GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 22 Jun 94  9:37 PST     Volume 14: Issue  10 

Today's Topics:
							  .avi files
						 GUS & Pacific Strike
					 GUS & Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16
						   GUS Daily Digest
					   New Disks - Patch Maker
			 New MIDI adaptor (kit) for sound card (FWD)
   Returned mail: warning: cannot send message for 4 hours (2 msgs)
						   Sam n' Max CDROM
					   Settlers works with AIL?
					 Sid & Al's Incredible Toons
					Solution to 3.53 disk problem
					  Some good and bad news...
					   The Elder Scrolls ARENA
						  Traffic Department
					 WHERE R gus353*.zip disk at

Standard Info:
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 21:15:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Antonio Guia <guia@CC.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: .avi files

Ok, i've finally broken down and decided to try these things out.  Two
problems:  where do i find .avi files on the internet?  why are there big
gaps in the sound at regular intervals?

1MB gus2.2, drivers 3.53 plus gus0042, vfw1.1a, pcshell/win 1.0 (yes, the old
version, i don't have the new version yet), 486DX40, 350MB Connors, IDE
local bus, ATI UltraProPlus ISA, 2 VoiceFaxModems, Scanner, 16MB... 

d=128 in emm386.exe line, gus=220,7,6,11,5, in windows hifi on, linear
volume, buffsize=4096, 22voices, and 9 second audio buffer.

All the DMA channels work fine and i don't have problems with midi/wav
playback (except for the occasional midi note that gets missed, i can deal
with it).

I know this has been brought up before and probably answered adequately
many a time so please respond in direct e-mail to guia@cc.umanitoba.ca

i couldn't find any immediate references to this problem in the faq.

thanks.
-tg

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 14:09:41 +0200 (MES)
From: kleing@uni-muenster.de
Subject: GUS & Pacific Strike

Since the Digest seems to be up again, I4d like to repeat
my question:

Has someone come up with a solution for both Sound *and*
Music in Pacific Strike yet ?

My machine hangs when the first word is about to be spoken
and the GUS plays random sounds till reset.
Additionally, PS is the first game which refuses to work
properly with my Gravis-joystick. I am not able to calibrate
it right.

Please help me, because the game is real fun (when it works...)

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 15:53:04 -0400
From: aj667@freenet.carleton.ca (Kevin Tan)
Subject: GUS & Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16

Greetings.
I purchased the Gravis UltraSound 256k about 3 months ago and had initially
thought of discarding my Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 (which is a *good* sound
board) until I learnt that both could work co-existantly.  Delighted, I
installed both the boards with different settings for each card:
		SGPro16:        BASE:220, IRQ:7, DMA:1
		GUS:            BASE:240, MIDI/SB-IRQ:5, GUS-IRQ:11, PLAY/REC-DMA:3
However, games are not working properly; not to mention Windoze too!
Apparantly, some games cant' find the SGPro16 card.  Playmidi, however, is
working fine.  Even the SGPro16 demo doesn't work properly: FM music is fine,
but not the Sound FX.
Can Windows handle two sound boards at the same time? (ie: can both cards
output
Windows' sounds?)  Also, MidiSoft session does not play midi files as well as
Playmidi in DOS.  Eg: With HIDNSEEK.MID loaded in Windows, some instruments
do not play. BrightFX that plays the intro of the song, for some reason
doesn't sound at all in Windows.  Works perfectly fine in DOS, though!
Can anyone with 2 cards installed please help me out?
Thanks in advance..
--KevT--
 
P/S: SGPro16 is SBPro2, ADLIB, DISNEY, WINDOWS & COVOX compatible.
P/P/S: How do I upgrade my 256k GUS RAM to 1MB?  Any shops selling 
		GUS RAM chips in the Ottawa area?  Thanks again!

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:20:08 -700 (PDT)
From: Tyrone Horton <thorton@zyxel.com>
Subject: GUS Daily Digest

Is it me or is the server sending out old digest?  Also, does anyone have 
problems getting sound in a dos box under OS2?  I'm using the latest beta.

Tyrone Horton       714-693-0808 voice  thorton@zyxel.com
ZyXEL           714-693-8811 fax    71333,2734 Compuserve
4920 E. La Palma Ave    714-693-0762 bbs    1:103/725 Fidonet
Anaheim, CA  92807

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 20:26:29 -0300
From: Don Whiting <dwhiting@cs.stmarys.ca>
Subject: New Disks - Patch Maker

  I just installed the new disks, v3.53, and neither INSTGRPS.EXE or PMAKER.EXE 
will run properly (in Windows).  I know the INSTGRPS is just supposed to set
up the groups for the different applications, but all both of the programs do
is make the hard drive go for a few seconds and then return to the Program
Manager... I've seen this happen before, but I have no idea what is wrong.  Is
it my Windows, or something I forgot to set somewhere.  I know from trying tolp others that sometime obvious info is overlooked so I mention that I moved
Mega-Em and the rest of the emulation stuff to another directory, and I updated
the v2.06a disk install without deleting it.... probably doesn't matter, but
any ideas?

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 10:53:57 -0600 (MDT)
From: Dave DeBry <ddebry@dsd.es.com>
Subject: New MIDI adaptor (kit) for sound card (FWD)

	[ Thanks to MIDI Girl for this notice.  -Ed. (or -Dave) ]

From: pme@orac.holonet.net (PME company (317)743-1734 Info
>     ------- New Product Announcement (MIDI adaptor)--------
>  100% compatible, SB, GUS, ARIA, PAS16, RAP-10,.......and more
> Works with any sound card that has 15 pin D-SUB Game/midi port.
> 
> Dear sound card owners:
>     We now have MIDI adaptor for most sound card ready to ship!
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Featuring: <<<<<<<  --------------------------------------------
>  * Fiberglass printed circuit board, drilled, solder masked
>  * 2 MIDI female jacks, IN/ OUT
>  * 2 bright LEDs for visualizing IN(red)/OUT(green) MIDI activities
>  * 6N138 high-gain, low power consumption split darlington opto-isolator
>  * 1 D-SUB 15 pin plug with 3' cable connecting to MIDI/joystick
>    port of sound card
>  * 2" x 3"x 1"  high-impact plastic enclosure.
>  * Just plug in and use.
>  * Comes with warranty card
>  * Fully compatible with all your original MIDI softwares
> 
> Price: <<<<<<<<    ---------------------------------------------
>  * All part with PCB, instructions, $12 plus $4 (shipping & handling)
>  * Fully assembled, warranty,       $19 plus $4 (shipping & handling)
>  * Professional MIDI cables( 6'),   $5/ea. or $8/pair (no s&h with any order)
> We do international order, please add $4 more for shipping, and use
> international money order or check drawn on US bank.
> 
> Our new email address on the internet -------------------------------
> Email or finger  >>>     PME@holonet.net    <<< for ordering information
> Tel/Fax (317) 743-1734
> , thank you.
> PME, your Electronic Music Pal.

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Dave  ddebry@ debry@   \  
DeBry dsd.    peruvian. | "Maybe I'm old fashioned, but when the guy who
	  es.     cs.utah.  |  holds up the earth dies, we are *screwed*."
	  com     edu      /  

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 10:54:51 +0300
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject: Re: Sam n' Max CDROM

Sorry to disappoint you, but LucasArts have been using their own music system,
called "IMuse".  It supports like SB, PAS, MT-32, and that's all.  The IMuse
system has .IMS drivers of its own which are quite small and totally unrelated
to anything else I've seen.
What we should hope for is that IMuse is real-mode only, and LucasArts has to
resort to AIL for S-n-M CD.
Yossi.

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+---+------------------------------------------------++---------+---+--+|
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|Doom's JUST A GAME, OK?  Now give me back that gun. || is believing.  ||
[The People are with the Golan Heights!]=============++================++

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 21:44:20 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Otto T Hyvarinen <ohyvarin@cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Settlers works with AIL?

On the cover of PCF 33 there was a demo version of Settlers. It is something
like "Lemmings go SimCity". It ran in protected mode and I was able to 
get sound effects with AIL.

Does anyone have the full version and be nice enough to tell if it works with
AIL too? It should, but You Never Know!


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  ei ole miehen mielt{ p{{ss{              << Otto Hyv{rinen,
  miel on viety, p{{ j{tetty                  ohyvarin@kruuna.helsinki.fi >> 
  aivot otsasta otettu. "

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 23:29:47 -0400
From: ap641@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Leukart)
Subject: Sid & Al's Incredible Toons

	I know this must have been asked before, but I have
no way to find out what the answer was.
	Is there a way to get the GUS to work with Sid and Al's
Incredible Toons (Dynamix) without having to use SBOS?  (i.e.,
using the GUS-32 drivers, Roland Emulation, ULTRAMID...)
-Hank

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----------- Hank Leukart ------------ |   "Official" DOOM FAQ v5.6 Writer
--- (ap641@cleveland.freenet.edu) --- |   FAQ by E-mail or "ftp.uwp.edu"
 ------------------------------------ |     "Official" DOOM FTP Site:
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 14:34:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "K.S. Holly" <u8843389@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Solution to 3.53 disk problem

Okay, well, everyone seems about as confused about the digest as I am. 
Maybe those guys at Creative stormed the people at Gravis, and took them 
all hostage for making a better product? <G> Anyway, Someone was asking 
about a problem with the 3.53 disks. When installing from floppies, I had 
an error that started at disk 4. This caused the symbols.pat to be 
corrupted. Unzipping the disks to my hard drive and installing them from 
there however, was FLAWLESS. So, you might want to try that. Good Luck.

			Pat

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 20:18:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christopher Allen Kalin <ckalin@cae.uwm.edu>
Subject: Some good and bad news...

Well, just as I was going to go to Summer CES on Thursday to
congratulate Origin on FINALLY supporting the GUS in Wing Commander:
Armada (as alleged in Game Bytes) and ask them about "back patching"
their previous non-GUS friendly games (like the Ultima series) I find
out that Electronic Arts is not going to be there, and hence, neither
is Origin!  (or SSI, or Three-Sixty, etc...)

Hopefully, this is just a rumor, I'm going to contact the Origin tech
support guys on Compuserve right now and find out if this is true.

Do any of you want me to ask ANY GUS related questions to ANY game
developers at CES?  If so, E-MAIL them to me.  You guys won't be
reading this digest until Wednesday, and so any responses to it
wouldn't be until Thursday's digest, when I'll already be there.

I'll be back on Friday with a full report.

Chris Kalin

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 12:53:33 MDT
From: Jeff S Shelman <jshelman@onyx.idbsu.edu>
Subject: The Elder Scrolls ARENA

To my fellow Gusers,
  Just bought The Elder Scrolls ARENA.  It says it has GUS support on 
the box, but I haven't installed it yet because disk #1 is bad.

  Does anyone have this game?  And if so could you upload disk #1 to epas
or another archive?  I'd rather get it from one of my fellow gusers than
wait 10-14 days for a new disk to arrive.


Thanks in Advance.

  Jeff  <jshelman@onyx.idbsu.edu>

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 23:28:34 -0400
From: ap641@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Leukart)
Subject: Re: Traffic Department

>>Date: Sun, 19 Jun 94 12:58:00 -0800
>>From: chris.campbell@mag-net.com (Chris Campbell)
>>Subject: Traffic Department
>>Message-ID: <da.1607.6@mag-net.com>
>>
>>I just got this new game, and I have a few problems.  First off, what
>>the heck happened to Epic including GUS support in all their recent
>>games?  Hank?  And the digital effects don't even work right with SBOS,
>>whenever one is played, the action pauses.  Thanx!

	Yep, I heard the same thing as Yossi.  There were some problems
with getting GUS support in, but the next version will have it.
John seems to be planning a few other things in the next TD release,
although I am not quite sure what.  He may be adding configurable
controls.  (don't quote me on that)

-Hank

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----------- Hank Leukart ------------ |   "Official" DOOM FAQ v5.6 Writer
--- (ap641@cleveland.freenet.edu) --- |   FAQ by E-mail or "ftp.uwp.edu"
 ------------------------------------ |     "Official" DOOM FTP Site:
 ------------------------------------ | infant2.sphs.indiana.edu: /pub/doom

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 1:01:57 CDT
From: jhighto@squhs.uh.ilstu.edu (Josh Hightower)
Subject: WHERE R gus353*.zip disk at

hi,
Could someone inform where a complete set of the gus353*.zip 
on the net are at.  Cause I downloaded the one at wuarchive and
gus353d.zip and gus353e.zip are mess up.  If someone could mail
me these I would be grateful.  If you are planning to mail it to me
could you please mail me telling you sending it to me and wait for me to
reply. THANKS.

jhighto@squhs.uh.ilstu.edu
J.A. Hightower

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