GUS Daily Digest            Tue, 10 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue   9 

Today's Topics:
                             3.59 disks !
                               cyberia
                         Error in Patch Maker
                              GUS359X...
                           GUS and descent
                          GUS and Quarantine
                       GUS Daily Digest V18 #8
                         Gus MAX and Windows
    How can I get a Sound Blaster install program to see my GUS ?
                             KQ7 and Midi
                           Line in problem
                             Magic Carpet
                           Midi lister 0.9
                         Midi to GUS using QB
                     Mitsumi 4x & audio CD cable
                             MPEG Layer 2
                    OPTi Chipset - which to avoid?
                             Quarantine..
                            Miscellaneous
                            UltraSound ACE
               Ultrasound ACE - Gravis' new soundcard?
                    Using GUS an a master keyboard
            What is the upgrade offer from GUS to GUS-Max?

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: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:11:23 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From: the FLAT^^TOP <kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg>
Subject: 3.59 disks !

read in yesterday's digest about 3.59 locking up windows...
well... it happens for me too... sometimes.... but i have an excuse...
i also have an sbpro card in my machine and have lots of TSRs high....
however, i do notice that 3.57 worked flawlessly b4.....

some stuff i notice about 3.59 (which might be attributed to my
machine)
1) the GUSmax is NOT properly initiated with ultrinit.exe, cos after
this line is run, i use inertia player, the system will lock up....
play midi also locks up..... i isolated it to the GUSmax not being
init properly.... cos after running playfile the GUSmax will be
fine.... ie.... turn on computer, boot up.... use iplay ...hang...
turn on computer, boot up, playfile (any wav file), use iplay... no
problem.,..... use play midi... no problem...... anyone got this
problem ?

2) windows sometimes hangs too.... but also solved by running the
short wav file to somesort init the card...

so now i have this little bat file called init.bat which is run b4
launching anything....
contents of the file are...playfile -snd -f8000 d:\gus\enter.snd

anyone got better ideas... please post here...
- 
/===<Jerry Koh aka FLAT^^TOP at DISCS National University of Singapore>===\
| kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg, MsWFWG, GUSmax, Kelvin 64, & Supra v.Fc 28.8 user |
\====<DOOMer, X-phile, BattleTech, Babylon 5, StarTrek & StarWars fan>====/

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 00:33:45 -0800
From: dross@ultrix5.cs.csubak.edu (dean ross-smith)
Subject: cyberia

I Bought Cyberia on sunday and took it back today.  Why?  It supports
soundblaster ONLY.  Dos4gw chokes just before attempting to access the CD.
I called interplay tech support and they said Gravis is aware of the problem.
Alas, I couldn't get through to Gravis (line was busy).  Cyberia will work
if you type SET BLASTER = at the dos prompt (yes, thats an empty variable).
The graphics look very nice; too bad about the sound.

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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 15:07:20 +0100
From: "Jerry van Waardenberg" <jerry@waard.iaf.nl>
Subject: Error in Patch Maker

Hi,

When starting Patch Maker Lite, I get an error message:

  Call to undefined Dynalink

What does it mean? And how can I solve the problem?

Greetz,
  Jerry
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 19:00:24 -0800 (PST)
From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: GUS359X...

I'm not the one who uploaded Jaleo as GUS v3.59X, but I also have 
something to add that's quite interesting.  The author of Jaleo is also 
the guy who uploaded the AWE32 progrmaming dox to EPAS.  I found that out 
after posting it in of the newsgroups to the AWE32 people looking for 
some dox to program it.  That guy has some nerve to upload progrmaming 
dox to an anti-GUS sound card.

-George

<EOT>

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 95 14:55:19 PST
From: "Ferdinand Mataragnon" <E3140016@BCITVM.BCIT.BC.CA>
Subject: GUS and descent

Hi! I have a problem with my GUS and descent. I have a GUS+SB16 combo.
If I use the GUS for both digital and music, descent would hang at
random parts of the game. Sometimes it would go for minutes without hanging
and sometimes, it hangs in the screen where it shows a progress bar as
it loads the 'wad' file or something.

If I use the GUS for music and SB16 for digital, descent works fine.
No hangs at all. Same goes for using the SB16 for both digital and music.

I have the GUS set to ULTRASND=240,7,7,11,12 and the SB16 to
address 220, IRQ 5, low dma 1,high dma 5, midi 330. I've tried moving the
GUS to another address but no go. I've also tried changing the low dma
and midi setting for the SB16 ... no go.

Lastly, has anyone finished descent yet? I've already tried 4 times but I
just can't finish the last level. I'm able to kill one boss without losing
a life but the other one takes it all. :( Tips, anyone?

Thanks in advance.

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 95 14:48:13 PST
From: "Ferdinand Mataragnon" <E3140016@BCITVM.BCIT.BC.CA>
Subject: GUS and Quarantine

I have a GUS and SB16 combo. GUS is ULTRSND=240,7,7,11,12 and SB16 is
IRQ=5, low dma=1, high dma=5, address=220, midi = 330.

I've tried Quarantine on both cards and Quarantine sounds better on the
SB16. Really! When I use it on the SB16, everything is clear. When I used
it on my GUS (v3.7), there was a lot of distortion. Right from the beginning
where there's supposed to be an explosion sound, all the way to the exit.
The sound for the ImageExcel dude sounded really bad too. Very bad distortion
there. Has anybody else experienced this?

I know it isn't the speakers since they've worked fine for all my
other games. I recently upgraded them to a much better set but still the
same thing happens.

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 23:09:05 +0200 (EET)
From: Saari Anssi <s106275@cs.tut.fi>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #8

> From: ndanylcz@Socrates.health.gov.sk.ca (Neil Danylczuk)
> Subject: GUS 359-X warning!
> 
> So, awhile ago I download a file submitted called
> GUS357-X.ZIP, thinking it was an extra add-on or
> utility that was part of the version 3.57 disk set.

I'd guess the person doing this is the author of Jaleo. He was pretty
pissed off some time back as someone nuked his software from epas submit,
both Jaleo and Ruckus. Understandable, of course, and if anyone has 
read his articles in the news, he has something of a temper (remember
those flames aimed at Forte about the GUS SDK?) No big deal in my 
opinion, Jaleo is an ok midi player, the only problem is that I still
don't have a GM song I'd like to listen to... Except some mod conversions.

Anssi

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Date: 9 Jan 1995 12:20:59 -0700
From: "mgreen" <mgreen@smtpgw.sim.es.com>
Subject: Gus MAX and Windows

I've spent the last three weeks trying to get my Max work under windows.  I
even spent 1/2 hour on the phone with Gravis technical help, which so far
hasn't helped.

But last night I finally got it to 'work'.  I edited my system.ini file and
set the codec port to an invalid address!  (I chose 3A0.)  With the codec
address set wrong, the Gus driver thinks it's talking to an Ultrasound
instead of a Max, and everything more or less works.  I finally can play .WAV
files.  Midi sounds are a bit quiet, but appear to work.  I don't have all
the mixer controls that are available when the driver thinks there's a Max on
board.  

Question: what features will I lose if I give up now and run my machine in
this configuration forever?

I also am confused about which driver Gus wants me to use.  The disks I
received are the 3.58 version.  They install the 3.45 driver.  I retrieved
the 3.57 and 3.59 disks off the net, they both install the 3.46 driver.  I
retrieved some other file (who's name I can't recall -- maybe gus045.zip?)
that has just new drivers and some executables I don't use, this has 3.47. 
Is 3.47 the latest and greatest driver?

Also, when I use GRAVUTIL to find the card, it either says there is a
conflict, or that it is unable to determine if there is a conflict (I've
tried every address from 210 to 260 for the card base port).  Does it ever
return a definitive answer if there is no conflict?  Am I to assume I have
conflict?  I've run a utility I downloaded from Microsoft, iopm, that
attempts to identify all I/O ports, and it doesn't find anything in this
range.

The card sounds great, it's just making it work that sucks.

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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 95 10:29:41 -0800
From: Fred Handloser <fredh@hpcvusd.cv.hp.com>
Subject: How can I get a Sound Blaster install program to see my GUS ?

Someone gave me a CD-ROM put out by Creative technologies.   The install
program claims it can't find a sound blaster card so it won't install
the part needed to access the CD-ROM (Children's Melodies).

I have the following in my autoexec.bat.

call c:\ulstrasnd\sbos.bat
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T1

Has anybody run into a similar situation ?

Thanks for any info,

Fred Handloser

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 00:46:10 -0700 (MST)
From: Jeffery Chin <chin@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu>
Subject: KQ7 and Midi

> Is it possible to get GUS (with 256 memory) work with KQ7 ? Sounds are OK, 
> but midimusic is the problem ? Sometimes it works, but usuallu not. Can I 
> get it work by loading some patches ?

Run the KQ7 install program and test hardware, sound, and this should allow
the midi music to play(it worked for me).

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 23:52:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Buddy <u8843389@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: Line in problem

I can't seem to get my GUS to enable the 'line in' connection. I just 
installed a SBPro for those games that don't work so well with the GUS 
and I wanted to run the sound through the GUS' line in and then both of 
them out to my amp. I have tried ultrinit -l but it doesn't seem to work. 
Am I missing something?

Any help appreciated

Kevin

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 95 14:58:55 GMT
From: Craige.Bevil@jet.uk
Subject: Magic Carpet

Has anyone managed to get this game working the GUS. I have had
several replies on the subject before but still to no avail. If you
have managed to get it to work can please pass on exactly how you
managed to do it.

Thanks in advance,

Craige

*********************************************************
*Craige Bevil | Joint European Torus | email: cb@jet.uk *
*-------------------------------------------------------*
*       Hartlepool : A monkey hanger's paradise         *
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 11:04:25 +0100 (MET)
From: "Carlo 'GP' Ferrari" <carlo@varano.ing.unico.it>
Subject: Midi lister 0.9

Hi Gusers !

As a guser myself, and like a lot of you - I guess, I like listening to midi
files. I have a nice collection of more than 20 megs, and I was starting
to have some 'little' problems managing this huge mass of files...
The main problem was to have an up-to-date list to give to other people
when exchanging midi files.
It was mainly important to have the title of the relative song beside
every file title...

And here's the solution: Midilist.
This great-little utility will build an index file of your midis, placing the
title of the song right beside the file infos. It can also make a
recursive search of your directories, so that you can have both partial
and total indexes.

I'm sorry if the content of this post isn't strictly related to the
subject of the mail-list, but I'm sure that this could solve a problem
that's common to many, many readers.
Besides, this utility (must admit: I am the author...) is absolutely
Public Domain so that I got no direct interest in advertising...
 
For now you can find it at FTP.WU-WIEN.AC.AT \incoming\midi\midlst09.zip
(it's about 12 k short).

I think that it should be also shortly available at FTP.CS.RUU.NL : just
the time of validating it...

If you'll like it, please upload it to other servers/bbs.
 
Greetings

Carlo "GP" Ferrari
Informatics Tech
University of Como - Italy
   
carlo@varano.ing.unico.it

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 12:51:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Emory Menefee <em@crl.com>
Subject: Midi to GUS using QB

I wonder if anyone has used Quick Basic to send sequences of MIDI code
directly to the GUS?  If so, and you are willing to divulge any hints, I
would be most grateful.  My knowledge of C or assembly is poor, and to
learn it well enough for this task would take me a long time, I think. 

Many thanks,  Emory Menefee

 

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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 22:27:15
From: tuomas.salo@mfc.fipnet.fi (Tuomas Salo)
Subject: Mitsumi 4x & audio CD cable

> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 95 17:32:03 +0100
> From: d91-sme@nada.kth.se
> Subject: CD-audio cable between Mitsumi 4Xspin and GUS?
> 
> I have recently purchased a Mitsumi 4XSpin (a IDE CD-ROM), and found
> that the audio cable that was in the package didn't fit into the
> connector on my GUS.
> 
> Where can I get a good cable? Or how can I build a cable of my own
> (not preferred)?
> 
> /Smedis (Niklas Smedberg, d91-sme@nada.kth.se)

Hi!

I've also got a GUS and a Mitsumi 4x IDE. The solution is very easy, if you 
have similar cable to mine. The wires can be removed from the GUS-end of the 
cable, and connected to GUS' connector. It should be quite easy, you just 
have to upper the flap and pull the wire out slightly. (Don't need power!)


You just need to get them correctly, look at the GUS Manual and CD-ROM's rear 
end. I had to leave the other Ground unconnected in GUS, because there were
only three wires in the cable. Is this right, does anybody know?

(Hope my English was OK..)

-Tuomas Salo
                                       

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 95 13:50:17 EST
From: ping@cais.dsm.sp-agency.ca (Ka-Ping Yee)
Subject: MPEG Layer 2

I'm starting to see some files with extension .MP2 around, and it sounds
like these are "MPEG Layer 2" files.  Do these contain just audio, or
both audio and video?  Where can i find an MPEG-2 decompressor or player?

Thanks!

Ping
ping@cais.dsm.sp-agency.ca

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Date: 9 Jan 95 17:15:00 EST
From: "VULCAN::WATTERS_C" <WATTERS_C%VULCAN.decnet@gate.hosp.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: OPTi Chipset - which to avoid?

I've got a chance to pick up a motherboard fairly inexpensively, but it 
does have an OPTi chipset.  This used to be a problem for the GUS.  Which
sets should I avoid? 

-Coyt
cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu  or that other address

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 95 23:49:16 +0200
From: tjakobs@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl (THEO_JAKOBS TEL.62667)
Subject: Re: Quarantine..

Hi..

I Had the same problem. What You have to do is set the DMA channel to 1,
because quarantine uses 8-bit dma (I think)..

Andre Jakobs
  MicroBrain Technologies Inc.
    The Netherlands
PS. I think It wouldn't hurt if you also set the IRQ to something like 7 or 5.

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 00:04:49 -0500
From: DMCATEER@LoyalistC.ON.CA
Subject: Miscellaneous

Hello all.

In a previous digest Schitzo asked about a site for midi's.
A great site (quantity wise) I know of is:
   src.doc.ic.ac.uk     packages/ultrasound/sounds/midi which of
course is the main European site for the GUS. (as noted at the bottom
of every issue of the digest :) )

It's also a good site for mod's, s3m's etc etc.
Even though it's a U.K. site I get faster transfer rates (from
Canada) then from wuarchive.wustl.edu although I still haven't found
any faster then epas. :)

L8R
Dave Mc.

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 19:05:36 -0800 (PST)
From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: UltraSound ACE

I heard one of Advanced Gravis's new radio ads (finally!) at Sunday 
during the _ON COMPUTERS_ radio show.  Just to let you know, the 
UltraSound ACE isn't something technologically new, but it's a good 
idea.  Basically, it's a $99 card (yes $99) that serves as an add-on (yep 
an add-on) which means it's not meant to replace a SB/SB-PRO, etc...

The card can do 32 voices, and supports software supporting native-GUS 
(?). Don't know how much RAM it has, but I suspect it can handle a max of 
1 meg.

In short, AG is doing what Turtle Beach is doing... releasing a cheap 
card that serves as an add-on like the Maui.  And at $99, it's quite a 
steal.  Hope this sells well and makes the UltraSound community larger 
than ever. 

-George
<EOT>

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 22:30:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Sky Woo <swoo@rahul.net>
Subject: Ultrasound ACE - Gravis' new soundcard?

In another digest, I posted about Gravis' new soundcard and what 
the name might be.  Some people e-mailed me asking for more info and the 
simple fact is I have no info.  Also, the discussion of the Gravis card 
belongs on the digest, not in e-mail.  I'm sure every digest subscriber 
is in some way curious as to Gravis' next card.  Ok, here is how I 
learned about the Ultrasound ACE.  If you take a binary hex viewer and 
look into the latest version of ULTRINIT.EXE which comes from the GUS 
3.59 installation disks, you will find the following lines somewhere 
inside:

No UltraSound detected
UltraSound detected
UltraSound with ICS-mixer detected
UltraSound with Daughtercard detected
UltraSound MAX detected
UltraSound ACE detected
           ^^^
ACE?  What the hell card is that?  I would assume, Gravis is near 
releasing this card as they have coded the software to recognize it.  But 
this could of course very well be nothing at all.  I'm not really sure.  
I asked the digest a few days ago and some people have asked me in e-mail 
about it, but I have not seen the digest discuss it.  Probably some 
people didn't see my post because the digest subscribed to itself (again) 
and the digest that was sent to itself happened to be a really big one.  
The one with the wav file.  I feel pissed at the guy who posted the wav 
file and I want to write a script that would forward that digest to the 
poster 1000 times.  Oh well, all I really care about right now, is what 
the Ultrasound ACE is and is it officially the name of the new Ultrasound.

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 10:24:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Harrop <cph@inmos.co.uk>
Subject: Using GUS an a master keyboard

Hi all,

I want to learn to play the piano. 
As I've got a Gravis Ultrasound, I thought the best way of
doing this would be to buy a secondhand master keyboard
(preferable with weighted keys) and connect this to my GUS.
As the GUS is played through a NAD amp and KEF speakers this 
should sound pretty good. 

How do the GUS piano patches (or any other ones available for it)
compare with the sound from digital pianos such as the Claviona range
and the Roland models ?? Does the GUS model velocity sensitive midi info ?

Where's the cheapest place to get a 1Mb ugrade ?
(I cant find any old VGA boards and so need to get this from a
supplier)

Thanks in advance for your advice,

Chris Harrop

cph@inmos.co.uk

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 20:32:06 -0600
From: dmai@dttus.com
Subject: What is the upgrade offer from GUS to GUS-Max?
Message-ID: <f11eadc0@relay.dttus.com>

     
     Hi,
     
     Could someone please point me to more information about the "upgrade" 
     offer from GUS to GUS-MAX?  I've just recently subscribed to this 
     mailing list and would like to get more details about this upgrade.
     
     Thanks,
     
     Dong-Kinh Mai
     dmai@dttus.com

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