GUS Daily Digest            Tue, 20 Dec 94  9:37 PST     Volume 17: Issue  19 

Today's Topics:
							Amtex Pinball
	  Fast switching between Ultrasound and UltraSnd 1024. (fwd)
				   Follow-Up: STTNG: A Final Unity
					  GUSMAX, SONY CDU33a, CDDA
				  New Demo Group - Bodies in Motion
					  Recording problems. (fwd)
						What's in a Wav-file?

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 9:20:36 EST
From: "Edward Linderman" <edli@umich.edu>
Subject: Amtex Pinball
Message-ID: <ggl6+Ycixia@bfmailer.bf.umich.edu>

I hear that the new Amtex Pinball game "Royal Flush" not only dosen't support 
GUS but fails to produce sound with SBOS or MegaEm. I have Amtex 8 Ball 
Deluxe ver.2.0 which only seems to work with SBOS 1.20. ver.1.0 worked with 
any SBOS and MegaEm. These Pinball Sims Are way cool but if they don't handle 
a GUS who wants Speaker sound?? Thanks in advance to all who may know about 
this and respond.

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 08:43:34 -0800 (PST)
From: John Tomaszewski <tomasz@helix.chem.washington.edu>
Subject: Fast switching between Ultrasound and UltraSnd 1024. (fwd)

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 12:53:33 -0800 (PST)
From: John Tomaszewski <tomasz@helix.chem.washington.edu>
To: GUS Daily Digest <gus-general@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
Subject: Fast switching between Ultrasound and UltraSnd 1024.


	I've got at least one program that requires I use the Ultrasnd 
1024 driver to get both Music and sound FX (Kap'n Karaoke from 
WordPerfect).  Does anyone have any suggestions for automating the switch 
between drivers when I want to run this program?  The best I've been able 
to do is have 3 icons for the program:
1) Macro to select the 1024 driver and restart Windows (still requires 
additional input to "run" the macro after the Recorder app is launched.
2) Program
3) 2nd Macro to switch drivers back and restart windows back again.

Is there some easy way to write to a ?????.ini file with the first macro so 
that when it restarts, this new instance of Windows has Kap'n Karaoke in the 
Startup group?
Then secondly, is it possible to have the 2nd macro automatically 
launched when I exit from Kap'n Karaoke?

I'd like to be able to have the UltraSound driver running by default, just 
click on a single icon to have the other driver installed and 
launch the app, and then have the UltraSound driver re-installed upon 
exiting from the app.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Sincerely,

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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 94 15:58:37 PST
From: lew@octel.com (Thomas Lew)
Subject: Follow-Up: STTNG: A Final Unity

In a previous digest, I posted the following message:

>I was at the local Electronics Boutique last night, and saw that there is now
>a CDROM demo of Spectrum Holobyte's "Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Final
>Unity" (I think that's the right name) which should be available in its final
>form early next year.  However, the package didn't mention what soundcards are
>supported.
> 
>Has anyone tried the demo or heard anything about the soundcard support in
>the game?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Thomas Lew

I received the following reply from Jim English (jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu)
via e-mail:

>hey, I saw yer message in the gravis digest.  I got the demo and sad to say
>it is DOS4GW and megaem and sbos both re-boot the machine.  It supports the
>whole stupid SB line (figures) and the pro audio spectrum.  I had to run it
>on another machine with an sb 16.  Although I'm farily sure there is no midi
>in it (at least not in the demo), it was all digitized.  It looks like a cool
>game, too bad no gus support yet.  I think it uses HMI drivers, it just has
>one .DRV file.  Maybe there is an easy way to "hack" it.
>-jim

I went ahead and bought the Preview anyway and tried to make it work.  Initial
attempts reaped the same results as Jim had.  However, by booting clean with
nothing more than my CDROM and mouse drivers loaded (NO HIMEM or EMM386), I
DID manage to get SOME sound using "sbos -o3".  It was somewhat jerky, skipping
a second or two every so often and filled with clicks and pops, but at least
it was SOUND and gave you a general idea of what was going on.

I called Spectrum HoloByte tech support line, and when I told them I had a GUS
their reply was to "use the SoundBlaster emulation and select SoundBlaster
for the soundcard".  I told him this didn't work and asked if there were any
plans to support the GUS in the final product and he said no.

The demo (and I assume the game) appears to use HMI drivers.  I poked around
in one of the .INI files and found the text string "Gravis Ultrasound", but
I don't know if that's useful in any way.  Is there any way to hack GUS support
in?  Would it do any good to start an e-mail campaign to get GUS support for
the final product (anyone have Spectrum HoloByte's e-mail address)?

Sorry for the long-winded post.

Thomas Lew
thomas.lew@octel.com

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 10:47:22
From: "LESNIOROWSKI PAWEL (IZ III)" <LESNIOROWSKI@CI-1.CI.PWR.WROC.PL>
Subject: GUSMAX, SONY CDU33a, CDDA

Yes, I'm using MAX & SONY (driver 1.72, 73a) and CDDA works fine.
I can't remember now what programs do I use (CDINFO 1.4) but I'll 
check it 

Cyb

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 09:47:17 ADT
From: "Craig Galbraith" <J5OA@acad1.csd.unbsj.ca>
Subject: New Demo Group - Bodies in Motion

Hello everybody!
	This is Rush from the new demo group Bodies in Motion from 
eastern Canada, the province of New Brunswick to be exact.  We are 
just starting to put some stuff out now so all of you probably 
haven't heard of us...  There isn't much, but if you wanna check out 
our dir pub/msdos/demos/groups/bodies.in.motion at ftp.eng.ufl.edu 
there are some small progs there.
	Anyway, the reason I am posting to the GUS digest it that I am 
the Musician/Graphician and I love my GUS.  I recently released an 
MTM done with MultiTracker.  The file is joseph2.zip in 
pub/msdos/demos/music/songs/mtm at ftp.eng.ufl.edu.  joseph1.zip is 
there too, but it has a little error in it.  Anyway, it is a remix of 
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  
Many of the songs from the show are in it.  It's about 300k or so and 
it uses 32 channels (although I think 26 or 28 simultaneously max.)  
It also play ok with Mod4Win if you have a fast CPU and lots o' ram.  
	I would appreciate it if you would take a listen and tell me what 
you think.  My e-mail is
j5oa@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca

Credit also goes out to Huey Lord (if you're out there) who helped me 
arrange it.

Thanks...L8er

Rush / BIM
Craig Galbraith


						are you phishsperienced?

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 08:43:11 -0800 (PST)
From: John Tomaszewski <tomasz@helix.chem.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Recording problems. (fwd)

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 12:35:23 -0800 (PST)
From: John Tomaszewski <tomasz@helix.chem.washington.edu>
To: GUS Daily Digest <gus-general@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
Subject: Re: Recording problems.

	Well I managed to get a recording from my mic in Windows thanks 
to :    Daniel Nilsson, Gary Wingert, and Shi Sherebrin.

There was at least one, and maybe two things that contributed to the problem:

1) The mic _was_ disabled in the Mixer applet.  I hadn't really looked at 
the Mixer and thought enabling the mic in an application would do the 
trick; it didn't.  In my version of the Mixer there was a "mute" checkbox 
for the mic that needed to be unchecked (it wasn't in the control menu 
which has, I believe, a "Select Recording Source" option, as some other 
people have found).  Also here the recording volume must be set to 
something other than 0.

2) I was playing around with GoldWave trying to get a recording after 
doing the above, and still wasn't having any luck when I stumbled on a 
recording level slider bar in there as well (under the Options menu), 
which was set to zero.  When I increased this I got my first recording.  
this is probably only significant in GoldWave but I'd swear I didn't get 
Sound Recorder to work either until after I changed this.  But to be 
honest, it was late and I wasn't being very scientific about the process 
so it could be a delusion.  Anyway I thought I'd mention it.

Thanks again for the help, and if you can help with switching between 
drivers for patch-caching and nonp-c apps please see my other post.

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 16:49:52 MET
From: <martinus@morra.et.tudelft.nl> (Martijn de Jong)
Subject: What's in a Wav-file?

Hi Gussers,

I'm working on a board that's recording audio directly to a
HD from whatever what digital equipment without interference
from a soundcard, but for the software part I need to know
what's in a Wav-file. For example what kind of things ought
to be in the header.
Hope someone can help
Second question: 
Does anyone know what frequency Gravis uses as an input to
the DAC? Do they use the oversampling capabilities of it, or
do they just use a frequency of 32*44,1 kHz (2 * 16bit *
44,1) or maybe a frequency of 64 * 44,1 kHz.

Thanks in advance,

Martinus.

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 15:47:01 +0100
From: mammet <mammet@univ-mlv.fr>

Hi !

This is the first time I post here so don't be alarmed if you got
problems with reading me ...

I just wanted to say you that I bought yesterday the game called
Commader Blood, by CRYO.

It's a very good game but te trouble is that it isn't compatible at
all with the gravis (even with sbos or mega-em), even if you
can read on the back side of the box that it supports it natively !

I phoned to Cryo, and they saud me that they were working on the problem,
because they had a last minute bug !

They said me the patch would be ready for the end of the week !

I'll say you if the patch is ready !

bye

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