GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 5 Feb 95  9:37 PST      Volume 19: Issue   5 

Today's Topics:
                     3.59 disks : the workarround
                      3.59 mucking with my mouse
                  GUS & SBPRO2 together under Warp.
                       GUS Daily Digest V19 #3
                      I got unsubscribed maybe?
                     Nascar problems (last time)
                              subscribe
               Thoughts on the NASCAR joystick problems
                        WfW 3.11 and Gus 3.59

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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 21:28:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel LeBlanc <leblanc@info.polymtl.ca>
Subject: 3.59 disks : the workarround

Ok, here is my conclusion: the 3.59 disks are OK except for 1 thing

ULTRINIT.EXE !!!

So what i did is install 3.59 as usual and then got ONLY the first
disk of 3.57 type INSTALL and restore the file ULTRINIT.EXE

Everything seams to be perfect as before....

(BTW anobody got MK2DEMO to work with GUS ?)

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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 10:50:34 +0800
From: "Christopher Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: 3.59 mucking with my mouse

>>On FIRST loading WfW 3.11 when I use File Manager I cannot change
>>which drive File Manager is 'looking' at by clicking on the drive
>>icon.  Except that if I then click on a file or directory the dive
>>will change to the drive that I just tried to select.  In addition
i>>f I try to scroll the list of files or directories using the scroll
>>button the list scrolls only a small amount unless I keep clicking
>>on the scroll button ie no smooth, continuous scrolling.
 
I am having the SAME problem.  Why does the sound driver have 
ANYTHING to do with the comm.drv?

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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 10:24:14 +1100 (EST)
From: MAYSON EMITT L  <u9345000@uow.edu.au>
Subject: GUS & SBPRO2 together under Warp.

Hello all!

I currently have in my system a GUS (V3.4) with 1 Mb RAM and a Sound
Blaster Pro 2.  At the moment I have the GUS plugged into the SBPro2 and
the output of it going to my stereo.  This is fine under DOS and Windows,
and it also gives my virtually 100% compatibility will any program, I just
make sure the SBPro2 is on and set at the correct levels using SB-SET.

Now I also have just recently installed OS/2 Warp (And soon Linux, so maybe
I'll have this problem again :) and I wish to achieve the same effect.  I
have the new Alpha GUS drivers installed and working at the moment but I
have to have the GUS connected directly to the amplifier because the SBPro2
has not been set up (I did this on purpose originally since I wanted to
make sure everything was Ok with the GUS).  Now, can the two sets of
drivers work together and what values do I need to set to turn on line-in
in the SBPro2.

Thanks.

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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 00:43:23 +0100
From: Stig Arne Olsen <stigo@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #3

Yes, that is really weird. I checked with my friend, and he claimed
the later kernels did the trick for him. You sure you got the thing
compiled correctly?

Stig

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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 15:21:18 -0500 (EST)
From: David A Denis <denis@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: I got unsubscribed maybe?

I haven't gotten the GUS daily digest in awhile, is it just me? or is it 
down?  If its me, can someone email and rmind me how to resubscribe? Thanks.
Dave

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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 00:34:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Buddy <cs3mh3dn@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Nascar problems (last time)

Ok, this is the last time I will mention this but I want the other people 
having this problem to know what I did.

I opened up my machine again and disabled the SBPro's joystick port and 
re-enabled the GUS port. Then I checked the port with gravutil. No 
Problem. I checked the port with NHL Hockey. No Problem. I checked the 
port with NASCAR which was still set up to use the SBPro for sound. No 
Problem. I changed the setup in NASCAR to use the GUS and presto! The 
joystick went berserk again. So it has nothing to do with my port but the 
sound drivers are somehow interfering with the port.

Has this ever shown up in any other games? I think from the reponses I 
have seen to this problem that it is not an isolated probem. Many others 
have this too. Someone has said that they had already contacted Papyrus 
and they had no intentions of dealing with it. NASCAR is known to have 
MANY bugs in it so I guess this is just another one. They have already 
released one patch for NASCAR, maybe the next one will correct this 
problem although I doubt it.

To the guy who said to disable the joystick in the menus.....how do you 
do that? Maybe he's right. The interference with the joystick is only 
occurring in the menus and not in the game.

Kevin

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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 11:39:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christian Bethea" <betheach@student.msu.edu>
Subject: subscribe

Dear Gravis,

    I would like to be added to your mailing list if possible.

Christian Bethea

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Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1995 14:37:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Will race for food <JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: Thoughts on the NASCAR joystick problems

Could you guys limit this to private e-mail? Thanks. My 2400 baud modem has
better things to do than D/L the NASCAR JOYSTICK forum. Try
rec.autos.simulators.

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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 95 05:15:50 MST
From: rmwalker@nyx10.cs.du.edu (rod walker)
Subject: WfW 3.11 and Gus 3.59

I posted yesterday about a problem with WfW 3.11 and the Gravis 3.59
release whereby I could not change drive letters in File Manager
without some trouble (re-starting windows essentially).
 
My thanks go to Mike Barboni who had some problems as well.
His suggestion was to use the ultrinit.exe from the previous release
in place of the 3.59 ultrinit.exe.  I tried this and everything now
works fine.  I wonder about the difference in the size of the two
ultrinit.exe files (about 18k versus about 58k!!) but everything
I've tried works ok.  Any body else with similar problems should
try Mike's fix.
 
For Gravis (if they read this) - this problem should be addressed
together with other problems on 3.59 and hopefully a fix posted.
 
Thanks again to Mike and thanks in anticipation to Gravis.
 
Rod Walker (rmwalker@nyx.cs.du.edu)

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