GUS Daily Digest            Fri, 25 Nov 94  9:37 PST     Volume 16: Issue  25 

Today's Topics:
						 16 bit recording...
						 Any Linux GUS users?
						 Front Page Football
						GUS and MIDI keyboard
				  GUS Daily Digest V16 #24 (2 msgs)
					GUS MAX Memory upgrade in UK?
				 Problems with Groliers Encyclopedia
						Sony CDU-33A & GusMAX
							   windoom

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 94 10:32:42 MET
From: <martinus@morra.et.tudelft.nl> (Martijn de Jong)
Subject: Re: 16 bit recording...

Hi Gussers,


>>I was thinking:
>>If you disconnect the adc from the gus and give it a direct
>>digital input from for example a cd-player (you'll need a
>>chip to convert the signal, but that is not too difficult)
>>it might be possible to record 16 bit with very high quality!
>>So you won't need the daughterboard, you'll just need some
>>other chips (this will be cheaper than the daughterboard!)
>>and the quality is better!
>>The problem in here is: Where are the 16 bit lines in the
>>gus?
>>any comments on this?
>Well i think it is possible. But a lot of trouble.
>If you want to record high quality from CD, it is possible NOW, in
>SOFTWARE, working on a number of CD-ROM drives.


Nice to see how many answers I got on my thought. But all
involved a cd-rom player. What if I don't have a cd-rom
player, but I do have a normal audio cd-player with digital
out. Would it be possible then? I guess it is, but then
again the question is: Where are the 16 bit lines? 

Martinus. 

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 11:21:58 -0500
From: "Stephen David House" <sdhouse@eos.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Any Linux GUS users?

Sorry to bother everyone with this, but I am looking to see if any kind Linux &
GUS users out there will allow me to pick their brain.  I tried unsuccessfully
to get my GUS to output a midi file yesterday.  I can output digitized data,
just not MIDI data.  I'm attempting to use 'mp' to output MIDI.  Could someone
please share with me how they have theirs setup?  I am using version 2.4 of the
sound driver and use the folling settings on the GUS:

port addr: 0x220
irq:       11
dma:       1

I will even take rtfm pointers, as long as someone points out to me the one doc
I've been missing that explains it all.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 23:32:39 -0600 (CST)
From: ST4SI@Jetson.UH.EDU
Subject: Front Page Football

Anyone get Front Page Football 95 to work? How about with other HMI (e.g. Metal
Tech) drivers?

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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 94 20:50 EET
From: dragos@pub.ro (Dragos Manolescu)
Subject: GUS and MIDI keyboard

Dave, you're right, I forgot to mention that the line out from the keyboard
is connected to the line in on the GUS, and the line out from the GUS to the
line in of my stereo. The schematic is like this:



		  audio     audio
 Keyboard ------>GUS----->Stereo
	^             ^
	+-------------+
		 MIDI

As soon as I disconnect the MIDI cables, the noise is dissapearing. So, you're
suggesting to lower the volume of the line in... Okay, the noise is dimmed now,
but how am I supposed to hear what's coming from the keyboard? If I'll have an
explanation for this noise, probably I'll be able to cancel it.

Thank you and pls contact me if you have further ideas or if I'm wrong.
Dragos
-- 

Dragos Manolescu (dragos@pub.pub.ro)

http://edil.dcae.pub.ro:8001/~dragos

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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 14:09:49 -0500
From: GravisTech@aol.com
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #24

>>Does anyone have the 800 sales number for purchasing the CD >>rom?  If no
800 number, how about the regular sales >>number?  Thanks in advance.
>>Rick

There is no 800 number available, however if you call our customer service
reps. at (604) 431-5020 and ask for customer service..

Gravistech@aol.com
Advanced Gravis Technology

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 01:38:31 -0330
From: Aaron Cameron <acameron@europa.cs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #24

> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 13:58:25 +0100 (MET)
> From: Danny Greefhorst <dgreefho@cs.ruu.nl>
> Subject: mitsumi
> 
> I have a Gravis Ultrasound 3.4 and a Mitsumi FX001D. Now my problem is that
> I can't get my DS cdrom working at 300 kb/s, it only works at 150 kb/s. I
> tried a different cdrom drive and it gives the same problem. Anyone knows
> what to do?

There's something in the GUS manual about it not being able to support 
DMA 5 for CDROM access.  DMA 5 is the DMA that the Mitsumi double-spin 
drives use for their double speed access routines.  For this reason, the 
GUS will only support the Mitsumi drives in single spin mode (150k data 
xfer rate :+( ).  So, saddly, you can't do anything.  You'll have to get 
a seperate interface card, or a Panasonic or Sony drive.

PS...  I'll send a copy of this to your email address too.


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Second Reply:
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> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 11:37:11 +0100
> From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
> Subject: Problem with Groliers encyclopedia
> 
> I bought Groliers encyclopedia this weekend (v. 6) and It looks nice, but I
> have a problem with the animations. They come out distorted in both sound
> and image. It looks to me as if there might be some buffering problem. The
> sound hiccups and pieces are played twice in succession. The image has
> stripes in it. If I go directly to the CD and play the .avi filkes through
> the Media player, they are OK, although occasionally the CD can't keep up
> with the playing. I have a double speed CD-ROM (Panasonic), and a Gravis
> Ultrasound Max.
> Any idea what I can do about this?

As a matter of fact, i do.  I had the same problem.  The bug is NOT in 
the GUS itself, or in anything related to gravis.  It is a bug in Video 
for Windows v1.0.  Funny that it seems to only affect the GUS, but there 
is a fix out that upgrades v1.0 to v1.1.   Easy to run, and the problem 
disapears.  I got the fix from a demo CD from PCZone, but it can be 
gotten from the Gravis BBS too.  If you want, email me and I'll mail it 
to you.  

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 94 12:10:28 GMT
From: Mr Mark L Harvey <ee13mh@surrey.ac.uk>
Subject: GUS MAX Memory upgrade in UK?

Hello all,

Title says it all - anyone know of a *reasonable* price in the UK, where I
can upgrade my GUS MAX to the full 1 Meg? Anything under 30 quid sounds
reasonable to me for 512k...

Oh, also can anyone confirm the release date of the new MegaEm with Protected
Mode compatibility? I'd like to get rid of my SB16ASP, but I'm still playing
the CD version of Sam n Max :-(

Mark

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"Ford, you're turning into a penquin.  Stop it." - Arthur Dent

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 11:22:33 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Problems with Groliers Encyclopedia

>I bought Groliers encyclopedia this weekend (v. 6) and It looks nice, but I
>have a problem with the animations. They come out distorted in both sound
>and image. It looks to me as if there might be some buffering problem.

I don't know about the duff image, especially as you say it looks
OK in Media Player. Check out the driver setup options from
Control Panel to see if there any any Video for Windows options
which make a difference. Perhaps try a different video driver
if you have any for your card.

Regarding duff sound, it can help to *reduce* the DMA buffer size
in the UltraSound driver setup - default is 4096 I think. Smaller
sizes e.g. 2048, 1024 etc. seem to make gaps and pauses in the sound
while playing back video less likely.

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 09:04:51 +0200 (EET)
From: Tero Molander <tmo@rieska.oulu.fi>
Subject: Re: Sony CDU-33A & GusMAX

Hi!

Someone had a problem with Sony CDU-33A CD-ROM drive and GusMAX. Well I 
have exactly the same combination in my machine (486DX33,VLB,8 MB) and 
everything works fine! I've been playing Myst for a week now and there's 
not been any lockups or anything else... everything works smooth. I have 
WfWg 3.11 and 1 MB RAM on MAX.

So what I am saying is that Sony talks shit... GusMAX's Sony CD-ROM 
interface works just as it should (in my machine at least :) this is what 
PCs are like... you just have to live with it).

Have you tried with the interface card that came with your drive?

-Tero

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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 13:16:16 -0700 (MST)
From: Ignatius Tam <tam@amisk.cs.ualberta.ca>
Subject: windoom

Hi guys,

talking about windoom, i like to add my 0.02 here...
well, it's slow for my 486/33 and at most i can get
14fps in 320x200, atmost 6fps in larger screen size.
it can run under doom1 but not doom2.  and where is
the mouse cursor? is it a feature of WinG?  i can't
do anything else while playing(well, i haven't tried
to do a background work) and the sound is like shit.
well, if u want to try it out it's in ftp.orst.edu,
get the windoom.* in some directory i forgot.  you have
to install win32s and wing libraries so there's a lot
of work. Anyway it's only beta (is it legal or not?) 
so don't expect too much...doom for os/2 seems more
promising... :)

-iGnatius

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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 94 21:44:44 +0100
From: jpdgreve@vub.ac.be (De Greve Jean-Pierre)

Does there exist anything like PowerChords, but with a sampler and/or samples supprt ?
Where can I get CDs full of Rave samples ?
What's the best CD-ROM for GUS MAX ?
Does a GUS-MAX run with a Quadraspeed cdrom on it ? I mean in the connectors ?
What if I connect a 4x cdrom onto the SONY slot ?

jp.

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