Ultrasound Daily Digest     Mon,  1 Feb 93       Volume 2 : Issue  29 

Today's Topics:
						   A few things...
			  Cheapest prices for memory in the States?
					 Korean pops uploaded to epas
				  NEED IRQ SETTINGS RECOMMENDATIONS
						 Ram prices (2 msgs)
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #28

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Date: 31 Jan 1993 23:56:13 -0500 (EST)
From: STU_JABIRCHE@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU
Message-Id: <01GU6QPG5YLE8YAROY@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU>
Subject: A few things...
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

About wav2pat: I have made a few patterns with this program and it seems to
  work ok, but the usable range seems to be from C0 to C4 on many of the
  things I've made.  No amount of fiddling with the base note seems to change
  anything. Am I doing something wrong?

About Ren & Stimpy wavs: They will be available at cc.umanitoba.ca in the
  /pub/ren-stimpy directory sometime later this week.

About Composers: Is there a decent composer out there? Right now I'm using
   Cakewalk's staff edit and it kinda sucks.

Everything seesm to work fine on my computer except for winmod now and then.
   If I let it play for extended periods, it will start skipping. That seems
   odd.

That's it.
-=Marc=-

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 02:41:47 -0800
From: santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu
Message-Id: <9301311041.AA26050@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Cheapest prices for memory in the States?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hi all,

I just got my new GUS and I want to bring it up to 1 Meg
(well, 768k so I can run SC2, but why not get the whole
enchalada).  Before I go off and scour the pages of
Computer Shopper for the best memory prices (knowing damn
well that every add is going to say 'Call' for best memory
prices), I'd like to know where GUS owners in the states
bought their memory and how much they paid...

Thanks,

+------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Wes Santee             | "Donuts!  What AREN'T they good for!" |
| santeew@cs.uoregon.edu |      -Homer Simpson                   |
+------------------------+---------------------------------------+

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 23:08:04 CST
From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
Message-Id: <9302010508.AA27931@hydra.convex.com>
Subject: Korean pops uploaded to epas
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Sunday, Jan. 31, 1993


I have uploaded kopops.zip, a collection of 35 Korean pops songs in
midi format, to archive.epas.utoronto.ca:/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit.

I obtained these songs as ROL files from the proprietor of a Soundblaster
clone company in Seoul, who said that these had all been done by a Yonsei
University student. He gave me permission to do what I wished with them.

I used Winjammer to do the original conversion from ROL to midi, and I
used Cakewalk for Windows to do the rest. I want to give special thanks
to Mr. Yuri Lee of Waterloo, Ont. for his help with titles, singers,
and English translations of the titles. I have transcribed his notes into
the file 'filelist.txt' which is part of the kopops archive. Any mistakes
in that file are a result of my transcription, and not those of Mr. Lee.

Several of the songs I was unable to identify, or only to tentatively
identify. If you have more information, please let me know.

Please give me feedback, as I am working on archives of pop music from
France, Russia, China, and Japan.

For GUS owners, although I have used the GM instruments, there are several
patches (especially synth sounds) that are not yet available from Gravis,
but should be shipping soon, and there are several others (such as sound
effects) that are inadequate, and hopefully will soon be upgraded - so
if you play a song that uses the missing patches and get a great deal of
silence, just wait until you get the complete GM patch set and try again!

Enjoy!


	 John Cowles        cowles@hydra.convex.com
						Convex Computer Corp.  214 497 4375
						3000 Waterview Pkwy
						Richardson, Tx. 75080

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:08:55 -0500
From: <cs911084@ariel.yorku.ca>
Message-Id: <9301311908.AA05204@juno.Ariel.YorkU.CA>
Subject: NEED IRQ SETTINGS RECOMMENDATIONS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hello,
I was hoping someone with some knowledge of IRQ's in a PC could maybe take
a few minutes and recommend the best settings for my GUS.  I've tried everything
(Memory Parity check enable, Base port address jumpers, etc.) to no avail.  My
biggest problem is to get GUS working properly in Windows.  The volume control
on the GUS Mixer applet won't work, and another very frustrating thing is that
when I play something in the media player (canyon.mid), I have to pause it, and
then un-pause it to get it to play at the proper volume (that is, before I pause
and un-pause, the volume is always lower).
Here are my hardware interrupts as per PCTools' analysis:
								   PC Tools V7                               
							System Information Utility                       
	  ______________________________________________________________________
 
							List of Hardware Interrupts                      
	  ______________________________________________________________________
 
	  Number  Address       Label                                Owner
 
		 00   07DA:163A    Timer Output 0                      SMARTDRV
		 01   07DA:16E8    Keyboard                            SMARTDRV
		 02   0332:0057    Cascade                             Stacks  
		 03   0332:006F    COM 2                               Stacks  
		 04   0332:0087    COM 1                               Stacks  
		 05   04A4:1849    LPT 2                               MOUSE   
		 06   0332:00B7    Floppy Disk                         Stacks  
		 07   0070:06F4    LPT 1                               SYSTEM
		 08   0332:0052    Real Time Clock                     Stacks  
		 09   F000:EECF    Reserved                            BIOS
		 0A   0332:00CF    Reserved                            Stacks  
		 0B   0332:00E7    Reserved                            Stacks  
		 0C   0332:00FF    Reserved                            Stacks  
		 0D   F000:EED8    CoProcessor                         BIOS
		 0E   0332:0117    Fixed Disk                          Stacks  
		 0F   F000:8FFF    Reserved                            BIOS
 
 
I believe that the important IRQs for SB compatiblity are taken (com2 is my
modem, and my printer in connected to LPT1).  I've noticed that for the GUS
setup program, the IRQ options are only 2,3,5,7,11,12,15.  Does that mean
that I cannot manually assign 4,6,8 etc. to the autoexec.bat?  Similarly, in
Windoze, in the Drivers Setup screen, the only IRQs that are displayed as
options are 3,5,7,9,11,12,15.  Does that mean that I can only use these values
and not manually change the GUS settings in the system.ini file with other
values?  I've tried a few manual changes, in vain.  Is there anyway to assign
my mouse to another IRQ (or other devices for that matter)?  Or am I just stuck
with a lousy setup for a motherboard?
Sorry for the long message, and I would be forever indebted to anyone who could
give me a hand with this crap.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Nemo De Furia.

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 08:35:08 -0500 (EST)
From: lingy@rpi.edu (Dan Ling)
Message-Id: <9301311335.AA01919@client.its.rpi.edu>
Subject: Ram prices
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

This is with regards to your mail about ram prices. The trade tariff
is about 15% actually from what I had heard. And the main thing that
the prices are so high right now is due to pricefixing. Yes.
Price-fixing.. Though all the major chip distributors have stocks of
the chips and there's no shortage at all. And the only SIMMS that are
taxed 15% aare about 35% of the SIMMs sold. So no matter what, the
increase cannot be attributed to anything but a big part of
price-fixing. 

Dan

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Date: 31 Jan 93 12:10 -0800
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Message-Id: <2956*twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ram prices
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

<lingy@rpi.edu> writes:
>This is with regards to your mail about ram prices. The trade tariff
>is about 15% actually from what I had heard. And the main thing that
>the prices are so high right now is due to pricefixing. Yes.
>Price-fixing.. Though all the major chip distributors have stocks of
>the chips and there's no shortage at all. And the only SIMMS that are
>taxed 15% aare about 35% of the SIMMs sold. So no matter what, the
>increase cannot be attributed to anything but a big part of
>price-fixing. 

This maybe true at Eastern Canada though I don't know why it's not
nationwide, but the 85% is not a rumor. This was in our main local
papers (Vancouver Sun and Province). And articles in some lesser papers.
And I have a friend that is in the computer biz (I buy my computer parts
from him and he's also how I keep up with the best prices in town, along
with a local Computer Paper that is about 90% ads). I didn't say
anything about a shortage of chips in my posting. I only said there was
this huge tariff. And yes.... which in turn caused pricefixing, not
shortage. Because of the tariff, all distributos used this as an excuse and
rose their prices all at once. And it doesn't look like it's coming down
with any speed. But any which way, the end result for the endusers is an
increase of almost a factor of 2 (doubled). So the Gravis prices doesn't
look to bad from here. But yyou should be able to get it for a better
price where you are so grab buy local.

Thomas.

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 23:06 EST
From: "Matthew E. Bernold" <MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Message-Id: <9302010406.AA26301@orca.es.com>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #28
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

>Hi,
>Pardon me if this has been beaten to death, I'm new here.  Just wanted to
>know if anyone could get the announcer (Al Micheals) to work with this game.
>It's a kind of strange game.  It asks you to specify what kind of sound card
>you want to use for music, AND what kind of sound card you want to use for
>sound effects.  I selected SoundBlaster for both.  Now I get the music, but
>as for the sound effects, the game says it can't find the device I selected
>which is strange because I'm using the same device successfully for the music!
>The only thing that I can think of, is that maybe it's that SoundBlaster *PRO*
>emulation problem.

I have Hardball III, and I got music, sound effects, and digital speech
working just fine for my GUS with no SBOS settings.

If it helps, I have a 386-25 with a 1Meg GUS and am using SBOS 1.22

	   Matthew E. Bernold             MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
		 <<APOCALYPSE>>                  meb@haydn.psu.edu

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