Ultrasound Daily Digest     Tue, 20 Apr 1993     Volume 3 : Issue  20 

Today's Topics:
		[GUS] GUSTEST v1.22 and GUS C code library at archive
							   Cakewalk
							 Cyberstrike
				  GUS: using DMA for data transfer?
		   GUS and Alone in the Dark Demo Problems (2 msgs)
				  GUS New Installation Disk Ver 2.05
								 help
							Links 386 Pro
						   MIDI file format
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #19
	  Ultrasound FTP Sites - New Files Validated - April 17, 93
					   Windows and SBOSLIB.SBS

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Date: 19 Apr 93 18:15:28 GMT
From: mchen@csp.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen)
Subject: [GUS] GUSTEST v1.22 and GUS C code library at archive
Message-ID: <MCHEN.93Apr19131528@csp.cs.psu.edu>

ReprintFrom: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard

Well, I finally got around to speeding up the block DRAM routines, so I've
released the C routines and the source to GUSTEST at the GUS archive site.
It's faster now... clears 256K of memory in 3.3 seconds, including load time.
You can beat it with assembly, but I don't have one, and can't find a decent
one that I can afford to use.

-- Mike
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| mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu  | except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92  |
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 21:41 AST
From: CHRIS FORGERON <CS328A012@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA>
Subject: Cakewalk
Message-ID: <01GX7KYEYHFK001SIS@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA>

 I've hear~rd much about this piece of software, but have yet to come across
it. Can anyone tell me a FTP site where this is, or other means of obtaining
this software?

 tnx.

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 18:47:23 -0700
From: Eric N. Liao <liaoe@aero.org>
Subject: Cyberstrike
Message-ID: <199304200147.AA02512@aerospace.aero.org>

Does anyone know when Cyberstrike is coming out?  I'm referring to the game
by Joshua Jensen, not the on-line game at GeNIE.

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 17:29:57 GMT
From: av@omega.ssw.de (Andreas Vogel)
Subject: GUS: using DMA for data transfer?
Message-ID: <1993Apr19.172957.4126@omega.ssw.de>

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Hello,

I've stepped through the Linux GUS driver code and some other utils for
the gus (btw. I've read the UltraDox manual carefully) and it seems
that nobody knows how exchange data with the GUS using DMA.

I want to write a GUS driver for SVR4 unix and the only acceptable
method for playing or recording sound is via DMA.

Any information and hints are welcome.

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Andreas Vogel               Bahnhofstr. 13 / D-7300 Esslingen / Germany
				ab 1.7.1993:  73728 Esslingen
				Voice:  +49-711/3967133 (priv.: +49-711/357613)
				E-Mail: av@ssw.de

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Date: 18 Apr 93 15:01:58 GMT
From: whubis@teal.csn.org (Walter A. Hubis)
Subject: Re: GUS and Alone in the Dark Demo Problems
Message-ID: <C5oprC.7xu@csn.org>

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In article <C5nwxF.D0B@acsu.buffalo.edu> v128nkga@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>
>   Has anyone else had any problems with the GUS with the 
>Alone in the Dark demo?  When I choose digitized sound effects with
>the Soundblaster DMA, I get this strange garbage out of my speakers,
>it sounds almost like a voice talking backwards.  The music is
>fine, but the digitized sound effects all sound like garbage.
>   The strange thing is that it USED to work.  When I first got
>it, everthing was working just fine.  I played the demo, got tired of
>it, and deleted it.  Then I tried to show it to a friend, and reinstalled
>it, and all of the problems began.  I WAS going to go buy it, but there
>is now way now, unless I can fix this problem.
>   The thing is, since I had it working, and now, I have changed
>a lot of things on my computer.
>   I have, since it was last working :
>       Installed Dos 6.0 with Doublespace
>       Upgraded my memory from 2 to 4 meg
>       Upgraded the GUS' memory to 1 meg
>       Installed the new installation disks (2.01)
>       Installed the new SBOS (2.04)
>
>   I think, but I'm not sure, that I may have had the new
>sbos in when the aitd demo was working.
>
>   Anyway, has anyone else had this problem with GUS and the
>Alone in the Dark demo (or the real game, for that matter)?  If so,
>I would really appreciate some help.
>
>   Thanks in advance.
>
>                   Later,
>                   Henry

I have had a similar problem, although with the regular Alone in the
Dark game. I too have upgraded to DOS 6.0, and used Doublespace. At 
first, _nothing_ worked, so I reinstalled Alone in the Dark and the 
Gravis s/w from the new install disks. Now, It won't let me use the
DMA channel. Wave under windows works fine. I had Stacker 3.0 on
before and had no problems.

Anyone else had problems with Doublespace? Does it use a DMA channel?

Walt

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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 20:52:49 GMT
From: markus@info.umoncton.ca (PAULIN MARC Y.)
Subject: Re: GUS and Alone in the Dark Demo Problems
Message-ID: <markus.567.735166369@info.umoncton.ca>

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In article <C5nwxF.D0B@acsu.buffalo.edu> v128nkga@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>From: v128nkga@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
>Subject: GUS and Alone in the Dark Demo Problems
>Date: 18 Apr 93 04:41:00 GMT


>        Has anyone else had any problems with the GUS with the 
>Alone in the Dark demo?  When I choose digitized sound effects with
>the Soundblaster DMA, I get this strange garbage out of my speakers,
>it sounds almost like a voice talking backwards.  The music is
>fine, but the digitized sound effects all sound like garbage.

	I bought the game and I have a 1Meg GUS.  I use SoundBlaster NO DMA 
and everything works fine.  The sound is creepy, the music is hair raising.  
I love that game!!! :)


>        I have, since it was last working :
>                Installed Dos 6.0 with Doublespace
>                Upgraded my memory from 2 to 4 meg
>                Upgraded the GUS' memory to 1 meg
>                Installed the new installation disks (2.01)
>                Installed the new SBOS (2.04)

	
	My settings are:
		Dos 6.0 without Doublespace
		1 Meg of RAM (286-16MHz)
		Gravis Ultrasound (1Meg)
		Gravis Disks 2.01 (just upgraded to 2.05, I'll see if it 
		still works).
		SBOS 2.04

	Remember, select SoundBlaster WITH NO DMA!!!
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 01:53:41 GMT
From: wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda)
Subject: GUS New Installation Disk Ver 2.05
Message-ID: <C5np9H.1M7@news.iastate.edu>

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There are new GUS disk ver 2.05 in epas, I downloaded it, and installed it.
These are the differences between 2.05 and 2.01
- SBOS Ver 2.04
- PLAYMIDI.EXE and PLAYFILE.EXE are the same version,
  but they are a little bigger.
- CALLIOPE.PAT is different, although their sizes are same.
  (I only compared it with comp.exe)

If you have installed the 2.01, don't bother to install 2.05 like me.  :-)

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 18:30:45 PDT
From: gabrielj@sfu.ca
Subject: help
Message-ID: <9304200130.AA03602@fraser.sfu.ca>

k

k 
Ok, to the people having problems with U7.  Have you got the U7 driver
patches off of epas?  They are replacements for the sb and adlib drivers that
come with U7 2.

To get links to work without freezing.  turn off the background sfx.
and run sbos with -x2.

Godfrey.
ZZ

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Date: 19 Apr 93  9:04 -0700
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: Links 386 Pro
Message-ID: <3438*twong@civil.ubc.ca>

Isn't this in the FAQ or somewhere? The question about Links keeps
popping up again and again so I guess people doesn't know which
one has been answered and which one hasn't been. Anyways....
even though you have the latest Links (ver 1.08) and the new SBOS,
you still need to run SBOS again with a parameter. I can't remember
offhand but it's either -o2 or -x2. Good luck.

Thomas.

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Date: 19 Apr 93 17:59:18 
From: SWHITTAK@gst-soft.demon.co.uk (Simon Whittaker)
Subject: MIDI file format
Message-ID: <9304191702.AA26641@orca.es.com>

Yo !

Does anyone have the standard MIDI file format ? Its defined by some
association in Los Angeles which is a bit far away for me to give a
ring on the 'dog and bone'.

Ta

Simon


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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 20:34:28 EDT
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org (Jim Blakely)
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #19
Message-ID: <6R502B1w165w@n4zfd.UUCP>

Windows does not support the use of sound cards in DOS boxes - unless
the DOS application attempting to access them has been written as a
"multimedia aware" application - such as the shell that powers Sierra
games under Windows is.

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Date: 18 Apr 1993 02:12:06 GMT
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Subject: Ultrasound FTP Sites - New Files Validated - April 17, 93
Message-ID: <1qqddmINN4ba@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>

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					GRAVIS ULTRASOUND FTP SITES NEWS
==========================================================================
Ftp Site: archive.epas.utoronto.ca     Directory: pub/pc/ultrasound
		  wuarchive.wustl.edu                     systems/msdos/ultrasound
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

I finally got onto the Gravis BBS again and downloaded some of the
requests I had from those who didn't want to call long distance. I've
since uploaded these files to our ftp archives as follows....


Subdirectory: ..../sound/669/files

funkymix.zip, instmix.zip, kickmeln.zip, sumrseve.zip


Subdirectory: ..../game

mima250.zip - Missile Master for Windows... finally a Windows game with
			  sound! Ultrasound compatible of course. Sounds pretty good.
			  Play is not bad either.
tetrolis.zip - YES, more games for the Ultrasound....
			   Tetrolis is a tetris game for the Ultrasound.
			   Has more options than original tetris and of course
			   sounds awesome. ;)


That's it for now. I'll probably validate the files under submit next
week.....

QUESTION:

There is a subdir under submit called disk2.05! Is there an install disk
set with version 2.05? John? Is this legit? I don't see it on the Gravis
BBS. If legit, what is new? Thanx.


Thomas.

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 18:20:11 EDT
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Windows and SBOSLIB.SBS
Message-ID: <9304192220.AA20655@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>

> From: Michael C Irvin <irvin@crayola.cs.psu.edu>
> Subject: Patch errors!
> Message-ID: <93Apr18.131936edt.14343-3@smith.crayola.cs.psu.edu>
> 
> I recently read that someone was having problems in windows dealing with
> patch errors.  I, too, when trying to start up a DOS BOX get the 
> following error:
> 
> "error on load of patch library(C:\ULTRASND\SBOS\sboslib.sbs)"
> 
[...]

Anybody who's having the above error:  why not just remove SBOS
before you start Windows?  SBOS can't run in a Windows DOS box
anyhow.  In fact, it disables itself when you start up Windows and
reactivates when you exit.

Phat.

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