Ultrasound Daily Digest     Tue Aug 24 00:45     Volume 5: Issue  23  

Today's Topics:
				 And yet more on the emf_ecl demo...
							 debut final
				  Duff Windows apps on GUS ftp sites
						 GUS files via email
						How to play .au files?
			   MidiSoft Recording Session Difficulties
					 More about stereo in Windows
						  TSR Space and DPMS

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: Mon, 23 Aug 93 10:55:45 -0400
From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: And yet more on the emf_ecl demo...
Message-ID: <9308231455.AA08950@magick.tay2.dec.com>

> > Has anyone gotten the planb.lzh demo to run? All I got out of it was a
> > "Packed File is Corrupt" from DOS
> 
> Geez, I hate when I have to followup to myself. Plan B actually ran fine
> for a while (no sound, I think) until it rebooted my machine. As has been
> pointed out elsewhere it's emf_ecl.exe that produced the Packed File is
> Corrupt error. I tried running loadfix, but it didn't work quite right. But
> then, I'm using DRDOS 6.0, not MS-DOS Anything...

I tried everything I could think of, making boot disks and booting MS-DOS
5.0, DR DOS 6.0, etc. Either this thing wanted more memory (more than
605K!) or it complained that I was in Virtual 8086 mode and to reboot
without QEMM386. So, I'd like to know if ANYONE has gotten this thing to
work and if so, how? And was it worth it?

To all the demo programmers out there, please try and get your demo to run
in the "normal" PC environment...Most people use memory managers, most
machines are in V86 mode and most folks don't have 630K free...

DDA

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 8:15:15 CDT
From: Michael J Stumpf <mjs7529@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Subject: debut final
Message-ID: <9308231315.AA07948@tamsun.tamu.edu>

Debut final's final screen is that group logo, which you hit space or something
to get out of.  I'm not the coder that made it, but it worked fine on my 
machine and that's how I saw it.

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 14:07:40 +0000
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Duff Windows apps on GUS ftp sites
Message-ID: <00971747.542F2421.20527@lsl.co.uk>

A recent thread of discussion (to which only peter@netcom.com and myself
contributed) concerned the non-working of MIDIMON - a Windows mini MIDI
app avilable from the ftp site. Peter seems to have the solution to this
for those with source code and compilers.

I have now investigated MIDBUF (a Windows DLL), and MIDREC and MIDFIL
(two mini-apps which use MIDBUF).

As supplied, MIDBUF is missing code to do with MIDI output. MIDREC uses
this version of MIDBUF, and hence doesn't work. MIDFIL seems to have a
newer, updated MIDBUF, and so works better, but still has bugs,
particularly if more than 4k data is recorded (easy if your keyboard
sends lots of timing clocks).

I have now debugged these programs, and can successfully build them
using Borland Turbo C++ for Windows. If anyone is interested in the
changes required, then let me know.

It surprises me that these non-working programs come to be uploaded.
Surely someone should have run them first. From the lack of response
usually to messages like this, it would seem that very few people
are interested. I know that there is a programmer's digest also.
Can anyone who subscribes to that also tell us whether any more
response would be likely there, or is it all about DOS programming
in which I am not interested?

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 11:24:47 BST
From: James Andrews <james@vortex1.exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: GUS files via email
Message-ID: <15343.9308231024@euclid.vortex1.exeter.ac.uk>

RE Robert Aswani's request for files in the uk via email.

If you ask for GUS stuff via email it will arrive uuencoded and in bits.
You will have to get the email messages, stick them together with a text
editor and then uudecode them with a special program- this will make the
zip file of whatever that the software is in.
Some email packages do this automatically.  Ask you sysop for more details on
this process.

I suggest you pull the main index- /pub/pc/ultrasound/00Index.ALL 
Pick some thing smallish from the index and try it out.

Alternatively, I run a shareware disk redistribution service on the side-
set of ten disks full for 25 quid, amongst other deals.  Please email me back
if you want more details on this, I can't send the details out unsolicited as 
I believe this would be a breach of net-manners.
-- 
James Andrews, Computer Development Officer, Exeter University Maths Dept

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 08:03:30 -0400
From: gkmaier@crl.mobil.com (Greg K. Maier)
Subject: How to play .au files?
Message-ID: <9308231203.AA02338@crlux1.crl.mobil.com>

Hello,

I have an interesting looking .au file here...underdog.au.  That's
one of my favorite cartoons!

Is there any way to play .au files on the GUS?  I checked the FTP
archive but don't see any utilities for .au files.

Greg M
gkmaier@crl.mobil.com

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 19:05:20 CDT
From: Robert Schmanski <Robert.Schmanski@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: MidiSoft Recording Session Difficulties
Message-ID: <9308240005.AA28442@mixcom.mixcom.com>

Hi,
		I've been having tons of problems with Recording Session, including
the program reporting "Out of Memory" when there is over a meg available, the
program corrupting midi files, some kind of Windows Kernel Protection Fault,
just plain locking the PC (note Ctrl-Alt-Del let's me terminate the program
and get back to Windows), and the error message "STUDIO/S caused a General
Protection Fault in module SESSION.EXE at 001A:110D".
		 Now from what I've heard and seen, Recording Session is basically a
stripped down version of Recording Studio (Midisoft's full-blow commercial
midi sequencer).  There are even bits of info in the help file that were left
in from when they stripped down Studio (ie. it says you can load/save type
0,1,2 midi files when only type 1 is actually available).
		My question is, are my problems unique to my system/configuration, or
are others having this problem?  Does anyone (including Gravis and MidiSoft)
have any suggestions as to what I might be able to do to correct this.  I've
tried reinstalling Session, and the UltraSound Windows Drivers (after 
removing the first installation), but the problems remain.  If you would like
any more info (ultrasnd.ini, system.ini, etc) just email me.
		 Come on Gravis, either include software that works and is well coded
(not a quickly stripped down version of a commercial product), or don't
include any at all.  It's really frustrating to have to save my work every
five minutes (because I don't know when the program will decide to barf on
me) and under different file names (because I don't know when it's really
saving the file or corrupting it).  I don't want to sound like I'm putting
all of the blame on Gravis, because MidiSoft is as responsible (if not more
so).  It isn't very good policy to distribute sloppily stripped down versions
of your products with one of the best sound cards on the market, it just
makes both companies look bad.  MidiSoft, make sure you take the time to
properly remove options and commands from the software AND the help file
before selling it to a company to be bundled with their hardware.  Gravis
make sure that the software that you bundle with your hardware works
PROPERLY, especially when it is made by a company other than yourselves.  I
hope Gravis is reading this and that they relay my disappointment to
Midisoft.
--
Bob Schmanski
Email Adress: Robert.Schmanski@mixcom.com
	  or: bschmans@solaria.mil.wi.us

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:02:59 -0400
From: Roger Frederi Clark <helios@bach.udel.edu>
Subject: More about stereo in Windows
Message-ID: <199308231302.AA00493@bach.udel.edu>

In seeing all these postings about people unable to get stereo recordings in
Windows, I thought I'd add my observations on the matter.  I have both
Pocket Recorder(from Simtel I think) and Goldwave 0.9(from epas).  Goldwave
allows me to record 44.1khz, stereo, 8bit with no problem.  When I tried
this with Pocket Recorder, it won't allow stereo, only mono.  If one
program allows it and another doesn't, I doubt it's the driver from Gravis,
unless Goldwave doesn't check things right.


Throw that into the mess.


Roger Clark
helios@bach.udel.edu

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 15:18:47 MESZ
From: SGREENWO@MHS.novell.de (Scott Greenwood)
Subject: TSR Space and DPMS
Message-ID: <8024563B019D4FD9@MHS.novell.de>

Hi,
	 I have been reading the digest for some time now and one of the big 
problems that comes up again and again is the the large amount of 
conventional memory that TSR programs such as SBOS, AUDIO use. 

	 My company (Novell) has just released a product called DPMS (Dos 
Protected Mode Services) this allows you to develop TSRs that use 
protected mode on 286,386,486 and above computers, it is compatible with 
DOS 3.x and above and MS Windows. 

	 The DPMS API has been designed specifically for drivers and TSRs not 
for regular programs that would use the DPMI API. TSRs written to take 
advantage of DPMS can exist with a very small conventional/upper memory 
footprint. 

	 Novell allow you to distribute the DPMS server royalty free provided 
that you register your DPMS program with them for development tracking 
and customer referrals. The DPMS SDK is available and includes DPMS.EXE 
and the API documentation.

	 If anyone is interested E-mail me and I will provide more 
information or if you are in the US or Canada and wish to join the Novell 
Professional Developer's Program (which is free) contact Novell inc. on

			  Phone        1-800-NET-WARE (638-9273)
			  Fax          (512) 345-7478

	 I think that this would solve most of the memory related problems 
with games, I will post the official press release when I can find it.

	 Sorry if this does not interest you but it was the best way of 
reaching all the people involved in GUS development esp GRAVIS !!!!!!

							  Scott.
:-)

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