GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 10 Jan 94  0:07         Volume 10: Issue  10 

Today's Topics:
						   EPAS limitation
								 FTP
					 GUS conflicting motherboard
				   GUS Daily Digest V10 #9 (2 msgs)
							Indycar Racing
							  Mic Input
					   Mortal Kombat + New SBOS
							MPU 401 + GUS
				   new win drvr: waves but no midi
				  Patch Manager not listing patches
								 qg4
						Roland & GUS together

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: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 17:34:55 +1030 (CST)
From: Gavin <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>
Subject: Re: EPAS limitation

Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca> writes ....
>What do you all think is the least important directory in EPAS

I think it's not so much directories but certain files. For example DOOM is on 
about 30 other sites but it still got uploaded to EPAS. Also, though the demos 
are great, there are many specific sites already for them eg. ftp.uwp.edu, 
wasp.eng.ufl.edu, etc. I think that files that are not GUS specific need not be 
kept on EPAS, eg. GUS specific - dune2ail,gusdelay,patches,hell demo (GUS only).

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 12:51:25 GMT
From: Duggan Chris F BSc 2 Info Sci 93-94 <C.Duggan@teesside.ac.uk>
Subject: FTP

Does anyone have any idea why the theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de FTP site will not alow me to log in as FTP ?

Chris Duggan
E-Mail : C.Duggan@tees.ac.uk

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 23:35:31 GMT
From: smarij@rhi.hi.is (Hordur Smari Johannesson)
Subject: GUS conflicting motherboard

Hi..

What can be wrong if some GUS programs lock up the computer..  and when I press
Num-Lock the computer "un-locks" and it keeps on running.  I've been having
problems with my GUS ever since i got it about 6-7 months ago, sometimes only 
sometimes programs like playmidi and playfile and some .669 players crash on 
my machine.  MOD players and WIN stuff ALWAYS work 100% so I dont think its 
the card itself.  It's strange that GUS works sometimes, and sometimes crashes
and for one time it worked 100% for about 3 weeks, and then it started crashing
again.  Some of the programs sometimes return Internal Stack overflow, System 
halted.  But Windows programs both wave and midi work 100%, why? Is there any
/much difference between Dos programs and Windows Programs in the way they
handle GUS.  This is very annoying, not knowing if the programs will work or 
not.  I dont have an OPTI chipset.. I think.. but I get the feeling its DMA 
thing.

If anybody knows anything about something similar to this please let me know

Thanks

Smari

ps. check out #gus on irc
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 14:36:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #9

> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 03:39:29 -0500
> From: Dale Luther Bewley <dbewley@tech.iupui.edu>
> Subject: DOOM  RTZ almost
> 
>   I can get the soumd effects to work fine, but choosing MIDI I get no 
> music. I read that I need to copy ULTRAMID.INI to my DOOM dir and rename it
> but I don't have that file. I searched the whole disk , will I have to re-instal
> my GUS warez?

Ultramid is not on the 2.06a or earlier disks.  If you have ftp access,
then you can grab dmxgus.ini from archive.epas.utoronto.ca in the
/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit directory.

BTW, for the sound effects to truly work fine, you need to set both GUS
IRQs to lines less than 8.  If you use the high IRQs, the sound effects
will come out as "phhtt, phhtt" instead of what they are supposed to sound
like.

>   I got digitized speech from Return to Zork, but now it is giving me
> DIVIDE ERRORS. I'm playing with 607k free. 

See if there's a reference to voiceooh (or something like that) in your
ultramid.ini file.  (Hey, here's the file you've been looking for --
it should be in your RTZ directory.)  One of the patches in certain
ultramid's does not exist, so you'll need to replace it with something
else.  If you find voiceooh, I think you need to replace it with doo.
And if you also find tremstr, and tremstr.pat isn't in your /ultrasnd/midi
directory, replace it with marcato.  (By "replace", I mean edit the line
in ultramid.ini.)  Also, try using the latest ultramid (version 1.06a)
or an early version (1.00).  These two versions are more robust than
the versions in between.

Phat.

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 00:30:05 -0500
From: Greg Chung <gchung@eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #9

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 12:22:05 -0500 (EST)
From: bpage@infi.net (Bob Page)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #8

> A buddy of mine has a Roland Sound Canvas and he just possibly might buy a GUS
> but what he wants to know is whether he can get the two to work simultaneously.
> Specifically, can you have a GUS playing any digital sounds (like SB in Megaem)
> and having the Sound Canvas MIDI passed on to the actual Sound Canvas through
> the MIDI port on the GUS. Also, is the external MIDI part of the GUS MPU-401
> compatible? What we want to do is run games with Sound Effects going on the GUS
> and the MIDI music on the REAL Sound Canvas.
> 
> ------------------------------

I have a Sound Canvas as well as a GUS & there is no way at the moment to do
what your friend wants.  I would LOVE to be wrong on this so someone PLEASE
tell me how to do it.  I know that a future version of MegaEM is supposed to
allow this & I will be crazed happy when/if it does.

--- Bob Page (bpage@infi.net) 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 14:33:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #8

Yes, they'll co-exist.  Most games that output digital sound through a DAC
ask for an SB DAC, which the GUS must emulate.  Only a few games will
output digital sounds through the GUS using its native mode (eg. DOOM).
The external MIDI port on the GUS isn't MPU-401 compatible.
 -----------------------------------------------------------

Leave the Sound Canvas hooked up as usual, using it's MPU-401.  SBOS
will run fine, independent of a MPU.  However, to run SB emulation
with MegaEm, you have to use "megaem /roff" to turn of emulation of
the MPU-401.




> Anybody know if the new SBOS is on epas? I haven't been able to find it
> anywhere. (Of course, it would have to be in the submit dir, since nothing
> seems to have been moved out of there since november...)

Speaking of the new SBOS, I wish *someone* would take the five seconds
to correct the SBOS.CFG file... ever since it was released,
"SIERRA.EXE" has been mispelled.

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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 09:22:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Whittier <COMPTEC93063@camins.Camosun.BC.CA>
Subject: Indycar Racing

Okay, I'm using SBOS with the -o3 switch, but I sure am not enjoying myself
with Indycar Racing. The sounds are pathetic. I just put another four megs in 
my machine to run all the tracks, so how do I fix it? Am I stuck with tinny 
engine sounds and a high-pitched buzzing for tire squeals?

Thanks in advance.

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 21:36:48 +1030 (DST)
From: Michael Scholten <michael@apanix.apana.org.au>
Subject: Mic Input

G'day all,

I have just finished reading today's digest.  I have already posted a
thankyou to Dan for his suggestion on copying the ultrasnd.ini file to the
appropriate place.  I would also like to thank Phat for his suggestions 
(hey Phat, you've had your gus for longer than me! > 15 months).

It turns out that I had to do both.  The .ini file was in the wrong place,
but it also pointed to my TEMP directory for .PAT files.  Don't know why
and I don't care.

Everything midi is now working well.  Unfortunately my Mic input is
suffering now.  Even though I am still limited to 8-bit, I had intended
using Patch Maker Lite to play with recording .WAV files and turning them
into patches.  I had used the Windows Sound Recorder with the old drivers
fairly successfully.  Now I get almost nothing.  Any Ideas?

Also, I would dearly like to have a clear understanding of the GUS MAX. 
Does it exist yet?  If not, is it a _definate_ and when?  Some people
write as if they've got one already.

Lastly, I'm interested in the 16-bit and SCSI daughter boards.  When I
subscribed to this digest the other day I received a copy of a very out of
date FAQ reminding me that these products were sceduled for shipment in
April 93.  I unsubscribed from this digest way back in about Feb '93 due
to a change in my email address, and only just re-subscribed.  It is
_very_ pleasing to see more and more support for the gus (I am not a game
player) but it would be even nicer to see some realistic shipment dates
for new products from Gravis.  (What ever happened to 3D sound?).

Ah, I lied.  The last point should have read _second_to_lastly_.  It must
be due to the fact that its 9:50 on Sunday night.  This week I hope to be
making a 'multimedia' presentation using midi files (as I feel midi is
where the gus really excels).  Due to patch caching, when I 'call' for a
midi file in my presentation, I have to wait for several seconds before
the tune starts to play.  Does anybody else see this as a limitation?

Ciao,

Michael.
 

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 12:43:37 -0500 (EST)
From: gt7039a@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: Mortal Kombat + New SBOS

Well... I just installed the new SBOS (3.6 I believe) on my system... one
program, however, I am having a problem with is Mortal Kombat... before, the DAC
emulation of SBOS worked fine with this program. With the new version of SBOS,
however, while the Adlib portion of the program is substantially improved, the
DAC voices are now incredibly distorted, as if they are overplayed. Does anyone
know why this problem exists? Is it a fault of SBOS or a fault of my
configuration?

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Date: 09 Jan 94 01:34:04 PST
From: pil!zapo@PacBell.COM (Zapo Zapper)
Subject: MPU 401 + GUS

Regarding: GUS Daily Digest V10 #9
 
> I have a Sound Canvas as well as a GUS & there is no way at the moment to do
> what your friend wants.  I would LOVE to be wrong on this so someone PLEASE
> tell me how to do it.  I know that a future version of MegaEM is supposed to
> allow this & I will be crazed happy when/if it does.

I do not see why this would not work.  I have a Roland MPU-IPC-T in my system
(hooked into a Yamaha PSR-510, makes my GUS sound god-like in comparison) and
except for DOOM, everything seems to work peachy.  SimCity 2000 works with
MPU-401 General MIDI and the GUS in SBOS mode.  

I was wonder, as a question to all you techies.  I know OS/2 can handle using
16-bit drivers in a 32-bit operating model, why can't this be done for
DOS4GW?  Also, there is a book, $40 called 'Writing OS/2 Device Drivers in
'C''

I will BUY this book for anyone who thinks they can combine it and the SDK to
come up w/OS/2 2.1 drivers...

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Date: Sun,  9 Jan 1994 12:23:13 -0500 (EST)
From: "Todd C. Gleason" <tg2k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: new win drvr: waves but no midi

Excerpts from mail: 8-Jan-94 GUS Daily Digest V10 #8 by GUS Server@dsd.es.com 
> I had the same problem but now I'm embarassed having found out what I was
> doing wrong:  In haste I copied _everything_ from the .zip into
> \ultrasnd\windows - the problem was that the new ultrasnd.ini needed to
> be in \ultrasnd.

I did that, and copied the ultrasnd.ini into that dir, giving me two
copies of it...and I still have no midi whatsoever.  What is the newest
driver, now?

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 04:21:15 -0700 (MST)
From: jhender@nyx.cs.du.edu (djkc)
Subject: Patch Manager not listing patches

For some reason, my Patch Manager (in Windows) doesn't list the patch files
anymore.  I've setup Patch Maker Lite, GUSDK, and other programs; could
something have affected the manager?

-djkc

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 18:11:49 EST
From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu
Subject: qg4

Anyone ever get Quest for Glory working with SBOS in DOS?  I finally got
the patch which keeps it from just crapping out entirely, but I can't get
it to work with SBOS at all.  Some error about a device malfunction or
something which goes away when I tell it I have no sound.

I have an ancient SB 1.0 which no one is using anymore since my father
also has a GUS.  I guess I'll just have to either put them in together or
just lose the GUS for the duration.  I think I'll get rid of the GUS. 
It's causing me nothing but trouble at the moment and any support for it
from Sierra under their new interpreter is months away.  I'll probably
just scrap the GUS for now and put in the SB until I finish the game.  I
can't even afford a double 1/8" cable to hook the two together at the moment.

If anyone has gotten SBOS to work with QG4 I'd just as soon not screw with
my configuration at all.  

BTW, world, I'm going to have a baby.  Or rather my WIFE is...

--Michael-- << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <<dmcintyr@vt.edu>>

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Date: 9 Jan 94 14:59:00 PST
From: EBULALACAO@CSUPomona.Edu
Subject: Roland & GUS together

Hmmm...I have a Roland MT32 and a generic MPU401 MIDI interface and a GUS.  I've been able to use the MT32 music while using MEGAEM for Sound Blaster DAC for 
the GUS.  All I did was turn off Roland emulation on the MEGAMEM, and leave
Sound Blaster emulation on.  A Sound Canvas shouldn't make a difference...

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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 21:55:33 -0200
From: JOSE ROBERTO FEHSE <FEHSE@VORTEX.UFRGS.BR>

Dear GUSers,

		I've installed some new drivers for windows I found in epas. Then the
		Patch Manager stopped working. So, I switched back to the old ones.
		Then I got patch maker and its drivers and Patch manager started to
		work again. Well, the problem is that now the patchloader stopped to
		work. It just doesn't downloads the patches. Any ideas?

								Jose Roberto Fehse


								fehse@vortex.ufrgs.br

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