GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 19 Mar 95  9:37 PST     Volume 20: Issue  19 

Today's Topics:
			 ar-tr808.zip : Where's the mapping for it??
						 Darkseed CD and GUS
					   GUS Daily Digest V20 #9
							PMODE MEGA-EM
			  Sound prob. w/ Dark Forces & Full Throttle
					  Warcraft (Version info...)

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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 12:21:19 -0800 (PST)
From: The New Gods of Overfiend <tngo@netcom.com>
Subject: ar-tr808.zip : Where's the mapping for it??

	I haven't been able to try these tr808 patches out yet because I 
do NOT know the patch mappings for them.  If anyone knows(or finds out) 
please e-mail me at tngo@netcom.com

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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 07:52:52 -0500
From: co805@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark E. Gall)
Subject: Darkseed CD and GUS

I've just spent about two hours tweaking my settings and the best
I can get is verry very slow speech and no music in this game.
I have the original gus card with 256K.  The way I got the game
to play with the slow speech is by using megaem.
Has any one gotten sound effects and music to work with game?

I just can't play a game without that good gus sound!

Mark

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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 95 00:59:50 +0200
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #9

The only reason a GUS can slow the system down (stuck notes) on Dark Forces
would be the very agressive manner of patch-caching UltraMID uses (right on,
BTW).  You're used to it, nothing bad, only a bit of delay between songs.
Yossi.

|IN REAL LIFE:                                      |IN PHYSICAL REALITY:
|lioren1@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il                    |Doing stuff, some
|Gravis Ultrasound advocate, (a.k.a. "GUS idiot"),  |place in the Israeli
|Windows user and mercenary VB programmer.          |Defense Forces.

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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:18:34 +0930 (CST)
From: a vesnaver <c2a_vesn@aelmg.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: PMODE MEGA-EM

Here is the text file that accompanies the beta version of PMODE MEGA-EM 
at the EPAS archives.

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Chopped up readme follows:

				   MEGA-EM VERSION 3.03b (BETA) - 03/17/95

0.0 BETA RELEASE INFORMATION
-----------------------------

Thank you for trying this Beta release of Mega-Em. Please report any
problems you have via email to: jayeson@gravis.com

Some features of Mega-Em are still under development and are not required
to test the more complex components of Mega-Em. The main feature missing
is the Sound Blaster FM emulation.

When reporting bugs, please include information about what kind of
UltraSound you have (such as whether it is a MAX or ACE and if possible
the board revision number), what memory manager you are using, a brief
description of you system and if possible copies of your AUTOEXEC.BAT
and CONFIG.SYS.

Mega-Em is a software program which allows you to use your Gravis UltraSound
to emulate the following sound devices:

* Roland MT-32
* Roland Sound Canvas/General MIDI
* Roland MPU-401 MIDI interface
* Sound Blaster (Basic version only - not Sound Blaster Pro)

In addition Mega-Em can also to replace the UltraMID TSR.

Mega-Em effectively combines all previous UltraSound TSR programs - SBOS,
UltraMID and older versions (2.xx) of Mega-Em.

Mega-Em currently requires the following to function correctly:

* A 386 or better AT class personal computer.
* A hard drive.
* A Gravis UltraSound/MAX/ACE card.
* An Expanded Memory Manager, such as EMM386, QEMM386 or 386MAX.
* Approximately 128k of free Expanded Memory (EMS).
* DOS 3.3 or later (EMM386 must be from DOS 5.0 or later).

Mega-Em will not work in an OS/2 or Windows DOS box.


9.0 MEGA-EM REVISION HISTORY
-----------------------------

VERSION 3.03b (Beta)

* First release of the all-new, rewritten Mega-Em. Emulates Roland
  Sound Canvas/General MIDI/MT-32, Sound Blaster and UltraMID. Improvements
  over older (2.xx) versions of Mega-Em include compatibility with most
  protected mode software, interactive setup, single executable, better
  sounding patch set, faster loading time, allows UltraSound software to
  run at the same time as Mega-Em, automatic reloading of patch set when
  necessary, automatically unloads when Windows is run and automatically
  takes advantage of extra hardware (the 16 bit record/playback CODEC) on
  the UltraSound MAX. Sound Blaster music (FM) support is not included.

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The new version of mega-em is located in the submit directory at EPAS and 
is called "mega303b.zip".

I haven't tried it yet, but I'm a little dissapointed that it still 
requires emm386 to run. Most protected mode programs will not run on a PC 
with 4mb ram which is also running emm386. I hope Gravis fixes this in 
the final version.

Adrian

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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 19:33:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Stanley Kwong <shkwong@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: Sound prob. w/ Dark Forces & Full Throttle

	Just use MAXSBOS, it works great.  Full throttle works perfectly.  
There's no music in Dark Forces but that's no great loss since it sucks.  
The sound effects work perfectly though.  
							Stan Kwong

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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:03:52 -0500
From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski)
Subject: Warcraft (Version info...)

There has been a lot of talk recently about Warcraft recently, and I just
wanted to ask/sumerize...

What is the latest version of warcraft right now?  I got the update to
1.15 (which had 'native ultrasound support'... At first glance, it looks
like the simply used the AIL drivers that Gravis released.. and added a
configuration option to use them directly, instead of overwriting the
SoundBasdard and MPU..)

Second question... (a bit off topic, true...) is their any editors for
Warcraft?  Actual map editing editors?  I saw a post stating something
about an editor included with a revision...  But I couldn't find the
update at the FTP or the Epas list.

Anybody care to comment with an equally large response? (Use e-mail it's
faster...)

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