Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sun, 24 Jan 93       Volume 2 : Issue  21 

Today's Topics:
						 3D card/settings!?!?
							 Hardball III
								 Help
					   MIDI interface problems
			  Possible bug in PLAYMIDI.EXE 3.40 and 3.50

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 9:45:56 CST
From: ibmpa!hartmann.austin.ibm.com!lance@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Message-Id: <9301231545.AA07734@hartmann.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: 3D card/settings!?!?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> 
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:05:50 +0100 (MET)
> From: Andreas Henning <d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se>
> Message-Id: <9301220906.AA12412@hackes.dtek.chalmers.se>
> Subject: How to get DuneII to work
> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
> 
> About DuneII :
> 
> It works on my machine, here is my setup:
> 
> SET ULTRASND=3D220,7,7,11,3
> C:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT
> SET ULTRADIR=3DC:\ULTRASND
> SET BLASTER=3DA220 I3 D1 T1
> 
>[STUFF DLETED]
> Andreas Henning -- d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se
> Student of Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
> "Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?" - Marvin The Paranoid Android

HEY!  What's with the "3D" words in your setup!?!?  Has Gravis started
shipping 3D cards?!?!?  Do you have any 3D demo stuff?

Enquiring minds want to know (ASAP),
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
			   Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 15:45:58 EST
From: jagati1@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (JAGATIC JASON            )
Message-Id: <9301232046.AA11225@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>
Subject: Hardball III
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I was wondering if anyone out there has been able to get HB 3 to work.  I can get the background music going as well as the sound effects, but when I try to use the announcer option, everything freezes up....  What is the proper SBOS option to select?  Or is it possible to get this to work at all?  Thanks.
 

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 11:06:46 EST
From: mercurious@knight.spd.louisville.edu
Message-Id: <9301231908.AA0034@knight.spd.louisville.edu>
Subject: Help
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Help


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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 10:09:12 WET
From: dp@hydra.carleton.CA (Dave Perry VE3IFB)
Message-Id: <9301231509.AA01463@hydra.carleton.CA>
Subject: MIDI interface problems
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I too built up a midi interface and have been using it successfully with
my keyboard. Regarding the computer lockup problem, I've found that this
occurs whenever:

1. SBOS is resident
2. There is a signal on the midi in connector

If I turn off the keyboard, unplug the midi in connector, or unload sbos
before using the keyboard, everything is fine. I don't think it's a problem
with the interface circuit. It's more likely to be a problem with sbos -
perhaps it isn't handling an interrupt correctly or something.

BTW, I built up the interface with the 'ls04 and the opto which has been
posted a couple of places. In my version I subbed a 6N137 opto and used
a 4K7 resistor between pins 6 and 8.I also added a 0.1 uF bypass capacitor
between pins 5 and 8 as recommended in the data sheet. Just another
variation for your files :-)

Dave Perry

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:38:18 -0600
From: Terry Lee <terry@uieosa.csl.uiuc.edu>
Message-Id: <199301232338.AA01348@uieosa.csl.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Possible bug in PLAYMIDI.EXE 3.40 and 3.50
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	I've just tried out the new 1.22 disks, and I've noticed that the new
PLAYMIDI (3.50) will hang in the middle of some MIDI files.  I can hit a key
and exit to DOS prompt, but if I try PLAYMIDI again it will often lock up my
system tight.  But this only happens with some MIDI files; for example
BRWNJUG.MIDI and NUTCRACK.MID (from MIDISNGS.ZIP on archive.epas.toronto.edu).
PLAYMIDI 3.40 also seems to have the same problem.  Before I tried the 1.22
disks, I have never had any problems with PLAYMIDI or SBOS.  I have also tried
DARETRO, GUSMOD, and P669GU0 without any problems.

	My setup is a 1 MB GUS in a 486/33 system with the OPTi-486SXWB
chipset.  I have heard of some OPTi chipsets having a faulty DMA controller,
but the DMA controller chip on my motherboard (what would normally be the
82C206 chip) is actually an F85C206 chip made by SiS, so that shouldn't be the
problem here.  And also as I mentioned, I have not have had any problems with
SBOS or anything else.  The GUS settings are the standard choices except that
I'm using DMA channel 5 and interrupt 2 for SBOS.

	The last important information is that I am running my bus at 11 MHz.
I found that if I lower the bus speed to 8.25 MHz, then PLAYMIDI 3.40 and 3.50
both work fine.  Maybe some change between PLAYMIDI 3.21 and 3.40 has made the
timing tolerance too tight?

	And Gravis, thanks for your continuing effort to improve the software!
Of course, an OS/2 driver would be much appreciated, too!  (hint :-) )

					Terry Lee
					terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu

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