GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 30 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  29 

Today's Topics:
                    bosendorf, and cdrom cutting.
                             Bosendorfer
                          GUS and Death Gate
                              gus clone
                       GUS Daily Digest V18 #26
                          GUs max with linux
                         Joystick problem...
                          Last word on Myst:
                            midi files...
                             NMI Problems
                           Sam & Max CDROM
                        Thanks to Thomas Wong

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: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 11:49:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Antonio Guia <guia@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: bosendorf, and cdrom cutting.

Just a note to all those trying to use the bosendorf patch and can't load 
it onto gus with 1M.  The windows drivers reserve some gus memory in 
order to play wav files.  That reduces the 1M somewhat.  Try doing this 
under DOS, maybe using the midifier program.

Somebody asked about MAXSBOS and whether it's really 900k.  This program 
is designed to put 512k of samples onto a GUSMAX, or 1024k of samples 
onto a GUSMAX-1M.  That means that aside from the drivers there's 
probably around 1536k of samples in that file.  It does compress to about 
900k.  I think it's slightly over that amount actually.  

Now the the cdrom thing.  If anyone has a CDROM burner, would they 
consider making the entire gus archives available on cdrom once per 
year?  Maybe we could convince Gravis to make this available to everyone 
for around $10 or $12 per year for the latest of the gus archives.  That 
would save quite a bit of archive space on my own hard disk.  

I know that myself i would rather plug in a cd and search for what i want 
and have it available to me anytime than to have to go searching through 
the ftp sites where it'll take a whole lot longer.
-tg

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 16:37:24 -0800 (PST)
From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Bosendorfer

>> My GUS playing this piano patch makes my $5k upright-piano cringe.
>> -George
>You're not serious! With no filters and no velocity split, how can it 
>sound anywhere near as good as a real piano? I haven't heard it, but...

Well, my piano is out of tune and I personally hate that $!@#$%%^, but 
from my ears, the patch has a much more better tone than my upright.  Of 
course, it can't beat a real grand since it doesn't support filters or 
velocity split.  I do believe the GUS has to do multi-layering which it 
can't do anyway to do velocity split.
 
I had to tweak the patch a little to make it sound better. I had to edit the 
envelopes a bit so the sound echos a bit longer as if it was played on 
stage and I had to edit the use two tracks for every track that uses the 
patch.  In other words, I make a copy of the tracks that use the piano 
patch and re-pan them so the original tracks are panned all the way to 
the left (0) and the copied tracks are panned all the way to the right 
(127).  This makes the patch sound louder and better.



-George
<EOT>

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 01:31:34 -30000
From: "Bradly Y. Andalman" <andalman@andalman.student.harvard.edu>
Subject: GUS and Death Gate

Has anyone gotten their GUS to work with the CD-ROM game Death Gate?  I 
The Death Gate setup allows me to choose the Gravis Ultrasound Max for 
both MIDI and speech, but not the original GUS (which I own -- with 256K 
RAM).  Anyhow, at the beginning of the game, both the speech and the 
music sound fantastic!  Unfortunately, after a few minutes, the game 
crashes.  Any help would be MUCH appreciated.  Thanks!

--brad
andalman@husc.harvard.edu

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 14:00:19 WET
From: MAMMET Jean-Francois <mammet@univ-mlv.fr>
Subject: Re: gus clone

In yesterday's digest Saari Anssi wrote :
>What I'd like to know, are they legit or did they just copy the
>card and the software and get rich in the process or did they do it
>legal. If it's the former, I hope Gravis can get them nuked... After
>all, there should be some use for all those nukes in the world and I can't
>think of a better use :)


I think this card is made with the gravis license because this card uses
the gf1 chip, with the gravis logo on it ! So that must be the real one.
I hope this is it, because even if gravis is a very good enterprise, we
don't want to see it falling down because of gus clone !!!
--
Mamos Of Lego System, Aka Jean Francois Mammet

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 13:58:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Colbert <linc@cognition.firstnet.c>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #26

On Fri, 27 Jan -1, GUS Server wrote:

> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:52:32 CET-1
> From: Mark Giesbers <giesbers@goblin.xs4all.nl>
> Subject: HELP! Total Sound Loss on GUS Max!
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> 
> For some months now, I've been using a 1024K GUS Max in my
> multimedia PC. I've been able to use it successfully in Windows (3.11 
> for Workgroups), DOS (6.22) and most of the games and other programs 
> I run. At least, I USED to be able to do this...
> Now, it seems to have stopped working altogether...!
> 
[ Text Deleted ]
> 
> Apart from re-tuning my AUTOEXEC and CONFIG with MEMMAKER,
> I haven't changed *anything* at all (as far as I recall).
> 
> WHAT HAPPENS NOW WHEN I BOOT UP:
> My drives work fine, but... my GUS Max doesn't do *zip* anymore!
> Under Windows, my system hung every time I tried to play a
>  WAV-file... MIDI-files sound great, by the way! There seems to
> be no problem with that.
> 

It sounds like, somehow, you've managed to wipe the call to ULTRINIT.  If 
you don't call this little program (which should be in your ULTRASND 
directory), the card won't switch on its digital output.

At least, this sounds like what could have happened.  If you have a 
backup copy of your config.sys and/or autoexec.bat (both preferably), try 
restoring them (while saving your new ones to disk or something).  If the 
card works, chances are you're just missng the ULTRINIT call.

Hope this helps!

Rob Colbert
linc@cognition.firstnet.com
COGnition Development Team

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 12:15:49 GMT
From: nguyen@eerie.fr (NGUYEN Francois                   )
Subject: Re: GUs max with linux

ok must have been said already, but it was asked on yesterday's digest.
to use slackware linux with a gus , or any other sound card
but the basic sb, the kernel must be recompiled
You need some ram and a large swap disk ( swapon /dev/hdax, whith
that disk being a swap partition (mkswap -c /dev/hdax ...(read the man pages)
I did it with 8 megs and a 25 Megs swap disk. it worked smoothly in less that
2 hours

so to compile the kernel, type make config in /usr/src/linux
then answer the questions . linux does not allow anymore a gus and a sb
at a time (i may be wrong about this) 
then make dep (checks the dependencies)
then finally make zdisk to create a boot disk with the new kernel.

Apparently this works out but the /dev/audio is a bit weird, while
/dev/dsp is working ok.

more info can be found in the sound-HOWTO file
If it helped great.
if anyone can tell me about how to configure /dev/audio, please do so
PS: cat /dev/sndstat will tell you the actual sound driver

Francois

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 20:01:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Ngo <tngo@netcom.com>
Subject: Joystick problem...

This is for the person with the joystick problem...  Does the 
joystick go 'up' by itself?  If it does... it's the same thing that 
happened to me.  I have a gravis joypad att. to my GUS and a AMD 486-40.
What is your machine(just to compare).

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 10:47:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Francis Li <fli@nermal.santarosa.edu>
Subject: Last word on Myst:

I was able to completely solve Myst buzzing and popping noises by:

Using the 5.47 drivers, setting the card to: 220,1,1,7,5

And setting the playback buffer to: 8192

This brought back all of the sounds for me.  The only downside is if you 
don't have a fast CD-ROM drive, the QuickTime video will not play as 
well.  Otherwise (I have a Quad-speed), everything will run fine..

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 23:34:38 -0500
From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du)
Subject: midi files...

Anyone know of a good ftp site for midi's?

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 16:43:37 CST
From: "Jay R. Jaeger" <dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us>
Subject: Re: NMI Problems

> 
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 12:13:23 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
> Subject: Off board parity error
> 
> >        off board parity error
> >        addr (Hex)=(0000:0002)
> >        system halted
>  
> -Peter

The Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) used by SBOS was also used, historically,
by plug in memory cards on the ISA bus to report parity errors.  So, it
looks like your GUS is, as expected, raising NMI, but SBOS is either not 
there to catch the NMI, or is being prevented from catching it for some
reason.

Just a guess, but this would seem to mean that the machine does not believe
any software has been set up to catch the NMI interrupt.  Two things come to
mind that I can think of, and maybe others can think of more:

- SBOS was not really loaded and ready (did is speak "SBOS Installed")?
- Something wrote over the interrupt vector after SBOS was loaded.

If you are currently loading SBOS in your autoexec.bat, you might try moving
it towards the end of the list of things you do in autoexec.bat.

--
Jay R. Jaeger                                   dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 11:54:00 +0200
From: jani.forssell@pcb.mpoli.fi (JANI FORSSELL)
Subject: Sam & Max CDROM

Does someone know how to get digital sound working with Sam & Max
CDROM-version? Megaem doesn't work because it's a dos4gw game and I
sbos gave only fm music.. Do I have to wait the new megaem or what?


PS. I have a normal gus so maxsbos doesn't work either.

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 12:33:44 EST
From: ballen@ejv.com (Bill Allen)
Subject: Thanks to Thomas Wong

Great job in validating, compiling submissions. I'm sure that
all agree.

Thanks
Bill Allen

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 00:22:28 -0500
From: jhladun@io.org (John Hladun)

Well... I've gotten some helpful comments to help me with setting up the
gusmax with Win95. It seems hopeless.... I've tried (many) many combinations
of the settings and nothing will make the windows drivers install properly.
In fail safe mode I get an error message and in regular mode I get a QEMM
warning or if QEMM is not loaded (I tried that too) it just stops. Anybody
know of anything that Win95 has loaded that might conflict with the
Ultrasound drivers? In DOS the card works fine except that the SBOS vector
is not functional, perhaps that is part of the problem? 

Thanks for any answers!

--->John.
John Hladun              jhladun@io.org             Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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