GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 6 Nov 94  9:37 PST      Volume 16: Issue   6 

Today's Topics:
						 3.56 install problem
				Any registered Ultrasound to help me ?
		  CD to WAV; GUSMAX featured in pro music magazine.
					 DOOM 1.7 and GUS, rejoice!!
						  Doom: No music...!
							   gus sdk
					   HMI Drivers and Dynamix
				   Mitsumi CDROM, SONY or Panasonic
				  The lands of lore, Kings Quest5&6
					 UAKM readme file about >256K
						 Windows / CDROM prob
						   win driver 5.47

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: 06 Nov 1994 08:01:00 +0100
From: tom@cat.ping.de (Thomas Adams)
Subject: 3.56 install problem

I installed the 3.56 drivers and have two problems:

- the install program pretended to change CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT but  
it didn't

- Windows fails to start now

Any help appreciated

-tom

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 10:35:32 -0800
From: cohen@tc.msu.edu (Cohen francis)
Subject: Any registered Ultrasound to help me ?

I'd like to buy an Ultrasound MAX... Unfortunately, I'm not 
yet a registered customers, but I can't stand having to pay the
full price when I know I could pay $175 for it if I was registered ..

Is there anybody out there registered who could buy it for me  ??

By the way, I'm interested in the Magic Piano which is presented in the last 
issue of Compulife : Can we buy the keyboard without the card and the speakers ?
Is it working with the Max ? Is it working BETTER with the Max ??
Any comments about this stuff interest me !!!!
Thanx.

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Date: Sun, 06 Nov 94 17:50:31 +0200
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject: CD to WAV; GUSMAX featured in pro music magazine.

OK, I was looking for the CD-DA to WAV converter and I found these 2 files
in EPAS mirrors: cddaread.zip and cdinfo13.zip.  Both go directly from the CD
data to your HD without the ADC on the GUS.  cddaread mentioned SCSI so it may
not work on other interfaces... I'm not sure.
I couldn't find the MPU-401 emulator so I'll just zip it up from my HD and
stick it in EPAS... hope it's OK with the author.
AND, finally, a friend of mine has showed me a CDROM called "Future Music"
or something.  It's part of a magazine by that name and contains demos of
MIDI modules, samples and loops, and songs by unsigned bands.  Anyway, one of
these disks contained SWNGCAFE.MID as rendered by the UltraMax.  I was very
proud since the M1, SCC-55 and friends were also in these CDs.
What this has to teach Gravis is that they should ask one of the GUSsers
around here to write a demo-ish song - the ones with the slap basses and
brass sections, you know - and put it on the GUS distribution disks.
Yossi.
PS There was some hotshot Yamaha synth demoed as well - that thing had a "wah"
   guitar which was probably sysex-controlled, since it sounded REALLY non-GS.

|IN REAL LIFE:                                      |IN PHYSICAL REALITY:
|lioren1@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il                    |Yossi Oren, Nahal,
|Gravis Ultrasound advocate, (a.k.a. "GUS idiot"),  |Alumim, D. N. Negev,
|Windows user and mercenary VB programmer.          |ISRAEL.

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 19:27:16 +0800
From: "Christopher Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: DOOM 1.7 and GUS, rejoice!!

Picked up a copy of DOOM2 on CDROM and guess what??  They FINALLY 
fixed the sound problems!  It sounds awesome like 1.2 did, but 
without the lockups.... sweet!!!!

I know the patch isn't out, but I took my copy of 1.666 back to the 
store and traded it for a copy of 1.7!  

Oh, I am using a 1meg GUS MAX.  Haven't tried it on my work machine 
with just a GUS.

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 22:36:21 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: webb@elrond.cs.sun.ac.za (Alan Webber)
Subject: Doom: No music...!

Hi, 
I have tried unsuccessfully for the last 3 weeks to get Doom running
  with my Gus Max.  With both Doom 1.2 and Doom 2, I can only get
  sound effects, but no music.  I have played with the volume
  controls in doom to alter sound fx and music volumes, but all I hear
  is the sound effects.
I've tried all the diagnostics bundled with my Gus Max (setup etc).
  and everything seems ok.  I've check my motherboard with a few
  diagnostics and all dma channels etc. seem perfectly ok.
The Gus Max works perfectly under Linux.  
I have tried different combinations of dma channels, irq's, base addresses
  to no avail.  I have clocked my Dx/2-66 down to 33, changed the ISA
  bus rate down to 7 Mhz.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get my Gus working.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
-- 
Alan Webber - aka webb@elrond.cs.sun.ac.za
Stellenbosch University
 --------------------------------------------------------------------
* The path you tread is narrow and the drop is sheer and very high  *
* The ravens all are watching from a vantage point near by          *
* Apprehension creeping like a choo-train up your spine             *
* Will the tightrope reach the end; will the final couplet rhyme    *

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 94 14:19:02 PST
From: toby@ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Toby Shepard)
Subject: gus sdk

I am a new user of the Ultrasound software developer's kit.  I used to have
long hair, but have pulled most of it out over a problem that I have been
having with interrupt handlers.

Working in C, It is supposed to go like this:

	1) enable interrupts for the function desired.
	2) pass (eg.) UltraWaveHandler() your handler name.
	3) sit back and enjoy watching your handler get executed
	   each time a voice reaches endpoint.

I get a seemingly recursive 'stack overflow' runtime error when the interrupt
occurs.  I have to reboot.  

Do I need to do anything in my handler to acknowledge the interrupt?  I tried
stopping the voice, moving the endpoint, reading voice register 0x8f.

I don't really think that the program is reaching my handler function though,
because simple printf's do not get performed there.

Could anyone PLEASE give me some info. on how to set this up?  This is prolly
my last obstacle between me and the creation of great GUS free/shareware.

Thank you, in advance.

toby@tango.ucsb.edu

ps. even some C source code that works would do the trick.

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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 10:46:40 +1100 (EST)
From: Anthony Thompson <musicman@werple.apana.org.au>
Subject: HMI Drivers and Dynamix

Ive just about  had enough of Dynamix. They produce some nice games and 
the new games that have come out recently use the HMI drivers not one  of 
the works with GUS.

I have tried the follow dynamix games using HMI drivers and they dont work:

	Frontpage sport Basball
	Frontpage sports football 95
	Metaltech: Earthsiege
	Aces of the Deep

I grab a copy  of Magic Carpet demo yesterday which looks  like a 
excellent game. Guess what?? it uses HMI drivers and the GUS support 
doesnt work.

What is going on here?? Can someone  at gravis explain whats going on or 
give me an answer. My job is selling these products and i have GUS 
ringing  up asking how to get sound..etc at the moment i cant help them

Thanks

Anthony

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 19:25:07 +0800
From: "Christopher Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: Mitsumi CDROM, SONY or Panasonic

Which one of these CDROM drives would anyone suggest with the GUS 
Max??  The mitsumi seems to have to best seek time and xfer rate of 
the three.  

Thanks.

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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 94 13:22:38 -0400
From: "Robert White" <nstn1306@fox.nstn.ca>
Subject: The lands of lore, Kings Quest5&6

I'm looking for a patch for the game The lands of lore that will let me use 
MIDI and SB at the same time (So the sound effects and great music will 
play at the same time). I am also looking for patches for KQ5&6 (That 
work). Thanks.
 --
 Robert White
 nstn1306@fox.nstn.ca

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 20:42:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harry C Pulley <hpulley@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: UAKM readme file about >256K

Someone said yesterday that the readme file said what to do with >256K 
cards.  Unless the poster means that it says to run moongrav (which 
actually runs loadpats -mem1 which only loads 256K of patches) then my 
readme file is different.  If there is more info than this, can the 
person please post about it.  I would love to be able to use all 1MB of 
patches, though I am still happy playing it as is.

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: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 15:32:11 -800 (PST)
From: Matt Bachand <raistlin@cts.com>
Subject: Windows / CDROM prob
Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.90.941105152808.16291B-100000@crash.cts.com>

Hello, I just got a new CDROM (PHillips 2x) and it works great! I love=20
it! MHere is my problem. I've hooked it up to my 4 pins on my Ultrasound=20
board, (I rewired it myself) and it play CD's/CD music great. Until I run=
=20
windows, the second I LEAVE windows, the card no longer plays the CD in=20
my drive through dos! even an ultrinit doesn't fix things.

Also, what are the 2 middle pins for on the ultrasound CD-rom interface=20
digital sound pins? when looking at the card (from the end it it not=20
plugged in on, i found this out)

=09=09R =F9 =F9 L
Where R is for Right speaker, L is for left. What are the 2 scenters? I=20
am sure one is ground, but what is the other? btw, i gorunded my 3rd wire=
=20
to my frame...
Thanks!

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 11:24:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Juan Carlos Leon <jleon@chaph.usc.edu>
Subject: Re: win driver 5.47

From: Led Mirage <lmirage@io.org>
>It stinks! It couldn't even play midis properly. Don't bother with it.Just
>stick with eith 5.46 or 5.34.

Well, it works fine with my computer (GUS v2.4)  I only use my GUS for MIDI
playback, the wave part is done by another soundcard in my computer (PRO 3D),
so I don't know if I had the chirp problem but I got the 5.47 ones just to
have the most recent ones.
Anyway, I installed the GUS wave driver and I don't have any chirp at all,
I guess these drivers do work.  MIDI files plays great as usual.

Juan
-- 
email: jleon@scf.usc.edu                  
Major in Electrical Engineering, Computers
University of Southern California         
Los Angeles, CA.  USA                     

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 94 20:31:29 +0100
From: jpdgreve@vub.ac.be (De Greve Jean-Pierre)

Hi, I got a little question: a while ago I got my GUS max, but I didn't send in my registration card yet. I'm going to send it to :

Advanced Gravis Ltd.
Antennestraat 70
1322 AS Almere
The Netherlands

hope it's the correct adress... this may be a stupid question, but where on my GUS MAX is my serial # located ? Can I see it in my manual or on the anti-static bag so I don't have to reopen my computer?

JP.

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