GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 24 Oct 94  9:37 PST     Volume 15: Issue  18 

Today's Topics:
							 2 questions
						Armada and native GUS
				  Can we beta test the OS/2 drivers?
					   FTP Newest GUS Software
		GUS & MIDI PROBLEM under windows: problem and solution
			   GUS - Mitsumi CD-ROM - Video for Windows
					   GUS Daily Digest V15 #16
					   GUS Daily Digest V15 #17
					   Gus Daily Digest V15 #3
				GUS Windows Drivers and Mitsumi CD-ROM
							Mitsumi & GUS
				my Power Chords rhythm editor is gone
					  Panasonic 563 CD-ROM drive
					 SBOS versions & NHL Hockey?
							 SCSI CDROMS
							 sound fault

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, 24 Oct 94 09:08:47 GMT
From: csfb1!csfp.co.uk!pcunnell@uunet.uu.net (Paul Cunnell)
Subject: Re: 2 questions

 rock@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Jan-Oliver Rock) wrote
> Subject: 2 questions
> 
>  'Hi' to all GUS fans out there !
>  I've got 2 questions:
>  1) Where are the ProPats V3 archives ?

Try:
archive.orst.edu:/pub/mirrors/archive.epas.utoronto.ca/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit

Files are pp3-01.zip through to pp3-19.zip. I guess if someone's done some
tidying up of the archive, they might have been moved to sound/patches, or
similar. Anyway, the submit area is where I got them from.

Paul.

--
Paul Cunnell CSFB FOS (csfb1!csfp.co.uk!pcunnell@uunet.uu.net) +44 71 516 2946

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 22:47:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ryan Baker <rynbaker@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Armada and native GUS

	Does anyone know how to get WING Armada to run with native GUS
support, I think that it uses Miles-Davis Drivers but they are embedded in
a component file. (.TRE), The game will run with SBOS but not if SB IRQ is
7, and in addition it reboots the computer on exit.  Besides this MEGA-EM
refuses to run on my computer because of EMM incompatibility.  I use QEMM
7.04, STAC 4.0, and DOS 6.0.  Any ideas?

		Rya |  /|   |\  | | |  /| 
			| / | , | \ | | | / | ROCKS!
			|/  |   |  \| | |/  | 

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 09:38:26 +1000 (EST)
From: "M. Wong" <mkkwo1@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Can we beta test the OS/2 drivers?

	Since the OS/2 drivers are coming RSN (tm), can we beta test the
drivers? Gravis *SHOULD* have the drivers right, with the release just
one month away. Or should we wait "in two weeks max" like the Kalix
fiasco?

	If not, why not? Oh yeah, what can we expect from the drivers?
Inquiring minds want to know.

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:19:51 -0400
From: STEVENMA@LANMAIL.SHU.EDU
Subject: FTP Newest GUS Software

Hey, where can I FTP the FULL Base software for the Ultrasound, v3.56
or whatever the newest version is! I tried the U of Toronto site, but
they didn't have it.

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 16:31:33 +0100
From: wrbu@CHBS.CIBA.COM (Rene Burkhardt)
Subject: GUS & MIDI PROBLEM under windows: problem and solution

A friend of mine recently asked me to help him install his new
GUS MAX. He has a noname PC 386-20 (C&T chipset) with 8 MB memory and a
german windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2 with doublespace.

Problem:
Under DOS everything worked fine. Under windows, he couldn't play 
midi files with mediaplayer, power-chords didnt work, an so on.
When starting canion.mid with mediaplayer, it started playing,
but about 10 times to slow, ie. every tone sounded much longer than it
should. After some time i recognized, that also the windows clock
run 10 times too slow, as soon we started playing the midi file. When
we stopped playing it, the clock ran with the normal speed.

So i concluded it has to do something with the timer interrupt.

After a many tests with different settings of interrupts, dma-channels,
cmos-settings and so on , i finally found the solution:

In the file system.ini in the windows directory you can set the 
parameter

TrapTimerPorts=False

(default is True) and everything works fine. You can find a description
of this parameter in the file system.wri in the same directory.
This file also recommends to set

SyncTime=True

which i have also done.

Iwonder, why nobody else has this same problem, and what could be the
consequences of my settings concerning the behaviour of other programs.

Perhaps this information is also of some value for someone else.

Rene Burkhardt, CIBA-GEIGY AG, R-1045.P.06, P.O.Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
E-mail: wrbu@chbs.ciba.com - Phone: +41 61 697 2644 - Fax: +41 61 697 8772
X.400: S=Burkhardt;G=Rene;O=chbs;P=ciba;O=ciba;A=arcom;C=CH

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 05:47:07 +0100
From: A.PAUW@ELSEVIER.nl
Subject: GUS - Mitsumi CD-ROM - Video for Windows

I already wrote something on this in a previous digest, but
there where two questions again related to this.

To get Video for Windows set up. Run it (if it is a
self-extracting file it will pull out the files plus a setup.exe
file. From the Program Manager use RUN to run this setup
program. Presto... If you look in the setup drivers of the control
panel you'll find some more. You can use it with the mediaplayer
(for .AVI movies I mean).

I also have a Mitsumi CD-ROM and no problems. Make a list of the
DMA, IRQ, IO-address settings and check for different settings. 
For the I/O address the following note: address 388 is always 
used (ADLIB soundcard compatability). Also, the GUS uses some 
I/O addresses at baseaddress+100H I believe. So, baseaddress 
GUS 220H has extra I/O on 320H (note!). So don't put the Mitsumi 
CD-ROM on 320H.

Now about choppy AVI files. Yes, as I noticed too, it has something
to do with the Windows drivers of the GUS. Make the playback
buffer size not bigger than 1K (1024 bytes). I used 512 bytes
but discovered that for higher quality wave files this is just a
little bit to small, you get plops and clicks sometimes. I guess
768 bytes is just a good choice. Try it. Also make sure that in
the media player the `skip frames if behind' option is checked.
I haven't tried it but it could make the sound choppy (just a
guess). The record buffer size can be bigger, because it is not
used for playing .AVI files.

Good luck,
Albert Pauw
a.pauw@elsevier.nl

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 13:09:55 -0400
From: AdvGravis@aol.com
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #16

The following games listed are games that use the HMI drivers without GUS
support (they cut the game before HMI updated their drivers):

Theme Park
Dark Legions
FPS Baseball
Aces of the Deep

A Dark Legions patch has been released by SSI. I would suggest you email
Dynamix and ask them if a patch will be released that  includes updated sound
drivers.

All other HMI games there should be no problems including Wing 3, Under a
Killing Moon and Quarantine to name a few.

Bryan

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 94 12:48 PDT
From: Dhakkar <dhakkar@shoreline.ca>
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V15 #17
Message-ID: <720b8@shoreline.ca>

help

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:13:00 GMT
From: sue.lane@gusngolf.com (Sue Lane)
Subject: Gus Daily Digest V15 #3

Vince,

> You're very welcome!  Wowm so you run a BBS in Chicago or is that
> Skokie?

Sorry for the delay in responding...as usual, I'm way behind on my
Digest reading! <G>  Actually the BBS is in the western Chicago suburb
of Naperville.  The BBS is free and specializes in GUS and related
files (MODs, MIDIs, Music Demos, Players, GUS compatible games, etc.).
The other half of the BBS focuses on computer golf.  Weird combination,
huh? <VBG>  I also carry the GUS Digest and InterNet Newsgroups,
including all the soundcard ones of course.  The BBS is just about a
year old.  I started it because, at the time, I didn't have a very
efficient means of accessing FTP sites (do now) and didn't see a board
in this geographic area with comprehensive coverage of the GUS (or
computer golf).  I figured if I was frustrated about this others might
be too...thus the birth of a BBS! <G>  I'm currently running Wildcat 4.0
on a 486DX/33 with about 98 MEGS of GUS related files and am expecting
another 22 MEGS in the near future. I also have older GUS files offline
and they are available upon request...gotta watch that hard drive space!
<G>

BTW, Thank you for automatically sending the FAQ to new subscribers (I
changed addresses for the BBS copy so was a "new" subscriber).  I've got
one of the very first pre-release ordered GUSs and have been reading the
Digest from day one.  Read the FAQ ages ago and missed a paragraph in it
that would have saved me a lot of grief.  It refers to some games that
will sense the GUS's Adlib capabilities even if SBOS isn't loaded.  I
have such a game, Jack Nicklaus Signature Edition Golf.  This game
really started acting up on me...looked like some kind of conflict.  I
wasn't running it with SBOS or MEGAEM because it had always acted weird
with them.  Well, a couple of versions of SBOS ago I decided to try it
again with the game.  Locked up on the SB setting...but low and behold
the darn thing worked on the Adlib setting...and game ran smoothly
again!  What happens if I turn the music off?  It acts up again.
Conclusion..it knows the GUS is there!  Sure glad I reread the
FAQ..solved a mystery! <G>

Sue

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 08:39:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harry C Pulley <hpulley@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Windows Drivers and Mitsumi CD-ROM

 
>   With this hardware combination, I'm having a terrible time running
> a couple of Windows hosted games, namely Gabriel Knight and Myst.  Also,
> playback of .AVI files suffers from painfully choppy video.  I've been
> through four revisions of the Mitsumi drivers with no improvement, and I've
> heard it mentioned that the Gravis Windows drivers might be to blame.
>   Is anyone else running this combination?  It definitely seems to be
> a driver problem, since I can run higher bandwidth .AVIs under OS/2 without
> the skipping.
> 
> Derek
> drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu

First, try setting the DMA playback buffer size (in Control Panel for 
Ultrasound Wave and Midi Synth) to 512 or 1024.  I never had any trouble 
in Myst or GK (on a 486DX-33 with 8MB of RAM) but several other 
animations (MS Encarta, et al) had bad problems.  Lowering the buffer 
size solved it.  Remember that every time you run the Ultrasound setup and 
redo the windows software it sets the buffer back to 4096 again.

I run Myst and Gabriel Knight without trouble.  I have a Mitsumi FX001
(doublespeed) on its own controller and a GUS MAX.  I use the Mitsumi's
own controller just because I bought separate patch cords to hook it into
my stereo so I can play games on headphones while my girlfriend listens to
a CD; and because I can use the DMA&IRQ driver for the CDROM.  I can give
you my exact IRQ, port and DMA settings if you like. 

Harry

 :-{}   hpulley@uoguelph.ca       |This message released|It takes all kinds,
 \      Harry C. Pulley, IV       |to the PUBLIC DOMAIN.|and to each his own.
 ---------------------------------+---------------------|This thought in mind,
Ultra-Violence with Ultrasound    |     Ultraverse      |I walk alone.

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 00:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Mitsumi & GUS

>   With this hardware combination, I'm having a terrible time running
> a couple of Windows hosted games, namely Gabriel Knight and Myst.  Also,
> playback of .AVI files suffers from painfully choppy video.  I've been
<stuff deleted>

I have the same configuration.  You didn't specify what speed your drive 
was, but I'll assume it's a double speed one for now (if it's only a 
single, your problem might lay right there).  The CD-Rom games (not 
including Gariel Knight or Myst) I have work just fine as do demos with 
magazines and stand-alones.  What you might want to try is increasing 
the amount of buffers on your CD-ROM drivers in the config.sys and 
autoexec.bat if you can afford the extra memory (it's exteneded so you 
should be able to).  I have them both set to 30 buffers which seems to 
work fine.  If you still have a problem, you might want to investigate 
cache programs that cache CD-ROM's as well as HD's and FD's.  Also, you 
didn't happene to mention it, but what version CD-ROM and GUS drivers do 
you use (have you used?).  Hope this helps.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu
University of Maryland at College Park
To quote IBM: "Think"

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 94 23:44:29 -0700
From: Fred Handloser <fredh@hpcvusd.cv.hp.com>
Subject: my Power Chords rhythm editor is gone

I tried to use Power Chords tonight and the rhythm editor was gone.
I then brought up the Power Chords demo and saw the rhythm editor
but when I clicked on the icon the icon disappeared and the rhythm
editor disappeared from the demo as well.

Has anybody had this happen and if so what can be done to regain the
rhythm editor?   Do I have to reinstall power chords ?

Thanks for any help,

Fred Handloser
Corvallis, Oregon

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 22:07:52 -1000 (GMT-10:00)
From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au>
Subject: Panasonic 563 CD-ROM drive

Hey all,

I have a minior problem...I just bought an Ultrasound Max and a Panasonic 
563 CD-ROM (The Creative Labs drive). The drivers that come with the 
drive, surprise surprise, only support the SoundBlaster card as the 
interface (Is Creative labs trying to tell me something?).

Now, I know the GUS Max supports the Panasonic 563 drive (which is what I 
have), all I need to know is where the heck to get the drivers for it 
that actually work with the GUS max. 

Is there anyone out there who can tell me where to get these drivers from?
Preferably an ftp site or something...perhaps someone could upload them 
to epas??

Any help is much appreciated.


===============================================================================
Paul Murgatroyd                            E-Mail : s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au
Student Residence                     : dreamer@rip.it.Bond.edu.au 
Bond University                IRC    : MouseTrap 
Gold Coast, 4229, AUSTRALIA                Phone  : +61-75-954-649  
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 00:29:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: SBOS versions & NHL Hockey?

Speaking of SBOS versions (someone mentioned problems with it before), I 
had an old version of SBOS that came with GUS software 3.11 or something 
like that.  I then updated to GUS software v3.53 which included a new 
SBOS.  However, when I tried playing NHL Hockey, the voices and sound 
effects can only be described by saying they sounded like someone slowed 
down "the tape" to about 1/3 speed.  None were missing, just all were WAY 
too slow.  I consequently went back to the old version of SBOS and all 
works fine.  Am I the only one with this problem and if not, does it 
affect other games?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chris DiPierro: cdipierr@wam.umd.edu
University of Maryland at College Park
To quote IBM: "Think"

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:42:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Truong Long Nguyen <vtruong@uclink2.berkeley.edu>
Subject: SCSI CDROMS

Maybe its already been asked but can I hook up a scsi cdrom to my gus?
There is a 50pin connection there. Oh, it might be helpful since
I saw the same question in soundcard.tech newsgroup to create a list
of all the cdroms that are compatible and work well with GUS.


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Truong Nguyen                 | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science   |
csa-mu@po.eecs.berkeley.edu   | University of California, Berkeley          |
vtruong@uclink2.berkeley.edu  |---------------------------------------------|
vince1@freenet.fsu.edu        | It is by will alone I set my mind in motion |
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 08:28:43 GMT
From: dekepper@crpp.u-bordeaux.fr
Subject: sound fault

I have  rencently installed an ADVANCED GRAVIS ULTRASOUND card 
in my IBM 486 DX 66 (PS/ValuePoint) home computer. 
The system software is the IBM DOS 6.1 and the version number 
of the ULTRASOUND's software is 3.53.

I have several problems when using the sound board. I would
like to have advices in order to be able to determine if problems are 
linked to the card or to the sofwares used.

In the GUSMOD program some notes of the melodies seem to be lost when
using the sound card if compared with the same melodies heard directly
through the internal speaker of the PC or through an DAC on LPT1.
The problem occurs with all MOD files we could get (about 20).

In DOOM 1.2 the sound of the gun (and other weapons) is not always
heard. The same problem happens when the index pointer (the skull) of 
the menu is moved. This type of problem is not noticed with the 
1.1 version of DOOM.

Analog sound problems (no sound) are found in the menu selection of
PINBALL ANDROID that comes with the BONUS disks.

In addition, I would like to know if there is a technical support address
in France or Europe, and where I could find the instruction guide to
program the sound card through ASSEMBLER.

Patrick.

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 17:02:56 +0100
From: Piotr Klosowski <general@zeus.gliwice.edu.pl>

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							24.10.94 Gliwice
								 P O L A N D
Piotr Klosowski
student : IX semester
Institute of Electronics
Silesian Technical University
Gliwice , Poland

E-mail address : general@zeus.gliwice.edu.pl



			
	I have bought Gravis UltraSound sound card (MAX version) for

multimedia and profesional use.


	I have some technical questions and problems :


1.  I wonder whether you supply some information about ways of
	programming GUS sound card. I must to write some programs in
	C++ or Pascal with GUS support.

2.  How can I use D/A output and A/D input?

3.  I vave connected to "archive.epas.utoronto.ca" by Internet.
	I have got from him some ZIP-Archives. I have a problem with
	decompress a Zip-Files. I need probably a PKUNZIP v.3.0 or
	latter. How can I decompress a Zip-Files, and where I can
	find a new PKUNZIP versions.


I am very sorry for all the trouble this has caused you.
I sincerely hope you will be able to help me in this matter.

I would appreciate an early reply.

		Yours faithfully.

		Piotr Klosowski



My home address : Piotr Klosowski
		  ul.Kawika 24a/9
		  41-800 Zabrze
		  Poland

E-mail address : general@zeus.gliwice.edu.pl


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