GUS Daily Digest            Fri, 31 Mar 95  9:37 PST     Volume 20: Issue  31



Today's Topics:

                             AVI Playback

                          Friggin' Bioforge

                       GUS Daily Digest V20 #30

                  GUS in Windows and the new Megaem.

                         GUS under Win95 ...

                             OS/2 drivers

                    Pentium/GUS/OS/2 Questions...

                            Ultrasound ACE

                WarCraft - How #!%&(! do I get sound ?



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: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:02 -0500

From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)

Subject: Re: AVI Playback



> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 09:49:10 -0500 (EST)

> From: hcpiv@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca

> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #29



> A big improvement is made by upgrading to Video for Windows version 1.1a.

> You can grab vfw11a.zip from various sites.  Email me if you have trouble

> finding it.  I used archie to find it at freebsd.cdrom.com in

> /.5/cica/desktop.  Using this I can use larger playback buffers and the

> sound is fine.  There is also a SoundMapper which has an ADPCM CODEC

> driver.



Ah, but what should we do if we're already running VFW 1.1d?? Since that's

what I've got installed. Perhaps DOWNgrading would help...



I'm gonna give 5.50 a shot soon...Perhaps it'll fix things up.



DDA



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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 00:25:38 -0500

From: Malhavok@aol.com

Subject: Friggin' Bioforge



Anyone get the GUS to work with this new game from Origin?  I got a rather

interesting response from the Origin rep on AOL saying that "the GUS's

Soundblaster emulation does not work properly with Bioforge, so you'll get no

sound with that card".  Gee, thanks Einstein.



Anybody figure out how to get this puppy running? (As a whine/flame

afterthought, why the hell can't supposedly "BIG" companies like Microprose

and Origin deal with the GUS, when smaller companies like Impressions and

Epic have little trouble at all?)



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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 15:44:00 -1320

From: david.wei@bbs.uniserve.com (David Wei)

Subject: GUS Daily Digest V20 #30

Message-ID: <2ad.3457.47@bbs.uniserve.com>



GD> > guess you're from Australia because your e-mail address ends with "edu")

GD> but

GD> > Chrysan Chan

GD> Dear Mr. Chan,

GD> Just a small correction: "edu" at the end of an address stands for the

GD> country of Educasia. It is a small country in South America that lives

GD> under a (sometimes) benevolent dictator. Dr. Dean.

GD> Hope this helps clear up the confusion.



Excuse me, but EDU are used ALL over the world for school's internet address

(EDUcation).  Not sure about the country thou....



:)



                                                David Wei



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david.wei@bbs.uniserve.com (David Wei)



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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:51:39 +0100

From: ct91@cityscape.co.uk (Damian Scully)

Subject: GUS in Windows and the new Megaem.



Hi GUSser's

        I recently installed a GUS in my friends 486, before which he had a

Gamewave 32 (Pathetic when compared to the GUS, does the AWE sound similar

to this?). Anyway, I cannot get the GUS to work properly under windows, I

can get sound from things like Encarta, but when I try to get Midisoft

recording session to work it cannot find a Midi device. I thought I had

deleted all the Gamewave drivers, and edited the system.ini file properly,

but when I look at the midi mapper I find the drivers for the Gamewave are

still there, and I cannot seem to change them. Can anyone help?

        On the subject of the new Pmode (oops, sorry, I mean Extended mode)

Megaem, I think it is useless. It is not as reliable as the normal Megaem,

and does not improve on it much. The old Megaem works without using EMS

memory as well. I do not blame Gravis for the new Megaem not being

brilliant, as it is only a Beta release, but I hope they listen to some of

the comments made in the digest to help improve the final program.

        Also does anyone know how to get PGA486 to work the GUS. I copied

down the sblaster.mid file, and renamed it sblaster.dig, but it just crashes

my computer.





Damian.



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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 09:19:43 -0800

From: cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu

Subject: Re: GUS under Win95 ...



Thanks for the reply.



>To Cliff,

>It sounds like you should install over a working Win31+DOS setup for the

>easiest GUS install. So i would reccommend that you setup that spare drive

>winth Win31+DOS and then install the GUS. Get that pile working and THEN

>install the M8 BETA. It sounds like that would be simpler than installing

>the GUS after a Win95 install.



I wrote originally that I had installed the Win95 beta to a disk partition

other than the one where I had Dos/Win3.11 installed. This requires me to

install all of the windows software/drivers under Win95 instead of simply

inheriting my current Win3.11 environment. Well, I decided to try and go

ahead with installing the GUS 3.59 disks under Win95. When I tried to do

the full install option, it would lock up during the hardware setting test

phase. I decided to try the installation again this time specifying certain

files only. After basically, installing all the files in the Ultrasnd

directory, I went to the Win95 control panel and started the Add/Remove

Hardware applet. I told it I wanted to add a Sound Card and choose the

option of using a manufacturers' disk. I selected the \ultrasnd\windows\

subdirectory and it found the oemsetup.inf file. It allowed me to install

the Ultrasnd Wave & Midi driver and opened up the hardware settings

dialog for the GUSMAX. I put in the correct settings and restarted Win95.

I now have my GUS-Max working with Win95 just great.



cliff



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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 20:52:37 -0500

From: Menoche@info.polymtl.ca

Subject: OS/2 drivers



Hi gussers!

        Does anyone know if there is some more development made by gravis

on os/2 drivers??? Was the alpha release something to shut our mouth???

I would really appreciate some new drivers to be able to use sound with

dos box and windoze box. I would also like a good mod player ??



        I know i'm asking a lot, but i didn't hear from them about that

for a long time and i really like that product!



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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 12:24:11 EST

From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin)

Subject: Pentium/GUS/OS/2 Questions...



Hello, Ferdinand,



I don't have either of the boards you mentioned, but i DO use another

ASUS board, the PVI486SP3 w/ Award BIOS, etc. My board has NMI enabled

so SBOS works fine. There have been no probs with the BIOS or with

OS/2. ASUS makes good boards and i've heard very good things about

them. If you get a Triton chipset, make sure you get the high-dollar

synch. cache. From what i hear much of the speed boost is from this

stuff.



The onboard EIDE should be very good. Mine gets 2.85MB/s from an

Maxtor 540 under OS/2. The P5 board also supports mode 4 so yours

should be higher.



Oh, yeah. I reccommend using Manley's drivers if you expect to run any

DOS sound software, mod-players, games, etc. Its VDD is very good.

With gravis' drivers you have to set the DOS GUS to different settings

than the setting used by OS/2. And it also kinda goofs sometimes when

switching from DOS sound to OS/2 sound. For me the DOS support is more

than worth the loss of native midi synth in OS/2.



Baskin

UT Austin

Team OS/2



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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 10:56:04 BST

From: S94 <sufis@cs.man.ac.uk>

Subject: Ultrasound ACE



Quick questions concerning Grav-ACE

I have seen a picture of the ACE and its seems to only have two line-type outputs(or is it one output and one input).Are they a line-in and line-out

or are they amplified out and amplified in ;as i have heard that the output

from the amplified out is a bit distorted.



Is the memory chip upgrade (512k -> 1mb) use a different chip from the

normal ultrasound ; if so ,how much is it and where can i obtain it from (U.K.).



Thanks



Shoaib Ahmed



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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 14:00:44 +0200 (MET DST)

From: Martin ANCHER Holm <ia94208@dec51b.tietgen.dk>

Subject: WarCraft - How #!%&(! do I get sound ?



Hi Gus Users :)



Well I've just got WarCraft... It's an exelent game.



I've seen somebody speek about this game here before, but were there any

answers ??



Isn't there an extra file to get sound on this game... And where do I get

the file ??



(A direct e-mail to me is fastest)



If you have the file you can attatch it, but if it's more than 1MB please

send me a letter first :)



I'm looking farward to your early reply



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