GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 1 Feb 95  9:37 PST      Volume 19: Issue   1 

Today's Topics:
                              32 bit AIL
                     Computer Music bibliography
                        Daughter Card for GUS
                          Gus & Armored Fist
           GUS Daily Digest V18 #27 - System Shock CD (fwd)
                       GUS Daily Digest V18 #29
                      Indy Car Racing - Drivers?
                        Maxbos on Rev2.4 Gus?
                               MAXSBOS
                            MaxSBOS v.021
                           Mega-Em problems
                           Memory parity...
                      Memory upgrade for GUS Max
                        Midi-connector for GUS
             Midi files/software archives on the Internet
                             Myst and GUS
                             NMI problems
                     number of ultrasounds sold?
                 SBOS/Intel Pentium MB problem solved
                        Sound in Magic Carpet?
                             USNF and GUS
                            VL-bus in ISA
                              VLB in ISA
                          WinMidas 1.03 Beta

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: Wed, 1 Feb 95 7:58:17 PST
From: David Burton <davidb@python.mcm.hp.com>
Subject: 32 bit AIL

        I can't find the 32 bit AIL drivers.  They are not on
        epas  gravis/util as indicated in the index.  Where can
        I get them?

        I am trying to get Sim City 2000 to work with GUS.

        Thanks,
        davidb@mcm.hp.com

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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 01:11:41 +0100
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: Computer Music bibliography

There is a bibliography on synthesizers, midi, computer and electronic
music that I have collected from various sources. I have tried to bring
some structure into it, but not all books will fit into a single subject.
NOTE: I haven't read these books, and the comments are from other people.

The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl
[131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/bibliography or by mail from
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the
mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used.
The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers
archives around the world, in music/midi/bibliography.

Version: $Id: bibliography,v 1.25 1994/09/08 12:24:00 piet Exp $

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:25:55 -0500 (EST)
From: gt0074b@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: Daughter Card for GUS

Someone asked this a while back, but no one answered.  Does the 16-bit
recording daughter card for the old GUS give it the same Crystal DAC
as the GUS Max?  In other words, will Max SBOS work fully on an old GUS
with the 16-bit recording card?
  If not, Gravis, will there ever be such an option for us old timers?
I believe we are still in the majority and it would be a good seller.
  If I had more time, I would like to try to design a daughter card to
do that.  Heck, it wouldn't be too much more to put a full fledged
sound bastard on a DB, complete with the wonderful Yamaha synth.

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 15:40:13 +0001 (EST)
From: KEVIN BULL <kb94aa@badger.ac.BrockU.CA>
Subject: Gus & Armored Fist

Ok, if this has been answered b4, I apologize for posting this (I just 
got the game). I have checked the G-List and it says "native ?" with the 
question mark... When I select sound card setup, there is no gravis. SBOS 
just seems to crash it. Is there anyway to get sound in this thing?

Thanx
 ---------------------------------
E-Mail: kb94aa@badger.ac.brocku.ca
 ---------------------------------

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 20:37:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Angeles <jangeles@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #27 - System Shock CD (fwd)

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Well, I've got System Shock CD to work with my system. I did this by 
using the Ultrasound 3.0 AILs. I copied _only_ the ULTRA.* files to 
another soundcard's AIL files which is the closes to the GUS that I can 
think of. For your info, I copied the ULTRA.* files over the  SNDSCAPE.* 
files (Ensoniq SoundScape). Then, I ran the installation utility, and 
selected the soundcard that now contains the Ultrasound AILs (e.g.: 
Ensoniq SoundScape). Next, I used the autodetect option in install. After 
that, I ran the test utility. I heard a message from SHODAN from the 
sound test, and a cheesy midi tune from the music test. Then, I ran the 
game, and everything runs fine. The only -small- drawback to this is that 
my system tend to access my hard drive and pause the game when I run the 
game with the new AILs for the firsttime, and when I hear any new midi 
tunes. When I play it the next time, the problem does not reoccur. I 
think that happens because it is a patch-caching AIL, and it searches for 
all of the instrument patches it needs in order to play the midi tune. 
Once it knows what to load, it'll only load those patches prior to 
playing that tune again. Other than this, the sound is really cool, 
especially when you listen to the intro, and the messages. The only 
exception is that the midi tunes aren't all that great to start with (my 
opinion - probably will change when I get further in the game). If you 
follow this example, you should get SS CD to work for your GUS.

FYI:

Archive file name: usail310.zip (BEWARE - There is another GUS 3.0 AIL
which requires ULTRAMID. DON'T USE IT!)

Location: somewhere in archive.orst.edu - recently moved away from epas

Location of SS drivers: sshock\sound (from the hard drive)

Files I've overwritten: sndscape.dig, sndscape.mdi (try experimenting - 
might get better sound from other sound-
card files. If you do, plese tell me...)

GUS type: Ultrasound MAX (This should not make any difference...)
Onboard GUS DRAM: 1024K (This might make a difference if you have a 512K 
256K GUS. If you have any problems, upgrade...)
GUS software version: 3.59 (This also should not make any difference...)
GUS settings: Address 220, IRQ 5, PB DMA 5, REC DMA 6, CODEC 32C, SB IRQ 7
      (The last three settings probably won't make any
      difference at all.)

If you tried everything, and you still have trouble, I don't know what to say

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 23:46:09 -0400
From: "Chris Campbell" <campbell@fox.nstn.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #29

On Mon Jan 30 09:37:06 PST 1995, 
GUS Server  <gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> wrote:

>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?

You might want to try the new version of SBOS, it loads into a 512k GUS or 
a 1024k GUS.

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

The update has been on EPAS for 2 days!

--
Chris Campbell - Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia
ftp://ftp.nstn.ca/in.coming/campbell/
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 20:43:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Quentinus <Samuel.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #30

On Tue, 31 Jan -1, GUS Server wrote:
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 13:20:15 -0500 (EST)
> From: Christopher McKillop <cdmckill@anchor.uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Just a few questions and thoughts...
> 
> Here they go, a bunch of stuff I have been wanting to ask (I hope I can
> rememeber it all)...
> 
> 1) XWING:  can someone tell me how to get everything to sound right with
it??

What's wrong with it? There's the odd weird noise, but nothing that's 
really annoying, except I guess the spaceship whine on the animations.

> 3) GF2:  Is there one, and when will it be out and how much will an upgrade,
> if possible, be???

Yes, there is supposed to be, Gravis say late this year. So anyone's 
guess :) As for an upgrade, you'll be lucky. The chip is bound to be a 
completely new pinout and design, and anyway you'll need a new board so 
there are slots for the extra RAM!

> 4) Pmode MegaEm:  Where the heck is it???  It is almost Feb 1995!!!!!

> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:18:30 -0800
> From: sbrindle@netcom.com (Stephen Thomas Brindle)
> Subject: Re: Last word on Myst:
> 
> Sorry, I tried that and Myst still sounded like a dusty, scratchy phongraph.
> It's my final opinion that either Myst just does not work with a GUS, or
> Myst just has really terrible recording.

Works fine on our gus.

> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:42:53 -0400
> From: j5oa@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Craig Galbraith)
> Subject: MAXSBOS and GUS rev 2.2 with 1Meg RAM
> 
> Can I use maxsbos with my plain old GUS rev 2.2?  I wanna try using it with 
> X-COM Ufo Defense...I heard somewhere that it made it sound MUCH better.
> 
> I downloaded maxsbos and whenever I try to load a game with it...I get no 
> sound, now, is that because I suck? or is it because I just plain ol' can't 
> use it?

Digital sound won't work with MAXSBOS, because it uses the extra digital 
sb16-type chip that's built into the ultramax but not the ordinary gus.

> another thing, since SBOS works with some protected mode games, as it 
> supposedly is integrated more in the hardware of the GUS, why not make 
> Mega-Em interface with the GUS like SBOS, but with the Sound Canvas 
> emulation?  Oh well.  Just another waiting person for vaporware (I hope 
> not!).

This isn't possible (MegaEm interfacing with GUS hardware for SCC emu) 
because the GUS was specifically designed to be able to emulate an SB. 
All the hardware port registers that an SB has are present on the GUS as 
well, but they just generate an interrupt that SBOS handles rather than 
actually doing anything. However Midi interfaces and sound cards use 
different port numbers (0x330 I think?) for which the GUS does not have 
the special `dummy' ports.

Sam

--> Home Page <-- ** Go on, try it! ** --> http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d405ua <--

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 20:29:44 CST
From: "Jay R. Jaeger" <dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V18 #30

> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 23:08:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
> Subject: Off board parity error
> 
> >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.
> 
> Here's the strange thing, it says this *after* a warm boot that I do when 
> the game crashes the machine.  The problem disappears when I don't load 
> emm386.exe.  SBOS was loaded, and the only thing that the docs say about 
> the interrupt vector being overwritten is under netware.  Anyway, why 

What does your EMM386 line look like?  Mine is:

  device=c:\bin\emm386.exe noems highscan win=f500-f7ff win=f000-f4ff


> would there be a parity error after a warm boot?  Another thing I would 

Because SBOS isn't there to field an NMI, but the GUS is generating one -
maybe it is still raised after whatever problem caused you to reboot -- 
the game crash.  Instead, you might try a *reset* in that situation.

> like Gravis to do is to rewrite SBOS so that it can coexist with 
> emm386.exe *and* a protected mode game at the same time.  Of course, this 

Now that might well be impossible.  Protected mode might not like NMI at
all.  Not at all, as far as I know, though I am not a true expert.

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

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 12:34:45 -0700 (MST)
From: Keith M Ellis <kmellis@prism.nmt.edu>
Subject: Indy Car Racing - Drivers?
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950131122658.22873B-100000@neon>

Hi all you GUS'ers. Good to see the digest back - this is my first post 
to the "new" GUS Daily Digest.

Was it my imagination, or were there (ail?) drivers for ICR out there? 
I've been using Megaem, and getting uneven results. I get some strange FX 
problems like "I'm Paul PagPaul PagPaul Pag" repeat ad nauseum. And, the 
engine noise is unsatisfying. I suppose this is inescapable with a wave 
card (with no fm) - all you hadrware gurus can clue me in on this. Racing 
around the track with that satisfying (not quite a roar) humm was the 
only time I've ever envied a SB owner. Not very much, though. :)

Anybody got that cool real-time digital delay processing program which 
was just validated to work? I get mostly noise, and then it crashes. Is 
it dependent on any particular hardware GUS version?

-Keith

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 16:15:44 EST
From: "Brian K. Dowtin" <dowtin@ncat.edu>
Subject: Maxbos on Rev2.4 Gus?

I tried it w/ once with a couple of games I have a 2.4 rev. board. And it
seemed to make the music much better, but I had no SFX - and I think it
crashed one or two of the games if I enables SFX. 

02
`Brian

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 23:38:52 -0500 (EST)
From: CWSMART@delphi.com
Subject: MAXSBOS

Can someone give me a location for downloading the MAXSBOS latest version
Thanks for the help

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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 10:21:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: A.M.Zanker@newcastle.ac.uk
Subject: Re: MaxSBOS v.021

In a previous message, you wrote:

> Anyone tried the new v.01beta? Works great!!! They've fixed some problems
> with DOS-extender games, now even digitized effects work in Magic Carpet.
> Great work Gravis. All we need now is the new PMODE megaem and goodbye to 
> compability problems!

This is all very well, but what about owners of the standard GUS?
Do Gravis intend to develop more advanced versions of SBOS and
megaem for us??

Mike
-- 
Mike Zanker                              | A.M.Zanker@ncl.ac.uk
Department of Mathematics and Statistics |
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK    | PGP public key available

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:03:35 -0700
From: Stan Page <Stan_Page@Novell.COM>
Subject: Mega-Em problems

I am trying to load MEGAEM.EXE from version 3.57 software.  I get a message
saying EMM incompatibility
problem: EMM internal structure is not recognised.  Mega-Em version is 2.03.
I am running EMM386 3.0 from
the Novell DOS 7 system.  The settings are Frame=C800, ROM = AUTO, DPMI=ON.  I
also have DPMS 1.01
loaded, but it won't work with DPMS unloaded, either.  I have tried the NOEMS
setting, since I am not
currently using expanded memory.  Any suggestions?

BTW:  My machine is a 486/33 VLB board, 8mb RAM, VLB video and disk
controllers, 2 hard disks, CD-ROM
and the GUS.

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 20:47:44 -0500 (EST)
From: lalancej@JSP.UMontreal.CA
Subject: Memory parity...

Can the sbos or megaem work with memory without parity?? I know
they use the NMI, so i'm a bit confused, why could they put
memory without parity if the NMI is there to catch up parity
error....Correct if i'm, wrong.

I think it is my problem because nothing worked so far with sbos...
Anyone experienced the same thing?

Please help me!

-- 
Jose Lalancette, Dept. Informatique
Universite de Montreal
e-mail: lalancej@jsp.umontreal.ca

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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 12:53:23 -0700 (MST)
From: BUUR@CDMDSV.sinet.slb.com
Subject: Memory upgrade for GUS Max

I have been trying to get a memory-upgrade for my GUS Max for 2 months now
and it seems that it is impossible to get that in Denmark.

Q:Are there anyone outthere who can tell me where I can get it,
  and how much it costs.

I have been reading through the FAQ, but all i could find was upgrades for
the 256Kb GUS, where you have to put in 8 chips (i think), but in mine 
there is only one socket.

Please can anyone help me, I'm getting desperate.

Michael (Buur@Esbjerg.dowell.slb.com)

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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 10:07:33 +0100
From: Karl Erik Asbjoernsen <KARLEA@oleg.hiof.no>
Subject: Midi-connector for GUS

Does anyone have a description for a MIDI-connector-box
for the GUS? I had a textfile once, but it's lost

thanks

Karl Erik Asbj=F8rnsen, karlea@oleg.hiof.no

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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 01:11:41 +0100
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: Midi files/software archives on the Internet

There is a list of ftp and mail server archives with MIDI documentation,
programs and music on the Internet. Also enclosed is a list of MIDI and
electronic music related mailing lists.

The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl
[131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/archives or by mail from
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the
mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used.
The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers
archives around the world, in music/midi/archives.

Version: $Id: archives,v 1.118 1995/01/23 10:59:05 piet Exp $

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 19:35:27 -0600
From: jfulmer@databank.com (John Fulmer)
Subject: Myst and GUS

>Sorry, I tried that and Myst still sounded like a dusty, scratchy phongraph.
>It's my final opinion that either Myst just does not work with a GUS, or
>Myst just has really terrible recording.

You have to remember that Myst is only using 8-bit 11khz digital data, so it
always sounds sorta bad. That is probably the reason for the 'scratchy'
sound...

jf

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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 02:21:04 -0200
From: VASQUEZ@if1.ufrgs.br
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

I had this problem when I changed my DMA to a 16-bit one. Try using another
channel - DMA 7 works for me. High DMAs are 5, 6 and 7.

Hope this helps,

jOrge

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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:10:22 +0100
From: Stig Arne Olsen <stigo@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: number of ultrasounds sold?

Has Gravis released any information as to how many GUSes have 
been sold so far? Any other estimates?

Stig
stigo@ifi.uio.no

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 16:10:27 CST
From: "Joe G. Thompson" <jgt1@ERC.MsState.Edu>
Subject: SBOS/Intel Pentium MB problem solved

For those having trouble using SBOS on Intel 60 and 66 Mhz Pentium
motherboards:

I just upgraded to the latest version of BIOS (1.00.10.AF2T) and it solved
many of my problems with SBOS.  I can now use the bus mouse at the same time
and I'm getting better results (e.g. digital effects in ICR).

Joe

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 16:12:57 CST
From: "Joe G. Thompson" <jgt1@ERC.MsState.Edu>
Subject: Sound in Magic Carpet?

Has anyone succeeded in getting music and digital sound effects out of
Magic Carpet with a *regular* GUS?  If so, how?

Thanks,

Joe

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 11:31:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Bachand <raistlin@cts.com>
Subject: USNF and GUS
Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.950131113023.23312C-100000@crash.cts.com>

I realilze there is a Patch for USNF, but I am very interested in buying 
this game adn I want to know weather the GUS works 100% with this game or 
not. This seems like a really cool game, But i don't want to be teased 
with cool graphics and no sound. ALso, what are the overall feelings of 
this game. I have a Plato 90 Pentium with 16megs of memory and a Diamond 
Stealth 64 VRAM card w/2megs.

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 21:15:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Batchelor <M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net>
Subject: Re: VL-bus in ISA

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 21:21:27 -0500
> From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du)
> Subject: local bus
> 
> Anyone know what will happen if a VL-bus video card is placed
> in an ISA slot?

Your machine will refuse to boot because the video card won't work.  I doubt
it will break anything.  You'll hear a sequence of beeps, which, if you look
in your PC's manual for what they mean, indicate a failed video card.

-- 
\\\ Mike Batchelor /// mikebat@clark.net \\\ M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net
///
"The avalanche has already begun.  It is too late for the pebbles to vote."  

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 15:58:38 -0600
From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin)
Subject: VLB in ISA

Hey Y'all,

Not that i'd recommend it, but just to try, i put a VLB Viper in my piece of
shit ISA machine and it worked, to an extent. Only the VGA part worked. But
it worked. It did not, however work in my friend's 486DX50-VLB board. I
guess the Viper didn't like 50MHz.

But really, don't bother, that's not what they're made for.

On another note, i tried GusDelay yesterday, and had a lot of fun with it.
Kudos to the author. I'm assuming the noise i do hear is from the 8-bit
nature of the recording, etc (i have rate at 44100). If this is true, then a
16-bit version for the GUS Max would be really nice.
                                                  Baskin -)
                                                  The University of Texas at 
                                                  Austin
                                             

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Date: Wed,  1 Feb 95 11:15:21 TZ
From: Daryl James <darylj@microsoft.com>
Subject: WinMidas 1.03 Beta

Has anyone been able to get this MOD/S3M  MCI device driver working?
When I run setup for the driver, it does not seem to detect the GUS
and the only choice for "Device" is  Windows Wave (the option for 
Gravis Ultrasound
is dimmed). Of course it works if I choose "Windows Wave" but it sounds
bloody awful and hogs the CPU  to do the mixing.

The dox dont seem to help with troubleshooting, but the history does
mention that it checks SYSTEM.INI for the sound devices currently 
installed. Why
it does not detect the GUS baffles me.

I have tried editing the SYSTEM.INI directly to see if I could fool it 
into using the GUS,
problem is I dont know what the setting for a GUS should be.

I am using V5.47 of Ultrasound drivers with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and
no tsr's or device drivers beyond standard config with a GUS.

Any ideas on how to get this going would be appreciated.

- Daryl
  Sydney, Australia

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