Ultrasound Daily Digest     Wed, 15 Sep 93  0:46 MDT     Volume 6: Issue  14  

Today's Topics:
					  A Phone Number for Gravis
					   Hex Appeal / Doublespace
				   Midi BoX and windows loading up
					  mMEGAEM and XWING problem
				 Richard, response to your comments.
						   Support for GUS
						   XWING and Megaem

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: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 14:14:38 -0700
From: forlorn@hebron.connected.com
Subject: A Phone Number for Gravis
Message-ID: <Pine.3.03.9309141438.A4090-a100000@hebron.connected.com>

In the FAQ, it states that Gravis has a good price on the 256->1M
memory upgrade for the GUS.  Can anyone tell me how to contact them
and find out what that price is.  I can't find a phone number for
a sales/upgrade department anywhere.  I can't get through on the
tech line, it always busy.  And as a last ditch effort I faxed in a 
request for the information to the technical support fax.  Still
nothing.  I know Gravis has strange advertising policies but this is
rediculous.

Jeff
forlorn@hebron.connected.com

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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 00:53:28 +0200
From: chief@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: Hex Appeal / Doublespace
Message-ID: <199309142253.AAA03955@ruben.lysator.liu.se>

Whoah!
I'm talking about response here! Thanks to all who wrote and answered my
question regarding how to disable Doublespace:

dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com, brian@EE.CORNELL.EDU, lcheung@mosaic.uncc.edu,
SWHITTAK@gst-soft.demon.co.uk, mikebat@netcom.com, aktang@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU,
tarjan@iastate.edu, dauria@cs.umb.edu, dkwong@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU.
(and those I forget)

 *Really* nice people on this mailing list.

About "Hex Appeal" - Yes, I got it to work by renaming the dblspace.bin
file, and using my demo-autoexec and config.sys - ie. 617k base mem free.
Worked like a charm. But I wonder. As I have all my Ultrasound files on
the compressed drive, and I didn't have access to it while running the
demo, the music worked anyway. Does that mean that you really don't have
to have the software (ie setup files, patches etc etc) to be able to
run programs/demos/games designed to use the GUS (in case they don't use
the patches that is..) ?

The demo was shorter than I'd expected, but it was kinda nice. I also
liked the 'swaying' chessboard at the end credits, and didn't that
rotating cube (we've seen it before, haven't we? :)) rotate a bit
faster than I've seen before? With the animations on the sides and
everything, I was somewhat suprised that it floated as well as it did.
(I have a 386DX-33 by the way, and got that chess-ending of CD2 in
slow motion).

The music was average though.

 Okay, thanks again to all who helped me!
 Regards,
 /Erik

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 13:13:10 -0400
From: "Mark C. Ng" <mcng@undergrad.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Midi BoX and windows loading up
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9309141308.B23854-a100000@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca>

This maybe a localize / singular case, since I didn't hear any talk about
it...
but when I'm loading windows and keep the midi box plug in the gravis card
windows will freeze right before any window folders pop out.  but the
problem dissappears when I disconnect the midi connector then load windows
until finished then plug in the midi connector, everything's fine....   

Can anyone explain this ??  


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 Mark C. Ng mcng@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca   University of Waterloo
  Sysop of Digital Pixel BBS:(416) 298-1487 Toronto,Ont,Can,Sol
 COMGFXMIDISDINOSAURSEJAPANESEXBADMINTONYANIMEGBIKEIPURPOSEROFLLIFESARTS 
 "Knowledge is Power, but a little knowledge is dangerous... " 
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 17:50:16 +0300
From: tjakobs@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl (THEO_JAKOBS TEL.62667)
Subject: Re: mMEGAEM and XWING problem
Message-ID: <9309141450.AA22138@muxgw1.ms.philips.nl>

hi...

This problem you have, with freezing up for a moment, is not (i think) caused
by megaem, but it is a bug in xwing, because on both my computers it appeared
also, and i just ran it with the normal soundBlaster..

Andre Jakobs
  MicroBrain Technologies Inc.
	The Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 09:16:45 +0501 (EDT)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Richard, response to your comments.
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9309140945.A18591-9100000@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

You said it yourself.  When you said you machine freezes up sometimes
using AIL.  AIL is great but it ain't native mode.  Also all you people
out there this is just a sound board not a religion or ideaology.  So take
it easy on the posts see the forest for the trees.  


		Happy GUSing  :-)

gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 14:46:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: bentlema@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Mark A. Bentley )
Subject: Support for GUS
Message-ID: <9309141946.AA29346@cda.mrs.umn.edu>

I am strongy considering buying an Ultrasound sound card, but am 
concerned if there is good software support, as well with the
compatibility issues.  I don't plan on having more than one sound card,
and only intend to use the card for games and playing various music/sound
files.  (more/less just a toy) :-)

Any opinions on this issue GUS owners?

Mark Bentley (bentlema@cda.mrs.umn.edu)

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 22:06 EDT
From: marius@io.org (Marius)
Subject: XWING and Megaem
Message-ID: <m0ocmGA-0004GYC@io.org>

I don't have a GUS yet nor have I played XWING with it but I know that the
halting problem is due to the game itself. I've played it with Sound Canvas
and the problem was there. I guess that it has something to do with machine
speed but maybe not. If I removed the General MIDI and just had my Sound
Blaster going then everything was OK.
Anyhow, MEGAEM is most likely not the culprit.

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