No noticable difference. A talk
with Alan in Gravis Tech Support resulted in trying IRQ 12 for the GF1,
which produced no sound whatsoever from WOWII (which Alan claims works for
him). Several other attempts, changing DMA, IRQs and so forth still
produced nothing.

Finally, since boards had to be moved about anyway, manuals were consulted,
charts examined, IRQs and DMA channels on the Adaptec, SoundBlaster and GUS
confirmed, the Gravis got moved to I/O address 240h, DMA 7, GF1 IRQ 12,
MIDI IRQ 5. The SB is on 220h, DMA 1, IRQ 7 and the Adaptec is at all the
defaults, BIOS location at segment C800.

The system was powered up, WOWII starts and SUCCESS! Sound from the
SoundBlaster! The Amazon demo was next and it locked up the machine. The
configuration file got deleted, it's reconfigured for Adlib sound, and
SoundBlaster DAC and it too, works fine. Wing Commander 2 has no problems
with either music or speech. PLAYMIDI works great as well, blasting
tocatta.mid with no trouble.

Windows played a bit of the opening WAV file and then lost it, blasting
static and garbage out the Gravis. Removing the Gravis drivers and
re-Adding them back fixed that. OS/2 plays MOD files through the
SoundBlaster and MIDI files through the Gravis. Don't ya just love a happy
ending? :-)

I had a long talk with Harry in Gravis Tech support and he said that
they've had numerous problems with QEMM (which I use) and advised me to try
removing it and see if SBOS worked then. Also, he said that they don't
guarantee that SBOS will work at all with DR DOS (which I also use) so I'll
probably give SBOS another try without QEMM and (perhaps) without DR DOS.
He also claimed that SBOS was a "well behaved" program that will pass IRQ
and DMA requests so that the SoundBlaster AND the GUS can both play the
same stuff! So one can A/B them very easily, which I intend to try since
both boards simply go into different inputs on an amp which, in turn,
drivers the speakers.

Has anyone who uses QEMM and/or DR DOS gotten SBOS to work??

DDA

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 4:09:29 CST
From: Gabriel Moy <gmoy@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
Message-Id: <9211191009.AA11505@orca.es.com>
Subject: Problems with GUS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi,
  I just got my GUS today from PC Zone and when I tried to install it,
  my Stacker Drive got trashed!  I haven't found a way to get Qemm 6.0,
  Stacker 2.0, and my GUS to work together.  Right now, I have a totally
  wasted Stacker Drive and I want to know if there is anybody out there
  that uses these three.  Could you please send my your config.sys and
  autoexec.bat. And also base port, IRQ, etc.  Thanks.

  Any hints?  Help!!!
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Smile... :)
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 A Train Station is where trains stop.                 ()  ,
 On my desk, there is a Work Station."                 /`-'|      /
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 11:25:58 MST
From: kdorff@NMSU.Edu
Message-Id: <9211191827.AA25445@NMSU.Edu>
Subject: Star Control  II Bugs
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, seeing that it truly DID have ultrasound support in native mode,
I went out last night and purchased Star Control II from Babbes, for
$39.95.

I got it home, installed it without a hitch.  First, my system is
a 386DX/25. 2 megs of memory. 80Meg SCSI hard disk, Stacker,
GUS with 1meg.

Started it up and it sounds GREAT!!! I played about an hour of
it and WOW it SOUNDS GREAT!!!!  Really nice graphics too.  NOW
I have to go buy a color monitor and stick my SVGA paperwhite
in the old closet.

Anyway, I said bugs.  When you are at a menu and you are moving
between options, it plays a highish pitch tone, then until you
move again you hear STATIC!!!! HOW ANNOYING! WHAT IS THE PROBLEM??
It does this until you hit return (or fire) and it plays a low tone
and then silence (finally!).  This is true at almost all menus.

About 20 minutes into the game I visited the moon and the GREAT
music was interuppted with static from my left speaker! (WHY!!!
I don't knwo).

I talked to Mark at Accolate support line.  He knows nothing about it
and has not heard of it.  He is going to look into this.  If there
are others out there with this problem CALL Accolade's support line
PLEASE! If you figured out the problme, please let me know!

I TRIED taking out QEMM and just using HIMEM.SYS.  No go.  I tried
taking out all TSRs, no go.  I tried having NO config.sys or autoexec.bat
(meaning I installed it on my non stacker drive.  NOTHING else loaded
but dos and dos loaded low) and no go. STILL get that static.  It may
fix some possible other sound problems, but I want em all gone.

Finally when I was at the earth base under "outfit shit" and I accidentally
took out my "crew holding module" it put little "dispatch" ships on my
screen, maybe 15 of em?  Can't do anything with them -- they aren't
really there, but they never go away, even if I leave the screen and
come back. SIGH!  

I hve played less than 2 hours and I am having all these troubles. Is
This game REALLY this buggy or what?

BTW: Accolade said (to fix my sound problems, a suggestion) : why don't
you just make it emulate a sound blaster?  Isn't it just using the DAC?
All they are doing is playing MOD files.  My response to this was basically
if I can't make this thing do GUS I am taking it back.  I bought it BECAUSE
it supports GUS and sounds so cool. 

Kevin

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 4:22:27 CST
From: krusz@krypton.mankato.msus.edu (Jeff M Krusz)
Message-Id: <9211191022.AA25989@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>
Subject: Telemart?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	Anyone got they're GUS from Telemart yet?  I was hoping it
would have come today.  But hey maybe tommorow or next week or ...
According to Telemart they were supposed to get a shipment in on
Tuesday Anyone know if the got it in?  I am trying to be as patient as
possible, I even didn't call Telemart last week :)  I guess that it
won't kill me to wait, but maybe I should have waited to sell my
Adlib, since I have been without a sound card for a over a month!
Anyone want to buy an Adlib Programmer's Guide?  Send replies to
email please (for everything) or post I guess, I don't care which.
		

Jeff Krusz          Mankato State University
Internet:  krusz@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
  or:      krusz@krypton.mankato.msus.edu
  or:      krusz@msus1.msus.edu

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 22:53:24 -0800
From: rcrane@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Robert Crane - OTHER)
Message-Id: <9211200653.AA14115@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu>
Subject: The Quest for the Holy GUS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

The following is an account of how I received by GUS (maybe):

I decided last March that I wanted a soundcard for my computer
so I didn't have to listen to that honkydory PC speaker any more.
So I started looking into the different soundcards and I
discovered that this brand new soundcard was coming out that
blew the specs of other soundcards at a very cheap price.
So I looked forward to a late spring/early summer release
date of the Gravis Ultrasound.  Summer rolled around and
I found out that the GUS was going to be delayed for a few
weeks and I thought, "No big deal, everybody experiences delays."
So I waited to early August and I found out that Telemart
was taking orders for the GUS which was going to be released
in just "one more week."  I then quickly ordered one.
I then soon found out that EA had
a better deal than telemart (99$ dollars when you buy a game at
retail price) so I called up EA and asked them to send me
a catalogue of all their games.  I waited and waited for the
catalogue to appear but it never did.  So I called EA again
and asked them to send me another one.  Again, I waited and waited
and waited and no catalogue ever came (to this day).
Around the middle of October people at last started getting
their cards.  Gravis had a somewhat odd definition of what
"Just one more week" meant but they at last were delivering.
But it turned out that I had to wait a little bit longer because
Gravis was shipping to Candada first.  But at last
around the middle to end of October people in the US finally
started getting their cards.  So I anxiously called Telemart
about when my GUS would arrive.  But wait a minute!  Telemart
has no record of my order!  My early order was not to be!
Angrily, I placed another order
with Telemart knowing that I would have to wait at least
a month more for my GUS because I would be somewhere on the
bottom of an incredibly long waiting list.

I asked the NET if there was another place that I could order my
GUS and someone suggested Discount Software.  So I placed
my order with them in addition to telemart on October 27.  I found out that
Discount Software had better access to GUSs than telemart
and I remained optimistic that I would receive my GUS
around early to mid-November.  I got very excited when someone
on the NET had received their GUS from Discount who had ordered
on October 26.  They told me that they were expecting a shipment
the next day.  I called the next day and they said it would be
two more days.  I called in two days and they said they had
received a shipment but that I was still on backorder.  I called
the next week and they again had made another shipment but still
I was on backorder.  So finally, I called Discount today
and after much pestering they managed to dig up a card for me :-)!
But the bad news is that I going home to my parents house for
Thanksgiving for the next week and a half and I won't be here
to recieve the card.  So I call Discount and ask them to ship
it to my parents house but they can't unless they get confirmation
from my credit card company that this is okay.  So I call them
and they were completely confused about what I want them to do 
(it turns out that this is the first day on the job for the credit
card lady).  All this while I'm trying to figure out with the 
Discount service rep. how much it costs to Fed Ex the package
to me and trying to determine if it will get here before
I leave for my parents house.  But in the end after many
phone calls, I think they are going to send it in two
day mail to my parents house (for a little extra charge of $6).

So maybe I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Thank you God for teaching me patience and the meaning of vaporware!
----------
-bob crane (rcrane@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu)

"Ah Limbo!"

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:57:52 EST
From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9211191557.AA09137@alfredo>
Subject: Too
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

It does seem to me, from reading the GUS digest, that there needs to be
a lot of hacking done before the GUS works properly.  Meanwhile I am 
green with envy that my roommate is merrily playing sound files on his
MAC with its built-in 8-bit soundcard without his ever having to tweak
this, adjust that, try this, or try that.  Is the reason for all this
hacking poor design on GUS's part, or is it some inevitable situation 
due to incompatibility with 386/486 compatibles?  My card is supposed 
to come in next week (Disk-Count says it has been shipped out to me
yesterday).  I hate to have my roomie standing next to me and watch
the GUS fail for whatever reason.

Anyway, does anyone know what software (shareware of course) that I
can use to write music with in conjuction with the GUS?  Is there something
out there that lets me paint in the note values and/or actually edit the
score on music staves?

-Tim

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 11:02:20 -0500
From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9211191602.AA09226@alfredo>
Subject: Too much hacking
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

It does seem to me, from reading the GUS digest, that there needs to be
a lot of hacking done before the GUS works properly.  Meanwhile I am 
green with envy that my roommate is merrily playing sound files on his
MAC with its built-in 8-bit soundcard without his ever having to tweak
this, adjust that, try this, or try that.  Is the reason for all this
hacking poor design on GUS's part, or is it some inevitable situation 
due to incompatibility with 386/486 compatibles?  My card is supposed 
to come in next week (Disk-Count says it has been shipped out to me
yesterday).  I hate to have my roomie standing next to me and watch
the GUS fail for whatever reason.

Anyway, does anyone know what software (shareware of course) that I
can use to write music with in conjuction with the GUS?  Is there something
out there that lets me paint in the note values and/or actually edit the
score on music staves?

-Tim

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:17:33 AST
From: F. Wallace Peers <peersfw@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>
Message-Id: <9211191417.AA15538@orca.es.com>
Subject: UBOS and PCSHELL
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	I tried the UBOS program last night (the one that makes bat
files for running games and such.  I used it to make  a bat file for
Castle Wolfenstein.  When you run it, it brings up a message screen and
then you pick a little O.K. button to continue.  If I pick the button
with my mouse (Logitech Mouseman; driver ver 5.01) the whole computer
locks, but if I just use the keyboard it works no problem.
	Also, I used the newly made Uwolf3d.bat file to run the game
from within PCShell (ver 7.0).  The game ran o.k., but when I exited
Wolfenstein and it tried to go back to PCShell it locked.
	I don't know if these problems are just on my computer or not,
but they do happen consistently.

PS- Still haven't tried WCI or WCII yet...  I need to make some more HD
space so they'll fit.

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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 02:37:31 GMT
From: G.S.R.Price@cen.exeter.ac.uk
Message-Id: <1141.9211200237@olib>
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi,

I bought a GUS last week and have had a couple of problems.  First,
when I record in USS8, the sound is fine, but occasionally jump, a
little like a CD player skipping when it hits a scratch.  This happens
intermitently, whatever sound source I take it from.  I have version
1.1, but have just downloaded version 1.2.  Since it is an intermitent
problem, I was wondering if anyone can tell me if they have had
similar problems, and if so how/why and is it sorted in v1.2.

Secondly, I have a Xenon portable CD player.  I tried to record from
it, using USS8.  When I used the Samp/Mon pair of buttons, the sound
came through fine.  However, I then tried to record the sound, and the
esult of playing the recording back was hissy.  ie. The high frequency
was full of mush, similar to a poor quality tape recording.  Recording
from tape does not introduce the hiss, and likewise from radio,
(except for the hiss that was originally there).  I have even tried
taking the CD line out through the tape deck I used to record from the
radio, (selecting line-in), and then taking the output from that into
the sound card, and the results are identical.  Does anyone know why
this is and how I can overcome it.  Do I need to build some sort of
buffer circuit with op-amps to match the impedances perhaps?

Thanx in advance.

Gordon Price, (gpr@uk.ac.ex.dcs)

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