GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 12 Feb 95  9:37 PST     Volume 19: Issue  12 

Today's Topics:
                             GUS + RAP-10
                  GUS Daily Digest V19 #11 (2 msgs)
                         magic carpet help??
                      mk2 and 4 button game pad
                        MK2 sound and joystick
                         Under a Killing Moon

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- 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: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 12:53:58 CST
From: Senopati Pamungkas <yulia@iastate.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS + RAP-10

>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:04:50 -0500 (EST)
>From: Scott D Hansma <sh6k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>
>I have a GUS and a RAP-10, and I would like to use them together (GUS
>for digital and RAP-10 for music) in games, but, in a lot of them, the
>GUS's line in (which the RAP-10 is plugged into) gets turned off, so I
>don't hear any music. A couple examples are Wing Commander 3 and
>Descent. Does anyone know how to permanently turn the line in on?

I'm playing WC3 with SCC1 for music, and GUS for sfx.  I have the SCC1
output connected to GUS line-in.  Just type "ULTRINIT -O -L" before
loading WC3.

::: W i t y  G a n d a ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 14:11:05 +1130 (???)
From: -=MHz/DMK=- <mhz@fmmo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #11

Hi All .. I have the 3.59 disk installed and with DO NOT work with win95 
build 324 ... I reinstalled them and still didn;t work .. Does anyone 
know if thee are "standard mode" divers for windows (OLD !) ... I really 
need the GUS in win95 ... when I boot I get a IOS error and says 
protected mode failed or something like that ... please help ..
-=MHz/dMk=-

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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 14:23:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Buddy <cs3mh3dn@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #11

> Subject: Advanced Gravis Charged.
> 
> .................  They are being sued by Focal Point 3D Audio who are 
> also suing Forte Technologies Inc.
> It appears that Gravis had a license to sell 3D audio sound 
> cards, but that license ran out in January.  Gravis says that future 
> versions will not have this feature.
> 

So ends the hopes of any 3-D audio games for the GUS. Oh well, Gravis 
never seemed to take the 3-D thing seriously anyway....

> Subject: MK2 2 4button Joysticks?
> 
> Is it possible to get 2 4 button joysticks to work with MK2? I have a dual 

Doesn't seem likely since the 3rd and 4th button on joystick 1 are simply 
buttons 1 and 2 on the second joystick (as seen by the system).

> Subject: Video Card to buy?/MKII
> 
> Now here's my bigge...I just bought a Matrox MGA Impression Lite VLB
> graphics card, and it's DOS performance was big time crap (43 as rated by
> ..........
> to have killed my monitor), and I was wondering what's a good VLB card
> which stacks up with games like WC3 and has 2MB VRAM (or more) and works
> well with a GUS in the system?  all replies/opinions are appreciated a

This may seem like an unlikely solution to your problem but....

Any generic VLB video card based on the Cirrus Logic 5428 has great speed in
DOS and quite acceptable speed in Windows too. In all the discussion I
have seen on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video (or something like that) the CL
5428 has received the most votes of confidence and the least complaints.
It's a cheap card and may not be as fast as many others, but it's
definitely the most bang for the buck (IMHO) and the least hassle to
setup. It's expandable to 2MB DRAM (not VRAM). They are available for
under $100. If you're buying a monitor now you might consider one of 
these cards until you can afford an ATI WinTurbo or some such monster. :-)

Just my 2 cents worth.....
 
Kevin

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 04:34:19 -0500
From: arg2@po.cwru.edu (Adam Glick)
Subject: magic carpet help??

i know this was delt with before but i missed it since i didn't oun it then
but how do you get it to work with the gus max? i tried megaem and sbos and
sbosmax and none of them worked any ideas?
thanks
-Adam
arg2@po.cwru.edu
              'A person who believes one thing will solve all their problems
               is a fool : they're twice the fool if they believe the thing
               that will fix their problems is money'

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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 95 19:17:37 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: mk2 and 4 button game pad

I had the same problem as mentioned in yesterdays digest (buttons
work; direction's don't)

Solution:

Delete the hidden file cmos.* in the mk2 dir and reconfigure mk2 after
entering (F-10). That was enough to make the game pad function again.

Good luck.
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( - )   Broderdue
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 13:40:21 -0500
From: arg2@po.cwru.edu (Adam Glick)
Subject: MK2 sound and joystick

for those of you having probs with the sound of mk2 demo the full release
wirks fine with has a ultramid file that makes it work so if ya want sould
your gonna have to buy the game. as for the joystick prob.... if only 2
buttons work it is usually beacuse of a joystick port conflict. like the one
on your guis and one on your i/o card. the prob lies in that some i/o cards
ahev the joy port but its only made to support one joystick so multifunction
or button joysticks don't work with it. the way around this is to disable
the joyport on the i'o board (check the manual that came with it as to which
jumpers to move) then plug the joystick into the gus. there you go have fun
and i hope this helps
-Adam
arg2@po.cwru.edu
              'A person who believes one thing will solve all their problems
               is a fool : they're twice the fool if they believe the thing
               that will fix their problems is money'

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 03:22:52 +1100 (EST)
From: Darren Spencer <dsquad@werple.mira.net.au>
Subject: Under a Killing Moon

Has anybody had problems with the digital sound driver for under a 
killing moon? The program detects my gus but the sound test is garbled. I 
have tried heaps of different irq/dma combinations but all produce the 
same result. It works fine in all other games, so i assume it is the game 
that is stuffing up. Anyone know of a patch out there?

Thanx

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