GUS Daily Digest            Tue, 14 Feb 95  9:37 PST     Volume 19: Issue  14 

Today's Topics:
                  Address to register GUS in England
                      AMD InterWave availability
                   AMD Interwave spec, response...
                         And DARK FORCE ????
                            BAD DMA Read?
                         Gravis Tech Support
                       Gus and Diamond cards...
                       GUS Daily Digest V19 #13
                GUS sound in the Mortal Kombat II demo
                 MED/OctaMED Player/Converter for GUS
                      MED/OctaMED Player for GUS
                        MIDI port is the same
                          MIXER not working
                 No help file for UltraSound Mixer???
                            Prices wanted
                       Replies and Mixers, etc.
                          Sound conflicts...
                        ST:A Final Unity works
                         STTNG: A Final Unity
                 Thump from speaker, Is this normal?
                        Ultrasound Experience

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: Mon, 13 Feb 95 16:18:36 +0000
From: rst@ukc.ac.uk
Subject: Address to register GUS in England

I decided to take advantage of a trip to the states last summer to
take advantage of the price discrepancy when it comes to computer
equipment between this country and there to buy a GUS. From what I
hear, there's probably not much point but I'd like to register it
anyway (never know what special offers might turn up). However,
there doesnt seem to be much point in registering it in the states
so I was wondering if anyone could tell me an address in the UK
that I could send my registration to.

Cheers.

Rich

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 10:07:17 GMT
From: "Mark 'Mark' Billinge" <PPYLMDB@ppn3.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: AMD InterWave availability

Anyone know when the AMD chip will be in a usable form?  I mean, are 
we talking this year?

Mark

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 14:36:06 CST
From: epyle@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Subject: AMD Interwave spec, response...

thanks for the specs...  This card looks like it can easily
replace the GUS...effects and  more RAM.. Looks like we'll lose
the Focal Point (hmmm not 100% compatible with all GUS applications)
But so far, I've only heard of two games that use this effect processor.
To me Focal Point had great potential, but it could have been worked
on to add realism...so it isn't much of a determining factor when 
selecting the card.
Addressing the 16meg of RAM/ROM... I hope it is 16/meg of RAM
PLUS 16meg of ROM...  My guess is that the ROM could be an external
upgrade chip, with quality instruments already on it.  Great idea
to combine the two (AWE32 does this?). 16 meg should satisfy our
sampling hunger for a while (and it can't be cheap...16 * $30.. you
add it... I don't want to)
Hopefully it is reasonably priced... With AMD involved, they
should be.  I am hoping $200 starting price... I wouldn't pay more
than that...

eric

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 10:15:35 +0100
From: vincent@orsay.icdc.fr (Vincent RAYMOND)
Subject: And DARK FORCE ????

I'm a poor lonesome french "GAMES LIKE DOOM" player..

And I been waiting for Dark Force.

It it available somewhere in the world, and is it working
with the GUS ? ...

Thanks, Gussers my friends, V.


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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 19:00:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Desolation <decko@u.washington.edu>
Subject: BAD DMA Read?

I just upgraded my chip to a AMD DX2-80.   When I went to go try out my 
GUS with it, the digital sounds are spitting up at me (like in Doom or 
Descent, the music works but the digital sounds are flipping out).  I ran 
the setup in the Ultrasound directory and did the diagnostics and under 
the Sound Blaster test it gave me a "bad dma read failure" or something 
to that effect.  Anyone encounter this or know how to fix it?

decko@u.washington.edu

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:48:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "j.b. an" <jan@julian.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Gravis Tech Support

On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, J.Waghorn wrote:

> 
> 
> >        Hello, people, I recently post problems of how to connect my
> >Mitsumi CDRom to UltraMax sound card, and some people ask me if I get any
> >answer yet, unfortunately, no, nothing, zero, I also send an e-mail about
> >this problem to TECH@GRAVIS.COM as instruction said, but I haven't got
> >any response, I don't know what is wrong on the other end. Hope they fix
> >themselves soon.
> 
> 
> I fell into this trap....
> 
> tech support at Gravis is tech1@gravis.com, tech2@gravis.com or 
> GravisTech@aol.com
> 
> Hope it helps
> 
> Jason
> 
> --
>  Jason Waghorn                                  Tel: (+44) 0191 515 2865
>  Research Assistant                             Fax: (+44) 0191 515 2703
>  School of Engineering And Advanced Technology
>  University of Sunderland
>  Sunderland                       e-mail: j.waghorn@sunderland.ac.uk 
>  SR1 3SD                              or: jason.waghorn@sunderland.ac.uk
> 
> 

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 12:54:00 PST
From: "Cooney, Justin" <JCooney@ea.com>
Subject: Gus and Diamond cards...
Message-ID: <2F3FC7A0@pcsmtp.ea.com>

Just to let know, I too have a Diamond Viper VLB and and GUS MAX with 1 Meg. 
 I can't get Wing Commander 3 video or speech running correctly (in VGA).

Thanx

Jcooney@ea.com
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:39:04 +0100
From: A.PAUW@elsevier.nl
Subject: Diamond video and GUS

As I want to upgrade my system a little bit I am considering
upgrading the video card. I have a slow Trident 8900CL card. For
the software I have now (WinJammer Pro 4.0, having a mixer
panel!) the screen updates are too slow. I am thinking about the
Diamond Stealth/Speedstar video card with ISA connector. Does
anybody know about incompatibilities with the UltraSound (rev.
3.7)? Yeah, I don't have PCI or VLB busses, so it must be ISA.

In other words, anyone who has the combination Diamond video
card and UltraSound ran into any problems?

Thanks in advance!

Albert
a.pauw@elsevier.nl

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:31:29 -0800 (PST)
From: arnette@netcom.com (Bill Arnette)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #13

> 
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 18:22:54 -0500
> From: jhladun@io.org (John Hladun)
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #12
> 
> >
> >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=-
> >
> >------------------------------
> 
> I'm having precisely the same problem. Some people claim that they are
getting
> their ultrasounds to work in win95. I'd like to know what the setup
> differences are between my machine and those that work. Any takers? I have
> tried all (most) possible combinations of hardware settings. 
> I just ordered the Win95 Unauthorized tech reference from my book club. This
> book includes a whole bunch of nice snooping utilities. Maybe I can figure
> out what the specific conflict is. 
> 

After systematically REM'ing things out of config.sys and autoexec.bat,
I found the IOS problem went away when I removed the RAM option from
EMM386 in my config.sys.

Bill
_______________________________________________________________________________
Bill Arnette          
arnette@netcom.com    
                      

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:31:05 +0000 (GMT)
From: sigurdgr@rhi.hi.is (Sigurdur Ingi Gretarsson)
Subject: GUS sound in the Mortal Kombat II demo

Hi there GUS fans!

  Yesterday I found out that I could get the GUS sound in the Mortal Kombat II
demo to work.  What I did was to go to the sound directory and rename all the
*.gvs to *.grv and then run ultramid -c -m100.  Now you can run the demo and
press F10 to configure the game for Gravis Ultrasound.  The game sounds great
now, instead of having to use SBOS.  Both music and digital effects work well.

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 14:29 GMT
From: as5mcrai@ucsalf.ac.uk (mark craig 95)
Subject: MED/OctaMED Player/Converter for GUS

Does anyone know of an MED/OctaMED file player/converter for the GUS ?????

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 13:35 GMT
From: as5mcrai@ucsalf.ac.uk (mark craig 95)
Subject: MED/OctaMED Player for GUS

Does anyone know of a program for the GUS that plays Amiga MED and OctaMED
files?

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 13:54:59 -0500 (EST)
From: gt0074b@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: MIDI port is the same

In a post by someone who had problems with a joystick 'Y' adapter, it was 
mentioned that the GUS and Sound bastard's MIDI pins on the game port
are different.  This is NOT true.  With the correct opto-isolator, a MIDI
interface box will work on the GUS and the SB, as well as just about any
other sound card with a game port.
  Also, 4-button joysticks work fine with MK2.

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 10:38:16 +0100 (MET)
From: ralam@cs.vu.nl (Lam RA)
Subject: MIXER not working

To the person who said that the mixer program he got doesn't work, Most likely
you have an older revision of the GUS (Lower than 3.7) And these GUS's don't
have the built in mixer, so you can only turn the line in on and off

Remco Lam

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 21:48:00 EST
From: xun@venus.cs.wayne.edu
Subject: No help file for UltraSound Mixer???

I can not get the help file when I click the help button in UltraSound
Mixer. 

Where can I find the help file?

Thanks.

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 10:52:33 +0100 (NFT)
From: dorn@rzaix340.rz.uni-leipzig.de (Michael Dorn Wiwi (bis SS97))
Subject: Prices wanted

Dear Gusers!
My name is Michael and I am desperatly seeking for a place to get a GUS
for an acceptable price. Not only for me but for me and 4 of my friends.   
Last spring the GUS was sold for $ 130 in the US as I have heard. In
the meantime the prices should have dropped, right? Maybe somebody can call
some 1-800 numbers of Computer-shopper and mail me present prices. I
wonder wether these companies do overseas mail-ordering.
Somebody out there to get these informations? Oder ist da draussen
jemand der auch gern eine billige Import Ultrasound haette und eventuell
mitbestellen moechte?
Thanx in advance

Michael
dorn@139.18.1.92

PS: Should I buy a GUS now or should I wait for some upcoming clones and the
    AMD-chipset?

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 17:27:25 -0600
From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin)
Subject: Replies and Mixers, etc.

Hey Y'all,

        1st thing. The new mixer out of gus0046.zip (i think) should only
give sliders on a GUS rev3.7 or GUSMAX since theose cards have the more
advanced mixer hardware. The GUS rev3.4 (like mine) will not have these
functions. Its not poor software, just old hardware.
        
        Again, please carefully edit your reply if you "reply" to a
question. So mistakes won't occur, just make a new post.
                                                  Baskin -)
                                                  The University of Texas at 
                                                  Austin
                                                  Team OS/2

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:05:15 EST
From: JOHN CAVAN <JCAVAN@flemingc.on.ca>
Subject: Sound conflicts...

    I don't know if this will help some people, but I have 
experienced trouble running games which do not have native GUS 
support as well.
    My solution to this problem was to put a soundblaster (8 bit) 
card in my machine as well. The advantage is that you get native GUS 
support for programs that support it, and soundblaster support for 
non-GUS software.
    Some of you are probably thinking forget that, why crummy 8 bit 
when I have 16 bit. Well, in the SBOS emulation, your sound will 
likely be worse than a native soundblaster. Your choice, but if set 
up properly you have no problems.
    Additionally, I run Mortal Kombat using the soundblaster and have 
had no problems using a 4-button joystick properly. The key is to 
hook the joystick to the soundblaster and disable the GUS port. I do 
this for all my games and have had zero problems.

    John.
    Sir Sandford Fleming College.
John Cavan
jcavan@flemingc.on.ca

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 21:40:51 -0300 (ADT)
From: Andre Arseneault <eaa2582@Umoncton.CA>
Subject: ST:A Final Unity works

> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 03:00:40 -0500 (EST)
> From: dodo@world.std.com (Dean ODonnell)
> Subject: GUS and ST: A Final Unity
> 
>  "Neil L. Sharp" <0006796954@mcimail.com> said:
> > Has anyone tried the new demo for Star Trek: A Final Unity (CD-ROM)?  
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > Trying to
> > figure out how to get GUS to work with it.  I have tried MegaEM, SBOS, no
> > drivers, and nothing works for sound.  If I load no drivers, and select no
sound
> > the game demo will play, but with no sound.  Otherwise, my computer
reboots
> > every time I start the program.  Anyone heard of this or experienced it?
Also,
> > does anyone know if the final version will have GUS native support.  Would
be a
> > shame, the game looks to be very good (graphics, etc.).
> 
> I had the same problem.  I can only commiserate with you.  I couldn't get it
> to work either, BUT if you check out the stuff the setup program writes
> to your hard drive, you'll see that there are a couple of .WAV files there.
> Yes, that actually is a 2 Meg .WAV file!  You can play them and hear the
> soundtrack with playfile.  
> 
> So, you can watch the demo w/o the sound, or play the sound w/o the video.
> 
> Kinda sucks, but at least you get to hear the sound.
> 
> Dean
> 
> ------------------------------

Hi gussers,

To all who have tried the Final Unity Demo, I have managed to get 
sound with "sbos -o3" or "sbos -o4".  The sound was a bit choppy but I 
think this is due to my system lacking memory ( only 4 Megs ).  I have an 
Ultrasound Max.  Tried it with Maxsbos but sound was played too slow.  
Looks to be an awesome game and I hope the final version has NATIVE 
ULTRASOUND SUPPORT.

CAPS

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 11:28:05 PDT
From: lew@octel.com (Thomas Lew)
Subject: STTNG: A Final Unity

>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 16:23 EST
>From: "Neil L. Sharp" <0006796954@mcimail.com>
>Subject: GUS game questions
>
>Has anyone tried the new demo for Star Trek: A Final Unity (CD-ROM)?  Trying
to
>figure out how to get GUS to work with it.  I have tried MegaEM, SBOS, no
>drivers, and nothing works for sound.  If I load no drivers, and select no
sound
>the game demo will play, but with no sound.  Otherwise, my computer reboots
>every time I start the program.  Anyone heard of this or experienced it?
Also,
>does anyone know if the final version will have GUS native support.  Would be
a
>shame, the game looks to be very good (graphics, etc.).

I posted this very problem back in January when the demo first came out, but
no one was able to get the demo to work properly.  The closest I got gives me
jerky sound with a brief dropout every few seconds and makes the video skip a
bit too, although not half as bad as the sound.

The way I got it to work was to boot from a floppy that loaded only the stuff
REQUIRED to run the demo (for me, that was the CDROM driver, MSCDEX, and my
mouse driver - I think I was able to load HIMEM also, but can't remember for
sure).  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES LOAD EMM386.SYS; having that loaded ALWAYS made
my machine reboot.  Then, I loaded SBOS with the "-o3" parameter (leaving the
parameter off makes the video AND sound play at around 1/10th of the normal
speed) and things worked as I described above.

I was hoping to try the protect mode MegaEm on this demo, but as we all know
it hasn't come out yet (in case you didn't realize, all the sound in the demo
is digital - no midi or anything; the entire soundtrack is stored as WAV files
on the CD, so if all else fails you can manually play those to see what the
audio says).

When things wouldn't work right, I called Spectrum Holobyte and their response
was basically "tough luck".  I got the same from Gravis Tech Support.
Strangely enough, "A Final Unity" came out on a list of games posted by Gravis
that is supposed to have GUS support.  The guy I spoke to at Spectrum Holobyte
said that there were no plans to support the GUS.   However, one of the people
who responded to my original Digest post said that when he called, Spectrum
Holobyte's tech support said that they WERE supporting the GUS.  Who knows?
I suggest you call them yourself to get the latest scoop (and let us know what
they say)!

One last note: the .ini file stored on your hard disk has the drive letter of
the CDROM drive in it.  I use Stacker and had it loaded when I originally
installed the demo, so I had to go back and change the .ini file afterwards
because I didn't load Stacker with my reduced setup, which made the CDROM's
drive letter change.  Don't forget to do the same if you have to.

Thomas Lew
thomas.lew@octel.com

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 10:46:25 GMT-2
From: "JJR v d Merwe" <JJRVDM@NORTON.CTECH.AC.ZA>
Subject: Thump from speaker, Is this normal?

I just bought a GUSv3.7 and would like to know if this is normal:

When I load ULTRINIT and it initializes the card I get thump from 
the left speaker, but I have sound on both speakers.
Is there an error on the card and do I have to use my warranty.  :(

I would appreciate any help.
Thanx

Rabie

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 18:27:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Scott D Hansma <sh6k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Ultrasound Experience

I know this question has probably been asked a lot, but I just
subscribed a few days ago. Anyway, how can I get the Ultrasound
experience CD? I would prefer it to be as close to free as possible... :)

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